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South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands mark Toothfish Day
The Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) are celebrating Toothfish Day with a reception and quiz at Government House in Stanley, Falkland Islands. Read full article
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Sep 07th, 2016 - 01:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What's wrong with the above coat of arms crest?
I am looking forward to celebrating Krill Week.
Sep 07th, 2016 - 01:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not to mention the Malvinas Miss Illex Argentinus Pageant 2016!
Sep 07th, 2016 - 01:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1 ”What's wrong with the above coat of arms crest?
Sep 07th, 2016 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Answer: The penguin should be rampant.
The penguin is not the crest, you plebeian turnip...
Sep 07th, 2016 - 02:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“If the penguin is not rampant, it doesn't matter where it is. ”
Sep 07th, 2016 - 03:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0- René Descartes, 1621
#1
Sep 07th, 2016 - 04:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I presume you are referring to “Bambi” perched on top of the helm.
However I cannot see anything wrong with the crest...please tell.
Lowlander at (7)
Sep 07th, 2016 - 05:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Juppppp..., I'm refering to “Bambi”.....
Ruthlessly killed together with all his family by the same people that designed that coat of arms...
#8
Sep 07th, 2016 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't you eat venison , meat, lamb or pork ? Guess what, they are farmed and then slaughtered for their meat. Killing reindeer is no different.
The reindeer were introduced in the 1920's by your brethren, Norwegian whalers, for SPORT and fresh meat. As a change from massacring whales, a bit of reindeer slaughter was a light relief.
Your own country introduced reindeer to South Argentina in the late 1940's and these were subsequently eradicated.......ruthlessly !
It was actually Norwegian marksmen who were employed to ruthlessly slaughter the South Georgia herds. As the Norwegians brought them there it is poetic justice that they have eradicated them.
I can see that ecology is not your forté.
Lowlander at (9)
Sep 07th, 2016 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yeahhhhh.... yeahhhhh...
Now that you Sasenachs ruthlessly killed Bambi's mother and father, Bambi himself and his younger bro Rudolph, there is no need to mock and taunt them in that ugly Coat of Arms of yours...
#11
Sep 07th, 2016 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Again, if you know anything about reindeers, Rudolph is actually a female.
Only female reindeers have antlers in winter. Unless of course he/she is a tranny.
I would remind you that it is your ethnic Scandinavian group that slaughtered the reindeer population in S.Georgia.
Why do you call Norwegians Sassenachs ?
Turnip at #1. Bambi was a deer not a Reindeer! And… we didnt wipe out the rightful inhabitants of where we live - the Mapuche. And as for that pyjama stiped rag with the fried egg in tbe middle that you wave about, its ugly. On the other hand the Union Jack is cool in Spain Cuba etc etc..
Sep 07th, 2016 - 09:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lowlander at (11)
Sep 07th, 2016 - 10:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Again, if you knew anything about geography, Rudolph was actualy a Georgias de Sur male reindeer, hence his antlers during Santa's Northern Hemisphere winter December round...
Indeed... there were some of my Norse conregionals pulling them triggers...
But... Who planned that evolving subspecies extinction..?
Who paid for for their anihilation?
The Sassenachs!!!
That's who...
Turnips!
Subspecies you say?
Sep 07th, 2016 - 11:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Or could have one day become a subspecies?
So not a subspecies!
With no proof of any evolution to a new subspecies.
I seem to recall Thunk that the decision to reduce the deer numbers on South Georgia was because of the damage that they were causing. They were not a native species, having been introduced by Larsen in the early 20th century. And we paid the people who introduced them, to cull them. Why? Because they were better at anyone else at the job - centuries of experience.
Sep 07th, 2016 - 11:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nothing about Toothfish then? :-)
(15) Mr. Roger Lorton
Sep 08th, 2016 - 12:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0That reindeer in them southern islands were not producing any more “damage” than, for example , fallow deer in Scotland...
Their culling was just a perfect example of environmental malpraxis...
As them rats removal was a perfect example of environmental best practices...
#16
Sep 08th, 2016 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0So, you are now an expert on the ecology of the sub-antarctic islands and their flora and fauna.
Pardon me if I believe the scientists who have studied the matter and came to the conclusion that the reindeer had to go for the better good.
Have you read any of the scientific research on the matter. Yes, there was some dissent. As for the eradication of the rats, some of the poisoned bait could have been ingested by the reindeer and caused them a painful lingering death.
The bottom line is that man has introduced alien species into lands without thought of future consequences.
Examples in the UK are mink originally farmed which have escaped or been released into the wild and devastated wild bird populations. The Grey Squirrel which has caused the huge reduction of our native Red Squirrel.
It is about time we reversed the imbalance that we created with the introduction of alien species.
This is exactly what they have done in S.Georgia.
Discussion over. You can put away your over-used soapbox.
Don't take too much notice of Herr Think.
Sep 08th, 2016 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0He likes to stir the pot & make ridiculous assertions.
Hes still smarting over the drubbing we gave his ilk in 1982 & 1066.
TWIMC
Sep 08th, 2016 - 11:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0The political decision to exterminate the well established Austral Reindeer subspecies herd, that was causing no proven harm to the indigenous flora or fauna whatsoever, is an éclatant example of ecological malpraxis...
Not to speak about the scandalous misuse of public funds to contract and transport some ridiculous expensive Norwegian civil servants to shoot a few almost tame and trustful Austral ruminants...
I Think even a petite squatterette from Malvinas could have acomplished such easy task with the sole help of an old FAL war booty rifle...
At a fraction of the cost...
Now, now Clyde15 - Think may take exception about the introduction of -
Sep 08th, 2016 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“... alien species into lands without thought of future consequences. ”
After all, isn't that what Argentines are?
Perhaps, Norwegian Argies are no danger to the flora and fauna of Patagonia.
And we shouldn't mention Norwegian rats :-)
Let us recall the disastrous introduction by Argentines of beavers into Tierra del Fuego, yet another failed economic move and ecological disaster:
Sep 08th, 2016 - 01:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“En 1946, explicó el investigador, emprendedores argentinos liberaron una cincuentena de castores canadienses en Tierra del Fuego, cuya caza fue prohibida durante más de tres décadas”.
“Sin depredadores, hoy se calcula que hay millares de castores campando por el extremo sur de Chile y de Argentina, provocando la extinción de la diversidad biológica de la zona. ”
#20
Sep 08th, 2016 - 04:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have to admit that the idea had occurred to me but I decided to stick with the subject.
“ think” whoever he is, will take any stance as long as it is derogatory to the Falklands and the UK - truth and accuracy are circumvented to make his point.
#21
Think does not want to know facts...they interfere with his monologues.
Geeeeeee..... you Engrish squatters...
Sep 08th, 2016 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0..... Have at least the decency of erasing that Austral Caribou you willingly extinguished from that ugly Coat of Arms of yours...
Who cares, they are British are they not.
Sep 08th, 2016 - 06:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Austral Reindeer subspecies”
Sep 08th, 2016 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Excuse me?
#23
Sep 08th, 2016 - 09:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0.“ you Engrish squatters.”..
The passage lifted from Wiki makes no mention of English settlers...they were British with other nationalities also involved including Chilean and Argentinian.
I see the term Sassenach has been misused again. How does this refer to British citizens of various origins.
It appears as Voice so frequently voices...you are just a wanabe Scot.
Tough titty, we are highly selective in bestowing that accolade and you do not qualify.
As they say here “away and bile yer heid ya chanty rassler”
Falkland Islands Ethnic groups
About 70 percent are of British descent, primarily as a result of Scottish and Welsh immigration to the islands.[12] The native-born inhabitants call themselves “Islanders”; the term “Kelpers”, from the kelp which grows profusely around the islands, is no longer used in the Islands. People from the United Kingdom who have obtained Falkland Island status are known locally as 'belongers'.
A few Islanders are of French, Gibraltarian, Portuguese and Scandinavian descent. Some are the descendants of whalers who reached the Islands during the last two centuries. There is also a small minority of South American, mainly Chilean origin, and in more recent times many people from Saint Helena have also come to work and live in the Islands.[13] ”
I think this reinforces my comment at #22
You pretend that the Islanders are English when they are clearly not.
This would indicate that you are either :-
As thick as two short planks OR
That you are completely deluded...an Argentine trait
You just like stirring things for personal gratification.
Geeeeeee..... you Nordic squatters...
Sep 09th, 2016 - 12:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are only first generation Think - hardly a toe hold compared to many Falkland families. Even the squatting reindeer had a longer history old man :-)
If Argentina gave back all that it has stolen over the centuries then perhaps she could claim the moral high ground,
Sep 09th, 2016 - 01:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but considering most of her land was stolen, she has no claim to nothing
So no new reindeer subspecies!
Sep 10th, 2016 - 01:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think may well buy he's own island and call it thinkland, and ban all Turnips.
Sep 11th, 2016 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0lol
England will return the Malvinas within 25 years.
Sep 14th, 2016 - 01:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0#31
Sep 14th, 2016 - 09:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Pigs will fly within 25 years.
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