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A Falklands' annual event: Chilean Independence Day celebrations
Chilean Independence Day celebrations were again held in the Falkland Islands this year, with the main event being hosted at Government House in Stanley, demonstrating the strong relationship that has formed between Chile and the Falklands in recent decades. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAny hermanitos shilenos in Malvinas willing to sign Kelperettte Faith Felton's petition against us Argies...?
Sep 29th, 2016 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/is-your-cheap-holiday-worth-their-lives
You better sign Chays...
You never know when your belonger status can be reconsidered by the FIGleaf...
Saludos fraternales y......
Viva Chile, mierda!
#1
Sep 29th, 2016 - 10:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So much for Latam solidarity. I detect that you are somewhat at odds with your Chilean hermanos. They don't toe the Argie line...HOW DARE THEY!
@1 Think
Sep 30th, 2016 - 12:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0What's the matter, are you being paid by the signature? I suggest hawking it on Clarin instead, there's plenty of people in Argentina who don't want more flights.
Lowlander at (2)
Sep 30th, 2016 - 01:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0And how do you “detect” this?
By me calling the lads & lasses little brothers?
Or by me remindig them of Engrish friendship falsehood?
TWIMC
By the way...
Didn't know Patrick was in Holland...
I'm really out of touch as Islander1 so often says...
Chuckle, chuckle...
Looking very Chilean there Gavin :-)
Sep 30th, 2016 - 04:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good to know that for all the local rhetoric, the Chileans still favour the Islanders over the Argies. Not hard to understand why obviously
(5) Mr. Roger Lorton
Sep 30th, 2016 - 07:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0Gavin looking Shilean you say?
Excuse me... but Gavin is wearing a traditional zippered Engrish Bench Jacket and what appears to be an Engrish Tilley Wanderer of sorts...
Just cool Anglo-Kelper streetwear look...
Nothing Shilean about it...
Chuckle, chuckle
#4
Sep 30th, 2016 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0I “detected” this by your use of mierda...unless of course this is an Argentinian term of endearment and the use of the diminutive hermanitos which comes across as patronising , but again, that is your style..
Lowlander at (7)
Sep 30th, 2016 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Educate yourself...:
https://cachandochile.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/viva-chile-mierda/
And
https://cachandochile.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/viva-chile-mierda/
You have to wonder how integrated into South America the Falkland Islands would be by now if it wasn't for Argentinas behaviour towards them over the past 50 years. If not for Argentinas ridiculous claim, my guess is that most of south america would have perfectly normal relations with them.
Sep 30th, 2016 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yeahhhh.....
Sep 30th, 2016 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0We have whopping 74 signataries for the AntiArgie petition now...
Last one is one of them Butler lasses...
I'm really out of touch as Islander1 so often tells me...
I thought she had emigrated for good...
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/is-your-cheap-holiday-worth-their-lives
#8
Sep 30th, 2016 - 12:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That did not come up when I googled it. It was a derogatory expression.
Maybe you should post in English as required by the conditions laid down by Mercopress, then it could be understood.
I did say...unless of course this is an Argentinian term of endearment, which you have now verified.
So thank you for explaining an Argentinian expression of respect or endearment, “me old mierda”.
Meant in the same way as you incorrectly use lowlander.
Du armes kleines Lowlander Würstchen...
Sep 30th, 2016 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0;-)))
I would like to ask for an explanation from the Falklanders and other British as to how it is historically consistent to celebrate the 206th independence of Chile, at the same time that British history boos ( later parroted in these forums), teach that Argentina became independent in 1862 or something like that, when any history book will also attest that a major factor in securing Chilean independence was in large part organized from Mendoza in 1818, which would therefore have been Spanish territory if you adhere to the British version of history.
Sep 30th, 2016 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I gladly await your replies.
“....the strong relationship that has formed between Chile and the Falklands in recent decades.”
Sep 30th, 2016 - 02:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually the “strong relationship” between Chile and the Falklands goes back to the 19th century rather than just recent decades. The Falklands supplied the sheep that provided the start for that industry that became successful in both the Chilean and Argentine sides of the region. How ironic that the Falklands and the British supplied the means for southern Argentina to achieve a degree, however fleeting, of economic success.
It must come as a source of immense pride and satisfaction to Argies everywhere that today, the growing Chilean influence in the Falklands is considerably greater than that of Argentina. Truly a tribute to the foreign policy acumen of the Argentines.
Indeed..., the strong relationship between the Malvinas Anglo squatters and Patagonia goes waaaay back...
Sep 30th, 2016 - 02:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As I wrote a couple of days ago...:
... Faith Felton's Petition has still less signataries than they are Malvinas Feltons buried in the rural cemeteries of Santa Cruz, Argentina...
Still only whopping 74 folks that have signed...
What are you waiting for Anglos?
Sign the bloody thing!
:-)))
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/is-your-cheap-holiday-worth-their-lives
Sounds like that petition is as big a fail as Argentina's annual petition every year to the C24.
Sep 30th, 2016 - 04:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Which failed petition costs more taxpayers funds, I wonder?
@13 CapiTroll
Sep 30th, 2016 - 05:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 01861 was when Argentina became a united country after decades of civil war. Obviously it was independent long before that, and anyway aren't the years measured from when independence was declared, rather than when it was actually achieved?
Besides, if you are celebrating someone else's independence day it would be rude to quibble over the date they have chosen. ;)
(17) Mr. DemonTree
Sep 30th, 2016 - 06:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How cunning criteria...
1922 was when the United Kingdom became a united country after a couple of years of civil war..., kind of.
Didn't see you at the celebrations, Think.??
Sep 30th, 2016 - 08:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What were you wearing?
Sep 30th, 2016 - 08:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Think is at 65 Brook Street. Part time butler, washer up and toilet cleaner and err.. Paid troll.
Sep 30th, 2016 - 09:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@18 Think
Sep 30th, 2016 - 11:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't ask me, I haven't written any history books. Does it matter that it wasn't united until then?
And that was an war for independence, not a civil war.
47 DemonTree http://en.mercopress.com/2016/09/21/obama-blasts-those-who-build-walls-fuelled-by-nationalism-sectarian-hatred-and-economic-inequality#comment450924
Oct 01st, 2016 - 12:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Your dictionary definitions show that compulsory is one meaning of obligation.” My dictionary shows the the first entries listed. Which certainly puts the kibosh to your claim “The obligation …to prove something does not make it compulsory”.
“Thoughts are either true or false in an absolute sense” The choice is between Stanford University's Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Wikipedia. By subject of philosophy Stanford ranked twelfth in world ratings this year. So one can be pretty certain that their interpretation is the definitive one.
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/09/21/obama-blasts-those-who-build-walls-fuelled-by-nationalism-sectarian-hatred-and-economic-inequality#comment450924
“So if its 'truth' is unsupported, then it follows it cannot be true” Got any evidence for that?
So once again, if it's an obligation, it's compulsory, so if its 'truth' is unsupported, then it follows it cannot be true. Therefore, according to the philosophical logic of Stanford University ”Thoughts are either true or false in an absolute sense”. If it cannot be 'true' it must of necessity be 'false”.
@17
Oct 01st, 2016 - 01:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Which is exactly what the British do with Argentina. No surprise there I guess.
@14
The history of the Sheep thing is categorically false and a complete fabrication by the British at the time in order to have some sort of legal (economic) pretext to go to war with Argentina (a staunch ally at the time), over Patagonia.
It is absolutely no secret whatsoever that many in the halls of empire and colonialism in London wanted Patagonia to be “fully” integrated to the British Empire. There are a myriad of sources on record for this one. Had the British really seen the chance I am sure they would have stabbed Argentina in the back. Then they complain Argentina does the same.
#24
Oct 01st, 2016 - 09:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Who cares. The year is 2016. Get over it !
@24 nostrils,
Oct 01st, 2016 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Unfinished business, dear nostrils.
We'll get Patagonia yet.
(well you crowd have no idea what to do with it).
@24 Capi
Oct 01st, 2016 - 12:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well no. This place is hardly a model of civil debate, is it?
Most British people don't go round insulting Argentina; they don't think about it much at all.
@23 Terence Hill
Since other people are still talking here, I have replied in http://en.mercopress.com/2016/09/27/deutsche-bank-in-danger-zone-shares-down-50-this-year-and-sliding
#24 I didn't realise that Patagonia was British. However, our claims make sense as it is part of that large Island off of the Fakland Islands continental shelf.
Oct 01st, 2016 - 07:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina will be British again within 25 years.
Geeeeeeeee.....
Oct 02nd, 2016 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 024 hours have past and still only 74 signataries for the Kelper petition...
Is Faith Felton right about their lives being less worth than your cheap holidays?
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/is-your-cheap-holiday-worth-their-lives
Geeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......
24 hours more have past and still only 74 signataries for the Kelper petition...
Where is Jack Bauer when the Malvinas cause needs him...?
England will return the Malvinas within 25 years.
Oct 03rd, 2016 - 03:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee……
Oct 03rd, 2016 - 07:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Think is getting desperate to get a bite……
Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee……
@22 DemonTree
Oct 03rd, 2016 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Actually, that was a struggle of succession, independence having been decided long before the first shot was fired.
Chère Isolde...
Oct 03rd, 2016 - 03:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not as despetate as daling Faith Felton must be feeling right now...
@32 Pugol-H
Oct 03rd, 2016 - 07:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So what was the point of the war?
@34 DemonTree
Oct 04th, 2016 - 12:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0As in many cases like this, it was to impose their version of what it should look like after the British had gone, “oblivious of the differences” of others.
Secession was the issue, not independence, that had already been decided long before.
To Faith Felton...
Oct 05th, 2016 - 06:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sorry, Faith daling...
We did our best but it wasn't enough...
Their lives are worth nothing for them haughty Engrish...
Your closest family and friends did their best, they gave you 70 signatures...
Rupert Murdoch did his best he got you two (2) signatures...:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3804506/Falklanders-protest-against-IMPROVED-relations-Britain-Argentina.html
www.foxnews.com/world/2016/09/23/in-falkland-islands-some-say-argentina-uk-thaw-not-worth-it.html
www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/in-falkland-islands-some-say-argentina-uk-thaw-not-worth-it/2016/09/23/b1be1144-8194-11e6-9578-558cc125c7ba_story.html
I did me best, I got you two (2) signatures as well...
Your bloody Engrish Pirate Malvinas story ain't easy to sell, girl...
Do be quiet, dear Thinkus.
Oct 05th, 2016 - 09:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0You're frightening the children.
You have absolutely no idea of what can happen behind the scenes.
Whats a “daling”? ls it like a Dalek?
lts “darling”, or if you speak like Zsa zsa Gabor, its “dahling”.
( 37 ) Isolde, “ Dahling ”...
Oct 05th, 2016 - 09:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0Don't be jealous “Dahling”...
I have some other “Dalings”...
But only one true “Dahling” ...
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