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Table Tennis Federation welcomes the 227th member: Falkland Islands

Friday, March 4th 2022 - 22:35 UTC
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The Falkland Islands was officially accepted as a member of the International Table Tennis Federation on Wednesday 24th November at the 2021 Annual General Meeting staged in Houston, becoming the 227th member. Read full article

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  • Steve Potts

    Pedro : 'Iz it not so that whola world support Argentina's Malvinas claim?'

    Jorge: Theze pinga ponga people are worz than zee usurpas!'

    Mar 04th, 2022 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tænk

    Congratulations Malvinas..., I luuuuuv Ping Pong...

    - Just one question...
    “Table Tennis Federation welcomes their 227th member”..., article says...
    The United Nations currently recognizes 197 States..., right...?
    The very same United Nations has listed 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories (Malvinas included ;-)...
    That gives us a grand total of 214..., right...

    Now..., if 227 ÷ 214 = 13...
    Anyone can figure out who them 13 mysterious suplus national members of thee ITTF are...?

    Chuckle..., chuckle...

    Mar 04th, 2022 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
  • Roger Lorton

    Ah, Tunk .... last I read from you was about Russia merely holding exercises on its own side of the Ukrainian border and no cause for complaint.

    How's that going?

    Mar 04th, 2022 - 11:11 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Tænk

    Ah..., Copper .... would you please point were you read from me “about Russia merely holding exercises on its own side of the Ukrainian border and no cause for complaint...?”

    Capisce...?

    Mar 05th, 2022 - 12:48 am - Link - Report abuse -4
  • Pytangua

    This Falklands Islands 'identity' is getting madder and madder - like something from a Monty Python film. Now its international table tennis - tomorrow membership of international association of quantum computing? I wonder what future historians will make of this laughable post-colonial nostalgia in the UK.

    Mar 05th, 2022 - 12:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tænk

    Now..., now..., Mr. Pytangua...

    PING-PONG seems to be for some Engrishmen GLOBAL PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE..., more so that the UNITED NATIONS or the United States...

    Just listen (at minute 1:56) to what their BoJo Prime Minister said last Christmas...:

    “... 2021 was the year in which even the International Table Tennis Federation recognized..., in the face of noisy protests from some quarters..., the inviolable sovereignty of Falkland Island....ahhh... . Falklands table tennis players and Whiff-Whaffers.”

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MzqEyJ4zKpg

    What a Great Brutish Whiff-Whaffer thisBoris is...!
    Chuckle..., chuckle...

    Mar 05th, 2022 - 02:29 pm - Link - Report abuse -2
  • Monkeymagic

    One thing we can be certain of is that the International Table Tennis Federation is of a far greater “Global Paramount Importance” than Argentina.

    Decades of lies, whinging, a failed and humiliating invasion, more whinging, more lies....and to what progress? Nothing....zilch.....The islands are still a British Overseas Territory.

    Capische...??

    chuckle

    Mar 08th, 2022 - 12:20 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
  • Tænk

    Ah..., Copper .... three days 'ave gone and I can see that you can't point were you read from me “about Russia merely holding exercises on its own side of the Ukrainian border and no cause for complaint...”

    - No surprise really..., that umpteenth porky of yours is perfectly in line with your “Timeline”...

    Capisce...?

    Mar 08th, 2022 - 01:08 pm - Link - Report abuse -1

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