Falkland Islanders to hold referendum over sovereignty

[kentonio]

2011 - 1987 = 24 years.
1998 - 1960 = 38 years.

24 < 38.

1824/38 = 48 per year
1503/24 = 62.625 per year

48 per year < 62.625 per year.

Terrorism is not a mathmatical equation. For decades people on both sides lived with the daily fear that they and their loved ones might end up getting their legs blown off by a bunch of psychopaths who didn't give a **** about anything other than their 'cause'. Can you remember the panic in America after 9/11? The anthrax letters, the constant fear that another attack was going to take place? That was the kind of feeling Britain lived under for over 30 years.

Yes? Duh? They set off 1500kg of semtex and fertilizer in the center of Manchester and didn't kill a single soul. That's unreal restraint. They even expressed regret for injuring people, which isn't something you'd never hear from the butchers in the UDR, UVA, or UDA.

You sick little *****. Neither the IRA nor the loyalists gave a **** about human life, which is why they both spent decades murdering, kidnapping and torturing innocent people. You think the normal Catholics in Nortern Ireland wanted to live and raise their kids in a warzone of death and horror? As normal you understand nothing, and just flap your childish idiotic mouth as if it means something. I hope you never have to actually experience the kind of loss that so many innocent people did here for so long.

It's literally impossible to calculate how many times worse the death toll on 9/11 was compared to the 1996 Manchester bombing. You need to acquire a sack and some perspective, you whinging imperialist pussy.

You guys had one attack and it led to two wars and a complete change in American society. We lived through 30+ years of bombings, shootings and horror and you're telling me to get some perspective? Yeah, alright tough guy.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Except for the minor detail that you haven't even come close. All you've done is be a half-assed troll.

The fact that you think "pwning my ass" is even a worthwhile goal says a lot more about your insecurities and intellectual and functional limits than it does about me, sweetheart. Now go back to playing with your My Little Pony set.

PS, that you even use a "word" like "pwn" shows you to be a facile imbecile.

[Tupac Shakur]

Pwning your arrogant ass has truly been a real pleasure.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Damn, PIRA bombmaking was really sophisticated by the '90s.

Electronic communication with a detonation device != bomb making. And you're talking stuff one step sideways from Popular Mechanics, so no big deal. Anyone who built a home-made fuzzbuster in the 80's could do the same thing.

[MichaeltheGreat]

The PIRA got their Semtex from Libya in the '70s and '80s. That's a fact, which is probably why you want to ignore it like all the others.

The sun rises in the east. That's a fact too, and it's equally irrelevant to why and whether the dumb ****s needed to use Semtex at all in a fertilizer based car bomb.

This doesn't even make sense.

Not surprised your pus-filled cranium can't figure out that your heroes are assclowns.

[Tupac Shakur]

Damn, PIRA bombmaking was really sophisticated by the '90s.

[Tupac Shakur]

You mean they needed that Semtex 25 years in advance of the bombing? What, does it age like whiskey? A bottle of MacSemtex 20 if you please?

The PIRA got their Semtex from Libya in the '70s and '80s. That's a fact, which is probably why you want to ignore it like all the others.

No, they're amateurs because you have one of two cases - either they couldn't control the time of detonation properly, because they were ****ups, or they're lying and you need a case or two of mouthwash to take care of that PIRA spooge odor on your breath because they didn't give a rat's ass about civilian casualties. It wasn't their "professionalism" or their "competence" - it was their desire for political gain by saying "look, we warned everyone, we gave them a chance to evacuate, it's all their fault waah waah waah"

This doesn't even make sense.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Fifth grade reading still got you down?

You mean they needed that Semtex 25 years in advance of the bombing? What, does it age like whiskey? A bottle of MacSemtex 20 if you please?

No, they're amateurs because you have one of two cases - either they couldn't control the time of detonation properly, because they were ****ups, or they're lying and you need a case or two of mouthwash to take care of that PIRA spooge odor on your breath because they didn't give a rat's ass about civilian casualties. It wasn't their "professionalism" or their "competence" - it was their desire for political gain by saying "look, we warned everyone, we gave them a chance to evacuate, it's all their fault waah waah waah" so toilet tongue-scrubbers like you could try to justify them, even as an ignorant troll.

[Tupac Shakur]

That was the discussion, moron. Nice shift though.

No, the discussion was about why the PIRA would want to use Semtex; you just want to ignore the logical point that they needed to smuggle in high-explosive acquired in the '70s and '80s and hide it for years in the police state that was Northern Ireland in order for it to even be available for use in a 1996 bombing in Manchester. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to allow you to ignore history and reality just so you can defend your retarded and ill-informed "they used Semtex because they were incompetent amateurs!" argument.

[MichaeltheGreat]

You internet know-it-alls are real tough until someone who actually knows what the **** they're talking about decides to set you straight. The secret to a quality troll is making dumbfucks with more pride than brains face up to uncomfortable truths.

If you know the secret to a quality troll, why don't you try making one for once?

And you "know what the **** you're talking about?"

All you can manage is to quote some wiki article that may or may not actually support whatever point you think you're trying to make.

[MichaeltheGreat]

[QUOTE=Tupac Shakur;6207487]Do you really think the PIRA smuggled in a "few pounds" of Semtex? Jane's estimates that 3 tons of Semtex was destroyed as part of the PIRA's 2005 arms decommissioning.

So they used three tons of Semtex in the bomb in Manchester? That was the discussion, moron. Nice shift though.

Northern Ireland during the latter part of The Troubles was a police state, with British Army, police, loyalist paramilitaries, and SOF roaming around and shooting suspects on site.

Funny, I never noticed that Manchester was in Northern Ireland? Maybe it moved between the 1970s and 1990s? Real active seismic zone, I guess. Maybe driven by your flatulence.

[Tupac Shakur]

You've got the Spanish/Argies and now PIRA. So what anti-Brit group are you going to play Blanket Betty for next?

You internet know-it-alls are real tough until someone who actually knows what the **** they're talking about decides to set you straight. The secret to a quality troll is making dumbfucks with more pride than brains face up to uncomfortable truths.

[Tupac Shakur]

You're too stupid to comprehend how stupid you are. Do you really think it's that ****ing difficult to smuggle in (or make, if you've got a uni chemistry degree and half decent lab) a few pounds of high-order plastic explosives?

Do you really think the PIRA smuggled in a "few pounds" of Semtex? Jane's estimates that 3 tons of Semtex was destroyed as part of the PIRA's 2005 arms decommissioning.

Yes, the UK is a fascist police state where every citizen is a cop with explosive sniffing dogs.

Northern Ireland during the latter part of The Troubles was a police state, with British Army, police, loyalist paramilitaries, and SOF roaming around and shooting suspects on site.

[MichaeltheGreat]

You've got the Spanish/Argies and now PIRA. So what anti-Brit group are you going to play Blanket Betty for next?

[MichaeltheGreat]

You're too stupid to comprehend how stupid you are. Do you really think it's that ****ing difficult to smuggle in (or make, if you've got a uni chemistry degree and half decent lab) a few pounds of high-order plastic explosives? In a country, like many others, where tons cocaine and other illegal items are readily available? Let alone an island country with a million ports and landings? Yes, the UK is a fascist police state where every citizen is a cop with explosive sniffing dogs.