Falkland Islanders to hold referendum over sovereignty

[Tupac Shakur]

Besides, the Argentine claim has always been spurious.

It's as obvious that Britain stole the Falkland Islands from Argentina as it is that the United States stole California from Mexico. Stop being a revisionist douche.

[Dinner]

They've lived there for almost 200 years and self determination of peoples has always been one of the principles of modern international law. Besides, the Argentine claim has always been spurious.

[Tupac Shakur]

Why would a bunch of British colonists vote to become part of the country Britain stole the land from in the first place? That's about as likely as a gringo colonist like yourself voting to return California to Mexico.

[Dinner]

Voting has begun. Any guesses on how many will vote to become part of Argentina?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21724160

[regexcellent]

I'm absolutely shaking in my boots with anticipation.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

The referendum takes place tomorrow. I wonder if, should the majority slip below 60%, the Argentine government will suddenly decide the views of the Islanders might be relevant after all?

[Aeson]

It was best we eliminated them before evolution gave them the ability to fly. Sure, cancer sucks ... but at least it's not dog crap falling from the sky.

[DaShi]

The cure for cancer was probably in those wolves.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Too bad they were hunted to extinction.

[Dinner]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130305130447.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fmost_popular+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Most+Popular+News%29

Biologists, working with an ancient DNA sample, have solved the mystery of where the Falkland Islands Wolf came from. The wolf species was the world's smallest and the only one to specialize in hunting birds but sadly sheep farmers in the 19th century hunted it to extinction fearing it would harm their sheep. The wolf, which was about the size of a large fox, was an example of island dwarfism.

[Sava]

During the war, we actually took a couple of shipborne exocet launchers off a destroyer and fixed them on a mobile towed platform, which succeeding in hitting HMS Glamorgan.

not to in any way endorse the death of UK sailors

but Argentine ingenuity

[N35t0r]

During the war, we actually took a couple of shipborne exocet launchers off a destroyer and fixed them on a mobile towed platform, which succeeding in hitting HMS Glamorgan.

The launcher was dubbed ITB (Instalación de Tiro Berreta) by the Argentine personnel, which approximately means in Argentine slang "trashy firing platform".

[kentonio]

Ground Force did an episode on the Falklands. I'm never going to be able to look at Alan Titchmarsh in the same light again!

[Sava]

Somehow, docking in a port, unloading some rather big items, getting them onto trucks, having a cherry picker to unload, driving off to the boonies, unloading, then spending several hours field assembling everything in a hostile territory without being detected seems a bit more complicated.

Maybe they are pretending to be part of an HGTV production. DIY Falklands!

[MichaeltheGreat]

Somehow, docking in a port, unloading some rather big items, getting them onto trucks, having a cherry picker to unload, driving off to the boonies, unloading, then spending several hours field assembling everything in a hostile territory without being detected seems a bit more complicated.