CyberRose
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Ah...
Argentina to fly the flag of Las Malvinas at London Olympics
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CyberRose
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Don't think it made much difference did it?
No. That's why I wrote 'fyi'. It's just generally bad form to edit after someone has replied and I was just pointing out that I hadn't actually done this.
On the old boards there was a 'last edited at (time)' thing
CyberRose
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Oh ok.
BTW, my comments towards CR were based on the other thread they started on the Falklands (seems like an unhealthy obsession but hey ho) where the Falklanders are described as "inbred Anglophiles" and that the protestants of Northern Ireland are only slightly less inbred. I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions on that...
BTW, my comments towards CR were based on the other thread they started on the Falklands (seems like an unhealthy obsession but hey ho) where the Falklanders are described as "inbred Anglophiles" and that the protestants of Northern Ireland are only slightly less inbred. I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions on that...
Is that the best you can do? How very feeble.
I'm not sure, perhaps if you could tell me who the indigenous population were and how many remained on the islands when the British turned up we could have a go at working it out
'inbred anglophiles', whilst a little harsh, is not too far from the truth either.
CyberRose
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The Falklanders, NI protestants or both?
Deareg
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The people of Hong Kong didn't want to be part of China, but the Chinese would have sank every British battle cruiser and Britain as well.the islanders don't want to be Argentinian end of Argument really
Argentina could always send its battle cruiser to intimidate the islanders
oh wait they can't we sank it
Pickman's model
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No they wouldn't. You rate the chinese armed forces a bit high
Deareg
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Yes they would have, if by nothing else than shear weight of numbers alone, and it's not as if the British army covers itself in glory when fighting an enemy willing and able to fight back.
You show a woeful lack of knowledge about history.
Deareg
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If you want to educate me then feel free.
likesfish
You can't park here sir
fascist boat sent out to attack the Fleet The Argentinian Navy had no problem with it being sunk Thats what happens in wars.and the Belgrano too
fascists have to be stopped by all means unless their stealing stuff of the evil Brits
Deareg
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Or unless they are on Britain's side.fascist boat sent out to attack the Fleet The Argentinian Navy had no problem with it being sunk Thats what happens in wars.
fascists have to be stopped by all means unless their stealing stuff of the evil Brits
The Second World War alone is crammed with examples of British Army "glory". Just because there are also countless incidents when the BA showed itself less "glorious" is no reason to deny the historical facts.
Deareg
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Ok, I was exaggerating, but I am not sure how much use that would be today and it was todayish that I was really talking about.
The Falklands War was nearly thirty years ago. Hardly todayish.
Pickman's model
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so you're saying that human wave attacks would have sunk the royal navy. Running down the british army may be fun but it's not always accurate or anything more than a political knocki.g game. Faced with an enemy like the chinese british forces would acquit themselves well. More innovative enemies would be a different story.
Deareg
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What has that got to do with anything, you were implying that the war was fought because Argentina was ruled by fascists, yet Britain accepted help from other fascists, and by the way Galtieri came to power by a coup not by election so don't be referring to the Argentine forces as fascists as they were mostly conscripts with no choice, and the Belgrano was fucking mass murder, plain and simple.
Deareg
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My understanding is that Britain won that one by the skin of it's teeth, and without the help of the Chileans, yanks and French probably would have lost.
Deareg
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You ain't fucking stupid so stop acting like you are.
and you are seriously saying that the BA could take on the Red Army in a war on China's doorstep, on an island so close to the chinese mainland? Have I fallen asleep and woken up in 1839?
Deareg
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I thought that I was the one that needed educating? I know the Belgrano was outside the British exclusion zone and sailing away from the islands, that is fact so how the fuck you conclude that they were about to take part in an attack is beyond me.
Thatcher wanted that war and was having it no matter what, she was warned in advance that the Argentines were going to invade and could have stopped the invasion if she had not wanted a war.
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as you'll have noted i was replying to a post by deareg where he said that the chinese would have sunk all britain's cruisers.
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