Falklands 40 years on ..
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marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I was in the Outer Hebrides on a school trip , and Falklands does sound like a Scottish island
brief confusion followed , ironic as it was a Geography field trip.
gosub
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We took the piss out out of Dad for years about his quiet out of the way place that nobody's ever heard ofI was in the Outer Hebrides on a school trip , and Falklands does sound like a Scottish island
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
I don't think our colonising behaviour was any better or worse than any other countries colonising behaviour, with the exception of the Belgian Congo which was atrocious.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Your perception of how you think he behaves ( erroneous in my experience) fits in pretty well with many ‘Comrades’ I have the misfortune to know and work with over the years.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Me too.
But we had stolen Hong Kong as a price for not burning down any more Chinese cities, nicking all the gold leaf off many of their most important historically and culturally important buildings and forcing their government to stop protecting their people from massive drug abuse only 100 years before. And even then we had to lease 95% of it for 100 years. Plus Argentina didn’t make most of our stuff on credit or have nukes.
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A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Yes. As von Lichtenberg pointed out,the islander who discovered Columbus made a very bad discovery. Have you heard about Alexander VI, the Borgia pope who was responsible for the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
A joke made at the time by sue Townsend in her secret diary of adrian moleI was in the Outer Hebrides on a school trip , and Falklands does sound like a Scottish island
So I logged on to Urban when I wasn't fully awake - so what? Get fucked mate. I'd like to see you cope with this forum when trying to wake up on the medication I'm on.
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seeformiles
Lost in the wood
I was 14 and listening to Radio 1 in the morning (probably DLT..) when I heard the news. Like others I had no idea where the Falklands were. I thought they were somewhere in the English Channel near Jersey and that it was pretty weird that Argentina had bothered sailing all that way. I recall the news coverage well but see it as more of a background event since it was a difficult time for our family. Around that time my old man was nearly killed in a road accident, had his legs shattered and was off work for over 2 years so things were a bit lean. A war on the other side of the world - now I knew where it was - wasn’t that high on my list of priorities.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
More sleep, less Kropotkin, Wolfie.
Edit> Ah, you edited in the bit about your medication.
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I've had plenty of sleep dickhead and don't pretend you know what it's like being on my medication.More sleep, less Kropotkin, Wolfie.
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Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I'm pretending nothing of the sort. Until a few minutes ago I had no idea you were on medication, and even now I don't know what it is.
Happy to leave it there.
Good.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
After scouring an atlas they found the islands under some crumbs. George Mole was not a happy man and went back to bed.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
I'm still waiting for compensation for British behaviour during the Irish Potato Famine. All my ancestors died then and I was never even born. That must be worth something.
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Sack of spuds
If this is true then we've got off on the wrong foot.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
He's a gentleman off the boards
likesfish
You can't park here sir
Well the death star is very boring so a Skateboard was acquired as were several more because the corridor slopes ideal for slamon all was fine.Nahtell us about the skateboarding incident, you've started so...
The RAF police even got some exercise chasing skaters
Till and F4 phamton pilot had a go being a sky god was way to confident smashed his Jaw that was a £2million plus pilot out of commision
. Skateboarding outlawed
Ming
I shot a man in Reno...
Trigger warning for pedants. This is a definite ‘guy in the pub‘ post.
Aaaanyway…what i heard was (i think it was on here actually) that when Andrew was gallivanting around in his Sea King he was protected by ships lowering their defences and not deploying chaff to divert missiles away from him. Probably bollocks but I’d be curious to know if anyone had heard more.
Aaaanyway…what i heard was (i think it was on here actually) that when Andrew was gallivanting around in his Sea King he was protected by ships lowering their defences and not deploying chaff to divert missiles away from him. Probably bollocks but I’d be curious to know if anyone had heard more.
I was a similar age, perhaps maybe a year older? I was 17 when it started and turned 18 that June not long after the end of it.
The war was an eye-opener for me. Being young and impressionable I got caught up in the wave of jingoism sweeping the country at first but had the good fortune to go to Germany mid-way through due to visiting a German girlfriend. And what an eye opener that was. The war was discussed rationally, as was the British media reaction to it. I came back home highly critical of the nauseating jingoism, and learned a lesson about media narratives, agendas, and manipulations of fact that I have never forgotten.
It was a part of my turn to the left ideologically, where I have remained ever since.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Yeah, it's horse shit.
He flew the same sorties, in the same aircraft, under the same conditions as everyone else.
That doesn't stop him being a borish arse with questionable sexual tastes, but neither does being a borish arse with questionable sexual tastes stop him doing what what everyone else did - he flew looooong anti-submarine missions, including at night, he flew decoy missions with radar reflectors and chaff, and he flew into the smoke and the flames of the LSL Galahad at Bluff Cove to bring survivors to shore.
Ships don't have long-lived secrets. A thousand people on an aircraft carrier, 2-300 on every frigate and destroyer in the fleet - if special conditions were being manufactured every time a random Sea King flew, particularly if those special conditions put everyone else at greater risk, then it would have leaked long before now.
With that particular royal they probably especially wish he had died in battle so he could have been cannonised for their propaganda long before anyone had the chance to suspect certain things about him, lol
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Growing up in Naval/military Town I didn't have a lot of time for the armed forces by time I left. Or all that went with it.
Yes I do remember the upsurge in jingoism. Something that doesn't entirely go away in this country. Nor did I ever feel a part of it.
That's all no doubt true.
One of my former comrades - a socialist to the core and highly critical of the powers that be - was a young man in the navy in the Falklands war. His experinces include a direct hit on his vessel which resulted in him and several others being blown into the cold seas. Had there been special treatment for anybody he would have heard about it. And knowing him as I do there is no way on this earth that he would not have shared that information.
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