Argentine Olympic advert calls Falklands "Argentine soil"

[Richard Hakluyt]

Some trainee teachers I knew, before the Falklands invasion, saw some jobs advertised for newly-qualified teachers to take up posts in the Falklands. The salaries were attractive, tax-free and/or "remote islands allowance". So they asked me what part of Scotland were they near and would they be able to get home for weekends 

They were only girls of course 

Most of us blokes knew where the Falklands were from our stamp collecting days.

[Josquius]

That could be a pretty cool posting for a year or so.
When older of course.

[Sheilbh]

IIRC, there is (or was) some French sympathy as well.  Wonder what the guidos think?

There certainly wasn't officially.  It's well-known that our most helpful and supportive ally during the war was France - and that was in the middle of a Socialist Presidency.

[Ed Anger]

reasonably famous Canadian author

KNOWN IN THUNDER BAY!

[CountDeMoney]

reasonably famous Canadian author

KNOWN IN THUNDER BAY!

MEET PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND'S VERY OWN DAVE, TONIGHT AT WICKHAM BOOKS ONLY

[alfred russel]

Give the Falklands to Argentina. It's a nice precedent for when the Germans reclaim some of that territory to the east.

See, that's where you fail with retorts like this directed at me - I have consistently claimed that Poland would be better off if ruled from Berlin (or Stockholm, for that matter) than from Warsaw (or Moscow or Vatican).

You can't blame us for not knowing that since you only post it on Polish message boards.

[Duque de Bragança]

Is Euro sympathy toward Argentina re: 'Malvinas' a lefty thing?

Not so much Euro, but rather more an Iberian/South American vs. Anglo-Saxons thing... over here, everybody calls the islands 'Malvinas' and don't see them as a rightful part of the UK.

It's a clash of cultures, really.

Some Portuguese people see them as the Argentine Olivença ?

Just because you call them Malvinas does not translate necessarily into support. Most Portuguese don't care or don't know nowadays.
The French call them Malouines as well but that does not translate into real sympathy. The Argentine Junta  has never been exactly popular and some see this war as the way Thatcher managed to stay on power so colour me skeptical.

[PRC]

reasonably famous Canadian author

KNOWN IN THUNDER BAY!

MEET PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND'S VERY OWN DAVE, TONIGHT AT WICKHAM BOOKS ONLY

Dave from PEI is a good guy.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Iberians that support the argentine claim over the Falklands must be masochists. Afterall, the argentines nationalise spanish companies ever so often.

[Valmy]

It seems their hatred of Brito-Anglo-Saxo-Normans over-rides their national interests.

[Barrister]

I imagine Spaniards support Spain's claim to the Falklands because it mirrors their own claim to Gibraltar.

[Admiral Yi]

I think Bolivia just nationalized a Spanish-owned electricity distributor.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

I imagine Spaniards support Spain's claim to the Falklands because it mirrors their own claim to Gibraltar.

like I said: masochism.

[Viking]

Uhm. Malta has over 400 thousand residents. 

Wrong Malta.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta

Thats the Kniggots Hospitalier, not Kniggots of Malta. It's not the only crusading order of kniggots out there today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_order

the TO runs hospitals etc. in germany and austria today.

[Martim Silva]

Some Portuguese people see them as the Argentine Olivença ?

Just because you call them Malvinas does not translate necessarily into support. Most Portuguese don't care or don't know nowadays.
The French call them Malouines as well but that does not translate into real sympathy. The Argentine Junta  has never been exactly popular and some see this war as the way Thatcher managed to stay on power so colour me skeptical.

I don't think so, because I often correct those 'Malvinas' people [i.e. basically everybody] that a war was fought over the isles to keep them called 'Falklands'. The reaction is invariably a 'not in my book, they're not'.

Btw, the French elections are on and they started in St. Pierre and Miquelon:



Do these people look like frenchies or canucks?