Argentine Olympic advert calls Falklands "Argentine soil"

[Razgovory]

They look like they just came out of the cold.

[Richard Hakluyt]

A transparent ballot box 

[Admiral Yi]

Do these people look like frenchies or canucks?

Poll worker dude and the chick in white both look very French to me.

[Duque de Bragança]

Fun fact : almost two-thirds of them voted for Flanby according to RTBF.

[Valmy]

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'.

Just how often do these islands come up in conversations in Portugal?

[Habsburg]

The Falkland Islands are UK territory, pls move on.com

[Duque de Bragança]

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'.

Just how often do these islands come up in conversations in Portugal?

Seldom if at all nowadays, except perhaps for some leftists and I'm sure they have better things to do now.

[Valdemar]

What do you recommend then Mart? Each country only gets the piece of land on which its capital is based then can only bid for other islands or territories within 500 miles of its coastline or borders?

Well, there is no hard and fast rule, but it's one of these "I know it when I see it" cases. I think a situation in which one country holds sovereignty over an isolated and very small piece of land located just off the border/shore of another country is extremely bizarre.

So sovereignity is to be decided by what YOU think is right and proper? 

They voted, they dont want to be argentine, argentina only want the seabed... get over it marti, argentina doesn't have a case, its all blustering like the nationalisation of spanish oil companies by South american governments.

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[Grey Fox]

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?

OMG, so much smugness it's unbearable.

French. French.