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im

34,302 posts

216 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Ginetta G15 Girl said:
Oh go on, keep up with the insults! rolleyes

'Testosterone soaked' Do you really have nothing better?
Sorry, I bow to your superior insulting skills including the blistering attacks with the word "coward" in every other post.

And I see "wee lad" is back for a 2nd airing laugh

Ginetta G15 Girl said:
Did you not say: "Anyway, I'm out now as I can't argue with people who are going to keep on mentioning how members of their family died in the conflict as that will just turn the mood nasty and I'm in a good mood."
I did but YOU decided to drag me back with your purile post at 11:34.

Ginetta G15 Girl said:
So you are a hypocrite as well as being someone who throws insults around because they have failed to win their argument.

You really are doubly pathetic
Jeez...Haven't you got a rifle barrel needs polishing....

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

53 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Truce?

Grumfutock

5,274 posts

164 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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anonymous said:
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No chance. im just keeps going, changing his argument, distorting facts, truths and reality. He misquotes, lies and evades questions. Misrepresents what others say, contradicts himself endlessly and generally will keep forging ahead with his twisted and warped version of events until the opponent grows so tired of his inane drivel that they give up. Just like most school yard bullies.

A lot of similarities with Alex Salmond and Nick Griffin really.

Robert Burns

909 posts

168 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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I predict a locked thread hahaha

im

34,302 posts

216 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Grumfutock said:
Well I have read some complete bks on PH, I have even written some myself.
Never a truer word said.

Grumfutock

5,274 posts

164 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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im said:
Never a truer word said.
And again with the misquote. Why not quote the WHOLE sentence mate. Not suit your argument?

Edited by Grumfutock on Friday 18th April 10:29

Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

278 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Anyway, is nobody going to win the competition to name the first Briton to land on (what is now) mainland Argentina?

Grumfutock

5,274 posts

164 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Ayahuasca said:
Anyway, is nobody going to win the competition to name the first Briton to land on (what is now) mainland Argentina?
Was it im?

Ozzie Osmond

21,189 posts

245 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Ginetta G15 Girl said:
I talked about the defence of people -
From what, exactly, did the people of the Falklands need defending?

Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

278 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Ozzie Osmond said:
Ginetta G15 Girl said:
I talked about the defence of people -
From what, exactly, did the people of the Falklands need defending?
Invasion by a foreign power? Just a wild guess.

Grumfutock

5,274 posts

164 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Ozzie Osmond said:
Ginetta G15 Girl said:
I talked about the defence of people -
From what, exactly, did the people of the Falklands need defending?
Really? Is that a serious question?

AstonZagato

12,649 posts

209 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Ozzie Osmond said:
From what, exactly, did the people of the Falklands need defending?
Are you retarded?

EskimoArapaho

5,135 posts

134 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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im might do well to remember that the other side was a military junta. A despicable one at that (see "The Disappeared", etc). Not an otherwise cuddly democracy like the UK.

Even if you hate war/militarism/jingoism, the decision to do battle over the invasion of a peaceful community by a neighbouring dictatorship was morally right. I was alive at the time, I was one of those anti-war students. Years later I visited the FI for 4 weeks (as a civilian) and only then did it sink in how factually wrong I had been - it's not an outpost of Brits, it's a community of people scratching a living on some pretty inhospitable terrain that they call home. And how morally wrong it have been to have given the FI up to Argentine aggression.

The campaign that was fought was certainly not a foregone conclusion. Had we lost enough men and material, then we would have changed tactics and fought (and won, I believe) a different sort of war. But those who went and gave their lives and limbs are done a dishonour by claims that the winning was somehow easy.

(There was - eventually - even a peace dividend for ordinary Argentinians.)

Edited by EskimoArapaho on Friday 18th April 12:10

Ayahuasca

27,427 posts

278 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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On a lighter note anyone seen the film 'F***kland' - a clandestinely filmed Argentine production about a Buenos Aires journalist who travels illegally to the islands to woo and impregnate females to breed a generation of half-Argentine Falklanders. Only film actually made in the Falklands Iirc. Quite good.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Ayahuasca said:
On a lighter note anyone seen the film 'F***kland' - a clandestinely filmed Argentine production about a Buenos Aires journalist who travels illegally to the islands to woo and impregnate females to breed a generation of half-Argentine Falklanders. Only film actually made in the Falklands Iirc. Quite good.
Sounds funny. It a comedy?

deltaevo16

755 posts

170 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Ayahuasca said:
Grumfutock said:
deltaevo16 said:
Utrinque Paratus.
Don't know a John Etheridge by any chance? Was a very young trooper back then.
Or David Abols? I met him in the TA centre in Lincoln, he won the DCM at Goose Green.
Scouse or Piggy Abols was a very good friend we joined up together. He is living the good life in Oz at the moment.
Indeed he did win the DCM, carried the fight forward after H had been mortally wounded.

deltaevo16

755 posts

170 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Grumfutock said:
Ozzie Osmond said:
Of course it was a foregone conclusion - otherwise it would never have been fought.

Of course the military chiefs are bound to say, "Ooh, that was really difficult and we are very clever and courageous". Blowing their own trumpets.

Of course you are welcome to go and fight to keep far off islands with nobody on them if you want to. I'm not going and I wouldn't send anyone else.

Of course the total death toll of the incident was utterly and completely unacceptable,
  • 900 people killed
  • 2,500 people wounded
  • Population of the Falklands in 1982 - just 1,800 people
  • An overall death ratio of 50% and more people wounded than actually lived there! yikes
Of course it's not acceptable.

Of course UK wouldn't have raised a finger if the "other side" had been Russia or China.

Of course it was a foregone conclusion.....
Well I have read some complete bks on PH, I have even written some myself. I also accept that the tinternet is full of weirdo's, racists, morons and trolls. However that is one of the funniest and yet ludicrous post I have ever read on PH. Well done sir.
Indeed it was such a foregone conclusion that a couple of Super Etendard launched exocets that hit the Atlantic Conveyor and we lost the majority of of helicopters and ammunition.

Ot the Sir Galahd got hit with the majority of the Welsh Guards still on it.
Like I said in an ealrier post so much drivel being spouted whilst not understanding anything about being in combat.

Grumfutock

5,274 posts

164 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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deltaevo16 said:
Scouse or Piggy Abols was a very good friend we joined up together. He is living the good life in Oz at the moment.
Indeed he did win the DCM, carried the fight forward after H had been mortally wounded.
Or Tom Caughey? Tommy was hurt bad at Warren Point.

Serve with John in Germany and Tommy worked with me in NI (he was a civ by then).

Edited by Grumfutock on Friday 18th April 15:41

deltaevo16

755 posts

170 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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Grumfutock said:
deltaevo16 said:
Scouse or Piggy Abols was a very good friend we joined up together. He is living the good life in Oz at the moment.
Indeed he did win the DCM, carried the fight forward after H had been mortally wounded.
Or Tom Caughey? Tommy was hurt bad at Warren Point.

Serve with John in Germany and Tommy worked with me in NI (he was a civ by then).

Edited by Grumfutock on Friday 18th April 15:41
Tom was in A coy and a very lucky bloke, I was out then..... left Berlin, just before they went on the NI tour. Rejoined just after Warren point, in fact it was losing some good lads like Taff Andrews and Don Blair that made me rejoin, I was hacked off with civvy street anyway.

Grumfutock

5,274 posts

164 months

Friday 18th April 2014
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deltaevo16 said:
Tom was in A coy and a very lucky bloke, I was out then..... left Berlin, just before they went on the NI tour. Rejoined just after Warren point, in fact it was losing some good lads like Taff Andrews and Don Blair that made me rejoin, I was hacked off with civvy street anyway.
Lucky is the understatement of the day! Top bloke though.