what comes to your mind if I mention ''Falklands Islands''?

Answer 1

un país super poderoso aprovechándose de uno que apenas emerge.

malditos lemies

ustedes y los gringos nos la van a pagar a los latinos.

Viva Latinoamérica Unida

mueran Bush y Blair.

Answer 2

Until the Falklands War of 1982, I only knew the name but not the location of the islands. What comes to mind now is the sacrifice of so many men, British and Argentine. The Falklands are now far more than the sheep station they were back in 1982. Large cruise ships visit Port Stanley with tourists from all over the world. The Falklands is now very much on the tourist map and thriving as a result.

It's the penguins you see. Nowhere else can you walk down to the beach, as though at Brighton, to be greeted by a mob of penguins who do not run away but simply look at you as though you are invading their space.

The one sad thing now about the Falklands is that the people of the Argentine have completely abandoned their war dead there. The Argentine graves of the 600 brave Argentine soldiers who fell in battle are untended. The paint is flaking from the wooden crosses and weeds grow everywhere. It really is a disgrace. While all this is going on, British memorials are well tended and visited.

The one good outcome of the Falklands War of 1982, is that it lead immediately to the establishment of democracy in the Argentine and also Bolivia, a supporter of the Argentine.

Answer 3

Ernest Shackleton in 1916 trying to get a relief expedition to rescue his crew from the Endurance stranded in the Antarctic.

Sitting alone in a basement flat lost in a novel about the start of WW1, with the radio on in the background, and suddenly realising that I'd heard a news flash that Argentina had invaded the Falkland Islands. Thinking wildly, "It'll be Gibraltar next! WW3 is about to start!"

Answer 4

crap. and a time killer. how much of the 44 minutes (that's an hour minus commercials) is taken up by establishing shots of the house/island that the show is taking place or dramatic suspense moments? or some moron's take on the overblown ultimately unimportant fake competition? no need to pay writers or actors or anyone else with any modicum of skill or talent. take 'deal or no deal' for example. not even really a game show as the only answer you need is yes or no. all the time is taken up by the contestants friends, who you get to meet, suspense at the opening of each and every suitcase, fake banter with a fake banker, and howie's fake-out lead-ins to commercials.

Answer 5

Residents proud to be British; Argentinians who, like Hitler, were willing to start a war because they desired someone else's land, brave soldiers on both sides, needlessly killed and injured because of a country's greed. Simon Weston.

Argentinians who STILL want the Falkland Islands;
I pray that they will not start the whole thing over again.

Answer 6

Malvinas. The Wolfe Tones. Maggie Thatcher. The Belgrano. Sheep.

Answer 7

The novel "The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole", by Sue Townsend -the diaries of an angst-ridden teen in the early 1980s. When he tells his (un-politicised) father that the Falklands have been invaded his dad springs out of bed, convinced that the Falklands are just off the coast of the UK lol ;-)
Seriously, a dreadful, pointless war, which revived the career of a flagging Prime Minister who was doing badly in the opinion polls at the time.

Answer 8

When I was a child I watched my father leave port on the ship which he commanded, off to fight the argies for the falklands.

Before he left I asked him to bring me back a penguin - which he did - but only a toy one - I wanted a real one.

So my first thought when i think about the falkland islands is - where the bleedin hell is my penguin !!!!!

Answer 9

It reminds me of falklands war fought in 1982 between argentina and united kingdom over falklands islands whose ownership had long been disputed.The british military won the war which lead to the surrender of argentine military in the islands.

Answer 10

British

Answer 11

Penguins, cold, war, Welsh guards, Margaret Thatcher, Port Stanley, isolated, South Atlantic, 1982