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You know, one of the fine things i find in the netz is that if one asks a question online, there is always the chance that someone will answer it... so make sure you ask what you really want to know!

I, for one, had never researched broadband in the Falklands, thinking that sheep weren't truly internetz savvy.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Wed May 21st, 2008 at 01:19:46 PM EST
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Well, back in the early seventies I knew a family who was fed up with our society (cold-war, Vietnam....)and decided to emigrate to a place nobody ever heard off and far, far away from all troubles: the Falklands.

A few years later they were in the middle of a full-blown war.
Ever since when I see 'Falklands' their story comes back to my mind. About two months ago I was following a link and found out about broadband overthere.

BTW, today it's exactly 26 years ago (21 may 1982) the Brits landed again to free the sheep.  

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Wed May 21st, 2008 at 02:12:34 PM EST
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I didn't know it was the anniversary. It's not been mentioned.

But the Falklands were ours, the people who lived there were British and it was important to stand up for their rights and self-determination.

It's interesting how since then their feudal relationship with Britain has become more mature and they've displayed considerable entrepreneurial ingenuity and are now mostly rather ridiculously wealthy.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed May 21st, 2008 at 02:49:20 PM EST
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It was big-ish last year - plenty of books, probably the occasional TV interview.

Some of the books were good, especially a couple of Harrier jock biogs which didn't pull any punches.

The most popular seller turned out to be the story of the Vulcan run on Stanley from the UK, which all of the other books said had been a high profile but spectacular waste of time.

The one common story was of the after-effects - everyone was trained military, but no one seriously expected to shoot to kill, or to be shot at.

It left its mark. A lot of the Harrier jocks seem to have had mini-breakdowns afterwards.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Wed May 21st, 2008 at 06:24:52 PM EST
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