Protesters with boltcutters and pointy sticks deflate one of the Waihopai domes

[MisterD]

Maybe so but it returned Margaret Thatcher and that was a good thing. Having lived there at the time I think I can safely offer my opinion.

Hey! It's the anniversary of the sinking of the Belgrano today...spooky.

I was 11 years old, plotting the progress of the campaign on a big map on the classroom wall...

[Grahameeboy]

Hey! It's the anniversary of the sinking of the Belgrano today...spooky.

I was 11 years old, plotting the progress of the campaign on a big map on the classroom wall...

Belgrano??

[MisterD]

Belgrano??

Belgrano
and just for Robert:
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aZdAyHVjzQ[/YOUTUBE]

[Grahameeboy]

and just for Robert:

You old fart you.......

[Grahameeboy]

You old fart you.......

I got a warning for this...geeze

[Flatcap]

I got a warning for this...geeze

No Fartist comments please

[jrandom]

... it returned Margaret Thatcher and that was a good thing.

Gah! Thud.

Having lived there at the time...

Yes, you obviously had your fingers on the pulse of the nation.

[Grahameeboy]

No Fartist comments please

Especially the liquid kind eh...

[Hitcher]

I hear that these tree huggers are now hunger striking. The Police should take a leaf out of what their Israeli counterparts do in such circumstances and start barbecuing meat and other tasty treats up wind...

[Robert Taylor]

Hey! It's the anniversary of the sinking of the Belgrano today...spooky.

I was 11 years old, plotting the progress of the campaign on a big map on the classroom wall...

A friend of mine that works for the Ohlins UK automotive distributor was crew in the submarine ''Conqueror'' that sank the Belgrano. I remember the uproar in the left wing / pacifist British press when Conqueror returned to its base in northern Scotland flying the jolly roger to signify a kill.....in fact a Royal Navy tradition for centuries. On every sizable Royal Navy vessel there is a member of the crew trained as an upholsterer, and it is the responsibility of that member to sew up a jolly roger flag on the return journey.
The sinking of the Belgrano spooked the Argentinian Navy who scurried back to port leaving only the Argy Air Force to give a decent account of itself.

[Ixion]

They'd have had the aircraft carrier, too, if Nelson had been there.

[Robert Taylor]

Belgrano
and just for Robert:

Nostalgia! A woman politician worth her salt, thankyou!!

[Robert Taylor]

Gah! Thud.



Yes, you obviously had your fingers on the pulse of the nation.

When I arrived in England there were 3 million unemployed but had no problem getting a job because I was willing to work. That they had to go through such initial pain under the Thatcher administration was testament to years of socialist Government mismanagement.