Fish stocks may be rich, but for half the year forget about taking a boat out in that.

Ah, the Israel school of territorial claim

Argentina didnt exist yet

No one lived there before Europeans arrived.

But not the Falklands, when the British arrived the population consisted of Penguins and nothing else.

The islands were totally abandoned and relinquished when the British arrived.

I believe some (or all) said they did it for a prank.

Not to mention you look at Britain (with failings) and look at Argentina (mostly failings) and you’re not going to pick one of them to join.

The fishing is bad there.

Oil has been discovered in the territorial waters, but this was long after the war and is as yet unexploited.

Basically, it’s a rallying point that successive corrupt and failing Argentine governments have deployed in an attempt to distract from domestic failings. That’s its value.

The French and Spanish occupants had long abandoned the islands before the English arrived.

The UK has never profited from the islands. It has been a sinkhole of money.

The Argentine claim is implausible. The Falklands were British before Argentina was created. Their reasoning is that it had been used by the Spanish, and so had now-Argentina, therefore dibs.

To clarify, Britain didn’t “win” them. The previous occupants had abandoned it totally as it wasn’t worth much to them. When Britain arrived, it was desolate and abandoned with no prior claim. This was, by the way, some time before Argentina existed.

Under the 25-year rule most govt docs are released at the National Archive and, counterintuitively, turns out Thatcher went above and beyond to prevent war, even offering to negotiate the future status of the islands. In their dictatorial vigour the Argentines declined to talk. It was only the coming of Southern winter and the prospect of an entire season where the Argentines could fortify that convinced her to send the fleet.

The Muppets were created by Jim Henson in yhe 1950s, and made various appearances in commercials for the next 15 years.

Independently, Jim Henson was hired as a contractor to build puppets for Sesame Street. During the 70s the Muppets began to make appearances on the show.

Then in the mid-70s Henson made his own show, for British television, featuring a large cast of Muppets. This rocketed them to fame and spawned a series of feature films and spinoff shows that continues today.

So you think anyone should be able to walk into a library and yoink the books without a card?

It’s neither, its a real incident that happened on the railways. All Awdry’s Railway Series stories are.

Presumably an american. Who wasn’t paying attention during their entire “education “

The photo isn’t curved. Thats the indentation from where he’s gripping it.

A while back anti-oil protestors disrupted the start of the Formula E race in Berlin. They can be this stupid.