What do you call the islands that the Brits and Argentines fought over in 1982?

[taterguy]

Tell the truth

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. The Falklands...

[SoCalDem]

2. I don't write, I don't call

:rofl:

seriously.. I forgot BOTH names:)

[Captain Hilts]

3. Falklands. They voted and chose to be British. nt

[Xithras]

14. Yep. That's the way I look at it.

Dirt is dirt, and dirt doesn't have any names but those which are given to it by its resident humans. The residents of the islands choose to call them Falklands, so that's what they're called. If the residents of Arizona voted to rename their state HappyLand tomorrow, that would be the name there too. The rest of us could laugh and call it Arizona all we wanted, but the proper name would be HappyLand.

The actions of navies hundreds of years ago really shouldn't matter much. What is important is the desire of the residents TODAY. Those residents have made their opinion clear.

[Donnachaidh]

4. I keep flashing back on a NY comic's bit about the Falklands

changed to an obscene name :evilgrin:

[pl259]

5. It's either that (wanton sex?) or the Land of Bad Wine

no-win situation. :rofl:

[Donnachaidh]

9. think Joe Pesci and his favorite word in Goodfellas

the *faukin islands* :rofl:

[leeroysphitz]

11. Which faukin islands? There are lots of faukin islands...

[mrfrapp]

6. Falklands

The people who live there call it the Falkland Islands. No other opinion matters.

[KamaAina]

7. A college buddy of mine said that a Polish diplomat had solved the crisis

give the Falklands to Britain, and the Malvinas to Argentina. :P

[ThomWV]

8. You know that little teeny war changed naval warfare forever

Little missiles flying just over the tops of the waves sinking warships sure got people's attention.

[pl259]

10. Wasn't that the first (only?) deployment of the Exocet?

I was down in Key West when that business was taking place, it freaked out a lot of peeps there.
;-)

[ThomWV]

12. I believe that's what it was called

My memory of it is fuzzy at best but I think someone else made the things, maybe France, and the Argentine Navy only had a handful of them, but they were effective and somehow that showed the venerability of surface fleets. My knowledge of naval stuff isn't worth shit, so this is just something floating around in the back of my mind as a faint memory. Goodness knows Google would yield mountains of info for anyone who cared to look.

[hack89]

18. The Stark was hit by an exocet in 1987. nt

[Captain Hilts]

19. And melting ships with superstructures made of aluminum to the waterline....

and that was the end of polyester uniforms also.

HMS Conquerer used a spread of WWII-style torpedoes to sink Phoenix/Belgrano. Sad.

[malaise]

13. Los Malvinas n/t

[dem629]

15. Bahamas.

[Warren DeMontague]

16. Fernando Poo.

Well, okay, maybe not, but when else am I going to have a chance to use "Fernando Poo" in a reply? :shrug:

[Posteritatis]

17. The Falklands, just like the real owners and inhabitants call them (nt)