The Falkland Islands

Weather isn't great. It's surprisingly British. Very long flights to and fro. Fish-based cuisine. All that aside, I think the idea of it is pretty dreamy as well, OP.

It seems so remote

The narrator of OP's video sounds like he's a high-school student reading from notes.

R2, hold my beer.

This was a good read - or listen- that covers the islands’ history, recent (post-war) progress, and contemporary life.

"Las Malvinas"! -- "Falklands", no!

Don’t cry for me Argentina

I'm sending Andrew there to be governor general.

I remember learning in a documentary that buying groceries is expensive as they have to fly things in mostly from further away because there is virtually no trade with Argentina (the nearest mainland)_ a fallout of the war between Argentina and the UK.

The bottom must be a busy fella .

Eh, I’d rather go to Patagonia.

On the Falklands all seems to breathe freedom and peace, and to make one forget the world and its sad turmoils.

You be the only gay on the island

I was recently in Argentina and it's fascinating to me how they still constantly talk about the Falklands. All that fuss over some islands with a population of less than 3,000? Though I suppose it's the principle of the matter. I did look into visiting, but I couldn't justify the price of flights.

Well, you and the Bottom of the World.

I wish he had included some local people and their lives. Perhaps he was afraid his teeth would scare them.

So I take you are into sheep OP. There are more sheep in the Falkland Islands than people.

The novelty would wear off pretty quickly

The islands whose dirty little war sunk the release of the Don’t Cry fir Me Argentina single.

I was there in 2016, and am going again in February. It's very much like the Scottish Orkney Islands, but with a lot of cool penguins.

I was there for a few hours, on my way to Antarctica. The landscape was lovely but monotonous, sweeping treeless hills cloaked in rain, and the town of Stanley was charming but tiny. We poked around the attractive harbor, looked at all the British items for sale in the town general store, and were told we couldn't visit the penguin colony because a major storm was about to hit.

And I don't know that there's a lot more to do in the Falkland Islands.

I support Argentina. They should have been Argentine all along.

R22, the people who live in the Falklands now seem to be as British as the people of Devonshire, I don't think they want to become part of Argentinia.

So maybe the islands should have been colonized by Argentina in the first place, but right now, I'd say the people who live on the island get to say where their allegiance lies, and what influences their culture.

Sorry, R23 - R21, I've been there and seen the British cultural influence.

For a few hours.

It's the South American version of Gibraltar.

Gardening has gotten big in the Falklands. Now people are using greenhouses for growing, which is taking some of the edge off the importation.

The FI gardening Facebook group is quite interesting.

@r20, "but with a lot of cool penguins. "

As opposed to those asshole penguins from Antarctica 🐧 😠

As opposed to the hot penguins of the Galapagos?

Galápagos penguins are in the wrong hemisphere.

The Galápagos penguins are clearly the gay ones - the first to stake out a new destination before the other penguins come along and ruin it.

@r29, They'll just fly over to the Falklands like Prince Randy Andy

The Falklands are using the great winds for electrical power now. They’ve added loads of solar panels as well.

There’s much more opportunity to grow their own food with the renewable electrical power plus batteries for storing it.

In Svalbard, the closest real town to the North Pole, Longyearbyen, is now growing greens even in the sunless winter.

I want to go to the Kevin Falk-lands.

I love the African penguins, of all the animals I saw in Africa they were some of my favorites. They used to be called the Jack Ass Penguins, because they brayed like mules, but now they have a more dignified name. And they live in a fabulous upscale neighborhood right on the coast.

Falklands? ALL MINE!

Is it true Margaret Thatcher had her ashes dispersed over the Falklands?

The obviously gay penguins are the Fairy Penguins of Australia and New Zealand. They call them Little Blue Penguins now, but who are they kidding?

[quote] Is it true Margaret Thatcher had her ashes dispersed over the Falklands?

She demanded they be placed inside of children's milk jars and not handed out for free.

Well, at least she didn’t declare ketchup a vegetable for school lunches.

Jesus. That video was sad. She so skinny. She's definitely in the drunkorexic stage of her alcoholism where you prefer to drink your calories, but she also looks like one of my friends who's currently dying of liver failure. Spindly with a stomach. So sad.

Is it true that they're pronounced "The Fucklands"?

I’ve wanted to visit The Falklands for years. It has an edge-of-the-world vibe which appeals to me from afar.

I am also somehow amused by the voting results there. In the 2013 referendum on whether to maintain links to Britain, only 3 people voted against. - That’s surely the world’s smallest political movement!

I think the islanders get to decide where they belong politically and I seriously doubt they would choose the monumental mess that is Argentina today.

Patagonia is a much better edge of the world Argentine locale.

Just how much blow was Argentina doing in the '80s that they thought their military would take down the UK's?

[quote]I was recently in Argentina and it's fascinating to me how they still constantly talk about the Falklands. All that fuss over some islands with a population of less than 3,000? Though I suppose it's the principle of the matter. I did look into visiting, but I couldn't justify the price of flights.

Argentina is a Spanish colony that thinks it has a right to control a British colony on the basis of proximity.

Argentinian politicians will use the Falklands as a distraction to whip up nationalism when faced with scrutiny on their appalling records. See Cristina Fernández de Kirchner as an example.

I remember when Ground Force (UK gardening show) did an episode in the Falklands. It was interesting and looked very wind-swept.

Visitors to the Falklands are allowed to keep any landmines they dig up.

Curse of Evita.

I wish he had included some local people and their lives

Here's a really good video of the locals talking about their island.

You can clearly see why they asked the UK to defend them.

The residents are British, not Argentinian.

I found it interesting that their kids get a free college education in the UK. Everything paid for!

Their accents sound like a cross between a typical London accent and a New Zealand accent.

I can't believe it snows in the Falklands.

R51, the Falklands are more or less at the same latitude as Tierra del Fuego, about the same distance from the South Pole as Juneau, Alaska is from the North Pole.

Like I said, I was there briefly, along with a stay on the Magellanic Channel. I was there in February, which is late summer in the southern hemisphere, and on a sunny late summer day it'd be about 60F out, with more clouds than sun and a good number of rain storms. I imagine the winters are near-Arctic, as it's near the Antarctic regions.

What’s the LGBTQA+ community like there?

The Argies weren't the first to make the mistake of fighting the British at the Falklands.

[quote] What’s the LGBTQA+ community like there?

He’s lovely.

R55, and he's a penguin.

I believe Patagonia is trendier among the .0001% now.

BRITISH LEFT WAFFLES ON FALKLAND ISLANDS