"Why Does Everyone Hate Birmingham?"

[Mr Mystery]

sausage fest.

Oooh Matron! Fnarr fnarr!

Though on a marginally more mature note, I was surprised to note the USA offered to mediate.

Silly Septics. They've forgotten that Britain (well, England to be absolutley precise) has been telling Johnny Foreigner 'no, sod off' long, long before the USA were even foreigners. Indeed. We told so many Johnny Foreigner's 'no sod off' that Johnny Foreigner had to go and invent new countries for us to tell 'no, sod off' to!

[Psychosplodge]

However the airfield on the falklands is a lot larger and better equipped than in the eighties...

[Wildeybeast]

Sorry I was being petty

I was being pedantic so fair enough.

I saw, it and the Argentine reaction and smilied.
It is something like 4th largest military spending vs. 49th...

Though we are without our aircraft carriers so projecting air support might be more difficult, though despite the importance of aircraft in the conflict the Argies also haven't really embraced it either..

The real issue was that we never thought they'd be stupid enough to invade so didn't defend it properly in the first place and they took this as a sign that we wouldn't bother trying to recapture it. Now we have it suitably well defended to prevent any Argentinian landing on British soil (that sneaky Olympics promo film aside) they won't bother to invade again (that and them not needing to prop up a failing military junta).

As for the Americans mediating, they offered to do that last time and Maggie told them that, with foreign troops on British soil, they could either support us in repelling a hostile foreign power or bugger off. I hope Mr Cameron is take a similar line now.

[Wolfshade]

As for the Americans mediating, they offered to do that last time and Maggie told them that, with foreign troops on British soil, they could either support us in repelling a hostile foreign power or bugger off. I hope Mr Cameron is take a similar line now.

Some times I miss the Iron Lady...

[Psychosplodge]

As for the Americans mediating, they offered to do that last time and Maggie told them that, with foreign troops on British soil, they could either support us in repelling a hostile foreign power or bugger off. I hope Mr Cameron is take a similar line now.

They did apparently take air-to-air missiles off their "ready" stocks to sell to us for immediate use...