ARmy Rumour SErvice

**Jerrycan2793** · 03-05-2012, 10:13

Originally Posted by CptDanjou

I was not revelling in their deaths , I just don't care about their losses , they were / are the enemy and the RN should be congratulated on what they did.

The problem with text is its very difficult to see context. My apologies for the assumption

**Bouillabaisse** · 03-05-2012, 10:13

You sanctimonious pricks. The Argies are only having a "comemoration" for political reasons - nothing like turning the crew into martyrs to win votes - without actually caring about them. So why should we? Well done HMS Conqueror. Shame we didn't get their carrier as well and make it a double celebration.

**Jerrycan2793** · 03-05-2012, 10:16

Originally Posted by Bouillabaisse

You sanctimonious pricks. The Argies are only having a "comemoration" for political reasons - nothing like turning the crew into martyrs to win votes - without actually caring about them. So why should we? Well done HMS Conqueror. Shame we didn't get their carrier as well and make it a double celebration.

Johny Foreigner does lots of things we don't do including surrender...

If the Argies jumped off a bridge would you?

**steven seagull** · 03-05-2012, 10:18

Are we picking our targets now?

I didn't see anyone getting upset when we were cracking gags about 9/11 and Maddie and some poor cunt getting a chainsaw to the canister. As soon as its soldiers we start developing wafer skin.

**Bouillabaisse** · 03-05-2012, 10:20

Originally Posted by Jerrycan2793

Johny Foreigner does lots of things we don't do including surrender...

If the Argies jumped off a bridge would you?

No, but my dad's bigger than your dad. How fucking old are you?

As to whether it's right or not:

1. It's the naafi. If you don't like it, go somewhere else
2. Happy St Skyscrapers Day.

go and read that classic and have a big cry about insensitivity

**Joe_Private** · 03-05-2012, 10:20

Originally Posted by Jerrycan2793

Just to put it into perspective, would we be happy if the Germans celebrated Glug Glug Hood Day? Or the Argies celebrated Crispy Brit day after some of their attacks led to badly burnt soldiers.

As far as I'm aware neither have overtly celebrated such action

In the interest of this being the NAAFI you can't try and torpedo my argument because I'm heading away from the conflict zone and I'm outside the exclusion limit.

Had they been commemorating the tragic loss of life, I would agree wholeheartedly with you, but I was disappointed, though not surprised, to see this:

"On days like these, we remember that there is a mission that is not over," Belgrano survivor Admiral Jorge Castro said at the ceremony.

"There are 323 voices calling to us that there is an open wound. Every day they they remind us that the Malvinas are, were and will be Argentine."

I feel sorry for the relatives of those who lost their lives, but Argentina and her leaders can go and fuck themselves.

**Jerrycan2793** · 03-05-2012, 10:25

Originally Posted by steven seagull

Are we picking our targets now?

I didn't see anyone getting upset when we were cracking gags about 9/11 and Maddie and some poor cunt getting a chainsaw to the canister. As soon as its soldiers we start developing wafer skin.

Yeah, what has maddie done (other than paint the inside of a few members sheds) or what have the victims of 9/11 done for us?

**Onetap** · 03-05-2012, 10:27

Originally Posted by Jerrycan2793

In the interest of this being the NAAFI you can't try and torpedo my argument because I'm heading away from the conflict zone and I'm outside the exclusion limit.

An unfortunate analogy, since the exclusion zone was for the safety of neutral merchant shipping and Argentine vessels and aircraft anywhere were legitimate targets. Even the Argentines have accepted that.

But agreed, there is no cause for celebration here.

The Argentine casualties should be remembered as the lamented victims of a government of cunts. Such casualties are something that we in the UK share with them.

**Bouillabaisse** · 03-05-2012, 10:28

We should take this opportunity to comemorate one of the greatest headlines in British journalism

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**rgjbloke** · 03-05-2012, 10:36

First of all, Rest in Peace to the 323 sailors who lost their lives. They were though at the time, the enemy and the sinking of the Belgrano was an event in a war started by Argentina invading the Falkland Islands.

I think Argentina has every right to commemorate the loss of their servicemen. Indeed I would be very surprised if they didn't. This report though tell's us that they also used the ceremony to re-iterate their claim to the Falklands.

Phrases such as "On days like these, we remember that there is a mission that is not over," Belgrano survivor Admiral Jorge Castro said at the ceremony, demonstrate that the memory of those who lost their lives are being used to keep the embers burning on the Falklands belong to us bonfire.

To be honest, what's the difference between the old military junta and the present "democratically elected" regime as far as the Falklands issue is concerned. Other than the fact that the current lot haven't put boots on the ground, the rhetoric is very similar.

That's why, in spite of the fact that so many lost their lives, I don't really have much sympathy for them.