Saturday Matinee. Did Argentina Lose?

"Almost A Wooden Bird" (AlmostAWoodenBird) 10/04/2014 at 09:58 • Filed to: falklands, top gear, britain, great britain, bbc, saturday matinee

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So I have to work today, which means the usual perusal of British television with Hola to proxy through work's internet. I just happened upon !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . I can't remember, did Argentina lose?

This has everything we love: Big ol' airplanes, bombs, Britain, and our newly found love for Argentina all wrapped up in one package. If you have Chrome and don't have Hola to watch this (what are you doing with yourself?) !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
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TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Almost A Wooden Bird 10/04/2014 at 10:02

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Yeah, Britain was able to recapture all the islands and in the process shot down a crapton of the Argie air force.

user314 > Almost A Wooden Bird 10/04/2014 at 10:27

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Brezhnev took Afghanistan.

Begin took Beirut.

Galtieri took the Union Jack.

And Maggie, over lunch one day,

Took a cruiser with all hands.

Apparently, to make him give it back

Goshen, formerly Darkcode > user314 10/04/2014 at 10:37

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Begin took Beirut.

Debatable.

Cé hé sin > Almost A Wooden Bird 10/04/2014 at 10:52

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I recall seeing this or something similar before - it took some extraordinary number of air tankers to get one or two Vulcans to the Falklands and back.

user314 > Goshen, formerly Darkcode 10/04/2014 at 11:01

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Hey man, I don't argue with the Floyd, I just enjoy the music.

Almost A Wooden Bird > Almost A Wooden Bird 10/04/2014 at 11:11

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This is actually a really good film!

AJShepherd > Almost A Wooden Bird 10/04/2014 at 12:12

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I'd totally recommend reading "Vulcan 607" by Rowland White. Taking a bunch of aircraft headed for the scrapheap, fitting them out for air to air refuelling which nobody had done in 20odd years, and fitting countermeasures required for defence used insane amounts of Heath Robinson style improvisation.

ranwhenparked > Almost A Wooden Bird 10/04/2014 at 15:06

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Well, the Argentine government lost the war, but the Argentine people kind of won, in the end, since losing the war caused their horrible dictatorship to finally collapse.

Racing Archivist > Almost A Wooden Bird 10/04/2014 at 22:49

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Is there a link where there is not closed captioning?

Almost A Wooden Bird > Racing Archivist 10/06/2014 at 09:23

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Not that I could find =/

Racing Archivist > Almost A Wooden Bird 10/06/2014 at 12:26

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Thank you for trying and your post.