• Royal Navy caught shooting at a Spanish flag
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[quote= Translated from "elmundo.es"] The situation between Gibraltar and Spain does not cool, but gets warmer instead. The incidents between the Police and the British Navy in the surroundings of Gibraltar happen, involving, the last, a Spanish flag. As explained sources of the Military Institute, one of the Police patrols discovered one of the Royal Navy gathering a buoy with the flag of Spain. According to these sources, the Royal Navy gathered their chattels on having detected the presence of the Police. Up to this moment they had realized they were target practising against the Spanish flag. According to the statement of the Police, the incident took place on 13.00 hours of last Wednesday, to approximately seven nautical miles of Top Europe (the southern point of Gibraltar's Crag). The British ship, threw warnings through a megaphone: "you cannot be here, these are international waters". [/quote] What else can I say other than What The Fuck? This is what happens when our president doesn't do fuck. I still remember when some policemen offended Gibraltar, and England. They were jailed because England took political actions or some shit like that. No one likes Spain :sigh:
Wow, British navy is full of assholes... or semen... or assholes full of semen... on the poop deck... Fuck I give up. British Navy showing some serious hate towards Spain.
It has been like that for quite some time...
Dang, time to sweep the poop deck.
[quote]The British ship, threw warnings through a megaphone: "you cannot be here, these are international waters".[/quote] That makes perfect sense
They should be court marshalled for wasting ammo.
Isn't Gibraltar a British overseas territory? What the fuck does Spain have to do with it?
OP, how does the president have anything to do with this? Also, Spanish Armarda.
that was pretty random :wtc:
[QUOTE=Murkrow;18466510]That makes perfect sense[/QUOTE] It does when they're referring to the Police, which they are. The Police can not cross into International waters, it's crossing their nations borders and thus out of their jurisdiction. That's like a UK police officer busting someone in Washington State. He can't, unless he's working with the explicit knowledge and support of the American authorities.
It's kind of difficult to read thanks to the mutilated grammar, but it seems the Spanish are butthurt because we shot at one of their flags on a bouy. Oh no.
[QUOTE=Thomo;18469764]Well. We kicked their armada's ass and we'll do it again.[/QUOTE] Please read up on your history, please.
[QUOTE=MachiniOs;18473653]Please read up on your history, please.[/QUOTE] We set fire to loads of their docked ships in the Netherlands, they fled, tried to regroup, then sailed into a storm and loads more ships got wrecked. It was was hardly the greatest naval strategy of all time.
The only thing England had on Spain in that battle was lightweight and faster ships.
This would have actually been worthwhile news if our Navy had actually shot at a police boat But it's just a flag, and the police boat was on international water.. and so was the buoy
What can we say, Spain sucks
To be honest this kind of smells like an attempt to demonise the RN/UK by the Spanish. They have always been trying to get that rock back and this just seems like some anti-British propaganda.
Whatever Gibraltar will always be ours
[QUOTE=j-richardson;18474024]Whatever Gibraltar will always be ours[/QUOTE] Very much doubt it. As is the same with the Falklands, it is the policy of Her Majesty's Government that the final decision on who owns Gibraltar rests with the people (of the territory in question). In the cases of both the Falklands and Gibraltar the population have always voted overwhelmingly in favour of remaining a British Overseas Territory, and Her Majesty's Government will back this to the full extent of their ability (including force, if neccessary).
That's a [I]dick[/I] thing to do.
[QUOTE=David29;18474094]Very much doubt it. As is the same with the Falklands, it is the policy of Her Majesty's Government that the final decision on who owns Gibraltar rests with the people (of the territory in question). In the cases of both the Falklands and Gibraltar the population have always voted overwhelmingly in favour of remaining a British Overseas Territory, and Her Majesty's Government will back this to the full extent of their ability (including force, if neccessary).[/QUOTE] So what's the problem? If the population are voting to stay as a British counterpart and have our army behind them it'll remain ours
[QUOTE=j-richardson;18474551]So what's the problem? If the population are voting to stay as a British counterpart and have our army behind them it'll remain ours[/QUOTE] Sorry, thought you were Spanish for some weird reason.
[QUOTE=Camundongo;18473781]We set fire to loads of their docked ships in the Netherlands, they fled, tried to regroup, [b]then sailed into a storm and loads more ships got wrecked. It was was hardly the greatest naval strategy of all time.[/b][/QUOTE] It was the will of IMHOTEP. He is, after all, Pro-British.
[QUOTE=MachiniOs;18468728]They should be court marshalled for wasting ammo.[/QUOTE] How dare they waste munitions on a flag, the flag is probably cheaper.
Just remembering the good old days!
just loving the in-the news world have your say cunts
IMO Britain should invade Spain
agreed. lets start today. the U.S. cannot seem to run a decent war so.... lets start one.
[QUOTE=Thomo;18469764]Well. We kicked their armada's ass and we'll do it again.[/QUOTE] You make me want to hurt something.
Actually, the flag they were shooting at wasn't the Spanish flag but "one that is traditionally used on gunnery targets due to its high visibility." Read the following quote from DailyMail for more details [quote=DailyMail]'HMS Scimitar was using [b]Flag No1[/b] during gunnery practise – not the Spanish national flag. [B]Flag No1[/B] is traditionally used on gunnery targets due to its high visibility however we recognise its similarity to the Spanish national flag and will use an alternative marker during gunnery practise in this area in the future.'[/quote] More: [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1229580/British-ambassador-forced-apologise-Royal-Navy-ship-used-Spanish-flag-target-practice.html[/url]
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