The Attack on Top Gear (Exerpt From the Patagonia Special) - General

[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;46820905]I know right! I almost forgot how gorgeous the southern Argentine and Chilean landscapes are. Absolutely breath-taking. [editline]30th December 2014[/editline] More like, the Falklands war is treated as WWI and a small group of resentful idiots with a bruised ego wants to stir shit up just to kick-off WWII. :/ Of course, that's never gonna happen, but still. I hate nationalism with a passion.[/QUOTE] It is not a problem about nationalism. That would be like saying that mathematics are a problem because you could calculate the needed trajectory for shooting rockets at targets accurately. There are a tons of good things maths can be used for. Nationalism is just grouping up on a bigger scale. It leads to stability of a country, people trusting each other, and if you got a big population working together you can achieve much more than just with one guy. If you want to get rid of nations you are devolving society back into the older days, where every tribe fought against each other. It is counter productive. And people also seem to forget how much good comes out from nationalism, nations for example make up football teams to compete against each other. And at these world cup events people see all kinds of culture, the country that organizes it gets money and its people get a job for that time. There are tons of other side effects with such a big event. Nationalism is a belief, creed or political ideology that involves an individual identifying with, or becoming attached to, one's nation. So everytime you hold a flag you are automaticly supporting nationalism.

[QUOTE=Thlis;46814226]It is the original license plate. [img]http://i.imgur.com/zq0O7GX.jpg[/img] [url]https://twitter.com/james__procter/status/520121858596044800/photo/1[/url][/QUOTE] it isnt original actually, it was changed from H1VAE to H982FKL in 2001, still way before this event though

Got copyright blocked.

Also, as much as I don't like this happening, a very large portion of Argentinians don't have this view over the falklands

[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;46821228]it isnt original actually, it was changed from H1VAE to H982FKL in 2001, still way before this event though[/QUOTE] I thought H982FKL was original and H1VAE was on it for just few years

not according to [url]https://www.instantcarcheck.co.uk/Report/h982fkl/lboyl[/url]

Anyone got a mirror? BBC site doesn't quite work in Poland and Youtube video is blocked.

Tbh I would have gotten a "private security firm", like Academi, to do guarding in argentina as soon as the word of the numberplate came out.

[QUOTE=Impact1986;46821215]It is not a problem about nationalism. That would be like saying that mathematics are a problem because you could calculate the needed trajectory for shooting rockets at targets accurately. There are a tons of good things maths can be used for. Nationalism is just grouping up on a bigger scale. It leads to stability of a country, people trusting each other, and if you got a big population working together you can achieve much more than just with one guy. If you want to get rid of nations you are devolving society back into the older days, where every tribe fought against each other. It is counter productive. And people also seem to forget how much good comes out from nationalism, nations for example make up football teams to compete against each other. And at these world cup events people see all kinds of culture, the country that organizes it gets money and its people get a job for that time. There are tons of other side effects with such a big event. Nationalism is a belief, creed or political ideology that involves an individual identifying with, or becoming attached to, one's nation. So everytime you hold a flag you are automaticly supporting nationalism.[/QUOTE] Nationalism doesn't lead to stability, a good focus on economy and infrastructure does. It *might* lead to people trusting each other and working together, just as it *might* lead to conformism and making people blindly trust their government and culture without seeing what's wrong, or to people being predujiced to others just because they're from another country. I'm not saying nationalism always leads to that, but it can easily become excessive, especially in a country with poor education like Argentina, which is why stuff like this happens

So from what I'm getting from reading about Argentina is that they are the big, smelly kid in elementary school that has facial hair and can only say "This mine now."

[QUOTE=proch;46815031]The UK should invade.[/QUOTE] Please do. [QUOTE=Coffee;46813509]Argentina just can't handle the banter.[/QUOTE] Argentina just can't handle the fact that two generations were brainwashed into hating Britain and that two islands that literally no one cared about before the war are "rightfully" ours.