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*PREVIEW* Britainology 7: The Falklands War

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Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On this festive Britainology we are joined by Alice to discuss the 1982 Falklands War. Why has it permanently lodged in the psyche of the Boomers? Why do people care about these rocks in the middle of the South Atlantic? Why did a British task force commander decide to explode himself in order to dislodge a machine gun position? You will be able to learn all of this and more by listening. To listen to the whole thing, get it on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/45402228 We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://bailproject.org/?form=donate *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0

Anyway, this is at the point where I would like to take us on a little digression because I'm sure Alice knows this, but I think Nate might not know this.

0:20.7

The Royal Marines were not the only

0:23.6

British forces deployed on the Falkland Islands. Cool boy, was there another British force

0:30.2

that was even more psychotic than the Royal Marines? And I am talking about something called

0:36.1

the Falkland Islands Defence Force.

0:39.3

Yeah, real fucking snake eaters here.

0:42.4

You think Delta Force are tough?

0:45.3

You think the SAS are tough?

0:47.0

No, nothing on these guys.

0:49.3

I cannot describe to you the face Nays currently making, but it's one of intense trepidation.

0:54.8

I'm envisioning, I'm envisioning a kind of more weird and inbred dad's army.

1:03.1

Yes, that's exactly what it is. It's hard to define like exactly legally where it stands because

1:09.7

it's like funded by the Falkland Islands government

1:12.4

but it's like sort of part of the British Army but sort of not it's basically like an official

1:16.2

paramilitary organization.

1:17.6

Sort of somewhere in the same chain of command as a public school cadet detachment.

1:22.5

And it's about pitched at about the same sort of level of military discipline.

1:27.4

Exactly. But yeah, this is, you're exactly right, Nate. This is what I had of military discipline exactly but yeah this is you're

1:28.8

exactly right nay this all i had written in my notes is just this is dad's army shit so um i am gonna

1:35.3

i'm gonna read to you from a bit of wikipedia from the fortclines defense force first of april

1:39.3

1982 alongside the royal marines party the f idf was mobilized to defend the islands from the

1:43.6

argentine invasion.

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