Falklands Chod

[UltraWomble]

I love this picture from the Penguin News showing some grade A motoring chod - even moreso I like the idea of carting a Primula yellow MiniMetro halfway round the world - imagine the delivery costs for that....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/12206824/The-Argentines-are-childish-stalkers-who-menace-us-Falkland-Islanders.html

[matty879]

a quality photo indeed,with the Sherpa and pandas,personally I would ship them some more landrovers out,they obviously like them,and it would get them off our streets

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Great stuff!!!! Id love to go to the Falklands.

[billyboy406v6]

Great stuff!!!! Id love to go to the Falklands.

Why, are the goonars cheaper out there ?

[John F]

a quality photo indeed,with the Sherpa and pandas, and personally I love landrovers and want everyone that owns them in my area to come and park them right outside my house

 

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[scruff]

Impressive to see the older tat out there, I always assumed it was a pretty inhospitable environment. I too would love to go. There's some interesting info on the place on either the Gov.uk site or the MoD website.

 

When I woz on the disposals, we had I suppose 100 or so Landies shipped back by the MoD including boggo military ones and quite a lot of civvy spec, all quite bashed and extremely rusty. Low miles though and the military ones sold well as they had never been repainted in service, they still were in the drab paint put on in the factory and cleaned up well (just don't look underneath)

[Slackshackle]

That's an old photo. I've been down there working (oil) It's a great place and the people are fantastic, I was partying every night.

However I think I only saw one non 4x4 vehicle there, an Astra If I remember rightly, it's either all Landcruisers / Pajeros or Landys.

[UltraWomble]

We had a prison dentist move out there a couple of years ago - still get the occasional email update and he seems to be loving it over there.

I'll ask him what he's driving next time he emails!

[MarvinsMom]

having watched "an island parish" filmed there on the telly, I think I too could easily fuck this place off and live on the Falklands.

 

cold - check am used to that

windy - check I'm used to that

no summer - check am used to that...

 

it looked like what I suppose living in the sticks here was like say 30-40 years ago.

 

a friggin' hard way to scrape a living, but a better, and more fulfilling way to live.

[Tamworthbay]

One of my oppos at work is an ex army nurse who spent six months on the Falkands, I asked her about what it was like, she replied 'flat, shit' I said there must have been something good about it, she replied 'leaving'. But I would still love to visit the place.

[captain_70s]

There is/was a Morris Minor out there, formerly the police panda car for Stanley IIRC.

 

My Dad stayed out there in the early 90s (fixing jukeboxes/pool tables/games machines of all things), he drove a Suzuki Jimny Mk2 which had previously been rolled over at least once. He has a video of him driving this tiny Japanese 4x4 over the Bodie Creek suspension bridge which he now realises was a fairly foolish idea given that he'd not told anybody where he was going and the bridge is made of rust and rotten planks.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Great for a penguin safari.

[mercrocker]

The Minor was still there last year when a friend went over, he brought me back a pic of it (which I have temporarily lost...).   Whether or not it was roadworthy is a different matter.   

[AnthonyG]

I reckon that photos from the mid 1990s, I can't imagine a Metro's (or for that matter a Fiat Panda's or Sherpa's) bodywork lasting more than about 6 or 7 years on the South Atlantic coast. The ladies with faded jeans, stylish blousons, and old skool plastic bags would support my 1990s era suspicions. 

[matty879]

Great stuff!!!! Id love to go to the Falklands.

the chap who does my mot tests was born and bred there,apparently the countrysides amazing.but surely it is all countryside,all I remember is the war under thatcher as a child,and the news reports,id love to go now though.

[matty879]

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thanks john f,but if they were left where I live the local pikeys would rape and pillage them,then weigh them in on next weeks scrappers(bbc2) that is of course after they message you on knobheadbook and try sell it back to you.

[matty879]

We had a prison dentist move out there a couple of years ago - still get the occasional email update and he seems to be loving it over there.

I'll ask him what he's driving next time he emails!

hopefully that's a metro or a panda,id move there just because id like it,HANG ON PRISON DENTIST I would run like fuck in case he got it wrong or some Essex geezer was after my loins,or Harold shipman type dude,is it true their law isn't the same as uk hmrc

[UltraWomble]

hopefully that's a metro or a panda,id move there just because id like it,HANG ON PRISON DENTIST I would run like fuck in case he got it wrong or some Essex geezer was after my loins,or Harold shipman type dude,is it true their law isn't the same as uk hmrc

Meh, Ben is just a normal dentist type bloke who likes the rugged outdoor life and got a job over there, the fact that he worked 5 days a week in a Cat-B jail is neither here nor there. Im a normal nursey type bloke who also works in a Cat B, its no biggie and a lot less exciting or scary than people think.

[matty879]

Meh, Ben is just a normal dentist type bloke who likes the rugged outdoor life and got a job over there, the fact that he worked 5 days a week in a Cat-B jail is neither here nor there. Im a normal nursey type bloke who also works in a Cat B, its no biggie and a lot less exciting or scary than people think.

sounds like ben was the prison dentist full time, I don't understand the categorys but cat b sounds serious offender types who have their beloved chod outside,and cant do much other than think about it and ask for pics of it to be sent in.still like visit there tho

no offence meant womble

[mercrocker]

'Ere, I found that picture of the Falklands Minor...

 

sure, it was a bit longer ago than I thought but that's usual these days. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[UltraWomble]

sounds like ben was the prison dentist full time, I don't understand the categorys but cat b sounds serious offender types who have their beloved chod outside,and cant do much other than think about it and ask for pics of it to be sent in.still like visit there tho

no offence meant womble

None taken, TBH I enjoy my job.

Most of the time.

 

Anyway:

 

 

 

Category A

This will be given to male prisoners whose escape would be extremely dangerous to the general public and also the police and national security. The aim of such a high level of security is to make the escape of that prison impossible.

Category B

This will be given to prisoners who do not require the highest level of security for a variety of reasons, but will still need a high level in order to make any chance of escape from prison extremely difficult

[cort1977]

Would love to go to the Falklands, fascinated by the war which although in my lifetime just seems like a totally different era.

[Negative Creep]

I could happily live somewhere like that, so long as it had decent internet

[John F]

They've definitely got fax... I received a fax from the Falklands in the mid-1990s by mistake, they must have got the number wrong & ended up dialling mine. It was about wool.

[Adrian_pt]

Also a 2CV there, which is brave to say the least

 

[cms206]

November 2005...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/29274468@N04/2734806098/

Oddly for such a shitty climate, the buses all seem have been Leyland Nationals, Leyland Lynxes, Plaxton bodied Leyland Tigers and now UVG bodied Dennis Darts - none of which were known for corrosion resistance even in this relatively mild climate.
 

[Guest Hooli]

Great stuff!!!! Id love to go to the Falklands.

 

Me too.

 

I'm in a Falklands picture group on FB, it looks a lot like the highlands to me.

[mercrocker]

November 2005...

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/29274468@N04/2734806098/

 

Oddly for such a shitty climate, the buses all seem have been Leyland Nationals, Leyland Lynxes, Plaxton bodied Leyland Tigers and now UVG bodied Dennis Darts - none of which were known for corrosion resistance even in this relatively mild climate.

 

 

Think there is still an RM down there, doing tour duties. 

[PiperCub]

Are the squaddies still banned from calling the locals 'Bennies'? (As in Benny from Crossroads - dopey with a woolly hat).

[chatsharris]

This is where I can come in!

I was based there for six months in 2012-13.  They had a fair few Defenders there, and a fair few jap 4x4's.

The internet is not very quick at all, but they use it to order non perishable food from the UK as food is generally expensive there.  It has the highest percentage of people with an internet connection if I remember correctly.

 

The town itself is really small, and quaint.  Usual pub run was the Globe, I think the second one was usually Victory Bar followed by Deano's, which was the crap pub/club there.  Best you were going to get in Stanley!  Sometimes the Dad's Army hall had a bit of a bop on so you'd get a carryout and go there for a bit too.

 

It's been a while, but any questions I'm happy to answer.