OMG PONEEZ!

I want a pony!

Considering he's just a crazy dude living in a tent on a tiny island and the Royal Marines' Marching Band's glockenspiel section could successfully retake it, I doubt the Queen is shivering in her royal knickers.

/or maybe blockade him with a couple of zodiacs

What's Qwghlmian for 'pony?'

Dispatch the Royal Navy. Her Majesty's Government must bring the wayward province back to within the Empire.

After tea, of course.

2.5 acre island. you couldn't even fire a slingshot without the projectile going over the border.

Just dispatch Camilla. She'll feel right at home with the ponies.

The owner of a tiny island in off Scotland...

The copy editor must have been fired.

I love Ponies! (pops/NSFW)

I'm expecting him to exchange ambassadors with Sealand soon.

Crazy old fart or not, I find it highly amusing that he appears to have a legal argument that has some meat to it within the context of the monarchy.

Whoa there, guy. Argentina has a claim to that island, too.

Bathia_Mapes: I want a pony!

Shetland sheep dogs are the best dogs.

Great now a new country France can surrender to.

Living on a tiny storm battered island in a tent?

As long as there's Wi-Fi, i'm there.

Bathia_Mapes: I want a pony!

You sure don't want a Shetland pony. They are the meanest animals on the planet. My Shetland pony we had when I was a kid threw me twice, stepped on my mom's feet, bit my sister's ear (3 stitches) and kicked our other horse so often it wouldn't go near the damn thing.

The only reason Cape Buffalo are more feared is because they weigh two tons and Shetland ponies are around 500 lbs. But I bet one pony could take out a herd of buffalo if it wanted to.

Gyrfalcon: Bathia_Mapes: I want a pony!

You sure don't want a Shetland pony. They are the meanest animals on the planet. My Shetland pony we had when I was a kid threw me twice, stepped on my mom's feet, bit my sister's ear (3 stitches) and kicked our other horse so often it wouldn't go near the damn thing.

The only reason Cape Buffalo are more feared is because they weigh two tons and Shetland ponies are around 500 lbs. But I bet one pony could take out a herd of buffalo if it wanted to.

Should have gotten a phone.

/Hate that comercial
//Miniature ponies are much nicer

Hey, all he needs now is a nuke and Peter Sellers, and he could pull this off!

Gyrfalcon: The only reason Cape Buffalo are more feared is because they weigh two tons and Shetland ponies are around 500 lbs. But I bet one pony could take out a herd of buffalo if it wanted to.

I have a cape buffalo head hanging on my basement wall, so I am getting a kick out of this reply.

No, SRSLY:



I know you were being funny, but a Cape Buff is the baddest big game animal in Africa.

/Sorry 'bout the cobwebs
//He's scarier that way

Cue Mr Show sketch about "New Freeland"

Why they call it SHETLAND?

_{/perhaps its as bad as Cincinnati}

This reminds me of that small island 200 meters off the coast of Morocco? which is claimed by Spain. iirc it is only the size of a few tennis courts. A few years ago, four Moroccan soldiers camped on the island and raised a Moroccan flag. So Spain sent a couple of destroyers.....

bolzy:
Why they call it SHETLAND?

/perhaps its as bad as Cincinnati

I had to work on the Shetland Isles. I still have nightmares about it.

Well at least it's the most creative tax evasion scheme I've seen...

In a declaration on his Web site, Stuart Hill, who owns the 2.5 acre island

No one should even be allowed to OWN an island that size. It should be a wildlife refuge.

whidbey: No one should even be allowed to OWN an island that size. It should be a wildlife refuge.

Tell me, when does the collectivization start again? I don't want to be in the Ukraine this time around.

Being a Crown Dependency isn't quite independence. It just means that the Queen rules the island separately from the United Kingdom (and, hence, the Queen's government of the UK lacks jurisdiction).

Ted Kennedy's Brain Tumor: Tell me, when does the collectivization start again? I don't want to be in the Ukraine this time around.

Nice try, McCarthy. Little rocks like the TFA mentions get acquired through eminent domain all the time. You knew that, right?

whidbey: Nice try, McCarthy. Little rocks like the TFA mentions get acquired through eminent domain all the time. You knew that, right?

Considering this is the Scotland, I'm sure they've had a few hundred years to sort all that out. How about you come back with a legitimate reason to seize property, you know, something other than the sudden priority of birds.

Ted Kennedy's Brain Tumor: How about you come back with a legitimate reason to seize property, you know, something other than the sudden priority of birds.

It is a legitimate reason, it is not a "sudden priority," and how 'bout you come back when you know what you're talking about?

Which should be awhile.

skink: Gyrfalcon: The only reason Cape Buffalo are more feared is because they weigh two tons and Shetland ponies are around 500 lbs. But I bet one pony could take out a herd of buffalo if it wanted to.

I have a cape buffalo head hanging on my basement wall, so I am getting a kick out of this reply.

No, SRSLY:

Dude, you need to dust.



I know you were being funny, but a Cape Buff is the baddest big game animal in Africa.

/Sorry 'bout the cobwebs
//He's scarier that way

whidbey: It is a legitimate reason, it is not a "sudden priority," and how 'bout you come back when you know what you're talking about?

Which should be awhile.

According to whom is it a legitimate reason? Anarcho-syndicalist? Have the British suddenly opted for the creation of nature preserves with all of their coastal islands? I think you've allowed your hatred for the private ownership of property to get the better of you.

Ted Kennedy's Brain Tumor: I think you've allowed your hatred for the private ownership of property to get the better of you.

I thought I told you to come back when you knew WTH you were talking about.

whidbey: I thought I told you to come back when you knew WTH you were talking about.

Perhaps you should stop advocating sweeping governmental land seizure then?

I own land that borders a wildlife refuge, and drains into it. People like whidbey make me want to build a factory on it.

/I could clear-cut and pave it over if I wanted to
//Next time I cut down a tree, I'll dedicate it to you, whidbey

FTA:Hill, 65, has lived in the Shetland Islands on the edge of the Atlantic since 2001, when his boat capsized there during an unsuccessful attempted to circumnavigate Britain.



Would like to have a word...

Does anyone reading this live in (or know someone who does) in one of those small countries? For example: Isle of Man, Monaco, Switzerland, Andorra, etc?

I would love to visit, even possibly live in such a place for some time. I really don't know why. Something about living in a small yet (at least) modestly developed country is intriguing. Your country is so small that no one gives a shiat what you do. Plus it is cute.

MBA Whore: Does anyone reading this live in (or know someone who does) in one of those small countries? For example: Isle of Man, Monaco, Switzerland, Andorra, etc?

Never lived in one of those small countries, but I did live in Shetland. My brother still does.

I submitted this with a vastly inferior headline. Bravo, subby

MBA Whore Quote 2008-06-22 09:53:27 AM
Does anyone reading this live in (or know someone who does) in one of those small countries? For example: Isle of Man, Monaco, Switzerland, Andorra, etc?

I would love to visit, even possibly live in such a place for some time. I really don't know why. Something about living in a small yet (at least) modestly developed country is intriguing. Your country is so small that no one gives a shiat what you do. Plus it is cute.

Switzerland is huge compared to thoes other countries and I wouldn't put it on the tiny list.
I went to Andorra (tax free smokes and drink ftw) and Livigno (part of Italy but also tax free and kind of seperate) to ski and they were both great.
Andorra has a cool Catalan independent spirit about it and I smuggled enough cheap cigarrettes and liquor home to set up a bar. Good times.

MBA Whore: Does anyone reading this live in (or know someone who does) in one of those small countries? For example: Isle of Man, Monaco, Switzerland, Andorra, etc?

You forgot Poland.

At least, judging by your "size" acumen (lumping Switzerland together with the others), or idea of country (Isle of man is a Crown dependency but but foreign relations, defence, and ultimate good-governance of the Isle of Man are the responsibility of the government of the United Kingdom; Andorra is more of a country except defence is in the hands of France and Spain).

Switzerland is much larger, completely independednt and self-sufficient (putting it mildly), and has a heck of military too.

notfromhere: MBA Whore: Does anyone reading this live in (or know someone who does) in one of those small countries? For example: Isle of Man, Monaco, Switzerland, Andorra, etc?

You forgot Poland.

At least, judging by your "size" acumen (lumping Switzerland together with the others), or idea of country (Isle of man is a Crown dependency but but foreign relations, defence, and ultimate good-governance of the Isle of Man are the responsibility of the government of the United Kingdom; Andorra is more of a country except defence is in the hands of France and Spain).

Switzerland is much larger, completely independednt and self-sufficient (putting it mildly), and has a heck of military too.

The Swiss Army's tiny little scissors brigades are truly a force to be reckoned with.

/f'real, though, the Swiss know their soldiering inside and out

approves.

Abortions for some.
No Abortions for others.
Tiny Shetland ponies for everyone else.

YAY!!