Spanish Police avoid terrorist massacre in Madrid

I am the first one to be critical with my own country. What makes me mad is bashing for the sake of it and when they don't what they're talking about. And especially in this thread, which is on a very delicate subject.

Thanks both Irini and Mouse for the kind words, though!

i am sorry to hear that your grandfather died in the civil war in 1936.
As you are twenty and supposing your father was born in 1936, that would make him 47 if you were born in 1983, so you obviously have raw memories of an elder father not knowing his own father.
I served in Gibralter on and off in the mid 80's in the British army as it was a stopping point to the main base station for army flights to middle east and the Falklands.
I have never met a spaniard yet who agrees that Gibralter belongs to Britain, why?, When I mention it they become all patriotic and think a great iijustice has been done. that is why i classify them as unsociable, unloveable people.
the majority of gibraltan people (99%) voted to stay british.
Personally i think your fishermen should have been arrested and their boats sunk in the 80's and 90' when they were stealing fish within our british 12 mile limit.
today they are still doing it.
I apologise for saying spanish did not have much to offer culture wise- I think Christopher Columbus and luis Figo and Eusbeio are great and wonderful Spanish heroes (sic)

Er... Luis Figo is Portuguese.

And of course Christopher Columbus was of Italian origins.

And I don't know who that Eusebio is

So much for your knowledge of Spanish culture!!!

You obviously don't know about when someones being Sarcastic!!!!!!!!!!!
At least the people i mentioned contributed to the spanish economy heh heh.

portugal are your greatest rivals as well as Mr Columbus discovering countries for the king of Spain.

read a dictionary

See, your knowledge of Spanish culture is so low that I can't even tell when you're being sarcastic.

Just tell me of you know these names:

- Salvador Dalí
- Pablo Picasso
- Velázquez
- Goya
- Luis Buñuel
- Ortega y Gasset
- Lope de Vega
- Cervantes
- Gaudí
- long etc.

Portugal is not a rival. Unlike you think, we don't need to rival with any other countries - we satnd on our own.

Columbus may not have been Spanish, but the money that financed his journeys was. The Spanish Queen was the only one who believed him. She was a clever woman. Columbus had asked for money in some other courts and so far all of them had refused. Queen Isabella was the one to see he could be right. She believed in him.

How come I am the one to have read a dictionary. I think it's you who need that. And reading an encyclopedia wouldn't hurt either. Just check under "Spain". You'll find a whole new world.