Does this include Azerbaijan ?

[dipsydoodle]

Please advise.

[Mosby]

1. The group covers the "greater middle east"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Middle_East

[ellisonz]

2. No.

Your thread will be locked and submitted to falaqa!

[dipsydoodle]

3. I see its come to include

"Areas sometimes associated with the Middle East "

I'd mentioned Azerbaijan because I know that's one of the counties with a "democracy ?" which just "suits" the USA. The mother of one of my dance friends was an observer there some years back for their elections. They kicked the observers out en masse and the US didn't bat an eyelid.

I had to search falaqa...........

[ellisonz]

4. Now you know...

...Azerbaijan was in "The World is Not Enough" with James Bond:

It seems Azerbaijan "suits" your country too.

Now you know...

[dipsydoodle]

6. I already new

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assuming when you refer to the UK you mean BP and the Baku pipeline : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku%E2%80%93Tbilisi%E2%80%93Ceyhan_pipeline

Go here : http://www.thedossier.info/video_oil.htm

then scroll down to BBC Storyville - The Curse of Oil

go for part two - The Pipeline
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline that transports oil from the Caspian to the Mediterranean Sea

In general that site will keep you occupied for a week or so at least Its an archive of our TV documentaries shown by BBC, Channel 4, Granada etc. Few if any of those would be shown in the US.

[Violet_Crumble]

5. Depends. Are they in the Eurovision Song Contest or not?

[dipsydoodle]

7. They're the hosts this year

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1253175

I must've been a really sad fucker back in the '70s actually staying in on a Saturday night to watch that drivel.

[Violet_Crumble]

8. I forgot they won last year with a really forgettable song...

Nothing wrong with watching Eurovision. I used to watch it just to snigger at Terry Wogan taking the piss out of it, but keep getting drawn back to it. Plus it makes for a good drinking game....


Sip for:

Any all-white ensemble (skol for a full white tuxedo)
Glitter or rhinestones
Hair or headgear bigger than the wearer’s face
Face paint
Any song actually sung in the native tongue of its country (France excepted)
Any song you believe to be sung in the native tongue of its country, but that then turns out to be in English
Shirtless beefcake dancers or bikini-clad tottie
Any points actually received by the United Kingdom
Tenuous ring-in competitors from other countries (see: Celine Dion)
Off-key singing
Stage junk: fake instruments, performers who aren’t singing, dancing or playing anything,
Any instrument onstage that nobody in the room can identify.
Any appearance by an accordion.
As a special tribute to 2009’s winner, any gratuitous string accompaniment (the saxophone solo of the new century)


Gulp for:

Costume perversion of national dress
Any performer who arrives on stage through a means other than their own feet (e.g. stilts, motorcycle, lowered from ceiling on glittering camel)
Any outfit so ridiculous that you feel the need to drink to make it go away
Pyrotechnics
Oversized novelty anything
Onstage disaster of any kind
Human pyramid
Any item of clothing ripped off during a performance, accidental or intentional


Skol for:

Gratuitous inclusion of a celebrity (See: Celine Dion)
Wardrobe malfunction
Made-up languages
Yodelling
Veiled references to fascism
France sings in English


If the United Kingdom still has nil points at the end of the show, finish your drink.


http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/05/28/daily-proposition-the-eurovision-drinking-game/