Re: britain punised by europe countries

Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 20:34:55 +1200
Newsgroups: soc.culture.british,soc.culture.europe,soc.culture.arabic
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Erdekan4ever wrote:
> last saturday the annual eurovision song contest was held in riga.it is a
> great show where european countries plus turkey and israel perform their
> best songs. more than 23 countries participated
>
> kindly note that britain ended last with zero i repeat zero points !!
>
> now the britons think they are punished for giving support to the bush war
> in iraq.
With singing that bad, I don't see what politics could have to do with it.
> kindly note that even a song of van halen sounds better than what britain
> performed.
> so they are out for next year's competition.how sad !.
The real farce is having a non-European country's entrant winning a 'European'
song contest, with an Arabic music score no less. Why do people pretend that
Turkey is a European country? The remnant indigenous inhabitancy of Asia Minor
took an involuntary extended vacation in 1915...