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Re: [OT] 44 countries

From wugi <wugi@brol.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.usage.english
Subject Re: [OT] 44 countries
Date 2026-07-02 23:41 +0200
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Op 2/07/2026 om 23:14 schreef Sam Plusnet:
> On 02/07/2026 19:55, athel.cb@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> posted:
>> 
>>> Den 02.07.2026 kl. 20.03 skrev Sam Plusnet:
>>>
>>>>> Hmm. Either I can't count or the person who prepared the main table
>>>>> can't count.
>>>>> There are 50 countries in the table, not 44. To my amazement, it 
>>>>> includes
>>>>> Kazakhstan. In my own list, I forgot Montenegro: shame on me.
>>>>>
>>>> I doubt if it helps, but a total of 52 countries have taken part in the
>>>> Eurovision contest, at one time or another.
>>>
>>> Among them Israel which is not European.
>>>
>> Culturally it is, a lot more than Kazakhstan.
>>
> In which case, Canada is European.

And Australia, I heard today.
Anyway, since a decade or two-three the acts have become too spectacular 
and the music itself unpalatable for sensitive melomaniac ears (what a 
form, compared with our "melomaan"):
Kettle noise would be an appropriate description, and is what we use in 
"my" circles when referring to Eurovision, or to most contemporaneous, 
eh, music, for that matter.

-- 
guido wugi

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[OT] 44 countries athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-02 15:43 +0000
  Re: [OT] 44 countries wugi <wugi@brol.invalid> - 2026-07-02 17:56 +0200
    Re: [OT] 44 countries wugi <wugi@brol.invalid> - 2026-07-02 18:01 +0200
      Re: [OT] 44 countries athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-02 16:24 +0000
        Re: [OT] 44 countries Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-02 19:03 +0100
          Re: [OT] 44 countries Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-02 20:08 +0200
            Re: [OT] 44 countries athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-02 18:55 +0000
              Re: [OT] 44 countries Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-02 22:14 +0100
                Re: [OT] 44 countries wugi <wugi@brol.invalid> - 2026-07-02 23:41 +0200
                Re: [OT] 44 countries msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) - 2026-07-03 01:07 +0000
                Re: [OT] 44 countries Janet <nobody@home.com> - 2026-07-03 10:08 +0100
                Re: [OT] 44 countries nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-03 11:48 +0200
                Re: [OT] 44 countries Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> - 2026-07-05 16:45 +1000
                Re: [OT] 44 countries occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-05 09:13 +0200
                Re: [OT] 44 countries Bertel Lund Hansen <rundtosset@lundhansen.dk> - 2026-07-03 12:14 +0200
              Re: [OT] 44 countries nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-03 11:16 +0200
                Re: [OT] 44 countries "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news> - 2026-07-03 09:59 +0000
          Re: [OT] 44 countries occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-03 08:28 +0200
            Re: [OT] 44 countries Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-03 09:09 +0100
              Re: [OT] 44 countries "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news> - 2026-07-03 09:59 +0000
                Re: [OT] 44 countries Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-03 20:10 +0100
                Re: [OT] 44 countries Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-04 06:57 +0200
                Re: [OT] 44 countries occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-04 09:50 +0200
                Re: [OT] 44 countries Sam Plusnet <not@home.com> - 2026-07-04 19:31 +0100
                Re: [OT] 44 countries occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-05 08:50 +0200
            Re: [OT] 44 countries HVS <office@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk> - 2026-07-04 16:20 +0100
    Re: [OT] 44 countries occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-03 08:46 +0200
  Re: [OT] 44 countries occam <occam@nowhere.nix> - 2026-07-03 08:22 +0200
  Re: [OT] 44 countries Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2026-07-03 09:09 +0200
    Re: [OT] 44 countries Hibou <vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid> - 2026-07-03 09:09 +0100
      Re: [OT] 44 countries nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-03 11:48 +0200
        Re: [OT] 44 countries Charles Hope <clh@candehope.me.uk> - 2026-07-03 12:00 +0000
          Re: [OT] 44 countries nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-03 22:08 +0200
            Re: [OT] 44 countries Charles Hope <clh@candehope.me.uk> - 2026-07-03 21:30 +0000
              Re: [OT] 44 countries nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-04 11:16 +0200
      Re: [OT] 44 countries "Blueshirt" <blueshirt@indigo.news> - 2026-07-03 09:59 +0000
        Re: [OT] 44 countries nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2026-07-03 15:58 +0200
          Re: [OT] 44 countries athel.cb@gmail.com <user12588@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-07-03 14:11 +0000

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