*Jesus*. How hard is it?

That’s an unconventional spelling for BiH, too, did you notice?

     by sgazzetti on August 23, 2006 at 8:27 am

Well, Michael… Time to create a new category, I guess: “Slovenia/Any-neighbouring country-mixup” One thing puzzles me, however. If Austria borders Croatia, which country borders Austria? Germany (a bit larger)? Or maybe it’s the country of Austerlich, from Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator”

But on a positive note: Croatia always wanted to neighbour Austria and Slovenes constantly bit*ch about those pesky Croatian neighbours, so call this a British attempt to settle the border dispute

     by pengovsky on August 23, 2006 at 9:12 am

This map looks a little too complex to be in The Sun, even with the inaccuracies. Still, staying under Mr Murdoch’s radar is probably a good thing given his current obsession with migration from the new EU.

     by plav trg on August 23, 2006 at 11:26 am

Michael: you are disappointing us. As I recall, you promised me and Poulette and others photos of naked men. I click on your link to page 3 of The Sun, and what do I get?

We are not amused.

Looking forward to a prompt rectification of your error, or at the very least a little more balance in your reporting.

     by Jean on August 23, 2006 at 12:06 pm

Jean, I think I can help you - with a favourite of mine.

     by alcessa on August 23, 2006 at 12:28 pm

…and they say that foreign policy boring! Even my perverted mind can not make a leap from intricacies of Balkan border disputes to gay porn (in just two easy steps!) Way to go Jean & alcessa!

     by pengovsky on August 23, 2006 at 2:24 pm

Thanks, alcessa. Very nice eye candy but of limited practical use to me as a hetero female.

Pengovsky, it’s not porn when we do it–it’s quality erotica.

You never knew foreign policy was sexy? Why do you think I spend so much time blogging about it?

     by Jean on August 23, 2006 at 2:42 pm

Why does it seem whenever the topic of Austria comes up, so to speak, so does the appearance of male bums facing the sun? So, not only is the spectre of extreme right-wing politics now associated with Osterrich, so is Slovenian land-grabbing and nameless male derriere-grabbing.

     by DarkoV on August 23, 2006 at 3:12 pm

Darko: because that’s what life on the sunny side of the Alps looks like? male bums facing the sun…In which case I’d be careful about being publicly associated with it.
Pengovsky: I don’t think there’s anything I can do quicker than thou
Jean: I don’t care much for practical applicability of them (happily married) but I agree that a lady has to have a peek, too. Then again, I find it logical that Michael does not link such sites - he’s married, too

     by alcessa on August 23, 2006 at 3:37 pm

What’s really sad about this is that it presents the Austria of my dreams, one with an actual COAST.

     by pam on August 23, 2006 at 4:15 pm

@Jean: I stand corrected! Quality erotica, of course However, as far as sexy foreign policy is concerned… seeing Dimitrij Rupel and Ursula Plassnik getting nekked and doing it like they do it in Discovery Channell is not something to be wished for However, Condi Rice and late Anna Lindth, now that WOULD be something :blush:

@alcessa: I hope that there are at least some things you can do (achieve, if you will) quicker than me

     by pengovsky on August 23, 2006 at 6:20 pm

Yes, retirement, for example.

     by alcessa on August 23, 2006 at 7:18 pm

They cant’ SPELL and the Sun SUXZ!

     by Katja on August 23, 2006 at 11:17 pm

I’ll just say
“JAWOHL, so muss es sein”,

Haider

     by cija on August 24, 2006 at 1:17 am

This map looks a little too complex to be in The Sun, even with the inaccuracies. Still, staying under Mr Murdoch’s radar is probably a good thing given his current obsession with migration from the new EU.

I read in today’s Guardian that only 420 Slovenians have registered to work in the UK. Even the Sun would have trouble portraying that as a wave of Slovenians flooding our shores…

     by Gag Halfrunt on August 24, 2006 at 1:34 am

What boggles me is why on earth Stari Grad should be on the map. It’s a tiny town, with no real relevance in the larger scheme of things at all.Gag: well what did you expect? The Slovenes haven’t been known to migrate en masse since the end of world war II, and even if the entire population decided to move to England, that’d still be managable…

     by Cornelius on August 24, 2006 at 9:57 am