tiny countries of europe

only one of these countries is a pimpdom

wales

tax havens vs whale killers vs former fascists vs ski resort

Almost went with the enigmatic San Marino but had to opt for the rugged whale-killing honesty of the Faroes instead.

nobody was going to vote for the vatican city right?

faroe islands are too perfect, an implausible viking time warp in liminal space. otoh grand prix

no Luxembourg?

man, luxembourg is so much bigger than these places! i've been to luxemboug and it is tiny, too.

faroe islands feels like the leader in the clubhouse here.

only one of these I've been to is Monaco (for the royal wedding this summer!) & it was fun so I'm gonna vote for it; the train station was badass, like something out of Star Trek.

town did seem kinda boring aside from the hoopla but I dunno, is Lichtenstein party central?

Faroe Islands is not a country, it's part of Denmark, right?

lol xp yeah dan i had to look it up--it has 500k people and all of these have like less than 50.

Andorra or San Marino for me if I was on my current income. If I was rolling in it, Monaco FTW.

You've spelled Liechtenstein wrong. It looked really pretty during pre-match gubbins before the Scotland game last week, had never really thought about it before.

Only been laid in Monaco amongst these

liechtenstein: one of only two states in the world named after their ruling family, name the other one.

vmic, xp

saudia arabia

andorra
faroe islands
monaco
san marino
lichtenstein

how about a "tiny countries of europe" package tour

A band only playing those five places would be inspired/crazy.

"big in liechtenstein"

"We're huge in Vaduz!"

wow, wild, I was just reading about the san marino nat'l squad

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/sports/soccer/san-marino-soccer-team-plays-on-despite-little-shot-at-winning-or-scoring.html?ref=soccer

andorras p nice, had a good time there when was i teenager

When our homeroom teacher made us memorize the capitals of the world, I always got Andorra and Lichtenstein's locations wrong.

voted san marino cause of that ny times article about their hilarious soccer team

the whole time i was reading the article i wanted to call my agent and option it for a heartwarming hollywood comedy

btw calling the faroe islands "a country" is kind of pushing it, tuomas is right its part of denmark, its self-governing but not independent in the way these others are

fun fact about liechtenstein: it is one of only two double-landlocked countries in the world. the other is uzbekistan

ALSO what about vatican city

not recognized by fifa

the whole time i was reading the article i wanted to call my agent and option it for a heartwarming hollywood comedy

'i love it, but lets make it football instead of soccer, and north carolina instead of w/e that other place is'

which is weird given the amount of money they could potentially throw around xp

would KILL for a soccer team made entirely of priests

okay so if Luxembourg is too big, what about Vatican City?

lol hi max, I'm slow today

would KILL for a soccer team made entirely of priests

Incense in the stands, excommunications for bad calls/diving... Could they play with their stocks on?

i miss movies/tv shows with really handsome priests in them, feel like a priest sports movie could really revive that tradition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-rodeqmj7g

San Marino, i was there when i was 9. it was great. Would love to go back. The touristy area was in 3 levels.

http://takingupspacetime.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/ph-d-scholarship-in-the-philosophy-of-finance-and-physics/

Liechtenstein wins on the 'mentalist PhD research' front.

A San Marino archery team visited the LA suburb of San Marino many years ago, and I saw one of them do a "Robin Hood" - shoot an arrow into the bullseye of a target, then shoot another that split the shaft of the first. So, San Marino.

Central Park, NYC is more than 7 times as large as Vatican City fwiw. Not for nothing, I bet a Central Park football team would demolish a team of Vatican City priests.

Q: "Is there much crime?"

A: Compared with the larger countries the answer is no and serious crime is rare. There is some petty law breaking though some of which is the result of alcohol misuse.

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Q: "Do they have a drugs problem?"

A: In recent years some drugs have reached the islands - mostly cannabis - and these days the customs officers use dogs. Thankfully, the use of drugs is still small. Everything is relative though and for most of us any use of illegal drugs is considered a problem.

http://www.framtak.com/info/life.html

"big in liechtenstein"

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haha, I once knew this electronic musician who would frequently mention his fan base in Liechtenstein.

btw calling the faroe islands "a country" is kind of pushing it, tuomas is right its part of denmark, its self-governing but not independent in the way these others are

Indeed. If you wanted to poll autonomous parts of other countries, you should have also included Gibraltar, Åland, Isle of Man, etc.

how can a place not be its own country?

how can a place not be its own country?
when it's Åland (a land) <-- explanatory structure of puns i liked as a kid: i imagined that the humour lay in the laboured way you read out the brackets (a BOMB in a BULL etc)

Your favourite jokes about My Bloody Valentine

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/030/cache/liechtenstein_3078_600x450.jpg

Liechtenstein u pretty.

there's a decent book about the Liechtenstein football team i read one time

great failed chatup attempts of our time