# Any EuroDopers out there? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 8, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-eurodopers-out-there/351820 "2006-04-08T03:23:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-eurodopers-out-there/351820/21 "2006-04-09T22:22:20Z")
I think **glee** ’s confusion indicates why the OP thinks there are Brits who claim we’re not part of Europe. We are, and inescapably so, though I for one would support a programme to detach the island from our continental shelf and park us somewhere near the Canary Islands. Anything to get us out of the ghastly sleet and hail we had today. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-eurodopers-out-there/351820/22 "2006-04-09T22:56:06Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Anything to get us out of the ghastly sleet and hail we had today. Hah. Some of us just had a half-hour of rain. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-eurodopers-out-there/351820/23 "2006-04-11T14:52:01Z")
> [@glee](#): > > I’m not sure of the difference between the countries in Europe, the European Union, the European Football Championship and the Eurovision song contest\*. 😕 > > \*but this includes Israel! So does the European Football Championship (include Israel.) Of course, the Eurovision song contest, we’ve actually **won** several times… :o ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-eurodopers-out-there/351820/24 "2006-04-12T02:51:07Z")
Another EuroDoper checking in (if I count as a real Doper with my pitiful post count). In fact, I’m not even an English speaker. Or at least that’s what I say to excuse my constant deluge of typos and brainfarts. ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Spunkmuffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ms.Spunkmuffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Spunkmuffin)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-eurodopers-out-there/351820/25 "2006-04-12T04:57:24Z")
> [@glee](#): > > I’m not sure of the difference between the countries in Europe, the European Union, the European Football Championship and the Eurovision song contest\*. 😕 > > \*but this includes Israel! The Eurovision song contest participants are from countries that are full members of the European Broadcasting Union, which is unrelated to the European Union. As such, some countries’ participation has nothing to do with them being European. In fact, it’s not limited to Israel, even Libya is a member. Maybe they just haven’t been too interested in sending in any participants. ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Spunkmuffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ms.Spunkmuffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Spunkmuffin)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-eurodopers-out-there/351820/26 "2006-04-12T04:58:34Z")
Oh, and yes, living in Denmark. Originally Norwegian. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-eurodopers-out-there/351820/27 "2006-04-12T05:41:06Z")
Hi **Rigamarole**! **gum** , **Coldfire** , **Arwin** and I are the Holland-based Dutch Dopers currently active. Actually, there are quite a few Dutch Dopers currently living in Ireland or the USA. > [@](#): > > …I’m wistful for tales of faraway lands… Maybe we can like… exchange stories or ideas between our foreign cultures… or something. I’ve been thinking for a while now to start a thread about cultural and social differences between the Netherlands and the USA. Differences I have noticed even on this board. If I do, I’ll post a link to it here. ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-eurodopers-out-there/351820/28 "2006-04-12T13:06:14Z")
Howdy from Prague. Wasn’t there a Thread about global dopers awhile back? And if Turkey gets into the EU, it really will screw up the definition. -Tcat ---
**Author:** ![Future\_Londonite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9dc877/32.png) [@Future\_Londonite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Future_Londonite)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-eurodopers-out-there/351820/29 "2006-04-12T14:59:13Z")
[QUOTE=Maastricht] Hi **Rigamarole**! **gum** , **Coldfire** , **Arwin** and I are the Holland-based Dutch Dopers currently active. Actually, there are quite a few Dutch Dopers currently living in Ireland or the USA. Um I would be one of them - born and raised actually near Maastricht (the city not the Doper) but currently living in Kensington, MD (just outside DC-beltway). Only for a few more months though, then my visa will expire and I will have to move overseas ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-eurodopers-out-there/351820/30 "2006-04-18T09:31:11Z")
[QUOTE=Maastricht] Hi **Rigamarole**! **gum** , **Coldfire** , **Arwin** and I are the Holland-based Dutch Dopers currently active. Actually, there are quite a few Dutch Dopers currently living in Ireland or the USA. [\QUOTE] And there is at least one(me) Irish Doper living in Amsterdam, well at least for another month there will. Then it’s back to little olde Dublin. ---
**Author:** ![Lars\_Aruns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Lars\_Aruns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lars_Aruns)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-eurodopers-out-there/351820/31 "2006-04-18T10:50:54Z")
Present. Italian Doper - and as far as I’m aware, the only one. But I live in the UK now. ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-eurodopers-out-there/351820/32 "2006-04-18T14:10:20Z")
Another EuroDoper from the Netherlands checking in. It looks like the Dutch are extremely well represented on these here boards, for such a small country. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-eurodopers-out-there/351820.md?page=1)