Ireland is better than East Timor

[peadar1987]

But worse than Tajikstan for the soundness of our banks. Oh dear!

http://www.photius.com/rankings/soundness_of_banks_2009_weforum.html

[Bluebeard]

HA! In your face East Timor, Chad, Kyrgyzstan, Burundi and, ehm, Britain!

[DaveyCakes]

Chad and Kyrgystan are 2 of the 4 countries in the world that have only one vowel in their names...

[peadar1987]

Chad and Kyrgystan are 2 of the 4 countries in the world that have only one vowel in their names...

Took me a long time, but Egypt and Cyprus are the other two!

[osarusan]

Japan, Fiji, Ghana, Canada, Yemen, Panama, Togo....

[ArdeeBhoy]

Isn't that one vowel, er, twice ??

[Fr Damo]

U k ?

[pineapple stu]

Took me a long time, but Egypt and Cyprus are the other two!
Ditto. Good question. Nice satisfying feeling on getting it right!

Googled it afterwards; saw people suggesting "Czech". Also saw others - quite justifiably in a way - saying "y" is a vowel and so the only real one is Chad.

Anyways, back to how screwed we are. :)

[OneRedArmy]

Whatever happened West Timor? They never get a look in...

[pineapple stu]

I was doing an article for the UCD programme a while back, and I found that "Timor" means east in the local lingo, so the country is actually "East East".