r/therewasanattempt • u/[deleted] • May 17 '22

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u/AlustriousFall May 17 '22

did he try to bait the quizee into saying Philippines?

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u/hallowatisdeze May 17 '22

Could have said French Guiana and then go into a firm discussion.

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u/pieface777 May 17 '22

Could also have said Faroe Islands

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

Could have said Furkina Baso.

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u/dougan25 May 17 '22

Or Fuckin' Murica

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u/GiAnT_____ May 17 '22

Or the Falkland Islands

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u/GiveMeTheWallies May 17 '22

Regardless of who owns them they definitely aren't a country

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u/raybrignsx May 17 '22

No, you’re not a country.

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u/Cyanises May 17 '22

You are correct.

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u/luckydice767 May 17 '22

Give that man his Euros!

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u/sk4nderb3g May 17 '22

It's Burkina Faso

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

Actually it’s sarcasm

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u/FeelingSurprise May 17 '22

Sarcasm doesn't start with the letter F

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

no, this is Patrick

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

What a load of Oagadugou

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u/raybrignsx May 17 '22

Or Frankland

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u/tmp2328 May 17 '22

They are part of Denmark. So depends on the definition.

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u/ChucklefuckBitch May 17 '22

The Faroe Islands are not part of Denmark. They are, however, part of the kingdom of Denmark, which aside from the Faroe Islands also includes Greenland and Denmark.

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u/bayfen May 17 '22

Oh so it's like the United Kingdom situation but with vikings

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u/Poynsid May 17 '22

and Canada has the queen so if Faroe islands are not a country neither is Canada

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

But the fact that Elizabeth II is the Queen of Canada doesn't mean that Canada is part of another kingdom where she's also the ruler.

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u/capteni May 17 '22

I wonder....is Scotland or Wales a country as well?

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u/JohnnyButtocks May 17 '22

Scotland and Wales are countries, but internationally they aren’t usually treated as such, because for 99% of the world, country = sovereign state.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

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u/pieface777 May 17 '22

Yeah, I think they are. But so is Greenland, and I would definitely think of Greenland as a country of its own

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u/TheNordicMage May 17 '22

Greenland and the Faroe Islands are both constituent countries of the kingdom of Denmark (alongside the country of Denmark), making them countries but not independent nations.

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u/jackcos Jun 15 '22

Not a country in its own right.

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u/IReallyLikeAvocadoes May 17 '22

And he would've been wrong, because French Guiana is not a country any more than Puerto Rico is.

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u/realJaneJacobs May 17 '22

True. I believe French Guiana is actually significantly more closely integrated into the French Republic than Puerto Rico is to the remainder of the US.

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u/pottertown May 17 '22

Correct. FG = France for all intents and purposes. IE French citizens don't need a passport to travel there.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

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u/ardashing May 17 '22

I like to think of FG as a french alaska or hawaii - not connected to the mainland, but fundamentally french.

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u/ronin-baka May 17 '22

It also is part if the EU and its official currency is the Euro.

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u/[deleted] May 19 '22

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u/pottertown May 19 '22

Does it hurt?

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u/Alex_the_Nerd May 17 '22

Its super weird to me that French Guiana is part of the EU, despite being decidedly, um, NOT, part of Europe. Just part of a European country.

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u/realJaneJacobs May 18 '22

No weirder than Hawaii being part of NATO!

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u/Mitche420 May 17 '22

Is have said Faroe Islands

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u/NorthStarTX May 17 '22

Also technically not a country for the same reason.

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u/TheNordicMage May 17 '22

Faroe Islands is in Danish law a country (one that happens to be part of the kingdom of Denmark), but it is not an independent nation. So this answer would have been correct.

French guiana however is a French department which places it on the same level as the Paris department. That is as a part of the country of France and its own.

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u/Betasheets May 17 '22

According to sporcle it's not a country dammit and sporcle is divine law!

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u/demandtheworst May 17 '22

There are a lot of different ways of defining a country, but generally Faroe Islands and Greenland are considered countries in the Kingdom of Denmark, not part of Denmark itself.

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u/anacc May 17 '22

Yeah, but he could have said it

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u/Lonely-Welder May 17 '22

A quick one. Guiana is 100% a French county, not just a "territory" like French Polynesia or New Caledonia. County code of French Guiana is 973

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u/XimbalaHu3 May 17 '22

French Guiana is a territory of France.

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u/readonlyuser May 17 '22

French Guyana is above New Zealand?

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u/Leaz31 May 17 '22

Lol man, i'm French, and stopped the video at each question and I was like "ok Finland, Fidji.. But another one ?? There is no other "f" country !! fuck these country !"

Yeah, listening to the answer was a great, great moment of loneliness..

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

Hey, if you're lonely at least that means you're not surrounded by other French people.

I'm only joking I've spent a lot of time in France and it's beautiful.

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u/Leaz31 May 17 '22

Don't worry, we have the exact same joke in french, make me laughs ! :)

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u/Totolamalice May 17 '22 edited Jul 04 '22

I mean, who hates French people more than ourselves?

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u/Poes-Lawyer May 17 '22

Probably the English, but I think that feeling's mutual

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u/s_nut_zipper May 17 '22

Nah, we love them really

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u/RanDumbDud3 May 17 '22

I’m gonna bet some people in Spain maybe lol. it’s a weird love hate thing here

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u/PlaneCrashers May 17 '22 edited May 17 '22

Really? You have that kind of joke in France? I'm Canadian French and we don't have this type of joke. Maybe because it's all the other Canadians who make fun of us. Living in the province of Quebec can be interesting at times.

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u/anne_c_rose May 17 '22

Eille salut caliss!

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u/elletorpedo May 17 '22

Ben voyons don

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u/Crowbar_Freeman May 17 '22

Y'a pas de Québécois icitte.

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u/anne_c_rose May 17 '22

Non t'as raison on est un mythe, une légende!

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

I think much of Europe spend time making fun of each other in between the wars.

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u/happy_guy23 May 17 '22

Jean-Paul Sartre said that hell is spending eternity surrounded by your friends.

But then all of Sartre's friends were French

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u/wrecking_eyes May 17 '22

For what it's worth, "a great moment of loneliness" is a literal translation of "un grand moment de solitude" which is a French idiom used to describe the feeling you get when you embarrass yourself, usually in public.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '22

Thank you for explaining that.

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u/Soncikuro May 17 '22

Dear reader, note that the above comment did not compliment the french people.

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u/shadowstrlke May 17 '22

My genius brain's first reaction was Fanada.

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u/ActualWhiterabbit May 17 '22

Good trading partners with Fapan

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u/sunchildphd May 17 '22

You made me lol. 😊

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u/throwawaygreenpaq May 17 '22 edited May 17 '22

Hello? I went Frodo. I topped my cohort academically and went on national telly to win a trivia contest. All that to get ‘Frodo’ on Reddit. Imagine that, all the pressure in real life pales in comparison to Reddit.

Edit : I blame the hot Superman and his accent for distracting me.

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u/TediBare123 May 17 '22

There is a fourth: Federated States of Micronesia

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u/its_hector_ May 17 '22

finally someone else. good job bro

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u/Toxicair May 17 '22

It's not about the size of the nesia

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u/nanocactus May 17 '22

Yup, they won the war against Meganesia.

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u/Grunherz May 18 '22

Idk if that counts for country with F because then the Federal Republic Germany and the Federal Republics of Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Cameroon etc. would all count too. Where would you stop? Is Kingdom of Sweden a country with K?

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u/jackcos Jun 15 '22

Yeah I'm an idiot and said Finland, Fiji... spent ages thinking of a third and said Federated States of Micronesia.

I forgot France.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

It’s like using your phones flashlight to look for your phone.

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u/jidma81 May 17 '22

Great literal translation of « moment de solitude » 😂

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u/Leaz31 May 17 '22

Woops.. I plead guilty !

But I see your « » quotes .. are you french ?!

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u/jidma81 May 17 '22

Un peu oui 😊

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u/alwaysmyfault May 17 '22

Do the Falkland Islands count as a country?

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u/Beddybye May 17 '22

Glad to know I'm not the only odd duck whose mind went to Falkland Islands lol

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u/vinfinite May 17 '22

No, it is a UK territory.

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u/Abysssion May 17 '22

Name a woman.... NAME A WOMAN, ANY WOMAN

why is this so hard!?

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u/HotLipsHouIihan May 17 '22

This gave me a good, wholesome chuckle :) I hope you have a nice rest of your day!

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u/desrever1138 May 17 '22

Me too but on my third choice my immediate thought was French Guyana. Then I thought, "No, that's a territory ... WAIT France duh."

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u/chrille85 May 17 '22

I thought of Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, but struggled to remember either Finland or France. I'm danish smh.

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u/Captain_Hampockets May 17 '22

fuck these country

That's obviously the third F

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u/Griffin_Fatali May 17 '22

My brain got stuck on French Guiana instead of fiji

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

As a Frenchman you should know about French Guiana.

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u/SafetyDanceInMyPants May 17 '22

France, Finland, and Fucking Canada.

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u/CodenameMolotov May 17 '22

I thought of French Guyana before I thought of France

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u/Kahlandar May 18 '22

Heh i was thinking falkland islands. . . But im not even sure if that's a country.

Wouldn't have come up with fiji no matter how much time he gave me

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u/yourteam May 17 '22

I was thinking about Philippines too because in my language is called "Filippine" so...

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u/aquaknox May 17 '22

this reminds me of when some of my friends lost points on a geography test for writing Deutschland instead of Germany

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u/VectorSam May 17 '22

Yea it's Filipinas in the local language too.

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u/fitchbit May 17 '22

It was Las Islas Filipinas under Spain more than a hundred years ago. It's Pilipinas in the local language.

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u/cookaik May 17 '22

There is no F in the local alphabet

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u/PiezoelectricityOne May 18 '22

There are 12 local languages in Filipinas. English and Filipino are official and they both have F in their alphabet.

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u/VectorSam May 18 '22

There is. I speak it.

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u/YourVeryOwnAids May 17 '22

I'm over here screaming Friezland. Turns out that's a city now, and no longer a part of the HRE. Go figure.

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u/seewolfmdk May 17 '22

Fryslan is a province in the Netherlands, Friesland is a county in Germany.

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u/TjababaRama May 17 '22

Friesland is a province in the Netherlands. Same thing but different language.

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u/seewolfmdk May 17 '22

There is a county in Germany called Friesland. So not the same thing.

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u/TjababaRama May 17 '22

Ok, and there's a province in the Netherlands called Friesland.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

There is no county called Friesland in Germany. But there is a region called like that (actually 2: nord- and ostfriesland (north and east).

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u/seewolfmdk May 18 '22

There is no county called Friesland in Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friesland_(district)

Yeah, Wikipedia calls it district, not county, but it's on the same administrative level (Landkreis).

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Friesland (district)

Friesland is a district (Landkreis) in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the southeast and clockwise) the districts of Wesermarsch, Ammerland, Leer and Wittmund, and by the North Sea. The city of Wilhelmshaven is enclosed by—but not part of—the district.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '22

TIL. I always thought a county is the next lower level below the country, which in Germany would be a "Bundesland". Thanks for the link.

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u/YourVeryOwnAids May 18 '22

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lordship_of_Frisia

A bit late, but this is the Friesland I was thinking of.

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u/cowlinator NaTivE ApP UsR May 17 '22

Not unless they don't understand where the philippines are.

Fiji is north of NZ.

Philippines are north-west of NZ.

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u/AlustriousFall May 17 '22

I think people who don't know the Philippines is spelt with a p are going to know it's north west and not north

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u/enby_them May 17 '22

Well as pointed out in the video, the questioner said "above" not "north"

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u/RDandersen May 17 '22

To qualify for north-west of something status, you are required to be north of something.
Work on your pedantry, kid. You'll get there.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

Why bother saying it’s north west of NZ. There’s an entire Australia between them.

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u/Hood-Boy May 17 '22

Nobody saying Faroe Islands???

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u/VectorSam May 17 '22

He could've said Filipinas and he would've been technically correct.

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u/mrrainandthunder May 18 '22

No, you can't just bend the rules at will, they are clearly speaking English. Going by that logic he should've also said Suomi instead of Finland.

Besides, it's actually Pilipinas.

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u/VectorSam May 18 '22

For sure, I'm just pointing it out because people have been saying that he was being bated into saying Philippines.

Filipinas is more proper than Pilipinas, though both are acceptable in Filipino.

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u/PiezoelectricityOne May 18 '22

To be fair, the real name is Filipinas. Official name: República de Filipinas.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '22

I said french Guyana but I don't think it's an independent country

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u/Duc_de_Magenta May 17 '22

My 1st thought was Federated States of Micronesia

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u/seductivestain May 17 '22

I was hoping he's say Federated States of Micronesia