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One of my relatives, who hails from @siggy47's cultural region, was trying to relay a news event to me and used the phrase "one of those Japanese countries" to describe the location that he couldn't recall.
The bounty goes to the first stacker who correctly guesses which country he was referring to.
Only one guess per stacker per hour
1,000 sats bounty
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This post’s got a 'bug' when sorting items by ‘recent’. It doesn’t sort here, only works after you click ‘recent’ and hit refresh (F5). After the items are sorted, new comments don’t show up at the top. cc/ @k00b @ek @sox
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33 sats \ 6 replies \ @sox 6h
I can reproduce here, but not in dev. Let's see what's causing this.
For now one clue is that this only happens in client-side navigation: click on a comment -> from the top SN bar go back -> sorts stop working
edit: only here
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Weird, the 'recent' filter is already working.
Thanks for the tip
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22 sats \ 9 replies \ @grayruby 2h
How have we not figured this out yet. There are only 195 countries.
Tonga
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82 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 1h
Tonga is the new civilization available in Civ 7, it became available on the 4th of this month! ahah
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That's interesting. I'm pretty sure they've never had Tonga before.
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maybe it's not a country
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Even if not, no one has guessed the country it's in or that has an internationally recognized claim over it.
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It's hilarious that this is still going
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It's Hong Kong isn't it
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Asked and answered
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I was thinking that too.
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@siggy47 grandparents are from Lombardi?
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12 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 17h
No. Calabria, Bari, and Abruzzo. I'm from the lazy south, not the industrious north.
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You do realize this will affect our relationship moving forward?
(The guy was talking about Kentucky all along)
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I know that wasn't a real guess, but for the sake of completeness, no
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New Zealand
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They do look kinda similar, but no
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Reasonable... They look the same on a map!
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Did this even happen? Is there a right answer?
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This did happen and there is one correct answer
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Is the answer a country?
36 sats \ 5 replies \ @OT 17h
The Philippines
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Someone beat you to that guess. Try again
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @OT 16h
Must be Russia
Jeju island ?
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Where’s that?
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it's in south korea
India ?
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I'm surprised it lasted so long, but no
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @Angie 15h
Parece que está hora nadie la gana, un weeaboo , Otaku y sino mi anime favorito one piece, desconozco la cultura o prototipo estadunidense soy de otro país planeta galaxia sistema estelar 😂.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @Angie 16h
Bueno supongo que Japón es un sólo país así que tal ves como como solemos generalizar, cada ves que vemos a un asiático solo lo definimos por chino. Tú amigo quiso decir lo mismo no se definió por un país más bien por cualquier asiático, da la respuesta igual para salir de dudas 👍
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This is about getting inside the mind of a certain type of American
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12 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 19h
South Korea
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I think that was my first guess, too
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Mine too
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Tonga
Sounds like Honda
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Pretty good, but no and I'm not sure if that's warmer or colder
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb 15h
🤣
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India and Pakistan are constantly fighting for Kashmir.
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I already said no to both India and Pakistan, though
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Can't keep up with all these replies, man. This is my last one, I'm out!
Guyana
0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 2h
Jamaica
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Already tried, doesn't count as your guess
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Timor-Leste (East Timor)
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Nope. Did someone already guess all the other Timors?
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Are there any other Timors?
I'm out as only one guess is allowed. But is it Palau?
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Only one guess per stacker per hour
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Oh thanks. Btw it kinda rhymed, right?
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Already taken
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 3h
Fiji
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Already taken
Good thought, since it looks like Fuji
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Peru
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What's Japanese about Peru?
No
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 6h
They got eyes like the Japanese over there. Haha
Last try: Alaska
Dokdo/Takeshima Islands?
Maybe the Solomon Islands?
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No, but that would have been nice for you
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Turkey~~ (technically, also in Asia).
But many people usually think of East Asian countries when they think of Asia...
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Turkey still has a bit of land in Europe, actually, Istanbul’s the only capital in the world that sits on two continents!
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Who said anything about Asia?
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Funny. I internalized "Asian country", not "Japanese country" when I read your post.
Probably says something about me.
Hmm, my next absurd guess then would be "Italy" in relation to the Tripartite Pact during WWII. In case your relative is somehow mentally stuck in old history...
Samoa
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Already picked, try again
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It's beyond me how is that so many are so unwilling to take a second to hit Ctrl+F before posting.
0 sats \ 5 replies \ @jasonb 15h
Myanmar?
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We're working our way around the coast...nope
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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @jasonb 15h
I’m also just trying to think of what would have been in the news.
Indonesia.
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I'm surprised that was still available, but it's not correct
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I was surprised too, checked twice
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Guam?
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Solid guess, but no
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 16h
Fiji
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Islands, sounds like "Fuji", kinda "over there"...good guess
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north korea
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I want to say that you're getting colder, but I'm not sure exactly what that means.
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getting colder coz i'm going further north?
Nepal
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Bald mountain monks, martial arts probably...good guess but no
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Jamaica
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Island, starts with a J, might be in Asia for all he knows...good guess, but no
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Hawaii?
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I love that guess, but no
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Singapore
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Fenix 18h
Vietnam
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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @Fenix 17h
I would say Brazil because is the second country with more Japanese after Japan, but it doesn’t fits your narrative.
Sri Lanka
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Laos
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No cigar
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Samoa
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Nope. That's sort of the direction I was going with my guesses too.
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54 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 18h
I figured since there is a lot of Japenese heritage in the Pacific Island nations it might be one of those and then I thought maybe he was confusing Samoa with Sumo. Haha
0 sats \ 1 reply \ @fishious 18h
Cambodia
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Nice try
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Philippines
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Solid guess
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @DP0604 19h
It's definitely Japan.
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It's definitely not
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @DP0604 19h
hahaha well I tried.
Thailand
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I can see why you might expect that
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Not many shots left, but since we only get one shot an hour, I gotta chill and stay quiet! I'll hit this up again tomorrow! Haha
China
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That would have made some sense, but nope
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It's clearly gotta be absurd enough for you to make note of it
Taiwan
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Reasonable guess, but no
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 18h
Hmmm it's got to be something absurd then.
0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scroogey 1m
Brazil
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I think that was already guessed
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Easter Island
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Come on, that would have been "the one with the heads".
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Angie 30m
Ok alguien me dice por fin que país es
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scroogey 54m
Suriname
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What would that connection be, Buddhism?
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India
Don't think anyone said that yet?
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Someone did
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This is getting ridiculous now. The only thing we haven't said is Antarctica!
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That is not the only thing that hasn't been guessed
I'll give a hint that it is not a country with a claim on Antarctica
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Palestine
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No, but that would have been very funny
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lmao
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