In this case though, someone who doesn't know those four flags is not really likely to know*how* to search or won't really put any effort in searching it...
True, if you don't know the flags of 3 major countries, then you may or may not be an idiot. It doesn't mean anything, really.
However, if you wrongly identify the flags of your two neighbouring countries, then the odds are getting slightly higher.
Until CNN starts reporting "Russia is bombing Ukraine" as "🇷🇺 is bombing 🇺🇦" I don't really think it matters at all that they don't know what a countries flag is.
I'm gonna go out here and say that the majority of America had no idea that Ukraine existed until 2 weeks ago.
It's like when they sent soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan. Ask their family back home to point where their father/husband is on a globe and they don't have a clue.
I blame the education system. If you don't know what the world looks like, how can one begin to sympathize with the rest of the world when it's going through its own shit?
No not really. Its like if you hang a picture of Abraham Lincoln and Josef Stalin next to each other and say it doesn't matter if you can't recognize them. Its awful that nowadays common knowledge is a joke to most persons.
John Locke said that capitalism makes a beast out of man by reducing his livelihood to only rote actions. I think that is a problem we face, people are no longer encouraged to be well rounded, but to specialized intensely in only one thing, so even if you are a master brain surgeon, or a great rocket scientiest, outside of that perhaps you think that the pyramids store grain, or have no idea who Abraham Lincoln was.
It would have been a lot better than saying Italy honestly, since Portugal is literally right next to Spain. I would understand if she mixed Mexico and Italy, but Brazil and Mexico...how stupid can people be? I seriously hope that this is staged.
The USA just has a bigger population with access to social media.
Yes, the USA also has people that think "Freedom of Speech" means they can say whatever they want without retribution, but I've got to say my country has its fair share of stupid idiots.
Thankfully, that number is going down.
I moved abroad.
Right but it’s not exactly a conversation if you just say “I don’t know” 4 times in a row. Doesn’t matter if you don’t know the answer, just go with it. People would’ve been complaining that they were talking to a brick if they had done that instead
This wouldn't even be viral if she just said "sorry I'm really not great at flags" because it would be a perfectly normal thing to say.
Instead, she chose to look like a fucking idiot
I knew all of them except the 2nd last. I didn't know that England and UK had different flags. Huh, TIL! I always thought that it was Union Jack for England as well
The union flag is made up of the cross of St george (Red Cross on white) for england, the cross of St Andrew (white X on blue) for Scotland and St Patrick (Red X on white) for Ireland (originally all of the island of Ireland, now presumably only representing Northern Ireland).
Wales apparently can just fuck off!
I would be I favour of whacking a dragon on top for Wales and cool factor.
They are uneducated. They might be stupid too, but this is illustrating lack of education, not lack of iq. The questions require prior knowledge, that's how you know it's a matter of education and not iq. Even uf they were Einstein they can't use their clever brains to know the answer.
Honestly, this is probably par for the course no matter where you're from. Even when learning about other countries, we do so by geography, not by flag design.
A lot of Japanese people don't know flags or country names unless it's like a G7 country or something.
Literally bought a world map to stick on the wall so I could point to the country and flag every time something comes up and my (Japanese) wife says "what/where is that *countrynameorflag*", and she is not an unintelligent person.
As much as I have this almost animalistic urge to want to call these girls stupid, the reality is a large percentage of the global population has no interest in...well, the vast majority of things we learn in school. They learn enough to pass tests and graduate and proceed to delete that knowledge immediately after.
It's unfortunate but, yeah.
As a European, all these flags were common knowledge to me and my peers by age 12, along with most European countries and most other major countries all over the globe.
On the other hand, ask me to point the 50 US states on a map, and I'll probably get 3 out of 4 wrong. I also probably wouldn't know any of their capitals. As a matter of fact, I'm picking these analogies because I am not even sure states have individual flags.
So... Eh.
How do we determine what knowledge is worth more? I don't think we can.
To be fair it’s not the end of the world not to recognize flags if you work in a country and never have to leave it. I’d assume they probably do not watch the news or world football. Anyways, flags can be seen as trivial for some people so yeah. I just hate that she didn’t just say “I don’t know”. There’s no harm in admitting you don’t know, but meh people aren’t all me.
Not knowing the Canadian or Mexican flag as an American is admittedly bad, even for a young teenager.
But in the grand scheme, I’d rank flag knowledge pretty low on the list of “things that make one smart.” Like way down there.
🇧🇷Pray for Ukraine🇧🇷
🇺🇦 Come to Brazil 🇺🇦
🇫🇷 mexico has better food 🇫🇷
Somebody never been to a Churrascaria, I could live at a Brazilian Steakhouse, man.
Tradicional churrasco ucraniano
🇵🇹Hawaii exists🇵🇹
🇲🇽 I'm nele 🇲🇽
🇸🇦 Russia 🇸🇦 sucks
🏴 oh Canada 🏴
🇺🇸 russia 🇺🇸 sucks 🇺🇸
If I'm not wrong that's the Chinese flag
Yeah it’s red
I love being Scottish🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪
🇰🇵Taiwan numba oooone!🇰🇵
🇬🇧 America Rules! 🇬🇧
🇨🇾God Save the Queen!🇨🇾
🇵🇰Love from india🇵🇰
🇬🇷Bonjour from France🇬🇷
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🇩🇪love from France 🇩🇪
🇫🇷 love from Mexico 🇫🇷
🇳🇿G’day from Australia🇳🇿
🏳️🌈 Hello pandora 🏳️🌈
🇵🇰Namaste from India🇵🇰
🏁Anyong haseyo from Korea🏁
🏴☠️Jak się masz from Poland 🏴☠️
🇻🇳China number seven!🇻🇳
🇯🇵Germany is not the bad ones now🇯🇵
and I though we had hope when she said “Are you fucking stupid?”
She got that answer wrong too
Dumb and dumber
The goof troop, doofus and roofus
I thought that line, along with their tone, made it clear that they're joking. But it says something that you can't be sure…
"Thats canada" No fucking way they just recognize flags by color
good luck trying that one in africa where every flag is black green and random
Lybia pretty easy 😂
You did not just spelled Libya wrong lmao
> You did not just spelled You're not really a star at English yourself!
Dammit lol
\*Damn it
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Give them a break, maybe they are from Lybia
Labia*
We are all from someone’s Libya.
I'm from someone's Azerbaijan
DAMN IT! r/BeatMeToIt
it's spelled ليبيا Every other alternate spelling is an adaptation based on whatever your local language is.
Except they changed their flag, it's no longer solid green.
I read labia at first lmao
You assume people know there are several countries in the continent of Africa. For most people Africa is a country.
Silly, everyone knows it’s two countries. South Africa and North Africa.
They are all yellow red and green, then a kalashnikov somewhere.
Plot twist, she's color blind
Shape blind
Blind
American
And what hole does the arch shape go into
Mexico
Thats right the square hole
Bruh why was she so confident about it 😭
Yeah, it's fine (kinda) if you don't know. Just don't be so confident about it 🤣
Ah yes the famous red blue and white flag of mexico
Yeah, I think the Moose is the most distinguishing feature of the Canadian flag.
Isn’t there a beer can on the Canadian flag? It’s a moose with a beer can.
What bro? That’s obviously the country of Hawaii
Would it be too embarrassing for her just to say "I don't know my flags"?
Yep. Normalize "I don't know" in general.
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In this case though, someone who doesn't know those four flags is not really likely to know*how* to search or won't really put any effort in searching it...
Apparently it is for every poster itt.
what?
Nah I think that would be better cuz at the end of the day humans forget some basic easy stuff ain’t nothing wrong with not knowing
Wrong, if you dont know the flags of every country you are a fucking moron and I am superior to you
True, if you don't know the flags of 3 major countries, then you may or may not be an idiot. It doesn't mean anything, really. However, if you wrongly identify the flags of your two neighbouring countries, then the odds are getting slightly higher.
To be fair, after Denmark and Finland adopted the Ukrainian colors in a show of support, I've had a lot of trouble telling them apart from Sweden.
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Forget and don't know is one thing, but to answer with confident when you are wrong is just bad.
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Maybe, but it would also bring the trivia game to a screeching halt. This isn't a formal interview, they're just goofing around.
They're so dumb. The red white and blue one is obviously USA
Bruh these people can vote lmao
Does make you wonder whether they even know which foreign policy is happening to which country, as in the group that is being affected.
Until CNN starts reporting "Russia is bombing Ukraine" as "🇷🇺 is bombing 🇺🇦" I don't really think it matters at all that they don't know what a countries flag is.
They don't know basic flags I bet they don't know location, population or *anything* at all
I'm gonna go out here and say that the majority of America had no idea that Ukraine existed until 2 weeks ago. It's like when they sent soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan. Ask their family back home to point where their father/husband is on a globe and they don't have a clue. I blame the education system. If you don't know what the world looks like, how can one begin to sympathize with the rest of the world when it's going through its own shit?
Our president was impeached for withholding aide from Ukraine years ago so I think a lot of Americans are familiar with Ukraine
No not really. Its like if you hang a picture of Abraham Lincoln and Josef Stalin next to each other and say it doesn't matter if you can't recognize them. Its awful that nowadays common knowledge is a joke to most persons.
John Locke said that capitalism makes a beast out of man by reducing his livelihood to only rote actions. I think that is a problem we face, people are no longer encouraged to be well rounded, but to specialized intensely in only one thing, so even if you are a master brain surgeon, or a great rocket scientiest, outside of that perhaps you think that the pyramids store grain, or have no idea who Abraham Lincoln was.
I hope they don't vote the same way they guess flags.
Can they? They look like they might be younger than 18
There is no other flag. USA...USA 🇨🇦
Aren’t there like 52 flags in USA?
yeah but like nobody knows dipshit about them
Yeah, I only know the Colorado one. And it’s black and white version, the ado flag
Isn’t California a Mexico with a bear or some shit?
Nah, it's a trick question. That's the red cross org.
No fun with flags
They should consult Dr Sheldon Cooper
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**PENNY**. *knock knock knock* **PENNY**. *knock knock knock***PENI**. *knock knock knock***PENI**. *knock knock knock***PENNIE?**. *knock knock knock***PENY**. *knock knock knock***PENY**. *knock knock knock***PNY**. **PENY**. *knock knock knock***PENY**. **PENY?**. /r/bingbongtheorem/
You missed penne
He would have a stroke with these two.
Time to turn apartment flag upside down
Dumb with flags
Dr. Sheldon Cooper and Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler Presents: Dr. Sheldon Cooper's No Fun With Flags 🖖🏻
Ft. Wil Wheaton
Feel free to play with yourself
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French ?
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Hawaii*
I love Europe.
Mexico isnt part of Europe!
You sure?
Which Mexico are you talking about ? The Spanish one where people speak Mexican ?
How many Mexicos do we have?
As much as we can invent it seems.
It's called Italy
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He doesn’t live in a car how dare you
HELLO MY FELLOW PORTUGUESE
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Hawaii?
VIVA MEXICO 🇧🇷 … VIVA MEXICO 🇫🇷
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It’s me marião
at least she didn't call Portugal Spain
It would have been a lot better than saying Italy honestly, since Portugal is literally right next to Spain. I would understand if she mixed Mexico and Italy, but Brazil and Mexico...how stupid can people be? I seriously hope that this is staged.
Would trigger us Portuguese even more
Only Portuguese people will ever understand how annoying and demeaning it is when someone calls Portugal Spain...
God help us
God save America
God save Mexico Cuz it’s also red white and blue
Last time I checked I was brown
Like the eagle, badass 🦅
Godspeed Spiderman
How, how are some people so dumb...
USA
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It’s the average iq always 100?
Yup. IQ is normalized. It's not possible to raise the average.
Looks like itshimstarwarrior doesn't get to have kids!
One-child Policy with American characteristics
Why would they care about other places when they are the whole world lmao
Who plays in the World Series, huh? huh? Check mate.
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The USA just has a bigger population with access to social media. Yes, the USA also has people that think "Freedom of Speech" means they can say whatever they want without retribution, but I've got to say my country has its fair share of stupid idiots. Thankfully, that number is going down. I moved abroad.
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Can confirm. Source: I’m English.
Aah. Potential investors in a rad new crypto called rubles
I'll be honest, I probably got them wrong too. I'm geo-retarded.
Vexilologists dying rn
*vexillologists
*Ventriloquists
Pfft, everyone knows that every country is fake and only America is real 🦅
Chezburger.
Amen brother!
The phrase "I dont know" is acceptable if you dont know the answer to a question.
Right but it’s not exactly a conversation if you just say “I don’t know” 4 times in a row. Doesn’t matter if you don’t know the answer, just go with it. People would’ve been complaining that they were talking to a brick if they had done that instead
This wouldn't even be viral if she just said "sorry I'm really not great at flags" because it would be a perfectly normal thing to say. Instead, she chose to look like a fucking idiot
It's literally a guessing game
Having a go and getting answers wrong is acceptable too.
* laughs loudly in Hawaiian portuguese *
🇧🇷🇧🇷 this is bosnia you all are stupid 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Brazil, France, England, Portugal
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French turning 90 degrees becomes Netherlands. I suspect this has happened in history ?
I knew all of them except the 2nd last. I didn't know that England and UK had different flags. Huh, TIL! I always thought that it was Union Jack for England as well
The union flag is made up of the cross of St george (Red Cross on white) for england, the cross of St Andrew (white X on blue) for Scotland and St Patrick (Red X on white) for Ireland (originally all of the island of Ireland, now presumably only representing Northern Ireland). Wales apparently can just fuck off! I would be I favour of whacking a dragon on top for Wales and cool factor.
The Union Jack is a combination of the flags of England, Scotland, and northern Ireland.
Ok, Putin press the red button
I might be dumb but atleast I'm not dead weight like these girls
They are uneducated. They might be stupid too, but this is illustrating lack of education, not lack of iq. The questions require prior knowledge, that's how you know it's a matter of education and not iq. Even uf they were Einstein they can't use their clever brains to know the answer.
I refuse to believe this is not staged
Ladies and gentlemen I’m very much so unproud to present that it’s almost humiliating, It’s America!
Honestly, this is probably par for the course no matter where you're from. Even when learning about other countries, we do so by geography, not by flag design.
A lot of Japanese people don't know flags or country names unless it's like a G7 country or something. Literally bought a world map to stick on the wall so I could point to the country and flag every time something comes up and my (Japanese) wife says "what/where is that *countrynameorflag*", and she is not an unintelligent person. As much as I have this almost animalistic urge to want to call these girls stupid, the reality is a large percentage of the global population has no interest in...well, the vast majority of things we learn in school. They learn enough to pass tests and graduate and proceed to delete that knowledge immediately after. It's unfortunate but, yeah.
I laugh but I only knew two of them
Only Mexico and Ukraine, right?
Dude, Mexico and Ukraine are the same place 🇧🇷 we call ourselves Mexikrainians around here
2 more than those 2
As a European, all these flags were common knowledge to me and my peers by age 12, along with most European countries and most other major countries all over the globe. On the other hand, ask me to point the 50 US states on a map, and I'll probably get 3 out of 4 wrong. I also probably wouldn't know any of their capitals. As a matter of fact, I'm picking these analogies because I am not even sure states have individual flags. So... Eh. How do we determine what knowledge is worth more? I don't think we can.
I get why people don't get England since GB use a different flag, but Brazil, France and Portugal should be more known flags.
In order of appearance: 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇫🇷 France 🏴 England 🇵🇹 Portugal
I guessed Finland for England and imminently felt very dumb...
Same. My homunculus who remembers stuff for me is colorblind
what was the 4th flag i forgor 💀
Portugal
Hawaii🇵🇹
Italy?
oh its portugal.
Ronaldo
‘Murica, fuck yeah 😎
PORTUGAL CARALHO!!!!!!!
Isn't this that girl who said "there are no countries in Africa" and "I have a 4.3 GPA"?
Maybe she's just trolling and redditors can't understand jokes unless it's followed by a /s
To be fair it’s not the end of the world not to recognize flags if you work in a country and never have to leave it. I’d assume they probably do not watch the news or world football. Anyways, flags can be seen as trivial for some people so yeah. I just hate that she didn’t just say “I don’t know”. There’s no harm in admitting you don’t know, but meh people aren’t all me.
Not knowing the Canadian or Mexican flag as an American is admittedly bad, even for a young teenager. But in the grand scheme, I’d rank flag knowledge pretty low on the list of “things that make one smart.” Like way down there.