Either you or your grandpa got the joke wrong...It's supposed to be "What's the difference between a chick pea and a GARBANZO bean?" There are many differences between a chick pea and a lima bean... besides what's been on your grandpa's chest ;)
Wasn't Robocop set in 'New Detroit'? ( because if its anything sci-fi has taught us, all cities will have New put in front of their names in the future). Anyway, remember kids, "Stay out of trouble!"
I still think it's weird that jetpunk randomly choses not to count all medals that Germany earned in Winter Olympics, which would put the country a good 40 medals ahead of Norway.
That's a fair point, although it really only applies to some team sports, since all individual sports will allow several athletes from the same country to participate. For instance, in this year's Winter Olympics, German athletes have won 8 out of 12 possible medals in bobsleigh, including all three medals in men's doubles. I remember other instances, such as four years ago in men's Nordic combine, where German athletes have placed first, second and third in the sprint. Especially at the Winter Olympics, there are only a handful of team sports, and those also happen to be the sports in which Germany doesn't tyically excel (such as ice hockey). So, for the criticism to be valid, there would need to be multiple instances of both the FRG and the GDR winning a teams medal in the same Olympics - which I'm willing to be hasn't happened very often, and probably not enough to really change the medals ranking.
There's nothing at all weird, odd, or random about this. What's weird is your repeated insistence, in spite of being corrected multiple times, that East Germany and West Germany, though each fielded separate Olympics teams, are somehow the same country. They competed at the same Olympics but with separate teams, winning medals with both, and adding them up together makes no sense and is unfair to every other country that only won medals with a single team at any given Olympics. Only in Germany maybe would this be considered odd, because of a self-serving bias that leads them to want to claim a higher medal count. Literally everywhere else it's the commonplace standard. But even if it weren't common or standard (and it is), it's still not "random," you know why Germany isn't the answer, and it's quite disingenuous for you, after years of leaving comments like this and replying to the responses, to pretend as if you don't know where it's coming from.
German athletes from Germany competing for Germany have won more medals than US athletes from the US competing for the US in the Winter Olympics. Whether you accept to deal with that reality or try to finess your way out of it by sheer ignorance of international law is of course up to you, kalba!
No finessing. No denial. No ignorance. That's obviously your thing, gandalf. Ethnicities do not send teams to compete at the Olympics. Countries do. (and if they did, they wouldn't be allowed to send multiple teams) Please take your snide condescension to the bathroom mirror where it belongs.
Aside: your implication that my acceptance of reality is somehow motivated by obnoxious jingoism is, also, obviously, more projection on your part. My personal ego really could not care less how many medals any country has at the Olympics. The totals are what they are. I'm as happy to acknowledge that Norway beats Germany at the Winter Olympics as I am to acknowledge that the US beats Germany, or that Norway beats the US. Also happy to acknowledge that Germany is better than America at foosball. And sausages. And genocide. And probably other things, too. None of these things bother me in the slightest. But you still don't get to field twice as many teams at the Olympics as everyone else.
Also please point out the "international law" (no such thing) that says Germany gets to cheat at the Olympics. I hope that whatever is going on in your personal life leading to you being like this lately is resolved soon. Sincerely. Be well.
Is it your total lack of jingoism that makes you say things like "Germany beats the US at genocide"? I mean, other than such comparisons being completely distateful because the horrors committed by one country don't excuse the horrors committed by another, but - man, open a History book!
I didn't know the gemstone answer either but got it by eventually by simply guessing but, to me, it was no less 'general knowledge' than the Robocop question, which I also had to get by guessing
Birthstone, not zodiac gemstones (birthstones are to do with the month you were born in, not what star sign). Birthstones are often given as presents as jewellery, plenty of jewellers (online or physical ones) market them and sell them: they are a part of Western culture as anything else on this quiz, and so are "general" knowledge.
lucky me :)
What's the difference between a chick pea and a lima bean?
I've never had a lima bean on my chest
It seems like jetpunk (or the originator of the quiz?) only counts western germany for that period.
The german wikipedia does the opposite and counts both countries medals as "german", the english one splits them up.
You may argue that eastern germany was a part of germany before and after it existed and still called itself germany.
What if it had decided to call itself something else, maybe prussia, would it still qualify to be counted as germany for that period?
Aside: your implication that my acceptance of reality is somehow motivated by obnoxious jingoism is, also, obviously, more projection on your part. My personal ego really could not care less how many medals any country has at the Olympics. The totals are what they are. I'm as happy to acknowledge that Norway beats Germany at the Winter Olympics as I am to acknowledge that the US beats Germany, or that Norway beats the US. Also happy to acknowledge that Germany is better than America at foosball. And sausages. And genocide. And probably other things, too. None of these things bother me in the slightest. But you still don't get to field twice as many teams at the Olympics as everyone else.
and why is zodic gemstones "general knowledge", didn't even know about it until i saw it here