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I thought it was Belgium?

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This kinda makes me feel old.

The version I heard I thought it was New Zealand… 😝

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New Zealand doesn’t exist. Show me New Zealand on a map

(this joke works because New Zealand is left off of a stupid number of maps)

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Wait, it’s not Iceland?

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I’ve also heard it’s Australia

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But then where do the waffles come from? And the chocolates? And diamonds?

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All those things come from Bielefeld !

You have been lied to your whole life !

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Ok, you convinced me. Where do I sign up?

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3 points

Bielefeld? The football club from Armenia? 😉

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Where does black metal come from?

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Finland?

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Mostly Norway, Sweden, and (to a lesser extent) Denmark.

Also from a profound sense of alienation combined with a tendency towards macabre flamboyancy and just subjective stylistic preferences of expression, I guess 🤷

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Hate to be this guy, but it’s Norway.

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Ahchchcually USA has by far the most metal bands, but yeah Finland leads the per capita list by far.

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4 points

Careful, that word’s really offensive in most parts of the galaxy.

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3 points

Except in serious screenplays, of course.

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That sounds like something a Finn would say.

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So Finns do exist, other than Belgian people

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I once won the Rory Award for The Most Gratuitous Use of that word in a Serious Screenplay, you know… Then someone stole it, of course…

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