I believe (I know) he understood perfectly the joke in your comment, predenting he is not and taking your words literally to make you look bad so he can look good. People who indeed hate certain specific communities post after post are looking in order to justify their hate people who just understand the simple human fact that there are good Jews and bad Jews, good Russians and bad Russians, Good Westerners and bad Westerners, good Muslims and bad Muslims etc... etc... But for some, the good are only on some sides of those communities as a whole and not on the others (as a whole). And because they (also) hate you for that, for not taking the sides they are taking, for actually not taking any side, even a joke, although they understand the joke, it is for them enough to take it as an admission that you are also hating a certain community (of course a community on their side as a whole), knowing perfectly well it is not the case. No Fanta, it is not sutpidity (well maybe/surely for some), it is very much calculated. In a tiny anonymous online forum related to Thailand, I find it sad that some have the urge of wasting their time doing so, not sure what's the gain or purpose. To get popularity as it seems being neutral is not an option for most posters here? Who knows. Humans, hey...
Nothing new in Japan. They're often misidentifying the gender of animals in zoos. I didn't know about the hippo, but I'm not surprised. The most recent of many, many cases in Japanese zoos.
Lion earlier this year (they became suspicious when the "male" lion didn't grow a mane )
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240304/p2a/00m/0li/002000c
Panda in 2020 (same zoo got it wrong with a previous panda birth in 2005)
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20201222/p2a/00m/0na/009000c
"Male" barn owl suddenly lays an egg in 2021
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210416/p2a/00m/0na/029000c
Clueless.
#251 - With now being the hottest time of the year, what better time to do a quiz about it? How much do you know? Enjoy the quiz folks and let us know how you get on.
And now for the answers...