Judge for yourself!

Now, let's not draw too many conclusions from this. Dumb and uneducated people can be found anywhere in the world.

But this is damn funny anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juOQhTuzDQ0

That's Kellie Pickler, I believe, who is world famous for being dumb. She was on American Idol and was renouned for being dumb there too.

And France isn't a country, of course. :p

This belongs in the H&J forum, but it is all French to me.

X to the efin D. Gotta find myself a blonde, I forgot how hilariously stupid can they be. Screw smart women.

EDIT: Stupid double post. Mods please delete.

If you enjoyed that, you'll enjoy this blonde on a game show too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wgzpmGitQw

And here's another much watched dumb blonde clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPRXfREVfbo

I'm pretty sure they mispronounced Hungary too.

Her looks definatley make up for her stupidity.

Jeff Foxworthy is so HOT!

'reality' shows have a habit of picking, how shall we describe them, 'dense' individuals. jade goody still ranks near the top for me.
eg 'Do they speak Portuganese in Portugal? I thought Portugal was in Spain.'
unfortunately for jade, her looks do her no good at all...

If you enjoyed that, you'll enjoy this blonde on a game show too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wgzpmGitQw


Holy crap. Poor woman. She doesn't realize everyone's laughing at her either.

Here's a mega hot Israeli celebrity woman. Same situation, basically.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGlgcvlv9Io

EH??

Are Blonds Dumb?
That's the standing joke, but the FoxBabes put that lie to rest post haste.
Are Americans Poorly Educated?
More so than we were 30-50 years ago, yes. Compared to the rest of the western world, again probably yes overall. However, we do also have the cream of the crop as well.
Is France a Country?
??? That's like asking if a bear poos in the woods.

Events like this will continue as long as we give preferential treatment to attractive people.

It's instinctive and hard to over-ride.

Holy crap. Poor woman. She doesn't realize everyone's laughing at her either.She doesn't even realise that the man talking to her, the presenter of the show no less, is laughing at her too. The mind just boggles.

Here's a mega hot Israeli celebrity woman. Same situation, basically.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGlgcvlv9IoSeen it a hundred times before. Not bad at all. And pretty stupid too. :goodjob:

Are Americans Poorly Educated?

This really makes me think so:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VtXCs0Wqs9Q
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WCoVaeYHzWA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1hy6O0IMLJ4

"They speak French there." that was just hillarious. If this is a common problem in America Im defintily never stepping foot in it again

EH??


That's the standing joke, but the FoxBabes put that lie to rest post haste.

More so than we were 30-50 years ago, yes. Compared to the rest of the western world, again probably yes overall. However, we do also have the cream of the crop as well.

??? That's like asking if a bear poos in the woods.
You didn't watch the video.

You're not helping.

You didn't watch the video.

You're not helping.

*sigh* Yet another attempt at subtle humor lost to the unholy net gods and their lack of body language interpretation. :(

This really makes me think so:

I simply cannot believe that those people being interviewed arn't told what to say.. Or heavily edited to cut the correct answers out.

I simply cannot believe that those people being interviewed arn't told what to say.. Or heavily edited to cut the correct answers out.
I can believe that those were their real answers. However, on some of the maps, "Iran" or "North Korea" was written on the Australia continent.

The comments of the host were hilarious.
"women just want to hear their opinion in a deeper voice"
That's a killer.

I can believe that those were their real answers. However, on some of the maps, "Iran" or "North Korea" was written on the Australia continent.

That was the joke; they're stupid for not knowing that the map was mislabeled.

That was the joke; they're stupid for not knowing that the map was mislabeled.
Yes, I know. I was just providing more information to Peuri.

Funny, I saw this very same clip a few days ago.

You might be a redneck if your job entails making fun of retards on national tv.

Jeff Foxworthy is so HOT!

Thats one of those sentences you never, ever expect to hear... :lol:

Now, let's not draw too many conclusions from this. Dumb and uneducated people can be found anywhere in the world.

You got that right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Ga5PuckA0

Wow, just.... wow.

Then again, there's surely just as many morons elsewhere. Ack.. and they're breeding! :(

all thus is just sick.

I can believe that those were their real answers. However, on some of the maps, "Iran" or "North Korea" was written on the Australia continent.
CNNNN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNNNN).

It's a joke. A satire show. Those answers, at least, weren't real. I don't know what the blond women's excuses were, though. :lol:

At least this video proves well that beautiful girls don't need to be smart to succeed in life. :mischief:

Anyway, if you believe Americans are poorly educated, then just watch out how French people are smart: :smug:
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=dMFsuBlkoIQ

Damn, this should also have gone in the 'not knowing how to drive' thread.

British don't know traffic light sequence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvaR-TiDtHM&feature=related

Edit: Beat you to it, Marla. See my previous post.

At least this video proves well that beautiful girls don't need to be smart to succeed in life. :mischief:

Anyway, if you believe Americans are poorly educated, then just watch out how French people are smart: :smug:
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=dMFsuBlkoIQ
I find it mind boggling that people can be so stupid.

This isn't a national thing - American, or French - but just a human thing. Some people are just amazingly dumb. How can you really live with yourself being just so dumb? :crazyeye: I can't imagine it. People are just incomprehensible to me.

I find it mind boggling that people can be so stupid.

This isn't a national thing - American, or French - but just a human thing. Some people are just amazingly dumb. How can you really live with yourself being just so dumb? :crazyeye: I can't imagine it. People are just incomprehensible to me.

You look down on them while I envy the dumb, they glide through life happy and never caring about anything.

You *might* be a redneck, if you think...

Jeff Foxworthy is so HOT!

:mischief:

Its so set up.

At least this video proves well that beautiful girls don't need to be smart to succeed in life. :mischief:

Anyway, if you believe Americans are poorly educated, then just watch out how French people are smart: :smug:
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=dMFsuBlkoIQ

Ok, one dude losing his nerves and not knowing the obvious, is a rather normal thing in TV-shows. But the audience...., 56% thinks it is the sun, that turns around earth.... Nah.....

Otoh:
Could it be the grammar? Wording?

Why "Qu'est-ce qui gravite autour de la terre."
Why not: "Qu'est-ce qui tourne autour de la terre."

As a Dutchman, knowing a word or two in French, I could easily translate the sentence to:
What is it that attracts upon earth?

I find the phrase "graviter autour" quite confusing....

Moved to H&J

Ok, one dude losing his nerves and not knowing the obvious, is a rather normal thing in TV-shows. But the audience...., 56% thinks it is the sun, that turns around earth.... Nah.....

Otoh:
Could it be the grammar? Wording?

Why "Qu'est-ce qui gravite autour de la terre."
Why not: "Qu'est-ce qui tourne autour de la terre."

As a Dutchman, knowing a word or two in French, I could easily translate the sentence to:
What is it that attracts upon earth?

I find the phrase "graviter autour" quite confusing....

:) Please keep in mind I have a very limited knowledge of French, but my experience with Romance languages would suggest that "gravite autour de la terre" means "gravitates around the Earth". So clearly "what is moving around the earth due to the force of gravity of the Earth", not "what exercises attraction to the Earth". I think Dutch might have a slightly different wording for the same sentence, but to me it was obvious what the question was. :) Maybe we're both wrong though. :D

XD.

Once, a girl on this show (a 5th grader) thought that the capital of the UK was Georgia.

:) Please keep in mind I have a very limited knowledge of French, but my experience with Romance languages would suggest that "gravite autour de la terre" means "gravitates around the Earth". So clearly "what is moving around the earth due to the force of gravity of the Earth", not "what exercises attraction to the Earth". I think Dutch might have a slightly different wording for the same sentence, but to me it was obvious what the question was. :) Maybe we're both wrong though. :D

I also find the English sentence "What gravitates around the world" quite weird. I might transalte it as: What is a gravitating fource around the world.

If I am not familiar with the French word "autour", and accidentily translate it as upon, instead of around....


I want a French native speaker to solve this :) .

Ok, one dude losing his nerves and not knowing the obvious, is a rather normal thing in TV-shows. But the audience...., 56% thinks it is the sun, that turns around earth.... Nah.....

Otoh:
Could it be the grammar? Wording?

Why "Qu'est-ce qui gravite autour de la terre."
Why not: "Qu'est-ce qui tourne autour de la terre."

As a Dutchman, knowing a word or two in French, I could easily translate the sentence to:
What is it that attracts upon earth?

I find the phrase "graviter autour" quite confusing....You're totally right.

It's obvious the audience has been tricked by the verb "to gravitate". If the question had been "What turns around the earth", as told by the subtitles, the answers would have been widely different. It is not common in French to use the verb "to gravitate" in this context. As a result, I guess many people weren't sure if "gravitate around" meant "is attracted by" or "attracts". That's why the subtitle translation isn't fully honnest. But anyway, it makes the thing funnier. ;)

That is what I thought also. By using gravitates, rather than rotates or turns, it makes the question much tougher than it really needs to be.

^ Apologist nonsense.

Yes, Yes, Sort of

You're totally right.

It's obvious the audience has been tricked by the verb "to gravitate". If the question had been "What turns around the earth", as told by the subtitles, the answers would have been widely different. It is not common in French to use the verb "to gravitate" in this context. As a result, I guess many people weren't sure if "gravitate around" meant "is attracted by" or "attracts". That's why the subtitle translation isn't fully honnest. But anyway, it makes the thing funnier. ;)

Or maybe the audience thought he was an idiot and voted to screw him up.

EDIT: Whoops, sorry. Didn't read through the whole thread.

EDIT2:

I also find the English sentence "What gravitates around the world" quite weird. I might transalte it as: What is a gravitating fource around the world.

If I am not familiar with the French word "autour", and accidentily translate it as upon, instead of around....


I want a French native speaker to solve this :) .

In the French I know, "graviter" can mean to rotate or move in a circular pattern around any given object.

In the French I know, "graviter" can mean to rotate or move in a circular pattern around any given object.That's only undirectly true. Graviter in French means "being attracted by another object according to the law of gravity". If the moon turns around the earth, it's because it is attracted by the earth, hence it is a fully correct French usage to say that the moon "gravite" around the earth. However, this isn't the most common expression to describe the phenomenon. Generally, in French, we simply say that the moon "tourne" around the earth.

Obviously, "tourner autour de" is more common than "graviter autour de", but I could understand the context.