alocispepraluger102 Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14...agewanted=print Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 well...duh! this isn't exactly news... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 I don't get it - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 I don't get it - are you sure you're not from New Jersey? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son-of-a-Weizen Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 This is just like Pearl Harbor,” one of the men said. The other asked, “What is Pearl Harbor?” Oh no.. Pearl Harbor!! Reminds me of the Starbucks 'experience' I had in 2005. (Post #4) http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=21193 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swinging Swede Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 The video has been viewed 5 million times. It has to be seen to be believed. Is Europe a country? The question is "Budapest is the capital of what European country?", and here are some excerpts of what the American Idol participant has to say about it: "I thought Europe was a country!" "Budapest? I haven't even heard of that." "I know they speak French there. Don't they?" "Is France a country?" "Hungry? That's a country? I've heard of Turkey, but Hungry, never heard of it!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swinging Swede Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Reminded me of the following video: The contestants are asked to name a country that starts with the letter 'A'. One says "Asia", one says nothing, and one says "Amsterdam"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Reminded me of the following video: The contestants are asked to name a country that starts with the letter 'A'. One says "Asia", one says nothing, and one says "Amsterdam"... Wow, they're dumb. Everybody knows the answer is Armadillo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Reminded me of the following video: The contestants are asked to name a country that starts with the letter 'A'. One says "Asia", one says nothing, and one says "Amsterdam"... Frankly, I'm surprised those answers are not on the board. The show probably took them off, but I bet you a bunch of people they surveyed said the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Reminded me of the following video: The contestants are asked to name a country that starts with the letter 'A'. One says "Asia", one says nothing, and one says "Amsterdam"... Wow, they're dumb. Everybody knows the answer is Armadillo. Wrong. Armadillo is a city in the Texas Potholder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 The video has been viewed 5 million times. It has to be seen to be believed. Is Europe a country? The question is "Budapest is the capital of what European country?", and here are some excerpts of what the American Idol participant has to say about it: "I thought Europe was a country!" "Budapest? I haven't even heard of that." "I know they speak French there. Don't they?" "Is France a country?" "Hungry? That's a country? I've heard of Turkey, but Hungry, never heard of it!" This is the idiot who in her time on American Idol made countless stupid/ignorant remarks. The producers of this show were hardly ignorant of how stupid she is and knew it would make for entertaining television. I am not familiar with the number of steps it takes to get to $10,000 - I've seen others though going much higher than that - but did you notice that she'd already used two of her cheating options just to reach that point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Wow. What's the New York Times going to write about next? An article about the sky being blue? Night time being darker than the daytime? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave James Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 The Onion once said that by the year 2100, there would only be 5 intelligent people left in the United States. While I appreciate the satiric intent, the more I see, the less certain I am that this is satire. There was a TV show on a few years back that involved contestants placing bets as to whether several "men on the street" who were about to be interviewed could answer a particular question. I mean, these were questions that were so basic, a sack of rocks would have a fair shot at answering them. Well, you can imagine what happened. Funny? Probably. Concerning? Definitely. Up over and out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 In part, she lays the blame on a failing educational system. “Although people are going to school more and more years, there’s no evidence that they know more,” she said. Ms. Jacoby also blames religious fundamentalism’s antipathy toward science, as she grieves over surveys that show that nearly two-thirds of Americans want creationism to be taught along with evolution. Ms. Jacoby doesn’t leave liberals out of her analysis, mentioning the New Left’s attacks on universities in the 1960s, the decision to consign African-American and women’s studies to an “academic ghetto” instead of integrating them into the core curriculum, ponderous musings on rock music and pop culture courses on everything from sitcoms to fat that trivialize college-level learning. So, are teachers teaching or not? Are parents teaching or not? I think she is way overstating the drain realigion and science teachings puts on a persons learning ability. There are plenty of smart folks around the world that were taught both ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brownian Motion Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 Part of the problem is that our pop culture floods our minds with oceans of useless information. And we glory in it! http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=18930 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDK Posted February 15, 2008 Report Share Posted February 15, 2008 The video has been viewed 5 million times. It has to be seen to be believed. Is Europe a country? The question is "Budapest is the capital of what European country?", and here are some excerpts of what the American Idol participant has to say about it: "I thought Europe was a country!" "Budapest? I haven't even heard of that." "I know they speak French there. Don't they?" "Is France a country?" "Hungry? That's a country? I've heard of Turkey, but Hungry, never heard of it!" Well, that's hardly fair now, is it? They purposely pick contestants who are dumber than fifth graders. Plus, she's blonde. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILLYQ Posted February 16, 2008 Report Share Posted February 16, 2008 I saw that show and I was yelling at the TV, "You can't be THAT stupid!!!" It seems that she really is THAT stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoGrubb Posted February 16, 2008 Report Share Posted February 16, 2008 Part of the problem is that our pop culture floods our minds with oceans of useless information. And we glory in it! http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=18930 What do you expect one to do when one already knows everything else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 The Onion once said that by the year 2100, there would only be 5 intelligent people left in the United States. Not if we can secure our borders; we've gotta keep these pointy-headed intellectuals out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim McG Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 I think we blame Congress....or teachers....or both Parents have absolutely nothing to do with their own kids being dumb as dirt. Nope! Blame public education, that's my advice. Put everybody in private school. That'll solve the problem. Damn teachers suck. Oh, yeah. The system has failed us. Uh-huh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 I think Americans have always taken a perverse pride in ignorance, from the days of the "hick" colonists standing up to the British. The wisdom of the common man and all that, and a distrust of "book larnin'". It's unfortunate, but it's one of the things that makes us what we are. Idiots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosco Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Parents have absolutely nothing to do with their own kids being dumb as dirt. Nope! What if the parents are as dumb as dirt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 (edited) This is just like Pearl Harbor,” one of the men said. The other asked, “What is Pearl Harbor?” Oh no.. Pearl Harbor!! Reminds me of the Starbucks 'experience' I had in 2005. (Post #4) http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=21193 You mean that famous battle where King Harold was bombed on Senlac Hill by Zeros? Edited February 17, 2008 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 "I thought Europe was a country!" Could be prophetic. Give it 50 years... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim McG Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Parents have absolutely nothing to do with their own kids being dumb as dirt. Nope! What if the parents are as dumb as dirt? Good point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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