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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:32 am
One contestant on today's show is a young beautiful American woman. I was pulling for her. As it happens she is also has Southeast Asian roots. And then she got a Southeast Asia geography question and it doesn't go well. Sort of like me getting a question on Scotland and muffing it.
Oh and you get a see another contestant walking with $2K
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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OhTheHumanity
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by OhTheHumanity » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:43 am
It looks like I'm about to make a crash landing in the studio!
Look out below!
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kusch
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by kusch » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:55 am
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:One contestant on today's show is a young beautiful American woman. I was pulling for her. As it happens she is also has Southeast Asian roots. And then she got a Southeast Asia geography question and it doesn't go well. Sort of like me getting a question on Scotland and muffing it.
Oh and you get a see another contestant walking with $2K
I usually (98%) have no problem with a contestant missing an easy question either because they do not know or hotseatitis or whatever (muffing), it happens.
2nd spoiler--that is just plain wrong.
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kayrharris
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by kayrharris » Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:35 am
The geo question was easily googled. I put in "landlocked Southeast Asian country" and the answer was on the first hit. PAF's either need maps or computers. Looks like it wouldn't hurt for future potential contestants to brush up on their geography either!
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. "
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gsabc
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by gsabc » Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:50 am
kayrharris wrote:The geo question was easily googled. I put in "landlocked Southeast Asian country" and the answer was on the first hit. PAF's either need maps or computers. Looks like it wouldn't hurt for future potential contestants to brush up on their geography either!
This is a question from the Capcom game on my phone. Nice to know I'm studying while playing it.
I just ordered chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.
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tanstaafl2
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by tanstaafl2 » Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:41 am
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:One contestant on today's show is a young beautiful American woman. I was pulling for her. As it happens she is also has Southeast Asian roots. And then she got a Southeast Asia geography question and it doesn't go well. Sort of like me getting a question on Scotland and muffing it.
Depending on how far removed she is from her Asian roots it isn't that surprising. The more "American" you become, the more of a geo nit-wit you become or so it seems. Youth, unless one is a Geography Bee nerd, tends to correspond to geo nit-witism as well. So "young" and "American", regardless of how attractive she may be, didn't bode well for her chances...
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:
Oh and you get a see another contestant walking with $2K
No, fortunately I don't...
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
~Mark Twain
Some people are like a Slinky. They are not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs...
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Appa23
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by Appa23 » Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:25 am
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:One contestant on today's show is a young beautiful American woman. I was pulling for her. As it happens she is also has Southeast Asian roots. And then she got a Southeast Asia geography question and it doesn't go well. Sort of like me getting a question on Scotland and muffing it.
I'm curious. Did she say that she had Southeast Asia heritage, but not state an ethnicity/nationality?
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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:57 am
Appa23 wrote:
I'm curious. Did she say that she had Southeast Asia heritage, but not state an ethnicity/nationality?
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I don't listen to the chatter that close, she is obviously Asian in her features and her last name was Nguyen. She is as American as me.
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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gotribego26
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by gotribego26 » Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:50 pm
gsabc wrote:kayrharris wrote:The geo question was easily googled. I put in "landlocked Southeast Asian country" and the answer was on the first hit. PAF's either need maps or computers. Looks like it wouldn't hurt for future potential contestants to brush up on their geography either!
This is a question from the Capcom game on my phone. Nice to know I'm studying while playing it.
Or you can be a fan of Hank Hill
Hank: (meeting Khan) So are you Chinese or Japanese?
Khan: No, we are Laotian.
Bill: The ocean? What ocean?
Khan: From Laos, stupid! It's a landlocked country in South East Asia between Vietnam and Thailand, population approximately 4.7 million!
Hank: (after a few seconds of silence) So are you Chinese or Japanese?
Kahn: D'oh
