http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1773116

12/11/2007 9:45:36 AM

my god, what the fuck

12/11/2007 9:48:23 AM

actually, it should be l'idiot

12/11/2007 9:49:27 AM

I can't believe that was the 1500 Euro question. I would think that would be like the first question asked.

What was even more idiotic was the audience.

12/11/2007 9:54:51 AM

^^ Yeah, I realized the vowel thing after I posted so it was too late to change it.

It's ok though, French is a dead language.

[Edited on December 11, 2007 at 9:55 AM. Reason : -]

12/11/2007 9:55:01 AM

on est toujours le con de quelqu'un

[Edited on December 11, 2007 at 9:58 AM. Reason : ^elision]

12/11/2007 9:56:22 AM

what was the question/answer? the video doesn't want to load up at work for some reason

12/11/2007 9:59:34 AM

^^^ hah, yeah, i'm just being an ass

[Edited on December 11, 2007 at 9:59 AM. Reason : .]

12/11/2007 9:59:48 AM

Quote :

"what was the question/answer? the video doesn't want to load up at work for some reason"

what revolves around the earth?

a) moon
b) sun
c) mars
d) venus

the guy wasn't sure so he polled the audience, and got 56% for the sun and 44% for the moon

12/11/2007 10:08:22 AM

I thought Europeans were fairly intelligent..?

12/11/2007 10:10:13 AM

OH

MY

GOSH

WHAT AN IDIOT (THE WHOLE LOT OF 'EM)

12/11/2007 10:13:21 AM

They're not European... they're French.

12/11/2007 10:36:59 AM

lol.. I see.

12/11/2007 10:38:47 AM

[old]

but still funny

12/11/2007 10:41:40 AM

Either the French are too stupid to know that the Sun doesn't spin around the Earth, or they're just bastards who will vote 56% incorrectly to try and make this guy get it wrong... and now that I've finished the video, it does seem like the question of what rotates around the earth is a pretty ambiguous question in France...
either way.... they're the French.


I was impressed with the announcer (who obviously was one of the few people in the room who knew it was the correct answer) to not just start laughing when the audience response came up. He maintained a professional attitude... I'm even more surprised that only one or two people in the audience coughed or laughed when he picked the Sun as his answer...

[Edited on December 11, 2007 at 10:49 AM. Reason : wow, wtf, French people]

12/11/2007 10:44:02 AM

what a stupid audience

12/11/2007 10:44:07 AM

always comes back to this lady




and this guy



[Edited on December 11, 2007 at 10:48 AM. Reason : x]

12/11/2007 10:48:15 AM

i hate the french.

12/11/2007 10:48:53 AM

oh god

Copernicus' grave must be spinning around him

12/11/2007 10:52:05 AM

^^ lol, IM MOVING TO CANADA BITCHES!

[Edited on December 11, 2007 at 10:52 AM. Reason : -]

12/11/2007 10:52:24 AM

Well, actually, the elephant vs moon size question is designed to be misleading if you're not really paying attention. People typically don't think of celestial bodies as objects with a certain size, while an elephant is something that is tangibly large to the average person.... I'm sure she'd have gotten it if she had read the answers a bit more closely. Also, stick and straw are similar, and its not hard to blank on a question about cliched phrases...


But this guy and apparently 56% of French people (if this is an accurate statistic to the general French population) aren't sure of something that Galileo realized way the hell back when he was still alive... that's just sad on a scale that can hardly begin to be measured.

12/11/2007 10:53:16 AM

don't see how the moon vs elephant question is misleading...unless you're perception of the moon is that its the actual size you see it when you see it in the sky

12/11/2007 10:55:16 AM

Like I said, if you're not really paying attention (mentality: oh, these are the <$1000 questions, I don't even need to read them), it can trick you. Obviously if you were to think about each response, you'd get it, but if you were to glance at the question or half-heartedly listen to it (basically, you missed the part about C: The Moon), Elephant would present itself as a good answer.

12/11/2007 10:58:31 AM

Maybe your right, but it seems like a question only a retarded person would get wrong.

12/11/2007 11:00:02 AM

Its like taking a test in middle school or something that you know is going to be absurdly easy, and you read the question and once you get to a response that is something very large, you just mark that and move on... that seems like what she did in that question. Her thoughts: "What's the biggest thing? This won't be hard.... nope, that's a small thing. ...Oh, elephant. Yeah, that's gotta be biggest. [/attention to question]" Host: "Answer?" Her: "B - elephant"

12/11/2007 11:04:00 AM

stop trying to stick up for your girlfriend

12/11/2007 11:07:09 AM

I'm just trying to make this more embarrassing for the French by contrast.

12/11/2007 11:08:38 AM

Fuck, I will go on that show not being able to speak french and probably get farther than that guy.

12/11/2007 12:22:14 PM

Quote :

"I can't believe that was the 1500 Euro question. I would think that would be like the first question asked."

it was at least the next question after 1500 euro because he ended up with 1500

12/11/2007 12:24:09 PM