The Idiots Are Winning: TV Host Doesn't Know if World Is Round or Flat

Ow, this hurts. I don't watch much (any) daytime TV, but this clip has been popping up all over the place. It hurts to know that people are watching this junk.

Please tell me that this woman is not representative. Please tell me this is a fluke.

Amazing. And Whoopi saying the world is round has anything to do with the theory of evolution.

I thought you liked the flat-earthers. :inquisitive:

I love flat earthers. I want one of my very own to love and pet and dress up like a pony. I think a flat earther would make a great addition to our motley crew of nutballs.

But when you've got a TV host who's watched by millions of bored at-home elderly and such talking about how the world might be flat ... I dunno. That's not-so-good.

Whatever happened to our Royalist? I haven't heard from him in a while.

How can the Earth be flat if inflation is such a problem? Tell me that! :yes:

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Originally Posted by Lemur

I love flat earthers. I want one of my very own to love and pet and dress up like a pony. I think a flat earther would make a great addition to our motley crew of nutballs.

But when you've got a TV host who's watched by millions of bored at-home elderly and such talking about how the world might be flat ... I dunno. That's not-so-good.

Whatever happened to our Royalist? I haven't heard from him in a while.

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Oh come on Lemur, no one watches the View. The only reason it exists is for the creation of jaw-droppingly stupid Youtube clips- a task it is very good at. :yes:

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Originally Posted by Lemur

I love flat earthers. I want one of my very own to love and pet and dress up like a pony. I think a flat earther would make a great addition to our motley crew of nutballs.

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You are seeking to add a pet idiot to your retinue?

Surely they need to be educated to become a flat-earther and one that is devout and dogmatic in their belief before they become a backroomer... so this is helping in the evolution er creation er training of one.

Then we can go get an alchemist!

Surely someone can get this woman a globe! Is the world flat?!?!:furious3:

:freak: Did she say she had a kid!?:freak: There needs to be some sort of common sense test people have to pass before they allowed to :knuddel:.

Question 1.Is the world flat?
A Yes
B NO
C I don't know, I never really thought about it
D Gah!!!

Is the Earth Round though?

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Question 1.Is the world flat?
A No
B No
C No
D Learning is for jerks

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:no:

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Question 1.Is the world flat?
A Yes
B NO
C I leik PIE.
D lol wut?

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There we go.

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Originally Posted by Lemur

Ow, this hurts. I don't watch much (any) daytime TV, but this clip has been popping up all over the place. It hurts to know that people are watching this junk.

Please tell me that this woman is not representative. Please tell me this is a fluke.

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Got through 90 seconds or so. Started feeling sorry for Babs. Quit the whole thing as a waste of neurons.

Did she really not know the earth was flat or did her nervous mind go blank?

I agree with blondie, at least she thinks about her kids.

I mean seriously, whether the world is round or flat doesn't really affect the life of a TV show host. Ok, you'd expect her to know it's flat like we all do, but she isn't necessarily a bad mum even if she thinks it's round, ok?

Oh the earth is round alright in a flat way if you want. Everyone knows Midgard is circular and floats in the migthy sea. How else could the Midgard serpent circumvent Midgard biting his tail? Come on people use logic.

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Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane

Oh the earth is round alright in a flat way if you want. Everyone knows Midgard is circular and floats in the migthy sea. How else could the Midgard serpent circumvent Midgard biting his tail? Come on people use logic.

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I would say that those on that panel of the linked-to video in the OP who believed the Earth was not flat were of equally-questionable and/or lesser intelligence than the flat Earth person; seeing as they were all trying to propagate evolution as fact. Accordingly, I agree with the first half of this thread title.

20 seconds before the end she said 'internets'. This warrants these people, in my view, as being idiots.

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Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane

Oh the earth is round alright in a flat way if you want. Everyone knows Midgard is circular and floats in the migthy sea. How else could the Midgard serpent circumvent Midgard biting his tail? Come on people use logic.

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http://www.thepaincomics.com/Science%20vs.%20Norse.jpg :yes:

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Originally Posted by Navaros

I would say that those on that panel of the linked-to video in the OP who believed the Earth was not flat were of equally-questionable and/or lesser intelligence than the flat Earth person; seeing as they were all trying to propagate evolution as fact.

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Are you claiming that evolution is not a fact? If so, perhaps you should be a little more careful when choosing who you call "idiot"... it could backfire, you know. :inquisitive:

Edit: Just to keep things clear, I do not mean that you're an idiot. Please don't take my post that way. :sweatdrop:

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Originally Posted by The Vicious Monkey

Are you claiming that evolution is not a fact?

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Well, I'd claim so anyway, it's not called a theory because it's a fact, it's called a theory because it's a theory. Might be a very good and accepted one, but that still doesn't make it a fact.:inquisitive:

You know, in the middle ages, a very good and widely accepted theory was that the world was flat, that didn't make it true, did it?

Vicious Monkey, let's talk simian to prosimian: Navaros is our local Biblical literalist and (naturally) creationist. I think there's another creationist posting, but I can't remember his handle.

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Originally Posted by Lemur

I think there's another creationist posting, but I can't remember his handle.

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Husar?
I haven't given in to the dark side yet in that regard, though I'm more of the opinion that it might be a mix of both meaning God created evolution. That probably puts me in the idiot field for both creationists and evolutionists but then at least I know I'm special.:clown:

Back in the days before TiVo, 200 channels on cable, a large backlog of DVDs, and MTW, I needed to be coughing up blood before taking a sick day from work. There was nothing worse than being couch-ridden and being subjected to daytime television. I tore up my knee once, and was back at work after one day home. Hurt like crazy, but it was better than being stuck with that crap.

It scares me to think of what happens to people who watch that stuff every day.

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Originally Posted by Husar

Husar?
I haven't given in to the dark side yet in that regard, though I'm more of the opinion that it might be a mix of both meaning God created evolution. That probably puts me in the idiot field for both creationists and evolutionists but then at least I know I'm special.:clown:

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Probably, but you're not alone. :yes:

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Originally Posted by Husar

Well, I'd claim so anyway, it's not called a theory because it's a fact, it's called a theory because it's a theory. Might be a very good and accepted one, but that still doesn't make it a fact.:inquisitive:

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Uh.... You've misunderstood the word "theory". In a scientific sense, it does mean "fact"... Just facts that you can disprove, unlike blind faith...

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Originally Posted by drone

It scares me to think of what happens to people who watch that stuff every day.

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well...after you see that crap for about 3 months your IQ lowers enough that you are eligible to present the program yourself! :laugh4:

and then you too might produce such pearls of wisdom as the earth being flat and all.

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Originally Posted by HoreTore

Uh.... You've misunderstood the word "theory". In a scientific sense, it does mean "fact"... Just facts that you can disprove, unlike blind faith...

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Exactly. Theory is something that has been proven to the best of our abilities, a hypothesis is something we're still uncertain of. At least, that's what theory means in the context of evolution.