Galileo Died For Your Sins

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Galileo Died For Your Sins

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Baroo
August 22nd, 2007 - 16:43

It’s refreshing to know that they still grow morons in Europe, just like we do on this side of the pond.
Hellfire
August 22nd, 2007 - 16:46

Half of the studio audience was clearly fucking with the guy.

Damned frogs.
WayAbvPar
August 22nd, 2007 - 17:03

The mind. It boggles.

Please tell me that at least SOME of the 56% of the audience voted for the Sun just to fuck with this guy.
WayAbvPar
August 22nd, 2007 - 17:05

I see that Hellfire beat me to it. That is what I get for wandering off to read about Mia Rose before commenting.
Freakazoid
August 22nd, 2007 - 17:23

I can’t tell which is worse: That, or this?
Demolira
August 22nd, 2007 - 18:26

Now, what I’d like to see is what a US audience would say. I’d be surprised if it was any different.
Hellfire
August 22nd, 2007 - 18:46

After further consdieration, I KNOW I’d vote in a way sure to fuck with the guy.

Unless it’s to ME, idiots shouldn’t get free money.
NerfTW
August 22nd, 2007 - 18:58

The elephant one is fake, according to snopes.

If I was in the audience, I’d totally screw with him.
Lorna
August 22nd, 2007 - 20:27

huh. looks like France needs a little help with their 4th grade science teachers…
Merlyn
August 22nd, 2007 - 22:18

That’s just bad….

Don’t they teach science anymore??

Are we turning into a divided race between those in the know and those who know nothing?
GregC
August 23rd, 2007 - 03:08

My brother’s ex-wife was convinced the Moon was simply what the Sun looked like at night…

…

…

I had to show here the Sun AND the Moon in the sky at the same time and even then she was not completely convinced.

/sigh
Ironwood
August 23rd, 2007 - 03:56

A Wind Up Surely….

Jesus.

Still, if Sophie is looking for a hotter man who’s actually got a brain larger than a walnut….
Dragon
August 23rd, 2007 - 04:38

I remember watching the UK version once and the “fastest finger” question was to put the UK traffic light sequence in the correct order.

All of the contestants could drive.

None of them got it right.
Caya
August 23rd, 2007 - 06:03

Well, people say pretty stupid stuff under time pressure – I once saw a guy on a German quiz show, when asked a timed question about which candy bar was named after a Roman god, answer, “Snickers”. But the man in that video took his time and still got it wrong.
Regardless, I find it hard to believe that the audience wasn’t just fucking with him. I remember some survey from the nineties where they asked citizens of several EU nations about the sun/earth thing and the French polled pretty far down the list, some 20 per cent getting it wrong. But, more than half? That seems way too high.
Even so, never underestimate general stupidity. There was a solar eclipse visible here in the summer of 99, and a few days before it, I heard a radio show go and ask people on the street about what happened during a solar eclipse. Most had some rough grasp that it had something to do with the moon, but beyond that … ‘the sun goes between moon and earth’ came up several times. I *hoped* then that the radio station had only taken the worst of the interviews, as they usually did. Still, that came after weeks and weeks of information and pre-eclipse hype of all kinds, when you would have believed that most everyone had seen some diagram or animation, if only by chance.
Blackblade
August 23rd, 2007 - 08:10

Wow.. just.. Wow..

Galileo must be spinning in his grave… Actually, according to the audience, they likely believe the grave is spinning around Galileo.
DaveT
August 23rd, 2007 - 08:48

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

Congratulations Canada on legalizing staplers!
Congratulations Canada for finishing the tunnel to China!

Sooo……yea
tannenburg
August 23rd, 2007 - 09:52

The 42% of the audience which answered “the Moon” are obviously heretics and should recant before the Pope at Avignon decides that they should be excommunicated.
Dekyriel
August 23rd, 2007 - 10:34

“Stupidity” or “Ignorance” has nothing to do with the country you live in. When I read “looks like France needs help with 4th grade teacher”… Who ever told you this man ever went to school in the first place?

Most americans don’t even know where Iraq is, on a world map, after all.

Don’t be so quick to judge a whole country on a man’s ignorance.

I’m french and, btw, the public was fucking around with the guy tbh. ;P
yunk
August 23rd, 2007 - 10:45

It’s nice that europeans take tests and answer questions just as poorly as the US.

I think these types of things, or “are you smarter than a 4th grader”, is more about test taking, thinking under pressure, getting words mixed up, etc, than it is about what people actually know.
ajeba
August 23rd, 2007 - 11:02

Um yeah, I already knew this since my in-laws are French.
Gotta love those Mars Bars.
Scott (Not Lum)
August 23rd, 2007 - 12:08

HA HA HA HA…

Americans are so stupid!

Wait, what?
chabuhi
August 23rd, 2007 - 13:25

This is a joke, right? From College Humor or something?

Or, should I say, “Université de Rire”?
Oz
August 23rd, 2007 - 16:01

The wierd part is the question is so easy, but it’s obviously well along in the game. I’m not sure on the euro conversion, but he had 1500 euros already, so based on what I’ve seen on the American version (which I’ve watched all of three times), he’d be after a safe point of 5 or 10 questions, right? I know the first question is usually a gag one, but this one was a serious one? I think the money doubles each time, so this question was worth a few thousand dollars? Man, I need to be on these game shows.
Hellfire
August 23rd, 2007 - 16:12

That’s about 2000$ USD give or take.

That should be around like the 6th question or so if it scales up similar to the US version. From time to time we play that and Wheel of Fortune for shots in the local pub. By the time the questions actually get difficult the answers become…. hilarious.
Andy
August 24th, 2007 - 10:04

…I’ve seen people loose on the first question, just search around YouTube, people that will be immortalized forever online. I certainly understand how pressure could play a part in this game, but HELLO, more than half the audience thought it was the Sun as well?

Good way to start a Friday morning though.
Mandella
August 24th, 2007 - 11:15

Heh. People suddenly becoming idiots on games shows is nothing new:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_JIg9NB47M
Dekyriel
August 24th, 2007 - 16:30

FYI 1500 euros is the last step in the first tier of questions. The stupid questions. The funny questions to make people feel like “ahh I know that, I’m not that stupid, TV says!” before going into the more advanced “I’m a TV channel, don’t touch my money” ones.
andrew
August 27th, 2007 - 12:23

Caya TV total right? great program, the french girl looked like Reece weatherspoon or whatever her name is….i think no one can think clearly under those conditions, its easy for us to judge ……actually no it was piss easy stupid man, I would def put down the wrong answer just cause he asked the audience!
homerone200
August 31st, 2007 - 11:58

if the audience was actually really fucking with the guy, some of them probably would have answered with venus or mars.