I guess that proves where their heads are.

Wow.

translate please.

ummmm....

lemme check what freakin YEAR it is .....

1007 or 2007 ????

oh, in *FRANCE* its 1007, the rest of us are busy orbitting the SUN in 2007 (and the MOON aka 'la lune' is busy orbitting us) ....

un bloody believable in this day and age a man can be so idiotic. and the reason he picked 'B'? heres the clincher: THE MAJORITY OF THE AUDIENCE DID.

oyph. is there any hope.....

I'm not quite sure what happened there. My French is very, very poor.

Was the question: What is closest to the Earth?

And the audience and the contestant picked the Sun?

Okay, I clicked on Kate's H/T link, and it answered by question.

Bet I know where he, and most of the audience, stand on AGW.

Very sad.

Zoiks!! that was amazing. Wonder how long his wife is going to have a "headache" for now. I would be willing to cut the guy some slack for being nervous or whatever...but when half the audience is out to lunch.

Wonder if Dion got his education from the same place he got his citizenship?? That might explain a lot.

This topic is kind of silly, since I doubt that the physicists at CERN would enjoy being lumped in with this poor guy, so I'll respond silly in kind:

Thank god Youranus wasn't a choice!

(Pardon my spelling. Hey, stop hitting me ;-)

If I remember correctly, the French 'Millionaire' is one of those versions of the show where the audience tries to screw over the person in the hotseat, but I might not remember correctly.

...now if this question was asked in Toronto, I'd believe it. Everything revolves around TO.

If I remember correctly, the French 'Millionaire' is one of those versions of the show where the audience tries to screw over the person in the hotseat, but I might not remember correctly.

They all thought it was Venus?

...reminds me of old Star Trek show, where they discovered that the Klingon's circle around Uranus.

heh.

But surely, Ural, he would know that Venus is the 1985 hit song by the British girl group Bananarama - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananarama - which can be viewed at youtube.com/watch?v=MeVsOJ_rBWE (it occurs to me that this video might not be safe for work - viewer discretion is advised).

Vitruvius - So your theory is that they eliminated Venus because of that song. Hmmm. They may have eliminated the moon because of this (Norman Foote - Vancouver) youtube.com/watch?v=JM44WBjrMVo ... CAUTION - it's not for people that are easily alarmed.

That's brilliant, Ural. I bow to your selection, Sir. Thanks for the link.

I've got it, Ural, maybe he discounted the moon orbiting the earth because of his beautiful wife, that is to say, maybe he thought la lune had descended from orbit and hit his eye like a big pizza pie: youtube.com/watch?v=aS6-b7CONDI

For those who say that they didn't understand, the question was essentially "Which of these revolves around the Earth?" The choices were "A. The Moon", "B. The Sun", "C. Mars", and "D. Venus"

The host almost seems to be warning that the top response from the audience might not be the right one by stressing several times that the audience answer is "very divided"..at the end, he also tries to validate being taken in by the wrong answer.

Eugene...you are correct - int the European versions (at least France and Russia), the audience tries to screw over the contestant.

Maybe the show was taped in the France equivalent of Quebec and the contestant hailed from the France equivalent of Alberta...speaking of the audience screwing over the contestant!

"Around what country does the world revolve"?

"Around what province does Canada revolve"?

Simpler questions that could not have been missed.

Frenchy knows eyeware though eh.
Makes them all look like they know.

Did the audiences of France and Russia just naturally start screwing over the contestants on their shows ???

If so, I vote we don't go and get France back for them this time.

the question is 'Which body orbits the Earth?' and the choices are:
a. The Moon
b. The Sun
c. Mars
d. Venus
I don't know what's sadder - the contestant's obvious confusion or the 'help' he gets from the studio audience.

LOL I would have translated it as which has the most gravity,

Then he would have been right.
: )

I wouldn't be surprised if the audience did that in such a socialist crap-hole. "I'm not up there with a chance to win anything, so I'll be damned if I help that rich, arrogant, ignorant prick."

the answer would have been easy if the question was ,
Q:"which object orbits around toronto?"

A: "all of the above"

wonder how the EU are enjoying global warming this morning?

Mathematically, relative to the earth, the sun does revolve around us. It even follows a less wavy path than the moon. But the other planets follow some pretty crazy trajectories. Relative to the sun, its a lot easier to calculate the paths of the other heavenly objects.

If the universe is infinite, everything actually revolves around me ... if thats the reference point I choose

Don't you think a moonbat Frenchman would know the answer to "What body orbits around the earth?" would be THE MOON?

You just can't trust these guys to know ANYTHING...

The scary part in all of this is that if 56% of the audience picked he sun as the answer, then how do we expect them to understand more complicated issues like the debate about what is really causing the climate change....they are going believe whatever they hear, and with the MSM solidly behind the cause being human activity...well.

And I don't think the French general public are any more ignorant as a whole than the rest of the world....but I could be wrong.

LOL I would have translated it as which has the most gravity,

Then he would have been right.
: )
Posted by: DrWright at January 19, 2007 09:36 AM

I translated it (poorly mind you) that which planet has the same gravity as Earth. He still wouldve been wrong.

I need to brush up on my french, non?

Maybe they were trying to have more "Nuance" in their response to the question!

I loved kevvyd's comment over at blevkog:

I figure you could hook a turbine up to Galileo and Copernicus and probably at least power the show.

Question - do you think the audience were just half bastards, or were they actually retarded?

The most interesting thing about this (aside from the abysmal ignorance it demonstrates) is that ones first gut feeling is usually right. (D'Amaseo's theory of somatic markers). I was half watching the video and eating my lunch and the moon was the first thing that popped into my head. Then I decided to carefully read the question and translated it as "which object has a gravity closest to that of earth" in which case the answer would be venus. My excuse is that I moved out to BC 30 years ago and haven't had any need to speak or read French that whole time. I'm just curious what the contestants excuse is.

johnn

very true with big bang theory , it goes like this.

I am you, and you are me and we are altogether.
see how we fly like pigs from the singularity.

Gormless contestants aren't restricted to France by any means. I've seen the other national versions of this show and I'm constantly amazed that people are "stumped" by the most elementary questions.

Here's a British contestant on "The Weakest Link":

Anne Robinson: "The cedar tree appears on the flag of which Middle Eastern country with a coastline on the Mediterranean?"

Contestant: "Canada."

Incidentally Kate, I find the increased French-bashing in this blog rather unbecoming and discouraging.

Indeed, I'm surprised "maryT" hasn't shown up for a rant yet.

Eugene...you are correct - int the European versions (at least France and Russia), the audience tries to screw over the contestant.

That means over 40% thought they were screwing the contestant by choosing "moon".

God that was funny.

Thanks Kate!

do you people not get this....

The universe really does rotate around French people. We are the centre of the universe and all the rest of you do not matter. Learn to live with this FACT.