by Cabra West » Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:57 am
by Meowfoundland » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:16 am
by Big Jim P » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:20 am
by Insane Kidney Mentality » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:23 am
by Big Jim P » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:24 am
Insane Kidney Mentality wrote:I shit you not, there are some people within my school system who question whether other people are either from China or Asia.
My heart drops a little each time at the stunning ideology that China and Asia are two seperate continents.
by Ethel mermania » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:28 am
Insane Kidney Mentality wrote:I shit you not, there are some people within my school system who question whether other people are either from China or Asia.
My heart drops a little each time at the stunning ideology that China and Asia are two seperate continents.
by Big Jim P » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:31 am
Ethel mermania wrote:Insane Kidney Mentality wrote:I shit you not, there are some people within my school system who question whether other people are either from China or Asia.
My heart drops a little each time at the stunning ideology that China and Asia are two seperate continents.
it would make the vietnamese happy.
that human beings are mammals.
by Rubiconic Crossings V2 rev 1f » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:31 am
by Araraukar » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:32 am
Apologies for absences, non-COVID health issues leave me with very little energy at times.Giovenith wrote:And sorry hun, if you were looking for a forum site where nobody argued, you've come to wrong one.
by Cetacea » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:34 am
by Ethel mermania » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:35 am
by Meowfoundland » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:35 am
by Cabra West » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:36 am
Duvniask wrote:I have encountered people who didn't know what or where the Equator was. That's just sad.
by Insane Kidney Mentality » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:36 am
by Duvniask » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:41 am
Cabra West wrote:Duvniask wrote:I have encountered people who didn't know what or where the Equator was. That's just sad.
Heh, that reminds me, during the last football world cup, we had an office bet that went as follows:
The participating countries were written on little strips of paper (luckily, that near enough matched the number of people in the office).
Every participant paid €5, and was allowed to draw one country from a hat. If that country won, they got the total takings.
My (then) manager pulled her slip of paper from the hat, read it and shouted: "Horrendous? Where in earth is Horrendous?"
Turned out to be Honduras, but she still had never heard of it and had no idea where it was...
by Ethel mermania » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:43 am
by Perlia » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:43 am
I would consider this common knowledge and expect further that people knew it wasn't a well-formulated question.Cabra West wrote:Now, on this particular episode, one question was "Excluding the x and y chromosomes, how many pairs of chromosomes does a human cell have?"
I shouted the answer at the screen and he looks at me in disbelief, asking "How do you know that?"
So I told him, 10th grade biology, and I thought everyone knew that. I would have considered it common knowledge.
Wait, what?! Seriously?So yesterday, hubby comes home and tells me he's asked all his colleagues at work (an IT company), and not one knew the answer. Two or three actually asked him what a chromosome was, exactly.
Have you ever come across situations where you assumed everybody knew something and found they didn't?
by Laerod » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:47 am
Cabra West wrote:Duvniask wrote:I have encountered people who didn't know what or where the Equator was. That's just sad.
Heh, that reminds me, during the last football world cup, we had an office bet that went as follows:
The participating countries were written on little strips of paper (luckily, that near enough matched the number of people in the office).
Every participant paid €5, and was allowed to draw one country from a hat. If that country won, they got the total takings.
My (then) manager pulled her slip of paper from the hat, read it and shouted: "Horrendous? Where in earth is Horrendous?"
Turned out to be Honduras, but she still had never heard of it and had no idea where it was...
by Blouman Empire » Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:50 am
Meowfoundland wrote:I'm Australian. The capital city of Australia is Canberra. The amount of people I've encountered who thought it was "A.C.T." is beyond belief.
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