Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Amazon upfront news stories Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 23:12:48 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 64 Message-ID: <20240518231248.0000285c@example.com> References: <20240517223211.00007ee5@example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 05:12:50 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="54894816e6ad9a455617a38f0cf232ab"; logging-data="3342182"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19faDBBhDsn6LOg16xPoVijq9S1L9HIpDQ=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:n627a75QxrQenhkL+v57A8MmMqk= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.41; x86_64-w64-mingw32) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240518-8, 5/18/2024), Outbound message Bytes: 4110 On Sat, 18 May 2024 16:19:09 -0700 The Horny Goat wrote: > On Fri, 17 May 2024 22:32:11 -0400, Rhino > wrote: > > >Sounds about right. Just watch winners on the new show trying to > >pretend that they are as intelligent as Ken Jennings or whoever just > >because they know celebrity culture but be unable to tell you what > >century WWII was fought in.... > > Ha ha ha - I've had people tell me I should try out for Jeopardy (I > did extremely well in the old Reach For the Top high school show more > years ago than I care to admit) and DID take the online Jeopardy > screening test - I gather I answered nearly all questions right but > fell back on the US history questions though got a fair number of > those right as well but not enough to get the second screening. > > At least I didn't make any egregious blunders like naming William > Jennings Bryan as Woodrow Wilson's running mate! (which was one of the > options on the multiple choice test). I happened to get that one right > mostly by eliminating 2 of the 4 choices and correctly on the > last two options. Somebody named Marshall who I'd never heard of who > was NOT the Supreme Court justice by that name... Three or four years ago, I saw a video where a woman did man-in-the- street type questions of university students in Pennsylvania. She was a Holocaust educator and asked them very basic questions about WWII. The answers she got were gut-wrenchingly appalling. Here's some examples: Q: When was World War II? A. (Long pause). I'm not sure. I want to say three centuries ago.... Q: Who was Hitler? A. Uhhh. The President of Amsterdam? Q:. Who was Winston Churchill? A. Uhhh. An American general? [That's the only one they got partially right since Churchill's mother was American and he had briefly served as a brigadier general in WW I after falling on his sword over the Gallipoli fiasco. But of course they missed the key fact that he was the British Prime Minister for most of the war.] Q: Can you name any of the concentration camps created by the Nazis? A: No. There were a bunch more, all of which were just as poorly answered. None of this, by the way, is meant to disparage Americans in particular. I've heard similar things about Brits and Canadians. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when David Menzies of Rebel News walked around the Ryerson campus in Toronto and asked female students there to sign a petition to repeal women's suffrage. Lots of students signed happily, apparently under the illusion that the petition wanted to end women's SUFFERING, as opposed to taking away their right to vote. They didn't realize that the words had very different meanings. NONE of the people I've mentioned in this post could ever hope to qualify for Jeopardy and you can take that to the bank! -- Rhino