We are out of the Dark Ages, aren’t we? Sometimes I can’t tell when I see this magnitude of fail.
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Wow… just wow…
Besides didn’t you know that the aussies have to handstand everywhere?
I’m from Australia and didn’t you know we walk on our hands
Im from australia too and you dont walk on your roof??
WIN
Does anyone else not see the ultimate fail here? The smartest person in their circle learned to spell from hukd on fonix and it reely fukd him up…..
I noticed that too, it made me sad.
Maybe he’s dyslexic. OR, has some other reason, which makes him crap at spelling.
Or maybe he’s just American.
Yanks come up quite a lot in these types of fails. Why is that? Thank you failbook, for proving what we’ve been saying down here on planet Earth ever since Reagan made President.
You really think that post was written by Americans? You make me sad, sir.
And you don’t “make” the presidential office, nitwit, you get elected by the electoral college.
Aeroplane= not American, tard.
there is more stupid american fails because we have the greatest concentration of computers. so more total Americans online = more american fails.
They’re clearly not American. Jessica uses British spellings. Little’s spelling seems to be Scottish. So… what were you saying?
Oh snap. Boba Fett thinks you’re entitled to as much chocolate pudding at 4 in the morning as you WANT after that win!
Wow. FAIL! To insinuate that all Americans are as ignorant as this one, is just showing how ignorant you are. How would you like it if we said everyone in Europe is just like the Spice Girls?
You’re insinuating that we’re NOT?
A lot? Really? Out of the hundreds of submissions on this site, how many state what country the users are from?
The spelling, while atrocious, is the least of these window-lickers’ problems. This is an example of taking a minor fail and turning it into a colossal orgy of fail by simply not shutting the eff up.
And spelling mistakes aren’t an American-only phenomenon, Grammar Nazi. I once had a boss from Manchester whose writing looked like it had come from a Mexican special needs exchange student. Plus I cite engrishfunny.com for ample examples of non-American English mistakes.
*This spelling and grammar error-free posting was brought to you in part by the American school system.
there is no smart person here
And this is who is going to run the country when I’m old. *sigh*
Between her and the Moon girl…I think I’m going back to Trinidad
Us American youth are not all stupid like this. I promise
Personally, I blame the rap music. And the reality TV. And the MTV.
Me too. Oh wait…
I’m back! Really, taking the identity of Justin Bieber is hard.
SILENCE! I SHALL ZAP YOU WITH MA THUNDERBOLTS!
PEWPEWPEW
I told you already, God, those are mine, not yours.
Actually you’re using Lightening Bolts Zeus I know I wrote it down that way
Your writing is hackneyed at best.
Says the person that cannot end a play without 70% of the characters dieing.
Donkey!
Says the person who can’t even spell “dying”…
Oh snap!
sMITE YOU facde wITH CAMERALA :O
Says the s**t that talks .. oh wait thats me
Who are you and will you be my friend? Please?????
Hackneyed is a later term than Shakespeare.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=hackneyed&searchmode=none
I knew before looking it up, because there were no Hackney carriages in his time. You used to have to go to Hackney Marshes to get a cheap horse to drudge until it died and then you just got another one, so the Horses were called Hackneys or Hacks. There writing term came later for doing repetitive unoriginal work, like those Horses used to.
Anyway, fail.
Hey Grammar Nazi, in English we only capitalize proper nouns, this isn’t Germany. So your “Horses” makes no sense. Also, it’s “their” not “there.”
Grammar Nazi, ultra mega-fail
Except his post is dated August 20, 2010 – you know, now-ish. Or do we not get to use present-day English to describe historical items which may predate said English?
Talking about the stone age is gonna be really tough if so…
or maybe just a FAIL on your part?
… and you meant “newer term” not “later term”, term being a noun in that context. I would also have accepted “latter-day term”
dad! you are embarrassing me!
Oh, shuddup Thor.
This was certainly magical…
Thor’s the Norse god of thunder. No relation to the Greek god of the sky. I would know.
Your words hurt, son. They hurt…
your bolts are no match against my spagetti shield!
Ok, Who’s the wise guy here who had wood?
but the rap music, reality TV, and MTV wouldn’t exist if the producers weren’t making money off ov them. the producers wouldn’t make money off ov them if people didn’t want to hear/see them. so, ultimately, there’s noöne to truly blame but the american consumer. as a nation, we’ve decided we Like beïng ignorant.
now let’s see if the ignorant people actually understand this
I see what you did there.
Aeroplane = British. Airplane= American. These are Brits.
good point. are things much different in engladn, though? my understanding is that the US and the UK are pretty similar these days, especially in terms ov entertainment and pop culture.
@Matt
It helps if proper grammar is used. “We American youths are not all…”
Bam.
Us = United States.
You Fail.
you fail read it using united states instead of us
Us ≠ US.
you all fail for thinking an american wrote that.
Uh, isn’t this someone from England? Despite all of the typos, we do not spell airplane as “aeroplane” in America.
She also spells it “plain”. I wouldn’t attempt to judge anything by her spelling.
Not necessarily… If the person just thought “aeroplane” sounded more interesting, they could use it all they like.
That’s like saying Americans don’t use “automobile” or “dirigible”, or spell “color” as “colour”. It’s personal preference, not strictly a cultural thing.
This is me. Giving you a hearty “thumbs up”
we can call it anything we want. we beat the brits’ organized military with a bunch of farmers. we kept ‘em out again in the war of 1812. we saved their tails from germany…TWICE, therefore, english might not be legal if it weren’t for america, because everyone would be speaking german
Durr I draw fallacious conclusions from my nationalistic assumptions about a history that never happened hurr.
Wheres my big red button… someones testicles need a good scorching.
(I sure do wish I could press a button and rain pain down on certain Idiots on a whim)
I do believe that’s: Mrs. Washington: 1, Nazi’s: -2.
Geez… there were some wonderfully intelligent rebuttals to Grammar Nazi’s hateful stereotyping diatribe, and you had to put in something like this? Do you realize you are the type of person that other countries mock?
Australian’s call car tyres ‘tyres’, silly.
… I think I need to sleep. Please take out the apostrophe.
Hey Nazi boy!!!
Can I shove an American English Dictionary, up that pompous ass of your’s, pleaaaaase????
Yeah, ’cause “aer” and “air” mean totally different things. *derp*
Hmmm. The other posters have already smacked down most of the stupidity in Grammar Nazi’s post.
I guess all that’s left more me to do is ask – are you going to ban most of Scotland and parts of northern England from calling it “English” too? They’re less intelligible and use more local dialect and non-standard conjugation than I do.
And really? You find the occasional use of “staff” in place of “pole” or “mast” nonsensical or confusing? I’d suggest you invest in a dictionary. One of the ones that lists ALL the definitions for the words it includes would be preferable.
You’re only showing your ignorance if you think that Canadians and Antipodeans don’t make such “mistakes.” Their use of English has evolved independently of Britain’s as well. This is probably especially true of Canada, with its large Francophone population and its (historically) somewhat less racist immigration policy (compared to Australia, at least (not that I’m passing judgement or anything)).
Tire and tyre sound the same and mean the same thing, and both spellings make phonetic sense. Anybody (well, any literate person) from the 18th century could tell you there’s more than one way to spell a word. What’s your point? BTW, according to my dictionary, “tire” was the common usage in the 17th and 18th centuries, but switched back to “tyre” in the 19th. 200 years is a long time to make a “mistake”.
You’re right about the French thing, though. Every time I see a town, county, street, or building named after one of the powerful French families who were among the early settlers of what’s now my state, I start sweating uncontrollably and breaking out in hives. It’s pretty darn inconvenient, I’ve gotta say.
Cross-cultural Tolerance and Understanding – Fail
Understanding Linguistics – Fail
Doing Your Research – Fail
Baseless British Arrogance – WIN!
You are a sad, angry little man. As well as misinformed.
or realize as “realise”
No, no they are that stupid. Because their parents were stupid. And stupidity is passed down through generations.
There is no hope for America let alone the world… :c
I hate to tell you this, but there are stupid people throughout the world. It is not just America, nor even mostly America.
@ Failuristic: No, stupidity isn’t hereditary. What happened was that around 1970, the American government got involved in the state school systems and decided that even those who are incapable of learning, for whatever reason. should graduate from high school. They stopped teaching students how to think and started teaching them how to take a test. And they’re still doing that today. My children didn’t know how to spell when they graduated from high school; my grandchildren can’t find the United States on a world map, and (shudder) they vote Republican in SPITE of the Republicans currently being represented by Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. They don’t vote for a person, they vote for a party! How ignorant is THAT? And it’s my own grandkids doing this! They post their most private information on Facebook, they have babies out of wedlock, they can’t hold a job, and they can’t read a book if it’s not written in lolspeak or twitterese. It’s a good thing the Mayans declared that the world will end in 2012, because I have no idea what the world will be worth when America and its allies can’t speak, read, or write English of any sort!
@ Failuristic: I changed my mind. Maybe stupidity IS hereditary. It’s ignorance that is engendered by the present American school system and its nanny government.
it’s sad, isnt it? i hate how all of the youth are as dumb as a twig. it makes me feel like i’m one of few smart people in the world
now you know ho i feel
oops, i meant how
Don’t worry, you’re not.
How do you guys even know this is from an American kid? Other countries do equally stupid things as well.
http://failbook.com/2010/08/20/funny-facebook-fails-some-fails-are-international/#comments
The most recent failbook that is definitely not from America.
Actually. The guy who posted that is from Alaska which he thought was part of Russia.
i have lost faith in humanity
this just made my day
our days. o/
You lookin’ for Kyle?
XD
Humanity FAIL!
Which leads us back to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
Those dudes and dudetes in the video are still embarasingly stupid, bro.
Thank you, I was thinking as I was reading it ‘At least they can’t blame this on Americans. It’s an airplane to us!’
I think the most likely reason for the spelling of “aeroplane” is because they didn’t know how to spell it and so looked it up on the net, and used the first spelling they found.
Must be American
Right, MUST be, because that is far more likely than it being someone from the UK?
And this is why the human race will never reach other solar systems.
No, the reason we will never reach other solar systems is because they are so far away…
Smart one, Ein.
You’re all wrong
We can most likely reach other solar systems, its just that we wont have the right people to interact with other life forms as due to budget cuts.
Well if you are aware of some magical unknown method for travelling 10 light years in a reasonable amount of time you might want let the folks at JPL know.
The closest star is 4 light years away.
You will never reach other solar systems bcoz there are none.. read th Holy Scriptures and stop trying to explore anything out there.
He was talking about solar systems, not the closest star.
stars and planets are something entirely different. especially one functioning in a solar system. it requires something like or similar to a sun.
and even then we don’t have the technology yet. Unless we find people willing to live and breed on a spaceship and train their progeny to reach a new solar system. oh and then they can’t communicate or have any means of maintaining a food suply.
Nearest planet is 10. By “solar system” I would assume they meant a planetary system.
Planet *outside* of our solar system that is. HURRR!
Maybe we can convene a date with other life forms in a middle point, 5 light years each.
Use the hyperspace!
What? So the penguins are gonna fall down!? NOOOOOOO!!! save the penguins!
Did she say she just found about the Earth being round?
*doublefacepalm* (repeat till it bleeds)
yes she did…
i call your doublefacepalm and raise it with a *trippleheaddesk*
I’ll see your tripleheaddesk and just go jump off a cliff…
My facepalm just facepalmed!
What is with all these recent fails involving people that don’t have a basic common sense understanding of science. The earth being round is taught in both history and science from a very early age and should be obvious if you have ever seen a picture of a planet.
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exactly how i feel right now
I second that. I feel like I lost some brain cells reading their stupidity.
WIN!
I guess i should be happy that she didn’t ask why althoght the sun sinks into the earth each night it’s so cold so cold!
Oh great. The ASCII face-palm failed *face-palm*
*pats shoulder* its ok, there is enough Fail in the post…you are fogiven (hugs)
The true fail here everyone’s spelling.
IS seems to be missing… but yeah, I agree.
WTF ???!!!! OH YEAH ! IM THE FIRST !!!!!!!!!!! . ITS MY FIRST TIME TO BE THE FIRST !
Hummm are you ok?
But definitely not your first time being wrong.
win!
Is this for real?
And, is english their native language?
Infinite fail.
I can see it fine
Oh My God! I thought people from that period died young, but this one person was just selfish with the secret to immortality. I’m trying to convince my self that no from this day and age can be that ignorant. Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been proved wrong.
I think this is a repost.
But lawlz, nonetheless.
por dios…como pueden ser tan estupidos ustedes yankis?
They’re not American, my friend. The spelling indicates they are from the UK. (not that I’m not frequently embarrassed by my countrymen’s profound ignorance).
Hate the confrontational tone, but…. ignorant generalization fail.
(sorry).
Dude, English please…
i’m mexican too, but i still speak english to make it easier for everyone
(Yes, people, Ur Mom is mexican)
Translation: “By God… How can you be so stupid you Yankees?”
Can we have these as part of a “Weep for the Future” Friday series?
Why limit it to Friday? Every day in the week is a Weep For The Future day here at Failbook.
*breaks out the tissues*
Let the weeping begin.
epic facepalm -.-
f**king tards it makes me embarressed that they exist
“Do you come from the land down under?”
Where women roar and men chunder.
Can you hear, can you hear that thunder?
In the land down under!
You better run, You better take cover!
*music for half a minute*
I guess I should have put a ?. My bad. Lack of sleep is no bueno.
Anyways, I love this song….
… In the land down under!?!…. that’s an inside joke from years ago.
Did you hear that Men at Work recently got sued because the flute part sounds a little like an old Australian folk song?
It’s “where women glow and men plunder”, except for the second chorus when it’s “where beer does flow and men chunder”
Lyrics fail
it says a lot when the most reasoned logic comes from someone who types “once agen gravaty means ther is no upside down and in space ther is no up and down”
Only in America people; only in America.
Fail #1: Person cannot grasp the concept of gravity.
Fail #2: Little, the person explaining the concept of gravity, cannot spell to save his/her own life.
Fail #3: After the person who is unable to spell explains, the original poster STILL DOESN’T GET IT.
Fail #4: The original poster apparently just realized the earth isn’t flat.
Fail #5: Any of these people is allowed to have a Facebook page.
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Any of these people are allowed to breed…
never saw the enterprise entering a solar system upside down
The comment is from the UK.
Check the spelling of aeroplane, dummy. This is obviously from the UK.
I like how you seemed to completely miss that.
I can think of a couple of American bands who have used this spelling in titles of songs and/or albums. Just because it isn’t the usual US spelling doesn’t mean Americans never use it…even dumb ones.
Yeah, but if these rocket scientists were american, there’s no way in hell they would spell it aeroplane. There’s really no way they would spell Aeroplane correctly.
Unless they listen to the music Chadwick was talking about. That may be the only spelling of it they know then.
Of course, there are dumb people everywhere. So, why not this time we let the British have it….
Even if they did listen to that music, the likelihood of them looking up the lyrics is low. Consequently, they would have probably spelled it as “airoplane”…
This is not an American post.
Then again, if someone is moronic enough to not understand the basics of gravity and the Earth, it could be likely that she simply doesn’t know what’s the correct word to use (airplane or aeroplane).
Although I do admit the English has its share of stupid people, more than you might believe.
Despite the fact that we say “aeroplane” down here as well, I actually think “airplane” is more correct. It’s an American invention, shouldn’t they have the right to name it?
Not America you idiot.
Americans do not say “aeroplane”.
for the next 20 days i am ging to beat the crap out of people who say things as stupid as this
That’s going to be difficult, as this was world record level stupid.
And it’s just not nice to beat the Mentally Retarded.
But if we don’t they’ll breed. It’s for the greater good.
Am I the only one who tries to actually find these people on Facebook to see if they’re real?
Yes you are, creeper.
Thank you for your honesty.
I give you one thousand internets for everyone of those idiots you KILL.
hey i know you wont believe this but ive been to Australia before and u can walk on the ceiling
Someone please ‘exsplain’… I just died a little inside.
He probably realized that trying to explain it to this girl was a lost cause cuz she is dumb!
Who else suddenly feels like weeping? These are the people that will lead us some day…
Oh god, my IQ dropped reading that. Please let something happen to award these people honorary Darwin Awards. Once they’re out of the gene-pool they’ll be harmless, as long as they aren’t given drivers licenses!
Oh god, that would be so great if you could win a ‘Mini Darwin Award’ for failbook posts or Lame Facebook posts…
How can someone be so stupid.
Actually, she’s not wrong. From the perspective of someone at the north pole, someone at the south pole is upside-down. So someone traveling around the planet would gradually turn upside-down (from the original perspective) as they go, even though they are always right-side-up from their own perspective.
Do they now? Tell us more!
*takes Rich back inside and offers soothing hot milk*
Indeed. To maintain constant altitude over a curved surface, the airplane would tilt downward ever so slightly. As far as I’m concerned, the fail isn’t that Jessica asked a poorly-worded question, but that she asked Facebook when she could have modeled it or herself using a toy plane and a globe (or a paper airplane and a football, for that matter.)
No, what people don’t realize is the immensity on the Earth. That’s what gives them retarded ideas.
You’re giving her way too much credit, she thought the Earth was flat until very recently. As far as I’m concerned, that means she is a complete idiot.
Besides, if she had a globe she wouldn’t have thought the Earth was flat. Or if she had seen any tv show or movie in space. Or if she had taken history class. Etc. Really, it’s almost impressive how long she went without realizing it.
E-M-B-A-R-R-A-S-S-I-N-G… embarrassing.
Donated to everyone on this thread who tried to spell it.
kill them with fire.
Incindiary bombs! And nerve gas! From a 100-year old German Zeppelin! With dozens of machine guns! “Captain, idiots sighted.” “Increase speed to 145 kilometers, helmsman! Bring her down to 6,000 meters.” “Captain, we’re in range.” “Alert the bomb bay! Battle stations, everyone! I want all 24 gun turrets manned! Leave no imbecile standing!!”
I must once again praise the american school system.
This is obviously from the Uk, smarty. Look at ‘aeroplane’.
I must once again praise your lack of common sense and inability to do anything but ‘rebel’.
I truly hope these people are from the UK simply because I’m tired of all the stupid crap on this website being attributed to people from the US. however, that said, I must play devil’s advocate and ask, with all of the other misspellings riddling this post, what makes you think they didn’t simply misspell ‘airplane’?
Yes, it’s possible but unlikely. And one person uses coz which is preferred in the UK to cos.
If you misspell something, you’re not going to misspell it to a more complicated UK version of the word.
I wish people from other countries could just accept that they have stupid people too and stop trying to say every stupid thing is from the US. Using broad stereotypes like that is not a good way to show intelligence.
We do accept that we also have stupid people. Nevertheless, the youth of the US is dumb as. One single teenager of America can be so ignorant that an entire European country couldn’t beat the stupidity leaking out of his/her mouth. Or in this case, facebook account.
Your praise is kind, but irrelevant. These creatures are from the UK. (that’s United Kingdom, since you clearly can’t be bothered to attend to details.) Are you by chance a product of the American school system? It would certainly further your cause if you are….
This is why women can’t vote.
…. and what prey-tell has Men ever done? Just look at the last few presidents we’ve had and you can see for yourself. It’s not a man/woman thing, it’s a dumb person thing. Dumb people are men and women.
and this is why you don’t have a girlfriend
win.
WIN
This is why you’ll never get that sandwich. Unless it’s poisoned with arsenic, of course.
this person’s question is so stupid I don’t even understand it.
This is why women shouldn’t leave the kitchen.
They should join the Flat Earth Society and put the rest of us out of misery.
Some people are just poor abstract thinkers. I’m sure shed get it if someone actually showed it to her. But the whole round earth thing should have been covered pretty early in school, I’d think…
*faceboulder*
Lmfao, true.
Christopher Columbus is spinning in his grave.
*sigh*
Yes, we can walk on ceilings
hmm… jess and steph sound hot!
Ikr. 500+ years later and they still don’t get it!
Ikr. 500+ years later and they won’t be alive!
Well to be honest, none of you people here criticizing the people in
discussion have any idea of what they are talking themselves. This is really a very intelligent question, maybe their way of discussions is a bit immature,however it still stands that most of the people on this planet are baffled by this little trivia.
Any explanation about gravity make us stand upright anywhere on planer is not correct. Gravity explains some physical phenomenon like why anywhere you stand on the planet your blood circulation is not screwed up,etc. (however there is a branch of blonde scientists who refute the magical powers of gravity as universal as they believe that it is gravity that pulls all the blood of Americans-in northern hemisphere- towards their feet and they don’t get enough force to pump it up to their brains making them less capable of intelligent tasks then their counterparts in Australia who always get blood supply to their brains 24*7 )
Continuing on the theory, a person on north pole is surely upside down compared to a person on south pole. Please note that I mentioned person on north pole being upside down, as my idea of upside down changes as from where I take my point of reference. Being in a infinite space you can take any point as reference and can teleport yourself on the top of the planet, east-west-north-south all can be the top of the planet that keeps us upright all the time.
So just to make a clear picture for yourself, flip the world upside down, and see the world as Australia on the top and Americans as the people who dine on their ceiling and still you have the correct vision of the planet.
TL:DR
The only reason that north is at the top and south is at the bottom is because it looks really stupid the other way around.
What are you wittering on about?
Let Bill Nye the Science Guy explain it.
Such a doofus!! Smebdy pleez lend her some brains!! :p
Such a doofus! Somebody please lend this person a dictionary! :p
I think my IQ just drope a little from reading this thing. :S
*dropped
And you are right.
Why does this ‘American-Not American’ fight have to go on in every single post? Yes, most facebook users are from US, but they are not the only ones there using english (or something like it). And every country has its own share of idiots. From now on couldn’t we just blame the individual in question of being a complete waste of oxygen instead of jumping into stereotypical nonsense. And my fellow Euros, please, you can find ignorant people in your own neighbourhood. There’s no need to go over the Atlantic for that.
You misunderstand, it isn’t an ‘American-Not American’ fight. Some people have jumped to the wrong conclusion that an American has posted this and others have pointed out that it is most likely a Briton. That isn’t a fight. Nor has anyone here claimed that Europeans are superior to Americans. If you want to sound off it’s best to make sure your points are valid.
Maybe you should look at the posts up top cause they have clearly shown that they think Americans are stupid. I’ve read ALL the posts so get YOUR facts straight before u criticize
I did look at the posts up top but the ones that think Americans are stupid are all written by Americans. That’s my point. Americans are (wrongly) bemoaning their own ignorance. That isn’t a fight between Americans and non-Americans. There is just one comment from a non-American, “By God… How can you be so stupid you Yankees?” to which an American has replied factually and courteously. I do have my facts straight.
LOL.
Now you’re claiming that the idiots that think this failbook post is from the US are from the US, when they aren’t.
How deep can this rabbit hole go?
“Now you’re claiming that the idiots that think this failbook post is from the US are from the US.” Yes, I am. How do you know they are not?
And you misunderstood me when you assumed that I was ONLY talking about this thread. I said “every single post”. And if you would be so kind as to read the comments under other posts on this website you would see what I mean. It’s funny that I try to make people stop fighting and then I get attacked for that. What is your problem really?
My problem is that you are accusing Europeans of trashing Americans when they are not. It’s not unreasonable to assume that “every single post” means “every single post in this thread”. You are trying to justify your post retrospectively. In this particular thread, your accusation has no justification. You say you are trying to stop people fighting, but you are not, you are lashing out at people who are innocent of the crimes you accuse them of. In this thread at least. Just stop it.
I’m accusing europeans? I am european. Wow, you got some serious problems if that is all you took out of my original post. I wasn’t lashing out, you begun the lashing out part. I was asking why this silly fight goes on on this website in almost every single thread. But all you read was “stop calling americans stupid, you stupid europeans”. Again, I AM EUROPEAN, and I find it stupid that whatever the fail, whatever the subject, somehow all the threads end in discussion on “this must be american”. My accusation? Really? Why the hell are you so hostile? You stop it. And read my post again. No wonder you people here lose your friggin minds over nothing when you read something what simply isn’t there. Let me put it this way for you, maybe you understand: When I said “post” I meant post by Failbook, not individual posts on this thread. I don’t need to stop anything just because you misunderstood me. Your mistake is your problem, not mine.
Granted other threads may be different but how the hell should I know you meant all other threads on Failbook? You didn’t say that. You ask why I am so hostile. Because I am angry with you accusing Europeans of doing something *in this thread* that they have not done (Why does this ‘American-Not American’ fight have to go on in every single post?). I agree they may have done that in other threads, I have not examined other threads but you did not make it clear that you were talking about other threads. Your language was inflammatory, calling it a fight but it is not a fight in this thread. You really should have chosen another thread to say what you did. This thread is clear of any blame from Europeans.
Now that you have explained that you intended your statement to apply over the whole of Failbook (or this part of it) it makes a lot more sense. I still think it was misdirected but we can argue about that until the cows come home.
If we can be slightly calmer about this perhaps I might make the point that Europeans can accuse other Europeans. That is not really the issue.
Well, it’s true, if people in my neighbourhood would write in English on Facebook I could show you loads of immensly stupid creatures who’s stupidity is just plain pathetic. They exist everywhere.
Wow, they ALL fail.
This really isn’t that bad. I mean, it’s pretty confusing topic.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you don’t sit and text with your friends during classes….
:::facepalm:::
Technically standing at the south pole you are “upside down.”
Just like technically everyone in the US is walking “sideways.”
Perspective makes it appear that everyone is “right side up.”
I am having trouble understanding why this is as much of a fail as everyone thinks it is. I know it’s poorly written, but she isn’t THAT stupid for asking the question.
What you say is only true of an observer in outer space. A person standing on the moon would think that. But these are people standing on the earth and their frame of reference is the surface of a sphere. And in that frame of reference, there is no upside down.
The real question here is what made her think of it in the first place. I mean, she must be studying or something… right? Something useful like that would be very reassuring.
I’m pretty sure I’ve been upside down before =p Didn’t even have to leave the country either.
But yeah, up/down on a sphere are relative to the center of the sphere and not any North/South directions.
“but she isn’t THAT stupid for asking the question.”
Did you see where she said she just found out the world was round?
that’s very true but i think the reason why people are saying that she’s stupid is because even after gravity was explained to her in great detail SHE STILL DIDN’T GET IT. And the fact that she thought the world was flat might attribute to people thinking she’s stupid.
I’m 80% sure she was joking or being sarcastic about that… but, you never know….
I’m 95% sure she wasn’t joking.
I’m 72.3% sure she was joking.
My first memories are pretty much about me asking myself these elementary questions when I was about 4-5 years old. My sister explained it to me and I fully understood.
I meant, Greeks discovered this since the antiquity.
HOW in the name of ANYTHING YOU WANT can anybody over the age of 10 be that retarded? Is it poor education?
My God, if Facebook was a city and it would be blown to dust, the IQ of the world would substantially increase.
or use a condom, lol
While reading, I was secretly glad that at least she had not thought the plane keeps going in a perfectly straight line towards outer space… That happiness only lasted to the part where she claimed to have thought the world was flat.
Though now it leads me to wonder how the conversation might have happened if she -did- think that… Wow.
All of my work, ruined!
This made my head hurt.
I really can’t believe people that stupid are real
Two thoughts:
What are they teaching in schools??
And:
I don’t think you should be allowed to have a facebook page, if you don’t know that the world is round.
It actually hurts to read those posts.
And to think that people complain about immigrants not being able to speak English.
This is why women aren’t president.
I don’t know why I even bother, you are obviously a troll, but here I go. Here in Finland we have a female president and we are doing just fine.
yep, works for germany, too
…and oh yes, you are definitely a gigantic troll
We have one down here, too. Only we call her Prime Minister (or Monster).
And yes, we Aussies CAN walk on ceilings but that’s just because we’re awesome, lol
Ok all of this discussions about it not being a stupid question, can stop… It is a stupid question due to the context, the person clearly has a flawed idea about the workings of the laws of gravity. Even more so, she claimed that the earth was flat, and she found out only recently.
You can give her question a spin and claim that from a certain perspective someone could be upside down. But that can’t really be a valid argument, since perspective is relative. The traditional way of looking towards something in a geometrical figure is a centre point. Since the centre point of a sphere is in the middle of that sphere no one can be upside down. Furthermore the laws of gravity support the former statement, everyone is pulled to the same centre mass. Looking at something from another point of view and then claiming that someone is upside down is not even close to being a valid statement.
Centre of the earth people, not North – and South pole these are extremities and furthermore north hasn’t always been the North pole. Furthermore I’m not embarrassed because they may or may not be United States citizens I’m ashamed that they are part of the human race. This is further proof that only 5% of the population during the whole history of mankind can be accredited for all of it’s accomplishments while the other 95% of us are too stupid to be actually counted as humans.
Now I’m going to say something stupid as well. Stop the world because I want off! Yes, I’m well aware of the impossible nature of this statement.
Now, let’s not further waste our time with which perspective or whether or not this girl is stupid.
I may have misspelled a number of things, but I do try to use proper grammar/spelling. English is not my native tongue. I do however hate grammar Nazi’s but horrible spelling is something I dislike greatly.
and if anyone wants to troll on this post go right ahead I’m not bothered by it.
some kid (12) asked me how i didn’t fall off of the world when i went to oz
She just wants to pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like upside down shooting stars.
I could really use a wish right now.
This is why I don’t take part in this social networking stuff… It’s for stupid people only (and those interested in talking to and befriending morons…)
Yes, /this/ type of social networking is completely acceptable, though.
Stupid people being stupid….and when i say people i mean people from the US.
hmmmm. i asked this question once.
when i was about 4 years old.
Yeah, that’s it, my kids are getting home schooled/going to private school. :/
I believe this would be on one of my fellow countrymen (well women, but you know what I mean). We do have stupid people here in the UK too, we just have more more stringent controls to prevent them expressing their stupidity to the wider world. Unfortunately this one seems to have slipped through, but thanks to failbook we can take measures to prevent it happening again and to stop her taking up valuable “Stupid American” webspace.
Oh, come now. We know you also have stupid people; we’ve seen ‘That Mitchell and Webb Look’.
A sphere has a centre point, so perspective is not a valid argument.
Next, the whole american/non- American discussion is a non issue.
If people want to bash the nation with the most facebook users, they go right ahead. If you are European and defending the poor kids, they do not need to be defended. Secondly the use of aeroplane does not prove anything about the origin of this message than mere doubt.
The question/answers to this whole conversation on facebook are failworthy. It is not a difficult issue for anyone who got science 101 in high school (and payed attention). I for one was pretty bad at the stuff and even I can deduce that this whole issue is fairly stupid. Thinking the earth is flat??? Riight! Sure these people are not retarded…(insert sarcasm here)
Please tell me this Jessica isn’t a blonde
Duh man, how do you think they filmed inception?!
She should play some Super Mario Galaxy, that’d explain everything to her
I hope she was drunk when she wrote this..
Unfortunately, there really are a large group people who still believe the earth is flat:
http://theflatearthsociety.org/
:/
Hmm…so what does the back of this flat earth look like, then?
The flat earth is held on the back of an eternal tortoise. Didn’t you know that? What ARE the schools teaching these days?
Note: This is supposed to be read as sarcasm! – I mention that for those of you who can’t read inflection in a typed message.
I am confused how airplane can fly in the first place.
No, it just means we can’t agree (The UK also had a hung parliament if you recall)…
Just a little FYI: The F-16 Falcon had a little defect in its navigational system. You had to reset the compass immediately upon crossing the equator or the auto pilot would flip the plane upside down. That problem was later fixed
Prime example of how the farther civilization advances the more humans de-evolve.
Unless the person is mentally handicapped, I don’t understand how someone could possibly be this stupid.
-.- All this talk over who’s speaking ‘correct’ English or more litterally, typing it. I find it all rather endearing…
to all the pro English:
I would say that in the most formal sense, your version of English is the most accurate. However, the girl from this statement uses the english format, so regardless of her ACTUAL nationality, your version carries the stigma of her stupidity
to all the pro American:
your form of the english language is a bastardised version of a bastard language, so really, its going to come out harsh and unelegant. However it IS the version that makes more sense, with regards to spelling.
and the part where i generally spit in both parties faces
americans, whatever you say or do, people around the globe will regard you as a bunch of idots who sit around all day watching Telovision just as asuredly people will always regard the Irish as a bunch diminutive violent drunks with ginger hair and an unhealthy addiction for green clothing.
English, I hate using your Damn language and prefer my native gaelic but your far too prudish and up your backsides to learn any language other than your own, so i have to learn, otherwise you wouldn’t understand me.
And get out my country!
We sympathize…
Now put on a green kilt, pick up your fiddle and sing us a song about a lost love, green plains and about how the English are all bollocks, you violent, ginger drunk!
O.O
Why do so many people think they’re from the UK (or the US, for that matter) when they specifically mention Australia? We spell “aeroplane” as such, also! Some of us even spell CORRECTLY, too!
Jess needed context and it looks like Jem was trying to give that to her, from what I can see. Actually, Jess needed more than context, but that’s another matter entirely. :-/
Little had me cheering for their vastly superior brain matter, but that kinda got lost amongst the spelling errors. Alas.
You know, guys, I came to the comments of this post to lament with intelligent people about the existence of ignorance as profound as this. That, once again, the internet has revealed stupidity that we never knew existed.
Instead… what I find is hateful stereotyping and bickering about the country of origin. You know what? That didn’t even occur to me. And I lost respect for many commenters for falling to this level. Yes, there are stupid people in America. And in the UK. And every where else. And… just, incredible. I’m done for the night :/
Someone draw this girl a f**king picture…
Some genius wrote ‘people in the Southern Hemisphere are upside down’.
The North Pole on top, South Pole at the bottom globe is just a convenient _convention_ that made sense historically, but it is still just a convention, and there is no natural law that makes north ‘up’.
It originates from the majority of the world’s most influential and map-making civilisations coming from the Northern Hemisphere… England, Europe, to a lesser extent the Middle East, later on America.
They mapped their worlds with themselves (or the ‘center’ of their worlds, eg, Jerusalem) at the center or top… when they began making globes they naturally put their own lands uppermost. The Southern Hemisphere was poorly known until very late in history (1700-1800s). So why would European globe makers put the mess labelled ‘Terra Incognita’ at the top when it would surely need to be redrawn after the next several scientific mapping voyages, and why would they hide the detailed maps of Europe at the bottom of the globe where they could barely be seen?
You can all mentally turn your globes, the galaxy and the entire universe upside down… now the citizens of Christchurch, Durban, Adelaide and Asuncion are standing right side up – North Americans and Europeans are standing on their heads. So do you walk on the ceiling or what? How do you stop yourselves falling off the world????
Gheesh. In reality there is no up or down. Everybody’s feet point towards the molten core of the Earth… everybody’s head points towards the stars.
I walk on my ceiling all the time
I spend half my time making sure my furniture is facing the right way up, and the boss doesn’t land his plane on it’s roof…………:S But apparently gravity is meant to do that for me!!! BAHAHAHAHA
But it does suck when the earth is rotating you always got to keep your furniture moving too! It’s a non- stop job!