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Don't Be This Girl

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The girl was hit with a stupid question, and gave a stupid answer.

"Recent polls indicate 1/5 of Americans can't locate America on a world map. Why do you think this is?"

How can a poll show this? Wouldn't it be a study? Furthermore, even if it were a study, it couldn't be true, given the well-known across the states, shape of Florida. The only way it would be plausible would be if they included babies in the 'polling'.

THAT would have been a good answer.

Too bad you're not 5'll, blonde, with pearly whites.

This seems nauseatingly reddit-like.

I was wondering when this would get posted. I assumed the video wouldn't make it to the front page, but apparently all it takes is a 'startup' twist.

On an unrelated note, has anyone noticed that Ron Paul's campaign is just like a startup? He's even making something people want!

If by something you mean nothing, then yes you are right.

If by nothing you mean he wants the government to have nothing to do with our business, then yes you are right.

Anyways, this article is stupid, he catches some girl off guard and asks a dumb question. And he tries to link it with "having a sales pitch down". I wasted my time looking at the site, I wasted my time replying to a troll, and now I just wasted time adding my two cents on this article.

Don't worry, there are lots of good "Top X" lists being posted to make up for it :p

Isn't that the change from "Startup News" to "Hacker News" was meant for? To have more news that was off-topic and non-startup to brake up all the same posts?

Yes. But there's still a certain aversion to having truly mainstream news on this site. For now, it's not a problem because the mainstream news is pretty rare.

I will keep the humorous posts to a minimum.

They really don't bother me, I'd encourage you to post whatever you want. It's up to Paul Graham and the editors to fix it if there is a problem.

The point was to make it like reddit-of-old, not reddit-of-now. This is nauseatingly reddit-of-now-like.

It also made boingboing (and wasn't even posted by Xeni). It's interesting and funny. It doesn't bother me. You should try not to let it bother you either.

Reddit-of-old had this stuff. Just in manageable small quantities sprinkled over the smart stuff. As long as it stays close to this ratio, I think it's fine.

funny, yes, but cleary an edge case, right?

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