Apparently, for some people, whether the world is flat or round is still up in the air.
Yes, Sherri Shepherd (of the TV show The View — which I don’t watch) was asked if the world was flat, and she didn’t know. :eek:
Of course, on today’s show, she had an excuse. She was nervous, and she had a “senior brain-poopy moment.” Um … Sherri, dear, you are 40 years old. As someone who is two years your senior, let me tell you, it’s a little early in your life to be having “brain-poopy” moments on something as basic as whether or not the world is flat. I may experience the occasional brain-fart, but it’s usually on a topic significantly more complex than the roundness of the planet on which I live. Furthermore, dear, dear, Sherri, you are a host on a TV talk show, so I am not buying that you were so nervous you didn’t understand the question. “Is the world flat?” is a really easy question to understand. There aren’t even any big words to work out. If a question like that causes you to have premature “senior brain-poopy moments” then perhaps you are not cut out for working on a TV talk show … and perhaps you should get tested for Alzheimer’s while reading through an elementary school textbook or two.
And to the producers of The View: Hey … hire me. I am great at answering questions and flapping my jaws on a wide variety of subjects. I even know the world is round, and if you’d like me to tell you, I can even tell you WHY it’s round.
I’d bet half the viewers didn’t understand what Whoopi was talking about. The thing with rich stupid people like Sherri is that as long as they remain rich they are spared the consequences of their stupidity. Joy ended the thing because she saw how badly this was reflecting on the show.
When Whoopi joined the show, I was almost tempted to start watching it, but I can’t seem to bring myself to watch daytime TV of any sort … unless it involves arts and crafts instructions or it’s on PBS.
The “roundness” of the planet is such a basic and fundamental fact upon which so many other basic and fundamental facts are based (where does the sun go at night, where does the moon go during the day, etc.), I don’t know how one can NOT know it. And it doesn’t require thinking about. I don’t spend any time at all thinking about whether the earth is flat, but if someone asked me if it was, once I got done laughing at the stupidity of the question, I’d know the answer.
But then, I’m not rich enough to have people think about those kinds of things for me. I’ve actually had to learn stuff myself. ;)