Eight hundred thousand years. You just move the decimal to get the answer. Once you know that trick, a lot of math is really easy.
And yet it didn’t keep him from marrying her. True love
I’m sure she’s a nice girl, but I don’t think I could bear such a large intellectual gap for too long. Stuff like this becomes frustrating quite quickly. But then again, in their case it might not be too big of a gap anyway. Understanding the basic principles behind measuring units does not make him Einstein.
Or he had the same reaction as her. Had it explained to him and is now passing on the fun.
1hr, I refuse to watch the video.
yeah I can do without watching a YT video to listen to someone say stupid things.
it’s bad enough knowing that some people literally make better money creating bullshit YT and TV shows than I make at my job.
The best part is “the wheels must turn 400 times per mile” hauahauhahah
This was painful to watch, I would have stopped and asked her to continue on foot.
He didn’t marry her for her brains apparently. But why is no one pissed he is filming this while driving? He is just a big dumb ass.
Maybe there’s a reason why the comments are off on that vid :D
You’re right that recording while driving isn’t great, but at least he stopped when she asked him to.
This video is also 12 years old
Then we should be so harsh, there’s been a lot of inflation since then. I don’t even know what 80 mph 12 years ago is today.
58 minutes?
They’re stealing our time!
If you find a woman who likes giving BJ’s, marry her.
And people wonder why America is the way it is. A grown ass adult married woman can’t even grasp the concept of mph. The school system has majorly failed this woman. It’s like even the concept of critical thinking has been eradicated.
She was thinking critically.
I’ve seen this same video with two UK girls doing this
Well yah but that makes sense who outside of America knows what a mile is.
If you told me that the miles Americans use for distance and the miles in mph are two different distances I wouldn’t straight up believe you, but still double check later
I’m in Canada, but what does it matter if it’s mph or kph? The concept is the same.
It’s a joke.
I hope so, or we’ve got the woman from the video commenting here.
The UK also uses miles, unfortunately. We started the process of adopting the metric system and then apparently decided it was simply too French to stomach
You’ll never guess what system we use for distance in the UK!
“Think about how dumb the average American is. Then think that half of em are dumber than that!”
- George Carlin
There’s tires with a circumference of 13.2 ft… Chef’s Kiss
Sooooo…yeah. I dated someone once who was brilliant in some ways, and not in others, but I very much loved them still, though our intellectual conversations were kept to a minimum.
After watching a particularly violent Western movie where a lot of horses were injured, shot, or killed, she seemed kind of disturbed. She was dead quiet after leaving the theater, and just seemed like she was thinking through it all and processing the story.
Halfway through the drive home, out of nowhere she says “Where do all the horses go?”
The question kind of threw me, and waited a second to process what she had just asked me. I thought I misheard her, and there was a noticably uncomfortable gap in me reply.
“What? How do you mean?”
“Where do all the horses go after the movie? Like, what do they do with all the dead horses?”
In that moment, I froze, and I started to kind of chuckle as I thought she was making a joke. Then I realized the was serious. A 30-year old was asking me this question. A self-admitted movie buff, she called herself.
It was then that I knew this relationship wasn’t viable long-term.
They shoot them with actor bullets, which are only pretending to he lethal, of course.
Tell that to Alec Baldwin…
TBF there were some movies in the past where horses died during production (I believe Ben Hur was one of them). That’s why nowadays there is a disclaimer saying no animals were harmed making the movie.
This was not an older movie, and if she’d ever watched the credits of a modern movie (as a movie buff), she would have certainly seen all the stunt coordination credits, and the tag about no animals being harmed.
When I was about 5 years old I saw a movie that was based on a true story about a blind man. The man was played by the first Paul Atreides actor, Kyle MacLachlan. So then when I saw him in an alien sci-fi some time later I was freaked out. I asked my mom how he could do everything in the movie if he’s blind. See, I thought that if a movie was based on a true story that the real person from the story was the actor portraying them in the movie. But I was 5 years old when I learned about movie magic. It’s kind of crazy that your ex-girlfriend hadn’t learned that well into adulthood.
Sorry I’m still trying to get over describing Kyle Maclachlan as “the first Paul Atreides actor” lol
Well, he is! I actually always think about him as the alien FBI agent from The Hidden, since that’s when I learned he is an actor and not a blind guy with a movie made about him. I didn’t even realize that he has been in more recent stuff like Portlandia and How I Met Your Mother. I guess he was in the Twin Peaks remake too? He’s a pretty cool actor.
Yeah isn’t he The Captain? (how I met your mother, how I always call him out with my girlfriend). Yes I know he did plenty but for some reason that one sticks, even if I half watched Dune with my dad in the 80s and 90s.
tbh, that’s a fair question. I would have asked them same thing, if only to hope you’d say something like:
“What, no. The horses didn’t die. It was a movie. They pretended to kill them.”
Especially if you’re already emotionally worked up.
Don’t they bury them with the dead actors that rode them? That’s how it used to be done.
A girl my friend dated once asked why islands don’t float away. She was in Gifted classes.
Bullet dodged
A horse-sized bullet
I think I’d rather dodge 100 duck-sized bullets
I’m horrific at math, but even I know this shit. I do feel for her though. When you suck at math, even if the answer is easy and you have it right, you constantly second guess yourself because getting the right answer feels too easy, so surely I’m wrong, right? Because it’s math and I’m always wrong.
But she will better college than any college in india
It is quite devastating when you see people lacking even the most basic or common of knowledge. No wonder the world is in a state that it is in. You can’t expect people to make changes when they barely even know how the world works.
I mean some people just freeze up around numbers. That’s not the end of the world as long as they know suck at that.
Like I’m a programmer and I’m like comically bad at math. Like 3 Stooges bad. If I’m forced to do math on the spot I will expand a lot of energy figuring out exactly the wrong thing.
Same! Senior dev here with both dyscalculia and dysgraphia. Numbers literally transpose for me, for example when I’m filling out a restaurant receipt and calculating tip+total. It’s wild.
Someone forward this to Shaq, he’ll set her straight!
I couldn’t get past her starting the mental math. “If I run a mile in 8 mins…” This lady can vote, drive a car, and purchase a firearm. We’re so fucked.
Someone forward this to Shaq, he’ll set her straight!
He’s not even phrasing it as a riddle. The answer is right there in the question. That poor woman.
Ahh, haven’t seen this in a long time.
Though you kinda have to give to her, that her initial guesstimate was 58 minutes. That’s just 3.3% error, not bad considering the ridiculous way she arrived at that number. Maybe she’s really good at estimates but can’t do any precise math. She might even be an engineer.
Based on the title, it seeks like the question was 80 mph. Not 60
You’re right, it would take an hour to go 60 miles at 60mph. Try the math again with 80 miles at 80mph.
I did. 58/80 != ~3.3%
You are leaking American education all over this comment man
If you’re traveling 80 miles PER HOUR, you will travel 80 miles in an hour, or 60 minutes. She guessed 58 minutes.
I see! I misread their comment! I thought it was 80mph for 60 minutes
Oh lord
Think about this really hard again.
Getting to recreate the video in the comments really is special.
