80 Mph

[Balladeer08]

My son sent me this link on YouTube, there are a lot more like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1H_AlQuzHg

It's not just that she got the answer wrong, it is the long, drawn out process she goes through trying to figure it out.

Basically, these are a bunch of videos where guys ask their wives/girlfriends this question:

If you are going 80 m.p.h., how long would it take you to go 80 miles?

When I saw the first one, I thought this gal was amazingly dumb. When I found out there were bunches of these videos, I suspected they were a put on.

So I asked a lady I work with. She didn't know the answer, neither did the gal near her who was eavesdropping.

I was astounded, as this lady does payroll.

Then I had an interesting thought, and asked them this question:

If you are in a grocery store where steak is four dollars per pound, how much would you have to pay for a pound of steak?

She knew the answer practically before I stopped speaking.

Mathematically, this is the same question.

Apparently there is a sociological factor here.

So I'd like to invite everyone to ask these two questions of both men and women, and post your results here.

Simply because I find this bizarre and fascinating.

Please don't waste time chastizing me about the sexist nature of the YouTube videos. I didn't post any of them.

 

[thør]

The two trains crash head on in the middle of Oklahoma.

 

[rimmy]

That may be the saddest thing I've ever seen.

She was rather hot though.

My brain and my penis are in a tug of war.

 

[dolf]

i knew the answer without thinking about it.
i'm thinking this is some sort of a spoof.

 

[Balladeer08]

That may be the saddest thing I've ever seen.

She was rather hot though.

My brain and my penis are in a tug of war.

I thought she was hot until she started to talk. Then her appeal went away.

Basically, I don't want to fuck a woman's brains out if it would only take three strokes.

Gracie Allen was an exception, because she was putting on an act.

But I know what you mean about it being sad. I felt sorry for her.

There is one on there where one girl is asking another, and the both have Aussie accents. Which tells me this isn't just a USA problem.

I still find the whole thing hard to believe.

Looking forward to the steak results.

 

[Balladeer08]

i knew the answer without thinking about it.
i'm thinking this is some sort of a spoof.

Try asking others. Post the results. If you ask ten people of each gender, what are the results by gender?

Do an experiment. 8)

 

[dolf]

Try asking others. Post the results. If you ask ten people of each gender, what are the results by gender?

Do an experiment. 8)

i'd have to be crazy to touch that one!

 

[rimmy]

i knew the answer without thinking about it.
i'm thinking this is some sort of a spoof.

showoff

 

[unregistered]

 

[Balladeer08]

This.

Seriously. This can't be real.

Try it. Prove it to yourself. I was astounded when I tried it. And dumbfounded when the steak answer was so quick. Bizarre.

 

[Balladeer08]

i'd have to be crazy to touch that one!

No guts, no glory.

 

[rimmy]

This.

Seriously. This can't be real.

I don't think you understand that she runs a mile in nine minutes. Seven when she's in shape and that's booking it.

Clearer now?

 

[unregistered]

 

[RobDownSouth]

i'd have to be crazy to touch that one!

I wish I had a dollar for every time a woman said that to me in bed....

Seriously. This can't be real.

...this one too.

 

[dolf]

ok... if you employ 200 workers, and each is entitled to 28 days leave/year, how many is the must you allow off/day in order to allow all your workers to get their full leave?

 

[Balladeer08]

ok... if you employ 200 workers, and each is entitled to 28 days leave/year, how many is the must you allow off/day in order to allow all your workers to get their full leave?

This isn't as straight-forward a question as either of mine. Not to mention not quite being a grammatical sentence.

16 is the lowest answer, unless you want to start throwing in weekends and holidays and other things that create variables. There's nothing that says you can't give all 200 of them the same 28 days off and everyone works the rest of the year.

There are no variables in either of my questions.

Apples and oranges.

 

[dolf]

This isn't as straight-forward a question as either of mine. Not to mention not quite being a grammatical sentence.

16 is the lowest answer, unless you want to start throwing in weekends and holidays and other things that create variables. There's nothing that says you can't give all 200 of them the same 28 days off and everyone works the rest of the year.

There are no variables in either of my questions.

Apples and oranges.

but it was basic enough that you'd think anyone in charge of 200 workers would think of it and not have a policy of only allowing, say, 3 workers off at any one time.

it's 4:36 AM

 

[Balladeer08]

but it was basic enough that you'd think anyone in charge of 200 workers would think of it and not have a policy of only allowing, say, 3 workers off at any one time.

it's 4:36 AM

When I was in the Sheriff's Dept, we had Sgt.s who would declare that only one officer could be Code 7 (lunch) at a time. 1/2 hour for lunch, 8 hour shifts. If you had more than 16 officers on duty, someone couldn't have lunch. And who wants to go from briefing directly to lunch? Or wait until end of shift to eat? And what are the odds of everyone being in the right spot for lunch at the same minute someone else is ending theirs?

The policy of not more than 3 workers off at a time doesn't surprise me. Innumeracy is rampant.

I'm sure the supervisors who set your policy were no more likely to miss their 28 days off than my Sgts. were to miss lunch.

Getting shafted is for peons, after all.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Him: Who's buried in Grant's tomb?

Her: Grant who?

 

[Balladeer08]

Him: Who's buried in Grant's tomb?

Her: Grant who?

That's one of my favorite trick questions.

Nobody. Grant is entombed above-ground.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

That's one of my favorite trick questions.

Nobody. Grant is entombed above-ground.

Grant who?

No, I meant the other one.

 

[Balladeer08]

Grant who?

No, I meant the other one.

Oh, sorry. I took it for Granted. 8)

 

[Miles Long]

God that is a special kind of dumb.

 

[Balladeer08]

God that is a special kind of dumb.

It's called innumeracy, the mathematical equivalent of illiteracy.

This is shocking to see, since the answer is in the question. And why they should find the speed question unsolvable when being quick on the steak question deeply puzzles me.

Hard not to laugh while watching the video, though.

 

[BotanyBoy]

What color was George Washington's white horse?

I've stumped a surprising number of people with that one too...