Miss Teen USA answers a question

[Dejon]

"What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

- B.M

[Mike Frett]

Believe it or not, they don't teach anything in school these days. My little brother comes homes from school and I ask what the teacher is teaching and he always says nothing. They don't even have homework anymore and everybody uses calculators instead of their brain.

[Alex the man]

i think i need to lie down after watching that video, i mean wtf?! Watching that hurt my brain and im confused as hell

[dwarm]

She had another chance to answer the question, lol. She said she "completely misunderstood" and apparently scored 3.5 GPA when she graduated, which is about a B+ grade according to Wikipedia... I find that incredibly hard to believe, or the US are too "easy" with their exams/grading system.

Don't know much about ... geography?

Lauren Caitlin Upton, Miss South Carolina Teen USA, whose mangled response to a pageant question has become an Internet sensation, will have a second chance to answer it on Tuesday morning's Today show.

"I didn't do anything wrong," she told South Carolina's The State newspaper. "I wasn't expecting [the question]. I lost my train of thought."

She added she "completely misunderstood" the question, which she'll get a second stab at on Today.

The beauty contestant's video on YouTube has received more than 2 million hits thanks to her amazingly off-the-mark answer at Friday night's pageant, when she was queried about why Americans are so bad at geography.

Specifically, she was asked why one-fifth of Americans can't find the United States on a map.

"I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps," she ventured.

During her meandering response, she also tossed in out-of-the-blue references to "the Iraq" and "Asian countries" and their need for the support of the American educational system in identifying the United States on the map.

Upton is described as a varsity athlete and student leader at Lexington High School, where she graduated in June with a 3.5 GPA.

Despite the on-camera gaffe, Upton finished as third runner-up.

Source

Third Runner up?!

[gadean]

This is hilarious! I came across this link to the final question of Miss Teen USA 2007.

The first girl from South Carolina is possibly the dumbest girl alive. What on earth was she talking about? I cringed when I heard her response. What was she thinking?!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yMU192Kp02o

[xcopmanx]

I thought the same thing. I have no idea.

[include]

They have a thread on this here. How could you possibly miss it?!

Anyway, that was hilarious...I left my opinion in the other thread already though ;)

[gadean]

They have a thread on this here. How could you possibly miss it?!

Anyway, that was hilarious...I left my opinion in the other thread already though ;)

ah, my bad. I'll see about having these threads merged. :)

[John S. Veteran]

threads merged

[dwarm]

I liked that second video, it showed all of their responses which is cool. All were pretty bad apart from the last girl.. she was quick and gave a real response.

Also, what kind of risk is snowboarding, lol? At least north carolina was a bit better than south carolina. :p

[1Frothy]

Did she say "osama" people... I swear that she said that.

Far out, she is not worthy of the oxygen she inhales. Dumb as a door knob.

[Captain_Wang]

Hm, and how would you answer this question? :)

Because the only type of people who would be asked to locate America on a map are likely to be imbeciles and someone with a degree of intelligence is trying to ridicule them. This charming young lady may well be an example of such an imbecile, she's not even that hot.

[RuudJacobs.NET]

woah.. her sheer inner beauty really makes me think of my old pair of shoes *cries*

[Lasker]

This probe to all racist out there that not matter what race you are you could be dumb as this girl

[Yorak]

I'd still hit it, mainly because I wouldn't feel so inferior to her.

Miss South Carolina

Looks: 9 (She's about as retarded as they come, but lets face it, she's pretty hot.)

Personality: 2 (If I had to guess, this is what it would be. I'm probably being generous here.)

Intelligence: 1 (I only say 1 because there is nothing lower in a 1-10 scale.)

Mr. Yorak

Looks: 6 (I'm really a 10 but people don't know that yet.)

Personality: 8 (I think I'm pretty cool, and since it is MY rating for myself, I can dream the dream.)

Intelligence: 7 (I know a little about many things, but I only know specifics of some.)

So the totals:

Miss South Carolina = 12

Mr. Yorak = 24

This proves I'm superior to her. With these known statistics, I could easily approach her and ask her out without worrying what she thinks of me. I really have no idea what I'm talking about because I just took a Vicodin for my headache, and it makes me go on and on about senseless crap. I apologize Neowin.

[Lexcyn]

I just saw this and wow... can you say retarded?

[DreadBoat89]

her response made it onto sportscentre (in canada)...

[+Warwagon MVC]

the short answer to that question is "they don't care"

[ThePitt]

yes. Another proof that Idiocracy is just a fact and not fiction...

and

I'd still hit it, mainly because I wouldn't feel so inferior to her.

Then you could have retarded kids like her :p

[KoL Veteran]

OMG hahhahahha :rofl: :rofl:

[Yorak]

http://youaremistaken.ytmnd.com/

Hahaha, I swear to god I thought of that exact scene after the 10th or so time I watched her answer.

[SolidSapphire]

When will this blow over? I've been seeing this a lot lately.

[red.]

ha! though, the only thing good about this is Slater!

[Galley]

She may be dumb as a box of rocks, but she's FAFH! :whistle:

Note: not all Carolina girls are dumb.

[John S. Veteran]

The Today Show interviews her about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeGmOrs9gCU.swf

It's like I'm not even in my body :laugh: