77.4M views · Aug 25, 2007 · 0:49 · 0 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2010–2022
A one-minute clip of Miss Teen USA 2007 contestant Miss South Carolina giving a rambling, incoherent answer to a pageant question. It became a widely shared internet meme.
Why Hacker News points people here: Only posted as a joke reaction to someone's muddled or incoherent argument, not as something to watch for content.
“Instantly reminded me of this”
Grampa wants you to, like, get off his lawn. Also: > The restoration of the word 'as,' which isn’t that hard a word to master, along with 'such as,' would also be a help in varying the national lingo. Instantly reminded me of this: this video > Everywhere, like, such as.
“Reminds me of this”
Reminds me of this: this video I suppose it's technically correct, but it doesn't sound good at all. Especially since they already just used 'Americans' in the title. "People of the United States" or something like that also reads better. Sure, citizens of other countries in the Americas could also be called Americans, but in reality, if you're trying to actually communicate clearly with other people, rather than score political correctness points, you would not use that term for, say, a Canadian or a Brazilian, because there are already perfectly good, more specific terms for citizens of said countries. Likewise, if you were really trying to talk about the commonalities of everyone from Alaskans to Argentinians you'd presumably use something like "peoples of the Americas".
“This argument of yours somehow reminded me of this girl's interview.”
I in fact strongly defended the arrest of the diplomat and supported your last line in contrast to what a lot of my Indian friends said in what turned out to be a heavy argument. Of course, she shouldn't have had a live-in servant if she couldn't afford. But then again that doesn't mean a stupid generalization should be made where it doesn't belong. You went too far saying "since they have servants and all ... they are generally like ... don't want to share their things when they become rich". And you surprisingly believe it's an attribute specific to Indian culture. Indian culture might be having many problems, but this cannot be one of them. This argument of yours somehow reminded me of this girl's interview. Don't know why: this video
“Also, I'll just leave this here for fun”
The shift in language in culture as a whole has (in my own personal observation) been directly tied to the inability of the general populace to even understand basic logic. It also corresponds to a direct rejection in much of academia that there is such a thing as Truth. If you "personally believe" something in today's context, then it is "true for you" and cannot be questioned. Also, I'll just leave this here for fun: this video
