[QUOTE=tdn]
To all of you saying “I’d hit that”, you realize that she might be as young as 15, right? It was Miss TEEN USA, after all.
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You’re harshing my buzz, man. BOOBIES! FERTILE FEMALE! ME MATE WITH ALL FERTILE FEMALES AND SPREAD GENETIC CODE!
Seriously, what cmyk, et al said. She might have been nervous, she might be an idiot; there’s no way to know just from seeing her on stage.
[QUOTE=Maastricht]
My answer would have been: “First, I doubt if that’s a true statistic. If I were stopped on the streets and asked to point out the USA on a map, I’d think it was a trick question andf refuse to answer. But if the statistic IS true, well, perhaps such knowledge isn’t necessary to the everyday life of many ordinary Americans, and they choose to remember other information instead that is more relevant to them?”
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That or put on a sad face about the state of US education. And vow to change the nation, if not the world, with your year as Miss Teen USA.
Was Mario Lopez the host? He couldn’t stop from smirking.
[QUOTE=cmyk]
I’m sure she’s not as stupid as she looked there IRL. I’ve panicked in front of a microphone myself when I had to improvise. The beef I have, is that she and all the other contestants in these sorts of competitions are so obviously coached and primped, that they’re trying to force in whatever they’ve been coached on as well as improvise something that makes sense and has something people can relate to. The whole thing, from top to bottom is as real as a WWE wrestling match.
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I had the feeling that she had indeed been coached, but she hadn’t been coached for that particular question. Perhaps if they had asked her about world peace (or other typical beauty pageant questions), she would have been on safer ground.
This is my dream girl…and I’m a geographer.
Assuming she’s of age of course.
Smart women only bring me heartache.
[QUOTE=tdn]
To all of you saying “I’d hit that”, you realize that she might be as young as 15, right? It was Miss TEEN USA, after all.
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I don’t see any problems in the image you linked to, but maybe I’m just predisposed to like her.
It was a strange question. The only real answer is “Some people aren’t that bright, and our education system needs reforms that I am not qualified to expound upon,” but she knew an answer like that wouldn’t fly in the optimistic world of beauty pagents so she tried to wing it with a “world peace” type of answer, got stuck, panicked, and got even more lost.
She’s probably not the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but that sort of stage panic could happen to anybody.
a) There is no way I’d confess to hitting that .
b) There’s no way I’d confess to having friends stupid enough to be impressed to think that I had hit that.
c) The very first time I got GOOD 'n stoned on marijuana happened to be as a passenger, picked up by schoolmates on the way in to high school. I was too stoned to figure out that I really needed to ditch class. My brain was singing songs full of nonsense syllables to me. Shadows were stretching out long and oddly colorful. It took 5 minutes to remember how to hold my books so they would not slide out of my arms. Almost immediately I got called on to give a history report I’d forgotten about and for which I had not studied. I still made more sense than she did.
Not at all attractive, other’n she probably has the regulation girly parts and smells pretty good. I played an upper middle class wedding last night and easily saw 40 hotter women, some decades older.
[QUOTE=Annie]
Extemporaneous speeches are a bitch to handle, but don’t pageant models/contestants rehearse for the likely questions? I thought the US South was pageantland- she was the best South Carolina had to offer?
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Even then, you’d think she’d have said, “I think it’s incredibly depressing, and it has a lot to say about the state of education in the US. I think our schools need a major overhauling-and it has to happen soon.”
Or something like that. Gah!
[QUOTE=cmyk]
[wavy dream sequence]
Ms. South Carolina: “Oh! Yeh! That’s it! RIGHT THERE! GHA! AH! Unh! There! It! IS!! America! RIGHT THERE, UNDER CANADA! OH GOOOOOD!!!”
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You really think she could find Canada on a map?
ANYway, whether she choked or is dumber than a bag of hammers, I laughed in a slightly supercilious manner.
[QUOTE=eleanorigby]
I believe I am missing some of your standard equipment. There are too many women who are both beautiful and smart for this chick to succeed. (you really don’t get turned off by someone so stupid? You can’t keep her quiet all the time–imagine post coital conversation with her. And then go get some anti-emetic–you’re going to need it). 
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For lack of a better way to put it, you don’t fuck her brains. You do the deed, then you hit the mute button. Someone that vacuous may never know the difference.
Sure, it’s shallow, but bear in mind that she was participating in something that is the embodiment of shallowness, so I feel no shame for saying it.
I thought she had a beautiful smile. And I wondered why the audience didn’t loose it when she indicated the problem was that many people in the U.S. lacked access to maps.
(She was getting there - lack of consistent quality education seemed to be her point - I’m not sure about whether she was talking about U.S. education suffering because of resources going to war and foreign aid or if she was saying we have a responsibility to educate all the children of the world - I suspect she was getting the two topics the pageant coach fed her confused in her pretty little head.)
If this weren’t already published, it would be a shoe-in for next year’s Bulwer-Lytton contest winner.
And like Randnally said, yeah, I would hit that.
My mantra would be, “Sssh, babe, words will just cheapen it.” Later, “Buh bye.”
[QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF]
For lack of a better way to put it, you don’t fuck her brains. You do the deed, then you hit the mute button. Someone that vacuous may never know the difference.
Sure, it’s shallow, but bear in mind that she was participating in something that is the embodiment of shallowness, so I feel no shame for saying it.
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Gee, thanks, dear! 
In all seriousness, I think she was confronted with a question for which she hadn’t been prepared. For all I know, she’s a 4.0 honors student with a full scholarship to Harvard (although I doubt this), but she’s certainly not good at thinking on her feet.
Robin
[QUOTE=MsRobyn]
she’s certainly not good at thinking on her feet.
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[catty]
What she’s good at (or at least useful for) doesn’t usually involve standing.
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Damn skippy.
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy]
[catty]
What she’s good at (or at least useful for) doesn’t usually involve standing.
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Oh, SNAP!
Robin
[QUOTE=MsRobyn]
Gee, thanks, dear!
In all seriousness, I think she was confronted with a question for which she hadn’t been prepared. For all I know, she’s a 4.0 honors student with a full scholarship to Harvard (although I doubt this), but she’s certainly not good at thinking on her feet.
Robin
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I’ve got a huge case of the stage fright, and I might just well wet my pants up there.
Then again, I’d never be up there, knowing my pants-wetting ability to make an ass out of myself.
She should have been prepared, or not be up there.
She should have just said, “I believe our children are our future. So I am in favor of good education. And world peace.” Meaningless and forgettable.
Instead she did the intellectual equivalent of the light saber dance.
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy]
[catty]
What she’s good at (or at least useful for) doesn’t usually involve standing.
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Feet have their place in such activities, too.