# I can't convince doorhinge that Earth is a sphere; thus, it is not a sphere **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 12, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259 "2015-12-12T18:01:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Subterraneanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Subterraneanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subterraneanus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/1 "2015-12-12T18:01:38Z")
**Doorhinge** , you’re a complete fucking moron. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/2 "2015-12-12T18:03:19Z")
Link, maybe, so we can actually see what the argument is about? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/3 "2015-12-12T18:08:52Z")
No link is required to agree that **doorhinge** is a wing nut. I think his moment in the sun is defending the cops for shooting the kid in Walmart who had a toy gun, but when a white guy was menacing Walmart patrons by loading and racking a real shotgun, he argued that it was simply a good way to test out a gun you may wish to buy. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/4 "2015-12-12T18:12:17Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > No link is required to agree that **doorhinge** is a wing nut. > > I think his moment in the sun is defending the cops for shooting the kid in Walmart who had a toy gun, but when a white guy was menacing Walmart patrons by loading and racking a real shotgun, he argued that it was simply a good way to test out a gun you may wish to buy. Totally agreed that **Doorhinge** is an ass and a nut. But if he’s arguing that the Earth is not a sphere but an oblate spheroid or something like that, he’s right. That’s why I wanted the link. I have no idea what thread the OP is talking about and I’d like to see what’s actually going on. ---
**Author:** ![BigBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@BigBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBlue)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/5 "2015-12-12T18:15:30Z")
To be fair, the earth isn’t a sphere. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/6 "2015-12-12T18:17:04Z")
It’s based on **doorhinge’s** trolling in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=772882) in which he’s claiming he doesn’t believe in global warming because he hasn’t been “convinced” by the evidence, while it’s obvious he doesn’t have the foggiest understanding of the evidence. Here’s a sample post. > [@You know, we should chat about global warming](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-we-should-chat-about-global-warming/735365/494): > > (post shortened) > > Hahahaha. You just can’t seem to comprehend the fact that the voters haven’t fully accepted your version of man-made-C02-is-evil and instead choose to elect representatives that you don’t approve of. I’m shocked. Shocked. That you can’t figure out a way to convince more people that your version of man-made-C02-is-evil is the believable version. But I’m rooting for you. > > Go **GIGObuster**! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/7 "2015-12-12T18:17:20Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Totally agreed that **Doorhinge** is an ass and a nut. . Would you say he’s “unhinged”? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/8 "2015-12-12T18:18:07Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Totally agreed that **Doorhinge** is an ass and a nut. But if he’s arguing that the Earth is not a sphere but an oblate spheroid or something like that, he’s right. That’s why I wanted the link. I have no idea what thread the OP is talking about and I’d like to see what’s actually going on. You’ll regret it.😉 That thread has toxic levels of stupid on the part of **doorhinge.** ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/9 "2015-12-12T18:21:31Z")
Ugh. All right. Never mind, then. I didn’t realize it was a climate change thread. I’ve been avoiding those here for years. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/10 "2015-12-12T18:29:42Z")
That global warming thread is fucked up. I took it, at the start, to be kind of a joke about the _other_ global warming thread that was soon to vanish. But holy shit! That thread is stupider than the previous one, and Doorhinge may not even realize the magnitude of his accomplishment. If anyone is unfamiliar with this, I would advise a perusal of that thread- BUT DON’T! REALLY! DON’T!! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/11 "2015-12-12T18:59:44Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Ugh. All right. Never mind, then. I didn’t realize it was a climate change thread. I’ve been avoiding those here for years. You may wish to reconsider in the case of this thread. Like you, I took a hard pass on the infamous thread that got closed last month. For me, a large part of my reason for doing so was that I couldn’t bring myself to wade through the walls-o-text that epitomized **FX Mastermind** ’s posting style. This one was actually started as a kind of celebration of his departure, and of the expectation that WITH his departure, the board could host rational discussion on the topic. Then **doorhinge** decided to show up and offer his two cents. Maybe it’s just because I’ve had him on ignore for a couple of years, but I’m finding this one to be a much easier read. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/12 "2015-12-12T19:07:19Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > No link is required to agree that **doorhinge** is a wing nut. > > I think his moment in the sun is defending the cops for shooting the kid in Walmart who had a toy gun, but when a white guy was menacing Walmart patrons by loading and racking a real shotgun, he argued that it was simply a good way to test out a gun you may wish to buy. That boy has never been out in the sun in his life, considering the bridge that he spends all of his time lurking underneath. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/13 "2015-12-12T19:38:52Z")
> [@BigBlue](#): > > To be fair, the earth isn’t a sphere. But we all know the universe isn’t fair! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/14 "2015-12-12T20:06:29Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > If anyone is unfamiliar with this, I would advise a perusal of that thread- BUT DON’T! REALLY! DON’T!! I have a ten foot pole with which I don’t touch that thread. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/15 "2015-12-12T20:06:39Z")
Will he at least agree that the earth has a certain degree of roundness to it? And yeah, his contributions to the other thread are some of the dumbest things I’ve ever read on this board. According to **doorhinge** : the existence (or not) of human-influenced climate change depends entirely on whether: 1. Al Gore’s documentary _An inconvenient Truth_ is correct in every detail 2. whether or not **doorhinge** deems people to have been sufficiently polite to him. Also, on planet **doorhinge** , anyone who happens to accept the scientific basic for human-influenced climate change is a ‘zealot’ and a member of the ‘man-made-C02-is-evil crowd’, which, so far as I know, is a designation he made up out of whole cloth. Am I missing anything? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/16 "2015-12-12T20:08:17Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Am I missing anything? His Game of Thrones theory is a bit suspect. And you really don’t want to know his position on declawed cats. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/17 "2015-12-12T20:11:25Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > That boy has never been out in the sun in his life, considering the bridge that he spends all of his time lurking underneath. Too much sun, out there on the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/18 "2015-12-12T20:11:33Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > His Game of Thrones theory is a bit suspect. > > And you really don’t want to know his position on declawed cats. Oh? Is he one of those ‘declawed cats are evil’ zealots? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/19 "2015-12-12T20:11:59Z")
The “other” global warming thread had a big bonus. It resulted in a world record for the furthest drop kick ever of a troll. In fact, that troll was kicked so far that he landed in a stinky little box at the bottom of Bo’s quarry. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/20 "2015-12-12T20:13:01Z")
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