# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/21 "2015-12-12T20:18:07Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > How does someone pick the username “ **doorhinge** ” Well, he wanted “John Mace” but some other goofy guy picked that one. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/22 "2015-12-12T20:26:33Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > How does someone pick the username “ **doorhinge** ” Because “Knob” was too close to the truth? ---
**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, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/23 "2015-12-12T20:29:21Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Because “Knob” was too close to the truth? 🙂 I hope you plan on being here all week! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/24 "2015-12-12T20:31:01Z")
Should have gone with “Doorknockers”. More appealing. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/25 "2015-12-12T20:32:34Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > How does someone pick the username “ **doorhinge** ” I always assumed it had something to do with the “rhymes with orange” thing. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/26 "2015-12-12T21:09:42Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > How does someone pick the username “ **doorhinge** ” _glares at **Leaper** _ ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/27 "2015-12-12T21:31:25Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Am I missing anything? His attempt at overcoming his boner about [“Greenland is not the Arctic”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=724652&page=2) were made worse by claiming for _ **pages** _ that he was right because ‘all other posters were the ones claiming that Greenland was the Arctic’. It was the most idiotic straw man ever. It did not matter that it was repeatedly explained that Greenland was **in** the Arctic and for the purposes of the rise of the oceans, the ice over the arctic ocean is not very important for that issue, but the ice over Greenland is. As the way he did “deal with” with the ice cream metaphor **doorhinge** is being willfully obtuse and he is dumb enough to think that being that obtuse is meaningful. As for an appropriate name he should had been doornail. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/28 "2015-12-12T22:03:19Z")
As the OP of that thread, please PLEASE let it die. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/29 "2015-12-12T22:14:19Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > As the OP of that thread, please PLEASE let it die. Ok, just for you I make the note here that after the note from the just made climate change agreement in Paris I will not reply to that thread too. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/30 "2015-12-13T02:36:03Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I always assumed it had something to do with the “rhymes with orange” thing. Cringe! Orange deranged **doorhinge**! ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/31 "2015-12-13T04:45:46Z")
For the longest time I thought he was not so fluent in English, and possibly posting through an online translator, because his posts so often evinced so little comprehension of what others were saying. Now I’m pretty sure he’s just a moron. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/32 "2015-12-13T16:49:03Z")
> [@Subterraneanus](#): > > **Doorhinge** , you’re a complete fucking moron. I can’t teach my cat algebra, thus algebra is fake. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/33 "2015-12-13T20:19:32Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > For the longest time I thought he was not so fluent in English, and possibly posting through an online translator, because his posts so often evinced so little comprehension of what others were saying. On first glance, I saw “equine translator”. It is another possibility… ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/34 "2015-12-13T22:44:53Z")
Jeebus, will _someone_ explain or link to what he thinks the Earth IS, if not 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 13, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/35 "2015-12-13T22:58:21Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Jeebus, will _someone_ explain or link to what he thinks the Earth IS, if not a sphere? My guess is a [disc carried by four elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle.](http://www.blastr.com/sites/blastr/files/1680x1050_discworld-terry-pratchett-wallpaper-e1367902680361.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/36 "2015-12-13T23:02:21Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > My guess is a [disc carried by four elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle.](http://www.blastr.com/sites/blastr/files/1680x1050_discworld-terry-pratchett-wallpaper-e1367902680361.jpg) That’s crazy – everybody knows it’s turtles all the way down! ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/37 "2015-12-13T23:09:34Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > I can’t teach my cat algebra, thus algebra is fake. You can’t teach algebra to **doorhinge** , either, so its fraudulence is already pre-established. Your cat may be _relatively_ ignorant of algebra, but compared to **doorhinge** , your cat is probably the greatest thinker on the subject since the 9th century mathematician al-Khwarizm introduced the methods of al-jabr. ---
**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 14, 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/38 "2015-12-14T03:25:42Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > My guess is a [disc carried by four elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle.](http://www.blastr.com/sites/blastr/files/1680x1050_discworld-terry-pratchett-wallpaper-e1367902680361.jpg) Waitaminute, how are the elephants supposed to walk on A’Tuin’s back when they’re standing like that? Don’t tell me they’re side-stepping all the time. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/39 "2015-12-14T08:19:39Z")
They grip with their toes. Elephants have powerful gripping toes for hiding in the trees. They’ve very good at it, no one has ever seen them. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/40 "2015-12-14T10:02:24Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Waitaminute, how are the elephants supposed to walk on A’Tuin’s back when they’re standing like that? Don’t tell me they’re side-stepping all the time. The elephants don’t move. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259.md?page=3)