# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/81 "2015-12-14T21:55:54Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Are you lactose intolerant? Is that why you think ice cream is relevant? Re-read my post and maybe you’ll understand it. It addresses the startling deficits in cognition you’ve shown. I’m just trying to help, if you’re genuinely mentally disabled, it’s bad form to mock you. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/82 "2015-12-14T21:59:27Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Well, it is not my problem that you are a being with no sense of humor and can not identify a joke even with a smilie on it. > > So it is working fine for me, first by showing all that you are still incapable of knowing where Greenland is (Almost all **In** the Arctic as we always said, you only stupidly tried to claim that we had claimed that Greenland was the Arctic. and that was a lie from you.) > > And second: To show all that you have no sense of humor. Hahahahaha. It is your problem but you have no way of realizing that. You lied and you got called on it. I, OTOH, have a great sense of humor and constantly laugh at your 1-trick pony show. Thanks for being you. 😃 ---
**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 14, 2015, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/83 "2015-12-14T22:02:54Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Hahahahaha. It is your problem but you have no way of realizing that. You lied and you got called on it. I, OTOH, have a great sense of humor and constantly laugh at your 1-trick pony show. Thanks for being you. 😃 And that is lie #2 from you, I had locked early against many moon hoaxers and many other pseudo scientists, Even on that 1 trick pony accusation you are certifiably 100% wrong. And yeah, I also confronted idiots like you before. Again, me and others did not lie, Greenland is in the Arctic, indeed it is not the whole arctic and we never did claim that, that was not the issue but you made your cluelesness an issue. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/84 "2015-12-14T22:08:10Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > Re-read my post and maybe you’ll understand it. It addresses the startling deficits in cognition you’ve shown. > > I’m just trying to help, if you’re genuinely mentally disabled, it’s bad form to mock you. I read it the first time. You like to talk about ice cream. You believe ice cream is very important. I’m happy for you. However, not everyone is as impressed with ice cream as you are. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/85 "2015-12-14T22:13:28Z")
Is there anyone we can pay to have the git’s handle changed to **disingenuous**? ---
**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 14, 2015, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/86 "2015-12-14T22:13:30Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > I read it the first time. You like to talk about ice cream. You believe ice cream is very important. I’m happy for you. However, not everyone is as impressed with ice cream as you are. And you only demonstrated that you are willfully lying about not understanding what the metaphor was for. Indeed the reasons why climate changed in the past have been found to not be as important as the reason we have now, an increase in global warming gases released by humans into the atmosphere. ---
**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 14, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/87 "2015-12-14T22:16:01Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > How unimpressive. And unimaginative. Are you admitting that you can’t bully a fifteen year old. That’s so sad. You’re either admitting you’re fifteen years old, or this makes no sense whatsoever. But we’re pretty used to you posting stuff that makes no sense. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/88 "2015-12-14T22:51:50Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > You’re either admitting you’re fifteen years old, or this makes no sense whatsoever. But we’re pretty used to you posting stuff that makes no sense. Your perception is your perception. You assume you can be bested by a fifteen year old. I assume you can be bested by a fifteen year old. What you obviously lack is the skillset needed to convince more people to buy into your version of man-made-CO2-evil zealotry. Party on, dude. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/89 "2015-12-14T22:58:12Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > And you only demonstrated that you are willfully lying about not understanding what the metaphor was for. Indeed the reasons why climate changed in the past have been found to not be as important as the reason we have now, an increase in global warming gases released by humans into the atmosphere. Oh, My! Ice cream melts and that proves CO2 is bad for the planet? I think your 1-trick pony died. ☹ ---
**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 15, 2015, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/90 "2015-12-15T00:36:57Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Oh, My! Ice cream melts and that proves CO2 is bad for the planet? I think your 1-trick pony died. ☹ It is such a Rocky Road. Still, you only showed any sense of humor after missing the jokes, and it is too late for you to counter your lies and clear fake obtuseness. The point stands, **Seetruart** (moon hoaxer) and **cladking** (Piramidiot) wished that I was a 1-trick pony, you are **also** a failure even at identifying ponies. ---
**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 15, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/91 "2015-12-15T02:41:05Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > Your perception is your perception. You assume you can be bested by a fifteen year old. I assume you can be bested by a fifteen year old. > > What you obviously lack is the skillset needed to convince more people to buy into your version of man-made-CO2-evil zealotry. Party on, dude. Actually, I’m going to go with poorly-programmed bot. This thing can’t even pass a Turing Test. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/92 "2015-12-15T05:14:26Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Actually, I’m going to go with poorly-programmed bot. > > This thing can’t even pass a Turing Test. Does that mean we can ban it? ---
**Author:** ![Subterraneanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Subterraneanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subterraneanus)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/93 "2015-12-15T15:05:49Z")
**Doorhinge** , you’re a complete fucking moron. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/94 "2015-12-15T15:38:55Z")
Meh. I’d still fuck him. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/95 "2015-12-15T16:29:32Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > . . . But if he’s arguing that the Earth is not a sphere but an oblate spheroid or something like that, he’s right. . . . I was wondering how many posts in this thread it would take to come to a mention of this. Of course, I have read that if the Earth could shrink to, say, and 18 inch diameter, it would look and feel more perfectly smooth and perfectly round than a model of the globe. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/96 "2015-12-15T16:36:36Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Actually, I’m going to go with poorly-programmed bot. It’s nice that you’re dating again. ---
**Author:** ![doorhinge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a5b964/32.png) [@doorhinge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doorhinge)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/97 "2015-12-15T16:37:55Z")
> [@Subterraneanus](#): > > **Doorhinge** , you’re a complete fucking moron. **subterraneanus** , you’re a complete fucking liar. ---
**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 15, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/98 "2015-12-15T16:54:21Z")
> [@subterraneanus](#): > > **doorhinge** , you’re a complete fucking moron. QFT indeed. 🙂 ---
**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 15, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/99 "2015-12-15T16:54:58Z")
> [@doorhinge](#): > > It’s nice that you’re dating again. Sheesh. It doesn’t even have the language skills of an automated phone system. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-convince-doorhinge-that-earth-is-a-sphere-thus-it-is-not-a-sphere/740259/100 "2015-12-15T17:27:38Z")
Hey, **doorhinge** , you sexy bitch. Serious, honest question for you: You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise. It’s crawling toward you. You reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lies on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that? . [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=4) [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=6)