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We already have had a case of it. American and British television are like chalk and cheese - we don't have televised spelling bees (and they would seem crazy to us), we don't have angry talking heads telling us what to think like bill oreilly.. we're actually pretty good when it comes to this sort of thing. Might be because we're a relatively old nation, we've absorbed a bunch of different invasions into our populace, wars, fires, famines and plagues.. there's something called the spirit of the blitz; brits don't like to panic, we're not good at outrage and yelling. Keep calm and carry on!

yeah is there a valid...purpose to spelling bees anymore other than to exploit the educational 1 percent of our youth?

does anyone from a public school ever win these or is it always socially mal-adjusted homeschooled kids?

what sort of useful skill do spelling bees teach our youth? is memorization a useful skill in the era where everyone has a pocket computer connected to the internet?

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Spelling bees would last hundreds of years here.. We write like we talk and we talk like we write.

@arekin that would matter only if there were missing letters.
Here all but 1 letter were solved and he clearly pronounced the missing letter as B.
This is not a reverse spelling bee where perfect pronunciation matters.

>> ^Sarzy:

...I don't get it. I'm slow. What am I looking for here?


The order in which they arranged the shots gives it a racist double entendre lol

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Yup. Eric's vid has a back up as well that is the same video. *isdupe >> ^jonny:

Based on the dupeof called on this video, it appears that eric's dead video is the original. I recommend using this embed to fix eric's, as the other one is cut off and has that annoying intro.
dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Spelling-Bee-Winner-Hes-a-tough-interview
>> ^blankfist:
I'm pretty sure this is a dupe, but I couldn't find it.

Honestly, what did these idiots expect when they put a hyper-educated home-schooled kid with probably very little social life on the air

It's just a bad mix when you combine someone who doesn't give a crap about facts (modern journalist) with someone who probably doesn't care for anything other than facts.

Is there anything of relevant value to a spelling bee in the modern age? I mean back in the good ole days, it was a nice way to encourage education, but now it's one of those contests where you don't have a chance in hell of winning unless you dedicate yourself completely to it.

It's hard to see a difference between beauty pageant parents and spelling bee parents in this case.

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*isdupe
>> ^jonny:

dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Spelling-Bee-Winner-Hes-a-tough-interview

Based on the dupeof called on this video, it appears that eric's dead video is the original. I recommend using this embed to fix eric's, as the other one is cut off and has that annoying intro.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Spelling-Bee-Winner-Hes-a-tough-interview

>> ^blankfist:

I'm pretty sure this is a dupe, but I couldn't find it.

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by jonny. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.