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Earlier this year Norway's government-owned broadcaster embarked on a stern Lutheran experiment with story commenters. Before being able to post a comment on a story, they would need to pass a reading comprehension quiz, to prove they had read it all. (Much like Keith in Mike Leigh's Nuts In May who had chewed each piece of …

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Facepalm

    It would be funnier...

    If you guys actually put the correct answers in the quiz and tested your own audience...

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: It would be funnier...

      We are commentards. We barely read the headline before having an opinion!

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Holmes

        Re: It would be funnier...

        Judging from the number of downvotes I got barely 1 minute after posting

        I tend to agree !

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        1. Anonymous Coward
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          Anonymous Coward

          Re: It would be funnier...

          > Judging from the number of downvotes I got barely 1 minute after posting

          I tend to agree !

          Quick, there's still time left to edit your first post. Change it to say: "Downvote this post if you stuff ferrets down your trousers as a hobby."

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      2. Anonymous Coward
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        Anonymous Coward

        Re: It would be funnier...

        We barely read the headline before having a socialist opinion!

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        1. AdamWill
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          Re: It would be funnier...

          pfah, I'm way ahead of you. I have socialist opinions before I even read the headlines.

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      3. Ugotta B. Kiddingme
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        Re: "We barely read the headline before having an opinion!"

        Wait, there are headlines?!? Since when?

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        1. VinceH
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          Re: "We barely read the headline before having an opinion!"

          "Wait, there are headlines?!? Since when?"

          I think that's the larger, emboldened text that sits at the top of the annoying page full of text you have to click through to get to the comments section.

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    2. Captain Scarlet
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      Oh I always thought you had to go for what was the funniest answer, so you can sit at your desk going TROLOLOLOL

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Re: It would be funnier...

        @ AC "We barely read the headline before having an opinion!"

        I read that as "having an onion" and thought "at last a kindred spirit!"

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        1. m0rt
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          Re: It would be funnier...

          This is just typical of Microsoft....

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          1. Aladdin Sane
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            Re: It would be funnier...

            @OP - That whooshing noise you hear is the joke flying right past you.

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          2. Kane
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            Re: It would be funnier...

            "This is just typical of Microsoft...."

            No, I have to disagree, brown sauce (whatever brand) is not appropriate for a bacon sandwich, it has to be tomato ketchup, every time. Brown sauce only belongs in a sausage sandwich.

            And you can keep you opinion about sweet tea to yourself, thank you very much!

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        2. Captain Scarlet
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          "I read that as "having an onion""

          Damnit now I am instantly hungry wanting anything with fried onions

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Interesting experiment but...

    If this were rolled-out more widely, who would write the questions?

    a) The article author? (With the risk that all answers are deliberately wrong so no comments can be made.)

    b) A moderator? (With the risk that the mod has misunderstood the article.)

    c) Someone paid for by the site's advertisers? (With the risk that any answer that names the sponsors is automatically the 'right' one.)

    Yep, (c) it is then.

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    1. LewisRage
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      Re: Interesting experiment but...

      Get an A.I. to do it

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    2. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken
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      Re: Interesting experiment but...

      Do the moderators actually read the articles?

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  4. Hans Neeson-Bumpsadese Silver badge

    Quiz answers

    The correct answers are, of course, "Norway", "Mike Leigh" and (according to Baldrick IIRC) "some beans"

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    1. Paul Woodhouse
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      You need to put a spoiler alert on that post...

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    2. Just Enough
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      "... plus that one."

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    3. Charlie Clark Silver badge
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      Oh yes, there we have the mainstream media trying to brainwash us again! The correct answer to the last question according to Sergeant Detritus is "lots"!

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      1. eldakka
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        Since trolls use a base 3 numbering system (1, 2, lots, lots 1, lots 2, lots lots) it'd be lots 2 = 5.

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    4. Anonymous Coward
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      The correct answers are, of course, "Norway", "Mike Leigh" and (according to Baldrick IIRC) "some beans"

      My answer was just "No". The question being about enabling JavaScript to take the quiz.

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  5. Alistair
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    OutRageUs

    OMG!

    (rant rant rant) {whine, whinge bitch}

    !!!! !!!!! !!!!! BLOCKCAPS FOUR SHOUTIES !!!!!! !!!!!!

    /webcommentard

    Personally I suspect that it would not matter if the reader managed to get all the Q's correct, they'd still manage to misinterpret things and find some way to turn the article into either a left wing issue or a right wing issue. I've found the amount of stupid on the loose in the interwebs lately to be almost overwhelming.

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    1. Allan George Dyer
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      I am absolutely disgusted at the price of five beans nowadays. I blame the government!

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      1. Boris the Cockroach Silver badge
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        Its the results of brexit... bet them old foogies dreaming of WW2 and empire didn't expect that

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        "I am absolutely disgusted at the price of five beans nowadays."

        I'm all right, Jack.

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      "I've found the amount of stupid on the loose in the interwebs lately to be almost overwhelming."

      If only it would stay there and not spill out into the real world.

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  6. Gulraj Rijhwani

    Funny guy doesn't get funny. Pictures at 11.

    *Facepalm*

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    1. Sir Runcible Spoon
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      I really can't tell if your lack of facepalm icon was deliberately ironic or just another case of 'you can't fix stupid' :)

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    Can I be the first to express my anger that Norway are building a quiz wall, what we need in the current climate is less walls.

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    1. Nik 2
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      We have to have walls, because without walls we wouldn't need Gates or Windows.

      I'll get my (very old) coat.

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      Fewer.

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      1. Steve K
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        True, but...

        Correct, unless they are referring to the ice cream (although they would have used a capital "W" there, I suppose).

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        Fewer

        Good point but what about "10 Items or Less"?

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        1. Sir Runcible Spoon
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          "Good point but what about "10 Items or Less"?"

          Does the basket count as one of the items?

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        2. David Nash Silver badge
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          "Good point but what about "10 Items or Less"?"

          That's just wrong, obviously.

          Actually I seem to recall reading an article about a supermarket shamed into changing this.

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      3. phils
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        Perhaps they want just as many walls but smaller ones.

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      4. Doctor Syntax Silver badge
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        "Fewer."

        No, less. You need the walls to be small enough to climb over.

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    3. Charlie Clark Silver badge
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      Can I be the first to express my anger that Norway are building a quiz wall, what we need in the current climate is less walls.

      You eco-socialists seem to blame climate change for everything!

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      1. hnwombat
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        Mr. President, we must not allow a quiz wall gap!

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  8. Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse

    Answers...

    Liberia

    Shane Meadows

    6 beans

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    1. magickmark
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      Swedish Chef

      Shane Meadows

      Sean Bean

      There corrected that for you!!

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      1. Sir Runcible Spoon
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        Re: Answers...

        Professor Yaffle

        On the bookshelf

        With a sneery remark. Nya, nya, nyaarrr.

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        @magickmark -- Re: Answers...

        Swedish Chef

        Isker Doo

        Botk! Bork! Bork!

        There fixed it for you.

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  9. Anonymous Coward
    Headmaster

    Pedant Power!

    "The experiment was conducted by the national broadcaster of which Scandinavian country?"

    Tsk, you included Finland in the list of 'Scandinavian' countries. Schoolboy error, it's not on the peninsular. Now had you asked for 'Nordic' or more acurately, Fenno-Scandinavia (or, I'll let you off with Fennoscandia) I would have let this pass. As it stands, you are being removed from my bookmarks for shoddy, shoddy journalism. Hang your heads......

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    1. I ain't Spartacus Gold badge
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      Re: Pedant Power!

      I see your Tsk, and raise you a Tsk Tsk. Denmark isn't on the Scandinavian Peninsula either - but is in Scandinavia.

      Also both you and El Reg are wrong. The area is actually called Scandiwegia... Which includes Finland, and any other country that makes depressing TV dramas, where nobody says much but everyone wears really chunky sweaters.

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