The fact that it took literal decades for Giant Tortoises to get a Latin name because they were just so delicious that sailors just couldn't stop eating them has got to by my favour historical fact.
@HRHDMKYT11 ай бұрын
But it makes me sad that those greedy humans of yesteryear ate so many of them that there are several species of these giant tortoises they ate into extinction and we’ll never know about them 😢
@kayleighbrown45911 ай бұрын
@@HRHDMKYT I know it's awful but that's just so funny. Like...imagine being in thay situation.
@oldkokochen15938 ай бұрын
Maybe Noah and family ate a few really delicious ones too. Who knows what flavors we may be missing out on!
@keenanwhitham956022 күн бұрын
For ages the giant tortoise was known as '🤤😋'
@allisonbergh44298 ай бұрын
“No Such Thing As A Fish” is a fantastic podcast by a few of the QI elves, which I heartily recommend
Is that a thing? Edit: OMG that's a thing! Thank you!
@alwayswrite2011 Жыл бұрын
How does this not include the "Parthenon Musical" and Romeo the frog?!? 🤨
@Joylevinstein2 ай бұрын
Or Peter Cushing lives in Whitstable
@FanFicnic Жыл бұрын
It’s always great when the actual answer is funnier than the joke answers
@fatherofdragons48809 ай бұрын
Sandy is the only one that could take over so effortlessly.
@slake97279 ай бұрын
I think David Mitchell would have done well.
@deadshot80778 ай бұрын
@@slake9727I think he would have done better than Sandi, to be honest. She’s got a bit too much of a smug vibe. David has the posh vibe but throws out enough self-loathing to be charming.
@Satanperkele7 ай бұрын
True, but I still don't find her funny
@MrMuz997 ай бұрын
I think Sandy is a Great host. Keep in mind the way she speaks was chosen, not by default. She's said so herself, previously.
@deadshot80777 ай бұрын
@@MrMuz99 what does that mean? That someone forced her to be so smug and patronising?
@trooperdgb9722 Жыл бұрын
They are both such delightful presenters!!!!
@aenamabag10 ай бұрын
Stephen and Fry are both great presenters, you're right.
@KNURKonesur8 ай бұрын
No. Stephen wasn't great. Sandi is great. Stephen? He wasn't great, he was phenomenal.
@timfriday9106 Жыл бұрын
that second reaction jake whitehall explain(the one where you wake up on the train) is called a myoclonic jerk. it's your bodys way of waking you up by making your muscles spasm. It happens more commonly when you're trying to go to sleep and you're in that inbetween stage of sleep and awake.
@trooperdgb9722 Жыл бұрын
Mine are so violent ive been known to kick the quilt right off the bed... lol
@rumpelstiltskin615010 ай бұрын
Gotta buy a nice 13kg weighted blanket.@@trooperdgb9722
@JKa244 Жыл бұрын
Despite his performance persona Mitchell is actually lovely at parties and a treat to chat with
@JKa244 Жыл бұрын
Consider the smartest cool person and the coolest smart person you knew in school and know that David leans towards the middle of either
@markloveless10019 ай бұрын
Are you serious? He's the doppelganger of a dear friend, albeit with a British accent as opposed to Arkansas, and yes, nice at parties, but even then if you got cross-ways with him...
@brianargo459510 ай бұрын
Sean Lock was such a treasure
@karry2999 ай бұрын
Come off it, he was only a limie.
@belindamay80638 ай бұрын
He is very much missed.
@Chuckf66 Жыл бұрын
"Big blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in" - C.
@brianhayes17606 ай бұрын
A p I
@SamuelBlack8412 күн бұрын
"Dog. Not a cat"
@chris...949711 ай бұрын
The Greeks used math in the mid-200s BC to determine facts about the world by quantifying and recording observations, then doing the math. Calculations were made based on the THEN-KNOWN fact that the Earth was curved. They made measurements of shadows, the objects that made them, the time of day, and the distance between. Eratosthenes did this to determine the circumference of the Earth. Aristarchus did this to determine the distance of the sun from the Earth. What makes this reliable fact is that the measurement methods can be duplicated anywhere on Earth, the readings differ, but the calculations come to the same result.
@matthewgregorio691811 ай бұрын
" They are called atmospheric rivers" everyone was just disappointed hahahaha
@MrOllieBD Жыл бұрын
I recently came across the phrase, “flogging a dead horse.” Almost fitting, one bot might suggest to another.
@ACBond-bp5uk11 ай бұрын
I had a really good belly laugh - did me the world of good. THANK YOU !
@stephanlaffargue11 ай бұрын
I'm an artiste performer, juggler/magician/acrobat and I've lived in france for 30yrs and the french do not shout ""bis"" at the end of a show to ask for more , they either shout ""encore"" or they shout ""une autre !""
@peggylee706610 ай бұрын
Stephen Fry - Can you please take over the David Attenbourgh show your voice is beautiful wishing you a great day we love you - your a big part of British Telly and we are proud to have you - an honour thank you for all your beautiful spirit - gratitude
@Gawriify Жыл бұрын
actually if you really want to get into how many presidents there were at that point (not counting Trump or Biden) The country was around for 6 years before Washington took office in 1789 as the First US president UNDER THE CONSTITUTION, we had 9 others before him from 1781 - 1789: Hanson, Boudinot, Mifflin, Henry Lee, Hancock, Gorham, Clair, Griffin and Huntington. These presidents were UNDER THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION. so following that logic... Obama was 53rd :D
@shirleykibbie514911 ай бұрын
Really, how interesting😮
@robbiwilhelm3780 Жыл бұрын
Love your videos need more of them
@terranceparsons5185 Жыл бұрын
The Man Who Never Was had nothing to do with Normandy landings
@markloveless10019 ай бұрын
Yep. Operation Husky (Sicily). They are not infallible. I expect you are a kindred spirit, but not everybody knows (sad to say). I bet you yell at The Battle Of the Bulge movie as well.
@OneWomanMan888 Жыл бұрын
Almost 3 hours of fun.😊
@timppaUT9 ай бұрын
So, Darwin wasn't scientist at all, he just collected recipes? Later scientists then misinterpreted his cookbook as a study of spieces? Sure! That shower scene was shot +50 times because Hitchcock was perfectionist, not because it had naked woman on it! :D
@User_Un_Friendly10 ай бұрын
Andre Konstantin Geim won both the Ignobel prize (levitating frogs in their own intrinsic magnetic fields) and the Nobel prize for inventing Graphaline. 😮😮
@salwaaj135611 ай бұрын
I ve been reading harry potter fanfiction lately, and now each time i read a description of harry's unruly hair, i picture Alan's. 13:18 i think he wanted to mention the french '' si'', a little different from' 'oui' '
@romlyn9910 ай бұрын
The book "I am a cat" by Natsume Soseki - was originally written in Japanese and the English translation has a foreword/preface written by the translator and in the foreword the translator discloses the end of the book. I read the foreword and it ruined the entire experience. I read the book until about 10 pages from the end and never finished it... So if you ever buy a book translated from another language, never read the foreword, as they may reveal the end of the book in the foreword. Read the foreword after you have finished reading the book.
@alfredthegreat954311 ай бұрын
I wonder why there hasn't been a US version of QI made? 🤔
@jennifermcdonald54328 ай бұрын
Because they couldn’t find one single person in the entire country who has any brains!
@pamelacass96428 ай бұрын
The smart people have their own late night shows.
@louiselincoln11 ай бұрын
2:25:00 Quick heads up! There are lots of reasons for sleep. Memory consolidation and neuronal growth, cerebral fluid and neurotransmitter reset, growth hormones released to heal injuries. Small to medium reduction in burning calories, depending on the temperature of the environment. There's also the argument that it may reduce risk of being detected by predators in primates (who normally move to a safe place to sleep high up in groups). Although I think in humans that's less likely, at least with my snoring! It's likely humans didn't develop unihemispheric sleep like dolphins etc. because we developed polyphasic patterns and work in groups to always make sure someone is awake and 'on guard', at least in our evolutionary past. Being deprived of sleep damages the body and the brain, and yes it can indeed be fatal, as Sandi points out. Normally the cause of death is bodily deterioration from wounds being unable to heal (including the brain of course). Interestingly, being deprived of REM sleep (dreaming) in particular can cause hallucinations in a waking state. It's still not fully understood but the research indicates that this is linked to many mental health issues, especially schizophrenia and dementia. So...lack of sleep can cause brain damage, at least with regards to neuronal connectivity and restructuring. Within the context of evolution, the brain alongside our communal survival strategies have probably been the strongest 'survival assets' for humans, so sleep has remained as it is for us. It is sub-optimal but probably not something we can change. I think I'd prefer to be a dolphin though. Never having to fully sleep? Sounds awesome.
@Ben-no4lz11 ай бұрын
Yeah but that’s what she was getting at. WHY would the body evolve so that a lack of sleep was Fatal instead of some other mechanism unless there was some amazing advantage to it? The calorie thing doesn’t hold much weight. As she said, the average human saves less than 200 calories per night…..an extra handful of berries during the day would make up for that.
@WonderLady7 ай бұрын
I loved this show
@johankaewberg8162 Жыл бұрын
The *Analytical* Engine. That was the in memory program computer, all in brass cogwheels and pistons. Never built. But sort of founded programming, thanks to Lady Ada Byron, the first programmer.
@ecofriendlyadventures51549 ай бұрын
The fact that it was eventually built, and it actually worked as it should, is absolutely incredible. Ada Lovelace (Lord Byron's daughter) and Babbage just never got a chance to make it themselves, which is such a shame as they were clearly geniuses and well ahead of their time.
@danielavvollanum1917 Жыл бұрын
2:12:27 "Credit where credit is... due...." I suspect most of the panel and audience chose to ignore this rather dark quip - Well played Carr.
@WinstonSmith198477 ай бұрын
I have read 1984 in fact it's the only book I have bothered to read twice.
@Retrochild197910 ай бұрын
21:00 actually it was Charles Hawtrey in Don't Lose Your Head who said that
@paulinegallagher78219 ай бұрын
loved that bit, he's so jolly when he says it. My earliest memory as a child is those movies being on and mam saying to me 'Oh there's your man Pauline' because she knew Charles was my favourite. I loved how he started every first scene he was in with 'Oh hello!'
@michaelkluko3660 Жыл бұрын
31:04 …. Given the real answer , Joes’ answer was correct ❤
@mikey7496 Жыл бұрын
As usual, terrible amount of ads sucks the joy out of it
@Flaggyt Жыл бұрын
Which ads?
@Ali.Ratani Жыл бұрын
Can’t complain about free stuff tbh, buy premium
@robbieballard8914 Жыл бұрын
Dude your watching 3 hours of free qi. Get premium if you don't want ads.
@LogoSmith87 Жыл бұрын
Your mistake is probably using the youtube app, just go to the website, less ads
@davidevans32277 ай бұрын
yeah and un- skipable too...
@Robbo8ball11 ай бұрын
I speak a little Bisaya (Cebuano Filipino language) and Banana’s are called Saging. Although Filipino’s speak excellent English and use the word Banana when referring to BananaQ which is barbecued Banana.
@lenoreandreas40008 ай бұрын
Why wasn’t Hugh Laurie on tons of these?
@plaguedoct0r8 ай бұрын
I think someone got a bit sick of doing chapters for this one lol!
@this.is.a.username11 ай бұрын
@2:25:00 for anyone curious, you only take ONE claw off the stone crab.. and only males. They're quite delicious.
@Laudon12288 ай бұрын
I didn’t know gnomes were a Christmas thing.
@kjamison595111 ай бұрын
Rich Hall commented that he was 87,000 miles away from the Earth on the Space elevator. In reality, if the space elevator could travel at 60 miles per hour, a journey into space would take about … an hour.
@ruthk61810 ай бұрын
A lot of the heads were quite sentient... That sent me down a dark rabbit hole😢
@timfriday9106 Жыл бұрын
we have now found a river in the ocean that is the biggest/longest.
@yourpalharvey11 ай бұрын
58:10 thats the new version of the song and the bomshell on the right is (actually iconic) actress, Edwige Fenech
@TheEulerID10 ай бұрын
It was Tommy Flowers that built Colossus, not Alan Turing, and Bill Tutte who worked out how the Lorenz encoding machine worked.
@deborahduthie4519 Жыл бұрын
Baden Powell championed the Brownies in Britain.
@Fanney4711 ай бұрын
1:11:16 actually Alan Davies does get closes to the correct pronounciation. I don't know what Fry says. XD
@richardchisenhall387 Жыл бұрын
Cessant stopped being used because.. It was cessant
@daveclucas8738 Жыл бұрын
The number of VCs is wrong as only 78 were actual VC winners the others were DFC dnd other high award winning service men. The cenotaph was actually a temporary object up until the day of the unknown soldiers' burial. The coffin carrying the body stopped by the cenotaph and the new perminant structure we see today was unveiled. The people at the funeral were made up of only serving royals, the 100 widiws who had lost husbands and sons plus widows or mothers who had lost sons. No other people were allowed to attend. There was a notice that went out in all the national newspapers offering places and they tried to get as many there as possible. One really interesting fact is the name of the ship that carried the unknown soldiers body from France was HMS Verdun which was named after a famous battle in France in WW1 where a huge number of french soldiers lost their lives. It was dfliberately chosen out of a mark of redpect to those French soldiers.
@helenjones455011 ай бұрын
The casket of the unknown was made of English oak and a crusader’s sword, donated by the King, attached by iron straps
@spadebraithwaite176210 ай бұрын
There is no public transport in Hong Kong after 10pm and before 7am. So you have to get to and from the airport in daylight. I've spent a night there for going out early and another night for coming in late. There is one 7-11 store that sells cans. There is no bar in Honkers airport after 9pm.
@Ben-no4lz9 ай бұрын
I never got the “no such thing as a fish” bit. It’s just a general term like “mammal” or “insect”
@Ubique29279 ай бұрын
We used to have a gas fired fridge in the 1970s.
@pfranks758 ай бұрын
They can leak ammonia. In the early 1960’s a neighbor in the building where I lived was overcome by ammonia and died.
@apocalyptix2776 Жыл бұрын
Way too many ads, every 3 minutes.
@PatDK21 күн бұрын
Not for me… sorry bout your luck
@py20077 ай бұрын
Ireland's national colour is actually more navy blue.
@Arcturuseyes8 ай бұрын
I would buy a hill, build a vicaridge, then name the hill Vicar Ridge...
@peterc224810 ай бұрын
Too many ads
@Mei-eq6xk9 ай бұрын
But KZbin premium or get ad blocker
@travcat6611 ай бұрын
Gas fridges didn’t really catch on, except that in 2023 I’m running my caravan fridge on gas (in Australia)
@jonathannash847111 ай бұрын
I agree those sorts of gas devices definitely do have their uses. A large gas canister is a lot more effective at storing energy than a battery of similar size, given that batteries run down over time. I personally still love cooking on a small gas trangia (when camping). Electricity won't be able to replace that quickly.
@Nalianna5 ай бұрын
17:10 Yes, he was very "private" :)
@garyedwardgray754911 ай бұрын
The points question they changed midstream. “Don’t you not…” changed to “do you not”… so the correct answer is the opposite. At least they scored it correctly. Yes is correct for the first answer. Also, I’d like a good answer on the “implied” double negative. That is “not” followed by “un” or “not”… like Sandi says “not unusual” is fine. But I’ve had an English professor tell me it’s not. Frankly, I’m an English teacher myself and agree with Sandi. However, I don’t have the same level of education required for a professorship. So, I’m open to the notion that the professor is correct. However, while I’m open to it, I’m unconvinced. In my book, “not” in front of a “non” or “un” word is not a double negative. There can be a valid linguistic reason for using that arrangement of words. In fact, “not unusual” is a perfect example. And how do you say that without the SUPPOSED double negative. Just saying it’s “usual” is not the same as “not unusual”. Something which occurs an average amount of times is neither usual nor unusual. So, “not unusual” is both perfectly acceptable and NOT a double negative. However, I’ve had an Australian English professor tell me otherwise. I remain unconvinced.
@batintheattic729311 ай бұрын
Does anybody know a way of safeguarding oneself against Jimmy Carr? I sometimes need to leave the laptop, to do something, and that's the opportunity for Jimmy Carr to manifest. Is there a setting I have left unchecked? Do I have to disable auto-play?
@2nd3rd1st11 ай бұрын
48:02 Very rare, but not impossible...
@IvanJay2 ай бұрын
I knew the "sister" answer, but I don't know why I knew. ???
@AnnaPondelik-wb2gnАй бұрын
possibly because you read or heard somewhere the latin version… ‘suor’ i have read this in one of donna leon’s novels about “comissario brunetti”….
@happivaras Жыл бұрын
21:27 Sorry, Stephen I missed the name of the fictional character.
@PendleWitch0111 ай бұрын
Sick of the constant adverts
@budgiefriend11 ай бұрын
Use an adblocker.
@wazza108511 ай бұрын
If only they could see into the future and knew about the current state of affairs in the US when they were talking about the number of American Presidents 1:13:26
@deborahthomas3475 Жыл бұрын
Rosebud was his sleigh 🛷
@GothGuy8859 ай бұрын
since giant Tortoises live to be so old, a good Scientific name for them would be "Gigantis - Geritolis" Geritolis being from the name " Geritol " a vitamin supplement here in America ,designed for senior citizen's health needs.
@debbywillan51658 ай бұрын
Didn't Louis divorce Eleanor because she hadn't given him a son and because she was a bit of a scandal?
@emilybarclay88317 ай бұрын
Eleanor was the one to seek an annulment and Louis was eventually pressured to agree, and the birth of no sons as well as consanguinity were the standard excuses for annulment at the time
@deborahduthie45197 ай бұрын
Eye of Needle is a particular gate at a walled city with curfews and Bandit. Gate methods to make them slow to bend and crawl under the lintel about three foot, maybe ...but a man could bend presenting the head and neck to separated or a Camel forced to crawl through the gateway on their stomachs, which slows progress.
@nicks461211 ай бұрын
Since when is guava yellow?
@markloveless10019 ай бұрын
Ripeness issue. Yeah, yellow is pushing it....
@lynnettesue62409 ай бұрын
My aunty and uncle's property used to have a couple of trees, and they were definitely yellow. 😆 Stepped all over them as they fell when they were ripe. Mmm, the smell. 😄 I'm in Hawaii, so maybe it's a regional thing?
@RobbyRopes-hm7zf2 ай бұрын
. But stuffed full of ads.... A ridiculous amount of ads... Stopped before 1/3 way through
@AnitaJobby11 ай бұрын
Maltesers, Is It To 16:40 Loose A Will To Live, Sneezing Doctor & Imaginery Super-Compliant Wife and many mooore. That's JUST in the first 16 minutes as well... 😂 This show ALWAYS has me in stitches and I especially enjoy the best mix of them... 🤌🙏🏻👏🏻🤣💗😊
@men-enjoyer160524 күн бұрын
1:33:03 oh Scheiße
@TanakaMatsumoto Жыл бұрын
"I can't get no satisfaction" isn't a double negative... The song isn't saying i can't not get satisfaction, it's saying I can't get any satisfaction, and furthermore the "no" in the sentence doesn't mean no as in the negative.. Neither is "It's not unusual" a double negative... people claim these are both double negatives but neither are... Unusual isn't a negative, it's an opposite of common. I'm used to QI being pedantic but this isn't even pedantic it's just wrong. Context matters, and this just disregards it.
@willsmith3616 Жыл бұрын
It is 100% a double negative
@chucktesta7192 Жыл бұрын
Unusual is a negative to usual. And "I can't get no satisfaction" is double negative too as it would mean the same thing written as "I can get no satisfaction". Don't go around being snarky before you check yourself....
@tswan1086 Жыл бұрын
Most definitely is a double negative
@pootlingalong892811 ай бұрын
“I can’t get no satisfaction” IS a double negative. “It’s not unusual” is NOT a double negative. “I haven’t got no money” IS a double negative as as the speaker is telling us he actually DOES have money. Simples.
@samuelgarrod832711 ай бұрын
Defo a negative of the double persuasion.
@CommonContentArchive4 ай бұрын
I'm one minute into this, and already confused. When I lived in the Philippines, the word for banana was "saging", not "banana". There are several dozen major languages there, so saying "what do Filipinos say" is already a flawed question. It's like saying "what do Indians say" - you probably mean Hindi, but that's also one of a hundred languages, and only spoken by maybe 40% of Indians.
@catherinemontoya9763 Жыл бұрын
❤ 0
@SaloGemb-r1dАй бұрын
Young Melissa Anderson Christopher Moore Kenneth
@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 Жыл бұрын
02:46:17 Where does she live where fast food is really cheap? {:o:O:}
@paulinegallagher78219 ай бұрын
Bill Bailey had better not really believe that they never went to the moon; it drives me mad that people can still be so glibly narrow minded and unintelligent. Obviously you don't even need to see the earth from space to know its round. A flat earth map has Alaska and Russia as far from each other as you could get. A round earth illustrates how close they are from their western and most eastern regions respectively.
@seancherry8821 Жыл бұрын
The giant tortoise dialog is hardly funny. Its horrible and so frikkin sad.
@cameronadair542211 ай бұрын
The show is called QI, not QF.
@Genevieve102311 ай бұрын
@@cameronadair5422 You might want to read the video title.
@happivaras Жыл бұрын
2:05:12 🤮🤮🤮
@RnRdrum706 ай бұрын
God meant that it would be easier for a planet to get inside a shoe than a rich man into heaven, or a camel through the eye of a needle. Obviously meaning rich by its financial and status terms. Not meaning rich by aptitude or intellectual terms.
@terranceparsons5185 Жыл бұрын
The Stephen Fry episodes were better in my view.
@lkbergen11 ай бұрын
1:43:06 - it's weird, Bishops comments here make me feel really uncomfortable. I can see the humour in have a semi-clandestine language between father and son, but ine that objectifies woman like that? Don't think that's in good QI form. Weird how optics change in time.
@jam-trousers11 ай бұрын
I don’t think Bishop is being serious, not that that necessarily excuses it. But Bishop is like a rad fem compared with the likes of Frank Skinner. I had the misfortune to watch 20 minutes of his standup recently - awful, cringe and awful
@mathiassca10 ай бұрын
Sorry your wrong the flat earther exist in 2023 in the USA, funny that!!!
@slake97279 ай бұрын
*you're
@helvete98310 ай бұрын
Great compilation, shame Ross Noble was in. That man is so unfunny he brings down every show.
@stevendefeo84245 ай бұрын
This game is terrible. Wtf did I just watch
@happivaras Жыл бұрын
23:50 the fictional character jesus, called who?what now?
@roarasor7 ай бұрын
And when exactly did you lose your soul uk?
@roarasor7 ай бұрын
just adapted to having no soul i'd imagine...
@roarasor7 ай бұрын
I didn't sell my soul for a date. You sold your soul, for my date. Bit strange but alas, here we are.
@roarasor7 ай бұрын
thunder, feel the thunder.
@Space-Bunny-Starhopper6 ай бұрын
Enjoying that conversation with yourself?
@JonnyMack33 Жыл бұрын
Reginald D Hunter has never been funny, isn't funny at the minute, and will never become funny in the future, immediate or otherwise. If you hadn't realised by now, I don't find RDH funny at all and never have, and likely never will.
I think he's funny as hell. So hard not to mention the R word...
@pmuggerud11 ай бұрын
SANDI TOKSVIG DOES NOT DESERVRE TO CARRY MR FRYS JOCKSTRAP.....
@slake97279 ай бұрын
I can't imagine why she'd want to.
@alexread676728 күн бұрын
@@pmuggerud rude
@georgeholbrook188611 ай бұрын
I do believe there was a Tortoise who was a RN Ships mascot in the Crimean War who died in the 1980's or thereabouts
@markloveless10019 ай бұрын
Tommy the tortoise. 2004.
@user-ny9jw8oo5k10 ай бұрын
Jonathan Davies isn’t actually that funny. His idea of getting laughs is to shout as much as possible and look at the audience to see if they are laughing.