A friend of mine, many years ago, who was a teacher, told me a story: Apparently, another teacher at the same school had caught some boys having a competition to see who could pee the highest in the urinals. When reporting this to the headteacher, the headteacher had asked, ''So how did you react to this ? '' . The teacher who had caught the boys in this act replied, ''Well, naturally I hit the roof !'' .... and the headteacher's response was..... a resounding, ''Congratulations !''
@PokerJoker811 Жыл бұрын
William Castle, cinema's answer to P.T. Barnum, has a few facts that are worth correcting, because he is such a singular figure in the history of cinema and it's properly fascinating to learn about him. Firstly, The Tingler. The electrified seats were the big gimmick, but the fourth wall scene was a bit more involved than that. The scene in the film already rook place in a movie theater, in which the title creature escapes. The woman who was planted in the audience to faint as a gimmick passed out at roughly the same time as a random woman in the scene did so, which is how they get away with the announcement of "a woman has just fainted", **after** which Vincent Price announced that the creature is loose in the theater. The other is those voting cards. They were obly used for one specific film called Mr. Sardonicus. The film was billed as "the only film with the Punishment Poll", which were the cards in question. At the end of the film, Castle appears on screen (as he usually does in his films) and says he can't do a film without a gimmick, and asks the audience if the villain, who had a mildly sad backstory, had been punished enough for his crimes. The cards had a drawing of a fist with a thumb sticking out, and you held them above eyour head thumbs-up or thumbs-down. But this was all a farce, because there *was* no lenient or merciful ending. He only shot the single ending that he claimed "every audience voted for", in which the villain is shown No Mercy.
@thisravenhasflown01011 ай бұрын
I love Richard's buzzer. That is all😂 When you realize you just watched this a month ago... and are still happy to watch the episode 😊 9:29 "The great brown streak" Richard is too hilarious 😂 nice to see psychics were scamming folks then as they are now😂 11:33 "Is this from their website?" 😂😂 Ah so delightful to have David Mitchell on!
@vivienneoneill54003 ай бұрын
Yes it is great to see David ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@vickyseverson87823 ай бұрын
The skunk segment was quite hilarious! Ironically, my dog got skunk sprayed just this morning! Fortunately, ever since I got skunked, years ago, I keep a product that dissipates the smell, in my cupboard. So my dog & I have that experience in common❤😂😂
@johnburnside7828 Жыл бұрын
Boxes of native soil for "earth bathing". Sounds like vampires!
@RealBradMiller Жыл бұрын
*You're Dead by Norma Tanega starts to play*
@billtudman7867 Жыл бұрын
Patricia Routledge as Madame Fontana, the medium, in the Steptoe and Son episode "Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard" came to mind.
@jb888888888 Жыл бұрын
22:45 Sandi is talking about _Mr. Sardonicus._ It was actually a choice between Mr. Sardonicus having a merciful or a punishing ending. In reality there was no merciful ending ever filmed.
@harrybruijs2614 Жыл бұрын
Because of scurvy the Dutch VOC put a colony at Capetown. The ships could stock up.on fresh greens, meat and fruit
@carls1959 Жыл бұрын
I grew up in the city and the country. I'll take the country smells any time. I never minded the smell of skunks and actually enjoy that smell on a highway at times, as long it was for a short stretch. I may have made this same comment on a previous viewing, but I couldn't remember. I came back months later to mention that a feminine hygiene douche will remove the smell of a skunk. Thanks for sharing.
@garethskowronski-ld2rd Жыл бұрын
My brother should have had nicknamed the squirt. He did the same in primary school and managed to get the principal who was walking by.
@dcs002 Жыл бұрын
Somebody screwed up the ethanol issue. Ethanol is the alcohol we drink. It's safe as long as we drink it safely, though it burns a bit going down. It is also a preservative. That's why people sometimes describe a drunk person as being pickled. When ethanol is sold in the US as a preservative, or for other non-beverage use, it is adulterated (or "denatured"), meaning another chemical is added to make you sick if you drink it. That avoids the beverage taxes and BATFE involvement.
@squiglemcsquigle8414 Жыл бұрын
They pretty clearly say ethanol and formaldehyde and I can tell you now that you do not want to drink formaldehyde. Also ethanol percentages above 70% is extremely bad for you and pure ethanol is absolutely toxic
@dcs002 Жыл бұрын
@@squiglemcsquigle8414 Pure ethanol is no more dangerous than if it is mixed with water and aged in an oak barrel to make it into whiskey. They sell nearly pure ethanol in the US under the brand Everclear as a beverage. It's... I think 95.5% ethanol. For lab use you can get 100% ethanol, but the difference between that and Everclear is meaningless, except for the taxes you have to pay. The only difference is whether you can tolerate the burn as you swallow it. It's the same ethanol. Formaldehyde is found naturally in many fruit juices (notably orange juice). As with ethanol, the dose makes the poison. I've had a face-full of it, and it burns your eyes and your nose and throat if you breathe it in, but it's a natural substance in our natural food supply, and our bodies can handle small amounts of it. My point was mostly about ethanol though. It IS the alcohol we drink in alcoholic beverages. We are all familiar with ethanol. Yeah, it can be harmful, but again, the dose makes the poison, as with everything else, including water.
@dustylegobricks2 ай бұрын
"Ethonol is a killing alcohol" "Yeah so it's no good" 33:20
@dcs0022 ай бұрын
@@squiglemcsquigle8414 You're in the realm of everything being toxic if you consume enough, even water. One of the most popular rum brands in the USA sells Bacardi 151, which is 75.5% ethanol (151 proof). It can be a serious fire hazard. It burns like hell when you swallow it, but otherwise it's the same as any other liquor. (It's nearly always used as a mixer of course.) In some US states you can also buy Everclear at 95.5% alcohol. For some it's a stupid rite of passage, but not toxic in moderation, like all alcohol. The percentage of ethanol doesn't make it toxic, but the total amount of ethanol can be toxic. Also, you drink formaldehyde when you drink orange juice and many other fruit juices. It's harmless at that level. We metabolize formaldehyde in our livers. Just don't drink too much. *The dose makes the poison.*
@danielinthewolvesdenАй бұрын
@@squiglemcsquigle8414 Methanol is the poison one
@AND-od5jtАй бұрын
22:22 Since it's got Vincent Price in it, it is still "what comes up, when you google it"...
@michiganjfrog36619 күн бұрын
Over here in America we've been taught that the fastest land mammal is Zoe Lyons running to the portaloo
@DarrenEden-ub4vj11 ай бұрын
I googled the tingler and all that came up was the 1959 Vincent Price Movie, The Tingler. I live in Australia and the other day i was walking to the entrance of a Pub when something out of the window a few feet above my head. People the Sphynx was never a Sphynx it started off with the head of a Jackle. It was a giant Jackle statue.
@dbutler198611 ай бұрын
Boy the KZbin compression algorithm had no idea what to do with that cloud of bats
@wendypetersen75298 ай бұрын
Skunk is so bad you can taste it, but there are no words to describe it. It's like explaining the color blue to someone who is visually impaired
@catatonicable Жыл бұрын
Limes !, hence Limeys..
@harrybruijs2614 Жыл бұрын
The Spartan adult men had long hair. At thermopylea before the battle spies saw them coming their hair. So the woman cut of their hair to act like a boy not a man, because the man stimulated to be in a homoerotic with a boy who they helped with his training.
@ripdbtpoo1441 Жыл бұрын
English isn't your first language, is it ?
@thisravenhasflown0108 ай бұрын
Hmm... boys short hair, men long hair?😂 Maybe compared to other men but maybe to the WOMEN who let their hair grow since childhood ....not as long😂😂 Why do you need them to be wrong??😂
@michiganjfrog3667 ай бұрын
I think a skunk spray smells the way roasted pumpkin seeds taste plus ammonia, but X 1,000
@danielmetcalf Жыл бұрын
What's with the weird extra laughing and comments from the audience in the background? Very strange
@dickreckard5026 Жыл бұрын
It's the spirits of dead elves. This must be one of the ones they filmed with small audiences. The audience is miked from overhead in sections so whoever is sitting directly below is winding up really hot on the track. They should have just used old laughs or left it completely flat.
@ddubspecial11 ай бұрын
It’s during Covid so they had a virtual audience on like a zoom call or something. You pick up specific people talking or laughing because it’s all digitally mixed together.
@moi5219 Жыл бұрын
Lol, it’s so funny when Sandy is just SO sure of something she doesn’t know, like the smell of skunks. 😂 Bless her heart. I wonder if she can actually remember it and how bad it is in that memory. On the scale of bad smells, skunk is like a 1. Unless it’s sprayed directly into your mouth, but you could say that about about perfume.
@dann526810 ай бұрын
Some people are not effected from skunk stink. Some people are really effected by the stink.
@Henry8VIII810 ай бұрын
It just smells like super strong crappy weed, I'm surprised no one mentioned that in the show.
@ladyflimflam8 ай бұрын
I always say it smells like strong salami
@thisravenhasflown0108 ай бұрын
Matter of opinion but I forget, yours is right😂
@zapkvr3 ай бұрын
@@dann5268AFFECTED
@xhelan1316 ай бұрын
28:03 my toxic trait is that i actually really like the smell of a skunk......i think it smells earthy o.o
@r00pea2 ай бұрын
There is a pleasant aspect to it, it's probably all about the concentration though...I find beers with a slight skunkiness to be enjoyable, but I probably wouldn't feel the same if I was faced with the business end of a skunk XD
@cmtippens920911 ай бұрын
This episode was rather flat in the comedy department for some reason. I know that they didn’t have an audience in the studio, but other episodes taped under the same conditions have been better.
@rayprice70217 ай бұрын
Does Alan ever win?
@r00pea2 ай бұрын
He wins all the time, he's just happy to sacrifice himself to the klaxons for comedy and to keep the show moving along
@rayprice70212 ай бұрын
@@r00pea I'm aware of that, I said it in irony
@davidconger1987 Жыл бұрын
The earth bathing thing sounds alot like grounding nowadays.
@ErikSeverson-o2y9 ай бұрын
A posterior for posterity
@dbutler198611 ай бұрын
Um..... ethanol is absolutely drinking alcohol...do they call it something different in Commonwealth English or...?
@gabbleratchet189010 ай бұрын
It’s QI. They get tons of things wrong. Just saw an episode in which Stephen Fry insisted that kangaroos are “marsupials, not mammals.” 🤦
@amppuomppupomppu3 ай бұрын
@@gabbleratchet1890Kangaroos and wallabies ARE marsupials but also mammals. A marsupial is a mammal that raises its newborns inside their pouch. Or did you mean that Stephen was saying that marsupials aren't mammals at all? Then yeah, that's a bit of an awkward mistake 😅
@r00pea2 ай бұрын
Or what?
@shabath Жыл бұрын
What with the weird audio balance?
@ddubspecial11 ай бұрын
You mean the audience?
@KatteCatherine-m2n3 ай бұрын
Davis Helen Martinez Laura Lee Lisa
@kayemcmullenАй бұрын
Alan is so painful in this series. Screaming about things that were funny until he started.
@davidconger1987 Жыл бұрын
Funny... Brits talking about how good a mummy's teeth look.
@LeFouGallois Жыл бұрын
Are you from Utah, by any chance ? (asking for a friend)
@danielikelman481Ай бұрын
Why do all British panel shows have meaningless points to be scored?
@iamthesword1180Ай бұрын
Because of the Empire (I have no idea, but it's usually the right answer)😁
@julianyc422 Жыл бұрын
From the side, a skunk looks all black and skinny, like a big lizard
@RealBradMiller Жыл бұрын
Look like a lizard, do handstands like a gymnast. 🦨
@MichaelBeeny3 ай бұрын
Is it just me or does the laughter in this episode dive you nuts? I had to stop watching.
@vatotrucha1879 ай бұрын
Very white British advice, when you go to the Colosseum, dont follow the directions of the guides, do whatever the fuck you want because who is gonna do anything about it.
@chuljin3 ай бұрын
34:47 I'm surprised no-one said "I didn't know the Church of England had a diocese called 'Durham's Rectum'!". That's where I would have gone.