FACTS ABOUT CHRISTMAS! YOU DID NOT KNOW! Where Is Santa FROM!?

[@libbyreesbarresi7459]

they were called frost fairs and the reason the River Thames froze over was because of the old medieval bridge which had 19/20 piers/starlings which slowed the river down a lot and that is why the river froze, now the river has a much faster movement because it has less piers and starlings so therefore the river will probably never ever freeze again unless we hit anther ice-age...Oh and the bridge i talk about also had buildings on it too...awesome looking bridge too

[@James-iw4fz]

cool story bro no ones cares

[@libbyreesbarresi7459]

@@James-iw4fz but you cared enough to comment!!!!!!and heres a very interesting fact...IM AM NOT YOUR BRO! yawn if you think it sounds cool then you are sadly mistaken and calling people your bro in fact sounds stupid and very sheep like....try being unique and original instead of following the crowd which is immensely old style, very last decade , i bet you still wear your jeans half way down your ass too!!!! hahahahahaha moron

[@James-iw4fz]

Libby Rees go outside bro I don’t think your suited to this internet thing

[@libbyreesbarresi7459]

@@James-iw4fz go pull your trousers up and learn to speak correctly you sound like a right twat....didnt your mummy teach you how to speak?!!!! or was she as dumb as you?!

[@stefanmarinkovic1229]

@@libbyreesbarresi7459 i found that fact interesting, and never forget rule n1, never answer to trolls

[@gemmamalo96]

who is titling these videos. chill out

[@klaxoncow]

Indeed. The video title is a touch on the overly-aggressive side, isn't it?

[@ebossnz6838]

Whats wrong with the title?

[@chazdomingo475]

@@ebossnz6838 It reads like William Shatner shouting at me condescendingly.

[@mdtdbe]

How does the title writer know what other people know and what they don’t? It’s presumptuous and condescending.

[@zetetick395]

Yeah, upper case video titles always reek of desperation

[@bozieduble8541]

Also during the Little Ice Age in 1816 was the Year Without A Summer, because of the eruption of the volcano Mount Tambora the year before. It took a couple of years for the temperatures to return to what they were.

[@eily_b]

When Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein

[@DeadInTheFace]

Rob Brydon's hair took a turn for the better these days.

[@jovialjudy]

In "A Visit from St Nicholas" he (Santa) is "dressed all in fur from his head to his foot". Norman Rockwell gave Santa his red and white suit, the colours of the Coca Cola Company.

[@Cobralalalala]

Haddon Sundblom did the original paintings for Coca Cola, and he had been presented in those colors before that. But you are right in that ad campaign being what solidified that look as our notion of Santa.

[@rosemorris7912]

And our modern idea of Santa comes from that Coke ad.

[@zapkvr]

That little myth has been unbunked over and over. Coca cola did not invent the guy in the red suit.

[@zapkvr]

@@rosemorris7912 not correct

[@s_nunyabiznez]

Earlier versions of illustrations for Moore’s poem have Santa in both green and gold/yellow. The original Nast illustration had the gold color.

[@HalOBrien]

"It's supposed to be an _aide memoire_ for something... I don't remember what." I see what you did there.

[@smileyface5908]

As an Australian I feel very lied to about the white Christmas thing. I always thought we were missing out and now I know it was all (mostly) a lie.

[@somegirl558]

Heh

[@Dendarang]

England has mostly oceanic climate, it's never too hot, it's never too warm, it rains a lot and snows rarely.

[@rodjoass7284]

Yeah I know how you feel. Santa Claus? Jesus’ birthday? Flying reindeer? Good will? Mostly? My dad would take me fishing to avoid the fights that would break out. We’d come home heroes for 8 mins and I’d unwrap a pair of brand new double plugged thongs. 😁 Unroool, happy times.

[@smileyface5908]

@@rodjoass7284 sounds like fishing with your dad was way better than any xmas plans! Xmas fights were always a given hey. All the adults stressed, broke and drunk from the festivities and it’s only a matter of time. ❤️❤️❤️ love to you Rod, your a champion.

[@rodjoass7284]

@@smileyface5908 straight back at ya Yiggy! All the best 🇦🇺🤓

[@telemachus53]

That football's worth many times its weight in gold. What a moving story.

[@bren106]

In 1914 a game of football brought warring nations to peace for a time, but in 2014 a football can bring peaceful nations to war for a short time. What is it about a bag of wind that inspires such fervour. _(rhetorical)_

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

Mostly very low IQ and competition instinct.

[@joebobjenkins7837]

Too many people ticked off they paid good money to watch a group of guys walk around for hours and pretend to be hurt.

[@zetetick395]

The living wage of a modern day football player Vs The living wage of a WWI foot soldier in the trenches at Christmas - It's enough to get anyone '😡'

[@spiralpython1989]

In Australia, Christmas Day 2003, at Mount Dandenong /Olinda outside Melbourne, we had snow! Midsummer... so heavy that it brought our summer shade cloths down onto our cars!

[@travcat66]

We had a white Christmas in Lithgow in about 1970

[@somegirl558]

I love Australia... So bad I cannot "speak Australian"...

[@janed7774]

You have no Christmas Day In Australia stop pretending 😜

[@andrewthompson6908]

You should have seen. The snow up here in Warburton mouth Donna buang had 15cm

[@lilymarinovic1644]

​@janed7774 according to some people Australia doesn't even exist so it doesn't surprise me that some might also think we don't have Christmas.

[@Serai3]

The Little Ice Age has finally been explained - it was the Native Americans. There used to be millions of them on the North American continent until settlers began to arrive with their diseases. They were wiped out in an astonishingly short time, and that sudden lack not only of people but of all the movement and industry coming from them was what caused the global temperature to plummet. You can't just erase a population of millions and expect it not to have an effect!

[@nagranoth_]

do you actually believe that nonsense? The INDUSTRY of native Americans?

[@makinoahcelloduo9008]

Here in Canada, I think we sing Five Golden Rings.

[@Le_Royaliste_Perlino]

Same in the US, I was like wtf?! Lol

[@chantalfinn6173]

Bob and Doug Mckenzie version

[@hobbitassassin1]

In UK think we sing "5 go-Old riings" ......could be a midlands thing😕....

[@somegirl558]

Stephen could either send troops to battle, handle the most spoiled baby or rock in a band - you would still listen to him . He is one epic multitask of a man... I love british people: even when they offend you they are super polite about it... that's skill..

[@221b-Maker-Street]

He’s the very definition of a Renaissance Man - a true polymath. 😊

[@andrewthompson6908]

And the also make you feel like it is your fault

[@jclements007]

I went ice fishing one winter (1976) on Lake Huron north of Detroit (USA). Some idiot drove his Cadillac out onto the ice to fish in comfort. We told him it was dangerous, but did he listen? Oh no. He kept the engine running to stay warm. Between the heat and the vibration of the engine, the ice finally broke and down he went. For a few seconds, my friends and I (all Ford Engineers) laughed, but quickly called authorities. Unfortunately, the fellow perished before a cold water diver and equipment could be dispatched.

[@auntfanny3266]

It's the fish I feel sorry for 🙄

[@bluefalcon2099]

AuntFanny Right!? They can’t even drive the thing because they don’t have a license!

[@nothanks3462]

@@bluefalcon2099 Especially if iys a stick shift. Fish hate sticks.

[@nothanks3462]

@@bluefalcon2099 Especially if its a stick shift. Fish hate sticks.

[@zapkvr]

@@nothanks3462 but not fish sticks

[@howlinhobbit]

I learned 12 days of Christmas with the line, 5 *golden* rings. also not too many years back the people who claimed copyright on the Happy Birthday song were quite thoroughly spanked. this relieved the pressure on assorted restaurants who had to make up their own songs. Farrell’s Ice Cream parlors were especially relieved.

[@colinp2238]

I'm sure that when I was at primary school we sang five golden rings (early 1960's).

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Same for me in the 70s at a Scottish primary school.

[@adammcgee5488]

13:00 I spent too long trying to find out what that was. It’s Schleswig Holstein gemütlichkeit, Schleswig Holstein is the area in Germany and gemütlichkeit means there hospitality and how kind they are so Steven is remaking that it’s a jolly place

[@julianwaugh8221]

The Germans really know how to do wienachten.

[@Nastyswimmer]

Rather sad that in 1914 football was a peaceful bond between warring armies but in 1915 it was in the vanguard of the attack

[@TheHumanTheory]

Nastyswimmer and football hooliganism was born.

[@FenceThis]

In 1969 a war broke out following a football match between Honduras and El Salvador

[@josealbinosantosnogueira6013]

In Portugal we also open our presents on Xmas Eve. Somehow we share that tradition with the Germans...In Spain they do it on the 6th January, the Three Kings' Day. Oddly enough, Orthodox Christians celebrate Xmas on the 7th January.

[@Wetknees]

Hmmm yeah….somehow 🤔

[@vasace9693]

Orthodox Christians celebrate then as they use the old calendar, the Julian calendar, for religious events.

[@stephenroney3630]

@@vasace9693 And until 1918 they used the Julian Calendar for everything, so although, it was the 6th of January by our calendar, (Gregorian calendar), by their Julian Calendar, they celebrated it on 25th December. That's why the February Revolution,(Julian Calendar) was in March, (Gregorian Calendar) and their October Revolution, likewise, was in November. They changed their Calendar in March 1918 at the time they signed the Brest Litovsk Treaty, just after they moved the capital from Petrograd to Moscow.

[@psammiad]

I can barely imagine the queen making a casserole, let alone washing up afterwards! I imagine she gives them both to the servants!

[@emilybarclay8831]

Especially difficult to imagine it now that she’s been dead for a month

[@stevevasta]

@@emilybarclay8831 But who will decorate Stephen's tree? 🤣

[@THINKER43]

Christmas 1983 was a blizzard in Suffolk and a heatwave in Wales

[@matthewgough9533]

7:40 Camera shows soldiers standing up. Me: I see nothing. Are they wearing camouflage or something?

[@billyeveryteen7328]

My family is Mexican and we have Christmas dinner and open presents on the 24th. My friend growing up was Filipino, and his family did the same thing, so I assume it's a Roman Catholic tradition rather than necessarily a German one.

[@goneutt]

Billy Everyteen I’m told that Xmas in the Philippines is smeared out from September to January so the large number of countrymen who work overseas can come home to celebrate, but still work through December.

[@stephengnb]

My family is Roman Catholic, and we open presents on Christmas Day. My dad (who is German) grew up opening presents on Christmas Eve. That is, all the kids would go to bed early (about 6PM), wake up at 9PM (always just missing Santa!), opening presents, and then going to midnight Mass.

[@almostfm]

I was always under the impression that it was a German (specifically German Lutheran) tradition, but you're the second person I've seen mention other cultures that also do it.

[@molsy1768]

Its not a roman Catholic thing

[@FenceThis]

Molsy 176 more like the opposite

[@NickJay]

What does Alan say at 2:40 after what does the Queen do after eating Christmas lunch? It gets a big laugh but I can't make it out at all.

[@decodolly1535]

"Has a crap"

[@NickJay]

@@decodolly1535 Thanks. :)

[@TheYeetusLord]

Depending how much you like to go wild, *every* Christmas is a “white” Christmas.

[@Ryan6.022]

By any chance did you have Christmas at Dr. Sigmond Freud's he was very generous with his nose candy.

[@U2QuoZepplin]

When addressing “Baldrick ,” I’m surprised Stephen didn’t do it in his General Melchet persona.

[@marccoote9106]

@@U2QuoZepplin he did when one of the privates from army came on stage

[@nobuzzlitebeer7258]

And with that it's only 3 sleeps till the next one.

[@andyachilleos5013silvereagle]

I wish you was justaguyfrom Swansea

[@gadget850]

A 2015 lawsuit found that Warner Chappell Music never had a proper copyright 'Happy Birthday to You' and it was de facto public domain.

[@susanrascone2098]

I can't remember not having a white Christmas where I live in Canada.

[@kirk93814]

It always snows at Christmas in Winnipeg.

[@shakesfirst2443]

Funny that.

[@Lukiel666]

Vancouver it always seems to rain on Christmas.

[@danutagajewski3330]

@@Lukiel666 agree! I was just going to reply to Susan, "not in bloody Vancouver, it always rains here!" Actually, I remember one or two non-snow Christmases in Montreal too (back in my halcyonic youth).

[@Canuckmom128]

@Susan Rascone I'm an Ottawa gal, and Winters have certainly changed since I was a kid ( back when Dinosaurs roamed the Earth). This year is a prime example - this is the third Green or almost Green Christmas we've had in 5 years. In 2017 it was like plus 5 Celcius without a drop of snow on Christmas Day. We stood around my Sister's fire pit ( east of Ottawa) in shoes and hoodies, having a Christmas bevvie. It was fan-freakin-tastic. Just a dusting of snow this year, but yesterday we got the requisite freezing rain - they were actually warning of an "Ice Storm" which for anyone who was around in 97 strikes the fear of God into you ( my Sister had no power for 3 1/2 WEEKS, Hubbie was on a ladder trying to get some of the ice off the roof, ladder slid, he fell, compound arm fracture...let's just say it was NOT a good time). But snow patterns are certainly much different. In the 60s it started often at Halloween and hung around til April - kids would build forts in the snow banks at the end of the laneway...until one would collapse and kill some poor child. Climate change is real. Happy New Year, All.

[@johnhart9958]

I lived in London NW10 from 1950 to 1959 and I remember watching the snow falling one Christmas eve (1956?) when I was about 10 years old.

[@kevinw712]

7:57 and that right there is a key difference between Stephen and... well, his full name escapes me right now, the person I'm thinking of is I believe named Rory something. With Stephen, he's just always so genuinely impassioned and excited with the concept of diving into, exploring, and celebrating vast knowledge, if he's aware of the topic that's being referenced by someone else, he can't help but to start to join in. To relive the very topic thru language is one of the very things that gives him life, and he needs to catch himself from trying to "steal someone's thunder", and feels appallingly remorseful about it. Whereas the Rory guy, he will take any conceivable chance to start spouting facts more seemingly out of a desire to show off how intelligent and erudite he is.

[@michaeljamesgilfedder8103]

I totally agree with you. The guy you're thinking of is Rory McGrath. Can't stand him showing off. I have much more time for Stephen who, like you said, has a great love of learning.

[@emmapadgett1181]

It's not Rory McGrath

[@jeryth057]

Yeah it's Brendan O'Carroll who you might recognise as Mrs Brown off the telly 😀

[@Abigart69]

@@jeryth057 no he was saying that at 7:57 Stephen cuts someone off and feels remorseful

[@flyawaytodie]

Rory McGrath was rumoured to have demanded that he be told the facts about answers beforehand so that he could spout off.

[@stephjovi]

Santa Claus is not the modern view its the British and American view. In Austria and Southern Germany we still know that st Nicolaus was a bishop in turkey and we celebrate him with tons of candy on 6 December. Right after Krampus day.

[@FenceThis]

Present day Turkey but Greek

[@stephenroney3630]

And is it that part of Germany and Austria, or all over Germany, that they kids believe that presents are brought by the Kristkind, or is that something else?

[@stephjovi]

@@stephenroney3630 yes it is. Sadly due to American media its starting to be replaced by Santa but kids are usually brought up to belive in Christkind that comes flying through the window to bring presents.

[@confusedsquirrel]

@@stephenroney3630 the Christkind is a southern German and Austrian thing. In the northern parts of Germany Santa ( Weihnachtsmann in German)

[@U2QuoZepplin]

That’s it. I’m having a cup of Earl Grey right now.

[@malahammer]

Make it so.

[@sethowens5669]

I thought it was "five golden rings" not "gooolden rings"

[@JohnJones-cp4wh]

@Brains00007 Only oop norf.

[@FenceThis]

"Gold rings"

[@andrewthompson6908]

Imagine your living the the most overcrowded city in the world that suddenly with the river frozen over had 100 square miles of new public land free to use the frost fairs would be great

[@julianwaugh8221]

I was on my way up to Guildford Cathedral and had the same reaction á Damion in the film the Omen ,well not that bad but I didn't see any point in it. My brother agreed so my father drove us to an overlook on the hogs back( a big hill which had a Roman road on it and marvelous views) There lay before us the rolling hills of Surrey hedgerows and copses ,villages and farms rivers and streams all glistening white from a sugar coating of snow. Much better than church.

[@alexstauffer3359]

Santa Claus (in America at least) is a conglomeration of all the relevant European traditions. Off the top of my head: jolly old elf; presents to the good; coal/whipping/death to the bad; reindeer pulling a sleigh; appears at the darkest night (midwinter)...

[@killianoshaughnessy1174]

Santa, Lord of Coal

[@lab35982]

Bashing the Queen wasn't necessary. At least she had all of her teeth.

[@chrisgraham2904]

Every Christmas Day is a White Christmas...and every day for the next four months following. Hello from Canada!

[@TheSgtsMess]

I remember the 1981 white Christmas. I joined the army on the September 1981 and can remember having to wade through a lake in the December having to break the ice first.

[@KaritKtana]

2:29 - please tell me what Alan said, couldn't make it out with the BLEEP!

[@douglashenschel]

Guys, what does he say at 2:30?

[@decodolly1535]

"Has a crap"

[@emilyb3176]

Watching this at midnite xmas eve Merry xmas people, stay safe 🖤🎅

[@misolgit69]

I think it was 1963, if wrong please be kind, I lived in South Kensington, London not Christmas but 'the Great Freeze' I gathered enough snow from the road outside to build a roughly 3 ft high snowman, admittedly it was skinny it stayed on the pavement for around 3 days, we didn't get much traffic or footfall at our end of the street

[@catbeara]

I'm Irish and my dad always says we're supposed to open presents and things on 24th, and then the 25th is supposed to be for religious stuff. 😅

[@sweatshopjesus]

I'm Irish and my dad says he'll fight your dad.

[@catbeara]

@@sweatshopjesus On my dad's behalf: No, thank you. 😅

[@sweatshopjesus]

On my dad's behalf: You're welcome. Live well and endure.

[@FenceThis]

In Scandinavia Christmas Eve is on the 24th

[@somegirl558]

I love these "I'm a nationality" type of comments.. 🤣 ...you are irish: should make you laugh. ;)

[@matthewiles5714]

I went to school in Wokingham, Berkshire. In 1984 I was 5 years old and I can swear for the first two years of infant school I saw snow

[@DD-qq8sn]

You may well remember correctly, but to make a white Christmas, snow has to fall on Christmas Day, if it's already on the ground from earlier it doesn't count. I remember Christmases where we could play in the snow on Christmas Day when it wasn't 'officially' a White Christmas. Also, from memory, the snow has to land on the roof of the Met Office so it could be snowing elsewhere in England but not count - although not in your case, as the Met Office in Bracknell is just up the road from you.

[@local9]

Glad Happy Birthday is no longer held under a copyright (end of 2015) like it used to be.

[@marybenton770]

I didn't know that. Cool

[@eily_b]

Oh, I thought it still was. They could almost never use it in movies with a smaller budget. Too expensive

[@NotAfraidToQuestionThings]

Originally from Turkey, now resides in Madrid over the summer, comes with a boat in november... ...any Dutch kid can tell you this.

[@JasperJanssen]

And goes back to Spain on December sixth.

[@robininanest8061]

"Again. Just chiming in with a thought that fills the room. But wrong" GB John Sessions.

[@aintnobody3000]

I only know about the Frost Fares through Doctor Who

[@JasperJanssen]

Frost Fairs.

[@aintnobody3000]

@@JasperJanssen right - those two

[@zetetick395]

OK OK!! MY KNOWLEDGE OF CHRISTMAS IS LACKING!! PLEASE STOP SHOUTING AT ME!! 😰

[@janed7774]

It gets worse... SandyTockswig is next

[@Iomar1975]

General Melchett and Baldrick meet again. Bittersweet.

[@zetetick395]

BAAAA!!

[@pinkpanther7030]

Jo Brand what a nice hair do. Lovely🤔

[@zetetick395]

Ok, I'll guess I'll start... Christopher Biggins has up his bottom tonight: A Barry Manilow Greatest Hits Box-Set

[@stephenroney3630]

OK, Christopher Biggins has up his bottom, a Tetley Tea Biscuit Barrel.

[@mads4it555]

Priceless!

[@katrienvh4289]

"Woohiiiiiii" big klaxon for Steven... 'Santa Claus" is not "Sinterklaas" in Dutch. It's 'de kerstman' ... Sinterklaas is a whole other thing. Sinterklaas is 5 december in The Netherlands and 6 december in Belgium (we share the tradition of Sinterklaas) he only gives gifts to children. And Sinterklaas lives in Spain and rides a white horse over the rooftops to get the presents to the children. And he doesn't have elves.

[@RosesAndIvy]

Yes but Santa Claus is based on Sinterklaas, that was the point he was making. The Dutch adopted the idea of "de kerstman" from the American Santa Claus, who in turn is based on Sinterklaas. So in the Netherlands and Belgium they are 2 different characters, but not in most other countries.

[@johnnyjohansson16]

In Scandinavia we have celebrated Jul,long before christianity. We have had juleträd(christmas tree) , julklapp (christmas presents) , and gathered and celebrated with food, thousand years before christianity stole our holliday. Santa Claus is a deriverat of Oden.

[@smileyface5908]

I didn’t know that. Thank you very much for sharing. I will have to look into that more.

[@Sophie_Bannon]

*Facts About Christmas You Did Not Know. Where is Santa From?

[@THINKER43]

Who else did the 1996 comprehension on the Thouough fair on the river Themes. Mr Fry is the correct term for it the Thorough Fair

[@mlfeathers7527]

THINKER43 It’s the River Thames.

[@robertmcwilliams927]

The worse part is cleaning the reindeer poo off the roof on Christmas Day

[@colinp2238]

That's why they dream of a white christmas the snow freezes it.

[@yamanmustafa7574]

*Worst

[@therugburnz]

In mid Illinois, USA I don't remember except a few Christmases that it didn't snow at least a bit. I remember many that there was a foot on the ground and even more where it snowed on Christmas Eve night or day only. Doesn't that make more of my Christmases whiter than ya'll's. hee hee hee

[@graceygrumble]

Christmas was personified by the English in the 15th century. The name 'Father Christmas' appeared in the 17th century and I'm from South Shields, am 55 years old and have known loads of White Christmases! Granted, not as many in recent years.

[@choughed3072]

Lucky you, I'm from Cornwall and I can't remember ever having a white Xmas in my 35 years of life.

[@graceygrumble]

@@choughed3072 Mate, you live in Cornwall. In Summer, our sea temperature ensures that if you cut yourself diving off and scrambling up the rocks, it goes unnoticed. If the sea ever gets above 15°c, the jellyfish swarm. The south-westerly winds take all our warm, surface water to Denmark. You win some, you lose some. I am pleased I live in the north-east, because the rain in the north-west would make me emigrate!

[@bananan7]

What was the answer to the question "what does the queen do after the Christmas lunch?"

[@eily_b]

Probably "taking a dump".

[@FenceThis]

"Schleswig-Holstein gemütlichheit culture" Ah yes, hygge

[@Arcturuseyes]

Wtf is up with Steven's tie in the sing-song scene?

[@nagranoth_]

Sinterklaas comes from Turkiye yes, but Santa is as much based on German folklore as on Sinterklaas.

[@TheLionInWinter07]

6:07 Never knew Daniel Craig was in the trenches of the first world war!

[@chrisdavies5935]

Why was the 'Is it Twinings' comment funny?

[@privatespoon77]

Chris Davies Stephen used to to adverts for Twinings.

[@DerEchteBold]

Cringy adverts, some people say ; )

[@83gemm]

pvtspoon Thanks! I wondered the same thing

[@drwatsonca6945]

feel free to sign happy birthday now. It is has been put into public domain by the courts

[@Rony2453]

Stephen has the most beautiful hands!

[@sophiepedigree7139]

It's the opposite in Canada, we've only had a handful of Christmases that were NOT white

[@TJonLongIsland]

@2:30 How rude of you to literally bleep a joke. What's the point of watching this video if you're going to censor from us the parts that make it enjoyable to watch?

[@joealtmaier9271]

It doesn't get hot under a bonfire - heat goes up. I had a pile of wood and cardboard I lit as a bonfire - flames 60 feet high! Burned for 12 hours. Next day, sifting through the ashes, there was a large square lump under the center of the fire. It was a pile of cardboard, not burned, not even singed.

[@sharonelias-hudnall5550]

That is Johnathan Creek?

[@PureNeptune]

Yes

[@davidsmith6661]

Slight error - The ceiling in The White Drawing Room, also known as the Large Drawing Room is 14ft. 6 in. high. So a 20 ft tree would be a bit problematical. The tree is specifically chosen to fit and has just scraped the ceiling on odd occasions. It goes in the North alcove in the Drawing room - next door to the Small Drawing Room. And HM The Queen doesn't watch Herself on the TV. She actually dislikes seeing Herself on TV.

[@Floydrush-zx9wz]

You weren't the guy who broke in and sat on the edge of her bed, a few years ago were you? You seem to know a lot about her house !!!!

[@pseudonayme7717]

A feeling I share with her. The monarchy is a malignant tumour on the behind of Britain. The sooner they have zero power to affect our politics, the better 😏

[@emjackson2289]

I think the only one I can genuinely remember would be 1989 - 9 Yr old Geordie-life.

[@billykauker8152]

In the states it's golden rings rather than gold.

[@alixc1855]

lol. Cheapskates!

[@mikeyhau]

In Australia the song ends "and a wombat up a gum tree".

[@grahamlive]

It should be "golden". It scans better.

[@BenjaminQDavidson]

I'm in the states, and I've only ever been taught it "gold", not "golden"..? What part of the country are you from?

[@liammackay4026]

Benjamin Davidson I’m from the northeast, and I’ve always heard golden

[@bremCZ]

I lived in Australia and had a white Christmas.

[@grayb7420]

These days even in Canada we don’t get many white Christmas’. I am talking southern Ontario.

[@blackbird5634]

Brydon's follicly challenged isn't he?🤣

[@hobbitassassin1]

Planning to grab a daily dose of QI Xmas day 2020 😌

[@YourHostNathanBurke]

Xmas 2022 here

[@scottgordon1781]

Where are Andrew / Harry and Anne in the picture ?

[@danielburger1775]

Can't speak for the others, but I can guess what Andrew was doing...

[@pinkpanther7030]

A mini ice age during Henry VIII👍

[@michaelmoreton5042]

Its a personal thing. My mother who was very devout always spelt Christmass with a double ss, as I do.

[@robertgraffham6440]

There are 12 days of Christmas, the first day being 24th December the last being 5th January (the following year)! So 1962/3 WAS a White Christmas thank you! :-)

[@notthemessiah9243]

Santa is from a heiroglyph

[@ambeatch]

I believe the 12 days of Christmas is actually a Christian song

[@hawkpaul8735]

I noticed that in the song lyrics they showed 4 calling birds. This is not accurate. A surprise from QI, getting something like that wrong.

[@hawkpaul8735]

@Aslan T Vorlon Originally it was 4 colley (or collie) birds, an archaic term for a blackbird. It has also been pronounced occasionally as 4 canary birds but Colley is the original.

[@bevanderson6245]

hawk paul - to the extent the Netherlands is involved for all the various Santa Claus and Xmas traditions, a Calling Bird might more accurately be a Call Duck from the Netherlands and used as decoys. A Colley might be a nickname for a Call Duck/Bird. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_duck#History

[@auntfanny3266]

@@hawkpaul8735 Spot on. Well done!

[@decodolly1535]

@@hawkpaul8735 Yep. When I was at school in 70s, we learnt it as "colly birds" and anyone singing "calling birds" got shouted at.

[@fisherking7798]

Stephens' Dutch pronunciation is appalling and the sentence he tried to say is incorrect both grammatically and it isn't the actual lyrics

[@ninefingerjack]

That woman in the first clip looks so familiar. I cannot remember her name to save my life

[@rhiannontalbot1]

What does Alan say at 2.30 that has been bleeped out?

[@fiachraswaz]

Takes a crap

[@HDilk]

I thought it was Wa**

[@alexstauffer3359]

I've never had a white Christmas. ...but I grew up/live in San Diego, CA. Edit: CA = California

[@southerneruk]

I have only seen one Christmas day in the UK when snow did fall on that day, but there has been a few where it had snowed before Christmas day and had turned to ice. 1967 was one such year, the year of the great southern blizzard, Dec 21st 1967, you could not see more than 9 inches in front of you, lasted for 3 hours, school closed 1 day early for Xmas break, that snow stayed with us till middle of January

[@tomford5416]

tom Ford 0 seconds ago they are blocking me again !

[@myTERAexperience]

To be fair, i could totally see why the Irish would think you were a traitor since Britain refused to free them.

[@maxmatthews2463]

The 21st?

[@geoffreyjarvis1791]

If only Alan Davies were funny.

[@myleschilton3473]

Go the lads of D company

[@fredricclack7137]

That's 📞📱

[@granger444]

the only troops the germans wouldnt do a truce with was the canadians in ww1 . That was because we didnt take prisoners and would just say sure , then open fire ... Sorry

[@HDilk]

So when it came to war Canada decided to follow the grizzly bear Doctrine (kill anything thats threatened you)

[@Arcturuseyes]

Biggins surely has something up his bottom...