QI | What Will The Apocalypse Smell Like?

[@miked8924]

They say of the apocalypse where the pestilence is...

[@thatoneguy3058]

What do they say, what do they say?

[@brianm6337]

@@thatoneguy3058 That all the smells are scented!

[@Ocsttiac]

@@brianm6337 Do they? Whatevaaaaa \/\/

[@bearnicholas7999]

You beat me to it!

[@ratholin]

@@thatoneguy3058 fight fight fight fight!

[@captainboots]

This is such a great example when the panel play off each other and go on a great riff related to the original idea.

[@ronaldmallette]

The back and forth amongst that highly talented panel was near perfection! Brilliant!

[@craigmitchell89]

I love these QI uploads but I wish the elves would increase the volume slightly, it just seems too low!

[@susand.1194]

And it doesn't help when Sandy's voice drops too whisper level. Turn on the closed captions.

[@JaneDoe-ci3gj]

@@susand.1194 no closed captions available!😔

[@davep5788]

Many years ago we came across a very dead beached whale on the BC, Canada coast. It was bad then, but a week or so later when a storm broke it up into pieces buried in the sand, it was like a rotten blubber mine field. It's a smell that lingers on anything it touches. 🤢

[@brianm6337]

I'll see your blubber and raise you walking thru a skunk cloud. And some got on my shoes.

[@seanclements6206]

Yeah I'm gonna go with don't touch the whale

[@luuketaylor]

Thank goodness it didn't explode with you there!

[@stratobungle]

I caught a rather large Texas Rat snake with my bare hands - had to get rid of it, it was in my new apartment - and it peed all over my arm, smelled like burning electrical insulation!

[@beavisbutt-headson3223]

Do they just leave dead, beached whales where they are? I always kinda assumed they'd get cleaned up but thinking about it now, I guess they'd only do that in touristy or at least very crowded areas.

[@puirYorick]

Coming soon... RACISM by Calvin Klone.

[@Damian_1989]

Calvin Klan*

[@babboon5764]

@@Damian_1989 Well maybe he Khan, maybe he Khan. Whatever, watching Kumar is like a video of Pavlov's dogs, Perm one of several stimuli and he bleats 'racism'.

[@sevro]

Sounds more like a Hugo Boss fragrance , given their roots and all...

[@ochayethenoo]

@@babboon5764 Any joke taking the piss out of racism and you get up in arms about it. Says alot about you.

[@babboon5764]

​@@ochayethenoo You must have been *on* the piss to get that so arse about face. A strain I know, a challenge perhaps. But try re-reading my original comment speaking it out loud.

[@kneelbeforeiskeletor]

On a side note, there's this commercial perfume called La Fin du Monde (the end of the world), which is quite a pleasant fragrance, complete with the scent of various seeds, popcorn & gunpowder. A rather different take on the apocalypse.

[@clarekuehn4372]

Satanic Luciferians saying a falsehood, presumably.

[@jpaxonreyes]

Isn't there a beer called that too? (Yep, here's a review of it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2XPZ5uXfspqgpY )

[@ambergris5705]

Is it by Serge Lutens? It has to be by Serge Lutens. Sigh.

[@kneelbeforeiskeletor]

@@ambergris5705 It's by a house called Etat Libre d'Orange. They have perfumes that sound quite outrageous, yet rather wearable.

[@babboon5764]

For purists there's Putrescine and cadaverine. Those are reputedly incredibly close & authentic. To switch the contents would be ...............

[@hughbrown1531]

Quite an accurate description of the smell of death, I've recovered corpses in all stages of decomp. It's not pleasant but better than rotting mice.

[@emilybarclay8831]

I once accidentally cut a dead mouse’s bowel while doing a dissection and the smell of the inside of a dead mouse’s arsehole lingered for days wherever I went after multiple showers

[@Beshman12]

What Will The Apocalypse Smell Like? We dont know, covid removes smells and taste

[@dahliaspumpski5837]

A COVID apocalypse would be a depressingingly pathetic way for the human race to go out

[@babboon5764]

Having smelled death at several stages I can verify unequivocally Alan knows infinitely more about the subject than that description attributed to 'Anna Williams, Associate Professor of Anthropolgy' has been taken massively out of context or she's clueless. Mown Grass? Rotting fish? NR's comment (below) is far closer to the mark. As for content - Alan, Sandy and especailly Ross Noble are *funny*. Nish Kumar seems to be a one trick pony looking for sad & lame links to 'race' to make it seem like he should be there out of sympathy.

[@danmar007]

I was going to write something very funny, but your comment would have negated it. :-)

[@markdauray264]

I would think it would smell like Nancy Pelosi.

[@telectronix1368]

@@markdauray264 "I would think...." ...but then you'd have to stop blindly following gop nonsense.

[@TheCornBanana]

I like how they did Sandi's hair in these episodes.

[@JaneDoe-ci3gj]

Agreed!👍

[@sawahtb]

I visited Colma in the Bay Area, just South of San Francisco, a number of times and there is a very distinct odor that strikes you as sweet. I just assumed that was the result of the decomposition after filtering through 6 feet of dirt and grass. There are 10’s of thousands of buried bodies on the area.

[@gnomevoyeur]

Romford is the cruelest of cities. Ross’s taste test sounds about right.

[@BrooklynJackBlue]

*Darkplace intensifies*

[@Jooseephh]

really did not expect to see romford mentioned but very appropriate

[@bubbaguy4411]

Axe/Lynx: ".....so uhh.....is that fragrance ..you know...patented? We SWEAR we aren't trying to make a cheaper version...just asking, for a friend."

[@joyl7842]

The worst smell in my memory is that of a jellyfish I decided to take home in a bucket as a child. 30 years later I can still recall it.

[@muskatDR]

Maybe its time to take it back out?

[@jacksawild]

Alan Davies is a national fucking treasure.

[@zapkvr]

I was just watching a live zoom with Dr Bart Ehrmann on the history of the Apocalypse of John. Fascinating

[@Blueknight1960]

The apocalypse hasn't happened yet, so how can there be a history of the apocalypse?

[@danawrigleywalkingstickand5677]

@@Blueknight1960 Or has it?

[@RamsFan93]

My instant reaction was sulphur

[@brianm6337]

So, the perfume and apocalypse both smell like the US south. Neat!

[@zapkvr]

Sally is lovely

[@paulcollyer801]

I have smelt decomp many times, I’m not sure where any of the nice odours come in; it’s a persistent and deeply penetrating smell requiring ALL your clothes And yourself needing a very thorough clean. Not nice at all.

[@zapkvr]

Smelt and smelled are two different words

[@paulcollyer801]

@@zapkvr, indeed they are. Your point is?? Are you saying I have Not melted down numerous decomposing bodies???

[@fulalbatross]

Not an expert in any way, but they did say the nicer odours are all before decomposition sets in. Which makes total sense. I've seen a few freshly dead bodies, and they do have a peculiar smell, but certainly not a bad one. Also, open casket funerals would not be a thing if the decomp smell set in at the moment of death.

[@babboon5764]

@@fulalbatross It depends Trust me, It depends Can't say I've ever thought 'now that's quite a pleasant smell' from a corpse.

[@paulcollyer801]

@@fulalbatross, so, the decomp is caused by, I believe, a bacteria in the gut that, at normal temperatures is kept well in check by the other bacteria, but as the body cools, this bacteria begins to thrive. Generally it remains contained within the gut for a while, and moving the deceased will result in a venting:- it is a very potent odour. Chilling the remains significantly slows the decomp, thus an open casket will not, generally smell bad. (Add to this the FDs adding pleasantly perfumed sprays to mask any odour that may be developing.) Those that are not found for several days can be, I’m sad to say, unpleasant, and are often not suitable for an open casket. Once you’ve smelled the smell, you’ll always associate it with death. Significantly, I have only smelled it in relation to death.

[@InternetEntity]

And nobody says something along the lines of 'early morning napalm'.

[@michaelemberton5998]

One of the funniest I've seen 🤣🤣🤣

[@mulgerbill]

I wonder if Sally is aware of the new celebrity fragrance "Rotting Turtle" by Simon Whistler?

[@AlwaysBolttheBird]

I want a 1 hour video if Nish and Bob Beckett laughing

[@JD_13]

If its them laughing at Sean Lock compilation videos, I'm in.

[@zapkvr]

You need a proper hobby

[@peltimies2469]

@@zapkvr Some men like biking, some football. But this guy, hes different.

[@AlwaysBolttheBird]

@@zapkvr is your hobby telling people to get a hobby but not doing anything yourself? Calm down

[@nomadicroadrat]

@ Alway Bolt Yes, and Miles Jupp as well.

[@sweetpeafairy2255]

Pretty sure a perfume brand called Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has done an apocalypse themed scent

[@kris5187]

Sally got thee vid!

[@ConstantChaos1]

Once you get to my stage of decomposition you just smell of old books

[@christopherdean1326]

Sounds nice, I love the smell of old books.

[@danawrigleywalkingstickand5677]

Found a dead cow in the woods ages ago. Apparently it had died and been dragged there by the farmer. Smelled strongly of Parmesan cheese.

[@JimC]

That's the rotting butter fat. Butyric acid, same as vomit smell.

[@LuCKyDuCKy881]

Low quality sound & no captions :( missed everything)

[@oh8wingman]

Actually, for some of us, the smell of the apocalypse will smell like burning toast. Many people complain of smelling it just before they have a stroke..............

[@babboon5764]

You can get all kinds of weird but recognised smells if something (so yep, a strok can do it) disrupts Temporal Lobe functioning. Its also one of the important S&S indicating Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (which is a pretty rare but interesting condition).

[@NitroIndigo]

I thought that was just John Barrowman's husband gaslighting him.

[@snazzypazzy]

It's a myth. While disturbances of smell are possible, it's a very uncommon sign of strokes. The whole toast thing was just made up I think. Remember FAST: face (facial muscles that don't move symmetrically), arm (patient can't move arm), speach (patient can't speak, speaks slurred, suddenly with a strange accent, sudden loss of word fluidity or vocabulary, sudden jumbling of words, patient doesn't make sense), and time (note the exact time the complaints started whenever possible). 90% of strokes are located in the mca - thye usually give these type of symptoms.

[@lima1944]

In the iconic novel Moby-Dick, Herman Melville described exactly what the apoclypse smelled like. His narrator, the whaling sailor Ishmael, descibes the "try-works", which was used aboard ship to turn the masses of fresh-cut whale-blubber into oil: '...Here be it said that in a whaling voyage the first fire in the try-works has to be fed for a time with wood. After that no wood is used, except as a means of quick ignition to the staple fuel. In a word, after being tried out, the crisp, shrivelled blubber, now called scraps or fritters, still contains considerable of its unctuous properties. These fritters feed the flames. Like a plethoric burning martyr, or a self-consuming misanthrope, once ignited, the whale supplies his own fuel and burns by his own body. Would that he consumed his own smoke! for his smoke is horrible to inhale, and inhale it you must, and not only that, but you must live in it for the time. It has an unspeakable, wild, Hindoo odor about it, such as may lurk in the vicinity of funereal pyres. It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment..."

[@bazza945]

I think you could shorten that rather verbose description to two words, "It pings."

[@jonathans1759]

Australia...if you go cycle touring it can be half an hour of OMG there's roadkill up ahead.

[@randomjasmicisrandom]

The worst thing I ever smelt was in the operating theatre of a now long-closed Army Hospital in Aldershot when we were operating to remove several feet of necrotic bowel caused by severe constipation. The stench was unbelievable, everyone resorted to dabbing neat lemon cleaning fluid onto their masks to try to counteract the nasal assault.

[@zingzangspillip1]

Wow. At least it would have smelt nicer than the bowel's owner felt.

[@acmejia]

To me it was one morning in Florence (believe it or not). The stench started early but by 7am it was strong enough that I could no longer sleep and I went running to the bathroom to wrap my face in a wet towel (sound crazy but a dry towel didn't help). I did not have vinegar or perfume or anything to mask the smell (I was traveling). To this day I have no idea what they were doing but I suspect they were cleaning the sewers.

[@cheighes1]

Surely poop has to be in that spectrum of death smell.

[@b_uppy]

Many people 'let go' upon death. It is often among the first smells. It's also a sign of loss of consciousness and a rank gas station lav.

[@JaneDoe-ci3gj]

The worst odor I know is that of an infected wound! That odor is foul!

[@heidibarker9550]

The 2 worst things I have smelt would be: the dead whale that washed up on the beach years ago, and that time I accidentally left fried rice in a thermos overnight.

[@snazzypazzy]

Cooked cauliflower in a tupperware box that was accidentally left on the counter for I think 4 warm days? I was fairly close to vomiting. Oh and that patient in the e.r. that had what's known as " faecaloid vomiting" - that was very bad. Way worse than just faeces somehow.

[@deadweasel7942]

Whiffy? Is that right? I'm going to use that.

[@b_uppy]

You've never heard of whiffy?

[@zapkvr]

It wasn't invented here

[@jakeoliver9167]

Death Smells like freshly Mown grass? So im gonna be dying and my hayfever is gonna go off 😅

[@andrewfewtrell3983]

F**king hilarious

[@likebot.]

They tasked a perfume maker named Ewan McColl? I know *_exactly_* what this smells like: a *Dirty Old Town!*

[@michaelnorcs]

Turn the volume up, very low volume....

[@clarekuehn4372]

Appropriate for now.

[@hankwilliams150]

I expected it to sell of fire and brimstone.

[@babboon5764]

What *does* Fire smell of? Other than singed nose hair?

[@sarahtaylor2488]

What if you have no sense of smell? I lost mine after a brain tumour so should I now consider myself lucky?

[@FreakyLeek]

Well please come on, pick something.

[@Maya_Pinion]

Burnt flesh....😬 Oh no that's nuclear.... Hey,Wormwood is good for ya, especially if u or ur pet have pesticides living in ur colon, AND,no I didn't get worms from eating raw fish!!!!

[@johnmorgan1629]

What will the Apocalypse smell like, well imagine SHTF!

[@daveclark1155]

Like Piers Morgan's bath water....

[@panicatthegasstation]

I imagine it'll be something like if a group of miniaturised sooty construction workers ate a lot of beans, were set ablaze, and then rode into your nose on tiny, flatulent cows and started belching inside your nasal cavity.

[@jcortese3300]

You win the Simile Contest and my sincerest upvote.

[@PianoKwanMan]

Oh, no! Not Sooty; he's an institution. Although if it was Sweep, then it would smell like a fry up

[@archstanton6102]

Almonds

[@marisolaquino719]

Axe spray

[@naryanr]

The way she described the smell of rotting flesh was positively delightful compared to my experience of it. Paint thinner? Cabbage? Please. It is, almost by definition, the worst smell you can imagine, and you *_can't_* even begin to imagine it until you've smelled it at least once. It's simply like nothing else.

[@anarchodin]

No, those smells were said to be before decomposition (rotting, in other words) sets in. They thus specifically don't describe rotting flesh.

[@babboon5764]

I was going to say 'Just another academic who knows nothing about her subject But knows enough to know her peers won't know anything either' But Anna Williams at Univ Tenesse is a world expert - I suspect something's taken well out of context here. Rotting meat blended with raw sewage is about as close a descriptor as you will get. (Describe the small of a Carrot - We lack good vocabulary). But you're completely right, it is unique and very distinctive. (Although apparently a US forensic lab have developed a synthetic versions Putrescine and cadaverine for trainig sniffer dogs.

[@isaiahstinchcombe3462]

It smells like racism is brilliant!

[@joethompson4223]

I’m changing my name

[@phantomwolf3300]

Jimmy Carr's cheesy crust.

[@UninstallingWindows]

1:50 "I cant smell anything really" - hmm...smells like covid

[@paolagrando5079]

That Apocalypse might be useful to keep people at the right anti-Covid distance.

[@НиколайМаслов-н8о]

I am from Russia, I want to meet a girl from UK

[@BenjaminGoose]

XD

[@davidmaxwaterman]

#luvsandiouttro

[@CloudsGirl7]

That's a funny word - "will". But we are talking about the Bible, so "It smells like racism!" rather fits.

[@Fredric_Cedrich]

I imagine Anne Widdicome smells like that

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

Hydrogen sulphide. Rotten eggs.

[@zalibecquerel3463]

Like napalm in the morning?

[@Enoch_Owl]

Sulphur, burning flesh/hair, and horse shit by Jean Paul Gaultier

[@NewMessage]

I suspect it smells a lot of popsicle stick.

[@TheAlllseeeingFish]

Just over a minute for Nish to mention race or racism. Anyone shocked?

[@woodrobin]

"I can't smell anything." That's a worrying statement in the current context. She perhaps out to get checked for COVID?

[@freebirdh604]

That’s old symptoms, not so much now we have Delta and vaccinated people. The symptoms are more like a cold, runny nose, sneezing, etc. Nit that the UK government has recognised this but other countries have. UK is always behind the curve, whatever that curve is, . Anyway, just be safe

[@johantenhove7770]

Have Swedish Sürstromming. I bet you it smells worse!

[@Blueknight1960]

Not sure the apocalypse will have a smell at all. The effects of the apocalypse might have a smell.

[@tomn3654]

BAT SOUP

[@SceneArtisan]

I'd hope someone would bottle all the terrific, sorry, terrible smells from my heavily decomposing corpse - and send it to Piers Morgan or Jeremy Clarkson.

[@babboon5764]

Whilst others hope folk like you will soon provide said decomposing corpse.

[@brettjohnson536]

I'm putting that in my will 😂

[@tenacious3911]

Nish: "it smells like racism" No, Nish, I think it smells like your jokes, you've been beating a dead horse for years.

[@ThatScootFanboy]

Thank you! I've been digging through these comments trying to find the one person who agrees with me. Edit: Seriously, who the fuck thinks that remark is funny?

[@barrydavies998]

the bloke with the beard is a complete flute

[@zapkvr]

He's a bell end

[@annother3350]

You dont need to tell us.

[@seanbutnotasheeple2090]

Flesh. Probably....

[@guantou2520]

Nish Kumar describes himself as an "alternative comedian" .......... He is quite correct; the alternative to being funny is not being funny !!!

[@dreamer_4937]

@Thomas Shannon it’s a joke jesus

[@deadweasel7942]

@Thomas Shannon "Alternate" is not the same as "alternative". Nice try, Satan.

[@scurvydog20]

@Thomas Shannon Strictly speaking he's only off because he used the wrong article. If he had said an alternative to being funny is not being funny then there's no problem. Similarly an alternative to being a normal nazi is to be a grammar nazi.

[@Kae.the.Selkie]

And of course, as everyone knows, you are the center of the universe. So therefore if you don't find something funny, no one will. Comedy is really not that difficult to understand. Humor is subjective and lots of people find different things funny. Just like how there isn't just one genre of movie. 🙄

[@nezalok270]

this sounds like a newspaper hit piece written in the 50s

[@sparkieT88]

nish only has one joke

[@LadyGodiva82]

2 if you include his obsessive Brexit rants. Both jokes get very dull quickly.

[@smoothie9931]

yup, been jumping around vids he seems to be in... all just "that's racist", or "hahaaaaa brexit". Very old

[@Shaun.Stephens]

Oh no you've gone back to that ending. It's annoying and if you don't watch the video to the end youtube keeps re-suggesting it (I assume thinking you might want to finish watching).

[@annother3350]

terrible when trying to sleep

[@Technicallyimright]

Smells like bullshit to me.

[@christianl5484]

Ah racism, a classic scent. Smelt it many a time. It really gets blasts at you. It's very, very rarely a gentle waft.

[@themeat5053]

The "racism" guy is not, nor ever been funny.

[@zanussidish8144]

I loved when this was an intelligent show.

[@Fairfieldfencer]

It's one very intelligent person who also happens to be a comedian with four other comedians and celebrities who all get very easily distracted and make jokes. How on Earth is this any less intelligent than it was in the past?

[@archstanton6102]

@@Fairfieldfencer He probably means when it was lhosted by a male, but is so insecure to actually come out with that crap

[@zanussidish8144]

@@Fairfieldfencer The incidences of having to work around trivial information to casual mistruths. The later series serve to regularly misdirect. As entertainment I enjoy. But it's no longer what it purported to deliver.

[@zanussidish8144]

@@archstanton6102 No, I've a few minutes to respond if you can being to be interesting.

[@zanussidish8144]

@@archstanton6102What's the point of that?