Watching these more than once has taught me about performance art, that music and this are no different, You can experience them over and over; they don't wear out their place in your mind; if they're good-- like music,-- they're good.

@shakey215

7 ай бұрын

very good

@al201103

7 ай бұрын

"They say, of the Acropolis..." is a very good example of this. As is Jack Dee's answer to why they don't have more women on panel shows. And of course Sean Locke on Cats Does Countdown with Rachel Riley's skiing hat.

@annalieff-saxby568

7 ай бұрын

​@al201103 That last gives me a belly laugh _every_ time.

@al201103

7 ай бұрын

@@annalieff-saxby568 Even though you know what's going to happen, it's still just too funny! Similarly, "I won't spit on you"!!

"Because there's moorrre than onnne"😂

35:28 "The Birmingham to London track took 5 years to build" (using man power alone, probably a few horses too) HS2 is currently in its 6th year. Puts it into perspective.

@domb8448

7 ай бұрын

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@heatherpadgett2116

7 ай бұрын

I have read '1984'... big brother and room 101 are very real, although, the film is just as alarming, in current times..Hxx

@SirReginaldBumquistIII

Ай бұрын

​@@heatherpadgett2116jet fuel melts steel

The “handstand in the shower” made me laugh so hard my back cracked. True story.

@marcuscrumpton8568

7 ай бұрын

It’s been three days…how’s the back? 😂

@JAY1892

7 ай бұрын

A good crack or a bad crack? 🤔😂

@TheBenNZ

4 ай бұрын

25:47 handstand in the shower

I can tell you Stephen has read 1984, as the other day I saw he had done the Audiobook for Animal Farm and 1984. That'll be my next audiobooks after listening to Unruly by David Mitchell.

@dickJohnsonpeter

7 ай бұрын

Have you ever read Sarum by Edward Rutherford? An absolutely brilliant piece of historical fiction and non-fiction that covers ten thousand years of English history.

@Pagliacci_Rex

7 ай бұрын

I tried to read it but the protagonist put me off.

@leoroverman4541

7 ай бұрын

Yes but Has he read Ulysses. That one's a stunner, literally

@tommonk7651

7 ай бұрын

Unruly is very entertaining....

@lilymarinovic1644

7 ай бұрын

I've listened to Stephen's reading of the Orwell novels. Brilliant

I never knew how much I, erhm, enjoy a Welsh man doing a French accent until now. I hope this doesn't awaken something in me....

Stephen: a star fish is not a fish Stephen: there is no such thing as a fish

The pronunciation of the name "Marian Rajewski" was nothing short of perfect! ❤

The idea that that many people lie about having read 1984 seems like something right out of 1984.

@ptepaul5173

7 ай бұрын

Thank you. I compare things in my mind to 1984 occasionally, but i realize i haven't read it, and should.

@MycolSG

7 ай бұрын

I think the better question would be. How many have have read "1984" to the end?

@ramblingbootsIRL

7 ай бұрын

How would you know!? I bet you never read it either

@karry299

7 ай бұрын

There is no need to read it, these days the EU and USA IS 1984.

@whatevermakesyouhappy5932

7 ай бұрын

@@ptepaul5173comparing things in your mind to 1984 is something right out of 1984.

6:56 It's weird, Foucault first discovered how the gyros points toward the true North in 1852 but it first got used for mining in 1949. Quite a long time for such a simple principle to get a practical use.

27:30 You don’t say decolletage, you say Huge Tracks of Land.

14:06 is already a good joke but the delivery truly perfected it

A friend of mine used to work as cabin crew for British Airways, and her contract included annual training on a simulator to land a 747. They changed the contract later as they realised the ability had never been needed nor was it likely to ever be needed. She stayed on the old contract until her retirement on medical grounds, so she had the annual refresher day on the simulator, right up to the end.

@Brinta3

7 ай бұрын

What medical grounds would require annual training on a 747 simulator?

@christopherdean1326

7 ай бұрын

@@Brinta3There is no connection, you are misreading my post. She stayed on the old contract (with the simulator training) until she left. She left through medical retirement. Two different things....

@Brinta3

7 ай бұрын

@@christopherdean1326 Sorry, indeed I misread! I understood it as “she stayed on the old contract (…) on medical grounds” (as opposed to colleagues who got new contracts).

@squee599

7 ай бұрын

While the fact sounds reassuring there definitely have been times when both pilots have been out of commission and it would have been handy if someone else could have landed the plane!

@christopherdean1326

7 ай бұрын

@@squee599 The records appear to show otherwise, but if you have information to the contrary, we would all like to see it...

The Enigma code as well understood and "cracked" fairly early in the war, however it usually would take a few days for humans to decipher each time and was useless since the permutations changed every day. The starting place to crack it each day was using the German weather report and "Heil Hitler", and using the logic that a letter could never represent itself

@Si74l0rd

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, that was done by Dilly's fillies each day using "rods" after the bombe machines had stripped off the top layer of enciphering.

@richardcaves3601

6 ай бұрын

But by mid44, it would have been quicker for German commanders to phone Bletchley to get their orders than to wait for their own comms clerks.

25:15 - In French, 'Bis' means 'twice', which is why 'biscuit' means 'twice cooked/baked'.

@FenceThis

6 ай бұрын

except - - it’s from Latin

I miss Stephen :(

@ksc743

6 ай бұрын

I do too. He's put on so much weight tho since he was on QI we may lose him altogether if he's not careful😕

On the how do you land a plane clip I always love David Mitchells joke about legality issues with air traffic control its funny because its true. People are scared or told not to help for risk of being sued

"there is trouble in the gypsy village" is "kerfuffle in the peanut gallery"

Turing was undoubtedly a great mathematician, but although Stephen mentioned Lorenz, he failed to mention that the remarkable W. Tutte broke the Lorenz cipher with an entirely theoretical attack. Whereas with Enigma we had assistance from the Polish bombe machines they had already invented under Rejewski, and subsequently that an enigma machine was recovered by the royal navy from U-boat 110. So although still an incredible achievement, the enigma program had a great deal of assistance. Lorenz was a different thing entirely, and considered more secure because of the number of possible permutations, the cracking of which led to the first programmable computer, Colossus, which was engineered and built by Tommy Flowers, a royal mail engineer. There are several books about the work at Bletchley, but you have to read them all to get a look at the big picture because of the level of secrecy and compartmentalisation. It's well worth the time and effort to round them all up though. Everyone knows about enigma, but few have heard of Lorenz or Colossus, and fewer still have heard of Tutte and Flowers. Although as Stephen said, we gave our American allies product direct from the source, we did not do so with our then Russian allies, and after Berlin was divided, the Russians took over Lorenz for their own military and state communications, unaware that we were able to read their communications. That was pretty much the last thing to be declassified, of the Bletchley materials. An absolutely fascinating period of history, and Bletchley was pivotal. Going to see Colossus is definitely on my bucket list. Edit: As an aside, although China are famous for their state sponsored cyber warfare units of which APT41 (Double Dragon) is one, the North Koreans have an expert cyber attack group too. It's one of the very few areas where North Korea excels.

@richardcaves3601

6 ай бұрын

Excellent summary for those interested.

@EARFQ

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for this! I was wondering though, I thought Babbage invented the first computer, did he not?

@Si74l0rd

5 ай бұрын

@@EARFQ Babbage's difference engine was technically the first programmable computer, and his niece Ada Lovelace the first programmer. But Colossus was the first programmable electronic computer, which is more what we tend to think of in respect to modern computing. Babbage also proposed the analytical engine, but it was never built, until recently at a university (can't remember which one). Technically Babbage built on the groundwork of the machinist Leibniz's, step reckoner calculating machine, but as it had storage, and was programmable it bears more in common with a modern computer than a fancy abacus. However, the difference engine was only partly constructed and the more capable analytical machine was more the first computer. But as it was never built, it's claim on the title of first computer is debatable. Leibniz and others created mechanical calculators, followed by Babbage's difference engine which was capable of only one calculation, but had "memory" storage and impressed the answers into a metal plate. Colossus ran on paper tape and used vacuum tubes to process Boolean and counting operations, and is much closer to the architecture of a modern computers processor. Because of the secrecy at Bletchley though, ENIAC was hailed as the world's first computer, until the declassification in recent decades. The first compiler, and machine independent programming language were pioneered by Grace Hopper, in her time working with the Harvard Mark I computer in the mid forties. Which lead to the creation of COBOL, which is still in use today. My dad used to write statistical programs for the Treasury using COBOL and Fortran, and I've done a little COBOL programming myself, it's not a terribly friendly language, but it is still highly capable. I guess my take on it is that Babbage was the theoretical first, with a working proof of concept, but in terms of architecture and flexibility, Colossus and ENIAC are far closer to what we would consider a usable computer, with architecture most could compare to modern components within a PC. In my original post I omitted the electronic, from first electronic programmable computer, and you're quite right that Babbage is credited with the first programmable computer, but I feel it was closer to one of the glorified abacuses, than the flexibility with which modern computers compute sums. To my mind the first programmable computer was an abacus, unless we start to draw up criteria for what constitutes a computer, and the difference between a calculator and a computer. It all gets quickly bogged down in semantics and technicalities otherwise.

@EARFQ

5 ай бұрын

@@Si74l0rd due to my (extremely) limited knowledge on computers, it seems sort of hard to place what a computer actually is, I mean if you just need a true or false programmable, then couldn’t like two cardboard boxes connected by string be a computer? Or is the defining factor that it can store these values . My dad told me about an earlier PC that essentially just used a number of buttons and lights which you could use to programme it

@EARFQ

5 ай бұрын

@@Si74l0rd very interesting btw you really know your stuff

That question of the present is really fascinating if you think about it. People think of the present as "today" or "right now." But if you break that down you're just a single little moment. 2 minutes ago is still today yes, but it's in the past. 2 seconds after reading this comment is the future. If you think of the present as just a moment the smallest thing we typically measure time in is seconds. But there's microseconds and nanoseconds and all of a sudden your measure of the present gets smaller and smaller until that measurement becomes the past. If you try and generalise that to the universe at large you see how inconsequential trying to measure "the present" is

Achtually 🤓☝️ Alan Turing first cracked the enigma code.

I've heard somewhere that the bite in the apple logo is there just so the logo can't be mistaken for a cherry.

@zapkvr

7 ай бұрын

I heard it here still sounds like bollocks

@justandy333

7 ай бұрын

Forgive my ignorance, but why didn't they want it to be mistaken for a cherry?

@ktom5262

7 ай бұрын

Why, can't there be a bite in a cherry as well?

@caleidoo

7 ай бұрын

@@justandy333 Because a company named Apple with a cherry as a logo would be economical suicide.

@pseudonayme7717

7 ай бұрын

@@ktom5262 Because they are already bite sized?

this guy... what a king omg

im gonna steal that line 'easier really to do a handstand in the shower' lol

Surprised Stephen didn’t mention Beryl Bainbridge’s very funny novel about Hitler’s visit to Liverpool, ‘Young Adolf’.

I’m a Quaker Oats type…but yes, I get it.

its funny how i, someone whos watched every episode of qi, think ill find new material i havent seen in these compilation videos ;___;

18:51 There it is, one of the greatest moments in international television history

@LaGuerre19

7 ай бұрын

25:52 to 26:20 and the second greatest moment

David Mitchell should have been on at the Start He loves Hitler 😂

I'm quite surprised that this guy has never been caught, he must have a lot of protection.

@Pooki2024

7 ай бұрын

WTF are you talking about ?

a handstand in the shower😂

"Colossus" , wonder if thats where David Mitchell got the idea for Colosson from?

Re the first clip - It was called a "Rotzbremse" in Germany - snot brake.

is it me but are most of the clip containing a certain Mr Michel ?? he is funny and lucky..

12:55 somebody get his dried frog pills

On an Hellenic Airlines flight both the pilot and co-pilot became incapacitated but unfortunately everyone on board was too. I don't know if it was before or after this episode of QI.

Remember when Richard Herring from Lee and Herring tried to bring the Hitler tash back and he wore one for a while in the early 00s (maybe late 90s 🤷)

Ve have sold two!

Not enough tunnels being built? Call The Boring Company and save time and money.

Pilot. Co-pilot. And Engineer.

I noticed the two public school boys got incomfertable with the purser

9:40 - I don't know why no one ever seems to call Jack Whitehall on being such a hack. He's literally just re-stating the joke that Victoria JUST MADE. They seem to promote this guy to the point where he can't fail. Echoes of James Corden.

@alexjennings566

7 ай бұрын

That’s genuinely probably harsh on Corden. At least he co-wrote a good show. Whitehall’s never done anything of any value

@davepoul8483

7 ай бұрын

only Vicky did it better..

@toobasaurus23

7 ай бұрын

I can't stand Jack either.

@whatevermakesyouhappy5932

7 ай бұрын

Ross Noble, Jack Whitehall and Noel Fielding ruined many episodes for me. Totally unwatchable.

@htdtr

6 ай бұрын

His dad is a producer and talent agent so he's probably very much a Nepo baby. I can't stand him much either

Didn't Rowan Atkinson land a plane in an emergency? That's an instance of it happening.

and according to her book the dear leader played in Liverpool F.C. 1912

@ 33:04 In my case, 90 days. The longest relationship I've been in has been with my dog

Trevor Noah at min 29 .. which episode was this

κατα τραγκα σταγευτικα is Greek for ‘drip by drip’ apparently. So google tells me anyway.

@superiorsiegeengine33

7 ай бұрын

The Greek phrase is "Κάτι τρέχει στα γύφτικα" and it literally translates to "Something is going on in the gypsies" where "gypsies" is an adjective meaning related to the gypsy people, I am stating that to indicate that the last word is not a noun for clarity's sake, therefore the word may refer to a place where gypsies live. In any case, the idiom is used like "so what" as an answer to an insignificant statement by someone, or in an instance like "so and so happened, so what"

A lot of tunnels in Norway.

@latewizard301

5 ай бұрын

Quite long ones too, and the ones in Oslo seem so confusing as a guy who doesn't drive. Like there's barely any road signs in Norway.

10:40 I’ll need to get a pirated edition of Stephen Fry reading Harry Potter, since it’s not legally available in the USA

@jandrews6254

6 ай бұрын

What! In the land of the free! First amendment and all that? Seriously?

@SineN0mine3

3 ай бұрын

Its $45 AUD on ebay, I can't be bothered to look at US listings but there's heaps of them.

I just want to say that I don’t think anything could’ve been done about Hitler before his rise to power, and I’m not sure the world would be better for it. We didn’t know such organised and mechanised hatred was possible before that, and now we do, and at least try to prevent it from happening again. This has its fair share of problems, to be sure, but knowing a political party in the modern age COULD try to exterminate a population is better to be aware of than to be blind to.

@richardcaves3601

6 ай бұрын

Nah, but there was this British sniper in WWI, who had a slightly wounded German lance corporal runner in his sights, but he felt sorry for him, and didn't fire. True story.

I wonder if he still wishes that.

So that's Sheila Hancock then? She's not listed. Who are the other women?

I'd say there's a better chance the future Coren-Mitchells becoming succesful in life than for the rest of us mere mortals.

@Si74l0rd

7 ай бұрын

Victoria was a two time EPT winner before she married David, she was already very successful.

Take A Moment 0:24 🎉 Chaplin? 0:44 🎉 1:02 Stay Silly Stay Safe 1:15 1:31 Stay Free 1:49 😂😂 I love the genius at play 3:06 😂

Surely the first people to crack the enigma code were the Germans...

@SineN0mine3

3 ай бұрын

It doesn't count as cracking if you have the key to the cypher. It's possible they cracked it first, but it's not necessary to know how to break encryption to use it cor encoding and decoding.

"Hee's the thing about Hitler: He's judged very harshly by history, but-" [Stephen Fry curling into a ball thinking 'Is my show bout to be cancleed????]

2 minutes in and 6 minutes of advertising taking the pi$$

@pseudonayme7717

7 ай бұрын

Google Tampermonkey, then thank me later😉

@djdeemz7651

7 ай бұрын

Just skip the add ..you don't need to watch it

@LJMLJM740

7 ай бұрын

@@djdeemz7651 just shut up you don't have to comment.

@davidelsbury2917

7 ай бұрын

There's ads on KZread? ;)

@LJMLJM740

7 ай бұрын

@@davidelsbury2917 kzread.infou_luJUj44FE?si=6N_qcWMBrtNCVJz6

I'm not sure that I can handle the erudite Mr Fry's head on the body of a naked biker.

How can you have a lifetime study if you're 35 years old?

Fun fact...1984 novel(first title "1980)...😉😉😉

Wars were games to prepare us for space encounters with interstellar interlopers; THE ONLY ENEMIES WE EVER REALLY HAD. Prior remedies were prayer and caves. We've taken up the cause for All Life on Earth. Aren't we Great?? All in all, we're FABULOUS, and don' forget it and explain it to children who listen all day to what rotters we are, when actually we're Life's only Hope. Their generation, the mid-century bunch; are going to go find us a new planet. So don't look back in anger; we didn't create this mess, but we can refine it, catalogue it; figure out how to reconstruct it, and pack it to go. We don't really have time for anymore of the kid's stuff with the bombs, that's over now. We have the World to Save and Places to Go. Super Heroes !!

Victoria is such a dish.

its an oblique reference to Houston Stuart Chamberlain as well by the way.

no such thing as a tree either

Now find 10 hilarious QI rounds with Sandi Toksveig. You won't be able to.

An electrician put it together the decipher of a the code as it was made out of tubes and electronics Turin had the idea but the electrician made it reality never mention him do they

@Si74l0rd

7 ай бұрын

The polish were already using Bombes, a machine invented by Rejewski's unit, to strip off the first layer of enciphering. We took over when Poland was invaded, and built many more Bombes. The real genius was the man behind cracking Lorenz, it was broken with a theoretical attack, with no-one ever having seen a Lorenz machine, and a royal mail engineer by the name of Tommy Flowers took that theoretical attack and created Colossus and Colossus II, the first programmable computers, running on punched paper tape, to break it consistently.

2:00 No one picked up on Jimmy's unintentional pun: "Credit where it's Jew"

Sometimes you forget how bloody good QI was with Stephen Fry!! ( Now its crap!) Sorry!

18:45~18:54🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

@jandrews6254

6 ай бұрын

Your problem is?

The theodolite didn't work since the french were having problems with it... Earth isn't really rotating.. everything rotates around us.. 😮

@jandrews6254

6 ай бұрын

Oooh that puts you back before Galileo!

Stephen Fry... didn't he marry a child?

@samtulp6

7 ай бұрын

He didn’t.

@Twi66e

6 ай бұрын

No?

@oo0Spyder0oo

6 ай бұрын

He might be 30 years his junior but he’s no child. Couldn’t you have googled it before sounding like a ponce?

Quaker pacifist is not a disability, merely a personal choice you wont keep to yourself, it has that in common with violence, i don't agree with either as a doctrine. you need to be free to adapt,

alan davies isnt funny without 12 pints!

@SineN0mine3

3 ай бұрын

Better start drinking...

Cannot stand Sheila Hancock.

boring repeat oh same highlighted crap! aafter that you have improv crap

@SineN0mine3

3 ай бұрын

Stephen fry hasn't been on the show for 20 years my guy.

I have a unreasonably dislike of that scouse bloke from nursey who… can’t understand a word he says

The converted Quaker annoys me to no end. Are we to take it she thinks the rest of the panel are entirely comfortable with war, but that to her refined Quaker sensibilities, war is SUCH an abomination that the very word shakes her to the core? "Well, if we'd done something sooner...." What, and by what means? If you know anything about Quaker meeting, this is the sort of Quaker who is certain, every week, to be "moved to speak."

@christopherdean1326

7 ай бұрын

The "converted Quaker" is Sheila Hancock, widow of Johnathan Thaw, and a respected actress in her own right.

@GeertTheDestoyer

7 ай бұрын

Hitler's rise to power could definately have been prevented peacefully, but the conservatives where to busy chasing after their real enemy, the socialists.

@dazediss6629

7 ай бұрын

Quakers only tell people they are Quaker’s to feel better about themselves. How is anyone’s political or ideological alignment in Great Britain going to prevent a man in Germany rising to power diplomatically & hell bent on a genocidal extermination? It simply isn’t. More to the point, I think 99% of humans on earth are Quaker pacifists without realising they are. Nobody wants wars and death, but they simply happen when one of two things happen. One being that the economy in an area has become so bad that conflict is necessary for survival. Or two, being that some mad cunt has seized power and wants to kill people. It’s just a posh person wanting to sound virtuous and interesting.

@zapkvr

7 ай бұрын

What do you mean what? And by what means? It's pretty well understood how Hitler rose to power. Read some friggin history. Shes right.

@trueaussie9230

7 ай бұрын

The term is 'Quaker by convincement'. It's right there in the video, if you bother to listen. 'Conversion' suggests that one WAS 'A' but has subsequently become / transformed into 'B'. However, one can be 'convinced' of a premise without ever having held any prior opinion of said premise or of any similar or conflicting / alternative premise. No one is born with ANY 'religious conviction'. Everyone who adopts a 1st 'religious conviction' is 'convinced' to adopt said conviction. One can also later be 'convinced' to adopt a different conviction - eg atheism or agnosticism. Would you describe one who's first and only 'religious conviction' is agnosticism as being a 'converted agnostic'?! You appear to believe that if one is not a devout pacifist who doesn't even like to hear discussion of war then one must be a lover and promoter of war who seeks out and relishes every opportunity to discuss and expound about wars and conflict. You appear to believe there are no 'nuances of personality' in between. Do you see EVERYthing only in 'black and white'? BTW - as for 'doing something sooner', the current situations in Ukraine and Palestine are perfect examples of 'too little too late'. But the 'great' USA has appointed itself 'dictator of the world' and its financial security is inextricably tied to the profits of its 'defence' industries. So, to keep the USA 'alive' the world MUST endure wars. (So long as they're NOT on US soil.) For an 'observant historian', you seem to know precious little about the lead up to WWII and / or Hitler's rise to power.

I'm glad they got Jeremy Clarkson on the episode to compensate for that sheila womans sentimental pretentiousness

The show went downhill for me when Stephen left. Sandi's thing is mostly belittling other people while Stephen on the other hand is a comedic genius

Jo Brand is just nauseating. If you don't want to 'finish' too quickly... Jo Brand having lesbian love with Miriam Margolyes.

@alexinabox6931

4 ай бұрын

what's wrong with you

So, if the pilots of light aircraft cannot fly an airliner, exactly how did some recently-qualified light aircraft pilots manage 9/11?