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.

@HRHDMKYT

5 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 😢

@kayleighbrown459

5 ай бұрын

@@HRHDMKYT I know it's awful but that's just so funny. Like...imagine being in thay situation.

@oldkokochen1593

2 ай бұрын

Maybe Noah and family ate a few really delicious ones too. Who knows what flavors we may be missing out on!

How does this not include the "Parthenon Musical" and Romeo the frog?!? 🤨

“No Such Thing As A Fish” is a fantastic podcast by a few of the QI elves, which I heartily recommend

@TrevorFinlay-zw7og

19 күн бұрын

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It’s always great when the actual answer is funnier than the joke answers

They are both such delightful presenters!!!!

@aenamabag

4 ай бұрын

Stephen and Fry are both great presenters, you're right.

@KNURKonesur

2 ай бұрын

No. Stephen wasn't great. Sandi is great. Stephen? He wasn't great, he was phenomenal.

"Big blue wobbly thing that mermaids live in" - C.

" They are called atmospheric rivers" everyone was just disappointed hahahaha

Despite his performance persona Mitchell is actually lovely at parties and a treat to chat with

@JKa244

5 ай 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

@markloveless1001

3 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...

I had a really good belly laugh - did me the world of good. THANK YOU !

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

5 ай бұрын

Mine are so violent ive been known to kick the quilt right off the bed... lol

@rumpelstiltskin6150

4 ай бұрын

Gotta buy a nice 13kg weighted blanket.@@trooperdgb9722

Sean Lock was such a treasure

@karry299

3 ай бұрын

Come off it, he was only a limie.

@belindamay8063

2 ай бұрын

He is very much missed.

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

Almost 3 hours of fun.😊

I recently came across the phrase, “flogging a dead horse.” Almost fitting, one bot might suggest to another.

The Man Who Never Was had nothing to do with Normandy landings

@markloveless1001

3 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.

Love your videos need more of them

I loved this show

@2:25:00 for anyone curious, you only take ONE claw off the stone crab.. and only males. They're quite delicious.

Sandy is the only one that could take over so effortlessly.

@slake9727

3 ай бұрын

I think David Mitchell would have done well.

@deadshot8077

2 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.

@Satanperkele

Ай бұрын

True, but I still don't find her funny

@MrMuz99

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.

@deadshot8077

Ай бұрын

@@MrMuz99 what does that mean? That someone forced her to be so smug and patronising?

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.

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' '

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 !""

21:00 actually it was Charles Hawtrey in Don't Lose Your Head who said that

@paulinegallagher7821

2 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!'

I wonder why there hasn't been a US version of QI made? 🤔

@jennifermcdonald5432

2 ай бұрын

Because they couldn’t find one single person in the entire country who has any brains!

@pamelacass9642

2 ай бұрын

The smart people have their own late night shows.

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.

@ecofriendlyadventures5154

2 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.

I didn’t know gnomes were a Christmas thing.

31:04 …. Given the real answer , Joes’ answer was correct ❤

58:10 thats the new version of the song and the bomshell on the right is (actually iconic) actress, Edwige Fenech

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.

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.

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

Why wasn’t Hugh Laurie on tons of these?

Andre Konstantin Geim won both the Ignobel prize (levitating frogs in their own intrinsic magnetic fields) and the Nobel prize for inventing Graphaline. 😮😮

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

@shirleykibbie5149

5 ай бұрын

Really, how interesting😮

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.

A lot of the heads were quite sentient... That sent me down a dark rabbit hole😢

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.

Baden Powell championed the Brownies in Britain.

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-no4lz

5 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.

we have now found a river in the ocean that is the biggest/longest.

Cessant stopped being used because.. It was cessant

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.

I think someone got a bit sick of doing chapters for this one lol!

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.

1:11:16 actually Alan Davies does get closes to the correct pronounciation. I don't know what Fry says. XD

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.

We used to have a gas fired fridge in the 1970s.

@pfranks75

2 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.

I have read 1984 in fact it's the only book I have bothered to read twice.

Ireland's national colour is actually more navy blue.

48:02 Very rare, but not impossible...

I never got the “no such thing as a fish” bit. It’s just a general term like “mammal” or “insect”

I would buy a hill, build a vicaridge, then name the hill Vicar Ridge...

Gas fridges didn’t really catch on, except that in 2023 I’m running my caravan fridge on gas (in Australia)

@jonathannash8471

5 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.

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... 🤌🙏🏻👏🏻🤣💗😊

It was Tommy Flowers that built Colossus, not Alan Turing, and Bill Tutte who worked out how the Lorenz encoding machine worked.

Way too many ads, every 3 minutes.

As usual, terrible amount of ads sucks the joy out of it

@Flaggyt

6 ай бұрын

Which ads?

@Ali.Ratani

6 ай бұрын

Can’t complain about free stuff tbh, buy premium

@robbieballard8914

6 ай бұрын

Dude your watching 3 hours of free qi. Get premium if you don't want ads.

@LogoSmith87

6 ай бұрын

Your mistake is probably using the youtube app, just go to the website, less ads

@davidevans3227

Ай бұрын

yeah and un- skipable too...

Sick of the constant adverts

@budgiefriend

5 ай бұрын

Use an adblocker.

Rosebud was his sleigh 🛷

21:27 Sorry, Stephen I missed the name of the fictional character.

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?

Too many ads

@Mei-eq6xk

3 ай бұрын

But KZread premium or get ad blocker

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.

@helenjones4550

5 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

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

Ouija wasn't a game or designed to contact the dead. There was a craze of something called "automatic writing" that arose out of a poor understanding of the pseudoscience Freudian psychoanalysis. The idea was that you wrote out subconscious answers of your own mind to other peoples questions.

02:46:17 Where does she live where fast food is really cheap? {:o:O:}

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Since when is guava yellow?

@markloveless1001

3 ай бұрын

Ripeness issue. Yeah, yellow is pushing it....

@lynnettesue6240

2 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?

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.

2:05:12 🤮🤮🤮

Didn't Louis divorce Eleanor because she hadn't given him a son and because she was a bit of a scandal?

@emilybarclay8831

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

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.

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.

23:50 the fictional character jesus, called who?what now?

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-trousers

5 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

Sorry your wrong the flat earther exist in 2023 in the USA, funny that!!!

@slake9727

3 ай бұрын

*you're

The Stephen Fry episodes were better in my view.

And when exactly did you lose your soul uk?

@roarasor

Ай бұрын

just adapted to having no soul i'd imagine...

@roarasor

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.

@roarasor

Ай бұрын

thunder, feel the thunder.

@Space-Bunny-Starhopper

7 күн бұрын

Enjoying that conversation with yourself?

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

@markloveless1001

3 ай бұрын

Tommy the tortoise. 2004.

The giant tortoise dialog is hardly funny. Its horrible and so frikkin sad.

@cameronadair5422

5 ай бұрын

The show is called QI, not QF.

@Genevieve1023

5 ай бұрын

​@@cameronadair5422 You might want to read the video title.

"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

5 ай бұрын

It is 100% a double negative

@chucktesta7192

5 ай 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

5 ай бұрын

Most definitely is a double negative

@pootlingalong8928

5 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.

@samuelgarrod8327

5 ай бұрын

Defo a negative of the double persuasion.

Great compilation, shame Ross Noble was in. That man is so unfunny he brings down every show.

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.

@B4NGZY

5 ай бұрын

reteroo likes reteroos kangaroononinosbbuhgydtasdfgt bonger

@jam-trousers

5 ай бұрын

Oh well.

@markloveless1001

3 ай бұрын

I think he's funny as hell. So hard not to mention the R word...

SANDI TOKSVIG DOES NOT DESERVRE TO CARRY MR FRYS JOCKSTRAP.....

@slake9727

3 ай бұрын

I can't imagine why she'd want to.

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.

@jameshunter63

Ай бұрын

Who’s Jonathon Davies? 😂😂

I don’t know why but Sandy is annoying