Despite being the most famous person on that episode Daniel Radcliffe seems more like an enthusiastic fan who's got a chance to be on the show

@brigidsingleton1596

Ай бұрын

I would not say that Daniel Radcliffe is (or was) more famous or better known than Lee Mack or Graham Norton (the latter having had his own late night chat show for _at least_ the last twenty or so years. Lee Mack, apart from being a well known stand up comedian, is also a writer, and has acted in his very well-known own series of comedy sitcom - called 'Not Going Out'. Alan Davies is also well-known as both being a stand up comedian, a writer and actor - having acted in different series including as a magician's prop man, writer and investigater in the long running tv series 'Jonathan Creek', plus as presenter of his own tv chat show 'As Yet Untitled' - where Alan would choose the title of each episode from whatever word or phrase he liked best as a title, as mentioned by one of his guests each week. ... Jack See, (also in this video, though not with Daniel) is likewise well-known as a comedy writer, stand up comedian, actor in his own tv comedy sitcom series 'Lead Balloon', as well as long standing chairman of Radio 4 / Extra's comedy series 'Im Sorry, I Haven't A Clue' (that show having been aired since 1972 and previously chaired by well known jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttleton)...

@TheeMasterTactician

Ай бұрын

I mean he probably is...

@oxenrat

Ай бұрын

@@brigidsingleton1596 Daniel Radcliffe is a recognised face worldwide, Lee Mack and Alan Davies not so much.

@brigidsingleton1596

Ай бұрын

@@oxenrat Oh I See... So to be "well-known" one must appeal to the world and his wife?! Uhuh...how 'young' of you to utter such critique...

@oxenrat

Ай бұрын

@@brigidsingleton1596 seriously? I'm 72 and well aware of how people are perceived. Daniel Radcliffe is more well known worldwide, in fact. It doesn't matter that in your very pompous and insular opinion other people have done more. They are not as well known and, therefore not as famous. Did you fail mathematics but not English?

It’s funny seeing Sandy answering questions with such fear and uncertainty

"Usain Bolt wasn't being chased by a lion." To be fair, its not likely the Australian was, either.

@stephenconnolly3018

24 күн бұрын

The Marsupial lion (Thylacoleo) Sorry

Well done with the new best of series keep up the good work! I think qi is one of the few timeless shows of both inellect and entertainment!!

You'll notice that the rule on the blackboard graphic says, "'I' before 'E', except after 'C'..." The "..." is very important because it indicates that something has been left out of the sentence. What is missing is the ending of the rule which is, "'I' before 'E' except after 'C', when sounding like 'ee'." So, words such as neighbour and reign are not covered by the rule because it sounds like 'ay'. Also, many of the examples they gave were not English words, as Alan points out, but even then, they don't make the 'ee' sound and thus don't count. Some are words that are modified with a tense suffix e.g. being, and, as such, don't count. The only exception are those words that have slipped into the common vernacular from the scientific usage which is derived from Greek i.e. caffeine. Having said all that, I haven't seen the entire episode and, as this is an edited clip, I don't know if Stephen later reveals the entire rule.

Great work as always! Really liked the white tree about 2/3rds through.

oh, I got one! Ancient.

❤❤❤ For Tuck- all the way from Australia

The Duke of west minster’s family stole the land first so he can’t really complain when other people stole it from them

@zzz5173

Ай бұрын

It was probably stolen before then too

@conradblack779

Ай бұрын

@@zzz5173 more than likely yeah

@DemstarAus

Ай бұрын

We'd think it weird if the birds paid each other in seeds for the land under their nests, but we do the same thing and we don't ask any other critters.

14:30 might fuhrer of the sausage people... Fuhrer of the wurst people?

Sound can be quantified by shattering glass in a sound proof room while you observe from outside.. You can see the glass shatter but you can't hear the sound.

@DownhillAllTheWay

2 ай бұрын

Ah! But there was a microphpone in that sound-proof room, and it "heard" the sound - like when a tree fell in the forest, two trees away, there was a squirrel, and when I asked that squirrel, it said "Yes. It *_SOUND-_* ed like a tree falling!

@BumMcFluff

Ай бұрын

@@DownhillAllTheWay However, @SimBir08 never mentioned having a microphone in the room, merely watching from outside. But you don't need to hear it in order for there to be sound. After all, if you heard it, but I didn't it doesn't mean the sound doesn't exist for me.

@DownhillAllTheWay

Ай бұрын

@@BumMcFluff Yes, that's my point. The old question is "If a tree falls in the forest, but nobody hears it, did it make any sound?" If nobody can report on it, was there sound? Well, it's hard to prove, but to my mind, *_of course_* there was sound - even if nobody heard it. That's why I brought the squirrel into the picture.

@BumMcFluff

Ай бұрын

@@DownhillAllTheWay Fair enough.

@George.Andrews.

27 күн бұрын

If a man says something in a forest and there isn't a woman to hear it, is he still wrong?

This was before Wim Hoff became famous as the Ice man

Vexatious letigancy sounds like a wonderful pastime

If you get frost burns it does exactly the same to skin cells a fire burns, this mighty be why people suffering hypothermia feel hot

There is always something to hear the tree fall be it a mouse or squirrel or even a beetle. Edit snakes don't have ears but can hear through vibration, put a headpone on your teeth and you can hear it

26:10 He’s Paul McCartney!

This whole sound thing comes down to specific definitions. As they say, "sound" is defined by there being someone to hear it. It's the term being used that makes that question seem profound. Another take would be if a tree falls and causes vibration but there is no one there to feel it, is there a vibration. A tree falling would cause both sound and vibration (to those feeling it/hearing it) but what is the definition of the thing happening whether we are there or not. At that point its just what are the physics of the ocurrence?.

@BumMcFluff

Ай бұрын

What if I heard it, but you didn't? Sound does not need to be heard to exist.

@corwyncorey3703

Ай бұрын

No, it really doesn't com down to definitions... The physicists' definition is obvious; sound exists when sound waves are made. The semanticists' definition is *moot* ...since in any forest there are *always* a *myriad* of life forms there to be receivers for the sound waves, and therefore "hear" ...making the sound into a sound. Every time. By *ANY* definition. It is only the combination of colossal arrogance and ignorance on the part of even educated humans to not notice just how much life is present in any place with a tree that allows the semanticist to hide their pedantry and try to sound smart. Vibrating air can be detected by so many different life forms that it would be harder to remove them all than is even vaguely feasible, barring the use of hard radiation. Even bacteria respond to sound in certain wavelengths. The very question is moronic, from the ground up. May as well ask "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" or other navel contemplation nonsense. The correct genre of this isn't semanticism, nor physics... but "mental masturbation".

@ct5625

10 күн бұрын

@@BumMcFluff But that's not true. The sound is the thing the human brain creates based on the signals recieved by the Human ear. There is no sound until it is perceived. There is only vibration until your brain converts this signal into a sound. If a tree falls in the forest and there is no living thing with ears and a brain to perceive the vibration then it doesn't make a sound, it only generates vibration.

@BumMcFluff

10 күн бұрын

@@ct5625 Interesting, but I disagree. All conditions for the sound to be made are present in (for example) a falling tree whether or not someone is present to hear it. It could even be recorded by a machine and played back later.

Jo Brand with a husband joke... that makes a change.

@Gretchluver1

19 күн бұрын

Someone complaining that a comedian has a schtick... that makes a change.

@ct5625

10 күн бұрын

Aw, you triggered, petal?

I heard from a reliable source that Edmund Hillary fell for a prank by members of his team.

This episode made me reslize I did not know how to spell deceive.

In this program Ruby Wax is about as useful as a fart in a sieve.

Field, TAKE THAT LEE!

38:00 Hippos have 36 teeth

They are wrong about the i before e rule. The trouble is that "ie before e except after c" is not the whole rule, but it's the only part people have learned. The full rule is: "i before e except after c when the sound is 'ee'. For every other sound, use ei." (An example of "other sounds" would be veil which uses the "ay" sound not "ee", ie, "veil" is NOT an exception to the rule). That gives exactly 8 exceptions, or 6, depending on how you say either/neither (also "glacier" doesn't count, because the syllable breaks between the i and e and this rule is only used when the ei/ie is a digraph. "Glacier" more correctly follows the "c can only say s when followed by an e, i, or y" rule, the letters combine as gl-a-ci-er). Actual, real exceptions to the full, correct rule above include: weird (where the ee sound is said, but it is spelled ie), friend (where the sound is "eh" not ee but is spelled like "ee"), ceiling (where the sound is ee but is an ei after c), either/neither [depending on how you pronounce them; if you say igh-ther/nigh-ther they don't break the rule], and a few others I can't remember right now but could all fit into one sentence which is supposed to help one remember all of the exceptions but I have actually forgotten. 🤣 The purpose of the rule was to help people remember which combination to use in ee sounding words, not ei in general, which is why the rule ended up being "shorthanded".

@jamescorrigan6063

Ай бұрын

Except that rule you speak of, is a fairly new development. As new as the early part of the 2000s(might be later part, can't remember, but I do remember there being some controversy when it came about).

@Bethgael

Ай бұрын

@@jamescorrigan6063 It's not new at all. I learned it in the 1970s; my mother, in the early 50s.

@CraigReeves

Ай бұрын

No, the entire rule is i before e except after.c when the sound is ee.

@zapkvr

Ай бұрын

​@@jamescorrigan6063not correct

If I wan t to visit the JFK memorial in Runnymead, do I need a passport? (26:42)

@MuchWhittering

9 күн бұрын

No. My question is whether or not a baby born there would be a US citizen.

@DownhillAllTheWay

8 күн бұрын

@@MuchWhittering That's an entertaining thought! It doesn't look like a very comfortable place to give birth, but I guess it could happen. You're going to have to put a fence around Runnymede like the one on your southern border!

I miss shaun lock 😢

americans dont approve of inedible food sandy?😂 meatloaf, doritos coated turkey..etc

@terryhayward7905

2 ай бұрын

Chlorinated chicken, cheese in a can, cheese not even in a can.

@OP-1000

Ай бұрын

@@terryhayward7905That is why they smother their food hot sauce

When I was ten I was taught I before e, except after c, except for the exceptions. Which kind of shows how useless that rule is.

Would papyrus be considered a book just to be pedantic

1:21:52 Well I didn't vote for him....

Isn’t “Fish” just a General term like “Mammal” or “Insect”?

@zapkvr

Ай бұрын

Mammal's are born alive and suckle their young

@DemstarAus

Ай бұрын

Mammalia and Insecta are both classes, but there is no 'Fisha' class. The point is that the word doesn't really mean much from a biology standpoint. Calling something a fish lets you know that it's probably wet, but anything else you'd like to know about the creature is not really elucidated and would need further identification.

@Ben-no4lz

Ай бұрын

@@DemstarAus Not really. If someone says “Fish” I automatically know; 1 - It lives in water. 2 - It uses Gills to breath. 3 - It most likely lays eggs (with a few exceptions) Just like with mammals I know they generally; 1 - Have hair or fur 2 - Use Lungs to breathe. 3 - Give Birth to Live Young (with 1 exception)

On average a human pushes out 320lbs of poo a year.

@zapkvr

Ай бұрын

How much flies out?

@lilymarinovic1644

Ай бұрын

​@@zapkvrdepends on how many prunes you have eaten.

God Stephen always has to steal the limelight doesn't he? @8:55

How do they know T8 wasn't in water bouncing off the bottom and floating a bit?

@reinforcedpenisstem

2 ай бұрын

The impact depth. Also, footprints would not sustain underwater.

@uncleike6211

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, not really buying that one without some corroboration.

@haroldharold2836

2 ай бұрын

Also they just said it’s highly likely they were quicker. I’d be appealing that klaxon

Used to hate Radcliffe but after JK going off the deep end I now feel bad that he was part of her mess.

Alan loves to point out how vicious and territorial mankind has been. As if we're any different from any other predatorial animal.

@ct5625

10 күн бұрын

"As if we're any different from any other predatorial animal" The fact that you're able to write that sentence is proof we are most certainly different from every other predatorial species on this planet, and in a million ways.

@Bren688

10 күн бұрын

@@ct5625 "Darwinian man though well behaved at best is only a monkey shaved". Someone better than me once said that and basically they're right. We as a species may have advanced much further than other animals but we're still just another predatory animal and predatory animals tend to be territorial. Hopefully we'll learn to control those now unnecessary basic urges but it's no surprise or personal shame that our ancestors couldn't. I hate all this "look how cruel and nasty mankind is, let's all eat tofu and feel guilty about shite we had fuck all to do with".

Stephen Fry's comments on slavery in the UK just aren't true. It has never been legal to have slaves in the UK, and slaves who arrived in the UK during the transatlantic slave trade were ordered to be released by the courts as you can't be a slave in the UK.

@SuperAcidfairy

18 күн бұрын

I’m pretty sure Stephen fry could tell me black was infact white and up was infact down, and I would need zero further explanation , I would go around telling everyone I know!!

Again, I get so annoyed by the man who is the producer or thinkerupper of QI being so incapable of a philosophical discussion or even to consider he might be wrong (does the falling tree make a sound if there’s no one to hear it). Definitely does not belong as a guest

@UK_Canuck

Ай бұрын

I agree that John Lloyd is not a particularly good fit for this programme. He is much better placed as the host of BBC Radio 4's "The Museum of Curiosity."

That American woman next to Sean might be the worst guest ever

@CJ-ft9yo

2 ай бұрын

She was on for 3 seconds !

@zapkvr

Ай бұрын

​@@CJ-ft9yocouldnt be worse than that twat Julia Morris

What we come to find out is that Lee Mack isn't funny without recorded background laughter.

@Mossy1812

Ай бұрын

The like count on your comment is the number of people who agree with you.

@jimosborn3411

Ай бұрын

@@Mossy1812 Couldn't give a f**k about how many people agree with me tbh Ethan.

@Mossy1812

Ай бұрын

@@jimosborn3411 then why the fuck are you posting an observation to a public fucking forum? Wha? You want people to know how you feel but not care? That’s a weird ego you’ve got, where you feel that what you have to say is important enough to announce to the world, but not important enough for anyone to react to! Do you also shit on the floor in public and scream at anyone who says they mind the smell?

@zapkvr

Ай бұрын

​@@jimosborn3411you're not even close.

One of the worst shows ever conceived

@a.m.gnovember151

Ай бұрын

Yet you're still watching clips from it?

@brigidsingleton1596

Ай бұрын

I assume the opportunity to be educated whilst also being entertained by well-known and mostly well-liked celebrities doesn't appeal to your personal weird sensibilities...?!

@slytheringingerwitch

Ай бұрын

How very dare you!

@zapkvr

Ай бұрын

Have you heard "I'm sorry I haven't a clue"?

@brigidsingleton1596

Ай бұрын

@@zapkvr I hope you're not implying that ISIHAC is a worse show?!!! (It's my favourite - or at least, it used to be my favourite, radio comedy show - when chaired by both the late jazz trumpeter, Humphrey Lyttleton, and thereafter comedian, writer, actor and presenter, Jack Dee) ... 🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😏🇬🇧❤️🖖

The guy who kept saying ooh "sound is only in your ear" needs to grow up. It makes vibrations, which would cause the effect of someone hearing it, whether or not they do doesnt matter

@George.Andrews.

27 күн бұрын

I recon there was lots of sound before life on earth existed