The germans always bringing french and britain together

@Minecraftrok999

6 жыл бұрын

muskatDR ^Underrated comment (as far as a comment with 84 likes can be called "underrated" of course)

@damionsunderpantstbcutm9664

6 жыл бұрын

If they had had it in 1940, it would have brought them together with us.

@pmolqrcd3370

6 жыл бұрын

In ww1 and ww2

@diabl2master

6 жыл бұрын

NICE

@diabl2master

6 жыл бұрын

Lewis Hampson Oh damn we've got a genius over here.

That ”we have sold two” will always be the most spontaniously funny thing I have ever heard!!

@willmcpherson2

Жыл бұрын

The delayed reaction from everyone in the room 💀

@FreakyPete

5 ай бұрын

As well as not really funny, that remark is not accurate. Gyrotheodolites are used by surveyors in underground mines world wide, as well as well by engineers in tunnelling operations.

@kayecastleman6353

2 ай бұрын

A clever line, but it will have to stand in line for honours in my book, especially on this show where "spontaneously funny" is epidemic. Glad it served you so well, though. 😊

@pepwaverley2185

4 күн бұрын

@@FreakyPete Ignorance of the subject, and the subsequent tendency to conjecture, are what makes it funny. That you have more knowledge may prevent you from being genuinely amused by it, but that surely cannot hinder your appreciation of why it would be funny to others?

"ve 'ave zold two" i'm dead

@JohnJohnson-ok4gf

5 жыл бұрын

Kills me every time, and I've seen this bit at least 20 times.

@Tichi20

5 жыл бұрын

Did you hit?

@joebleasdale5557

5 жыл бұрын

“All done vere vell!” 😂😂😂

@JonasDAtlas

5 жыл бұрын

German is my second language and that was surprisingly accurate - and definitely hilarious.

@malteee9073

4 жыл бұрын

Do not macke fun off uz we are zuperior

I joking said to myself "It's got to be a German. Only thing that can force a Englishman and a Frenchman to work together." Can't believe that was right.

I read the question and thought "if the choice is between the English and the French, this is QI so the answer will be the Germans."

@adamdavid3195

7 жыл бұрын

I was thinking exaftly the Germans too :D

@danielpetersen4123

7 жыл бұрын

Same

@momouppa

7 жыл бұрын

OriginalPiMan i was thinking a swiss engineer

@ObjectsInMotion

7 жыл бұрын

I guessed Americans

@Thediamondduck11

6 жыл бұрын

OriginalPiMan i thought shouting

That last joke was perfect

@SpeakShibboleth

7 жыл бұрын

Pepys I wasn't paying attention. It went in one ear and out the other.

@00fabian7

7 жыл бұрын

Pepys If only that were true for the Indian engineer

@jamesbulldogmiller

6 жыл бұрын

Ending the video on that joke was masterful

@grahamlive

5 жыл бұрын

It was the one and only time that Fred McCauley has ever been funny.

@sam_marley

5 жыл бұрын

grahamlive they were referring to Rob's joke right at the very end, not Fred's joke

Sandi Toksvig started in the far right chair (the one Rob's sat in), then moved to the one she's sat in here, then replaced Stephen at his chair, and in a few years she will replace Alan, then eventually end up in the far left chair.

@Dafoodmaster

7 жыл бұрын

Marcus Cross surely they're all on the far ri- sorry, wrong reference.

@pauljmorton

6 жыл бұрын

That's Bailey's seat, he won't budge.

@apocrypha5363

6 жыл бұрын

And maybe, maker willing, at some point of that journey she'll get a laugh. *fingers crossed*

@RandomPlayIist

6 жыл бұрын

She was always funny and interesting as a panelist so I knew she'd be the same as host.

@ep4everlegend317

6 жыл бұрын

She must have misunderstood the rules and thought this is musical chairs

We have sold two! Kills me every time...

Rob's french little sigh at 04:00 is perfection

It's a really clever piece of equipment. All it really does is ensure that a straight line is kept (accounting for earths curvature (of course)) using the relative difference in spin experienced in a gyroscope depending on latitude and the tangential angle between a perceived horizon and a projected correct horizon!

@TheOneWhoMightBe

7 жыл бұрын

Simples!

@edd6820

6 жыл бұрын

Tristram Keats man, sweet.

@ARed1Abedin

6 жыл бұрын

I'd like you in my party

@Jotari

6 жыл бұрын

How do the flat earthists explain that!

@connormawe01

6 жыл бұрын

floooooooooooooooood The same way they explain everything else. With ignorance.

German accent caught me off guard

@xiphosura413

3 жыл бұрын

French one got me

@SebHaarfagre

3 жыл бұрын

German Accent will now issue a punishment to you for being off guard

That last joke was in such poor taste but it really managed to connect.

@willemvandebeek

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that joke was right on the edge

@victore92

7 жыл бұрын

That my fellow KZreadr, was a excellent follow up joke, haha!

@Totto87

7 жыл бұрын

No, but if asked if he hit or not made it hilarious! :)

@thinkagain9457

7 жыл бұрын

Looks like the f#*king pc police are here. Lighten up buddy, this is a TV show for gods sake.

@CannedLizard

7 жыл бұрын

Sometimes, you need to take a shot in the dark and hope you don't die up there on stage.

ENGLAND: We've done 10 meters today. How far have you gone. FRANCE: Yeah same.

Civil engineer involved in building pipelines: we use gyros occasionally. Whenever the pipeline is far from the surface or under a wide body of water we get a gyro for the drill..it's incredibly expensive. (horizontal directional drilling) so there is a good market for it.

@bobcorbett5614

4 жыл бұрын

They also have good use in mines.

3:35 points should have been awarded for that "Great Escape" reference.

At the beginning, he says the Frenchman's name was Creuset. The final t is actually silent, so his name sounds exactly like "creuser", the french verb for "to dig". 😊 Edit: turns out I heard the name wrong, it's Cozette, and therefore it has nothing to do with dig, "creuser". On the other hand it sounds exactly like Cosette, the character in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, the girl you see on the poster for the famous musical. A French novel, made into a musical in the early 80s, turned into a huge hit by the Brits. So, somehow appropriate still. 😄

@tiffanywetherspoon420

5 жыл бұрын

And the Englishman was called Fagg. The second g is not pronounced, and it means to drill into a dark and dirty hole.

@Octopop2010

4 жыл бұрын

@@tiffanywetherspoon420 yikes tiff

@markmayonnaise1163

4 жыл бұрын

@@Octopop2010 Don't knock it 'til you try it

@poopcock4357

4 жыл бұрын

no it's not silent

@paulallen579

4 жыл бұрын

He said the wrong name or didn't articulate enough, the name of the French worker was Philippe Cozette. www.thoughtco.com/the-channel-tunnel-1779429

As an AMerican who has only seen full episodes when they are put on KZread and discovered this show three or four years ago, what fascinated me about this clip is that I never knew Sandi Toksvig had been a panelist on the show before she became host.

@justvin7214

5 жыл бұрын

Sandi has been a panelist 17 times before she became the host.

@Monkofmagnesia

5 жыл бұрын

@@justvin7214 I now have every episode to date! I have been binge watching the past four days and have a long way to go. It is a lot of fun and I do not notice the passing of time.

@justvin7214

5 жыл бұрын

@@Monkofmagnesia Welcome to my world...

It’s amazing how sad I felt when Stephen spoke about the British making their machines burrow themselves into the earth 😆 Pixar has done its job

In Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, he mentioned a tunnel built in Samos(?) by the ancient Greeks. One mile long and out by only a foot or two in the middle. I read this 35 years ago and I’m going from memory so I can’t confirm it. Also in Cappadocia are some amazing tunnels.

The French apologized for being late and gave the excuse of "I would have been here sooner but my rock was so hard."

@mark-ish

3 жыл бұрын

Rumour has it they surrendered just as it started, so had to catch up.

That last joke was fucking savage... good bant

There were 2 previous tunnels that had an interesting story. In fact, they were the first 2 tunnels to start on both ends. The first is in Jerusalem (Siloam tunnel) where the tunnel was close to the surface and they could listen to the shovels and could guide the workers by the noise. The second one was made geometrically. The tunnel of Eupalinos is considered one of the great feats of the Greek Engineering. They went around the mountain with perpendicular lenghts and then constructed a similar triangle and dug in the direction of the hypotenuse. They got precise enough to the point they could hear the other tunnel in the middle of the mountain and made the connection. It served as an aqueduct and saved thousand of lives.

@pokemaster123ism

Жыл бұрын

Geez, those clever greeks

Gyroscopes are such an underrated invention, with a properly aligned gyro you can tell your positive and relative movement in any frame of causality.

@welshpete12

5 жыл бұрын

more of a discovery then in invention. But they are very handy things . :-)

“Did he hit?” Brutal!

To defend the British, the burrowed machines serve a valuable purpose: they act as a mid-tunnel electrical grounding.

@carlosandleon

4 жыл бұрын

bullshit excuse

@ferrumignis

4 жыл бұрын

@@carlosandleon It's neither an excuse nor bullshit, it's a simple fact. Not as simple as yourself, obviously.

@lordgarion514

4 жыл бұрын

We normally use a metal rod hammered into the ground for ground. I don't see how the machine does a better job.

@bobbodaskank

3 жыл бұрын

@@ferrumignis I mean, it's not really as simple as that, is it? I could plug a pinhole leak with the sapphire from my wife's ring. Telling her not to be angry because it's serving a valuable purpose might be factual, but it's still a bullshit excuse for mistreating something significant or valuable when I could have used something else instead. Those machines could have seen more service, got broken broken down for a monstrous amount of scrap metal, or they could have been sold to other countries wanting to perform similar civil engineering projects. "Sorry, chaps, ask the French, but if you need the usual steel electrical grounding spikes, we have a few spares."

@ferrumignis

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobbodaskank You have clearly never worked on huge civil projects like this. The machines would have been pretty tired by that point, and the cost of breaking them down and removing them would have been huge.

"Gyrotheodolite" is the name of my Alan Parsons Project cover band.

"Helloo? Are you there? We are here!" Oh sorry we've gone past you!" 😂😂😂😂

In answer to Stephen’s question. The reason they buried the British Boring Machines was because if they didn’t, when the French arrived, they would have 2 machines facing right at each other head on. Since they can’t exactly be reversed they agreed to bury the British ones (makes sense since they finished digging first) and allow the French to drive straight through.

@telectronix1368

2 жыл бұрын

So was it the French one that Sandi would have seen by the road?

Lots of good stuff here but: The gyrotheodolite was used to make sure that there was no cumulative error building up in the survey but the basic accuracy was down to good old precision surveying, so precise that it accounted for the light being bent by the thermal gradient between the edge and the middle of the tunnel. The accuracy was not advertised as the surveyors knew that it was far better than they had any reason to expect being about 50mm, 75mm and 150mm (up/down. left/right and length). Considering that, at the start, we didn't know where France was to that sort of accuracy, it is pretty amazing. The UK tunnelling machines were buried largely because they would have been extremely difficult to get out as they are larger than the completed tunnel. However, the machines that dug the land tunnels from Dover to Folkestone were retrieved and put up for sale.

The Romans built an underground aquifer through a mountain, starting at each end and met in the middle with an error of less than a foot.

@Alucard-gt1zf

5 жыл бұрын

Wonder how many people died for it to happen

@krashd

5 жыл бұрын

Building a straight line through anything has been possible for thousands of years, building a tunnel that goes under a very deep body of water and then up the other side is very difficult. The amount of course corrections alone through various types of rock and soil for 25km each makes the fact that they were only 30cm out absolutely staggering.

@erictaylor5462

5 жыл бұрын

@@krashd I didn't say it was impossible. Clearly it was. But that doesn't mean it was easy, or, after thousands of years, that we know how they did it. There are many examples of engineering in the ancient world that we have no clue how they did it, but the fact they exist proves it was possible. No impossible engineering feat have ever been discovered, because they are, well, impossible.

@derekscanlan4641

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but apart from building an underground aquifer through a mountain, starting at each end and meeting in the middle with an error of less than a foot... what have the Romans ever done for us?

@kingdom1682

4 жыл бұрын

@@derekscanlan4641 hahaha 😆

I’m on a QI marathon and Stephen seems to look different in every video regardless of the date the episode was recorded

So quick with the last line! Brilliant!

@stitcha123

4 жыл бұрын

Scripted

The French and the English once more unified with the help of Germany xD

4:48 I was waiting for the following inevitable question.

The gyrotheodolite wasn't invented solely for the channel-project though - it was in use since 1949... In short: "Ve have zold zavven!"

I read Birdsong ages ago, have to read it again, forgot how good it was

A frenchmen, an englishmen and a german walk into a tunnel

@VestigialHead

5 жыл бұрын

+ randomisedjacob If nobody was there to hear them did they make a sound?

@annmitchell4663

5 жыл бұрын

The Frenchman said Ah..this would make a great wine cellar..the Englishman said Ah..this would make a great beer cellar,the German said Ah...now we can REALLY invade Britain this time..!

@SebHaarfagre

3 жыл бұрын

Three Germans walk out of the tunnel

I saw the TBM in the factory when they were building it what an amazing machine.

Thank you for the subtitles.

I thought they would just magnetise the drills to make them meet. One small issue was raised when they both chose the same polarity of magnet, which is why there's a few loops in the middle of the tunnel.

@JJONNYREPP

11 ай бұрын

QI | Who Made Sure The Channel Tunnel Met In The Middle? 0847am 1.8.23 dont hurry back was the cry!

I'm reasonably sure that the construction area had a rule about hard hats required by everyone. Superman, no matter how impervious he is, would follow that rule to set a good example.

"Did he hit?" Caught me so off-guard

"Did he hit?" LMAO

Brilliant as always

Honestly, when Stephen said names of the French and English workers I ws sure that he just made up one very English name and one very French name. But those are real names of those two workers.

"We have sold two!"

When he said how did they met in the middle who besides me thought the middle man would be a great answer the wrong one but a great one

Vee haf sold too !

Actually I was Eric Radcliff, a surveyor Par Excelance. Mr Fagg was the instrument that opened the Surveyors expert guidence.

So many good accents!

I watched a documentary about this earlier this week it was so interesting. Even though the French's machines were slower but they were water proof unlike the British's.

@donepearce

4 жыл бұрын

The French were pessimists. We were pretty sure we wouldn't need to tunnel underwater.

Dara O'Briain did an amazing bit about the poor digger that got left behind. I think it's on Crowd Tickler. #pooroldchuggy

@okok72277

3 жыл бұрын

Shame he's ridiculously unfunny

Poor Chuggy! 😢😢😭

1:31 Brydons pronunciation of Superman is amazing

Really? "Series X, Episode X?" Seriously? I can't believe they'd [INSERT LAZY ACTIVITY HERE]! It really makes me want to [INSERT REPRIMANDING ACTION HERE].

@hornyfuckinturtle

7 жыл бұрын

H, 11

@ezekiel0606

6 жыл бұрын

is there even a season x yet

@PomegranateStaindGrn

5 жыл бұрын

horny turtle you’ve sunk my battleship

@Shrivedh

5 жыл бұрын

@@PomegranateStaindGrn lmao🤣🤣

1:31 Bloody Fathers for Justice get everywhere these days

Rob Brydon, savage as hell lol.

The problem is that when the German brought up the gyrotheodolite to the tunnel, there was a man there who said, "Vere is your licence?!"

I'd have thought they just dug the entire tunnel from one side. So there's no chance they'd bog it up. But it is of course twice as fast to dig both sides at once. And nice for both countries to have contributed.

@MijmerMopper

3 жыл бұрын

It also doesn't fix the needed accuracy. If the one side bogs up even a little bit you end up having a tunnel that doesn't connect on the other side.

@DlcEnergy

3 жыл бұрын

@@MijmerMopper Obviously overall, regardless whether you're digging one or two, you could still bog it up if you had no accuracy whatsoever. The whole point is that joining two requires absolute PERFECT accuracy. While with just one it wouldn't matter if they dug all the way from England to France and was the slightest bit off from where the French would've started their tunnel. lol Oh no! Now we gotta put the tracks a few feet to the left. Sacré bleu! lmao

Reminds me of the theories about the people digging the tunnels in the ancient Levant- possible they dripped water through the gaps in the earth above and the diggers followed the line of water

@jonashellsborn7648

4 жыл бұрын

Good idea if there is no ubiquitous ground water. And a single fracture system, going in the desired direction. So maybe it's a "desktop idea".

1:35 Shout out to that one lady who lost her shit when they zoomed in!

Genuinely was expecting Alan to say ‘Blue Whale’

The Chunnel is within soft chalk (like Cliffs of Dover) with millions of tons of sea water above.

The British drilling rig was buried beneath the middle tunnel so that the French rig could be driven through to Folkestone and turned around to drill the two 12.5m diameter running tunnels. The middle maintenance tunnel was used to access both running tunnels during the projects construction.

@sarkybugger5009

3 жыл бұрын

Please don't comment on things you clearly have no knowledge of.

1:16 did he just spoil me the book I’m currently reading?!?! 😱

@tomaziskra4318

4 жыл бұрын

What is the name of thr book

@drdrdrk

4 жыл бұрын

Tomaž Iskra Birdsong by S. Faulks

@dansaunders1655

3 жыл бұрын

Let me know who let their bomb off when you finish it

@telectronix1368

2 жыл бұрын

@@dansaunders1655 Someone let's a bomb off when you finish the book? I always thought no good would come from all that reading.

A young sally gunnell, whilst playing the fiddle

That last joke 😂😂😂

"Ve have sold two!" 😂😂😂😂😂

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrotheodolite

I was expecting someone to make a middle management joke.

Quite interestingly a gyro theodolite would be needed for each tunneling machine being used. between. Or a boy on a bike to race between.

It's great that Alan Davies mimes every joke he does. If he hadn't shouted after saying shouting, I would not have known what a shout was.

@jamestodd1104

6 жыл бұрын

Grow up

@rigomrtz

5 жыл бұрын

A snide that hides is despised

@SlobbyMotor

5 жыл бұрын

trevor unswin I thought it was pretty good

Rob Brydon's French accent, ooooo

" turn left. You are under the sea".

Ah poor Col Barog, at least the tunnel and a station is named after him on a UNESCO Heritage Line. So not too bad at the end

Regarding tunnelling under enemy positions, investigate the tunnelling they did in the Battle of Messines.

@blindleader42

4 жыл бұрын

Check out the site on Google Earth. Start at N 50.771126°, E 2.864958° and follow a line of circular ponds running almost due North for about 3km.

This is why we always bring Dotty back from the caves. Rock & Stone!

"did he hit" - brilliant

"only 300mm or so out" *holds hands 3mm apart*

Well they sold two more of the devices than RARlab has been able to sell WinRAR licenses.

@michaelmartin9022

4 жыл бұрын

There's a fascinating interview with that guy, actually. He doesn't care about home users using it for free, because businesses will try to keep themselves above-board by registering. If everybody's using it at home, as soon as the boss shouts out "anybody know how to open a rar?" somebody will recommend it.

Couldn't the same device be used for helping the submarines to navigate (to keep straight course)? Or is it already being used for that purpose?

@jamesbulldogmiller

6 жыл бұрын

Gyroscope compasses are used in ships and airplanes (before the advent of GPS)

@HolandaChiquita

5 жыл бұрын

Not accurate enough. Also you have the drilling and the fact that it's underground to keep in mind...

@adamfoxton6341

5 жыл бұрын

Gyroscopes are and have been used in for subs and the like for years. Also for missiles. Look up Ring Laser Gyros and Fibre Optic Gyros. Wonderful bits of kit.

@samiam619

3 жыл бұрын

In his book Red Storm Rising (great book) Clancy has his Submarine navigator say: “all I need is a map and a stopwatch“.

“Ve hav sold two, ya” ahahahah😂😂😂

Patent on the gyroscopic theodolite ran out in 1978. A top end model with GPS costs $140,000.00 !

I guess the tunnellers knew that key lesson from history: Only the Germans can bring the English and the French together (Edit: Wow, thanks for all the thumbs up!)

@EPICFAILKING1

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, hahaha xD

@TheMajesticJunkyard

7 жыл бұрын

kaboom138 so THAT'S WHAT THEY NEEDED TO NOT HAVE BREXIT

@thecatwiththehat5818

7 жыл бұрын

Lets not bring politics here

@FrederickFokker

7 жыл бұрын

If there were Academy Awards for KZread comments...you'd lose, of course, because those awards shows are all shit. But you still get my vote.

@kaboom138

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I never thought I would ever hear and see a Scotsman speaking English in a German accent.. although in truth I've never really thought about it before.. Lol

very very funny

Don't people remember the two Welsh ex miners who won the original bid by miles! £5000!! Dai and Will explained that the bid included the ferry ticket and the cost of two picks and two shovels. Why the Ferry ticket they were asked, to which Dai replied that as Will spoke a bit of French he would travel over to France and Dai would go to Folkestone. They would mark direction lines and start digging towards each other until they met in the middle? "What happens if you miss?" they were asked. "Well" said Dai & Will together, " in THAT case you'll have a 'Twofer'!" "A Twofer!?" Yes said Dai ... Two fer the price of one!" 🤪🤪😆😆😆

When Stephen said it was a German you could tell everyone thought "for fucks sake" to themselves

what was the book alan was talking about?

@darthwillem

7 жыл бұрын

Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks.

@pravinrao6785

6 жыл бұрын

darthwillem thanks!

@robertstallard7836

4 жыл бұрын

Birdsong. Sebastian Faulks The bits about the technicalities of tunnelling aren't bad, but there's a lot of airy-fairy nonsense in it as well. You'll learn a lot more about the technicalities of tunnelling from non-fiction books on the subject without having to wade through pages of dross.

Haven't watched this yet but I can tell you who made sure the Tunnel met in the middle. The Germans.

the simpler solution is that they should have both started in the middle

@nczioox1116

10 ай бұрын

😂

Technically I've heard that the machines that have been burrowed on the English side were to provide an electrical ground...

*Puts his fingers 3mm apart*, "they were only 300 mm out". Dude that's 30 cm, a foot long.

@lmcf_gtr

6 жыл бұрын

WodanKlaaschOften on a 22 mile long tunnel? That's not bad!

@glentight

6 жыл бұрын

Luke Mcfarlane 300mm is actually terrible. Gyro from both ends.. control network updates at regular intervals.. should be less than 50mm on breakthrough.

@jackbromley4340

6 жыл бұрын

Glen Tight it works though doesn't it. And I'm sure you couldn't do better

@glentight

6 жыл бұрын

This is Anonymous It what I do. Last breakthrough, control adjustment E:7mm N:3mm Height adjustment 6mm Drive lengths 4.7km/5.4km

@SarveshCK

6 жыл бұрын

WodanKlaaschOften It was to scale.

I don't understand why they needed a fancy gyroscopic theo-whatsit to find their position underground. They just have to open the debug menu and check the coordinates!

@tristramkeats2089

7 жыл бұрын

Yonkage How is the machine going to know its coordinates? The gyro theodolite ensures that a straight line is kept and therefore you can know where you are!

@thecatwiththehat5818

7 жыл бұрын

It was a gaming joke I believe

@shinobisauren

7 жыл бұрын

Minecraft reference to be exact.

@hebl47

6 жыл бұрын

They wanted achievements so the console was locked.

@skyeturner5003

5 жыл бұрын

@@shinobisauren a year late but since when is it only Minecraft that has a debug menu with co-ordinates?

I shouted the germans at the start I'm flabbergasted

Wow

3:12 Gotta model good behavior for the kiddies, you know how it is.

Our machines were named Chuggy by an Irishman called Dara.

No the English drill was called Chuggy and French drill was called Chugon

Tolsteeg's bullshit at 1:50 called out by Fry at 2:13