Here's a thought. Why not encase the books in a beetle proof cage? The bats seem like a Blackadder joke. Baldrick: I have a cunning plan Blackadder: oh dear what is it Baldrick? Baldrick: Well you know how nowadays there are beetles eating books? Well why don't we have bats flying around and in the morning we just clean up the poo?

@ragnartheshiz3153

Ай бұрын

Blackadder: "Baldrick, you wouldn't recognise a cunning plan if it painted itself purple and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing 'Cunning plans are here again'."

2:28 Lol the Futurama gag from the 1999 episode “Mars University”. Disk One - Fiction. Disk Two - Non Fiction. 💿 💿 📕

"Can't eat a Kindle!" Sandy: (blinking intensifies)

Anyone not appreciate some Koch every now and then?

@dielaughing73

Ай бұрын

Depends how you pronounce it

@plwadodveeefdv

Ай бұрын

​@@dielaughing73I'll take one of each... in fact, make that two

I was going to suggest silverfish(es).

Mice. We had mice in our garage and they devoured a box of old books, leaving behind tons of little poos.

The grubs are still called bookworms. This is like saying fireflies don't exist, because they're beetles too, and a better name would be lightning beetle.

@eggsngritstn

Ай бұрын

Correct, this is a show about such esoterica.

@TsandLman

Ай бұрын

By the same logic, walnuts don't exist either, because botanists don't consider them true nuts. This in spite of the fact they've had "nut" in their name since the very beginning of Old English, and before that they were known as "valhnot" to the Norse and "nux gallica" to the Romans. Specialists are perfectly welcome to use their own jargon when conversing with others in their fields, but if they expect the rest of the world to bow to their linguistic whims, then they're indehiscent fruits with woody pericarps. 😊

@JimC

Ай бұрын

Also like the QI researchers' podcast, "No such thing as a fish". And I think it's been mentioned on the show that "seagull" is in the same boat. 😁

@theomegajuice8660

Ай бұрын

Hi, welcome to your first time watching QI

@chlorophyllheart

Ай бұрын

Larvae are not worms. They are just pointing that out.

Last year, my puppy ate some of the spine of an expensive art-history book that I hadn't packed in a moving-box as it was too large & heavy!

Alan's joke was already done in Futurama! Although they used discs instead of USB sticks.

@Tao_Tology

Ай бұрын

Or.......different human beings, independently, had a similar thought.

In the book Beatles were called, Paul John Ringo and George 😂

Huh. OK, so rare books cannot be eaten. How about _medium rare?_ I'll have your best Joyce, medium rare s'il vous plait.

The answer is a globglogabgalab

@mannmctrash

Ай бұрын

"Mmm, simply delicious."

@Hellwyck

Ай бұрын

That's The Ramones , not the Beetles.

The Italian for "bookworm" is "library mouse." Just saying.

Termites ate my books. I had a nice collection, but I gave up after termites devoured them. Now I read electronic versions instead. Oh, and I have bats too. One used to live under my bed for a while. They fly in in the night, make a mess and go their way - especially if they find out you've got ripe bananas. They haven't bothered the termites at all. So much for living in a tropical paradise.

@davidwalter2002

Ай бұрын

I said termites, also. I worked for 22 years in the termite and pest control field, and saw their destruction. Bats won't do a think about termites, though, since termites live underground where bats don't feed.

@John_Smith_60

Ай бұрын

@davidwalter2002 And if they are going after their bananas, the bats are probably fruit bats and not predatory bats, anyway.

I love how getting the obviously wrong answer became a badge of honor instead of shame! I thought of bookworm first, and then decided it must be silverfish.

Wouldn’t covering everything keep the bats from getting to many of the beetles?

@Elriuhilu

Ай бұрын

She said they cover the furniture, not the books.

@CarlosBenjamin

Ай бұрын

@@Elriuhilu The bookcases aren’t furniture?

@Elriuhilu

Ай бұрын

@@CarlosBenjamin The bookcases are almost certainly built into the walls like in other old-school libraries.

@CarlosBenjamin

Ай бұрын

You need to visit more libraries. I’ve seen plenty where the bookcases were out away from the walls. You can very likely google for some photos.

@Elriuhilu

Ай бұрын

@@CarlosBenjamin You need to use some common sense and infer that obviously they're not going to cover the places the bats need to get into, even if they cover the tops of bookshelves.

Does anyone else see the happy character in the middle of Sandi’s shirt

'Bookworms don't exist.' 'Here's a story about bookworms.'

How do the bats get to the beetles if they're inside the books? Without damaging the books even more.

A QI viewer!

"The estimated total file size for just the digital versions of the books in the Library of Congress would be about 78 terabytes." - not quite a USB stick yet.

Erroneous Entomology: - 1. Bookworms 2. Silkworms 3. Apple worms

How did nerd not get a claxon? WTF?

Neeeeeerd! * pointing at a worm *

You’re probably right. Let the bats crap all over the priceless collection of books and preserve the tables. I’m sure that’s it.

What Creature Devours Books? | QI. 18.4.24. hahajhahsa.... Hermann ZBesscrested a fine quiz show.....

📖 🐛 This will be boring to me … and probably turn out s#it!

wtf is a "murd"?

4300 people were legally punished or jailed for online posts in the UK in 2023, Russia only jailed or punished 350 people that year… now that’s what I call gay 2024!

@khaitomretro

Ай бұрын

Very convenient for Russia that so many of the government's opponents (hundreds now) "accidentally" fall out of windows before they're ever arrested. Almost like it's planned.

@John_Smith_60

Ай бұрын

Russia "disappeared" the unreported 10,000.