Albert Einstein was a nice guy....but his brother Frank.....was a real monster

I just love Sarah Pascoe on this show. Has a lot to add, get's a lot of the questions and is hilarious

Thanks to the subtitles i learnt that the russian word for scar is 'shram'... in german that word is used as well, but rather for more serious scratches after a car crash (on the car paint that is)... quite interesting

Hahaha, Swaffelen or more Dutch Zwaffelen is indeed Dutch, but you can say it on Television, like anything else. It was word of the year 2009 I think.. Somewhere around there. Which meant it was a new entry in the dictionary that got a lot of attention. It´s meaning is not restricted to banging the penis against the Taj Mahal, but it is for tapping things or people with a bare penis. It´s supposed to happen in big cities in public transportation. I learned what it meant from the telly. Most people in the Netherlands did that year, I suppose. I don´t know anyone, who knows anyone who has ever witnessed a swaffeling or will admit to doing it. But well done Jeremy, for getting that word..

I never really thought about it, but I have a pretty good idea about the number of swearwords in the Dutch language, because I compiled a naughty word list for a children´s chat back in 2002. It contained about 2400 words, including some conjugations and multiples, it was in no sense complete. This is due to a number of factors 1. because we borrow from a lot of languages like English and German (not French for some reason) and we have Turkish and Arabic as well in the cultural background. 2. Dutch swear words can be coupled together quite easily due to the nature of the language, 3. also in an expletive almost anything (also non-swearwords) containing one or even two sillables can be used to create emphasis, often to humourous effect. For instance we can say hoer, meaning prositute, but also straathoer, kankerhoer, tyfushoer etc. Lul, meaning something like knobhead (it´s when the slang word for the penis is used to indicate a person) can be made more humorous in this way, using the word for liquorice (drop), giving us droplul. This creates infinite possibilities. But it is also in the intonation, ´achterlijke gladiool´ is considered a brutal insult when said in the right tone, but literally means ¨retarded gladiolus¨ (gladiolus being the flower) I think creativity in this matter actually gives some street-status to the user of the profanity. Overusing a frase will make it quite inoffensive in some cases. 5. Also we can swear with quite a lot of nuance for different occasions. It is quite strange to us that a ´shit´ could be considered offensive in a posh Brittish hotel. This word has been appropriated as a mild swear word which kids under 8 will use quite easily. Let´s see if this get´s past youtubes profanity filter :)

3:21 Alan Davies... I'd stalk him if he wasn't married and I was 5% crazier.

The death to kings tattoo story has already been on QI. (as so much else)

How is Ross NOBLE not in an episode that has NOBLE in its title?

23:58 - I would like to enter our Norwegian all time champion of golf lingo and badass offshore swearing, Mr. Martin Schanke! If there is a relay team, I would also nominate Oluf von Raillkattlia and Harald of Heide unter Steen! The team leader would of course be Otto von Jespersen, he would also not mind that some of his teammates were already dead. It might only aggreviate him a bit more. No joke, though - never underestimate the swearing of any people that only see the sun for two months a year!!! Beware of the Scandinavians and the Finnish! Nevermind the russians or the americans, neither of them can take a joke whatsoever...

Clever around water......two words.....Florida Man

Aw too bad Alan's 3-week winning streak ends in spectacular fashion

If you think Dutch people have alot of swear words, talk to a flemish person. We've double that amount XD

Neon lights get their colours only from different gasses, I think Sandy is mistaken in saying you can colour the glass of the tubes unless you use krypton, but even then the effect would be very murky. This is because subtractive colouring can only be used to darken additive coloring. But by mixing gases and adding other elements almost all (rainbow) colours can be produced. Nobody wants brown fluoresent tubes :)

How high is Jeremy Clarkson in this episode?

Ontario has the Door Knob thing as well. All new residential homes or commercial can't have door knobs. Had that law since 1997.

Hmph... And I just looked up 'Hyacinth' tuther day August 22, 2022) and found she's still alive. Even posted that finding in FB.

The duel between the two women in Austria almost certainly didn't happen, btw. Princess Metternich explicitly said that it didn't happen and the Austrian press also reported that this story was untrue but the story was picked up by other European papers at the time.

My husband grew up in Vancouver. And he has a scar on his face.

Regarding the dueling tradition: While I've never dueled in that specific German tradition, I have seen some of the equipment used and I have actually fenced topless (guy) and been hit on the nipple :P

What's Alan's buzzer?

you can get vegan tattoo ink now though?

Yes another episode of Alan Davies making everything smutty and focused on him

I'm with Jason. Earl Grey is just horrible, like drinking perfume.