QI | How Did Choirboys Plan On Driving Hitler Mad?

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12 May: On this day in 1949, the Berlin Blockade was lifted.
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This clip is from QI Series K, Episode 11 , 'Kinky' with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Janet Street-Porter, Sandi Toksvig and Johnny Vegas.

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@bakedbeanishdragon 4 жыл бұрын

You can tell from this episode that Sandi Toksvig is Stephen's natural successor.

@DestroyerWill 4 жыл бұрын

bakedbeanishdragon yeah both had access the answers before the show. She’s so fake.

@BumMcFluff 4 жыл бұрын

@@DestroyerWill Proof?

@lukeyyyyyy 3 жыл бұрын

@@DestroyerWill yes you're correct that they probably had access to the material that would be covered somewhat. that's why there's constant breaks to add jokes and things like that, but to actually apply the amount of knowledge and make it entertaining is what's impressive.

@eggarts9158 4 жыл бұрын

I usually understand most of what Stephen and Sandi are talking about but when I try to relay the information to my friends I sound much more like Johnny Vegas or Ross Noble

@limyohwan 2 жыл бұрын

"most" well there's your problem

@EebstertheGreat 7 жыл бұрын

An actual letter from the Italian front: "The enclosed leaflets were dropped by the Germans on the Italian Front in the winter 1944-45. They were very popular among our boys as souvenirs…" Seems like the German leaflets were just as demoralizing as the CIA ones.

@WhiteCamry 7 жыл бұрын

OSS. CIA was postwar.

@LughSummerson 7 жыл бұрын

"Sir Arthur, Sir Arthur! We've come up with a plan to scupper Fritz once and for all. Reverend Ramsbottom says that dirty magazines drive you mad, so let's drop them on the Hun and they'll all be looney by Tuesday." "Dashed rum scheme, chaps. Nudey pictures don't make you mad. I should know…" "What?" "Ahem… Her Majesty's Forces would never stoop to such tactics."

@WhiteCamry 7 жыл бұрын

"His Majesty's Forces" in those days.

@Saje3D 4 жыл бұрын

It’s like you were a dormouse hiding in the teapot, listening in.

@WeaselKing1000 4 жыл бұрын

Johnny Vegas is half right here. 'In 1977, Article 56 of the Protocol I amendment to the Geneva Conventions outlawed attacks on dams 'if such attack may cause the release of dangerous forces from the works or installations and consequent severe losses among the civilian population'. There is however an exception if 'it is used for other than its normal function and in regular, significant and direct support of military operations and if such attack is the only feasible way to terminate such support'.'

@lawrencecalablaster568 4 жыл бұрын

I learned about Acoustic Kitty from The Technical Difficulties.

@markmayonnaise1163 4 жыл бұрын

Ah, a man of culture I see.

@samc2 3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

@comediansactorsandall2502 3 жыл бұрын

I LOVE ❤️ STEPHENS LITTLE DANCE 💃

@Ekergaard 7 жыл бұрын

The guy I don't know the name on, is right bombing dams is banned in the Geneva convention (Edit: I checked with google, protocol 1, articles 56, 1977).

@rhyfelaherwfilwrol6732 7 жыл бұрын

That's right it was added after the Dam busters raid because so many civilians were killed, his name is Johnny Vegas and he should have got points for that.

@ADDodger 7 жыл бұрын

I can't believe I never thought of bombing dams during war before, it put chills down my spine just thinking about it. Thank fuck it's banned in the Geneva convention

@TheYopogo 5 жыл бұрын

No one did it before because they're incredibly difficult to hit effectively. That's why they had to invent the bouncing bomb, being a cylinder with backspin, so they could drop it over the water on the approach and it would bounce into the dam from the side.

@gnaskar 3 жыл бұрын

@@ADDodger Now if only we could get United States, Israel, Iran, Pakistan, India, and Turkey to ratify the Protocol 1 agreement... They are the last few countries that are fine with mass civilian casualties, evidently.

@PaulJones-br6uv Жыл бұрын

Jonny Vegas is correct - attacks on water infrastructure became a war crime after WWII. Dams were specifically mentioned in Article 56 of the First Additional Protocol (1977) to the Geneva Convention 1949. So dams used for drinking water and crop irrigation are protected. Not sure about hydroelectric dams.

@OriginalPiMan 7 жыл бұрын

So the Brits were willing to fight them on the beaches, but not fight them over the bitches?

@breaddboy 7 жыл бұрын

OriginalPiMan not with a twitching in their britches

@butcherboy2008 7 жыл бұрын

The name of the magazine that featured "pin-up girl" Betty Grable was known as Yank Magazine.

@aleksneedshelp 7 жыл бұрын

Douglas Butcher more like wank magazine amiright?

@weirdunclebob 7 жыл бұрын

I like the name 'Yank Magazine'. Very subtle!

@montieluckett7036 4 жыл бұрын

I like one about the Russians training dogs to blow up enemy tanks. Unfortunately they used their own tanks for training purposes. The results were rather dismal, but in hindsight ,quite predictable.

@koalabandit9166 3 жыл бұрын

I've been doing some research and I can absolutely guarantee that no amount of porn will drive someone mad.

@thejjfrantsexperience5572 6 жыл бұрын

I would have said "Inventing Kidzbop"

@insertname1014 3 жыл бұрын

Jacksfilms choses to disagree.

@peteregan5974 7 жыл бұрын

what's up with Stephen's tie?

@campuscryptid3020 5 жыл бұрын

When have you ever known him to wear a sensible tie?

@geekdivaherself 4 жыл бұрын

Could somebody explain his tie to me? It doesn't look like an abstract design so much as an abstract design that's referencing something, possibly something quite interesting!

@BriarRouge 4 жыл бұрын

Was that blonde lady on Whose Line is it Anyway when Clive Barker hosted?

@witherblaze 4 жыл бұрын

Clive Anderson. Not Barker. Also, the blonde (Sandi) wasn't on Whose Line

@pippapippa7365 3 жыл бұрын

@@witherblaze Nope you B wrong. Sandi was on several times, Whos Line is it Any Way. Played well too. P

@witherblaze 3 жыл бұрын

@@pippapippa7365 Hm. More you know

@Jotari 7 жыл бұрын

I don't get the logic of the porn war? How would that damage or demoralize the enemy beyond being a mild irritance? They're hardly going to stop the war and just have a massive orgy.

@Longshanks1690 7 жыл бұрын

floooooooooooooooood Because the Third Reich was insanely traditionalist in their morals. They despised the Weimar Republic for its degeneracy, thus flying porn all over them would have been an affront to their regime, as there was no way of controlling what people would be thinking about the,. And if you're a totalitarian, people thinking for themselves is the most terrifying thought imaginable.

@Jotari 7 жыл бұрын

Oh so it was more like "The Brits drop porn from the sky. Guess they can't be all that bad."

@Zippity181 6 жыл бұрын

It wasn't really effective but it causes dissent in the army as it either goes rampant, so you lose a level of control and discipline, or if you crack down on it there is now increased resources and effort put into controlling and monitoring your men (as well as resentment from those who had their porn taken from them). I'd also add that there was sometimes an effort in warfare to try to spread STD's through an army. The best known example of this would be the North Vietnamese rounding up women with gonorrhea and sending them south to fraternize with American troops, but STD's were an issue in WWII as well. The two may be related with the porn meant to encourage trips to whorehouses and spread such diseases, though I've never read anything confirming that these two methods were related. Wars are always fought in many ways and often in quite stupid ways, porn is clearly the latter.

@kaktotak8267 6 жыл бұрын

@unkounify A girl is a "she". Use pronouns properly.

@samuellawrencesbookclub8250 5 жыл бұрын

@@kaktotak8267 'They' is valid, also - it is gender neutral and therefore can apply to any person of any gender. Furthermore, although the, for it to work, one must assume that all the soldiers greatly effected by the porno-war were heterosexual, simple statistics would seem to suggest that a fair chunk of them were homosexual, and - therefore - their partners would be male, assuming they had partners. As such, the gender neutral pronoun seems more apt - we can hardly know the sexuality of all of the soldiers who fought in WW2, and though heterosexuals were assumed and therefore targeted, when talking of the soldiers partners, a gendered pronoun is not appropriate.

@Delinae 4 жыл бұрын

A satirical Japanese cartoon said that the US wanted to drop extra-large condoms into the USSR, but I don't know if that's true.

@deaddoll1361 4 жыл бұрын

Labelled medium size if I remember correctly.

@TheClearSummer 2 жыл бұрын

Hetalia?

@Delinae 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheClearSummer yep, didn't want to alienate anyone in the top comment so I didn't mention it. I was hoping someone else picked up on it though :P

@TheClearSummer 2 жыл бұрын

@@Delinae LOLOL nice. Never thought I'd see an anime reference for a QI video XD

@jamesl8640 3 жыл бұрын

20 million dollars at the time on acoustic kitty and leader of the CIA says that the taxi running it over was an urban myth. What actually happened was the equipment was taken out of the cat, the cat was resewn and it went to live with other people.

@NickyG-NZ Жыл бұрын

What's going on with Stephens tie?

@robertcbarry 6 жыл бұрын

No need he already was

@anirudjampana3004 7 жыл бұрын

At 0:18 Sandi's head looks really big doesn't it?

@danboyle116 5 жыл бұрын

Actually, if Acoustic kitty was ever really released it was said to have been in Washington, D.C. There's some doubt as to whether it really happened.

@chriskoudelka24 3 жыл бұрын

Slightly different version of Acoustic Kitty. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty

@OwenSimpsonUK 6 жыл бұрын

Is nobody going to ask why it says KKK in the background?

@connor5160 6 жыл бұрын

Owen Simpson Exact what I was thinking lol

@paulpeereboom9271 6 жыл бұрын

Because each series is based on a letter, and this series was based on the letter K

@carlwolfe9263 6 жыл бұрын

I was gonna comment about this lol. I thought it was funny that they had those “KKK’s” in the background and nobody seems to mind because this is a British show and they don’t have the KKK in England. Here in America that’s a bit more serious an error to make on tv

@martinh88 6 жыл бұрын

Nope. Who cares? You're reading something that isn't there.

@cyrpuscacophony8059 6 жыл бұрын

It's K K K K K K

@bradameerbeg2154 3 жыл бұрын

I know porn drives me “mad”

@austinthompson6296 5 жыл бұрын

Now that I know that leaflet dropping was a big thing in ww2 to mislead your enemies, dropping them before the nuke bombing seems almost like an insulting level of bluff to the Japanese that would almost 100% never be perceived by them as a valid threat

@grease_monkey6078 3 жыл бұрын

So by watching porn you are a patriot, I'm doing my part. If you try to ban porn or censor it, the Fascists win

@blaidddrwg-ye9dy 3 жыл бұрын

That cat story is wrong. Russian embassy. Cat wasnt killed it just walked off.

@SierraSierraFoxtrot 7 жыл бұрын

Too bad the new movie Dambusters movie didn't happen. Instead we got a new Ghostbusters movie. :(

@tomuhawk96 7 жыл бұрын

maybe they were stuck over if they should change the name of the dog

@kisbie 7 жыл бұрын

I remember Billy Connolly visiting a pet cemetery in one of his programs and finding a headstone with that name on it. "I don't think that would be allowed now."