“They say of the Acropolis…” is just like “hardtack” on Tasting History. It does not and will never get old!!! 😂😂😂
@squee5995 ай бұрын
I'm tempted to get "they say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is" tattooed on me now. It's up there with Kevin Bridges's horse story on WILTY.
@BEVERLYRANDOLPH-lx4qu5 ай бұрын
@@squee599 OMG, that’s a great one, too: “two Scottish guys trying to speak English.” I fall over every time he says that!!
@gmaureen5 ай бұрын
I've seen this numerous times over the years and it always sets me off...laughing like a hyena...one of their best moments.
@ronniebillhicks4 ай бұрын
This is easily (I'm American, so I didn't watch these live and don't know the whole series) THE BEST segment yet!!!!!,......I belted out laughing, it was so natural and hilarious!!!!!!!
@ronniebillhicks4 ай бұрын
@squee599 if you're ever in Pennsylvania in America, I will give you that tattoo for FREE, no joke!!!!!!,......
@chad335812 күн бұрын
The coupling of: “there’s a train” followed by “PROSTITUTES!” is excellent
@RalphBrooker-gn9iv5 ай бұрын
Rob’s exhalation of relief after sounding his buzzer 8:02 Priceless.
@MultiMolly212 ай бұрын
I realize that after watching these guys for several years that I love them all.
@lukemather96536 ай бұрын
Who agrees that the Olympics would be far more interesting if they included an regular person to compete alongside the professionals to compare against. It would be far more fun.
@trooperdgb97226 ай бұрын
And if some of the old events were brought back? Lol. Power Boat racing? Duelling? (Wax bullets)
@donkink31146 ай бұрын
They have taken the elitism too far.
@gabbleratchet18906 ай бұрын
If you’re going to quote Bill Murray, at least have the decency to cite him by name.
@foxfire13455 ай бұрын
olympics is not about having fun. its showing off the best of the best of their respective sports. you dont watch wrestling in the olympics, you’d watch WWE instead.
@hedgehog1965uk5 ай бұрын
You used to have to be an amateur to compete in the Olympics, but not these days.
@charliebone1264 ай бұрын
QI is the greatest show ever made. Stephen, Bill, Alan, Sean and Rich were the funniest panel 😅
@playerofguitars6 ай бұрын
42:39 i love how you can hear an audience member shout “NO” when Stephen says the edge of a record spins faster than the centre
@berniethekiwidragon43826 ай бұрын
Not sure why he said no. I used to go on foot drill exercises when I was a St John Ambulance cadet. When ever we turned during marching, we had to keep our paces synchronized, so the rank on the inside of the turn had to reduce their pace distance, while the outer rank had to widen.
@edwards83836 ай бұрын
@@berniethekiwidragon4382same reason cars have differentials. So the outside wheel can spin faster than the inside wheel during a turn.
@johnreynolds53834 ай бұрын
Even though the record spins at a constant speed, the velocity of the stylus is higher at the outer edge (or beginning) of the record than it is toward the center.
@edwards83834 ай бұрын
@@johnreynolds5383 the stylus has no velocity it is stationery. The record has one constant rotational speed. But different points on the record move at different speeds as they cover greater or lesser distances, wilst tracing they're path.
@smokeandkippers2 ай бұрын
@@edwards8383 *stationary
@markloveless10016 ай бұрын
19:49: Oh yeah, hoping that was in this series. "They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is..."
@Bajeeebus6 ай бұрын
What do you mean? What do they say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is?
@markloveless10016 ай бұрын
@@Bajeeebus He's gonna say! He's gonna say!
@Bajeeebus6 ай бұрын
@@markloveless1001 What did he say? What did he say??
@user-to6ci3ok8z5 ай бұрын
@@Bajeeebus They say of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon is ........ absolutely hilarious and priceless. I love it. ❤❤❤😂😂😂
@markloveless10014 ай бұрын
"Bloody hell, Stephen, this better be good".
@vivienneoneill54005 ай бұрын
I am enjoying all all the great QI shows.❤❤❤
@ripdbtpoo14415 ай бұрын
Good for you.
@Saor_Alba5 ай бұрын
I'm retired now, and the job I had necessitated that I travel extensively, mostly in Europe but not exclusively, which I did for over 40 years. I am Scottish and from the Isle of Skye originally, and when I was first hired for the job I was told by my manager to lose my Jock accent when abroad as I would not be taken seriously or be understood with my broad Scottish accent. This was the early 80s you understand when PC was not a thing yet, I thankfully ignored his advice after a short time and found to my pleasant surprise that I was greeted with far more friendliness when I spoke naturally to people in my "Jock accent" than in some unnatural enunciation that resembled Mrs Doubtfire.
@mcarter98393 ай бұрын
😇🥰😇🇬🇧
@RobespierreThePoof24 күн бұрын
To be fair, there are some English speaking countries where a thick Scottish accent of any variety will be greeted with utter confusion. I'm thinking North America especially. I imagine you did run into plenty of Europeans who struggled to understand you, especially back then when the rates of English skills on the continent were much lower than they are now! But yes, there's nothing wrong whatsoever with that accent. It's charming, in fact. Those old attitudes about accents were always quite specific to the culture(s) of the UK and Ireland.
@myeyesarespiders3 ай бұрын
The communicating as explorers and native Americans is pure IQ gold
@hawkpaul87354 ай бұрын
NIce to see Jimmy Carr when he looked liked Jimmy Carr. This was a great compilation too.
@theravenhaslanded3216 ай бұрын
I have to say the guys look damn dapper during the Queen Victoria/ 34:30 Mr Bean section. Sean was dashing with that helmet. When one side of my family came over having the last name "Johnson" at a time when so many were entering America with the same last name... they were advised to change their last name. So they did. I think it was brilliant
@michaelevans88686 ай бұрын
L 😅
@michaelevans88686 ай бұрын
lPl😅
@theravenhaslanded3215 ай бұрын
@@michaelevans8868not sure what you mean
@KernowexileАй бұрын
Dalia Farmer. The look on his face. Miss you Sean.
@pushthetempo26 ай бұрын
They say of the acropolis where the Parthenon is! What do they say what do they say!
@markloveless10016 ай бұрын
I knew what General Sedgewick said. That was great.
@zzz51736 ай бұрын
Keep these videos coming. Class
@markloveless10016 ай бұрын
For my friends across the pond, Hiram Ulysses Grant was his given name. The guy signing him into West Point got it wrong, and Grant was too shy to correct him. It is often given as 'Simpson', but that was a retro fit.
@unkiemiloplays9016 ай бұрын
That's so cute
@gretchenbaker74356 ай бұрын
Thankyou I shall tuck that away to hopefully win a bar tab one day!
@TheKira6996 ай бұрын
People called him Sam, but he became Uncle Sam.
@joshuarubin36846 ай бұрын
Harry S Truman's middle name also stood for nothing
@markloveless10015 ай бұрын
@@joshuarubin3684 I have resisted for days, but that's all I can stan and I can't stan no more. The S was in his given name and it was quite deliberate, honoring both his grandfathers, both whose name began with 'S'. Grant's was a flub, Harry's was deliberate. If you are not an American, understandable. If you are, the principal wants to see you in his office right this minute. Sheesh.
@SuperPol19816 ай бұрын
But what do they say about the akropolis?
@AutomaticDuck3006 ай бұрын
where the Parthenon iiiiissss
@annwagner57796 ай бұрын
The weird thing is they don’t say that about the acropolis - they say it about the Parthenon itself. So the whole silly line was totally unnecessary. Thank goodness the Qi writers didn’t know that, because I’ve never laughed so hard in my life.😂
@ripdbtpoo14416 ай бұрын
Ah, SuperPol is indeed a learned person, because the Greeks WOULD have used a kappa.
@Pagliacci_Rex6 ай бұрын
@@annwagner5779isn't the entire thing an acropolis and the building is the Parthenon. There's more than one acropolis.
@annwagner57796 ай бұрын
@@Pagliacci_Rex that’s right. But it’s the Parthenon specifically that has no straight lines - not the whole acropolis in Athens. I’m an art historian and we learn that fact (or supposition) about no straight lines in our first classes.
@Bren6882 ай бұрын
My dad was an Irish Navi, he'd spend 10 hours grafting, 10 hours drinking and 4 hours sleeping. He lived on alcohol, cigarettes and lard yet was as strong as an ox and fitter than most men half his age.
@robinsmith5442Ай бұрын
Grant's name in a bio I read was Hiram Ulysses Grant and it was the thing to put your initials on your trunk when going to West Point. He didn't want it to be HUG so he adopted his brother's name of Simpson.
@judycater28324 ай бұрын
I’m so relieved to know that there are no smashed badgers in house dust. Thank you Jeremy.
@user-jh3cg9mv7g2 ай бұрын
Dear Moaning Mins, if you dont like the personalities, dont watch the prog! Simple!! 😂
@townview53224 ай бұрын
If you, can, find the footage of Eric the Eel at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The crowd went wild, cheering him on. On a TV interview, one spectator said that he thought he might have to jump in and save him.
@nickthelick5 ай бұрын
Regarding the spies stealing documents used as toilet paper... ... I first heard of that in the Dennis Potter series - "Lipstick On Your Collar"... Where Ewan McGregor's character (and his characters' colleagues) has to translate Russian documents that have come to the MOD precisely in the manner described here.
@franktuckwell1963 ай бұрын
When i drove trains for British Rail, they were fitted with "Westinghouse" brakes.
@beckyeinolf330013 күн бұрын
I'm really glad that at least compilations by letter are available. I would absolutely buy the DVDs, but they are either unavailable or are only playable in other regions. I'm keeping my eyes open for when they are availble for sale again, but for now I'm watching what I can online here.
@apathyisdeath29776 ай бұрын
57:03 Who the devil worked on the aspect ratios here!?
@allanspeed57825 ай бұрын
"A second arse"!!! Epic!!!
@anonitachi696622 күн бұрын
QI is one of my favourite shows of all time and Fry is one of your national treasures, HOWEVER, the British, slaver mindset/culture, when speaking about Navies - "you fed them on beer and meat". 'You fed' them? What, like slaves? If the Brit wasn't cratious enough to supply beer and meat, they'd just starve? They couldn't eat unless the Brit said so?
@franktuckwell1962 ай бұрын
Its funny that Westinghouse was associated with A/C current, yet when i drove trains for BR there was a westinghouse braking system fitted on our epbs (electro pneumatic brake) yet we drove on the third rail D/C system.
@stuplays66326 ай бұрын
12:48 -- 15:14.... there's a better ironic death than any of those... strange it was not included.. or discovered by the research team... The guy that "coined the term" ""Organic ""was on live tv one day doing an interview at age 70- something and life longevity was raised as a topic... and the guy says... something like..... "You know, I never thought I'd live as long as 70?(something)... (his interview age)... but now I am here.... I have never felt better in my life and I have decided I am going to live until I am 100! " they laugh.... interview wraps up.... he walks off set.... has a heart attack and dies 😮 still in the studio lol... CRAZY!!!
@thinboxdictator67206 ай бұрын
11:17 - 11:23 *current* of 6600 *V* ? I know I saw that episode probably multiple times before and I don't think I've noticed that error before.
@martinmollerup22656 ай бұрын
Whoops
@SpeccyMan3 ай бұрын
It could've been worse. They could've said amperage. 😉
@happivaras6 ай бұрын
10:32~10:38 Topsy was an animal rights activist, a fallen hero😢
@lloydevans29005 ай бұрын
Those polar explorers technically didn't use only their own power during that trip: If you define an "external power" to be anything beyond what sheer human effort can do, and I doubt that definition would be even remotely controversial. One of the forms of skiing they used was "kite skiing", which is basically what it sounds like: If you have a tailwind, you can fly a kite ahead of you, a bit like the sport of "kite-surfing". Which is basically flying a large "power kite" while standing on a surfboard, which generates enough force to propel the board and rider across the water at respectable speeds. This can even lift the board and rider several metres up into the air if the wind speed is high enough. Anyway, if you can fly a power kite of similar size and design while on skis, the same force generated by the kite can propel at least one skier to similar speeds, or can even propel the whole group if they can tether themselves together, albeit at lower speeds. So if they were using the kite skiing technique (which Rupert Lonsdon explicitly told us that they did), that would have been a supplementary power source. Which could arguably be described as a mechanical power source, since it did provide a propulsive force - it just so happens that the energy source to make it work is one of the best known renewable sources - the wind.
@kieranbutler48055 ай бұрын
43:40 Sean is the goat ❤
@AppleMonster934 ай бұрын
48:36 Bill Bailey's Spice Girls reference there, fantastic 😂😂
@oldschoolm86 ай бұрын
As much as I love Eddie the Eagle's spirit and determination, I do think the Olympics should belong to athletes who've trained extensively and are of the elite. It might not be quite as entertaining, but when it comes to athletics, I think most viewers want to see the best of the best.
@Pagliacci_Rex6 ай бұрын
Including amateurs doesn't exclude others. It's all about the money and political penis measuring.
@lindabirkett88036 ай бұрын
He just missed out on selection for the GB Olympic ski team. He desperately wanted to be an Olympic athlete and started training for the ski jump.
@beckyeinolf330013 күн бұрын
I friend of mine used to market greeting cards with drawings of elephants on them. The paper itself was made from elephant poo: Apparently there's lots of grasses in the poo, and they are good for making paper!
@bradleybarnett95456 ай бұрын
@31:28 I was 16 when I visited Mademoiselle Liberté- the day Reagan got shot.
@DeniseF12 күн бұрын
Samoset , get off my land 😅😅😅
@linmonash12446 ай бұрын
The word 'Funniest' followed by the Topsie The Elephant story is just....
@photobackflip4 ай бұрын
57:05 - someone forgot to right-click fit to comp size.
@AndrewAHayes4 ай бұрын
The photo of the railway workers is not period correct as the first railways were narrow gauge and that photo is standard wide gauge!
@juliehamilton57993 ай бұрын
Just watching this , when trying to polish the glass dome… I’ve recently played around with engraving on glass and apparently a rubber or silicone burr will polish back to a clear (er) finish .. love that find though👍
@markloveless10016 ай бұрын
4:42: Great Train Robbery FOILED
@agalgonzalez5 ай бұрын
Eton is near Slough?! One area two worlds.
@stocktonjoans22 күн бұрын
Um, Actually . . . The anthropomorphic bat creatures in Star Wars are called "The Chadra-Fan" and they are a completely different species to Yoda and Grogu
@jessicajayes8326Ай бұрын
9:35 They'll say "Aww Topsy" at my autopsy...
@jessovenden6 ай бұрын
It’s very wrong of me I know, but living on beer and meat sounds wonderful. I’d probably crave veggies thought. Maybe add potatoes and gravy?
@markloveless10015 ай бұрын
yeah, you'd think the vitamin deficency would kick in after a while. Not to mention, Irishmen? And no taties?!
@lpsp4424 ай бұрын
One carrot a day would go a long way
@davidevans32273 ай бұрын
i'm sure one of the crew on 'time team' tried it (archeology student) only for twenty four hours, while also trying to dig and carry dirt in a navvy type way, but got on with it quite well.. 🙂 😉
@user-jh3cg9mv7g2 ай бұрын
Actually, 1st people to circumnavigate the world were the huge galleons of the Chinese in 1412. They knew about scurvy and carried potted lime trees. There you go!
@adam3464 ай бұрын
for anyone that thinks the potential Russian names are weird.. remember we name our kids after emotions and the Japanese call them after stations like Hime or Princess. Yoshi, a boys name means joy. So it's not as weird as one might think.
@hhunstad2011Ай бұрын
Elephants are such magnificent animals. I can't imagine the poor things misery and horrific death.
@sekaramochi5 ай бұрын
Dude seriously at 1:01:15 seconds, Steven introduced us the moon sex the first time
@t.c.thompson23595 ай бұрын
I'm glad the American on the panel knew that Squanto spoke English.
@gabbleratchet18905 ай бұрын
It’s a pretty famous fact about Squanto.
@charlespeterwatson90514 ай бұрын
Why'd you cut out the rabbit bit in the Winterval clip? They showed it in the QI Christmas Compliation.
@kenglasson29203 ай бұрын
The girl behind the ice guy is effing cute.
@jgage23443 ай бұрын
Strange that no one mentions the subliminal game Stephen plays when introducing the pilgrims and what they said ,,,he makes a grand pause and says HOW did they first communicate? No one fell for it and it gets forgotten…
@jonathangale94762 ай бұрын
I love the story about the handler in the zoo telling Bill to ALWAYS approach from the front. Oh no sorry NEVER ! 51 minutes
@amberswafford93055 ай бұрын
They laugh at hanging an elephant but it happened here in Tennessee.
@theravenhaslanded3215 ай бұрын
What hasn't happened in Tennessee 😅 (a Minnesotan now living in Missouri 😂)
@amberswafford93055 ай бұрын
@@theravenhaslanded321 I’m sure plenty of things haven’t. But not not hanging an elephant bc we’ve done that.
@glyph68Ай бұрын
Fellow Tennessean... Did not know that!
@amberswafford9305Ай бұрын
@@glyph68 it’s horrific but I’m still impressed they sussed out a way to do it.
@glyph68Ай бұрын
@@amberswafford9305 I can't imagine being on site. Appalling. Why hang an elephant? If it's gone berserk, put it down fast. Hanging? I have a real problem with "humanity."
@velvetunderpants445 ай бұрын
Surely the first animals to be herded for food would have been mammoths..?
@bethmiller97746 ай бұрын
Nikola Tesla should have been mentioned here.
5 ай бұрын
Why is there no grass on the highest mountain? Everest double grazing!
@TheLemonCobweb6 ай бұрын
14:38 Did I just hear the same laugh in this episode that plagued the most recent episode, Series U episode 7: Ufology?..
@Weird-City5 ай бұрын
Stephen looks like an old woman in that thumbnail.
@paulhammons70774 ай бұрын
But he... 😅
@aramiscalcutt4 ай бұрын
Stephen confuses Ulysses Simpson Grant (né Hiram Ulysses Grant) with Harry S Truman.
@darren.mcauliffe6 ай бұрын
You in the effort to shrink the image, but left in the end of video clip. Why?
@darren.mcauliffe6 ай бұрын
Oh and you put in the same clip twice too.
@quartermain1014 ай бұрын
Correction. 40:20
@velvetunderpants445 ай бұрын
I want to find someone who looks at me the way the girl behind the South Pole explorer looks at him
@quartermain1014 ай бұрын
Who is the guy with glasses at 1:24:38?
@robcarter555 ай бұрын
Slough is in Berkshire not Buckinghamshire !
@Miss.Moth.6666 ай бұрын
Space lift: how many moving parts? It works maybe if nothing got broken. But it will. Then just a disaster.
@andrewbarnett849 күн бұрын
Built by Boeing?
@karengray6622 ай бұрын
Please, add subtitles!
@someoldguyplays5 ай бұрын
Is that how pub songs are made?
@grahammccready26475 ай бұрын
Why do we so little of Phil Jupitus these days.? He will always be Billy Bragg's roadie to me
@grahammccready26475 ай бұрын
missed out the word *see there
@robynw63076 ай бұрын
53:25 Is David Mitchel predicting the "Miracle on the Hudon" plane crash?
@StephenMountenayHenhawke6 ай бұрын
3:09 Oh the humanity!
@markloveless10016 ай бұрын
Herbert Morrison thanks you.
@ripdbtpoo14416 ай бұрын
I'm sure we all thank you.
@donnarouse94325 ай бұрын
The reason they have seat belts on some flights is so. In case there is an accident, they can identify your body!
@SpeccyMan3 ай бұрын
And full stops generally do not appear mid sentence unless said sentence contains an abbreviation! The reason they have seat belts on some flights is so that they can identify your body.
@Metallian21125 ай бұрын
Who here's watching without a TV license?
@olivercox25654 ай бұрын
I’m watching without a TV
@Metallian21124 ай бұрын
@@olivercox2565 Respect.
@sfsigmaguy4 ай бұрын
TV License?? What’s that?
@SpeccyMan3 ай бұрын
Who here cannot correctly spell TV Licence?
@Metallian21123 ай бұрын
@@SpeccyMan Me 😢
@AAK5405 ай бұрын
What is at the end of the earth... _Telford Town Centre_ That is the most random thing I've ever heard.. And being from Telford, its even weirder 👀 @25:45
@stephenconnolly30183 ай бұрын
I've one attached and the other un attached lob.
@SpeccyMan3 ай бұрын
And neither has an e, eh?
@shaunpowell75135 ай бұрын
There is a stuffed dog on thè platform àt slough
@user-to6ci3ok8z5 ай бұрын
Why.? I am sorry, but have I missed something please.?
@BUY_YOUTUB_VIEWS_8416 ай бұрын
any new videos out soon
@GirGir1836 ай бұрын
1:09:20 La Cote D'Ivorie. I don't know how to type the "o" with a circomflex.
@HanGoorhuis3 ай бұрын
Côte, on your mobile phone press on the letter o and hold down...all the diacritics appear...
@WideOldDan4 ай бұрын
Did Rhoal Dahl get the idea of the chocolate river from French sewers?
@SpeccyMan3 ай бұрын
Roald Dahl.
@WideOldDan3 ай бұрын
@@SpeccyMan thanks, I was doubtful of my spelling lol
@jamesguschke93384 ай бұрын
This caused Jimmy Carr
@paulhammons70774 ай бұрын
Seagull. 😅
@joppadoniАй бұрын
No mention of Darlington to Stockton Or George Stephenson during railways.. That is southern bullshit right there.
@donnarouse94325 ай бұрын
And zebras!
@m.rogers94903 ай бұрын
THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD IS MAONA KEA
@cjpaeropaint6 ай бұрын
I miss Fry. Better with him. Sandi's ok.
@vivienneoneill54004 ай бұрын
I love both of them,they both make us laugh,wonderful people.❤❤❤❤❤😂❤❤❤❤❤
@TheMadAfrican16 ай бұрын
I really would like to know why Jimmy Carr irritates me so, just with his presence.
@gabbleratchet18905 ай бұрын
He’s mostly that annoying guy who always makes a sex joke, but he can come up with some good lines from time to time.
@SpeccyMan3 ай бұрын
You're intolerant?
@jeansandjumper5 ай бұрын
I enjoyed that. I really think you need to ditch the RP route and choose a location. Your speech sounds like the "proper" English taught in European schools and and such most encounters with that speech are with such individuals. RP has left most media these days so the average audience on Omegle will not have been exposed to it much. That and the non flowing speech pattern that you worked on were the two give away to my ears. That and maybe clothing etc and environmentally didn't scream British
@ajimonmorton36006 ай бұрын
Love the way you did this podcast n your words. I can see also in other times, you try to be as constructive as you can in your comments. You try to be fair n I appreciate that abt you. Love watching your podcasts! Keep it going, ignore the bad comments. ❤
@margaretbarnes56435 ай бұрын
Where a wearby Barky
@donnarouse94325 ай бұрын
Any ideas out of robert heinlien
@Beelzebubba19835 ай бұрын
Can my girlfriend and I get married on youe train please Sir Stephen?
@kaywaters74784 ай бұрын
Better ask her first!
@haroldharold28365 ай бұрын
Pretty sad watching all the “EU making us do straight bananas and hairnets for fisherman” things today
@drewlovelyhell48925 ай бұрын
9:33 From all the anecdotes I've heard, Edison was a complete prick. 50:14 IINM, the same is true with dogs, cats and pigs (and I guess any mammal with patterned fur).
@SpeccyMan3 ай бұрын
Including humans.
@LeftIsBest0015 ай бұрын
Too many ads, not watching.
@markloveless10015 ай бұрын
Kick in for KZfaq Premium then. Trivial, but oh how worth it.l