Peter Timowreef Someone defined comedy as a man carefully stepping over a banana-skin … and falling down a manhole.

You don't get out much, do you?

You are just nasty. You find pleasure in someone's pain?

@@tselengbotlhole750 yes, and I also find great pleasure in your stupidity. Say something dumb again, will you?

@@simonvanderheijden432 You've never seen a man slip on a banana peel in real life, have you?

You Aussies are a delicate mob 🤣

Vincent Don't know if that story is true or not, but I guess it could be. I've fallen asleep while riding a motorcycle and a snowmobile as a passenger. Didn't fall of from either one, so a horse is believable :)

@Vincent Roche Nah, I don't have narcolepsy. Just had had a long day on both occasions "As a passenger" applies to both of them.

true winghorse.

I believe that. We don't credit subconscious enough.

certainly seems to have a 'type'...

@@RIXRADvidz Aryan type?

how would you know that?

I went out with a friends ex. It was my friend that set us up.

Or maybe they're mature adults and can be civil and friendly to each other.

+theAngryscotman I read somewhere that there was a horse named Potoooooooo because its owner named it Potato but his secretary thought he was saying "pot-eight-o" and wrote that down :D

Jane Xemylixa That is wonderful

Luckily it's only the thoroughbreds that rule applies to. The rest of us are allowed to name our horses what we want. Though there are some variety within the particular breeds. Usually we have to use the same initial as the sire to our horses. But if your horse is of no particular breed, you can call them whatever you like.

@@theAngryscotman is your name a more stupid one or a descriptive one?

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Perhaps an episode with all non-comedians as an experiement? Clare Balding, Rev Richard Coles, and Prof Brian Cox ... well, maybe not.

Ms Balding is not a nun.

Leinad Namkcew And a meaningless insult to you too, mr :D

It does look a bit like Pinkie. :)

When people ask “ does a bear shit in the woods ?” I say” no, in the middle of the trail”

It was only sustainable because native american populations where so low. It was still terribly inefficient.

And not just this show, literally EVERYTHING, they're like the New World Order! :)

The Belongings Behemoth Conglomerate.

Big Booty Company

***** So if you spend ten years of your life doing research to write a book and a guy with a printing press offers to publish it and give you 90% of the profits, while someone else copies it without your permission and keeps 100% of the profits for himself (or uses the information in it for his own good, without compensating you for your research), the first one (that recognised that the information in the book is _your_ intellectual property, and a product of _your_ hard work) is the one "abusing" you...? Methinks someone is trying very hard to justify his own visits to the Pirate Bay (and failing at basic epistemological arguments). Oh, and only truly insecure people vote on their own posts (yes, we can all see it was you).

RFC3514 Then, in essence, your only incentive for creating knowledge is fame and glory. Try and think of knowledge not as something quantifiable, but a metaphysical state, that we, as a human race, can share - for the better of everyone. It is what Gadamer named conjunction of horizons.

I thought we were done with diarrhoea?

And T.P. has the ginger trick in "Night Watch".

That's a fox hunting costume.

I thought he borrowed that outfit from Sandi Toksvig

@jasonarthurs3885 Thanks for that valuable information. If I say If I'm ever mad enough to go the freezer of the planet I'll try & remember how not to get eaten😉😏😄

You made me chuckle. Genuinely.

Because you've got to get your gingery hand up the horse's arse very stealthily.

Who Gnu?

​@@prickyX Haha

Did the wife banana split?

But the second time you laughed the shame was gone, is that what you’re saying?

I thought she did very well. She is not a comedian but she made people laugh and knew how to pitch it. I think ginger is something she had probably heard somewhere and was there in the subconscious. I didn't know the answer until she said it when I knew she was right. And I then vaguely remembered having heard it when I worked in a stables.

“Gingering up” horses is a well-known practice. It’s not at all surprising that someone who grew up with horses would have heard of it. But the fact that she knew something that you didn’t is threatening enough to you that she doesn’t deserve to be on the show? Kind of pathetic.

True. They're not indigenous.

I thought it was the Spanish.

Hope it enjoyed him!

It is a reality. It was commonly used in North America, especially in Canada when the French and British enlisted Native Americans to fight. Biological warfare is nothing new. It was also used by the Roman and Byzantium empires to expedite siege situations and normally used Smallpox ,although Anthrax and Typhus were very effective also. Infected cloth was the usual vector of infection.

@@calumdunn2025 " It was commonly used in North America" Basically every source that has said this has been debunked. Smallpox was spread 99.99% accidentally, there MAY have been ONE single proven instance where a colonel TALKED about doing it on purpose, but it isnt even proven that it actually went through.

a friend of a friend of mine had/has a piranha and it would eat any other fish he put in there but when(like a dumbass) I put my hand in there he swam away scared

Richard Laning Red Oscars are more deadly. They're out of the gate aggressive with nothing to stimulate such behavior. I remember being harassed by them as a small child. lunge at your face they would.

And they had wars between themselves didnt they?

@@Furnus105 My knowledge is a bit rusty but I do know that while they did fight among themselves the only known occurrences of tribal extermination was over the fur trade in the 1600's when it became increasingly obvious that the ones that held the fur trade would hold more power with their respective dutch or french allies.

"If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle." - Rita Mae Brown

Thank you!

We tend to say that they go for the jugular but...

You're clearly not looking in the right places for your video games. There's plenty out there if you're willing to look a bit. :-) Although I do agree that the mega-hyped games these days have astonishingly little focus on the actual writing and story, which is sad. Completely with you on that one.

What's AAA?

@@DerEchteBold Attention x 3

@@marcoboscarol2420 Thanks, but I still don't understand, tried looking it up, found nothing. Does it just mean like big time mainstream stuff, that is highly advertised, talked about and hyped?

@@DerEchteBold Its literally a call for attention, for anything, a new product, danger and so on. Usually is three big red AAA with an explanation under them. Its a little difficult that you have not seen it at least once

It sounds like there are a couple of audio cuts in that part, so it's anyone's guess what Stephen _actually_ said (or what he _meant_ to say, which is often not the same). My best guess is that he either meant to say that real horses have a sustained output around 494 watts (approximately 2/3rds of 1hp) or that one hp is defined as 735 ~ 746 watts (it varies between different industries).

+Valentine Gonsalves thats still more than 1 horsepower.

Valentine Gonsalves 1 horsepower is about 735 watts

Valentine Gonsalves - The alternative, of course, is that QI is very often wrong. But that's simply inconceivable. If Stephen Fry says something that doesn't match reality, then reality must change!

Grizzlies can climb trees. Both species of bears have curved claws, with the brown bears being much larger. Grizzlies can outrun a horse in a sprint both up and downhill. Black bears can be found in Grizzly country. Lower 48 black bears seldom attack people but Alaskan black bears are very aggressive toward people and do kill. If you are in bear country, make noise, carry bear spray and it's smart to be armed with something large enough to stop a bear if needed. No need to remember which way to run because running just gets you attacked.

kwo dell thx dwight

kwo dell You could always give them the fingers.

Don't go to the U.S.

I think it was clear why and they certainly did not encourage it. Fry specifically pointed out that it would probably be considered 'doping'.

746 Watts Maybe there are different horsepowers?

+Nawelle Benarab If you want witty panel shows, Have I Got News for You is good! If you want comedy featuring Stephen Fry, Blackadder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie are good. If you want drama featuring Alan Davies, Jonathan Creek is good.

Mellanie Black thank you so much for your help ^^ I will watch one of these shows tomorrow thanks to you ;p

+Nawelle Benarab For additional British panel show goodness, also check out Would I Lie To You? and Was It Something I Said? and 8 Out of 10 Cats (I also like their "Does Countdown" side series).

Vincent Oostelbos Thank you really much for your help; I will watch these shows as soon as possible, thank you for your help :p

Nawelle Benarab No problem at all! I hope you'll enjoy them. (If you think of it, do let us know, I would be happy to hear. And if you didn't like them, then perhaps we will have more/other suggestions for you.)

If she was old she probably chewed up the food and let it dribble out. Horses can't vomit and can die of what for other animals would be a simple stomach ache.

the native horses were extinct in the Americas by the time man got there.

They weren't. They originally came over with the Spanish and some escaped, over time feral herds grew and they've now been living wild for hundreds of years but strictly speaking they aren't native to the Americas

@Agent J Yes.

@Agent J That made very little sense

I think a slanted view of other countries (or even people's own) history is by no means only a British phenomenon. History is as they say written by the victors and it is common for countries to exaggerate their own victories and play down (even ignore) their defeats or what nowadays would be seen as unpopular/unethical acts..

I thought for many years that this was true but apparently white (not albino) horses do exist but are very rare. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_horse I am not sure however whether they were referring to this on the programme or to the fact that there is a subtle difference between the questions: What colour is this horse? And: What colour do we call this horse?

micheal murphy like? Genuinely curious.

Well done, Mel Brooks! I'm not PC,but all those Westerns were boring, and Blazing Saddles one superb film.