Perhaps why his daughter became an elf...

@@kosefix OMG thanks for reminding me that it's Friday and there must be another episode of Fish up.

@@kosefix That must have prompted an interesting family discussion.

Best moment on QI

And the other guy just sets off the Klaxon with the forfeit “spiral” and he just REVELED in it.

​@@megameerkat2634That's Robert Webb.

Because it’s said in the voice of Lord Melchett!

LOL! I also like "One, if you play your cards right 😀 "

Where craftsmen would get toddlers to a high sheen.

"Oh, _you're_ the _shiniest._ "🤣

"More lacquer, little boy?"

When Phil makes the noise of the buffing machine's motor bogging down because the child is pressed against it. OMG I can't even.

I couldn't be bothered typing all that in, the delivery of that line is just exquisite!

@@Fifury161 'Tis indeed a thing of beauty.

"What shape is this staircase?" "It's not there!"

I'd personally mark it 0 as neither odd nor even and as such is an abnormality, but at the same time I wouldn't be surprised if the subject is divisive among mathematicians and there's probably a few angles I haven't checked out.

@@MythicSuns It's obviously even and there is no (zero) disagreement amongst mathematicians about it. More interestingly, it is the only rotationally invariant number (given the right font).

@@MythicSuns If you don't want to directly accept it, maybe you can accept that it's even *by consensus.* Basically, 0 being even makes a bunch of math work.

@@MythicSuns It's clearly oddven

0 is definitely even by any definition. I can't imagine there is any controversy about that. What did QI say it was?

I had hoped this clip would include the helix comment. :(

"NOW PHILL!"

SPIRAL! *sets off the klaxon*

🤣🤣🤣

Himself and bill Bailey share the record for the most guest appearances I think

Gyles is the best guest, as he is related to every topic. But Phil is definitely a close second.

@@TheNazradin never ask gyles a follow up question 🤣🤣

@@cbucks1923 Gyles no longer needs a question to engage.

He only gets a seat because his daughter Emily is/was a QI Elf I find him annoying and borderline obnoxious at times

Mirage

Yes

None of us exist. We are all just a server farm in Vladivostok.

Therefore the people watching the video, are reassured to know.. that it's not there.

I challenge you to consider that the earth is axially tilted.

I tought the same the first time it was broadcast. In Norway, neighbouring Britain, where the mainland stretches from about 58 to 71 degrees North, there are very few accidents indeed caused by drivers being blinded by the low sun. Then again, Alan being wrong? On QI??

living in NZ I can tell you that I wasn't aware that it caused that many accidents. Though it is real, and a bastard of a thing at times early morning/late afternoon. I'm more surprised that it's not a thing elsewhere, but the sun is a bit funny here - you can get sunburnt in 18 degrees C (about 65F)

@@Seetor Yes, so the latitude numbers are an average for a whole year. We get that.

I'm from germany and yesterday the road was a blinding light.

That lag doesn't matter because the sun's apparent motion across the sky is caused by the Earth's rotation.

@@wizardsuth Wouldn't it though? The actual Sun would still have been hidden by earth's rotation 8 minutes prior to last light?

No, because the effect of the Sun setting (or rising) is due to the rotation of the Earth-basically the Earth blocks the Sun. When it blocks it, it's sunset

​@@almostfm ** when it blocks it according to our vision, or according to geometry ?

He was really there? He wasn’t just a mirage?

@@barbarajoseph-adam8337 is that a joke?

@@francaperotti5934 no doubt a reference to his comical contempt for the mirage of the setting sun

I'm in Napier, blinded all the time. Mainly in the mornings being on the East Coast. It's not like it's comes of the road or anything, it's just all bright and you can't escape it.

That doesn't quite apply in this scenario. The sun is eight light-minutes away yes, but the sun is not moving relative to Earth. It's Earth that "sets" the sun by its rotation. Think of it this way: you go outside at 11am and the sun is nearly at the zenith of the sky, and then later at 5pm the sun is now on its way to setting in the west. In both instances you're seeing the sun as it was eight minutes ago, but it's still right in the same spot both times you look up at it. The sun isn't moving; you're just viewing it from another perspective due to the rotation of the Earth.

But there is no such thing as a fish. So, what do i point at?

@@PianoKwanMan @James Kwan ff....... I ment to write horse, not fish twice. Also how can something not be something ? Something can't be not be not something, can it? If you're created a something, than something has to be that something , otherwise you haven't created a something. So it has to be a fish, if there is the idea of a fish in the first place. So, eventhough 'fish' has no biological meaning, just point at the something that you believe to be a fish, for if you believe in the idea of "the fish" you are pointing at a fish and you should get points for that, if Qi wants it or not.

@@klemensk8776 The fish... Is not there....

Making my brain call its own double-bluff is so much a part of what QI is to me. I've learned so much just because a random fact on QI led me down the rabbit hole of reading Wikipedia or other good websites on some factual subject. When I was young and just studying science, I made a mental "IOU" to myself that I would someday become truly well-rounded, and QI is that childhood dream realised.

Noon? I would suspect the atmosphere is always bending the light (except when it is perfectly above you). The angle just increases more and more as it sets as you're looking at it through a thicker layer of air.

There is no transition. The mirage exist all the time. There is only an ever changing "distance" between what some think is reality and others think is a mirage. :)

Invercagill is much closer to the equator than Brighton Roughly the same as Bordeaux, and Geneva

​@@andyFortyTwoNZ Oh, you're right. I don't know where I got the idea that it was further south than that. But that just makes the point even more stark, that any effects in New Zealand from having such a low sun, would be at least as prominent in the UK.

Yes and no, the sun is 8 light minutes away but doesn't actually move in the sky, the earth rotates, so that is more or less the actual position of the sun you usually see (baring light bending trickery) 🙂

No-it just becomes more noticeable because when it's closer to the horizon its easier to judge the movement relative to the horizon. What _does_ change the speed of the sunset is the time of year. If you're at a high latitude in the winter, the Sun's apparent path is at a shallower angle, which means it takes more time to drop the same amount.

He wasn't wrong about anything, it was just that his example was maybe not the most pertinent

True, I saw this mirage, repeatedly, on a very sunny but not scorchingly hot day in rural central Russia. The trick seems to be a long straight road free from shade of buildings.

Stephen said you see images of standing water on roads.

The UK.. they don't have hot dry weather lol

sun-strike =/= sunstroke