Stephen seems often more innocent than Sandi although they may just be deliberate.

This is remarkably correct

An *excellent* observation! :-)

I’ve never heard someone use both primary school and grades. Usually it’s primary school and years or elementary school and grades. Also, they feel like high school teachers to me. I feel like they would get way too frustrated with a classroom of 30 ten year olds. Actually, I can’t imagine Stephen would do well in any classroom. I can’t imagine him yelling trying to get the attention of 30 kids.

@Richard Hopkins Yes, it is.

Makes sense, he is upper class lol

I once got retweeted by him, was basically the highlight of my life. Along with getting a hug from Dolly Parton and David Attenborough, and lunch with Billy Connolly.

@@shirosenshiesq was Billy still drinking?

@@shirosenshiesq Dolly Parton AND David Attenborough? At the same time? 'Cause I'm really struggling to overlap the Parton & Attenborough circles for that venn diagram........

I mean, I agree with you that we need to be more careful with our materials, but it's not hard to unravel a handknitted item that's not been seamed or something. You have to find the end, cut or undo the knot, and pull. The mechanism here is just a like an umbrella skeinwinder. And she probably used a ballwinder to make those centre-pull balls. Both of which already exist commercially. Historically a skeinwinder was a kid with their arms stretched out, you can wind it on to them.

@@snazzypazzy Agreed. My wife makes a mistake while crocheting, she unravels it. Or if she dislikes the hook same thing.

Yeah, it's not a product per se so much as a new technology that uses objects most folk could get their hands on fairly easily (old Bike / Kettle etc) Great stuff! 👍

I want someone to unburn my toast

Me too

Same!

I never saw it til you mentioned it!!! Thanks!!

Funnily enough, they keep Alan in a tank between shows

@@Bumra uh

@Gail Billing Don't be a creep Gail

@@Bumra That might make for good TV though, just need to work it into the narrative.

I love it so much when he's on the show! My favourite QI lineup would be him, Phil Jupitus and Victoria Coren-Mitchell. Or maybe I would watch just a series of videos of Pr. Brian Cox and Ross Noble discussing planets, cuz the shattering of Ewoks in a lake of farts is still one of the golden QI moments.

@@ambergris5705 I forgot Ross wanted to toss an Ewok into a lake of farts

Yeah it really is

It's a darn good thing the cows aren't terribly bothered by it.

I went 'cow-talitic', but yes

Was Phill’s exclamation at 5:43 a pun? “Oooohhh, the huma-knit-y!”

@@kisbie - Well spotted! I did not understand what he said. I'm not sure it's a pun, per se, but it is a callback to what the reporter cried out as the Hindenburg crashed.

Kaye Henry Yeah, just struck me as an odd reference to make otherwise, although I highly doubt Phill was engaging in wordplay.

@@kisbie He wasn't trying to make a pun, but the line is still better for it.

He'd probably get more answers correct than the other Alan.

I doubt he's still alive by now.

Yup, no such thing as a fish

@@CricketEngland Theres no such thing as fish dumbo

it also doesn't have legs

Let me guess, “cricket England” commented something very stupid and then deleted it because he realised he was a wanker

@@rossross3689 haha

Me too

JONATHAN SUTCLIFFE no need to SHOUT,

Any knitter will tell you it's completely pointless and definitely not a novel idea. The practice is called 'frogging' and knitters have been doing it for years & years, probably since knitted was invented. No need to put the yarn back into a skein, it can very easily be wound directly into a ball - ball winders have been available for years. But even a ball winder is not strictly necessary as you can wind a ball of wool around your fingers. Mum grew up during the war, when re-knitting was promoted through 'make do and mend', and her response to that 'invention' was "How did she get a degree for that nonsense?!"

Nonsense. Value in engineering isn't measured by complexity but by how efficiently a machine gets the job done. Just because a machine is incredibly simple doesn't mean the engineering isn't brilliant - in fact, it's usually MORE brilliant the simpler it is.

Serai3 You’re absolutely right re: simplicity in engineering generally but this particular device actually complicates the process extraordinarily. If you look, you’ll see that the final product is spun into a ball using an old and common tool called a ball winder. Literally nothing but the human that is between the garment and the ball winder is necessary - you can even get electric ball winders you can set to speed and you just make sure the yarn from the garment doesn’t stick. Some of the electric ones even have a yardage metre to tell you how much yarn has gone through. Of course, the commercial machines which also unravel are larger but the basic principle is the same and has been mechanised for decades.

I don't see the point in it at all.

@@Shmiguelly you take torn or damaged clothing and create new clothes with the yarn.

Yes, but the selfish bastard won't deliver it to you in handy rolls.

Then you better don't look up a stoma

I also have a feeling that's why bill bailey isnt on the panel for that one.

Yeah, to me it's kind of cruel...

This can't be a standard farming technique? Even for the most heartless capitalist farmer, I imagine the medical costs and risk of infection wouldn't make it worth it.

@@idontwanttopickone yeah it seems to be more of a medical/research modification.

Whichever way you look at it, it's still exploitation of an innocent being. Would we be okay if this was done to a dog or a cat? A chimpanzee? A human? There really is no need to do this sort of research, anyway. It's patently clear that billions of herbivorous animals will pump out billions of litres of methane. Computer modelling has advanced so much that we can do detailed analysis of any situation without physically including animals or humans in the process. If we stop breeding animals and instead feed people plants, excess methane will cease to be a problem. The main obstacle to that end is trying to convince people to change their diet/lifestyle. Most people will resist changing their ways without even considering that the alternative may be better. We should be teaching compassion in schools first and then other subjects. To enjoy a good life, we do not need to make other beings suffer.

@@weirdunclebob blah blah blah. These are cows at a european university vet facility whose purpose is to provide healthy rumen bacteria to sick cattle elsewhere. To save their lives. And the biggest producers of methane are termites.

So basically they turned a Brentford scarf into a Stoke scarf? That's amazing

I thought you were going to say it also unspun the wool and stuck.it back.on the sheep ....

That's amoosing, I suppose.

Ya know what enjoy your like you witty bastard.

Well, it was amusing, which is a point of sorts.

It's not very interesting, but neither is it completely uninteresting. Just quite.

Its just a bit meh.

And there I was thinking... there is no such thing as a fish.

Not really. Just because there is no point *right now* doesn't mean that it won't lead to bigger, more useful thing in the future or perhaps if used with another species.

According to the experts, it doesn't hurt the cows, and it provides some great veterinary benefits. Though I completely agree; it is quite unsightly.

It’s certainly odd and unsettling from a human point of view but I wouldn’t describe the animals as victims anymore than they already were.

@@jaymercer4692 they already are victims, I think that was his point. We are shocked by this, but our "normal" treatment of animals is just as horrific.

@@rooty Yeah I think you're right. I've come to realise recently that humans are very hypocritical in our morals. I'm not sure if that's necessarily a bad thing but it is a strange realisation.

The fish or the man? :P

There's probably a tiny fish, driving around in a tiny tank.

Never mind someone already commented this yesterday I'm so ashamed of myself

there actually is David Mitchel once had a teacher's pet one once when het got everything right

Two comments in a row about Michigan state university. They really liked putting ports in cows from the 50s to the 80s.

@@rachelcookie321 Well, if memory serves, MSU began life as an agricultural school. How cows digest seems to be important to what the best feed would be and how farmers might mitigate methane production.

Someone in the comments came up with cattlelyst.

@@dragoncurveenthusiast even better

Cows have little to no patience for queue jumping. Well known fact.

Yes, as I commented (after you, as I didn’t see your comment at first), this is just old 'jokes' from the 80s. He’s more of a boomer than anyone there, even though he’s technically gen x.

Yep, not purposely rude, just a bit past his prime, and down a woodley...

In the end, frankly it was Lano that dropped the wood

Funny af, actually! But then, I'm Gen X. You youngsters are too highly strung! :P

I thought that it might have been a reference to something earlier in the show, maybe about an animal building something. But still painfully unfunny.

Then build one. This is like a person a pen dismissing a printing press.

I think he’s on mushrooms

I can't unsee it now hahaha

don't think he has been, he is sometimes on Fish though

and he is excellent on Twitter

She said Tristan 🤔

I just read that someone's using lemon grass and getting a 20% reduction in methane emissions from their cows, and advertising it for their beef.