Stephen Fry makes a kinky tower - QI: Series K Episode 11 Preview

Stephen Fry makes a kinky tower - QI: Series K Episode 11 Preview - BBC Two

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@TheLordHighNoob 10 жыл бұрын

Stephen: I've got to be very careful or it'll touch itself Audience member: Meheheheheh!

@ThatCoalSoul 7 жыл бұрын

Could have sworn it was Boycie from Only Fools and Horses!!!

@thecupidstunt 6 жыл бұрын

Stefan Massyn meheheheh

@pjdf1085 6 жыл бұрын

"... or it'll touch itself and blow back into the bottle!"

@rebeccabystry6225 6 жыл бұрын

1:48

@MrAudienceMember2662015 3 жыл бұрын

😊

@ThatOneToucan 10 жыл бұрын

"We're walking in the aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir. . ." Fucking killed me.

@Orpheelover 7 жыл бұрын

I forgot just how tall Stephen Fry is until he stood up. Where is he keeping his legs? Or is his chair on a platform lower?

@ruby_wired 7 жыл бұрын

yeah he had a special chair to lower him. And then Sandi Toksvig took over and she's under 5 feet tall, so they had to install the reverse.

@GenericInternetter 6 жыл бұрын

He keeps his legs in the basement.

@butre. 6 жыл бұрын

little known fact, stephen fry has 8 knees

@joshuanorman2 5 жыл бұрын

He does sit he goes down the stairs

@magicalpencil 10 жыл бұрын

Looks like a candle melting in reverse!

@TheWyldwolf 7 жыл бұрын

YES! the ultimate "dribbly candle" prop for a ________ display! this is precisely what i am going to do for friends!

@shreedhar333 9 жыл бұрын

@1:42"I gotta keep going higher otherwise it will touch itself and blow back into the bottle." haha...

@mittfh 10 жыл бұрын

Trust QI to come up with a novel (and naughty) use for the sodium acetate nucleation reaction :)

@sweiland75 6 жыл бұрын

If this were on American television, the thing would be pixelated because it is a phallic shape, making the video redundant.

@MrStGeorgeIllawarra 6 жыл бұрын

Puritans.

@joshuanorman2 5 жыл бұрын

Ironically Puritanism is a far more English thing

@trollop_7 5 жыл бұрын

Let's have an argument!

@FluppiLP 7 жыл бұрын

you can actually do this if you get a bottle of water, get a bit of pressure inside and put it in the freezer and cool it down to 0 degrees celsius. It will not freeze if you don't shake it or if you don't have small particles in it because the crystalls need something to hold onto before they can form and if you then carefully pour the water on ice it will freeze instantly and you get a tower that looks exactly like the one in the video just out of ice

@tylerburney8576 7 жыл бұрын

FluppiLP Doesn't make a great dildo though.

@PaulSchoonhoven 10 жыл бұрын

... and the BBC calls is "adult humour"...

@TheAlps36 6 жыл бұрын

I want to say to a chemistry student 'you're so bad, you couldn't crystallise sodium acetate'

@Phamy 10 жыл бұрын

The science behind this is Absolutely amazing! Doesn't look like a phallus at all but it is so cool to see the crystals forming!

@emmamiele5850 7 жыл бұрын

Am I crazy or does it look more like a clarinet than a phallus?

@lawrencecalablaster568 4 жыл бұрын

Johnny's references to The Snowman were so goofy.

@MichaelSHartman 5 жыл бұрын

Stalagmite might have been a more accurate choice of words, but I guess it wouldn't be as much fun.

@fallenflare07 3 жыл бұрын

I was just watching this video I had a drink in my hand and as I was drinking it suddenly I hear “it’s a snowman dildo, wE’rE WalKInG iN ThE AiR” and I laughed so hard my drink had spilled out my nose

@kunalsaikia 10 жыл бұрын

Mystry of great chemistry

@sirdwarvenhine1147 6 жыл бұрын

The white walkers are jealous

@discflame 6 жыл бұрын

Chemist girls make do.

@1nterwebs 10 жыл бұрын

Uh oh .. a QI episode called "Kinky" ... i sense raunchy gay jokes in the air.

@MichaelBerthelsen 7 жыл бұрын

1nterwebs Noooo... Stephen would never lower himself onto... I mean TO that level...

@simstragedy 10 жыл бұрын

love qi

@bluepalmer6908 5 жыл бұрын

Bumpity bump bump, look at Frosty go

@GrandiaKnight 10 жыл бұрын

Witchcraft!!

@SR1Records 7 жыл бұрын

"Yeah, science!."

@ZarkowsWorld 8 жыл бұрын

The background of Frozen

@midgetfriendodog 8 жыл бұрын

Snow?

@bjkmurray 10 жыл бұрын

hmmm, frosty!

@jerryg1964 10 жыл бұрын

The return of Johnny Vegas!

@shmookins 6 жыл бұрын

But the 'sand' stuff at the beginning is so little and the tower is huge relative to it. Did it expand, is the tower mostly air or what? I love science even though I don't get it sometimes.

@mond256 6 жыл бұрын

The short answer: the grains are the same as the liquid but in its crystal form (which was powdered into the small grains), because of the contact the liquid made with the powder the liquid rapidly shifted from a liquid state into a solid state long answer: sodium acetate which is the chemical name of the liquid can form intermolecular bonds due to the polarity of the molecule, this polarity is similar to that of water (having a positive peak and negative point at similar angles). Below a specific temperature (0 degrees for water and above room temperature for the sodium acetate) they can form a solid, however this doesn't readily happen. Often times the molecules have to be physically bumped into a certain orientation to form a crystalline structure or small particles or other impurities in the liquid such as dust can be used as a foundation for the crystal to form (known as a nucleation site). Once the crystallizing begins it will branch off along the liquid, which is why when the liquid touched the already crystallized powder it rapidly crystallized as it was being poured. Hope that helps

@shmookins 6 жыл бұрын

I see. And thank you for the 'long' answer since I need detail to understand anything. Cheers, mate.

@mond256 6 жыл бұрын

Shadow Heart no worries mate, glad to teach some science to those who are interested

@gavinkemp7920 6 жыл бұрын

basically that sodium acetate solution is in a state of hyper saturation in other words it has more sodium acetate than the water should ba able to hold. This is produced by making a saturated sodium acetate solution at high temperature generally boiling water where the water can devolve more and then letting the solution cool. many crystal need some form of imperfection or perturbation to crystallize, known as nucleation sites, something that clean glass wear doesn't have. those crystals act as nucleation sight and don't need to be of the same compound but it generally works better and something as little a a scratch can cause nucleation. in fact in chemistry training we are taught to scratch the glass when something refuses to crystallize. This process is used in commercially to produce hand warmers with the little metal popper producing the perturbation to crystallize the sodium acetate.

@alansmithee419 4 жыл бұрын

2:20 That means it's *hot*

@rich1051414 7 жыл бұрын

if you let it catch up to the bottle of vinegar, the vinegar turn into a slushy.

@Jezidka 4 жыл бұрын

Is it actually stiff and hard or does it disolve?

@tommylehomme8695 2 жыл бұрын

It dissolves in boiling water, and after that it can crystallized again

@John_Ridley 6 жыл бұрын

So many double entendres - I have to stand up to do this - it'll slowly rise up - It's like making mayonaise - It'll touch itself. Can't believe that none of the panelists commented on any of those.