Are there little people in your head - Qi - BBC

[RetSquid]

hello: 1883, alteration of hallo, itself an alteration of holla, hollo, a shout to attract attention, which seems to go back to at least c.1400. Perhaps from holla! "stop, cease." OED cites O.H.G. hala, hola, emphatic imperative of halon, holon “to fetch,” “used esp. in hailing a ferryman.”

[smasher491]

Fun fact: Alexander Graham Bell, who developed the telephone, suggested people use "ahoy" to answer the phone before Edison proposed "hello." That's what Mr. Burns of The Simpsons uses.

[DarkOneRRp]

Broca's area is involved with speech, not so much memory

[AdsoSebastio]

HULLO! what's this up my bum.

[redflsot]

Loved how Bill Bailey's 'sarcasm' was just a posh nasally voice :p

[MessiahComing]

I always spell it Hullo.

[camtheman3x6]

Eddison is extreemly over credited, quite a joke of an "inventor" trust me. The real inventor of his time was Nikola Tesla

[IntrepidMoocher]

But who was the real genius who invented awesome things like alternating current? Who? Who? Not Edison, that money grabbing thieving cunt.

[ic3l3rd2]

Put smarties tubes on cats legs and make them walk like a robot

[anatoriac]

Numskulls :) 

[slightlyinsaneFTW]

@anatoriac Yeah, that's what came to mind when I saw this clip. Ah, good childhood memories... :D

[cinnamonbrandylite]

electric chair! no, wait, forgot to use mine yesterday...

[MJLongman]

This is obviously where they got the idea for the Tesselecta (however you spell it) in Doctor Who!

[rank666]

Dam it they are making me learn new things.... dam you stephen fry

[seasidelion]

Floccinaucinihilipilification - the act of assessing something as worthless

[auntdew]

Is there anything Edison actually invented?

[Lleanlleawrg]

@auntdew No. He didn't even invent dishonesty or plagiarism, he stole that too. :(

[Davros663]

Hello Sailer!

[smatta1]

They tried this show in Holland...As well as Top Gear...As well as Mock the Week...The Brits have a wit the Dutch or any other folk can't ever have...and i'm still wondering what it is...Respect for British humor.

[Daleksaresupreme1]

@smatta1 are the originals shown in Holland?

[smatta1]

@Daleksaresupreme1 No but thankfully most cable tv providers have BBC 1&2 and in general the Dutch are very much influenced by British culture :)

[lazydancer22]

wait Edison didnt invent the lightbulb? im so confused. everything that i learned in school down the drain...

[seitenshow]

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[BramowitchIII]

What word does she say at 2:27?

[FantasmaBAnco]

@BramowitchIII

floccinaucinihilipilification

[yoeldg]

hey! thats a piece of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the back!

[tomyfabri]

hulleo i found the like button

[jackamatyus]

The person who writes the descriptions for these videos should be fired. They're constantly spelling things wrong.

[fleebness]

@jackamatyus Oh, no, sir (or madam). They are constantly spelling things -wrongly-. You used an adjective in place of an adverb. Tsk.

[FloormanUK]

Jo Brand did METAL health techniques? Wow, come to think of it she does seem like the type to employ some Dethklok or Sepultura...

[AnnaRoberts9]

Did anyone else google 'floccinaucinihilipilification­'?

[weaselwomp]

hHAHA YEAH! METAL health! slayer! fullforce! metallica would cure all ills!

[frostytheaussie]

why the fuck didn't i know this? i literally read about it two hours ago! and alexander graham bell wanted to use "ahoy" as the standard greeting on telephones but "hello" caught on

[yerk3]

FRODO LAP SHAME

[headfirst1987]

Man i wished it kept going, the few seconds after that where Bill Bailey makes fun of Stephen for suggesting that we still use Hullo is just classic!

[BritishTrekkie952]

She pronounced Floccinaucinihilipiliphication wrong..... maybe.... NITPICK!

[justbreatheify]

I hate that nobody ever acknowledges Tesla!

[MrFirestorm102]

@justbreatheify I thought thats because Nikola Tesla made the ac motor not Thomas Edison??

[Bloodlovefreak]

Jimmy asked that question at 0:51 because he read philosophy at university.

[corvus13]

The film business moved to Hollywood because Edison hired thugs to beat up all of the people making movies near him in New Jersey, because he wanted to dominate the film industry.

[dehro]

@corvus13 mmmh, I was told Hollywood was born for porn movies, and from there it was easy to smuggle the recordings across the border if a raid was announced, since it was illegal back then. and that then the concentration of capable tech people and equipment simply meant the "proper" film industry followed suit.

[SteinaIcelander]

Frodo Lap Shame. My new password

[SillySod75]

Whats funny about the hello sailor is that at the start of the show it was a sexy voice.

[seonidh]

sounds like scientology to me

[phantomofmyopera]

No! Why would you cut away the part where they start taunting Stephen?!

[WhiteTiger225]

Sorry, first suspected filament light bulb was ancient egypt, which used an acidic mixture and copped thread :p

[atomicmrpelly]

Ah no the best bit is cut out!

[giygasattack]

Unorthodox metal health? Is that when they replace therapy with Dragonforce?

[DancesWithEskimos91]

I KNEW IT! The little people DO exist!! Pfft, and everyone thought I was crazy...

Awesome vid ^^

[AnthonyCharlesDavey2]

Unorthodox metal health

[Mgorky]

hmm, contested actually, looked it up:

It is often said that "Hello" was invented by Thomas Edison as way of greeting a caller on the telephone, invented around 1876.

However, the Oxford English Dictionary records the first, verifiable use of the word in print to the US Telegraph (a periodical) in 1827.

Damn that Edison, nothing he would not claim to have invented....

[kirihitiana]

@Mgorky wow.. so in the show that disproves a lot of facts we think are true, they actually got it wrong! Quite interesting! :P

[AnonymousUbiquity]

@Mgorky

That sunofabeech didn't invent ANYTHING!

[Confusedfurry]

@Mgorky

did the oxford dictionary record its use as a greeting?

[Mgorky]

yep, via Telegraph @Confusedfurry

it's derived from holla, used to call attention to something. As in "holla what's this!"

[Confusedfurry]

@Mgorky

DANM YOU STEPHEN FRY! YOU LIED TO ME!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-

hang on, stephen fry is infallible.

the oxford dictionary is WRONG!

[richie364]

@Mgorky Hullo* It's Hullo what's this... not holla

[xpledgeturnprestigex]

@Mgorky wow, great piece of info. Tesla and the others never stood a chance apparently.

[Swenglish]

@Mgorky It's also said that Alexander Graham Bell, "inventor" of the telephone, proposed "Ahoy-hoy" as telephone greeting. That might be where the Edison Hello myth has evolved from.

[Cupit29]

@Mgorky You shall to take it to the QI Quibbles section on their website and challenge it. They might correct it on a later episode.

[AndTheWailers]

@Mgorky

watch?v=q0oeIagRtmQ watch the full episode they explain more about it he wrote hello in a letter before the phone

[LucyInNightmares1]

This is one of my favourite clips =]

[Nuggetol]

Give comedians fridge magnets and a magnetic board. They can entertain themselves for the whole day =P

[tehlinebeginstoblur]

@Nuggetol Well, actually it would be the rest of us who are entertained for the whole day.

[Zugrim]

Can someone type the word Jo says in the end.

[LapoSettepanze]

@Zugrim floccinaucinihilipilification (flocky-knocky nahiluh-piluh facation) - According to the Guiness Book of World Records, this is actually the longest official word in English; it means, "the act of estimating something to be worthless".

[punkmanjon]

@LapoSettepanze What about pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico­v? Thats got 31 letters. (and yes it is a real word)

[LapoSettepanze]

@punkmanjon impressive, but still 7 letters short of reversepneumonoultramicroscopi­csilicov :)

[punkmanjon]

@LapoSettepanze Aha, is that a real thing? Ill be honest and say I have no idea what pneumon etc actually means. Are guinness wrong then?

[GiniBaggins]

@LapoSettepanze What about Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico­volcanoconiosis :D

[WonkyDoodle]

@punkmanjon it looks like a made up word and i think it probably is faked, since the authority on this would be the people who would use it, respiratory physicians, dont actually ever use it. And looking at the word, it doesnt make sense, since 'ultramicroscopic' is a given, and seems to have just been added to make the word artificially longated. You could probably find another pneumoconiosis and erroneously add 'ultramicroscopic' to make it the longest 'word' in the english language.

[atomicmrpelly]

@WonkyDoodle According to "Schott's Original Miscellany", a book I have, this is a word meaning a disease cause by the inhalation of tiny particles, particles of what I don't know! It supposedly doesn't qualify for being the longest word in the English language because it is just a medical sort of compound word and you're correct in saying that you can make other, longer words by the same process. In the book there is an example of one such word with over 1000 letters!

[punkmanjon]

@WonkyDoodle I was taught it in science class at high school. Don't mistake the fact that you haven't heard the word with it being fake.

[WonkyDoodle]

@punkmanjon high school eh? I must be mistaken then. I mean, I only work in respiratory medicine with some of the top doctors dealing with such conditions in the region. meh.

[SeraphEleison]

@Zugrim

she says "Zugzwang" :)

[MoooonshoesPotter]

I want more Middle Earth tabloids.

[menmenmen118]

Karl Pilkington has a head like a fuckin' orange.

[adrastea99]

Edison stole most of his inventions

[madeofwoodandwire]

Notice how extraneous the usually vocal (and unpleasant) Jimmy Carr seems to be... He's just not that good is 'e.

[850kell531]

@madeofwoodandwire he is the dane cook of england. he dresses well and says one liners. pff,

[ElveeKaye]

FRODO LAP SHAME

Hahahahahahahaha!

[perkyrusalka]

Continued with "origin of hello and the rudeness of phones", since somebody asked.

[yzenanja]

flockinockinihilipilification?­!... i think reflecting on the time taken to write it out has to be a good definition of it...

[finehomemadewine]

first Z is actually not read Z in German though "-)

[9toStryfe]

BEING JOHN MALKOVICH?

[DidaDragan]

Am just reading Jo Brand's autobiography.

It's brilliant and I advise everyone to go out and buy it. (Because I own shares in the publishing company)

[soaponaroapDG]

F5 to skip ads.

here's a pretty cool thing i got from Qi:

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lolwut? :)

[humbletim10]

@soaponaroapDG "f5 to skip ads"

THANK YOU FOR THIS INFORMATION! :D :D :D

[hjenkinz]

@soaponaroapDG lmae

[dexterccf2]

@Hot5hots excuse me?

[Hot5hots]

@dexterccf2 You heard me! Now get back under the bed and shut up.

[dexterccf2]

@Hot5hots i would love to hear you say that to my face

[Hot5hots]

@dexterccf2 So you can offer me a Blow Job, Now, who gave you permission to get out from under that bed, GET BACK THERE NOW!!!

[enzopenguin]

VAGINA DOOM!

[tenthings2006]

"Jo Brand gives us an insight into her unorthodox metal health techniques from her time as a psychiatric nurse...Hilarious comedy clip from the hit BBC show."

Mind if I ask what _metal_ health techniques are, Mr BBC?

[truechibirainbow]

alan davies reminds of ben from outnumbered.

=)

[AvalaDemson]

@truechibirainbow OMG yea he does!!!

[Dhesyca]

I learn so much and laugh so hard because of this show!

[FlippinBooks]

Frodo lap shame!?! ROFL I think I missed something...

[ShaiMyst]

@FlippinBooks If i remember correctly all of them had those magnetic board and random sets of letters and had to make as much words/sentences as they could. I think they got points or something or nothing lol.

[FlippinBooks]

@ShaiMyst Ah, thanks for explaining. I haven't gotten to see the full episode, because we don't get QI in America. We have to settle for crap reality shows like "The Real Housewives of Orange County" and other drivel designed to turn the brain to mush.

*starts to sob* Why can't we have intelligent TV shows!?!

[paulbottomley42]

@FlippinBooks

Just to add to what ShaiMyst said, Jimmy Carr later used up every single letter on his board with "put smarties tubes on cats legs, make them walk like a robot". He was rightly showered with points, if I remember correctly.

[FlippinBooks]

@paulbottomley42 That's FANTASTIC! And very well-deserved.

[jacksawild]

@paulbottomley42 I think there must have been some off-camera letter swapping there. That is a phrase he has been known to use before in his stand up, which makes it unlikely enough to call shenanigans on the editing. I DECLARE SHENANIGANS!!!

[amphitritie]

Does anyone still use Hullo as an exclaimation of surprise? I do, but everyone looks at me like I'm crazy when it happens. Hullo? What's this?

[itopcho]

everyone discussed the word Hello or Edison, no one mentioned Walter Global (i think that is how it is spelled), btw i didn't find ANYTHING on a person callerd Walter Global, let alone that he invented the light bulb...strange

[RokiaNY]

Hmm...was Jo a medical blacksmith? Because the video description describes her "unorthodox METAL health techniques".

XD

[HybratKaizer]

Hullo and Hello? Wow, that pretty interesting. I'll have to remember that.

[claudeellery]

@HybratKaizer Quite Interesting, even...

[chopin65]

@HybratKaizer LOL.

[Silent7hinker]

Could anyone inform me as to which season and episode this is from?

[gary45768423]

season 2 episode 5 aparently

[Silent7hinker]

Ah I just noticed the sub header...curse my oblivious nature :p

[9998833]

Herman's Head should be the name of the tv show you refer to. I remember it well.

[ad1170]

the little poeple in the head are called humuculi soz about bad spelling their also beleave you sperm contain one to pass dna kinda like that ep of family guy

[nokshor]

Steven Fry can tell wether you're spelling a word wrong, when you say it out loud.

Srsly. He corrects Alan on it in one ep. :D

[0rangePete]

Are you talking about the episode where's they're discussing the Torus?

[nokshor]

Not sure.

But I think that's spelt Taurus? X3

[0rangePete]

Oh very good.

[Lyning55]

Hallå in Sweden is used as a greeting, an informal greeting that is, kinda like "What's up". But it's also used when surprised and when you want attention, like "Oi!". But all languages are related to one another in some way or another. I think.

[Vexillolgy]

Try Japanese.

[bobbo007]

good bit of brain candy

[diskur]

I'd have thought that hello was related to the Icelandic word Halló witch means excectly the same.

[2205923358]

Could be that it's the other way round and that Halló is a rather new word influenced by English, they have Hallå in Swedish too don't they that is also used as hello.

[diskur]

Yeah you're right, I looked it up in a word origin dictionary (or what ever they call it) and it exists in many languages. It's originated in English, the Danish got it from there and Icelanders from danish.

[2205923358]

Etymological (spelling may not be perfect) dictionary is the word you're looking for I think. Interesting stuff.

[viridismonasteriense]

No! They cut off the verbal abuse that follows! Bill Baily smoking a pipe, imitating Stephen reading a newspaper in the '50s! hilarious bit, can't understand why they cut that!

[1neversaynever1]

Hello was not invented by Edison but used by him as a telephone greeting for the first time. Hello was first recorded in a publication in 1833 in Tennessee

[macionractaigh]

Don't question Stephen Fry!

[etherealegg]

so true, and the fact that it's in a song verifies it

*just in case you don't have a clue what song i'm talking about, it's "thou shalt not kill" by "dans le sac vs. Scroobius Pip" :D

[citizenkong]

"Edison invented sarcasm" and then they start acting sarcastic. . .

That was SO funny!

[olly111192]

And after inventing "Hello" he soon went on to invent "Hello Sailor"!

[CheStillFighting]

@olly111192 and then hello kitty

[AkiraChan24]

What word is it that she used?

[Bolagna123]

Floccinaucinihilipilification.­

[AkiraChan24]

Thank you :D

[JamesFarrkoff]

Great video =D

...but "metal health techniques" in the description? ahaha

[Tjellevejrup]

Suuuuuure he invented saaarcasm!

LOLZ!

[caitlinniamh]

I'm feeling a bit of a thicko as Ive nether heard of those words in my life. I wish we had this show in Australia as I could learn all this stuff and be in hysterics of laughter at the same time!!!

[r055c0z]

caitlinniamh you're gonna be so pumped to know that QI will air on the ABC from Tuesday next week!

[markindundas]

Qi starts tonight,october 20th,on ABC TV at 9.30

[owenhunt]

caitlinniamh you veritably lucky sod. All your Christmas's are now coming all at once!

[dukerosie]

holy shit man this show is brilliant.

[SuperTravisbickle]

that cartoon was great. ahhhhh memories...........

[SuperTravisbickle]

this brings back memories of the numskulls in the beano.................

[steadiecee]

remember the comic well... but does anyone remember the tv series about little people in humans...?

[SuperTravisbickle]

I don't remember that.

[aswolf]

HELLO!

[pjenkins93]

Floccinaucinihilipilification.­

Love that word. So many points in scrabble.

[teaknees]

How could you ever get that in scrabble... you only have 7 letters, and what word could you possibly add letters to to make 'floccinaucinihilipilification­'...

I don't know what kind of scrabble you've been playing... but to be honest it sounds fun.

[ColourRiot]

Why are there adverts preceding videos by the BBC?!

[UsePsychology]

I think it's YouTube's advert, not the BBC's

[metalheart666532]

the very first light bulb was made 2 years before the German by a Mr Swann and edison was just first to patent it

[thatwasmeandthisisme]

argh... why does bbc always cut it off just at the interesting bit, sooo annoying

[Annowerroc]

Floccinaucinihilipilification!­!

That is one hell of a long word. Apparently the longest non-technical word in the english language.

[greatscot24]

apparently the longest non excistent word in the english language?

[Carnifex90]

Hepaticocholecystostcholecyste­nterostonmy.

It's a technical word, I know, but I couldn't resist.

[CalmBlue]

Pneumoultramicroscopicsilicovo­lcaniconiosis. Longest technical word in the English language.

[garyfosbin18]

isn't that some disease that people could get from inhaling tiny particles of volcaneo ash?

[ladybelucky12345]

No, I think that is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico­volcanoconiosis.

:D

[garyfosbin18]

thats the one. good call!

[mitosingcells]

That's... not a real word... try something else.

[superkewl15]

@mitosingcells it is actually a real world. it's a disease you get from breathing in the smoke and debris that comes from a volcanic eruption.

[Astrolounge]

@ladybelucky12345 indeed it is, though Floccinaucinihilipilification is the longest non-technical word.

[darris321]

@Astrolounge the idea that there exists a "longest word" in a language that can create and lengthen words is ridiculous

how about "antiFloccinaucinihilipilifica­tion"

xD