My train of thought while watching this: "Haha...hmm, that's interesting...Stephen, fix your tie...hahahaha...fix the tie...I didn't know that...crooked tie *twitch*...that's hilarious!...Steeeeeeeephen, tie!!!!..."
Schrodinger's cat is not a philosphical question, it's a thought experiment designed to explain the uncertainty inherent in quantum mechanics, and specifically the fundamentally random nature of radioactive decays, and the nature of wavefunctions.
Sorry, I get bugged when people extrapolate Quantum Mechanics to normal life.
Now I know that Alan may be faking his stupidity. He says at 7:00 that you actually "see the sun, eight minutes ago" when you look at it because of the light, but in a later episode he incorrectly guesses the moment the sun disappears over the horizon.
@overseer06 I reckon it to be part of the show's concept. Fry was chosen as the host of the show, appearing as the smart allknowing master with three different guests each show and Alan being the permanent guest appearing as slightly less intelligent than the rest but still funny in an adoring sort of way.
@overseer06 incorrect. In that later episode the sun sets at the point at which is touches the horizon not because of it being 8 light minutes away but because of light bending through the atmosphere. It is in fact phil jupitus, not alan, that gets rather annoyed at this fact and refuses to understand it. lol. So alan is probably more likely the mildly intelligent bloke down the pub but theres some big gaps and plenty of QI general ignorance in him.
@Ifakedwheniwaswithu it is. Are you putting up a video? 'cos some of my friends here think you're telling little fibs about it, I said why would he do that? but you know what people are like,
I question Stephen's logic in firstly- making a roman a patron saint of anything, and secondly, having it be Pliney the Elder! Whom we know to be absolutely wrong about everything!
After watching alot of this show I've wondered the reaction from teachers when students come in the next day spouting the new facts they learned that are nowhere in their textbooks.
The joke was that the beekeeper put all the bees in one hive because, "Fuck 'em, they're only bees." and it's implied he doesn't care for their comfort or something along those lines.
I laughed out loud when I first heard it, if only because it was an Alan joke.
quite1interesting- I am not joking when I say that you have literally saved my life over the last year. I have watched these episodes time and time again. Stephen Fry makes me feel as though life is worth living. You are such a star. I can't thank you enough X
@WarningDontReadThis It definitely happened in an episode of "Just a Minute," but maybe that was a redux, since it was an episode Stephen wasn't in, plus it seems unlikely that he wouldn't mention that the room was a theater where JAM was being recorded. Whereas possible reasons for not mentioning that it was a sauna are myriad and beguiling. I'd just stick with it.
Eternal life in the elbow huh? So if you cut your arm off, you could live forever?
KuroroSama42 6 days ago
My train of thought while watching this: "Haha...hmm, that's interesting...Stephen, fix your tie...hahahaha...fix the tie...I didn't know that...crooked tie *twitch*...that's hilarious!...Steeeeeeeephen, tie!!!!..."
audball911 2 weeks ago
stephen fry's nose looks like somebody had punched him
PandaJungle 3 weeks ago
@PandaJungle He fell while he was in prep school and broke his nose.
audball911 2 weeks ago
@audball911 really? oh then I am sorry..:)
PandaJungle 2 weeks ago
Schrodinger's cat is not a philosphical question, it's a thought experiment designed to explain the uncertainty inherent in quantum mechanics, and specifically the fundamentally random nature of radioactive decays, and the nature of wavefunctions.
Sorry, I get bugged when people extrapolate Quantum Mechanics to normal life.
JhericFury 3 weeks ago
That's a horrible jacket
sdarvell 1 month ago
Now I know that Alan may be faking his stupidity. He says at 7:00 that you actually "see the sun, eight minutes ago" when you look at it because of the light, but in a later episode he incorrectly guesses the moment the sun disappears over the horizon.
overseer06 1 month ago
@overseer06 I reckon it to be part of the show's concept. Fry was chosen as the host of the show, appearing as the smart allknowing master with three different guests each show and Alan being the permanent guest appearing as slightly less intelligent than the rest but still funny in an adoring sort of way.
lingujay 1 month ago
@overseer06 incorrect. In that later episode the sun sets at the point at which is touches the horizon not because of it being 8 light minutes away but because of light bending through the atmosphere. It is in fact phil jupitus, not alan, that gets rather annoyed at this fact and refuses to understand it. lol. So alan is probably more likely the mildly intelligent bloke down the pub but theres some big gaps and plenty of QI general ignorance in him.
MrTommyboy211284 1 month ago
@MrTommyboy211284 Might I qualify that by saying, but we still love him :)
MrTommyboy211284 1 month ago
It is actually true....Ribbit is Rabitt in New Zealand
loravine 1 month ago
I can lick my elbow btw.
Ifakedwheniwaswithu 2 months ago
@Ifakedwheniwaswithu really!! that's cool I can too. I thought i was the only one :)
god4506 2 months ago
@Ifakedwheniwaswithu that's incredible! it's very rare. Will you put up a video of it? I'd like to see if other people can.
khasab 1 month ago
@khasab haha its kind of weird isnt it?
Ifakedwheniwaswithu 1 month ago
@Ifakedwheniwaswithu it is. Are you putting up a video? 'cos some of my friends here think you're telling little fibs about it, I said why would he do that? but you know what people are like,
khasab 1 month ago
@khasab I could, not sure if I want to though... And why would I lie about that...? I pop my elbow back and have a long-ish neck. It's easy.
Ifakedwheniwaswithu 1 month ago
one who disliked this is not interesting
BureMagistrala 4 months ago 5
I'd be stuck in general ignorance if it wasnt for QI
wastedjonin 4 months ago in playlist qi seasons a, b, c, and d 3
here's something quite interesting, Iceland doesn't have an army either...
MagnuzArnason 4 months ago
I question Stephen's logic in firstly- making a roman a patron saint of anything, and secondly, having it be Pliney the Elder! Whom we know to be absolutely wrong about everything!
katelynna10000 6 months ago
After watching alot of this show I've wondered the reaction from teachers when students come in the next day spouting the new facts they learned that are nowhere in their textbooks.
godhatesthestupid 8 months ago
Oh, Howard should have remembered the name of that instrument! It's on the butter, for Christ's sake!
aliasanythingyouwant 9 months ago
The danish horns mentioned were made of gold. Called 'The Gold Horns' (rather obvious, i know, but true)
A goldsmith stole it roughly 150 years ago (correct me, 'cause I'm not absolutely sure) and re-melted the lot. He was caught.
The horns on exhibition today, are very precise copies, made from the
detailed drawings of the archeologists of the day.
Quite interesting, if you ask me. But then again, I'm danish ..
tdjdk 9 months ago
Frogs in Texas go lubbock lubbock ;-)
kacplaymyst 10 months ago
The joke was that the beekeeper put all the bees in one hive because, "Fuck 'em, they're only bees." and it's implied he doesn't care for their comfort or something along those lines.
I laughed out loud when I first heard it, if only because it was an Alan joke.
Neverwishy 10 months ago
quite1interesting- I am not joking when I say that you have literally saved my life over the last year. I have watched these episodes time and time again. Stephen Fry makes me feel as though life is worth living. You are such a star. I can't thank you enough X
shell2727 10 months ago 3
I didn't get Alan's bee joke
diadodorothy 10 months ago 3
I don't understand the wasp joke!
Wolstenholmie 11 months ago
@Wolstenholmie
It´s about a man who wants to buy a wasp in the cake shop.
He thinks they´re selling those because there is one in the store window.^^
HughLaurieFan2 10 months ago
In another episode, Stephen says that it is impossible to swallow your own tongue.
stevebloodymckenna 11 months ago 3
@stevebloodymckenna and that is IS possible to lick one's own elbow
katelynna10000 6 months ago
Oh my, I just realized that for years I've thought it was actually a sauna thanks to Alan... but it wasn't. Mind blown.
WarningDontReadThis 11 months ago 2
@WarningDontReadThis It definitely happened in an episode of "Just a Minute," but maybe that was a redux, since it was an episode Stephen wasn't in, plus it seems unlikely that he wouldn't mention that the room was a theater where JAM was being recorded. Whereas possible reasons for not mentioning that it was a sauna are myriad and beguiling. I'd just stick with it.
Friscalating 6 months ago
The return on QI! A nice treat after a night of bar crawling...
rebirthoftheflesh 11 months ago
three cheers for quite1nteresting
CairoDuqane 11 months ago 98
@CairoDuqane you got 60 :D
WafflesMcTiny 2 months ago
A million thanks. Coming home tonight to a feast of new episodes was a real treat.
palach72 11 months ago 4
like a rapid fire of information aimed at my head, yet another QI. You are too cool for school man...
evilmurderproduction 11 months ago 41