Tossing Cats

[OlleLindestad]

The study they cite is very real, but misleading. Since it only accommodated cats who had been rushed into hospital after the fall, it failed to account for any and all cats who fell from 7+ (or indeed any number of floors) and... splashed, or in some other way were too obviously dead to benefit from a hospital visit.

In other words, we don't actually know that the survival graph somehow peaks at seven floors. We only know that, generally speaking, cats can and do survive falling very far.

[00Billy]

there are 50,000 skydivers in the world going.....I'll cat sit!

[Craamron]

Perhaps the ground floor?

[TheGamingWaffle]

The first buzzer is a song called "kick Mississippi"

[savetheguineaworm]

The person that commented about the statistical error is correct. Dead cats don't go to veterinary clinics.

[ByteAGig]

f***ing cat people!

[Kodetsu]

made the mistake of taking a sip of my tea right before alan began to parachute

[cyanman123]

I like cats

[you12bme]

FYI this video is wrong. The veterinary study he refers to was later proven invalid. The problem was a sampling error. When the veterinaries had fewer instances of dying cats from high floors they wrongly concluded the cats had parachuted. In fact when cats fell from very high floors they typically died on the spot, so they never went to the vet to be counted in the first place! This is a classic example of how to lie with statistics.

[jacksawild]

*Storey

[Rachiejane1]

The title of this video really creeped me out and I was scared to play it! Thank God it wasn't about what I thought it was!

[CherryTripping]

i live on the 7th floor..

[singedrac]

I still say the first floor would be safer. :)

[DeliriousGoomba]

Oh God, I can't stop laughing.

[mwallaby]

Not sure John Sessions' hair is terribly convincing...

[DekuTreeOfKokiri]

I am a cat person and I never would harm a cat but when he siad " or pushed" I luaghed my ass off

[lookatwig]

"the mad letter i get from $%&£?/^ cat people" haha

[lennic95]

Great eh?

[LowSweetChariot]

alan's so cute in this

[chelseylizzie]

has anyone got a cat or maybe one from each floor

[crazytosh1]

fucking cat people

[TVloverXx]

alan davies and ben from outnumbered are so alike(they both have curly black hair and are both adorable!)! SECRET LOVE-CHILD is that a possibility??? lol

[MyNoLifeQueen]

@TVloverXx

I always thought alan davies and dylan moran were long lost twins, or at least clones. (again, mainly due to their hair and adorable-ness)

[WilliamJazzCat]

Anyone else wonder how Clive knew so accurately the behaviors of cats thrown out of windows?

[8GrolschMan8]

I'm going to have a guess and say that he probably reads things

[WilliamJazzCat]

He reads.. things. Well I certainly hadn't entertained that possibility...

[Galacticmaster]

he's a smart guy, with a bald head?

[miklosh3]

Alan Davies last comment was pretty adorable

[teufelstaub]

I think it was meant cases as in instances,not crates.

[Botation]

I Love how Alan always acts everything out... Cracks me up

[EvilAtria]

....pardon me?

[aimsme]

Well, what else can they go on? It's not like they can do a general scientific study where they fly cats up to about 1000 feet or so and chuck them out of a helicopter, is it?

[metcoNepraC]

In secrecy at nite, all over the world, cats are parachuting from buildings!

Imagine that lol

[LittleBoiFen]

Frighteningly enough, I can see that happening...

[LittleBoiFen]

132 cases of cats?

How'd they get the cats into all of those cases?

And why would someone throw a case of cats out a window?

[spotlitkiss]

lol XD

[pizzafreak54]

oh har har

[KonijNx2]

I see what you did there.

[YubiShines]

Schrodinger's parachute. :<

[JahJahDisciple]

Why didn't Clive get any points? He pretty much nailed it. :-/

[Zbobman]

Anyone else notice a high pitched whine in the audio of this clip?

[boredndmad]

yes. its boderline painful if u cnt stand high pitched noises

[itsashamblesbaby]

"fucking CAT people" hahahahahahah

[singinginachurch]

I love the looks on their faces when Stephen Fry begins his long, protracted explanation of cats and terminal velocity.

[spotlitkiss]

lol - they look genuinely intrigued!

[LittleBoiFen]

Wouldn't you be?

[StarGSB]

"because of the letters i get of fucking cat people" xD i love him

[kikuilu]

*hiccup* Our cat fell from the 7th floor and survived. Not one injury...just, dirty. She's white :D

[SlaptasGokas]

now i want a cat. (for scientific reasons) =P

[PheatherP]

You can have mine! She's an evil minx.

[PaintSniffer07]

what was with the nokia phone tune at the start?

[evilaelf]

It was the buzzer sound

[Mashirafen]

Surely the best would be the first floor.

[RubyCosmos]

Depends on your definition of 'best.' :3

[whoseliner44]

Haha , yeah , oh i love QI its soo funny !

[Raindownuk]

Surely the best would not to be to throw it at all lol.

[angs12345]

very funny ep

[darkdeath666]

lol

[instantsushi]

i <3 QI, i bust a gut at every episode! <33