This is one of those few misses on QI, in my opinion. Would it make sense to call Grover Cleveland the 22nd President and then have Benjamin Harrison as the 23rd, and then have Cleveland as the 22nd President again? That's much more confusing than calling Cleveland the 24th. But I do see their point. Why aren't Presidents who serve two consecutive terms called the 43rd and 44th President, respectively.
@TheBluddyFaerie Really? I'd say that, since it's a person's name, they should get to decide how it's said. Let's say a man named Juan moves to America. People aren't going to call him "Joo-ahn" because that's not how his name is pronounced. Sure, it might get messed up sometimes, because some sounds aren't present in other languages, but for the most part, names seem like something that would keep their original pronunciation.
Obama said he was the 44th president to take the presidential oath, an oath spelled out in Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution. That oath was first taken by George Washington. The Articles of Confederation did not contain a presidential oath.
@mrgerry123 I'm not sure it was a joke. I think he was pointing out that Clinton served two terms but wasn't called the 42nd and 43rd President, while Cleveland served two terms and was called the 22nd and 24th.
Actually, I think that's exactly what makes him wrong. Still, I can understand why he did it. Most Americans would think he was wrong if he said it the other way.
Yeah... but to me that's kinda like saying "it's saddening that there are poor people in the world." It just seems like something that's just always going to be the case. As long as politicians exist they will always be pandering to the lowest common denominator.
@SippinonMickeys Actually, he said something like "I've been to 57 states, so that leaves one left to go, because I'm not going to Alaska or Hawaii." So clearly he meant to say 47. (And by the way, the name "Barack" has one R. Attention to detail is a good thing!)
a president can serve 2 terms (4 years a term) OR 10 years (except FDR) the question i have that stumped my Government/History professor is: the only way to serve for 10 years is if the person in question was Vice President, who succeeded to the presidency...what if it was a first time president who ran for a 3rd term PROMISING to step down at the end of his 10th year in office?
Reading the 21st amendment, it also says that "no person that has held the office of, or acted as, president for more than two years shall be elected more than once" - so they've thought about the loopholes. :)
In the US, I have no idea ... I guess it's a mix between "rights aren't granted, they exist unless specifically restricted" plus legal precedent/tradition? I'm no specialist (or citizen), I just happened to have read that amendment recently. ;)
Over here the most explicit is §8 of the ECHR, a few other treaties, tradition, and a law against privacy-disturbing publications (with the usual caveats - information useful to the public at large can generally be published.)
@dnebdal to be fair...Privacy is a french word...English didn't even bother changing it...like DeJa Vu. my issue is that because it's an implied right (not actually stated) government can do shady things..like the Patriot Act (a couple of friends are still amazed i haven't been black bagged, and never heard from again)
As for the US government, I wouldn't focus too much about how some rights aren't explicit ... it doesn't seem to stop them either way. (The US is not on my list of places I'd like to move/work.)
@dnebdal couple pieces of advice: STAY AWAY FROM 90% OF THE SOUTH AND MIDWEST. keep to the coasts at all costs. if you can deal with A LOT of people in small space, you'll be ok in NY, otherwise avoid it. i've lived in Boston my whole life, and it's an amazing city. Providence is a nice place, so are Baltimore, DC, Austin and Chicago. NY and LA are the same...except LA is filled with lost hopes and dreams...if you west coast...Seattle and Portland are good.
If I do travel to the US, it'll be to visit a few people I know - so NY and possibly SF. Apart from that, eh ... it's a long flight from here, and I have enough other places I'd like to see first anyway. :)
(Oslo in Norway, btw. Not the worst place to visit, but hilariously expensive. Besides, it's our west and north that has all the interesting nature; Oslo is in the east, which is the flat, safe and boring part, geographically speaking.)
@dnebdal that's not true...your whole country has BAD ASS history. you get to learn about Vikings, and Norse gods...i get a bunch of assholes (the Spanish and English) who stole the land via brute force, and disease...after a while it gets a little repetitive in the "how arrogant can you be?" column of history. i love the looks when from people when my friends and i are arguing about after life, and i proclaim proudly "fuck your heaven, i'm going to Valhalla!!"
@tazmon122 Dude, I don't know what your problem is, but suggesting that you would be willing to go after the very troops that have and will sacrifice everything to keep you safe, shows you have no moral code what so ever. If you hate your country so much, GTFO.
@InsaneamI wow you fucking n00b. they have guns, i would have a sword. in case you've spent your life underwater, guns always win. i'd be dead before i get 20 yards away from a troop (and that's with a starting point of being 30 yards from a troop). although i do like the fact that you say i have problems when your the idiot who put "insane" in your username
To understand why we count it that way, one must consider the original American abhorrence of the concept of a monarchy. What's important isn't who the president is, but rather that power peacefully changes hands. We're not actually counting Presidents, we're tallying establishments of presidential power. You'd think that if another nationality other than Americans were to understand that concept, it would be the British.
Then again, all that Revolutionary war business suggests otherwise...
Of course, peaceful exchanges aren't the _only_ important thing. Russia limits presidents to two consecutive terms, but there's no limit on consecutive terms. In theory, Putin and Medvedev can keep swapping positions until one of them dies of old age - and I'd say that that wouldn't be good either, even if it let them tally up a lot of orderly power exchanges.
I could see why they'd call Cleveland the 24th at the time of his inauguration, because continuing to call him the 22nd would fail to acknowledge the 23rd. I guess it's just something that seems unnatural due to the passage of time.
Speaking in the most strict and technical manner, Barack Obama is indeed the 44th President, but also the 43rd man to hold the position - while Grover Cleveland was only one person, each of his nonconsecutive terms is counted as a separate presidency.
@jimbo271uk cos it wouldn't be very funny :P Americans have a completely different sense of humour that just wouldn't work with this show. They would spoil it
Since our current president didn't even identify correctly how many STATES are in the USA (when he was running for president) I think I won't be bothering the poor man to ask him how many presidents our nation has had. :/
Yeah, that they're English is no excuse. We don't go around talking about "Beisil Fawlty." Besides, how is it even a US/UK thing? His father, I know, went by "Barrack."
@icekold666 Aluminum is slightly different. In America, it's even spelled without the second "i", making it ah-LU-mi-num. But you're still probably right, I'm going to have to investigate which spelling is original- Aluminium, my guess.
My main complaint is that "Barack Obama" is a person's name, so there is truly only one correct pronunciation, there's a little bit of wiggle room with inanimate substances.
@icekold666 The original spelling was "aluminium" then the British changed it, but America stuck with the original, so in that sense you're also wrong.
@Kanoki989 America's shit. You are a prime example of why comedy is so poor in that country - You can't laugh at anyone else without someone suing someone. Don't like what I just said? Sue me.
@Kanoki989 Nope, trolling is. If you'd like some lessons I'd be glad to teach you, you clearly aren't very good at it and need all the help you can get. Lol, I wonder how long I can keep this one on the hook.
@SuperQweertyuiop I don't know what you're talking about, you ended the conversation and I've made you respond every time (including the one you're going to do). So trolling is saying you want to lick my "delicious ass" lol ok bro.
@Kanoki989 I responded to you with a provocative comment, knowing you would reply to it. I then trolled you by calling you mad every time you tried to troll me, even though it was actually me doing the trolling. I am now laughing at how you don't even realise you are being trolled, and at how you are still responding. Lol. You mad?
@SuperQweertyuiop A provocative comment? You mean "Sue me" or "your ass is delicious"? lol... Since when is trolling asking if someone is mad? I did that like every other comment :/ I'm laughing at how angry you are after I made you comment again, I even predicted it in my previous comment and now poor wittle kid is trying to copy me with " how you are still responding. Lol." Awww lol Cool story bro... I think I'll go ahead and make you respond again.
@SuperQweertyuiop You just keep getting suckered in more and more, it's going to be hilarious when you realize I've made you respond to me like 20 times lol.
@Kanoki989 Lol, you responded to me, remember xD go back to the other page and check. I made the first comment and you responded to it. You're so mad :3
@SuperQweertyuiop No, you responded to someone else and was having a conversation with them, then I responded to you and I have made you respond every time. :] "I've made you respond every time (including the one you're going to do)" And seven comments later you're still butt-hurt. :]
Another case of them relying on false chain email logic. Historians and the federal government of the United States recognize Cleveland as holding two different slots, making Obama the 44th president. Not the 44th separate man -- but the 44th president. Enough with the false gotcha semantics.
@DakotaZ162 However, President Obama said that "44 Americans" had taken the Presidential Oath. This is false. If you count someone twice for Presidency, that person still can't be counted twice as a person. That's the point they're making.
It should be noted that Pres. Obama seems to have a startling lack of knowledge of US History; and his own history is a bit unclear (where he was born, where he went to school, his college and high school records, etc). Not that I voted for him or anything.
@DakotaZ162 It isn't though. Even if there was another person who was "Acting" President, only 43 people have taken the Presidential Oath. We're not talking about the order of people who took the position of President, we're talking about people who took the oath. And "Acting President" isn't the same as "President."
@TheGreatSparky he didn't take the oath of office and he wasn't the next in line. he may have been Acting President and if you count them as Presidents, there were 46, as George HW Bush and Dick Cheney (twice) were also Acting Presidents
@TheGreatSparky Well he could only be considered "acting" president. Much like Cheney was "acting" president for a short bit while Bush was having an operation.
But of course, the way Mr. Obama phrased it (or more likely, the way his speech writer phrased it for him) was simply incorrect. A sound use of the klaxon.
(This analogy falls apart pretty quickly, but bear with me)
Say you're standing in line, and you're 10 people from the front. You'd be the 10th person in line. Then you step out of line for whatever reason, I dunno, there's someone selling pies. Then you step back into the line, slipping the bloke behind you a fiver. Now you're five spots behind where you had been. You aren't still the 10th person in line, now you're the 16th. The Presidents' numbers are their order, not their count.
@PhillipTheBrandon Wrong analogy, more accurately say there are 20 people in the line and any of them gets to the front and gets pie. If they then go around again at the end they will be the 21st person to get a pie but there are still only 20 people overall who got any pie not 21. That is what he said, 44 Americans ie the number of people who were the president (got the pie in the analogy) so he was wrong.
@blondemario you do know that neither of those two men held the title of president of any nation, right? Winston Churchill was PM of Great Britain and Josef Stalin was the Premier of the USSR. If you were being sarcastic then I'm sorry, but if you weren't, then pick up a book.
umm...duh? anyone who passed elementary school social studies in the US knows that Cleveland was President twice but not consecutively, but that's alright because I imagine that questions on what's considered well known history for Brits would be 'Jeopardy' questions for Americans.
What about FDR... who served 4 terms?
5Delano 2 days ago
So is this why Obama doesn't like the British? lol
LJDee91 4 days ago
This is one of those few misses on QI, in my opinion. Would it make sense to call Grover Cleveland the 22nd President and then have Benjamin Harrison as the 23rd, and then have Cleveland as the 22nd President again? That's much more confusing than calling Cleveland the 24th. But I do see their point. Why aren't Presidents who serve two consecutive terms called the 43rd and 44th President, respectively.
Kubiklan 6 days ago
3:04 Poor Obama.
borednerd74 1 week ago
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7CellarDoors 1 week ago
So many knocks on America....
.... I just love the British. <3
CaraWill55 1 week ago 12
They say Barack strangely. You'd think name pronunciation would translate across accents.
audball911 1 week ago
@audball911 Actually, name pronunciation would be the last thing that I'd expect to translate across accents, in my honest opinion.
TheBluddyFaerie 5 days ago
@TheBluddyFaerie Really? I'd say that, since it's a person's name, they should get to decide how it's said. Let's say a man named Juan moves to America. People aren't going to call him "Joo-ahn" because that's not how his name is pronounced. Sure, it might get messed up sometimes, because some sounds aren't present in other languages, but for the most part, names seem like something that would keep their original pronunciation.
audball911 5 days ago
@audball911 Touche.
TheBluddyFaerie 5 days ago
What a waste of a guest.
Shukini 2 weeks ago
Uh...you fail...
Obama said he was the 44th president to take the presidential oath, an oath spelled out in Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution. That oath was first taken by George Washington. The Articles of Confederation did not contain a presidential oath.
plbuster 2 weeks ago
They always look so surprised when they win
Simoneiscooler 2 weeks ago
Everyone missed David Mitchell's Clinton joke!!!
mrgerry123 2 weeks ago
@mrgerry123
I missed it too...
KoiosDusklight 2 weeks ago
@mrgerry123 I didn't get it either o0
nurzumspass 2 weeks ago
@mrgerry123 I'm not sure it was a joke. I think he was pointing out that Clinton served two terms but wasn't called the 42nd and 43rd President, while Cleveland served two terms and was called the 22nd and 24th.
MrDjFtw 1 week ago
@mrgerry123 It wasn't a joke. Clinton was president Twice, he was just elected twice in a row.
FantasyWriter1991 6 days ago
i thought 42 is the answer..
Wasserballturnschuh 3 weeks ago
@Wasserballturnschuh It used to be.
mitchamaya 3 weeks ago
@Wasserballturnschuh It is but you don't actually know what the question is.
Sailorsega 3 weeks ago
And there I was wondering why Obama was being featured in QI...
RIIINGRIIINGRIIINGRIIING!!
SuperGoldenPony 3 weeks ago
I am ashamed to be american now. England knows more about our history than we do. Can I move to Finnland?
sleepygothgirl 1 month ago
@sleepygothgirl
I'm booking it to Germany. Go where you please.
sciences8 1 month ago
@sleepygothgirl No they don't... Don't be dumb...
Kanoki989 1 month ago
@balloooonatic Actually, "Hollywood Squares" was pretty similar. But yeah, I don't think we could make that show work today.
bitemedude 1 month ago
Didnt obama say 44 americans? If he states it like that, hes not wrong
zarghroth 1 month ago
@zarghroth
Actually, I think that's exactly what makes him wrong. Still, I can understand why he did it. Most Americans would think he was wrong if he said it the other way.
quixoto 1 month ago
@quixoto
It's saddening when leaders bow to general ignorance, isn't it?
Qw3rtypop 1 month ago
@Qw3rtypop no, not really
Gaiacarra 1 month ago
@Qw3rtypop
Yeah... but to me that's kinda like saying "it's saddening that there are poor people in the world." It just seems like something that's just always going to be the case. As long as politicians exist they will always be pandering to the lowest common denominator.
quixoto 1 month ago
@quixoto
Well yes that will always be the case. But that doesn't make it any less saddening.
Qw3rtypop 1 month ago
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MegaMonkeyExtreme 1 month ago
With all the publicity stunts he was doing at that point, it would not have surprised me in the least if he'd done this...
IoEstasCedonta 1 month ago
Abomination.
Etrajbe 1 month ago
@Etrajbe Obamanation.
032125 1 month ago
@032125 Exactly.
Etrajbe 1 month ago
That's okay Barrack said he visited all 57 states in the US too. Ugh.
SippinonMickeys 1 month ago
@SippinonMickeys Actually, he said something like "I've been to 57 states, so that leaves one left to go, because I'm not going to Alaska or Hawaii." So clearly he meant to say 47. (And by the way, the name "Barack" has one R. Attention to detail is a good thing!)
ColeMercury 1 month ago
Barick
Everyman1337 1 month ago
Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions.
Nahasapasa 1 month ago 34
He pronounced Obama's name wrong.
Nulono 1 month ago
@Nulono Isn't that just his accent?
BRMC888 1 month ago
@Nulono
No, everyone else pronounces Obama's name wrong.
gamerunknown 1 month ago
lmfao politicians are so stupid xD (most of them) just care about profit and dont understand shit hahhaa
Etrajbe 1 month ago
a president can serve 2 terms (4 years a term) OR 10 years (except FDR) the question i have that stumped my Government/History professor is: the only way to serve for 10 years is if the person in question was Vice President, who succeeded to the presidency...what if it was a first time president who ran for a 3rd term PROMISING to step down at the end of his 10th year in office?
tazmon122 2 months ago
@tazmon122
Reading the 21st amendment, it also says that "no person that has held the office of, or acted as, president for more than two years shall be elected more than once" - so they've thought about the loopholes. :)
dnebdal 1 month ago
@dnebdal alright mr. smarty pants...why is there an implied right to privacy, yet your never granted that freedom?
tazmon122 1 month ago
@tazmon122
In the US, I have no idea ... I guess it's a mix between "rights aren't granted, they exist unless specifically restricted" plus legal precedent/tradition? I'm no specialist (or citizen), I just happened to have read that amendment recently. ;)
Over here the most explicit is §8 of the ECHR, a few other treaties, tradition, and a law against privacy-disturbing publications (with the usual caveats - information useful to the public at large can generally be published.)
dnebdal 1 month ago
@dnebdal to be fair...Privacy is a french word...English didn't even bother changing it...like DeJa Vu. my issue is that because it's an implied right (not actually stated) government can do shady things..like the Patriot Act (a couple of friends are still amazed i haven't been black bagged, and never heard from again)
tazmon122 1 month ago
@tazmon122
Latin, I suspect - but either way, yeah.
As for the US government, I wouldn't focus too much about how some rights aren't explicit ... it doesn't seem to stop them either way. (The US is not on my list of places I'd like to move/work.)
dnebdal 1 month ago
@dnebdal couple pieces of advice: STAY AWAY FROM 90% OF THE SOUTH AND MIDWEST. keep to the coasts at all costs. if you can deal with A LOT of people in small space, you'll be ok in NY, otherwise avoid it. i've lived in Boston my whole life, and it's an amazing city. Providence is a nice place, so are Baltimore, DC, Austin and Chicago. NY and LA are the same...except LA is filled with lost hopes and dreams...if you west coast...Seattle and Portland are good.
tazmon122 1 month ago
@tazmon122
If I do travel to the US, it'll be to visit a few people I know - so NY and possibly SF. Apart from that, eh ... it's a long flight from here, and I have enough other places I'd like to see first anyway. :)
dnebdal 1 month ago
@dnebdal just some advice...seriously though...there is about 30 places i'm going to go before i get to wherever you live
tazmon122 1 month ago
@tazmon122
It's appreciated, thanks. :)
(Oslo in Norway, btw. Not the worst place to visit, but hilariously expensive. Besides, it's our west and north that has all the interesting nature; Oslo is in the east, which is the flat, safe and boring part, geographically speaking.)
dnebdal 1 month ago
@dnebdal that's not true...your whole country has BAD ASS history. you get to learn about Vikings, and Norse gods...i get a bunch of assholes (the Spanish and English) who stole the land via brute force, and disease...after a while it gets a little repetitive in the "how arrogant can you be?" column of history. i love the looks when from people when my friends and i are arguing about after life, and i proclaim proudly "fuck your heaven, i'm going to Valhalla!!"
tazmon122 1 month ago
@tazmon122 Teh nyou have to die in battle :b
Kboman 1 month ago
@Kboman wow, that wasn't very well spelled.
Kboman 1 month ago
@Kboman you think that's an issue? all i have to do is go to Iraq with a sword, and start swinging at American troops.
tazmon122 1 month ago
@tazmon122 Dude, I don't know what your problem is, but suggesting that you would be willing to go after the very troops that have and will sacrifice everything to keep you safe, shows you have no moral code what so ever. If you hate your country so much, GTFO.
InsaneamI 1 month ago
@InsaneamI wow you fucking n00b. they have guns, i would have a sword. in case you've spent your life underwater, guns always win. i'd be dead before i get 20 yards away from a troop (and that's with a starting point of being 30 yards from a troop). although i do like the fact that you say i have problems when your the idiot who put "insane" in your username
tazmon122 1 month ago
@MisterAlexKaye - iIt's hard to believe, isn't it? Not all of us are morons.
drdisarper 2 months ago
To understand why we count it that way, one must consider the original American abhorrence of the concept of a monarchy. What's important isn't who the president is, but rather that power peacefully changes hands. We're not actually counting Presidents, we're tallying establishments of presidential power. You'd think that if another nationality other than Americans were to understand that concept, it would be the British.
Then again, all that Revolutionary war business suggests otherwise...
eyeammi 2 months ago
@eyeammi That makes complete sense actually,Yankees are smarter than they seem.^_^
MisterAlexKaye 2 months ago
@eyeammi
Of course, peaceful exchanges aren't the _only_ important thing. Russia limits presidents to two consecutive terms, but there's no limit on consecutive terms. In theory, Putin and Medvedev can keep swapping positions until one of them dies of old age - and I'd say that that wouldn't be good either, even if it let them tally up a lot of orderly power exchanges.
dnebdal 1 month ago
I only knew that (during bush) there [were] 42 presidents because of die hard 3
AnonymousUbiquity 2 months ago
I could see why they'd call Cleveland the 24th at the time of his inauguration, because continuing to call him the 22nd would fail to acknowledge the 23rd. I guess it's just something that seems unnatural due to the passage of time.
WalterLiddy 2 months ago
Speaking in the most strict and technical manner, Barack Obama is indeed the 44th President, but also the 43rd man to hold the position - while Grover Cleveland was only one person, each of his nonconsecutive terms is counted as a separate presidency.
timmyhkvt 2 months ago
@timmyhkvt He said that in the video....
Redheadfury 2 months ago
@timmyhkvt That's what they said. Obama said "44 Americans have now taken the Presidential Oath".
WalterLiddy 2 months ago
in the video about who was the first president, they say there was like 14 or 15 other presidents before george washington...
sbslusher 2 months ago
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MegaBlaidddrwg 2 months ago
Brits are sometimes...a bit too literal.
pilarq 3 months ago
I wonder why there is not a Us version of this show?
jimbo271uk 3 months ago
@jimbo271uk cos it wouldn't be very funny :P Americans have a completely different sense of humour that just wouldn't work with this show. They would spoil it
balloooonatic 3 months ago 41
@balloooonatic kinda true yeah lol
AceBobcat 1 month ago
@balloooonatic Um, what nationality is Rich Hall then?
Cougarbrit 1 month ago 9
@Cougarbrit americans being on a show and americans making a show are two different things.
balloooonatic 4 weeks ago
@balloooonatic Rich Hall doesn't ruin the show.
GoldenAppleOfDiscord 1 month ago
@balloooonatic Make that in no sense of humor. :D
Jasperis16 1 month ago
@Jasperis16
Hey... I resemble that remark.
Jcolinsol 1 month ago
@balloooonatic Don't be so arrogant and full of yourself, America has had these type of shows before...
Kanoki989 1 month ago
@jimbo271uk Because they haven't found the right way to bastardize it yet. :P
Swidhelm 2 months ago
Since our current president didn't even identify correctly how many STATES are in the USA (when he was running for president) I think I won't be bothering the poor man to ask him how many presidents our nation has had. :/
Babyhowdy233 3 months ago
@Babyhowdy233 given the sheer number of verbal slip-ups GWB made, you guys sure like to harp on the one or two that Obama's made.
JNfromNatalieStreet 3 months ago 3
@JNfromNatalieStreet
Hey, don't blame me for GWB..I voted for Ron Paul! ;)
Babyhowdy233 3 months ago
Yeah, that they're English is no excuse. We don't go around talking about "Beisil Fawlty." Besides, how is it even a US/UK thing? His father, I know, went by "Barrack."
IoEstasCedonta 3 months ago
@MisterAlexGabriel u left out the stunned silence, then the polite clapping.
blohmymind 3 months ago 2
Um. Do all British (English, UKaners?) people mispronounce Barack Obama's first name?
MrEdLoop 3 months ago
@MrEdLoop Consider it an issue of accent. It's the same way that Americans mispronounce Aluminium.
icekold666 3 months ago
@icekold666 Aluminum is slightly different. In America, it's even spelled without the second "i", making it ah-LU-mi-num. But you're still probably right, I'm going to have to investigate which spelling is original- Aluminium, my guess.
My main complaint is that "Barack Obama" is a person's name, so there is truly only one correct pronunciation, there's a little bit of wiggle room with inanimate substances.
MrEdLoop 3 months ago 2
@MrEdLoop To be fair, Americans (and the Brits as well) tend to be quite hopeless when attempting to pronounce almost any non-english name ;)
Kazumaster 3 months ago
@Kazumaster Fair enough. I'd like to live in Britain, myself. Call me American, but I do love a British accent.
MrEdLoop 3 months ago 4
@MrEdLoop I think it was originally named 'Alumium' not 'Aluminum' or 'Aluminium'...
frosty956 2 months ago
@icekold666 The original spelling was "aluminium" then the British changed it, but America stuck with the original, so in that sense you're also wrong.
Kanoki989 1 month ago
@Kanoki989 America's shit. You are a prime example of why comedy is so poor in that country - You can't laugh at anyone else without someone suing someone. Don't like what I just said? Sue me.
SuperQweertyuiop 1 month ago
@SuperQweertyuiop There is plenty of comedy in the USA, hop over to "British are also NOT Stupid" and they're all bitching and crying, like you.
Kanoki989 1 month ago
@Kanoki989 Ooh, did I touch a nerve there? Sue me.
SuperQweertyuiop 1 month ago
@SuperQweertyuiop Oh I see no response to the video, seems as though I won.
Kanoki989 1 month ago
@Kanoki989 Lol, someones mad. Rage some more.
SuperQweertyuiop 1 month ago
@SuperQweertyuiop Must make you mad watching the video.
Kanoki989 1 month ago
@Kanoki989 Try harder bro.
P.S. Rage some more. It amuses me.
SuperQweertyuiop 1 month ago
@SuperQweertyuiop U mad bro??
Cry some more.
Kanoki989 1 month ago
@Kanoki989 Aww, he's trying so hard :) Bless his widdle cotton socks.
SuperQweertyuiop 1 month ago
@SuperQweertyuiop Trying to hold back the tears of rage, bro?
Kanoki989 1 month ago
@Kanoki989 Lol, still trying. This is funny :) Your butt-hurtedness is delicious.
SuperQweertyuiop 1 month ago
@SuperQweertyuiop LOL, you just said my ass is delicious LOL... Poor thing, is English your first language?
Kanoki989 1 month ago
@Kanoki989 Nope, trolling is. If you'd like some lessons I'd be glad to teach you, you clearly aren't very good at it and need all the help you can get. Lol, I wonder how long I can keep this one on the hook.
SuperQweertyuiop 1 month ago
@SuperQweertyuiop I don't know what you're talking about, you ended the conversation and I've made you respond every time (including the one you're going to do). So trolling is saying you want to lick my "delicious ass" lol ok bro.
Kanoki989 1 month ago
@Kanoki989 I responded to you with a provocative comment, knowing you would reply to it. I then trolled you by calling you mad every time you tried to troll me, even though it was actually me doing the trolling. I am now laughing at how you don't even realise you are being trolled, and at how you are still responding. Lol. You mad?
SuperQweertyuiop 1 month ago
@SuperQweertyuiop A provocative comment? You mean "Sue me" or "your ass is delicious"? lol... Since when is trolling asking if someone is mad? I did that like every other comment :/ I'm laughing at how angry you are after I made you comment again, I even predicted it in my previous comment and now poor wittle kid is trying to copy me with " how you are still responding. Lol." Awww lol Cool story bro... I think I'll go ahead and make you respond again.
Kanoki989 4 weeks ago
@Kanoki989 Lol, you're still responding.
SuperQweertyuiop 4 weeks ago
@SuperQweertyuiop You just keep getting suckered in more and more, it's going to be hilarious when you realize I've made you respond to me like 20 times lol.
Kanoki989 4 weeks ago
@Kanoki989 Lol, you responded to me, remember xD go back to the other page and check. I made the first comment and you responded to it. You're so mad :3
SuperQweertyuiop 4 weeks ago
@SuperQweertyuiop No, you responded to someone else and was having a conversation with them, then I responded to you and I have made you respond every time. :] "I've made you respond every time (including the one you're going to do)" And seven comments later you're still butt-hurt. :]
Kanoki989 4 weeks ago
@Kanoki989 Lol, I wonder how long I can keep this going :) My record so far is 11 pages, maybe I'll beat it this time.
SuperQweertyuiop 4 weeks ago
@SuperQweertyuiop LOL I can see your frustration, why not type a another butt-hurt paragraph? :]
Kanoki989 4 weeks ago
@Kanoki989 Loool, you're still trying.
SuperQweertyuiop 4 weeks ago
@SuperQweertyuiop Awww Poor thing is getting so mad awww
Kanoki989 4 weeks ago
@Kanoki989 Lol, he's still trying.
SuperQweertyuiop 4 weeks ago
@SuperQweertyuiop U mad bro? Cry some more.
Kanoki989 4 weeks ago
@Kanoki989 Lol, still trying.
SuperQweertyuiop 4 weeks ago
@SuperQweertyuiop I see your sentences are getting shorter and shorter, you mad bro?
Kanoki989 4 weeks ago
@Kanoki989 Lol, still trying.
SuperQweertyuiop 4 weeks ago
@SuperQweertyuiop Resorted to copy and paste? Looks like someone is getting butt-hurt.
Kanoki989 4 weeks ago
@Kanoki989 Lol, still trying.
SuperQweertyuiop 4 weeks ago
@SuperQweertyuiop Resorted to copy and paste? Looks like someone is getting butt-hurt.
Kanoki989 4 weeks ago
@MrEdLoop I'm from Scotland and I pronounce it the "American way". :)
amym44 3 months ago
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Given the choice, would you vote for Obama gain?????
hualni 4 months ago
Another case of them relying on false chain email logic. Historians and the federal government of the United States recognize Cleveland as holding two different slots, making Obama the 44th president. Not the 44th separate man -- but the 44th president. Enough with the false gotcha semantics.
polarbear1876 4 months ago
Just goes to show you can never trust anything Obama says.
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I'm KIDDING! Wipe the foam off your mouth, back away from the keyboard, and laugh :)
SBFloppie 4 months ago
Stephan said himself, they counted it (for some reason) so either way, Obama was correct.
DakotaZ162 4 months ago
@DakotaZ162 However, President Obama said that "44 Americans" had taken the Presidential Oath. This is false. If you count someone twice for Presidency, that person still can't be counted twice as a person. That's the point they're making.
It should be noted that Pres. Obama seems to have a startling lack of knowledge of US History; and his own history is a bit unclear (where he was born, where he went to school, his college and high school records, etc). Not that I voted for him or anything.
bricool4 4 months ago
@bricool4 If we're going to get technical about it, it's more than 44 anyways.
DakotaZ162 4 months ago
@DakotaZ162 It isn't though. Even if there was another person who was "Acting" President, only 43 people have taken the Presidential Oath. We're not talking about the order of people who took the position of President, we're talking about people who took the oath. And "Acting President" isn't the same as "President."
bricool4 4 months ago
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DakotaZ162 4 months ago
Actually, Obama happened to be right in this case. Google "David Rice Atchison".
TheGreatSparky 4 months ago
@TheGreatSparky he didn't take the oath of office and he wasn't the next in line. he may have been Acting President and if you count them as Presidents, there were 46, as George HW Bush and Dick Cheney (twice) were also Acting Presidents
Georgeous129 4 months ago
@TheGreatSparky Well he could only be considered "acting" president. Much like Cheney was "acting" president for a short bit while Bush was having an operation.
ObadiahtheSlim 4 months ago
But of course, the way Mr. Obama phrased it (or more likely, the way his speech writer phrased it for him) was simply incorrect. A sound use of the klaxon.
PhillipTheBrandon 4 months ago
(This analogy falls apart pretty quickly, but bear with me)
Say you're standing in line, and you're 10 people from the front. You'd be the 10th person in line. Then you step out of line for whatever reason, I dunno, there's someone selling pies. Then you step back into the line, slipping the bloke behind you a fiver. Now you're five spots behind where you had been. You aren't still the 10th person in line, now you're the 16th. The Presidents' numbers are their order, not their count.
PhillipTheBrandon 4 months ago
@PhillipTheBrandon Wrong analogy, more accurately say there are 20 people in the line and any of them gets to the front and gets pie. If they then go around again at the end they will be the 21st person to get a pie but there are still only 20 people overall who got any pie not 21. That is what he said, 44 Americans ie the number of people who were the president (got the pie in the analogy) so he was wrong.
wyterabitt 3 months ago
The first President to ever get a question wrong on QI.
Resimaster 4 months ago
What series is this?
blondemario 5 months ago
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allyh2007 5 months ago
Actually not true, there were 43 elected presidents,
John Hanson was actually the first non-elected president of the US under the Articles of the confederacy.
anubis2814 5 months ago
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Ouch. Well at least they pick on each other too.
Aquacoon 5 months ago
Ouch. Well at least they pick on each other too.
Aquacoon 5 months ago
"I thank President Bush for his service to our nation."
*Polite clapping*
MisterAlexGabriel 5 months ago 168
GO Americans... go back to school. lol
GarfieldLifeStyle 5 months ago
563 people honestly thought Obama was on the panel?? Brilliant!!!
Youaresofullofshite 5 months ago 4
He misread his speech: That should be "*dis-service to the nation".
TomFynn 5 months ago
Obama -10 points
Superman679 5 months ago
Alan Davies as two world famous Presidents! They were:
1:56 Josef Stalin.
2:49 Winston Churchill
blondemario 5 months ago
@blondemario you do know that neither of those two men held the title of president of any nation, right? Winston Churchill was PM of Great Britain and Josef Stalin was the Premier of the USSR. If you were being sarcastic then I'm sorry, but if you weren't, then pick up a book.
ben091294 5 months ago
@ben091294 OK, then, they were LEADERS, no?
blondemario 5 months ago
we all though Clinton. then it was 1st Bush the 2nd and Obama as the 3rd Presidnet
Dim4323 5 months ago
what a waste of a guest hahaahha
yajo891 5 months ago
Barack needs to be more interesting next time
goodie23 6 months ago 2
"killed millions of people" lol, fail
brettsworld99 6 months ago
43. Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms.
bythefault 6 months ago
@bythefault well done for watching the video lol
SirChildrenEater 6 months ago
Anyone else knew Obama wasn't on the panel 'cause you have a brain?
johnnyklit 6 months ago 192
@johnnyklit Hell yeah! Is right!
blondemario 5 months ago
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OBAMA IS ILLEGAL. HE'S NOT AN AMERICAN BORN. HE'S A BLUDDY KENYAN
SIGISBAR1 6 months ago
@SIGISBAR1 ... and you're a born fool
sonnylatchstring 6 months ago
44
darthkarr 6 months ago
Jo Brand is now one of extremely few people who can claim that she got beaten in a quiz show by Barack Obama. :)
PollyJuice 6 months ago 4
umm...duh? anyone who passed elementary school social studies in the US knows that Cleveland was President twice but not consecutively, but that's alright because I imagine that questions on what's considered well known history for Brits would be 'Jeopardy' questions for Americans.
ironybear 6 months ago
@ironybear evidently obama never passed "elementary" school social studies.
Ub3rSk1llz 6 months ago