QI - Why Would You Bite a Gold Coin?

[Darconda90]

Damn I'm the 49,998th viewer :(

[chubbedychub1]

all the awkward silences...

[hdcantona]

Am I the only one who thought that if you bit into a solid gold coin it WOULDN'T make a dent?

[Pinkaugust]

@hdcantona Gold is actually a quite soft metal. That's why most things aren't made of pure gold, because they would bend quite easily.

[thespikescheme]

Anyone else go google the island of yap after this?

[AvoidDrunkDialing]

@thespikescheme lol yeah i did. he gave such an enticing description

[theEarlofChip]

No one believed Yap is a real place

[Emophiliac2]

The other great advantage of visiting Yap is that the women are topless. Rather, they do have tops, but they don't wear clothing on the upper part of their body. Many times, that was a good customer. Other times, not so good.

[GuacamoleKun]

"But there is no lead in pencils"

*applause*

lolol

[ecos889]

Its not lead its graphite XD

[deathoctober]

lol wheres the link between lead in gold and lead in pencils? GENIUS!

[aimpoint101]

@deathoctober Older QI Episode talking about lead pencils being misnomers and having graphite instead, yeah I'm spoiling the fun in not knowing :b

[argh1989]

@deathoctober Don't know if that's known in Britain or whether they discussed it on the show but in Germany a pencil is called "Bleistift" which translates to "lead pen". That's why i.e. children might think they are actually filled with a lead core.

[Diekssus]

because they are weally weally yummy

[fromthenightbefore]

wow, I used to live on the island of Yap.. and they used us dollars there as the giant stone money had gotten a bit archaic.

[jacksawild]

Nobody believes Rich, but it's true. Or it was.

[xzaz2]

I did more mining of gold in Age of Empires 

[whade62000]

I want Mythbusters to make a 1-minute of this: do you actually leave a tooth mark on a coin that is part gold, part lead?

[MegaManless]

@whade62000 I don't hate you, I just have this to say because you mentioned mythbusters: mythbusters annoys me.

[Daleksaresupreme1]

i love ritch

[deaniture]

1:05 "you would DIE"!!!

[TheWhitesilverfang]

well.... if you collect every single speck of gold, it would fill three olympic swimming pools. thats how rare it is.

[9hello123]

@xXLuciferDarkheartXx QI is wrong on multiple occasions.

[9hello123]

@xXLuciferDarkheartXx lead is a heavy metal. If you ate lead you would get heavy metal poisoning. And die.

[TheSpiderfly]

I notice that a couple of subjects come up more than once. The thing about pencils came up in another episode, as a question.

[Soundfrequency]

Why would you bite a gold coin? Why, because you're the insane magical gold eater of course! Didn't anyone tell you?

[jamboliboli]

@Soundfrequency what a shit joke.

[jamboliboli]

@Soundfrequency what a shit joke. Really, bravo on the probably the worst joke I've ever heard.

[Soundfrequency]

@jamboliboli

Shit enough for you to comment twice on I see, y'juvenille attention seeking fuck.

[jamboliboli]

@jamboliboli

Yup, I just had to make sure that you truly understood what a crappy sense of humour you have. You have to know how unfunny that joke was. I mean, honestly, that was the worst joke i've ever heard. Seriously, well done. I'm proud of you.

[cyberman234]

@Soundfrequency Isn't it obvious why he replied to him self? he wanted to male sure he truly understood what a crappy sense of humour he has? I mean he say's it at the start of the post

[Soundfrequency]

@lolookphor

What Soundfrequency do, huh? Nuthin! :<

[lolookphor]

@Soundfrequency What lolookphor do, huh? Nuthin! :<

[damienw800i]

@Soundfrequency how old are you? 2?.

[amphitritie]

If you were eating lead you would DIE.

lol