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  • Human equivalent: I'd rather go up against an army of Stephen Frys, lead by Alan Davies than an army of Alan Davies, lead by Stephen Fry

  • What does QI stand for ??

    Sorry I ask, am from Germany

  • @ArmandoBellagio

    Quite Interesting.

  • @ArmandoBellagio QI = Quite Interesting / Ziemlich Interessant

  • I lived in spain and i would be suprised if more than 5% of the population of spain could get into the army.

  • ...so...the minimum IQ for the Spanish army...is retarded...

    I suspect it's the same for most other countries, as well.

  • @ravenslaves

    Borderline mental retardation. Odd thing is, two men who scored 68 on an IQ test in which I forget their name. Could do differential and integral calculus in their head.

  • @BrutalValor I've seen such examples myself. I think we can also think of examples where roles are changed, and the highest IQ in the room, is incapable of driving a car safely, shouldn't be allowed around power tools, and shouldn't be allowed in public without supervision.

  • @BrutalValor That's called savantism.

  • @Android18uk

    It's also an indictment of the failure that IQ tests are.

  • Nothing beats english humour....

  • @TreeHouse3575 ... If your English.

  • Putos piratas britanicos.

  • What i'd love to know is, what did that sheep do that was badass enough to get the lions to follow him?

  • @SonOfHighValour Easy. The sheep was food for the lions, and the lions weren't just following him, they were trying to catch their meal.

  • @nikkienisis 5 points for you sir! ^^

  • @SonOfHighValour Maybe they were chasing him

  • @SonOfHighValour Nothing, because it's not real.

  • Can't...stop...watching...QI..­.

  • They forgot to mention, that when you pass the IQ test for the Spanish Army, everyone shouts - "Aye-Q-Rumba!!!"

  • @ArtOfRuin75 That could fit if you live in South America.

    Illiterate yourself a bit before offending others, please.

  • @Arthurein Ok, fair enough. But, I'd love to know, had it of worked, in what way that would be offensive? I think you need to get over yourself. Whatever happened to 'sticks and stones'? Isn't that what you teach children? Grow up

  • @ArtOfRuin75 fucking lol'd.

  • Have you ever seen a Kiwi comedy film called Black Sheep? Those sheep will have you running for the hills.

  • From the thumbnail I thought Fry was Jackie Chan.

  • 373,373 VIEWS.

    I JUST THOUGHT I'D RECORD THIS MOMENT FOR POSTERITY.

  • Where's lord Melchett when you need him? Just to say... beeeeeeh

  • Alsatian is not a dog breed..

  • @Leowen2 It's another way of saying German shepherd

  • @Leowen2 Yes, it is...

  • @Leowen2 , thats right, they are called the German Sheperd.

  • @Leowen2 No. In the UK it's perfectly acceptable to call them Alsatians.

  • @Leowen2 Did you really just try to argue with Stephen fucking Fry?

  • Spanish army is a nato professional army.

  • @JJKD91 Ohh, so thats why they owned in WWII

  • @BRMC888 They weren't even in WWII.

  • @webhutspain I was being sarcastic because he was saying that the Spanish army are the best in the world or something like that :D

  • Just one more clip!

  • 0:01

    

  • how can someone be offend by this video....

    I suppose that why we don't have more army...

  • im watching QI clips. i dont want " lick ya down " the brand new single youtube management. use ur fucking brains

  • Call it a German Shepherd not an Alsation. What, are we still in post war Europe?

  • @rulerwithcounsel i believe we are

  • @rulerwithcounsel Well we're hardly in pre-war Europe are we?

  • An IQ below 70 is considered mental retardation.

  • @mackat4ck not anymore, this would make a 3rd of all african-american population be considered retarded

  • @666Tomato666 That's a pretty bold claim. The average black IQ is indeed lower but by that much! I understand that IQ isn't used as an absolute definition for retardation and other factors are considered as well. The person taking the test may score low because of some other factor than lack of intelligence. IQ as far as I've heard is still used as part of the definition for retardation.

  • @666Tomato666 It's environmental rather than genetic, as shown by the high IQ in certain countries such as Japan, Korea, China etc. Certain tests show that the average person there is around 115 whereas Western Europe is around 100 and the USA is around 85. The USA is low because it spends so much money on the military rather than things like education and healthcare plus there are less taxes so even less for education. Black Americans must have less education if they have a lower average.

  • @youtoobe999 While I don't disagree with your comment about environment over genetics, I do question your numbers. The lists that I can find show Japan, Korea, and China at an average IQ of 106 & 105, European varying between 103 and 97 (with a few lower outliers), and the United States at an average of 98.

  • @youtoobe999 In my country's defense, our average IQ is actually 98. European IQ averages range from 89 in Serbia to 107 in Germany. Britain falls in the middle at 100.

    And we actually invest quite a lot of into education over here. Education is mandatory up until age 16, but free public education is provided to all children up until college--regardless of race. It's an unfair and untrue stereotype to think that we only spend public money on the military. We're not all gun-toting war mongers.

  • @youtoobe999 I think that is really store-typing the US too far......SURE we spend a lot on our military, BUT the State's fund our Eduction, NOT the Federal Government.

  • @LordValocis and I spell Stereotyping wrong......

  • PERFECT timing of the Sheep-button !!!

  • this guy is very dumb in my view.

  • @MrKaniyaw If you mean Stephen Fry you are very much mistaken! :P

  • @barretsbumhole / he is dumb and it doesn't take a genius to see that.

  • I'm just disliking this because the advertisment is too fucking long

  • ᴸᴹᴬᴼ

  • QI is so damn addictive!

  • @MsBasiaSuperb I know, this is my 17th QI clip.....I only came on see the rare occasion that adam wins.....off to clip 18

  • I don't give my hard-earned cash to the BBC through my TV licence to watch stupid pre-video adverts! >:(

  • @MrSquidman007 I know, it sucks. The reason they have adverts on BBCWorldwide is quite obvious though. Half of the videos views come from people outside the UK, who don't pay for a British television license. It's a fair argument but they really shouldn't be allowed to do it.

  • these fucking adverts are going to town on my IQ. Stop putting a dollar sign on everything.

  • Típicos comentarios de anglos acomplejados en youtube,ninguna novedad a la vista.Estos PIRATAS van dando lecciones a todo el mundo cuando son los primeros que tienen que callar y no lo digo por el video.

  • PLYMOUTH <3 im from there :D thumbs up if your from there or near there too ;)

  • A 70 IQ is retardation.

  • purple.... doesn't colonel rhyme?

  • @pinoy426 Mmm... Don't think so. Depends on where you come from and what kind of accent you have.

    In mine, it works, but I can imagine there's others in which it doesn't.

  • What if it was a really brutal and strategical sheep? the hundred lions would be pretty scary then.

  • I THOUGHT THEY MEANT PEOPLE FROM ALSACE!

    I thought they were being racist about those former Nazis.

  • The US Nazy use Seals trained to hunt and watch boats in case terrorists are on them........

  • Y cuánto coeficiente intelectual tiene que tener un inglés que venga de vacaciones a España para tirarse desde la terraza de un hotel a una piscina y quedarse parapléjico ? O que porque la cerveza es más barata en España beber tanta que les tengan que ingresar en un hospital por coma etílico, para todo esto se necesita mucho coeficiente intelectual?

  • @angeltxurdi Que fue un fantástico vacaciones. Tengo las fotografías.

  • @fetidbrainwaves Y te tiraste a la piscina o tú tienes más coeficiente intelectual que otros turistas ingleses?

  • @angeltxurdi Ah, ¿pero los británicos son inteligentes? Pensé que formaban parte de línea evolutiva paralela al homo australopithecus. Solo hay que verlos todo llenos de tatuajes, oliendo como cerdos (no, el aseo diario no lo tienen por norma) y borrachos perdidos por las calles mientras balbucean "Sangía" o "Servesa". Es lo que tiene ser descendientes de cobardes pirtas y ladrones sin escrúpulos, que su ADN se malea jajaja

  • @InsaneNumber102

    "sehvesa", no te olvides de que no saben pronunciar la R.

  • Quite fun but utter crap - there's no IQ qualification for serving in the Spanish military.

  • UH-HUHM-HMM-MMM.....PURE Hilarity, I must say so myself, yes QUITE so FRANKLY!

  • Alsations weren't allowed in the army because they would most likely be spotted.

  • @ogicabp4u I see what you did there.

  • @Gavin17259 Really? Your IQ must be just about enough then...go join the Spanish Army!

  • @ogicabp4u Erm, are you actually calling me stupid or are you joking?

  • @Gavin17259 well if your IQ is high enough you'll be able to figure that one out for yourself. LOL!

  • @ogicabp4u I'd say you are joking. Am I right?

  • @Gavin17259  well, if you need to ask...

  • @ogicabp4u fine then. You are joking. No questions.

  • @Gavin17259 took you a while...but not too bad. Your IQ is above average.

  • @ogicabp4u Hooray. Do I get a lollipop?

  • @Gavin17259 sucker.

  • @ogicabp4u *cries*

  • @Gavin17259 Well, it's been fun. Laterz. :)~

  • So this is how the BBC make money off Ads! Scumbag BBC execs

  • The American Army has a minimum IQ of 85 because "they found difficulty training" people of lower IQs. I dont believe the British Army has a minimum it uses the selectors judgement but apparently in a test of one platoon only 2 people were found to have an IQ lower than 100. I would imagine the difficulty of military training both physically and mentally would raise the IQ of people that had been let down by the school system.

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  • @iant88888888 i have been in afghan with the american army they do not have a high IQ in a solo stance but in a 100 strong group they may have an IQ of 85 all put together the honest report of british v american forces the yanks are trained to be strong and tough the british are trained to be smart and cunning we are trained to survive the yanks are trained to attack but saying that the elite us force said our basic training for our marines was inhumane our commandos are harder then us elite lol

  • @lionhart619 I think you're bullshitting no one in a war would be insulting their allies to such a degree, those people are helping to keep your ass from getting shot off and if you think your so damn smart why the hell would go to war together with stupid people? Fuck you.

  • @J3rEmY17 haha mate i think you will find we do it all the time we all insult each other i didnt say i was smart i am not bullshitting at all i have pride in what i do and who i work with its called banter the yanks do it the brits do it and you can ask anyone in services what they think of other services and they will all do the same just for a little bit of info i have been shot at by US CIA back in 2008 when they took off they fired a few rounds over where i was working fixing seakings ....

  • @J3rEmY17 ....and all they did was come round while we was running round trying to find out what happened and say hey man sorry bout that laughing as if they were saying oh well i have worked with some right bifters on boths sides US and brit and i know that common sense is not issue the point being every force will always they theirs is better smarter harder and everyone elses are not anyone in the forces reading this care to disagree?? i got slagged off by mates in army whilst injured!!!!

  • @J3rEmY17 haha i bet your american speak to any english we do it all the time its called banter you respect allies to the highest degree but you always slag them off cuz anyone that isnt in your branch isnt as good as you one of my mates is a commando i take the piss saying he is muscle nothing else all the time saying he isnt smart enough to do what i do he laughs an slags me off i go to war with them cuz even tho they may not be ''smart'' they are the best at what they do any more questions?

  • @lionhart619 Learn some grammar and punctuation. You make English people look stupid

  • @sextonqpr You forgot to put in the final full stop. Other than that, Bravo!

  • @sextonqpr its a comment section not a exam the only people that read these and comment on how people spell or their grammar have no live and jack off to japanese cartoons, thats your favorite right. oh and you missed a full stop at the end of your message so who looks stupid now!!!!

  • @lionhart619 You sir,you are the one who looks stupid. Did i not explain that already?

  • @sextonqpr haha good comeback witty and quick, to be honest i have got really bored of this and i deploy soon so as much fun as it has been i am afraid that unless there are some interesting and offensive comebacks then i see no point in this lol it has been fun ill give ou guys 6 months to think of a good insult, try something other then your mum or alcoholic dad lol trollers

  • @lionhart619 Im afraid you have given me absolutaly no stimmuli to come back with an insult

  • This is Alexanders quote! Not Talleyrands!

  • can anyone tell me/us what series and episode this is??

  • fucking hate youtube...

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  • lololol some peoples iq is too ow for the army ... duz that means when some dogs get in the army they are brainier than some humans xD

  • @DeanMurray08 the irony of this post makes me chuckle

  • Anybody that's offended by this has a lower IQ than an Alsatian.

  • spanish speaks french with the lady,german with the soldiers,Italian with the music , and ENGLISH WITH THE DOGS

    ENGLISH NEVER FORGET BLAS DE LEZO

  • @OberonXXXXXX Why so angry Gringo?

  • @millard27 gringo it,s a mexican word for the eeuu citizens, could you please return to school, thanks in advance

  • @OberonXXXXXX Spic then?

  • @OberonXXXXXX its not just mexican other hispanic nationalities use it too.

  • @OberonXXXXXX The only language you're talking is bullshit.

  • Aaaah, la gente española, relajarse, se trata de perros....

  • So that means Alsations are more intelligent than about 1% of the population. I'm not sure whether I believe that.

  • @pixxispad there's some retards out there who can't feed themselves, and just sit dribbling down thier chins all day. Just pop down the nearest special needs school and you'll see plenty of people who could be outsmarted by a dog.

  • Wouldn't the 100 lions eat the 1 sheep then go on to murder everything?

  • Well I don't know if any Brits involved in these comments speak Spanish...but damn, they're pissed at QI!

  • why do people argue so much on here they should shut there gobs and listen a bit better these programmes are vey educationalplus they swear toomuch muthras90

    why do people argue so much and swear on herethese programmes are very ecucayionalmythras90 wh

  • ilove this programmestephen is very cleversometimes the tean act a bit too silly when dtephen is talking but its stila good programme

  • The dolphins were at least intelligent enough to bugger off :):):)

  • Do you want to know the reason?, that is because the normal people don't want to kill other people, it is a question of "values". How is the "values question" in England?

  • @yeslarry085 We know not of this "values question" which you pose! Explain yourself, or I shall challenge you to a duel with my finest flintlocks.

  • @yeslarry085 Thats not entirely correct, it's in our nature and our instincts to be able to kill each other.

    As it is with ALL living things on tis planet!

    Unfortunate but true..

  • Alsatian = German Shepherd Dog

  • de que coño hablan los gordos estos ??? no he entendido una palabra de lo que han dicho los sacos de grasa pero creo que se estaban metiendo con españa

  • @xXRubenXUzumakiXx Pues como dices, no has entendido nada. Hasta que sepas de lo que hablas, mejor que te calles, no? Vete a aprender ingles- no te lo voy a explicar.

  • @ebaz1 pues por mi bien,quieres un pin o una galleta??

  • @xXRubenXUzumakiXx Es un programa guiri, no hay que darle importancia. Bromean sobre que para entrar en el ejercito español ha que tener solo un coeficiente intelectual de 70, teniendo un pastor aleman 60.

    Como todo programa anglosajon solo saben bromear sobre los demas, nunco de ellos mismos. Ni caso, programa cutre de guiris pa tontos. De todas formas el guiri medio tiene un coeficiente intelectual de 50, por eso no aprenden mas idioma que el suyo.

  • @FishBrothersReturns la verdad que meterse con otros paises sin saber su historia es de ser bastante incultos y poco inteligentes.¿Porque me has dicho que son britanicos no?? si supieran lo de la batalla de cartagena de indias que solo 3000 españoles y 6 fragtas derrotaron a 20000 britanicos y 195 barcos de combate se callarian

  • @xXRubenXUzumakiXx Ademas dicen lo del coeficiente intelectual como si fueran sobraos. Ni que sus soldados fueran genio. Si esque se pide el mismo ( si lo piden) coeficiente intelectual en todos los ejercitos del mundo. Para ser soldado raso en el ingles, con ser un poco mas listo que un mono es bastante.

    Ademas, son ellos los que permiten alistar a crios en el ejercito. Pero claro de eso no hablan.

  • @xXRubenXUzumakiXx Pues mira que listo que eres. No sabes lo que dicen, y creen que ya estan insultando? Explicaba por que un la mili española no tienen perros.

  • @soyelneng escuchame ,ahora se de lo que estan hablando dicen que el minimo IQ para entrar en el ejercito español es de 70 cuando su puto perro es de 60 cuando el ejercito ingles es aun peor y por cierto si que tenemos perros

  • did you know that HItlers IQ was 141, which is quite genius level.

  • @Interioroutbreak69 Genius grammar

  • woooooo! discover northern ireland!!!!

  • WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL?!! i just got an advert on the bbc's youtube, surely that's not meant to happen >.<

  • @ouiseylou Adblock is your friend ;)

  • @ouiseylou Not controlled by them.

  • @ouiseylou Of course you're supposed to get adverts.

  • @ouiseylou This is BBC WORLDWIDE (emphasis on the WORLDWIDE bit). It's their commercial arm, it has nothing to do with the license fee, it's an entirely commercial enterprise set up to sell merchandising and programming to other channels and countries and so on.

  • @TalesOfWar ahhhh ok, thanks. I feel a bit of fool now for getting so worked up...

  • @ouiseylou lol, 2nd time. I'll make this my last.... World service is not license fee, its paid for by foreign office and adverts.

  • @CmdrTobs yeah, I've had lots of explanations and they mostly make sense. Like I said to someone else, I feel like a fool for getting so worked up :$

  • @ouiseylou I'm wrong actually, they have set up a separate thing called 'BBCworldwide' that is separate from the world service.

    So it's:

    BBC - UK only - Tv licence funded.

    BBC worldservice - Everywhere providing advert free news/information for the world. - Foreign office funded.

    BBC worldwide - A commercial advert funded service

    So it's the top one we should get pitch forks out when we see adverts.

    Hope this clears things up if you are still reading.... :p

  • @ouiseylou

    Adblocker plus & Firefox. Never have to watch Ads again! :D

  • @ouiseylou -Insert QI Theme Tune-

  • Ridiculous idea to test the IQ of dogs anyway.

  • @72Yonatan WOOF! Bark,Bark,BARK! GRRrrrrrrrr!!!

  • @letsfIogthezog nobody has risen to my bait yet =(

  • Quite interestingly, only Spaniards are allowed to serve in the Spanish Foreign Legion.

  • @ConciseOxford100 It is the Spanish Legion, it is "not" the Spanish "Foreign" Legion

  • As a spaniard i have to say this is not true, the IQ required is even lower, our legion have a goat as pet! :D

    Fear our mighty goat enemies of Spain!

  • @Stuka86 We're genetically tampering with our dolphin soldiers to give them hooves! The land is no safehouse, sir!

  • Some coca cola + this = I nearly died.

  • oh.. well

  • graceygrumble? or what ever... it´s so funny and ridiculous at the same time read ur incultural and unpolite comments because it seems u are making a definition for british people.. u say spanish people we are ignorant and at the least here all of us we can speak english more or less and what about british? you can not speak another fucking language than english, what its so sad in our actual society and being spanish the second world language...

  • So if I had an IQ of 140 I'd count as 2 people? :D

  • You fucking idiots! They're talking about the alsatian dogs. why the fuck are people offended that dogs aren't allowed in the army?

  • @MsDDiddy Of all the comments I can see - why is yours the only one pointing out they are talking about dogs. It is blatantly obvious in the clip that they are talking about German Sheperds. What the hell is up with everyone - I cannot believe that this sparked such amazingly viscous posting streams when the subject matter is so innocuous.

  • @sarauk2sf LOL i know. i thought it was obvious but either it's not that obvious or people here are really stupid. people are bashing each other's countries and whose country has the better army. seriously?

  • @MsDDiddy because they play an important role, in the Australian Army we have bomb detection dogs who are essentially sniffer dogs, we also have a canine unit in the Military Police as does every police force

  • @MsDDiddy 2 WOOFS for You! 

  • i hate the term Alsation,.

  • @markdawson1982 Term?

  • And I do not know if the Spanish army is composed mainly by idiots, I do know is that we have a lot of corruption in our country, and we are very poorly governed ... the latter has always been our big problem. To improve the situation ... must deal with reality even though we do not like. It's hard, but it is the only way.

  • i don't see what is so offensive about this. all they are doing is saying a FACT about why there a no alsations in the spanish army. it is not calling spanish people dumb in any way

  • @7892sam I am Spanish and I have not offended at all. I think the Spanish should be much, much more sense of humor and be more self critical. The Spanish empire was huge and powerful, it can not be denied ... but the Spanish income can not live forever. It's time to forget past glories once and for all, and look to the future.

  • @sumeriano It's 'humour' amigo.

  • Well, until the date spanish troops have not being forced to leave an area they were operating at and being replaced by US Marines because of their poor performance, as the british have been in Sangin, Afghanistan.

    So it seems like british forces are better in videogames than in real war