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[SiliconBong]

Regarding that australian saying, "I wouldn't piss up his arse if his kidneys were on fire", in NZ we've our own version; "I wouldn't piss in his face if his teeth were on fire".

[Draakur]

Rob kicked ass here. It's this episode that made me a fan.

[godhatesthestupid]

Amazing how many of their topics have shown up on Mythbusters at some point.

[DrEllipsis]

Oh shut the fuck up Rob Brydon.

[holidaysinsweden]

How I love this show!

[MrBuch169169]

You're not going to tie me down with legalese...

LOL

[bladerunner12]

Move on, move on...

hah

[failrailtf2]

Urine soaked grannies. >>

[jdhathrisen]

In his autobiography, Stephen says he hates having to sing, anywhere, and simply can't bring himself to do it (the only time he did was after a session of hypnotherapy, which only helped him in one instance). He has a great fear of it. So when he inadvertently has to sing even a few notes, you can see him hesitate, before just speaking the words. Interesting to see it in action.

[audball911]

@jdhathrisen Perhaps having someone say "Play it, bitch." would have helped him sing.

[jaz88pa]

Is Rob auditioning to take over from Stephen?

[jetfire851]

We need a QI panel of Clive Anderson, Dara O'Briain and Mark Lamarr--an entire show of panel show hosts. (Yes, I know Mark hasn't been on Buzzcocks for a few years, but he'd be awesome in that situation.)

[freethis222]

Rob Brydon, Paul Merton, Rich Hall and Eddie Izzard are sitting in a pub -

I'm gonna start drinking again...

[MrGrevaro]

rob brydon is down wright hilarious!!

[ThePassiveFist]

I got fire-eater's lung once when the tinfoil caught on fire just as i was taking a massive toke.

It didn't really hurt at the time but I couldn't speak for 2 weeks.

[lasoripa]

In America just recently in a small town, firefighters did not put out a fire because the people had not paid their annual fee.

[heirodule]

@lasoripa Market efficiency requires that firefighters sit on their arses as an incentive to other non-insurance-affording undermenschen. Also Crassus was a cool dude.

[357Snowball]

@Vault101reject I have never heard anyone else say that. Maybe you just have unusual taste- he is sweet, his delivery is brilliant, and though sometimes he goes on a bit he is generally very funny.

[357Snowball]

Specialist subject: the bleeding obvious

LOL @ Fawlty Towers reference :D

[ComposerInUK]

I love this and thanks so much for putting it up. For those with a lot of time on their hands, you might like to match it again, especially mindful of Clive's and Alan's watches. It shows how much editing goes on. Please don't deride me for this comment... I'm not well just now and DO have a lot of time on my hands!

[greasyelvis]

excellent work from brydon. one of his best

[bluejeckett]

I can see why people see Rob as a smug git, even just based on appearance he looks passive aggressive but his comic delivery is priceless and thats what comedy is about, not what your saying but how you deliver it.

[Vault101Reject]

can someone explain to me why people find rob so funny? Before any idiots say I don't have a sense of humour or are just stupid, I have a sense of humour, and am not ignorant. He just comes across a smug, stuck-up git to me.

[lasp]

Oh man, Rob Brydon had me in tears.

[happyjellyfish]

Wow. I can't believe Rob Brydon's tone during his fire-smoke lecture was apparently so subtle that people are arguing over youtube about the flawed points in the lacking and inexact explanation he offered.

[ishopinamsterdam]

@happyjellyfish i almost posted the excat same comment but the i saw yours and just gave thumbs up :p

[lennic95]

Gotta love Rob's condescending act!

[DontTouchMyVicodin]

A few weeks ago this happened in the USA - a house was on fire, the fire brigade turned up, and they didn't put out the fire because the people who lived there hadn't payed the fire station tax fee or something.

[renshaw30]

not to be picky but, its not that the smoke chokes you, its that it contains all sorts of fun acids and other toxins that form from the pyrolysis of that materials in the home, as well as the smoke being super heating, which burns your lungs. also just a little to add that its not the objects in a house that burn, its the chemical in the smoke that burn.

[Elenandaron]

@renshaw30 Probably does that as well, but it's the colorless and odorless carbon monoxide that will kill you first. It's enough to kill you in your sleep well before the flames get to you if you don't have a smoke detector.

[renshaw30]

@Elenandaron yes, in a house fire as well as most other fires (except wildfires) your not going to die from flames but the product of the fires.

[ishopinamsterdam]

@renshaw30 just go with the joke man it was hilarious

[AODBAS]

I think Rob Brydon is hilarious, it's a shame that some people don't get his sense of humour

[greengrendel]

2:40 lol, that was pretty good!

[sneekapeek707]

UK 10 - USA 0

[GauntV]

aw they couldve made a wicked joke when they were talking about firemen and he mentioned The Sun

[anaemicandsweet]

Oh, also for anyone interested about the pykrete bit, they tested it on Mythbusters. It didn't work out entirely, but it did do unexpectedly well for some water and wood pulp. Yay for finally knowing one of the answers.

[nitramgnal]

@anaemicandsweet Probably explains why no one has ever actually built the suggested aircraft carrier.

[anaemicandsweet]

Ahahahahaha Rob is doing his best Stephen impression. Such a good episode. Thanks for uploading!

[ProcrastinatingGuy]

so wat is the traditional bit for "5 go-oo-old rings"?

is it "5 golden rings"?

[Minty210]

The insurance company fire-fighters remind me of the 'privatisation of the police force' sketch from A Bit of Fry and Laurie =)

"Your car's been stolen? Oh Peter, I am sorry. And you'd like us to do something about it? Have you had a look at our brochure?"

[CleverScreenNameHere]

'Goooold rings'? Is that the way it's sung in Britain? I'm just wondering. In America, we say 'golden'.

[grobo11]

An Aircraft carrier made from ice. We British could of added that to the bouncing bomb, another classic WW2 wacky invention by the UK.

[equallyeasilyfuqyou]

i knew about pycrete.

[Strategiain]

That looks more like a battleship than a destroyer.....

[guysmiley00]

@Strategiain No way - battleships are usually far bigger than that, and have 3 or 4 turrets, not just 2.

[Strategiain]

@guysmiley00 The bow looks more like the Yamato's or Iowa's bow than anything IMO, not a modern (or even WWII-era) destroyer bow, and I mean, come on, two triple large-bore gun turrets? I posit that whoever made that sculpture is not a keen aficionado of the world's navies, and instead just looked at some pictures of warships from various eras and said "well this looks nice" and "ooh this'd be good to have", or something.

Or maybe there's another turret or two hidden behind the superstructure.

[guysmiley00]

@Strategiain I can see how the wide range of shapes of destroyers and battleships lends to confusion, but I'd still say that ship is far too small to be a battleship, especially a WW2-era one - they tended to be remarkably wide for their length. I'd agree that the structure probably isn't technically accurate.

As for the guns - there's a great picture on the Wiki page for "destroyer" of a WW2 Polish destroyer with 2 double gun turrets in front, so it's not unheard of.

[xoBrokenDestinyox]

Lmao xD Brydons Going Bald

[BorrieBeats]

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[zenzombie72]

A warship made of ice? Brilliant idea. It couldn't be sunk.

[LaydayEruanna]

Why is it that *I* know all the answers this week, and yet the panel is stumbling along worse than usual? Me, a 20-year-old not-so-smart girl, can answer every single question on QI?? D: THIS IS MADNESS

[ultraviolet128]

oh my god... i can't stop laughing and rob brydon is going to be responsible for me waking the whole house up with my giggles :)

[RadTheCowboy]

i love the look on rob brydon's face when they're talking about wooden teeth haha

[Tjellevejrup]

"And if you can't breathe, what do you do?"

[FudgePop101]

"It isn't the fire that kills you!" Rob Brydon was hilarious in this episode/

[lilBarnin]

"Your Lordship is absolutely right..."

omg, this show is so hilarious!!

[inkypaws2]

During the whole smoke killing you part, when it kept getting dragged out and nobody was saying the answer, I kept thinking, "Smoke inhalation. Smoke inhalation! SMOKE INHALATION!!!!!!"

[SoylentGreeeen]

@inkypaws2 You do know it's dragged out for laugh, don't you? I think the answer was pretty obvious to anyone as soon as "smoke" was mentioned.

[inkypaws2]

@SoylentGreeeen Yes, I know. I just have insistent thoughts, heheh. :)

[DottyDotDitto]

This could just be the rambeling of an internet nut, but I can't help but think that Pykrete sounds like the perfect material to use in space.

We've known theres water on Mars for a long time and they've recenty dicovered water on the moon.

- So it would greatly reduce the building materials needed to be brought from Earth, therefor saving cost.

- It's very strong.

- Temperature/Melting would be a non-issue.

- And Weight of material during building would be redused due to gravity.

Just a thought

[JonVonNeumann]

send it to NASA, they might be interested

[DottyDotDitto]

lol, when NASA starts paying attention to wackjobs like me then we'll know we're in trouble. =)

[JonVonNeumann]

so true

[xentech]

Lol. I don't think there is a lot of water on mars/moon.

[selty]

You should send that to NASA! It's a great theory!!

[DottyDotDitto]

@xentech: I don't know about the moon as its a recent discovery, But I would think there would be sufficient water on Mars given how visable its caps are.

@selty: Thx, But I've had time to think about it now,

You'd need a facility capable of melting ice in the cold of space. more trouble than it's worth really.

And even if they did manage that how would ya get it outside without it setting, space vacune is only 3 degrees above absolute zero, plus there'd be all the sawdust floating aroud, lol.

[leeshajoi]

@DottyDotDitto If it's a structure that's not meant to make a return trip, maybe. The astronauts wouldn't like it if the craft they're in melted on reentry.

[nonameisacat]

Nearly spat out my coffee at Rob Brydon.

[PerhapsVampire]

Every time I hear that song I end it with "and a drunk who drove into a tree". Damn Scrubs...

[polskipowers]

My favourits line in the song is: "And a buuuuuucket of dinosaur poo"

[youvebeenthunderstru]

Despite the forfeit that was good singing.

[leeshajoi]

They made a pykrete motorboat on Mythbusters last year. It disintegrated after about half an hour of use. Either Adam and Jamie did it wrong or Stephen is talking bollocks.

[callumx123]

Cleary the guys got it wrong

Mr Fry never "talks bollocks"

[mooncowtube]

It kind of depends what Adam and Jamie were trying to test, exactly, but it does sound like they got it wrong. A 60ft boat of plain ice was built in the US, and took an entire summer to melt. Pykrete has the same melting properties but is very much stronger than plain ice -- nearly as strong as concrete.

[barisaxman2]

@leeshajoi It's funny cos i just saw that episode today and randomly it comes up again on this show, weird.

[FGP02]

I saw that episode and they did prove it had a tensile strength far greater than concrete and steel, The only problem is the water you were sailing in would have to be below freezing for the boat to stay in tact for any length of time, or like Stephen said keep it cool from the inside out with some kind of refrigeration. Either way it limits the applications of pykrete, still pretty cool stuff though.

[leglesstheelf]

@leeshajoi It might just be because their boat was a lot smaller. A small amount f pykrete would obviously melt quicker than a large amount

[wencer]

curious about the copyright on "5 gold rings." i grew up in canada and have always heard that sung as "5 golden rings." i wonder if copyright still applies.

[mooncowtube]

the copyright is in the tune, not the words, in this case -- the words are traditional, as is *most* of the tune. You could sing "5 sticky buns" if you like, it wouldn't make any difference.

[NewAgeEagles]

rob brydon was hilarious in this