I love how these weak willed individuals complain about people commenting on them...
by becoming a vegan... you chose to deviate from normative diet to ease your conscience... or whatever other reason... I don't care for your reasons... Now other people make a point about your diet... and you feel all uncomfortable? If other people making fun of your diet makes you feel uncomfortable, if you don't have enough conviction for your beliefs... go back to eating meat. I love these pathetic whines.
A vegan diet is outlandish. You're only able to get everything that you need due to 20th century advancements of isolating certain nutrients and vitamins in supplement form, global trade of food and the privilege of living in a developed nation where obtaining the foods that compliment your diet is easy.
@lesterclaypool1 Possibly. Though I don't know that you could call it any more outlandish than a lot of the processed pseudo-foods that make up a large part of many peoples' diets.
@lesterclaypool1 I'm not sure that apex predator are the first words that come to mind when someone is so fat that making the journey from the couch to the fridge and back again is a big achievement.
Any human has the ability to create an enriched environment with the tools at their disposal, from agricultural practices to filling a refrigerator with the aforementioned processed pseudo foods to lighting a fire.
You're thinking influence on the world at large, I'm talking immediate environment.
Like all animals, some humans mark a bigger territory in applying these tools but that has no bearing on the fact that we all have the ability to do so.
I am thinking less obtuse and I'm not thinking about the world at large. If you're filling your fridge full of junk food, I don't think you're enriching your environment. If you're feeding your kids so much of that food that they're getting diabetes, that's not to their benefit.
Despite your personal food politics, or how superior you perceive your eating habits to be, the person living off of Hot Pockets and Ho-Ho's has enriched their environment to their benefit, in the same way that you have enriched yours, with the tools they have available.
I love that the presence of Stephen Fry in this video belies your theory that overweight people are simpering and simple creatures.
@lesterclaypool1 I know. How snobby am I? Imagine wanting to eat a vegetable once in a while. What was I thinking? Clearly a diet of Hot Pockets and Ho-Ho's is the way to go.
You can be as snobby as you like about it, but dietary choices and the politics of food does not negate a human's place as an apex predator.
If you'd like to debate the politics of food the reality of it is that the morbidly obese individual who dies at 45 will still have had a better quality of life, and have outlived, most of the pre industrial revolution population.
@lesterclaypool1 I'm so inspired. They should teach that to children in school. Stuff yourself with Ho-hos and Hot pockets, become morbidy obese and check out at 45. That's the dream.
I think they should teach your program: Using food as a (hollow) means to feel morally and intellectually superior.
I've worked in refugee camps where the politics of food is reduced to what comes in a Red Cross rations package. If you think that your good dietary choices makes you superior in any way to your fellow man you're dead wrong. At best, it's indicates that you are in a comfortable financial situation where food choices aren't governed by financial constraint.
@lesterclaypool1 You don't understand. I'm agreeing with you. I mean why come up with ways of making healthy food more affordable and readily available when it is far simpler to convince poor people that a diet of Ho-Hos is life enriching and is as good as any other diet and that they should count themselves lucky to reach the grand old age of 45. Clearly, rich people couldn't be expected to eat like that but since the poor have to, they may as well feel happy about it.
Why do you assume that poorer food choices comes from ignorance?
When we didn't have a lot of money my wife would often make the educated choice to prepare a starch based meal that would be sure to have left overs to stretch out our grocery budget a bit. My wife was well aware that there were more nutritious choices she just didn't know how to afford them with one wage coming in and school bills going out.
In other cultures obesity is a sign of prosperity.
@lesterclaypool1 So your wife didn't consider a diet of Ho-Hos would have enriched her family's environment to their benefit? And if we came up with ways to make healthy food more affordable that is what she would purchase? Perhaps, that might be the way to go then?
Those cultures are having major problems with people getting sick with obesity related diseases which is why places like Tonga are trying to change attitudes.
Ideally, I'd like to see the human species practice moderation but when you are the apex of the apex and control everything from food production to distribution to personal consumption it's hard to practice that humility.
From the anorexia sufferer who counts rice grains to the over eater for whom there is no slice of pie, only pie, we all fuck with our food and it takes more than education and economics to change millennium old addictions.
@lesterclaypool1 Not everyone on the planet is anorexic or obese. Many people make delicious healthy meals that they enjoy. The more people that do that, the more likely it is that other people will learn to do the same
It makes no sense to teach people that they can't change their food choices because of millennium old addictions any more than it does to pretend a diet of Ho-Hos will benefit them or that being fat won't cause them health problems.
Overconsumption of animals is bad(McDonalds, etc) but we are meant to eat animals by nature.You can't blame a lion for eating other animals' flesh, can you?
I've also wondered about the whole N/S/E/W system. Not the direction, necessarily (where the position of the sun determines which is east and which is west) but how we started describing one side of the planet as the "west" (American continent, Europe and such, versus the "east" (Asian continent and all the various Pacific islands.) I've always wondered how those 2 determinations came about, and where do Australia and New Zealand come in? They're eastern in position but western in culture.
@kayper54 Basically, it comes from the fact that the people who started making maps were the european empire-builders. England, portugal, etc. They put europe in the middle, of course. When america was discovered it became the west, and asia became the east, mainly because it was west and east of the centre of the world: i.e. europe. :)
The reason Australia and New Zealand are to the east but western in culture is that they were colonised by the british. They brought the western culture there.
@Presteros Oh, that's very interesting! Thx very much. Of course, now that I see the answer, I feel a little silly that I didn't put more thought into it. Of course they called it "the West." Because that's the direction they went in. And of course NZ and Oz were "western" culture, because they were colonized by western culture. (Goodness, westerners seem to have the worst habit of going into new lands and subjugating the native peoples there.)
The green revolution has an irony about it. He has saved a billion lives with selective breading and later with the start of genetic engeenering. The vegan moment is against genetic engeeneering. Organic food is far more innefecient than normal farming. All up if the vegan and organic food people get their way billions will die from starvation. Except before those people do they will obliterate the enviroment in order to get more farm land for innefecient proccesses.
@amadeus9man Irony, or a different perspective than the outright bullshit you get from the carbonazis. How are your lack of winters since the IPCC predicted in 2007 there would be NO winter season by the year 2010?
Oh yes because the media over-blowing scientist predictions to the point at which they become absurd impossibilities means that climate change couldn't possibly be occuring.
@SideWaysThinker So you disregard the fact that there have been leaked emails between the IPCC advisors and panel that the majority of data from around the world has been manipulated in order to make it look like the earth is unnaturally heating up that the media has barely touched? By the way, reporting what has been said by these so-called experts is not over-blowing the predictions.
Firstly, the vast majority of what people saw in the news regarding those emails were qoute mined and cherry picked in order to make it seem bad when at worst the MINOR changes to data was due to errors. Secondally, the news CONSTANTLY over-blows EVERYTHING. Thats its job -_-
I did read what you said, and explained why it was bullshit. But of course you have to act like a condescending prick because anyone who disagrees with you doesn't deserve even civility do they?
@SideWaysThinker You didnt read what I said. In your first reply you say the media blows everything out of proportion, then I reply that they barely even touched the climate-gate saga and you continue on with your original thought like I hadnt said anything. You claim to be a misanthrope, most probably because you dont have the intellect or wit or heart to appreciate and enjoy the human condition and civility.
@Saitothesushi The hundreds of disproved climate change studies destroys any chance of global warming actually occuring. And btw, can you tell those nice folks in kenya that waking up with snow around them is all part of the globe warming up.
@houdini2233 In science you cannot prove anything, you can only backup thing. CO2 has had a correlation with human activity. I don't care whether you believe me or not.
@Saitothesushi 'In science you cannot prove anything, you can only backup thing' - Backup what thing? A theory? Well, if you back-up a theory that usually means you have evidence that enables you be able to draw upon a foregone conclusion hence you have proof.
'CO2 has had a correlation with human activity' - Newsflash, not one single life form currently residing on this planet would be possible without CO2. You really want to demonise the chemical compound that incubated earth's life?
@Saitothesushi Smog is filled with so many more chemicals than CO2 that are actually poisonous to us in just small doses, to be focusing on the CO2 is foolish and a waste of time. By the way, you forget the . that comes before the 35%
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@Smithpolly
Dudes. Life. Get.
robdavid1111 2 months ago
I love how these weak willed individuals complain about people commenting on them...
by becoming a vegan... you chose to deviate from normative diet to ease your conscience... or whatever other reason... I don't care for your reasons... Now other people make a point about your diet... and you feel all uncomfortable? If other people making fun of your diet makes you feel uncomfortable, if you don't have enough conviction for your beliefs... go back to eating meat. I love these pathetic whines.
criuth 2 months ago
What's your star sign?
Sagi-hairy-arse.
;D
pinkriffic 2 months ago
@LeaYdwI
A vegan diet is outlandish. You're only able to get everything that you need due to 20th century advancements of isolating certain nutrients and vitamins in supplement form, global trade of food and the privilege of living in a developed nation where obtaining the foods that compliment your diet is easy.
Doesn't get much more outlandish than that
lesterclaypool1 2 months ago in playlist qi 1
@lesterclaypool1 Possibly. Though I don't know that you could call it any more outlandish than a lot of the processed pseudo-foods that make up a large part of many peoples' diets.
Smithpolly 2 months ago
@Smithpolly
Any diet where you're not eating for survival is outlandish. It's one of the benefits that comes with being an apex predator.
lesterclaypool1 2 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 I'm not sure that apex predator are the first words that come to mind when someone is so fat that making the journey from the couch to the fridge and back again is a big achievement.
Smithpolly 2 months ago
@Smithpolly
The simplest definition of an apex predator is that which can influence the world around them to their benefit.
We are the epitome of that definition.
lesterclaypool1 2 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 In that case, many humans can't be called apex predators.
Smithpolly 2 months ago
@Smithpolly
Think less obtuse.
Any human has the ability to create an enriched environment with the tools at their disposal, from agricultural practices to filling a refrigerator with the aforementioned processed pseudo foods to lighting a fire.
You're thinking influence on the world at large, I'm talking immediate environment.
Like all animals, some humans mark a bigger territory in applying these tools but that has no bearing on the fact that we all have the ability to do so.
lesterclaypool1 2 months ago
@lesterclaypool1
I am thinking less obtuse and I'm not thinking about the world at large. If you're filling your fridge full of junk food, I don't think you're enriching your environment. If you're feeding your kids so much of that food that they're getting diabetes, that's not to their benefit.
Smithpolly 2 months ago
@Smithpolly
This comment is about as obtuse as it gets.
Despite your personal food politics, or how superior you perceive your eating habits to be, the person living off of Hot Pockets and Ho-Ho's has enriched their environment to their benefit, in the same way that you have enriched yours, with the tools they have available.
I love that the presence of Stephen Fry in this video belies your theory that overweight people are simpering and simple creatures.
lesterclaypool1 2 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 I know. How snobby am I? Imagine wanting to eat a vegetable once in a while. What was I thinking? Clearly a diet of Hot Pockets and Ho-Ho's is the way to go.
Smithpolly 2 months ago
@Smithpolly
You can be as snobby as you like about it, but dietary choices and the politics of food does not negate a human's place as an apex predator.
If you'd like to debate the politics of food the reality of it is that the morbidly obese individual who dies at 45 will still have had a better quality of life, and have outlived, most of the pre industrial revolution population.
lesterclaypool1 2 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 I'm so inspired. They should teach that to children in school. Stuff yourself with Ho-hos and Hot pockets, become morbidy obese and check out at 45. That's the dream.
Smithpolly 2 months ago
@Smithpolly
I think they should teach your program: Using food as a (hollow) means to feel morally and intellectually superior.
I've worked in refugee camps where the politics of food is reduced to what comes in a Red Cross rations package. If you think that your good dietary choices makes you superior in any way to your fellow man you're dead wrong. At best, it's indicates that you are in a comfortable financial situation where food choices aren't governed by financial constraint.
lesterclaypool1 2 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 You don't understand. I'm agreeing with you. I mean why come up with ways of making healthy food more affordable and readily available when it is far simpler to convince poor people that a diet of Ho-Hos is life enriching and is as good as any other diet and that they should count themselves lucky to reach the grand old age of 45. Clearly, rich people couldn't be expected to eat like that but since the poor have to, they may as well feel happy about it.
Smithpolly 2 months ago
@Smithpolly
Why do you assume that poorer food choices comes from ignorance?
When we didn't have a lot of money my wife would often make the educated choice to prepare a starch based meal that would be sure to have left overs to stretch out our grocery budget a bit. My wife was well aware that there were more nutritious choices she just didn't know how to afford them with one wage coming in and school bills going out.
In other cultures obesity is a sign of prosperity.
lesterclaypool1 2 months ago
@lesterclaypool1
@Smithpolly
Dudes. Life. Get.
robdavid1111 2 months ago
@robdavid1111
The irony of you posting this comment is completely lost on you isn't it?
lesterclaypool1 2 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 haha! that made me laugh- but still, you have continued!!! not quiet on the same level ;)
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@lesterclaypool1 So your wife didn't consider a diet of Ho-Hos would have enriched her family's environment to their benefit? And if we came up with ways to make healthy food more affordable that is what she would purchase? Perhaps, that might be the way to go then?
Those cultures are having major problems with people getting sick with obesity related diseases which is why places like Tonga are trying to change attitudes.
Smithpolly 2 months ago
@Smithpolly
Ideally, I'd like to see the human species practice moderation but when you are the apex of the apex and control everything from food production to distribution to personal consumption it's hard to practice that humility.
From the anorexia sufferer who counts rice grains to the over eater for whom there is no slice of pie, only pie, we all fuck with our food and it takes more than education and economics to change millennium old addictions.
Happy New Year, Smithpolly.
lesterclaypool1 2 months ago
@lesterclaypool1 Not everyone on the planet is anorexic or obese. Many people make delicious healthy meals that they enjoy. The more people that do that, the more likely it is that other people will learn to do the same
It makes no sense to teach people that they can't change their food choices because of millennium old addictions any more than it does to pretend a diet of Ho-Hos will benefit them or that being fat won't cause them health problems.
Happy New Year.
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robdavid1111 2 months ago
Someone really loves Danny Baker - 42:38
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pravkdey 4 months ago
@LeaYdwI Well, freaky?Not.Unnatural, yes.
Overconsumption of animals is bad(McDonalds, etc) but we are meant to eat animals by nature.You can't blame a lion for eating other animals' flesh, can you?
IsaakTheGreek 4 months ago
@LeaYdwI I got a question for ya, if you order a salad and theres a piece a chicken in it( not meant to) would you still eat it or send it back.
yajo891 4 months ago
@LeaYdwI -- !!! BUT vegans ARE, well, just a little freaky. (silly grin)
I'm only kidding. :-)
dan91709 4 months ago
Cheers from America. Great show!
BitterPoetMadman 5 months ago
is it just me or does Bill Bailey seem slightly greened up in this episode? He just seems a little glassy eyed, love him either way
haglerfan86 5 months ago
@haglerfan86 I've always been under the impression that Bill Bailey is permagreened....and God bless him for it :)!
lesterclaypool1 5 months ago in playlist qi 1
Regarding Pamela Anderson, she can't be a vegan because I've seen this video where she swallows quit a lot of meat whole. . .
snuffle1 5 months ago 4
@snuffle1 First thought that came into my mind as well...hahahaha
IsaakTheGreek 4 months ago
Quite1nteresting: I. Love. You.
Regards,
The world.
DirectInjected 6 months ago 27
Red Bull and Eggnog!!!!
KrishnaWashburn 6 months ago
I knew the cows facing north thing, and the new type of wheat thing, both from Cracked articles. =P
neophyteshutterbug 7 months ago
I love when Alan nods in agreement to his "buzzer".
ishsawah 8 months ago
I've also wondered about the whole N/S/E/W system. Not the direction, necessarily (where the position of the sun determines which is east and which is west) but how we started describing one side of the planet as the "west" (American continent, Europe and such, versus the "east" (Asian continent and all the various Pacific islands.) I've always wondered how those 2 determinations came about, and where do Australia and New Zealand come in? They're eastern in position but western in culture.
kayper54 9 months ago
@kayper54 Basically, it comes from the fact that the people who started making maps were the european empire-builders. England, portugal, etc. They put europe in the middle, of course. When america was discovered it became the west, and asia became the east, mainly because it was west and east of the centre of the world: i.e. europe. :)
The reason Australia and New Zealand are to the east but western in culture is that they were colonised by the british. They brought the western culture there.
Presteros 8 months ago
@Presteros Oh, that's very interesting! Thx very much. Of course, now that I see the answer, I feel a little silly that I didn't put more thought into it. Of course they called it "the West." Because that's the direction they went in. And of course NZ and Oz were "western" culture, because they were colonized by western culture. (Goodness, westerners seem to have the worst habit of going into new lands and subjugating the native peoples there.)
kayper54 7 months ago
Does bill Bailey smoke a pipe off-camera? There are lots of shows where he seems to have an unlit pipe that he pretends to suck on.
kayper54 9 months ago
I'm with Bill, let's decimalise time!
TheHighlandSnail 9 months ago
Jeremy fucking Clarkson.
fowad27 9 months ago
Thank you quite1nteresting! You make our afternoons so enjoyable
someofitwastrue 9 months ago
maybe only cows with those magnets in them face north or south xD depending offcoarse where it's located :p
ishopinamsterdam 9 months ago
i want a motorised turtle!!
ishopinamsterdam 9 months ago
Alan should be PETA's "World's Sexiest Vegetarian". No doubt.
jenzahara 9 months ago 13
@jenzahara
i'm all for animal rights and stuff, but PETA is an absolute horrible organization.
you should look up all the horrible things they've done (to animals and otherwise).
310BPM 1 month ago 4
@310BPM Like the kill room they have for pets. They think it is more humane to put an animal down rather then be loved as a pet.
speebyda 3 weeks ago
If only they knew that "hoer" ("hooooor") is Dutch for whore. :P
RogueNL 9 months ago 4
@RogueNL
Indeed. And they pronounce it perfectly :D
GirlyPantsNL 9 months ago
"... n a tiny bit of crab sweat"
this episode is bill at his best.
Jibbx 9 months ago
thank you!!
ginnypinnydfjs 9 months ago
Haha, Alan at 18:09! He's a vegetarian. His expression is priceless =D
Mayna00 9 months ago 4
Apparently they're filming the "I" series soon!
Canadianabanana 9 months ago
@Canadianabanana Starts Today!!
UncensoredX 9 months ago
The green revolution has an irony about it. He has saved a billion lives with selective breading and later with the start of genetic engeenering. The vegan moment is against genetic engeeneering. Organic food is far more innefecient than normal farming. All up if the vegan and organic food people get their way billions will die from starvation. Except before those people do they will obliterate the enviroment in order to get more farm land for innefecient proccesses.
Nexius8 9 months ago
Visiting with the Qi cast. A simple pleasure of life.
scientifico 9 months ago
Frankenstein's monster had no name in the book..
MikeEmery9 9 months ago 3
Didn't they turn off the wrong screen? The contestants are supposed to see the picture, not have it behind them :p
Heysatan 9 months ago
I don't know if I should cry og laugh, I have exams right now, but this is just.. brilliant.
Heysatan 9 months ago
i love you so much right now :D
TheFearmonger 9 months ago
I love the way Bill said "Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence" as though he was shocked he knew it himself :P
Thanks again for the upload quite1nteresting :)
LizzyJH 9 months ago
every time I look at my youtube homepage you've uploaded a new QI. Love it!
whatsernamemn 9 months ago
Thanks for the upload! Made my evening. :)
EmmyNeander 9 months ago
The "impossible Jeremy Clarkson" is right - the producers must have been going for irony bringing him in on a Green episode.
amadeus9man 9 months ago 7
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@amadeus9man Irony, or a different perspective than the outright bullshit you get from the carbonazis. How are your lack of winters since the IPCC predicted in 2007 there would be NO winter season by the year 2010?
houdini2233 9 months ago
@houdini2233
Oh yes because the media over-blowing scientist predictions to the point at which they become absurd impossibilities means that climate change couldn't possibly be occuring.
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@SideWaysThinker So you disregard the fact that there have been leaked emails between the IPCC advisors and panel that the majority of data from around the world has been manipulated in order to make it look like the earth is unnaturally heating up that the media has barely touched? By the way, reporting what has been said by these so-called experts is not over-blowing the predictions.
houdini2233 9 months ago
@houdini2233
Firstly, the vast majority of what people saw in the news regarding those emails were qoute mined and cherry picked in order to make it seem bad when at worst the MINOR changes to data was due to errors. Secondally, the news CONSTANTLY over-blows EVERYTHING. Thats its job -_-
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@SideWaysThinker Did you even read what I had posted? Or did you just not understand it?
houdini2233 9 months ago
@houdini2233
I did read what you said, and explained why it was bullshit. But of course you have to act like a condescending prick because anyone who disagrees with you doesn't deserve even civility do they?
SideWaysThinker 9 months ago
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@SideWaysThinker You didnt read what I said. In your first reply you say the media blows everything out of proportion, then I reply that they barely even touched the climate-gate saga and you continue on with your original thought like I hadnt said anything. You claim to be a misanthrope, most probably because you dont have the intellect or wit or heart to appreciate and enjoy the human condition and civility.
houdini2233 9 months ago
@houdini2233 Doesn't prove global warming isn't.
Saitothesushi 9 months ago
@Saitothesushi The hundreds of disproved climate change studies destroys any chance of global warming actually occuring. And btw, can you tell those nice folks in kenya that waking up with snow around them is all part of the globe warming up.
houdini2233 9 months ago
@houdini2233 In science you cannot prove anything, you can only backup thing. CO2 has had a correlation with human activity. I don't care whether you believe me or not.
Saitothesushi 9 months ago
@Saitothesushi 'In science you cannot prove anything, you can only backup thing' - Backup what thing? A theory? Well, if you back-up a theory that usually means you have evidence that enables you be able to draw upon a foregone conclusion hence you have proof.
'CO2 has had a correlation with human activity' - Newsflash, not one single life form currently residing on this planet would be possible without CO2. You really want to demonise the chemical compound that incubated earth's life?
houdini2233 9 months ago
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Saitothesushi 9 months ago
@Saitothesushi Smog is filled with so many more chemicals than CO2 that are actually poisonous to us in just small doses, to be focusing on the CO2 is foolish and a waste of time. By the way, you forget the . that comes before the 35%
houdini2233 9 months ago
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@houdini2233 You know global warming is more than just CO2...
Saitothesushi 9 months ago
@Saitothesushi Do you?
houdini2233 9 months ago
@houdini2233 Can you tell me a few of those hundreds of studies you're talking about? Just 4 or 5, I'd like to look them up.
annikee59 9 months ago
@annikee59 They're the ones that convinced the world that global warming is a threat to life on earth.
houdini2233 9 months ago
@houdini2233 Who are "they"? I'm asking for your sources.
annikee59 9 months ago
@annikee59 "What are they" I think is what you were meaning, c limat egate.c om(remove spaces) start reading
houdini2233 9 months ago
Lulz Chemical Brothers reference. Now I have to go dig up my Chemical Brothers albums.
yutzwagon2 9 months ago
IM-HO-TEP!!
BlackMetalNinja 9 months ago 59
Yesss, I needed something to watch whilst eating my dinner. Thank you, quite1nteresting! You are a true youtube legend!
amrc123 9 months ago 4
well, thats the evening entertainment sorted. Thank you so much quite1nteresting.
dante1981 9 months ago 64