B S02E12

[audball911]

3:11 - I know how I'm spending my day tomorrow.

[Devoti]

i have a problem with the cow part. in india there's places you can go where you can get all kinds of soap and medicine made from cow urine and manure etc. and they themselves state that it's the cows holy energy that heals and helps you. also on the 12.12 there's a cow ritual, it's a symbol of the earth and wealth. krishna is also often depicted with his cows. how is that not a sacred representation?

[poodlepoodle777]

8:20 I know this song but I can't for the life of me recall the name. Surely one of you knows and I'll facepalm at the obviousness once told. Thanks all!

[kindAhumaNbeinG]

@poodlepoodle777 It's one of the many interpretations of Ave Maria

[MadHatterHimself]

When they asked what penguins and Santa Claus had in common, I was like:

"They both don't exist!"

JK xD

[Ifakedwheniwaswithu]

Jesus what a big audience.

[DrDespicable]

And Fry gets no + or - points... Typical... LOL

[DrDespicable]

@DrDespicable Oh. Errrrr.... Never mind.

[HighKingTurgon]

greeks did not wear the toga, but the chiton.

[hachikou42]

Phill Jupitus is a nuisance.

[paranoidpfanclub]

Alan did'nt realise that Stephen is a Football fan...... he supports the Mighty Canaries!

[TRG1984]

After changing places with Stephen, Alan looks so pleased when he gets back to his seat :-D

[mine929]

XD the three worst words health and ***** safety, the best thing i have heard since i've started watching QI in america, mind you though stephen fry did say 4 words afterwards so woot

[SciMedStudent]

Cut off your testis and you shall live 8-13 extra years? What a dilemma…

[Joeycold92]

Jupitus is so awesome!

[pinkriffic]

I am so chuffed that no one pointed out God's mum is Mrs. Badcrumble.

[Oceda92]

Awww Alan ... so cute at the end!

[luclfersangel616]

"Do not say cow! Do not say cow!"

[graveeking]

Am I the only one who loves the Christmasy intro theme music?

[MushroomBombify]

@graveeking Of course not, I hope for it every time I fire up a December episode of QI :D

[that1weirdkid27]

Awww. <3

[guymanpigt659]

100th like!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!

[dunbar9finger]

Stephen's explanation is useless because he never bothers defining what he means by "pitch". If you're going to say the answer is wrong because frequency and pitch are different things, then fucking explain what the difference is! As far as I knew, they're synonyms.

[Preeemo]

@dunbar9finger Frequency is a measurement of the speed that something vibrates at, measured in cycles-per second, or "Hertz"/"Hz". Pitch is how the brain perceives frequencies between 20Hz and 20kHz. In other words, frequency is a measurement of something that physically exists, but pitch only exists within the brain. Or in even more words, 440Hz is something that vibrates and reaches its peak positive and peak negative 440 times in a second, but we perceive it as the pitch of an "A" note.

[dunbar9finger]

@Preeemo In which case it's wrong to call "pitch" a wrong answer. It's correct to claim it's both frequency and pitch that change. The only way the frequencty could change and NOT change the pitch is if the frequency changed exactly by a power of 2, (i.e if 440 Hz is "A", then 880 Hz is the next octave's "A" and 1760 Hz is the next "A" after that, and so on. But only those exact values will sound like "A". Anything else WILL change the pitch.)

[EshnehGaming]

@dunbar9finger

I assume when he said that he was guessing that the viewers had a GCSE in Physics...

[dunbar9finger]

@EshnehGaming It wouldn't have helped. To claim that it is possible to change frequency without it affecting pitch (or the other way around, to change pitch without a frequency change) is wrong. Once possible explaination that I saw online which is neither the QI explanation nor the klaxon alarm "gotcha" answer is: Your voice ia a spectrum, not a single frequency and the helium merely dampens the volume of the lower parts of the spectrum and enhances the volume of the higher parts.

[natribber]

i like QI but i wish the sirens would fuck off.

[dexdex1560]

I saw this episode a while ago and tried the bath water thing.

IT IS SO TRUE! I also live in Northern Hemisphere but telling your friends about it. is not as cool as it seems.

[ThatsSpiffing]

Alan's face is like 'Oh Shit' hahaa

[kayper54]

I love Phill. He's my favorite panelist, next to Alan.

[HughLaurieFan2]

The buzzers made me laugh sooo much... very christmas-y! xD

My mother´s name is Doris, by the way...

Though we pronounce it differentely in german, like DOOr-iss. (really door, not dor)

I didn´t even know it was considered something like... embarassing(?) in britain :D

[Singsonggirl]

"it was given to her by the president of Madagascar." *loooool* Hall owned!

[jumpinxjack]

What is the song that plays on Alans Buzzer? I'm sure i've heard it somewhere...

[fritspas]

It's the Falklands, the myth cant be that urban.

[PollyJuice]

Apart from the important role they play in baby-making; why would a man rather die earlier than be without his testicles???

[williamwilson666]

@PollyJuice Does that really need an answer?

[PollyJuice]

@williamwilson666

Yes! What's the POINT of them? They're just a pair of nuts inside a wrinkled bag, for cyring out loud. It's the dick that matters, not the balls.

[stefanhan5]

@PollyJuice You can't be the same without your balls. It's like a part of you is missing..... literally.

[williamwilson666]

@PollyJuice Google is your friend. Let it plug the gaps- or chasms- left by your educators.

[whitebeam]

@PollyJuice Balls are something very manhood defining for men themselves. There's a reason why the saying goes, "have some balls" etc. Whereas women wouldn't really care if their man got prosthetics testicles for example, it can be a big hit on the man's view of themself. It's not really that hard to understand, it just is how it is.

[Prutswerk]

"which increase the frequency and not the pitch.."

Thats TOTALY wrong, adjusting freq = adjusting pitch.

Timbre is the sum of all the different waves that bounce of from certain material which makes up that particular sound.

Thats why a clarinet sounds like a clarinet and a trumpet like a trumpet even when they play the same C3 note.

[reznor12]

@Prutswerk he was wrong at the end of the conversation when he said "it changes your frequency not your pitch", but he could be correct about Helium changing your timbre. Its an issue to complext to get into as it gets into how you difine the different terms.

[wimscheers]

@Prutswerk I thumbed you up in the hope Q catches on and takes some points from Stephen to give them back to Alan. In a next season. If you're right. You should send this to them.

[Howard00Wolowitz]

@wimscheers they have since went over it andsaid it was a mistake in another QI. No idea which

[khasab]

@Prutswerk Inhaling helium changes the frequencies of the resonances. As you would expect, it does not change the pitch, which is determined by the tension, mass and geometry of vocal folds, and some other effects. It does however change the timbre. See phys.unsw.edu.au/phys_about/PH­YSICS!/SPEECH_HELIUM/speech.

[yatter1]

@Prutswerk frequency and pitch aren´t the same thing, you´re wrong. Pitch is a major auditory attribute of musical tones, along with duration, loudness, and timbre

[Prutswerk]

@yatter1 I did not say that frequency is the same as pitch, I said that by adjusting freguency you adjust the wavelenght and therefore the pitch.

[yatter1]

@Prutswerk I apologise and withdraw

[painxtreme]

@yatter1 Good Show!...to both of you. I don't know that I've seen a disagreement handled, and ending so well on the internet. Very human, mature and refreshing.

Cheers!

[petegiant]

@Prutswerk

I think what is meant by his statement is that the vocal chords maintain the same frequency of vibration. The waves travel through helium which alter the wave thus the perceived change in pitch.

[khasab]

@Prutswerk Apparently he's right, Helium is about six times lighter than air, so the sound waves travel much more quickly though helium than through air. While the geometry of your vocal cords doesn't change, they vibrate differently in the lighter gas. The actual pitch of your voice does not change. There is a good explanation here -->

phys.unsw.edu.au/phys_about/PH­YSICS!/SPEECH_HELIUM/speech.ht­ml

[gnackattack]

@Prutswerk congratulations, you just made yourself look foolish

[Altmetalpunk]

how is it that the lovey alarm didn't go off during this episode like 10 times?

[ZarlanTheGreen]

Mozart's name (ignoring his "saint's name") was:

Wolfgangus/Wolfgang/Wolfgango Theophilus/Gottlieb/Amadè/Amad­eo/Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang is thus his first name, not his middle one.

Which version he used, mainly depended on what language he was using at the time.

While he seems to have only ever used Amadeus in jest (and he does, indeed, seem to have preferred Amadè), it was used to refer to him, during his lifetime, so it doesn't seem right to call it an incorrect answer.

[stellachann]

We heard that opera-thing at school with art history class~ And the part about Saint Francis I learned when we were in Assisi with school- so I actually learn some stuff that's interesting enough for QI. Hm.

[rugbyanden]

why didnt someone just say human at 10:00?

[rugbyanden]

The intro is my ringtone :)

[megan8madonna]

That was hilarious!

[brighttomorrows]

"Oh, Fry. You idiot."

[rtl4x4]

@XxRynethxX yes, high frequency sound waves have a higher pitch.  Stephen got a bit muddled on that one.

[XxRynethxX]

I thought the frequency of sound WAS the pitch? High f = high pitch, yes?