QI Series B Episode 1 - Blue Pt 1 of 2

With Bill Bailey, Jo Brand and Sean Lock

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Comedy

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[TomVodkaCollins]

@ NickFromFulhamAgain Another American here who thinks British telly is brills wanting to thank you for posting these. 

[Madjeh]

The Welsh word for blue is Glas :)

[Gjeorje]

This proves that people have always taken the piss out of Newcastle.

[jorgepeterbarton]

@Selinor578 now look up green... its 'glas'..

look at the himba tribe as well. they lump certain greens, blues, red, purple together, and yet have two other 'colours' of greeny blue things, and the other colour is white/yellow.

and english, we tend to put cyan into the blue category but really its a colour in its own right, and pink is really just a shade of red and we separate it.

[ThreeSpotCat]

@Selinor578 Palette colours arent really mentioned in the Odessey or the Illiad, as far as I remember, the sea was called "wine dark" but I suppose it depends on translation too. In one version Athena's eyes are called "flashing" and then grey in another.

I dunno where I was going with that but there you go lol

[Selinor578]

nice observatiion by Bill Bailey at 5:22



[Selinor578]

Full marks to Alan here. Stephen tries to make these claims about the greeks. Of course the greeks had a word for blue. How else did they refer to the colour blue. Fry is simply wrong.

[thawey]

@Selinor578 true, the Jo's answer was actually right, it surprised me that none of the guests pointed out the obviously bad manufactured trap. also, Fry's rock-solid belief that without the ancient greeks the civilization nowadays would not exist is bollocks, it slightly annoys me.)

[GrunGrauWeiss]

this must have been back before stephen and alan finally slept together. The tension is palpable (whatever that means).

[Selinor578]

Why did Fry say there is no welsh word for blue. I've just googled the word blue in Welsh. It's "glas". I've recently started to disbelieve a lot of the stuff Fry says. And if the ancient Greeks referred to blue by calling it bronze...or the Greek word for bronze, then they DID have a word for blue. It's bronze.

[FinuteD1]

@Madjeh thats crazy the irish word for green is glas :P

[mrsraddliffe]

@Madjeh yay finnaly someone who knows my lanuge (sorry speeling)