QI XL Season H S08E12 Horses & Hunting

QI Quite Interesting Guests: Clare Balding, Jimmy Carr, Dara Ó Briain and Alan Davies as usual. Host: Stephen Fry

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Comedy

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• qi
• bbc
• comedy
• fry
• davies
• balding
• carr
• briain

[JamieofDover]

Stephen Fry mentions the horrible amount of noise generated by horses' hooves on cobbles.

What he doesn't mention is that, in London (and possibly other places) they combated this by putting down wooden roads. If you go into the disused section of the Kingsway Underpass it still has the wooden road and it looks just like parquet flooring. It's the only place in London that still has it.

Just though that info might suit this show.

[crouchend524]

Do we have favorite poos now?

[WyrdinWyld]

When black bears attack humans, they are said to be the most vicious and unrelenting in their attack, not giving up and being quite thoroughly determined. In actuality, they're quite deadly creatures.

[WyrdinWyld]

LMAO! I had a girl, ahem, "riding me" try to twitch my top lip...she was in actuality a horse trainer! It was quite evident that she was trying to dominate me. I soon weilded the reigns, so to speak.

[WyrdinWyld]

There is a supposition bandied about which has people under the misconception that it is unlikely to fall on a banana peel. This is quite erroneous. I have seen it happen and have had it happen to myself. It takes the peel to get to that blackened squishy stage, then it is quite slippery indeed! I reason that the "poo in lieau of peel" story via Jimmy is fallacious fact; the refuse and detritus problems as stated, leave little room for doubt that peels were similarly thoughtlessly discarded.

[qotsaandsoadfan1]

This is my favorite tv program, but I've never watched an episode of this on TV.

[mikemurphy383]

A note on the piranha, apparently Roosevelt saw piranha eating a cow. Apparently the indigenous people caught piranha, starved them for a couple of days so that when they threw the cow in the devoured it almost immediately.

[RyanPriceish]

Funny that now, we look back at horse carts and think - it made a huge racket, it created huge amounts of waste and cruel to the animals.

Hopefully, in a few years, a talk show host will refer to our time and current civilization and say - they had huge, loud, clunky metal things, that laid loads of waste into the atmosphere and were cruel to nature!

Hopefully.

[JamieofDover]

@Hargiwald Thank you. I've never been in the top comments before. I feel quite proud.

[JamieofDover]

@nitsua101 Yeah, though it wouldn't have taken much to mention it, would it?

"While New Yorkers were being deafened by horses, other cities found ways around the problem: in central London, for example, they used wooden roads to muffle the sound."

It's not like QI doesn't move rapidly between places and subjects, is it?

[Hargiwald]

@JamieofDover It's so nice to see a quite interesting and intelligent comment getting the most thumbs up for once, so I'll have to thumb you up as well.