I can see her doing a little dance across the room, slowly inching the fork in her hand closer and closer to a plate on a table while 'Stuck In The Middle With You' plays in the background occasionally intermixed with the sound of the Klaxon going off.
Obviously i’m perfectly aware that Sandi are Danish but for a second I thought she would make a perfect German koncentration camp interrogator; “zoooo, you will not taaalk, dann wir haf wayz”. “Bring ze fork ant platze”.
I like the way Phil looks completely different every time he turns up. Suits, then t shirts, then smart casual. Beard and 'stache, clean shaven, 'stache and goatee, every combination of both. And he's from Barking, just down the road from where I was born!
@@TheHadesShade Standing joke/stereotype about posh boys' schools in England is that they are a hotbed of homosexuality and child abuse. So the posh professor telling the young Fry to put on some tights and meet him in his study is highly suggestive of a sexually abusive professor taking advantage of a young boy under the guise of disciplinary action.
Once while house sitting my daughter who was six at the time came into our bedroom crying. She kept apologising over and over through tears. It took us awhile to calm her down and understand that she had wet the bed. But when I looked more closely at her PJs I thought it odd the wet patch was more on her leg than in the middle. I went to investigate. Apparently, the cat we were sitting (along with the house) had thrown up on her in the night. I have never seen anyone so deliriously happy to have been vomited on.
I like how you can tell these clips are just taken from the qi TH-cam channel because you can hear Sandi saying “thank you for watching” at the end of each clip lol
In case anyone's wondering, "Quantity Surveyor" is what the British call an Estimator. They estimate building materials and keep track of material stock on building projects. You're welcome.
No, in Britain we call it a quantity surveyor as well, although the two terms are synonymous, since a quantity surveyor provides the "estimate" of the costs required for the job. Source - British man whose friend was a quantity surveyor for some time. Edited for spelling.
Bit of Superman lore explanation, the 'S' that stands for hope is actually a river from their early history. A great drought afflicted Krypton and the people who eventually came to be the dominant culture of Krypton journeyed for years until they found a valley with river in it, and the shape of the river became the symbol for hope, and since the house of El found the river the sign of the house.
For 75 years or so it stood for Superman. Suddenly, people who failed to produce a single superhero movie that wasn't laughably awful come along with this retcon nonsense and expect their word to be gospel? Ummmm....no. I'll stick with the meaning it's had for over seven decades, thanks. It stands for Superman.
@@indyspotes3310 Actually for 75 years it stood for "House of El" an idea introduced in the Superman newspaper comic strip in the early 1940s and made canon to the comic books in the late 40s after the war. That the symbol also means hope came in not long before the death of superman storyline.
@@thenecessaryevil2634 Nope. They did not use that "House of El" stuff in the forties. Not even close. That silliness started in 1978 with the Superman movie. In a nod to stunning consistency, I refused to buy that Hollywood retcon back then too. Until the late 80s- early 90s DC reboot, it simply stood for "Superman". And frankly, as far as I'm concerned, still does.
@@indyspotes3310 Yes they did I have a leather bound compilation of Superman newspaper comics released on the 50th anniversary and have read the comic. A pair of robots built by Jor-el showed up and explained things in a flashback he had to growing up. (the newspaper comic writers loved their Kryptonian robots)
Look, I don’t have a dog in this race. But from a cursory google it appears @Indy Spotes is correct. Can’t find evidence of the S standing for something other than “Superman” until after 1978. However, I would really like for @TheNecessaryEvil to be right about this. Can you provide a reference that we could look at ourselves and verify your claim?
For what it is worth, one graduating engineering class took some batteries and a timer circuit that also made the annoying "beep' of the fire alarm. They created dozens of these and hid them in places designed to reflect the sound so that it appeared to come from other directions (genius) and threw them into the space above the dropped ceiling tiles, usually above the offices of faculty members who had, shall we say, an interesting track record with the class in question. This made a beeping noise once every five to ten minutes. It sounded like someone's Uninterrupted Power Supply was failing... It took weeks to find them all, and it took at least a week to realize that they were not UPSs, as they did not put them all in the same location, so most people only heard the one closest to their office.
Somebody did the same around Cornell a few years ago. They'd go off every few hours. But they sounded like a lousy flip-phone ring tone... playing Rick Astley.
Re: Clark Kent/Superman and the glasses on/glasses off thing: Dean Cain is not a good example (mostly because he frankly wasn't a terribly good actor), but Clark Kent employed a number of tactics other than the glasses to differentiate the two identities. He wore loose-fitting suits to hide his muscular definition, slouched, used a timid vocal cadence and changed the pitch of his voice, pretended to a nervous stomach and a shy disposition, and generally distanced himself from Superman in every aspect of his demeanor. There is an excellent example of acting the two parts in the first Superman movie, where Christopher Reeve demonstrates the two identities in a scene using no dialog, but just the change in his posture and demeanor (for context, he has decided he's going to tell Lois who he really is, and then thinks better of it at the last moment, realizing he's doing it for selfish reasons (because she's enamored of Superman)): th-cam.com/video/tNUu6Lf9mVU/w-d-xo.html
Re: the "S" on Superman's chest and cape being a Kryptonian symbol for hope: the reasoning (and this is in the comics, and referenced in the mentioned 2013 movie) goes thusly: Krypton was a very large, high-gravity planet. While it did have water, it was generally more arid and had greater areas of desert than Earth does. It's alphabet (like the ancestors of English letters, the Phoenician lettering system) was originally symbolic, and the letters had associations with the images they were originally created from. The S-like letter in the Kryptonian alphabet was originally a pictogram of a river. Flowing, fresh water in a dry land represents hope, survival, and renewal. The House of El adopted the stylized, ancient version of that letter as their emblem because, as members of a scientific, altruistic tradition, they strove to renew and revitalize Krypton and ensure the survival of its people. It's especially appropriate that baby Kal-El was wrapped in a red swaddling blanket with the symbol of the House of El (which is now the cape part of his costume), because he was Jor-El's and Lara's last hope that some part of their family, their people, and their love might survive, and because Jor-El hoped that his son Kal-El might become a positive example for humanity, exemplify the best of what Krypton was, and lead humanity away from the errors Krypton made that contributed to their demise.
The lead in a shot tower is dripped out from the top as a molten liquid, surface tension pulls the molten lead spherical, just like a raindrop but more effectively spherical due to leads’ higher surface tension. The lead cools as it falls by transferring heat to the air and is solid when it hits the water, which simply acts as a buffer to prevent deformation of the solid, but very malleable, lead.
Justin Smart ...and, further, I believe the height of the tower determines the largest ball that can be made as bigger balls need more time to cool. For a given temperature, the heat to be removed goes like the cube of the radius and the cooling area goes like the square, so the cooling time seems to roughly be proportional to the radius if the heat transfer at the surface is the limiting factor rather than conduction through the lead. Unfortunately, the flight time goes like the square root of the tower height, so in rough terms it seems the height of the tower goes up very fast, roughly proportional to the square of the radius of the shot ball.
The smaller spider is replicating a larger weaving spider or larger spiders that often take down birds. They usually have expansive webs and sit in the center of them as a target where they deter birds by eating them and cover large webs across expansive areas to get many insects. Smaller spiders have often been seen mimicking this behavior or mimicking the web pattern or being of a similar subspecies just of a smaller variety. Many spiders leave debris on their web to make it camouflage into territory or even to look abandoned many insects mimic other insects and spiders also mimic a lot of random insects and other spiders. There’s spiders that don’t have a-lot of webs but look identical to ants to walk into a colony and start attacking.
Denier (/ˈdɛniər/) or den (abbreviated D), a unit of measure for the linear mass density of fibers, is the mass in grams per 9000 metres of the fiber.[4] The denier is based on a natural reference: a single strand of silk is approximately one denier; a 9000-metre strand of silk weighs about one gram. The term denier comes from the French denier, a coin of small value (worth 1⁄12 sou). Applied to yarn, a denier was held to be equal in weight to 1⁄24 ounce (1.2 g).
The smoke alarm is so on point though. I had that a couple of months ago where I was at the computer with headphones on. I heard the beep or atleast I thought I did but removing the headphones and listening didn't help because it was to long between the beeps. I don't know how long it actually took before I realized what it was but it was longer than it should have been.
Um actually, the S initially stood for Superman, Marlon Brando changed it for Superman the movie to be the House of El Coat of arms, it was then a Native American symbol for healing, it then became the Kryptonian symbol for hope. Supergirl, however, stated that it meant "Stronger together"
There's only one sound that truly, truly annoys me and it's the sound of a pencil's wood (because the tip has gone), scraping over paper. Because every time I hear that, I can feel the sensation of it going through my fingers and to me that's the worst feeling aside from outright pain or burning itches. The rest doesn't bother me, though.
5:30 I remember being in 7th grade, about 13 years old, when I came up with this way of remembering the difference between stalagmites and stalactites. I remember the look of surprise on my teacher's face when she asked me how I remembered the difference, so you can imagine my glee and hearing Alan explained it the exact same way.
When i was breast feeding, any baby crying made me lactate. Even that one time at the cinema a baby cried on screen, i had to borrow a jumper to hide the big wet patches. Babies crying is their way of communicating they are hungry, wet, uncomfortable in fact many things they are yet unable to articulate. Hopefully when you have children of your own you don't just run from their crying. :p
The Superman/Clark Kent glasses thing was explained in one of the comics. The glass in his glasses was Kryptonian glass, from the ship that brought him to earth, when Superman/Clark wore them/looked through them, they had a mild hypnotic effect, that slightly changed his appearance, to observers.
This was re-done to have an actual real world explanation. Clark Kent does more than just put on glasses. He changes his posture so he appears shorter, his walking gait changes, his entire mannerisms and speech pattern changes while he's Clark. Then all he has to do is shuck the disguise, stand up straight and be "Himself" as Superman. It's really effective.
Nails on a chalkboard have never bothered me. But if I hear cellophane rub against cellophane or styrofoam against styrofoam, it feels like my teeth are about to explode in my head. I can't handle those sounds.
The lead shot one has to do with the height. The idea is that the shot cools completely before it hits the water. Molten metals dropped directly into water take very craggy irregular shapes
I was taught the difference between stalactites and stalagmites is... Stalactites have to hold on tight or they’ll fall and if stalagmites try really hard they might reach the ceiling of the cave.
Phill is in all but one of these clips! 😂 This should really be titled ‘Best of Phill Jupitus’! Also, when Teri Hatcher appeared on this, she also appeared on Bake Off at the same time when Sandi was the host. Did Sandi convince her to do one or both? Are they like good friends?
Often when these people are in a country, usually to promote something new they're in, their agents try to book them onto a bunch of appearances on various things. That's why they often appear on multiple chat shows around the same time, but while there they'll also shoot ads, appear in other shows or turn up at public events.
With respect, I don't think you could get a popular US show with well known contestants like this. It sits in this weirdly British zone of 'light entertainment' that exists on BBC radio and TV. Perhaps on NPR? I dunno.
The point of a shot tower being so high is that the drops of lead actually solidify in the air on the way down - the pool of water is only there to slow them down and collect them, so they don't bounce around and get damaged. The manufacturers want them to be perfectly spherical so they fly straight when shot out of the smoothbore barrel of a shotgun. If they only had to fall far enough for the drops to be spherical and then straight into water, the tower would not need to be anywhere near as high - but that wouldn't work because they would still be liquid when they hit the water and that would flatten and deform them.
Reminds me of the episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks where Jo Whiley, Phil Jupitus and Noel Fielding all talk about their dislike of Coldplay :) R.I.P Cribbins
Read this in Enid Blyton I think, always found it very useful, but: 1. Stalac*tite*s hang *tight* to the roof of the cavern. 2. Stalag*mite*s one day *might* grow upwards high enough to reach that same roof. Pretty clever as a mnemonic device, I think, it's always worked for me.
4:48 It helps when you know French - StalagTite has the T in it of "tomber" (falling) and the StalagMite has the "M" in it of "Monter" (going up). Once my mum taught me this I never forgot.
Re: smoke alarm technology. There actually exists a device you can fit over your smoke alarm which is a fan that blows the smoke away from the alarm, for use when cooking.
Not one of the noises annoys me. Strangely, it wasn't until a few years back, when follk on a TV rogramme were discussing phobias, that I discovered what set my teeth on edge...someone chewing cottonwool. I kid you not. The idea had never once entered my head in over fifty odd-years, but having this weird phobia clinically recognised, then described gave me the screaming abdabs. Who the hell chews cottonwood and why? Nevertheless, the idea makes my skin crawl. 😂😂😂...this is me laughing with an edge of hysteria to it.
I had a math teacher in high school who used to walk into the room, first thing in the morning, and drag his fingers down the chalkboard “to wake us up.” Also, as they also mentioned smoke detectors, when I lived in Germany, they had very stupidly put the smoke detector in my apartment right over the stovetop and the way the apartment was set up, that was also right next to the door to the bathroom, and this dang thing was so sensitive, nearly anytime I cooked or took a shower for two weeks it went off. So I wrapped it in plastic wrap. My apartment was barely bigger than a shoebox, if there was a fire in there, I’d know about it without the beep.
I'd say that there's a difference between an 'annoying' sound (someone else's excessively LOUD children on a plane etc) and one of those 'hard cringe' sounds (Like nails on chalkboard / fork scraped on a plate / nylon jumper squeaked between the front teeth etc etc) - Not that I could tell you the proper distinction, mind you.
My granddad told me how to remember stalagmites from stalactites ''stalagmites run UP the tites'' and my dad's was ''the G in stalagmites is for ground up and the C in stalactite is for ceiling down''
The way to remember stalactites and stalagmites in French is easy.. T for tomber, m for monter (going down and going up, respectively) I'll have to look up the etymology of the word if that has anything to do with it or if it's just a big coincidence
Stalactites. Has a "c", like the word "ceiling". They cling to the ceiling. Stalagmites. Has a "g", like the word "ground". They grow up from the ground.
Someone needs to tell Phil Jupitus that when your smoke alarms start doing that, you need to change the backup battery in them. And you might as well do them all.
IMO, the most annoying sound is someone smacking whilst eating. People who smack, slurp and crunch as loudly as possible really should never be allowed to eat in public. Oh, and add gum chomping to the list.
Sandi as a villain torturing someone: "That's very unpleasant, isn't it?"
I can see her doing a little dance across the room, slowly inching the fork in her hand closer and closer to a plate on a table while 'Stuck In The Middle With You' plays in the background occasionally intermixed with the sound of the Klaxon going off.
That overly polite response is creepier tbh
Go on say its unpleasant...
Obviously i’m perfectly aware that Sandi are Danish but for a second I thought she would make a perfect German koncentration camp interrogator; “zoooo, you will not taaalk, dann wir haf wayz”.
“Bring ze fork ant platze”.
"Is it safe?"
"the vastly big bigness of the dripping thing"
i love when phil loses his mind and takes the mick out of stephen xD
I like the way Phil looks completely different every time he turns up. Suits, then t shirts, then smart casual. Beard and 'stache, clean shaven, 'stache and goatee, every combination of both. And he's from Barking, just down the road from where I was born!
That's mad!
Phil’s a very real person and it’s a wonder that he’s managed to make it in showbiz, all things considered.
(I mean because it values brandability over humanity, on the whole)
I like the way he’s completely indifferent to Teri Hatcher 😂
It's always a joy with Steven and Phil
No, no it's not
"Fry, put on the 15 denier and see me in my study."
"Fry, you oaf, those are fishnets!"
Love it when Phill takes the mickey out of Stephen.
I did not get that joke. Could you explain it?
@@TheHadesShade Standing joke/stereotype about posh boys' schools in England is that they are a hotbed of homosexuality and child abuse. So the posh professor telling the young Fry to put on some tights and meet him in his study is highly suggestive of a sexually abusive professor taking advantage of a young boy under the guise of disciplinary action.
@@TheHadesShade Femboy Fry
Did anyone else hear Sandi about to tell us to subscribe 😂
@You're a Genius What?
6:24, 9:48, 12:04
It’s because they just rip these clips from the QI channel
Haha yeah it was obviously a clip from the end of another set of clips 😂😂
Waking up to the sound of a cat preparing to vomit on the bed, next to you.
Or a dog. It's basically a split-second decision between which is less appealing: "hold out your hands or change the sheets".
Mine barfed IN my bed once, that was quite interesting.
Jackie White So true!
JACKIE YOU ARE SO ABSOLUTELY RIGHT
Once while house sitting my daughter who was six at the time came into our bedroom crying. She kept apologising over and over through tears. It took us awhile to calm her down and understand that she had wet the bed. But when I looked more closely at her PJs I thought it odd the wet patch was more on her leg than in the middle. I went to investigate.
Apparently, the cat we were sitting (along with the house) had thrown up on her in the night. I have never seen anyone so deliriously happy to have been vomited on.
Fry, you oaf! Those are fishnets!
I ❤️ Phil Jupitus
That was hilarious!
@@dorknuckle I mean yes, but the implication that a gay man was exploited as a boy in ladies' undergarments is a bit something, wouldn't you say?
I love that Hugh Laurie biggest drip reveal 😂😂😂😂
I didn’t get the joke there.
Winston_KillDeath a drip can be an insult of someone who isn’t very fun and a bit boring. Stephen is one of his closest friends.
@@WinstonKillDeath i
@@WinstonKillDeath Black Adder reference - really funny :D
NO!
Not even hiding that they compiled it from the QI youtube page anymore at 9:46
Would've loved to tap it but you all didn't tag it with an @
I like how you can tell these clips are just taken from the qi TH-cam channel because you can hear Sandi saying “thank you for watching” at the end of each clip lol
In case anyone's wondering, "Quantity Surveyor" is what the British call an Estimator. They estimate building materials and keep track of material stock on building projects. You're welcome.
Almost all of Asia call it Quantity Surveying too.
No, in Britain we call it a quantity surveyor as well, although the two terms are synonymous, since a quantity surveyor provides the "estimate" of the costs required for the job. Source - British man whose friend was a quantity surveyor for some time. Edited for spelling.
@@MrFlashpoint1978 that’s what he just said. Think you need to re read the comment.
The estimator measures up and prices the job before the company puts in the bid. I trained for a sort time as a structural steel estimator.
Bit of Superman lore explanation, the 'S' that stands for hope is actually a river from their early history. A great drought afflicted Krypton and the people who eventually came to be the dominant culture of Krypton journeyed for years until they found a valley with river in it, and the shape of the river became the symbol for hope, and since the house of El found the river the sign of the house.
For 75 years or so it stood for Superman.
Suddenly, people who failed to produce a single superhero movie that wasn't laughably awful come along with this retcon nonsense
and expect their word to be gospel? Ummmm....no.
I'll stick with the meaning it's had for over seven decades, thanks. It stands for Superman.
@@indyspotes3310 Actually for 75 years it stood for "House of El" an idea introduced in the Superman newspaper comic strip in the early 1940s and made canon to the comic books in the late 40s after the war. That the symbol also means hope came in not long before the death of superman storyline.
@@thenecessaryevil2634
Nope.
They did not use that "House of El" stuff in the forties. Not even close.
That silliness started in 1978 with the Superman movie.
In a nod to stunning consistency, I refused to buy that Hollywood retcon back then too.
Until the late 80s- early 90s DC reboot, it simply stood for "Superman".
And frankly, as far as I'm concerned, still does.
@@indyspotes3310 Yes they did I have a leather bound compilation of Superman newspaper comics released on the 50th anniversary and have read the comic. A pair of robots built by Jor-el showed up and explained things in a flashback he had to growing up. (the newspaper comic writers loved their Kryptonian robots)
Look, I don’t have a dog in this race. But from a cursory google it appears @Indy Spotes is correct. Can’t find evidence of the S standing for something other than “Superman” until after 1978. However, I would really like for @TheNecessaryEvil to be right about this. Can you provide a reference that we could look at ourselves and verify your claim?
For what it is worth, one graduating engineering class took some batteries and a timer circuit that also made the annoying "beep' of the fire alarm. They created dozens of these and hid them in places designed to reflect the sound so that it appeared to come from other directions (genius) and threw them into the space above the dropped ceiling tiles, usually above the offices of faculty members who had, shall we say, an interesting track record with the class in question. This made a beeping noise once every five to ten minutes. It sounded like someone's Uninterrupted Power Supply was failing... It took weeks to find them all, and it took at least a week to realize that they were not UPSs, as they did not put them all in the same location, so most people only heard the one closest to their office.
Somebody did the same around Cornell a few years ago. They'd go off every few hours. But they sounded like a lousy flip-phone ring tone... playing Rick Astley.
Phil and Stephens banter is the most adorable
Re: Clark Kent/Superman and the glasses on/glasses off thing: Dean Cain is not a good example (mostly because he frankly wasn't a terribly good actor), but Clark Kent employed a number of tactics other than the glasses to differentiate the two identities. He wore loose-fitting suits to hide his muscular definition, slouched, used a timid vocal cadence and changed the pitch of his voice, pretended to a nervous stomach and a shy disposition, and generally distanced himself from Superman in every aspect of his demeanor.
There is an excellent example of acting the two parts in the first Superman movie, where Christopher Reeve demonstrates the two identities in a scene using no dialog, but just the change in his posture and demeanor (for context, he has decided he's going to tell Lois who he really is, and then thinks better of it at the last moment, realizing he's doing it for selfish reasons (because she's enamored of Superman)): th-cam.com/video/tNUu6Lf9mVU/w-d-xo.html
Re: the "S" on Superman's chest and cape being a Kryptonian symbol for hope: the reasoning (and this is in the comics, and referenced in the mentioned 2013 movie) goes thusly: Krypton was a very large, high-gravity planet. While it did have water, it was generally more arid and had greater areas of desert than Earth does. It's alphabet (like the ancestors of English letters, the Phoenician lettering system) was originally symbolic, and the letters had associations with the images they were originally created from. The S-like letter in the Kryptonian alphabet was originally a pictogram of a river. Flowing, fresh water in a dry land represents hope, survival, and renewal. The House of El adopted the stylized, ancient version of that letter as their emblem because, as members of a scientific, altruistic tradition, they strove to renew and revitalize Krypton and ensure the survival of its people. It's especially appropriate that baby Kal-El was wrapped in a red swaddling blanket with the symbol of the House of El (which is now the cape part of his costume), because he was Jor-El's and Lara's last hope that some part of their family, their people, and their love might survive, and because Jor-El hoped that his son Kal-El might become a positive example for humanity, exemplify the best of what Krypton was, and lead humanity away from the errors Krypton made that contributed to their demise.
The lead in a shot tower is dripped out from the top as a molten liquid, surface tension pulls the molten lead spherical, just like a raindrop but more effectively spherical due to leads’ higher surface tension. The lead cools as it falls by transferring heat to the air and is solid when it hits the water, which simply acts as a buffer to prevent deformation of the solid, but very malleable, lead.
Justin Smart ...and, further, I believe the height of the tower determines the largest ball that can be made as bigger balls need more time to cool. For a given temperature, the heat to be removed goes like the cube of the radius and the cooling area goes like the square, so the cooling time seems to roughly be proportional to the radius if the heat transfer at the surface is the limiting factor rather than conduction through the lead. Unfortunately, the flight time goes like the square root of the tower height, so in rough terms it seems the height of the tower goes up very fast, roughly proportional to the square of the radius of the shot ball.
I remember thinking that the shot tower was the most interesting thing at The Festival of Britain on the South Bank, I miss it!
Thanks
@@ef2bnice info, cheers
"Fry you oaf those are fishnets !" It's like Phil is speaking to all of us .
God did it.... everyone laughs.... we must be in Europe
Definitely not Utah
@@rileydavidson207 I'm laughing in Utah...
@@bruisedmuse thank God someone is.
I think they laughed because Stephen Fry is a very outspoken agnostic.
@@brienneoffriggintarth5510 Stephen won the debate battle against "the Church" with C.Hitchens! If you haven't seen that, you should!
The smaller spider is replicating a larger weaving spider or larger spiders that often take down birds.
They usually have expansive webs and sit in the center of them as a target where they deter birds by eating them and cover large webs across expansive areas to get many insects.
Smaller spiders have often been seen mimicking this behavior or mimicking the web pattern or being of a similar subspecies just of a smaller variety.
Many spiders leave debris on their web to make it camouflage into territory or even to look abandoned many insects mimic other insects and spiders also mimic a lot of random insects and other spiders.
There’s spiders that don’t have a-lot of webs but look identical to ants to walk into a colony and start attacking.
@6:20 Fry you oaf! Those are fishnets! God that had me in stitches
1:02
Sandi's subconscious, 'This was the worst idea in all of the episodes of all of the seasons of this show,'
Terri doing the hole glasses on off bit was gorgeous!
Denier (/ˈdɛniər/) or den (abbreviated D), a unit of measure for the linear mass density of fibers, is the mass in grams per 9000 metres of the fiber.[4] The denier is based on a natural reference: a single strand of silk is approximately one denier; a 9000-metre strand of silk weighs about one gram. The term denier comes from the French denier, a coin of small value (worth 1⁄12 sou). Applied to yarn, a denier was held to be equal in weight to 1⁄24 ounce (1.2 g).
A rain drop, as it falls, gets bigger, as multiple drops hit each other, but if too large, it grows a 'butt' and bifurcates into two drops.
Heh. Nice.
The smoke alarm is so on point though. I had that a couple of months ago where I was at the computer with headphones on. I heard the beep or atleast I thought I did but removing the headphones and listening didn't help because it was to long between the beeps. I don't know how long it actually took before I realized what it was but it was longer than it should have been.
Phill Jupitus going into his Eddie Izzard voice will forever be one of the funniest tangents I’ve ever heard!
Um actually, the S initially stood for Superman, Marlon Brando changed it for Superman the movie to be the House of El Coat of arms, it was then a Native American symbol for healing, it then became the Kryptonian symbol for hope. Supergirl, however, stated that it meant
"Stronger together"
There's only one sound that truly, truly annoys me and it's the sound of a pencil's wood (because the tip has gone), scraping over paper. Because every time I hear that, I can feel the sensation of it going through my fingers and to me that's the worst feeling aside from outright pain or burning itches.
The rest doesn't bother me, though.
Agreed. I have to use a pen, can't stand using pencils for the same reason.
6:23 Wait a tick, you literally just ripped videos from QI's channel & stitched them together!
It's no worse, and far easier, than scanning through the show itself.
Well done, you figured out how this scam channel gets all of their content!
@@alansmithee419 I think their point is that we might as well support the official channel
5:30 I remember being in 7th grade, about 13 years old, when I came up with this way of remembering the difference between stalagmites and stalactites. I remember the look of surprise on my teacher's face when she asked me how I remembered the difference, so you can imagine my glee and hearing Alan explained it the exact same way.
None of those noises were anywhere near as horrible as the sound of babies.
It's meant to be. It's to alert that someone that's something is wrong.
The sound of a small yapping dog who's going to yap all day.
When i was breast feeding, any baby crying made me lactate. Even that one time at the cinema a baby cried on screen, i had to borrow a jumper to hide the big wet patches. Babies crying is their way of communicating they are hungry, wet, uncomfortable in fact many things they are yet unable to articulate. Hopefully when you have children of your own you don't just run from their crying. :p
Worn brakes.
Those "ultrasonic" bird deterrents.
A young teenager asked to do ANYTHING!
Take your pick.
@@munirahbakar4123 I didn't mean just the sound of a baby crying, I meant any sound they make.
The Superman/Clark Kent glasses thing was explained in one of the comics. The glass in his glasses was Kryptonian glass, from the ship that brought him to earth, when Superman/Clark wore them/looked through them, they had a mild hypnotic effect, that slightly changed his appearance, to observers.
...comics
This was re-done to have an actual real world explanation. Clark Kent does more than just put on glasses. He changes his posture so he appears shorter, his walking gait changes, his entire mannerisms and speech pattern changes while he's Clark. Then all he has to do is shuck the disguise, stand up straight and be "Himself" as Superman. It's really effective.
Nails on a chalkboard have never bothered me.
But if I hear cellophane rub against cellophane or styrofoam against styrofoam, it feels like my teeth are about to explode in my head. I can't handle those sounds.
The lead shot one has to do with the height. The idea is that the shot cools completely before it hits the water. Molten metals dropped directly into water take very craggy irregular shapes
When the mites go up, the tights go down.
Simplify. Mites go up and then the tights come down. Please no comments about misspellings, very deliberate.
I was taught the difference between stalactites and stalagmites is...
Stalactites have to hold on tight or they’ll fall and if stalagmites try really hard they might reach the ceiling of the cave.
Our female French teacher taught us that "you might go up if the tights go down".
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The answer to this is the World Wide Web
9:47 "thank you for-" the qi channel outro
“Jeeves” then “Wooster”. What? Whatto Stephen Fry👏🏼👋🏻🇦🇺
Sandi almost whispered the last word and I heard it as Superman's S is the "Kryptonian symbol for soap". So it's just washing instructions!
I thought she said HOPE, not soap.
The 'S' is the symbol for the 'House of EL'
I used to have a lot of spiders on my porch in Texas that left their shed skins in a line in their webs, like a row of little decoy spiders
Phill is in all but one of these clips! 😂 This should really be titled ‘Best of Phill Jupitus’!
Also, when Teri Hatcher appeared on this, she also appeared on Bake Off at the same time when Sandi was the host. Did Sandi convince her to do one or both? Are they like good friends?
Often when these people are in a country, usually to promote something new they're in, their agents try to book them onto a bunch of appearances on various things. That's why they often appear on multiple chat shows around the same time, but while there they'll also shoot ads, appear in other shows or turn up at public events.
@@ZzyzzyzzsI think that's what happened with Catherine Ryan. Then she just never left
With respect, I don't think you could get a popular US show with well known contestants like this. It sits in this weirdly British zone of 'light entertainment' that exists on BBC radio and TV. Perhaps on NPR? I dunno.
I don't know about TV, but there's "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" on public radio.
NPR's Ask Me Another is the closest I can think of.
Have you never seen Match Game?
I'm surprised Stephen has to ask, I was under the impression he was an expert in quantity surveying.
I absolutely love Phil Jupitus. He’s one of my favourite comedians of all time.
Seriously, how? He's one of three comedians who have never made me even smile once. He acts like he's funny but he's really not.
DAMN. You must not have experienced many comedians.
0:53 "Nice hearin' from ya, Carlos!"
The point of a shot tower being so high is that the drops of lead actually solidify in the air on the way down - the pool of water is only there to slow them down and collect them, so they don't bounce around and get damaged. The manufacturers want them to be perfectly spherical so they fly straight when shot out of the smoothbore barrel of a shotgun. If they only had to fall far enough for the drops to be spherical and then straight into water, the tower would not need to be anywhere near as high - but that wouldn't work because they would still be liquid when they hit the water and that would flatten and deform them.
Reminds me of the episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks where Jo Whiley, Phil Jupitus and Noel Fielding all talk about their dislike of Coldplay :)
R.I.P Cribbins
Read this in Enid Blyton I think, always found it very useful, but:
1. Stalac*tite*s hang *tight* to the roof of the cavern.
2. Stalag*mite*s one day *might* grow upwards high enough to reach that same roof.
Pretty clever as a mnemonic device, I think, it's always worked for me.
Stalactites and stalagmites. Only caves have got’em. The tite stays on the top, and the mite stays on the bottom.
@@danielgrey5754 oh jolly good!
@Diplo Doofus I think we’ve both earned a smashing picnic luncheon with hard boiled eggs and tongue and ginger beer.
ooh, i always remembered it by thinking stala*c*tites for 'ceiling', and stala*g*mites for 'ground'.
Sad Ken the t’s and the m’s.
Teri Hatcher was definitely every 90's lads first crush
When a Stalactite meets a Stalagmite you get a Column.
4:48 It helps when you know French - StalagTite has the T in it of "tomber" (falling) and the StalagMite has the "M" in it of "Monter" (going up). Once my mum taught me this I never forgot.
*stalaCtite
When the Tights come down, I Might go up
Stalacites hold on tight, Stalagmite is the other one 🤓
@@evansaschow That's because English is my second language and in my language you write it with a "g".
Re: smoke alarm technology. There actually exists a device you can fit over your smoke alarm which is a fan that blows the smoke away from the alarm, for use when cooking.
I can't be the only one immediately picturing the Fry and Laurie sketch about dancercise when Stephen mentions Quantity surveillance?!?
The most famous quantity surveying skit I know is a Monty Python one.
@@Wiley_Coyote …Ethel the aardvark goes quantity surveying.
The mites go up and the tights come down. Simple and easy to remember.
A man with ants in his pants. That's the one I use too.
Cool segments! There is a shot tower in Dubuque Iowa.
I was a Quantity Surveyor. I could survey 47 quantities a day for 47 days, no sweat.
13:58 The same idea was made in a hilarious skit from Pete Holmes as batman, featuring superman and batman's detective friend.
It isn't gravity that makes droplets spherical, it is surface tension.
Not one of the noises annoys me.
Strangely, it wasn't until a few years back, when follk on a TV rogramme were discussing phobias, that I discovered what set my teeth on edge...someone chewing cottonwool.
I kid you not.
The idea had never once entered my head in over fifty odd-years, but having this weird phobia clinically recognised, then described gave me the screaming abdabs.
Who the hell chews cottonwood and why?
Nevertheless, the idea makes my skin crawl.
😂😂😂...this is me laughing with an edge of hysteria to it.
5:15 so it was Phil Jupitus who first coined the word "bigly".
13:11 I remember that picture online when it was new, my teenage self looooved her.
I had a math teacher in high school who used to walk into the room, first thing in the morning, and drag his fingers down the chalkboard “to wake us up.”
Also, as they also mentioned smoke detectors, when I lived in Germany, they had very stupidly put the smoke detector in my apartment right over the stovetop and the way the apartment was set up, that was also right next to the door to the bathroom, and this dang thing was so sensitive, nearly anytime I cooked or took a shower for two weeks it went off. So I wrapped it in plastic wrap. My apartment was barely bigger than a shoebox, if there was a fire in there, I’d know about it without the beep.
2:20 I should not have found that as funny as I did
I'd say that there's a difference between an 'annoying' sound (someone else's excessively LOUD children on a plane etc)
and one of those 'hard cringe' sounds (Like nails on chalkboard / fork scraped on a plate / nylon jumper squeaked between the front teeth etc etc)
- Not that I could tell you the proper distinction, mind you.
I get the feeling Phil doesn’t have much time for Teri Hatcher. Sandi however has a proper crush😍
The mites go up and the tights come down!
Hold tight to ceiling
Might grow up to meet it
That's how I remember it
Actually a primate _does_ come down the aisles of planes.
Superman's S only became a Kryptonian symbol in 1978.
What im going “what?” at is how reception answered the phone to Alan
No coincidence that Phil Jupitus and/or Jo Brand are in each of these. More Bill Bailey would be great!
"When the mites go up, the tights come down" Ms Mcdonald 5th year Geology 🔥
Scratching cutlery on a plate is the wprst sound
The mnemonic I was taught was stalacTITES are TIGHT on the ceiling, and stalagMITES MIGHT develop underneath.
My granddad told me how to remember stalagmites from stalactites ''stalagmites run UP the tites'' and my dad's was ''the G in stalagmites is for ground up and the C in stalactite is for ceiling down''
Who's cold play?
Be grateful you don’t know
The way to remember stalactites and stalagmites in French is easy.. T for tomber, m for monter (going down and going up, respectively)
I'll have to look up the etymology of the word if that has anything to do with it or if it's just a big coincidence
It's the House of El symbol, Hope was something they added in the DCEU movies and makes no sense.
Stalactites. Has a "c", like the word "ceiling". They cling to the ceiling. Stalagmites. Has a "g", like the word "ground". They grow up from the ground.
There are species of spider in Australia that make "spider analogues" too. We have one in the garden.
They do look pretty good 😛
The violin can make the most heavenly sound, with 10 years practice. Otherwise, it makes the most hellish sound.
My Dad used to always tell me that I was the biggest drip
Worst sound in the world? Watch the movie Dumb and dumber
Isn’t that the most “annoying” sound in the world? And not the worst...
Phil is Superman 🤓
Stalactites hold tight to the ceiling and stalagmites might hang from the ceiling but they don't
That's confusing. Just tights hang down works perfect.
Our English teacher (a female) suggested that you might go up if the tight go down!
Weird for a teacher to be talking about teenage students' erections.
Maybe it's to show a potential mate, how big and strong he is, in that he can create such a huge impressive "fake spider".
I worked as a professional clown for 30 years ,the worst noise would have to be those paper whistle things with children screaming
Stalactites stick tight to the ceiling. Stalagmites might trip you.
mites crawl up, tites fall down
I was always told how to remember staligtight is " as the tights come down the might goes up"
Stalagmites and stalactites, only caves have got em
Tites are always on the top and mites go on the bottom!
Thank you Bearenstain Bears!
Someone needs to tell Phil Jupitus that when your smoke alarms start doing that, you need to change the backup battery in them. And you might as well do them all.
Is Phil wearing a Rezillos pin??
I didn’t know that about about denier that’s fascinating
"super mans 's' stands for ssoap" sandi toksvig
IMO, the most annoying sound is someone smacking whilst eating. People who smack, slurp and crunch as loudly as possible really should never be allowed to eat in public. Oh, and add gum chomping to the list.
1:43: The realisation of power >:D