Dutchie here. Clarkson almost got the term swaffeling (swaffelen) right. The actual definition is: "to hit one's soft or semi-hard penis-often repeatedly-against an object or another person's body". However a Dutch student did get in trouble for swaffeling the Taj Mahal in 2008 after uploading a video of it to TH-cam. And yes we do have an insane amount of swear words. My favourite one is klootviool. It's a compound word of kloot (testicle) and viool (violin) meaning idiot/moron. You can also use it as a verb; klootviolen, which means failing miserably doing a basic task.
kloot (testicle) and viool (violin) means idiot or moron? I can only envisage that it means idiot because it refers to someone trying to play a violin with your testicles? Eew, or is it using a rosined up bow on your nutsack to try get a tune? I can imagine you'd get a sound out of it, but it's mainly vocal.
And you could say it on Dutch TV, anything has been said on Dutch TV and a lot of foreign interviewees hold back but really don't need to. My favourite one is 'stoephoer' (sidewalk prostitute) because in Dutch it always has to be worse, and extra layer of insult added.
Funny thing is that the difference between The Netherlands and Belgium when it comes to swearing is that the Dutch use diseases, while the Belgians use religious words. Klerelijer (person who has cholera) kankermongool (cancer mongoloid), wishing typhoid on someone... One of my favorite Belgian swears is scheve lavabo (crooked sink) to say they like the booze a bit too much.
American grey squirrels were introduced to the U.K. in the late nineteenth century, as a novelty in a stately home. They have devastated the indigenous Red Squirrel population.
The prohibition of slavery (13A) specifically excludes prisoners from the prohibition. This was at the height of chain gangs for the railroad, which cut costs massively. It's stayed ever since.
@WreckItRolfe Indeed. It's cheaper to go to college and rent a single bedroom apartment, than to incarcerate someone. For death row prisoners, that's Ivy League college prices. Given that "the land of the free" has the largest prison population in the world, housing 1% of the entire population, many for non violent crimes; it would be cheaper to house and educate them. Food for thought. Or not, given the "for-profit" nature of the majority of the establishments.
It is literally the reason why America has such an insanely large prison population. America has 4.4% of the worlds population but 1 in 5 people in prison ON THE ENTIRE EARTH are in prison in America! (21% of the worlds prison population)!
@@theorc9098"it would be cheaper to house and educate the prisoner". Even if you started with someone you weren't rewarding for being a pdf file or a rapist with things that law abiding citizens can't always afford (but would have to pay taxes toward) but were just starting with a regular law abiding person, if the state, "big mother" if you will, baby's the individual and provides everything for nothing, 99 times out of a hundred the finished product is criminality, mental problems and self loathing. It isn't for the benefit of the the thief or unaliver or pdf file that we pay to have prisons in existence its for the protection of those they would be harming and justice (or at least acknowledgement and a degree of closure) for those they already have harmed or the families of those they have unalived.
@@rlawrence9838 You have been fed lies since you were a baby it seems. Holy shit. It's hard to unravel the stupidity of your comment, but let's give it a go. You entirely misunderstood theorc's comment and are clueless about crime. The point theorc is making is that America wastes billions on putting people in prison instead of spending it on educating and housing regular people, like the rest of the civilised world does. Educated people commit fewer crimes, so you have fewer prisoners, which is cheaper and more tax money can be spent on the regular people. That is the food for though, but you go triggered into low earth orbit. The assumption that a government supporting it's people creates criminals is disproven by the fact that the US has 20% of all prisoners in the world, as one of the wealthiest but the most unequal at the same time. Poverty, a lack of education and lack of opportunity creates crimes. Hence America's high crime rate. Funny how you must make it seem like theorc wants those specific groups pampered, yet the majority of Americas prisoners is in for non-violent crimes that have a huge sentence. Those also shouldn't be pampered but the cost of incarcerating them is enormous, while the US refuses to spend the same on helping its people. That is insane. Go watch the documentary Breaking the Cycle where an American prison warden goes to Norway, to experience their methodology. He is a conservative hardliner.
A huge reason for the prohibition of hemp came from William Randolph Hearst whom in the 1930s owned hundreds of acres of timberland. He wanted paper to be made out of that instead of hemp. Why? Cause he owned a huge chain of newspaper outlets. What’s better than just owning newspaper people buy? Have the factories that make the paper buy the timberland produced by you to make it
Interesting that you should pause the video and say, “That’s very interesting to me…” Mr Fry would say, “Quite Interesting perhaps?” Which is what QI stands for. Got you hook, line and sinker! It’s supposed to be interesting to you. This series is one of the best things to appear on TV and there is a wealth of funny stuff. You should try to find the discussion about why the Giant Tortoise didn’t get a scientific name for a long time, it’s absolutely hilarious.
Corey Taylor from Slipknot is a big QI fan, as well as just being an Anglophile in general. He was on one of Sandi's first episodes as well as making a couple of appearances on the 'No Such Thing as a Fish' podcast made by a few of the QI researchers (or 'QI elves' as they're known).
(You may be interested) I just discovered that David Mitchell has recently been in a lighthearted dramatic series called Ludwig, where he's a puzzle mastermind who solves crimes while pretending to be his missing identical twin, who's a policeman. It's only 6 episodes in total.
If I remember correctly idiots took Rabbits and Foxes to Australia, so they'd be able to ride to a local hunt like they did in England. You may want to see a video about the Rabbit fence that now splits Australia in half. They didn't learn - they did something similar later on with Toads.
@nicksykes4575 I think you will find more responsibility lies with the Normans. They were a valued source of meat and fur, and there were a number of predators who readily adapted to rabbit as prey, but of course those predators tended to be regarded as undesirable rivals for rabbits and game in leaner times. Around where I live, there was a large population on the South Downs of Sussex and competing for the same good source as sheep, and it was said that the typical topography of the Downs was maintained by sheep and rabbits. However 12-15 years the rabbit population crashed dramatically as a result of a new strain of myxomatosis and two harsh winters. The population has shown no sign of recovery, yet.
@@rgv666 No one ever hears the full story just remembers different bits and pieces. I looked up foxes and got this: Foxes were introduced to Australia in the 1850s for recreational hunting. They quickly spread across the country, reaching the Northern Territory by 1901 and Queensland by 1907.
I don't know what the figures are atm but when I last checked, some years ago, roughly 40% of the entire WORLD's prison population was in America! No other country comes close, even in per capita terms. As Stephen said, no other country in human history, has imprisoned as many of it's own people as the US does! Bear in mind that this includes Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, Mao's China and North Korea!
Crikey. Can't remember exactly when this episode came out, but I think at roughly the same time the figure was 25% of the world's prisoners were in the US. Can also recall learning about a particular law in certain states which allowed an alarming amount of private business influence on determining which crimes result in prison, and for how long. Completely coincidentally, those same business use prisoners to make their products... The process was an acronym of a common male name, but can't recall it. Shocking stuff.
@@KingBoomer almost afraid to tell you this but the us ranks nr 3 in the world in executions as well.....only iran and saudi arabia kill more of theire own people...now if you count foreign prisoners as well than at least its onyl nr4...cause...you know...russia...
@@KingBoomerthat's not true lol. China only executes handful of people in extreme cases like terrorism, mass murder or extreme corruption. North Korea yeah I totally I get lol they probably execute a lot of people.
@@wallythewondercorncake8657ahh so annoying, it's such a good way to get views and they just shoot themselves in the foot in the name of short term cash
If you can, try and find a whole episode of Qi to watch, as often the humour builds over a number of questions and interactions. If not- definitely try 'They say of the Acropolis' which is a segment I know is uploaded to YT, and is one of the funniest moments ever on the show.
Not sure about the blue crabs, but yes, we have a major problem with the 'American signal crayfish', originally farmed, which is breeding prolifically, & out competing with native species for food etc. A similar thing happened with the grey squirrel, which introduced a virus which killed off nearly all of the native reds. We have also had problems with introducing coypu [ a sort of overgrown, semi-aquatic guinea pig ] and mink as 'farmed' animals for fur. Escapees have caused chaos. Mink slaughter small mammals, & have no real predators, and coypu dig large burrows in riverbanks, which causes major problems. We now have widespread muntjac deer, which is a non-native species. A small herd were brought to a Stately Home in Bedfordshire, and some escaped. Our entire deer population now has to be controlled by culling. We have no predators for deer any more, apart from cars, there are no more wolves, or lynx etc.
The reason for the hemp thing is that it was seen as a direct rival for paper sold by logging companies. Put a lot of money into lobbying government and got hemp pretty much banned because of its association with marijuana smoking and a lot of racial epithets that went with it
A great reaction to a great show,thank you for this,one of the best and most thoughtful of it's type.Now I'm going to have to stay up half the night checking your channel.
When you watched the first one and said you were worried that it may be a little highbrow I thought given time it'll grow on you, it's just a really great show, funny thing is when Stephen was host Sandi was my favourite guest, and then she replaced him when he left, this is quite the rabbit hole too as there's an an enormous amount of episode's about 360'ish to date.
There's a company called Braintree, here in the UK, that makes hemp clothing and accessories (bags, satchels etc.). I've had loads of hemp clothing over the years. Jackets, T shirts, trousers, even socks (it's a very versatile fabric, not unlike linen and pretty hard wearing, but can also be made wool or cotton like). It's pretty good quality stuff. The label is dead cool. Company name and a marijuana leaf motif. They've got a big flagship store in Camden Market.
Randolph Hearst was "instrumental" in the prohibition of cannabis as it was seen as competition for paper printing with wood pulp Vs hemp pulp and of course, those newspapers he owned seemed to have a lot of articles linking hemp to violent crime... PS - "you can't say Mongoose anymore. It's Special Needs Goose".
You ain't dumb, buddy. Toads were introduced to Australia to kill Locusts - And somewhere along the line they forgot that locusts can fly, in exactly the same way that toads can't. Now they have a toad problem :-D
QI. stands for quite interesting and it has lots of faces you will know . The 'Elves' come up with some really obscure stuff and scores are penalised for obvious answers . Most contributors end up with minus points , you don't have to be clever to appreciate the humour . it's well worth watching more .
My family business was rope making from the 1830's. The hemp cigarette is still legal in the Caribbean island of Bequia. Sold behind the rum bars today.
NIce reaction, cool you are watching Qi Boomer! :) Btw Danish rivers and streams is also infested with American crayfish, they are everywhere by this point.
Hemp disappeared because, after Prohibition was repealed, the guy running the alcohol side (Anslinger at the Narcotics Bureau) was looking for something to do and settled on hemp - even though it was barely grown in the US at the time. It eventually got banned in 1937 although various states had already banned its use (in California, NYC and Texas largely as xenophobic laws targeting Chinese, Mexicans and so on). Indeed, the hemp prohibitionists even went on crusades to stop the Europeans from producing the stuff too. It was a stupid thing to do because, as was pointed out, it's an extremely useful plant.
DuPont were manufacturing many things that hemp already provided. A short while scheming and lobbying, and hey presto, hemp is on the trash heap and synthetic materials and hydrocarbons are human’s best friend. Money, money, money.
The USA has a privatised commercial prison system that requires a sustained prison population. It's a commercial requirement that people are locked up to maintain the indentured servitude of the prisoner system making it profitable. In the USA you can't afford rehabilitation, you want indentured workers, preferably trained in the system and then forced into service for the nation in forced labour. What business actively discourages their trained workforce from returning when their commercial success is dependent upon the workforce's compliance and forced service?
The global industrial hemp market size was valued at USD 7.90 billion in 2023 and is projected to grow from USD 9.47 billion in 2024 to USD 47.82 billion by 2032, exhibiting a CAGR of 22.44%.
Lots of mongooses in the Caribbean, particularly Jamaica. Introduced to control the rats (introduced by man, obviously!). Rabbits in Australia are a huge problem.
I don't know about elsewhere but a lot of the political pressure to ban hemp in the UK was funded by the linen industry. At the time linen was a high value cash crop mostly grown in Ireland but it requires very specific conditions and is extremely labour intensive so a plant like hemp which grows aggressively almost anywhere without much effort was a massive threat even if the cloth wasn't anywhere near the same quality. It didn't actually save the industry because cheaper cotton from America and India also produced softer but equally durable fabrics and couldn't be banned for fake "public health" reasons.
You're absolutely correct, the prohibition of the plant itself did cause a lot of other stuff to cease existing and hemp is a really good thing to make rope and clothes from, as well as a fairly good protein that doesn't taste like anything at all so if you flavour it it'll just taste like the flavouring. It's the best vegan protein source there is (and if you add some rice protein you have a full worthy protein with high absorption properties). I don't partake in the stuff either but it's a damn shame that we quit using it for all other things that it's great for.
You can buy hemp clothes which are really durable and natural but usually only sold by specialist stores or hippy shops. I try to buy natural fibre clothes because they feel good, last longer and are sustainable but they are increasingly difficult to find. Even 100% cotton isn’t the norm these days.
The law about growing hemp in the UK still stands, and you can still find hemp growing in feilds within the UK. It's still used for rope for ships in the navy, you can also buy clothes and bags made of hemp in the UK. Another animal that was bought over from the US to the UK was the grey squirrel, because it looked cute. The problem is, that it nearly killed off all of the native red squirrels in the UK. So it is legal to shoot grey squirrels in the UK, but not the red, as they are an endangered species.
You're right about the crayfish. The signal crayfish was introduced to Europe from North America to supplement local stock, but it carries a disease that kills European ones, as well as some local frogs etc. We're encouraged to kill (and eat) as many as possible.
QI is a lot of fun and indeed "quite interesting" however it's also quite humbling as a recurring theme is that everything you thought you know turns out to be wrong.
"Swaffelen" means hitting your soft or semi against an object or person. Not specifically the Taj Mahal. If anyone has seen any adult films will have seen against a face
On Christmas Day 1859 Thomas Austin released 13 wild rabbits on his farm at Barwon Park in Victoria. Austin was born in England where rabbit hunting was a popular sport and from that moment Australia had rabbit plagues. Then the fox was introduced to Australia from England as a sport during the 1860s and I believe to also counter the rabbits. They became an invasive pest species within 30 years. Today, foxes are widespread throughout most of mainland Australia. Foxes threaten Australia's agricultural and native species. The fucking Cane toads were introduced to Australia in 1935 to control agricultural pests, but proved to be ineffective. They adapted well to the Australian environment and spread quickly. They are now found in Queensland, New South Wales, the Northern Territory and Western Australia and are constantly on the move.
Well for me the best QI was when S Fry went thru all the things that the FACT's for had changed, and then readjusted the scores (I can not remember if Alans score went up or down but it changed a lot)
during the Victorians, They introduced American Grey Squirrels into stately homes. This decimated the native British Red Squirrels. to this say you wont find any red squirrels in England, you'll have to head up to Northern Scotland to see a red one. We now have American squirrels everywhere and are considered a pest. You are allowed to kill them.
Where I live there's muntjac. The species are not native, but escaped from a zoo a long time ago and thrived. They're pretty cute and harmless unless you like growing flowers and vegetables.
QI is a total rabbit hole. One letter of the alphabet per year and they are up to V. Check out "How the giant tortoise got its name", the only question that Steven Fry says went the way he expected.
Mongooses were introduced to exxterminate snakes, not rats or mice. The mongoose is notorious as a killer of cobras in Asia. The cobra strikes faster than the human eye can see, but the mongoose is faster...
QI is short for Quite Interesting. You get points for saying something interesting and get minus points for saying something obvious and therefore not interesting. It’s a fun show.
I think hemp was removed because an American politician had dealings with a wood product company and used legal controls to force the competition out. You might need to look up the details I can’t really remember so well.
We got your squirrels in exchange for the starlings. They have almost driven our native red squirrels to extinction. They were brought over as a curiosity.
You've found the compromise. It's a clip, but it's a long clip. I get that you can't get away with almost anything on YT, but in my opinion 20 mins+ is preferable even if it's a compilation. (QI in particular seems like a potential goldmine for you in that regard) ✌️👑
Just to clarify, the United States has the highest percentage of prisoners. The slave issue focuses on imprisoning black people because they have not fully acknowledged blacks as anything other than slaves, so puts them where they can be taken advantage of.
Black people are 12% of America. Black males are 6%. That 6% commits over 50% of America's homicides annually and of THOSE murders 94% are of other black males. And each prisoner in America costs the government (ie, the people) way more than his or her labour produces.
B people are 12% of America. B males are 6%. That 6% commits over 50% of America's homicides annually and of THOSE homicides 94% are of other B males. And every prisoner costs the government and public more than their labour recuperates. Stephen Fry bypassing the latter statistic because it isn't emotionally provocative and going straight to the impression created by listing the "tonnage" of finished product shows a remarkable level of emotional sleight of hand and intellectual dishonesty. I really liked that program when I didn't really know anything. It's saturated with misdirection and misinformation though fortunately most of its about the past.
That words used most thing only referred to tweets and you'd only really use "darn" in a tweet ironically, in other words if you wouldn't usually say it in normal speech
Everyone feels dumb when they start watching QI - it is after all where you discover how much you learned in school was incorrect. The trick is to keep watching......
Dutchie here. Clarkson almost got the term swaffeling (swaffelen) right. The actual definition is: "to hit one's soft or semi-hard penis-often repeatedly-against an object or another person's body". However a Dutch student did get in trouble for swaffeling the Taj Mahal in 2008 after uploading a video of it to TH-cam.
And yes we do have an insane amount of swear words. My favourite one is klootviool. It's a compound word of kloot (testicle) and viool (violin) meaning idiot/moron. You can also use it as a verb; klootviolen, which means failing miserably doing a basic task.
kloot (testicle) and viool (violin) means idiot or moron? I can only envisage that it means idiot because it refers to someone trying to play a violin with your testicles? Eew, or is it using a rosined up bow on your nutsack to try get a tune? I can imagine you'd get a sound out of it, but it's mainly vocal.
Klootviool has just earned itself a permanent place in my vocabulary
I know a Dutch guy here on Rhodes. I'll try this out. :)
And you could say it on Dutch TV, anything has been said on Dutch TV and a lot of foreign interviewees hold back but really don't need to. My favourite one is 'stoephoer' (sidewalk prostitute) because in Dutch it always has to be worse, and extra layer of insult added.
Funny thing is that the difference between The Netherlands and Belgium when it comes to swearing is that the Dutch use diseases, while the Belgians use religious words. Klerelijer (person who has cholera) kankermongool (cancer mongoloid), wishing typhoid on someone... One of my favorite Belgian swears is scheve lavabo (crooked sink) to say they like the booze a bit too much.
QI is a great rabbit hole to go down! Hopefully this reaction will be the first of many 🙏
American grey squirrels were introduced to the U.K. in the late nineteenth century, as a novelty in a stately home. They have devastated the indigenous Red Squirrel population.
theres a few in scotland
Another 19th century idiot introduced every bird mentioned by Shakespeare to Central Park. Most of them died out but the sparrows are out of control.
Sorry. Starlings.
Yep think red squirrels only exist on the Isle of Wight, that’s the only place I’ve ever seen them, half size of grey squirrels.
@@melissareohorn7436Good to hear Scotland still has the red squirrel, I didn’t know that👍
Sandy's shirt says "oh" and yours says "No". Oh no. 😂
Well-spotted, Madam!😊
Beat me too it 😂
Look at her face then imagine Tom Cruise and you will only see Tom cruise in drag from now on when you see her
lol Brilliant!
Murmuration is the word for the patterns starlings create in the sky.
The prohibition of slavery (13A) specifically excludes prisoners from the prohibition. This was at the height of chain gangs for the railroad, which cut costs massively.
It's stayed ever since.
Good. Prison isn't cheap.
@WreckItRolfe Indeed. It's cheaper to go to college and rent a single bedroom apartment, than to incarcerate someone. For death row prisoners, that's Ivy League college prices.
Given that "the land of the free" has the largest prison population in the world, housing 1% of the entire population, many for non violent crimes; it would be cheaper to house and educate them.
Food for thought.
Or not, given the "for-profit" nature of the majority of the establishments.
It is literally the reason why America has such an insanely large prison population.
America has 4.4% of the worlds population but 1 in 5 people in prison ON THE ENTIRE EARTH are in prison in America! (21% of the worlds prison population)!
@@theorc9098"it would be cheaper to house and educate the prisoner". Even if you started with someone you weren't rewarding for being a pdf file or a rapist with things that law abiding citizens can't always afford (but would have to pay taxes toward) but were just starting with a regular law abiding person, if the state, "big mother" if you will, baby's the individual and provides everything for nothing, 99 times out of a hundred the finished product is criminality, mental problems and self loathing. It isn't for the benefit of the the thief or unaliver or pdf file that we pay to have prisons in existence its for the protection of those they would be harming and justice (or at least acknowledgement and a degree of closure) for those they already have harmed or the families of those they have unalived.
@@rlawrence9838 You have been fed lies since you were a baby it seems. Holy shit. It's hard to unravel the stupidity of your comment, but let's give it a go.
You entirely misunderstood theorc's comment and are clueless about crime. The point theorc is making is that America wastes billions on putting people in prison instead of spending it on educating and housing regular people, like the rest of the civilised world does. Educated people commit fewer crimes, so you have fewer prisoners, which is cheaper and more tax money can be spent on the regular people. That is the food for though, but you go triggered into low earth orbit.
The assumption that a government supporting it's people creates criminals is disproven by the fact that the US has 20% of all prisoners in the world, as one of the wealthiest but the most unequal at the same time. Poverty, a lack of education and lack of opportunity creates crimes. Hence America's high crime rate.
Funny how you must make it seem like theorc wants those specific groups pampered, yet the majority of Americas prisoners is in for non-violent crimes that have a huge sentence. Those also shouldn't be pampered but the cost of incarcerating them is enormous, while the US refuses to spend the same on helping its people. That is insane.
Go watch the documentary Breaking the Cycle where an American prison warden goes to Norway, to experience their methodology. He is a conservative hardliner.
I love Qi, try to watch some complete episodes, it's totally worth it ❤
A huge reason for the prohibition of hemp came from William Randolph Hearst whom in the 1930s owned hundreds of acres of timberland. He wanted paper to be made out of that instead of hemp. Why? Cause he owned a huge chain of newspaper outlets. What’s better than just owning newspaper people buy? Have the factories that make the paper buy the timberland produced by you to make it
Lol I commented above; also oil companies as hemp was a viable fuel source and ironically renewable ✍🏻 I may be wrong 😂
...and hemp grows at a far faster rate than trees, so hemp growers can grow more hemp for cheaper than lumber growers.
I do believe that it was the reason that Marijuana is illegal - To be in possession of, it is not illegal to smoke, I had to explain this to my father
@ I love this conversation is because of a reaction to a TV show on TH-cam. Crazy world 🤣
Hearst, *who owned... [he was the owner, he owned - not "him owned..."]
Interesting that you should pause the video and say, “That’s very interesting to me…” Mr Fry would say, “Quite Interesting perhaps?” Which is what QI stands for. Got you hook, line and sinker! It’s supposed to be interesting to you. This series is one of the best things to appear on TV and there is a wealth of funny stuff. You should try to find the discussion about why the Giant Tortoise didn’t get a scientific name for a long time, it’s absolutely hilarious.
Has me absolutely rolling in laughter everytime I see that clip!
I’m just replying to try and push your comment up the algorithm.
@@DJHGamingwe need Boomer to see that.
Especially as Sean Lock is on that one
Corey Taylor from Slipknot is a big QI fan, as well as just being an Anglophile in general. He was on one of Sandi's first episodes as well as making a couple of appearances on the 'No Such Thing as a Fish' podcast made by a few of the QI researchers (or 'QI elves' as they're known).
(You may be interested)
I just discovered that David Mitchell has recently been in a lighthearted dramatic series called Ludwig, where he's a puzzle mastermind who solves crimes while pretending to be his missing identical twin, who's a policeman.
It's only 6 episodes in total.
If I remember correctly idiots took Rabbits and Foxes to Australia, so they'd be able to ride to a local hunt like they did in England. You may want to see a video about the Rabbit fence that now splits Australia in half. They didn't learn - they did something similar later on with Toads.
Blame the Romans for the Rabbits, if they hadn't brought them to the UK they couldn't have shipped them off to Oz.
How do you ride a rabbit or a fox they are way too small
I seem to recall they took rabbits to Oz for cheap food and some escaped into the wild?
@nicksykes4575 I think you will find more responsibility lies with the Normans. They were a valued source of meat and fur, and there were a number of predators who readily adapted to rabbit as prey, but of course those predators tended to be regarded as undesirable rivals for rabbits and game in leaner times.
Around where I live, there was a large population on the South Downs of Sussex and competing for the same good source as sheep, and it was said that the typical topography of the Downs was maintained by sheep and rabbits.
However 12-15 years the rabbit population crashed dramatically as a result of a new strain of myxomatosis and two harsh winters. The population has shown no sign of recovery, yet.
@@rgv666 No one ever hears the full story just remembers different bits and pieces. I looked up foxes and got this: Foxes were introduced to Australia in the 1850s for recreational hunting. They quickly spread across the country, reaching the Northern Territory by 1901 and Queensland by 1907.
I don't know what the figures are atm but when I last checked, some years ago, roughly 40% of the entire WORLD's prison population was in America! No other country comes close, even in per capita terms. As Stephen said, no other country in human history, has imprisoned as many of it's own people as the US does! Bear in mind that this includes Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, Mao's China and North Korea!
Right but those countries you mentioned don’t need prisons because they just execute the vast majority of their prisoners lol.
Crikey. Can't remember exactly when this episode came out, but I think at roughly the same time the figure was 25% of the world's prisoners were in the US.
Can also recall learning about a particular law in certain states which allowed an alarming amount of private business influence on determining which crimes result in prison, and for how long. Completely coincidentally, those same business use prisoners to make their products...
The process was an acronym of a common male name, but can't recall it. Shocking stuff.
@@KingBoomer almost afraid to tell you this but the us ranks nr 3 in the world in executions as well.....only iran and saudi arabia kill more of theire own people...now if you count foreign prisoners as well than at least its onyl nr4...cause...you know...russia...
@@KingBoomerthat's not true lol. China only executes handful of people in extreme cases like terrorism, mass murder or extreme corruption. North Korea yeah I totally I get lol they probably execute a lot of people.
Land of the Free! Ha ha
If you like British observations on the USA , I beg of you to watch Daniel Sloss clip about swearing (and why Americans cant). You will love it!
Wish more people reacted to the slossauge lol to be fair not many clips on TH-cam of his best stuff
@@EAssassinsI like a clip called Daniel Sloss Religion
@@EAssassins They tend to get claimed, that's why people don't react to them
@@wallythewondercorncake8657ahh so annoying, it's such a good way to get views and they just shoot themselves in the foot in the name of short term cash
Tommy tiernan says it best
Yay QI! I love when you react to these. Would love some full episodes
BBC copyright, well them and Endemol.
@@garethbrown9191it's primarily Endemol that's the problem.... they're well known for it.
@@Snaakie83 Considering the rubbish that Endemol produces you'd forgive them if they let the good stuff go.
If you can, try and find a whole episode of Qi to watch, as often the humour builds over a number of questions and interactions.
If not- definitely try 'They say of the Acropolis' which is a segment I know is uploaded to YT, and is one of the funniest moments ever on the show.
I've watched that so many times, and it never gets old
Not sure about the blue crabs, but yes, we have a major problem with the 'American signal crayfish', originally farmed, which is breeding prolifically, & out competing with native species for food etc. A similar thing happened with the grey squirrel, which introduced a virus which killed off nearly all of the native reds.
We have also had problems with introducing coypu [ a sort of overgrown, semi-aquatic guinea pig ] and mink as 'farmed' animals for fur. Escapees have caused chaos. Mink slaughter small mammals, & have no real predators, and coypu dig large burrows in riverbanks, which causes major problems.
We now have widespread muntjac deer, which is a non-native species. A small herd were brought to a Stately Home in Bedfordshire, and some escaped. Our entire deer population now has to be controlled by culling. We have no predators for deer any more, apart from cars, there are no more wolves, or lynx etc.
You got our starlings we got your grey squirrels .
and we are playing tennis batting piers morgan between us because nobody wants the prick.
And in Australia we got the rabbits and the foxes.
@@robosock380And cats.
@@robosock380yep,sorry about that! Would it have been fair if it was a swap for emus? I understand they're quite a nuisance👍
@@martindunstan8043 Little colonies of wallabies that have escaped from zoos crop up from time to time, but haven't reached a problem scale yet.
The reason for the hemp thing is that it was seen as a direct rival for paper sold by logging companies. Put a lot of money into lobbying government and got hemp pretty much banned because of its association with marijuana smoking and a lot of racial epithets that went with it
A great reaction to a great show,thank you for this,one of the best and most thoughtful of it's type.Now I'm going to have to stay up half the night checking your channel.
That's the good thing with QI , it's a fun show , and you learn things 👍🏼
When you watched the first one and said you were worried that it may be a little highbrow I thought given time it'll grow on you, it's just a really great show, funny thing is when Stephen was host Sandi was my favourite guest, and then she replaced him when he left, this is quite the rabbit hole too as there's an an enormous amount of episode's about 360'ish to date.
There's a company called Braintree, here in the UK, that makes hemp clothing and accessories (bags, satchels etc.). I've had loads of hemp clothing over the years. Jackets, T shirts, trousers, even socks (it's a very versatile fabric, not unlike linen and pretty hard wearing, but can also be made wool or cotton like). It's pretty good quality stuff. The label is dead cool. Company name and a marijuana leaf motif. They've got a big flagship store in Camden Market.
Yessss more QI !
Randolph Hearst was "instrumental" in the prohibition of cannabis as it was seen as competition for paper printing with wood pulp Vs hemp pulp and of course, those newspapers he owned seemed to have a lot of articles linking hemp to violent crime...
PS - "you can't say Mongoose anymore. It's Special Needs Goose".
You ain't dumb, buddy. Toads were introduced to Australia to kill Locusts - And somewhere along the line they forgot that locusts can fly, in exactly the same way that toads can't. Now they have a toad problem :-D
Cane toads were introduced to kill the cane beetle. Not sure where the idea of locusts comes from.
@@alanhogg9939 Cane Toads is a great documentary .
Rabbits too
QI. stands for quite interesting and it has lots of faces you will know . The 'Elves' come up with some really obscure stuff and scores are penalised for obvious answers . Most contributors end up with minus points , you don't have to be clever to appreciate the humour . it's well worth watching more .
My family business was rope making from the 1830's. The hemp cigarette is still legal in the Caribbean island of Bequia. Sold behind the rum bars today.
NIce reaction, cool you are watching Qi Boomer! :) Btw Danish rivers and streams is also infested with American crayfish, they are everywhere by this point.
Same in Japan
Hemp disappeared because, after Prohibition was repealed, the guy running the alcohol side (Anslinger at the Narcotics Bureau) was looking for something to do and settled on hemp - even though it was barely grown in the US at the time. It eventually got banned in 1937 although various states had already banned its use (in California, NYC and Texas largely as xenophobic laws targeting Chinese, Mexicans and so on). Indeed, the hemp prohibitionists even went on crusades to stop the Europeans from producing the stuff too. It was a stupid thing to do because, as was pointed out, it's an extremely useful plant.
By the way the word "canvas" is derived from the Greek word "cannabis". That's how synonymous hemp was with sturdy textiles.
Another great QI moment on TH-cam(featuring David Mitchell and Sean Lock) is called something like “How did the giant tortoise get its name?”
Introducing a species to get rid of another one always reminds me of the old nursery rhyme: "she swallowed a fly" :)
DuPont were manufacturing many things that hemp already provided. A short while scheming and lobbying, and hey presto, hemp is on the trash heap and synthetic materials and hydrocarbons are human’s best friend. Money, money, money.
You should watch the QI Series i, Episode 7 Incomprehensible with Brian Cox and Ross Noble talking about Ewoks.
QI is a brilliant show ❤ the amount of times I've said "I saw on QI that ......."
The USA has a privatised commercial prison system that requires a sustained prison population. It's a commercial requirement that people are locked up to maintain the indentured servitude of the prisoner system making it profitable.
In the USA you can't afford rehabilitation, you want indentured workers, preferably trained in the system and then forced into service for the nation in forced labour.
What business actively discourages their trained workforce from returning when their commercial success is dependent upon the workforce's compliance and forced service?
The global industrial hemp market size was valued at USD 7.90 billion in 2023 and is projected to grow from USD 9.47 billion in 2024 to USD 47.82 billion by 2032, exhibiting a CAGR of 22.44%.
MORE QI used to watch all the time as a kid with the fam. deff a light watch, doesn't take itself too seriously
Hemp was a massive industry and as fuel as oil - the oil industry got hemp banned for their profits, I think a fair few decades back ✍🏻
I love how you keep saying "this is very interesting stuff...", the Qi in Qi stands for Quite interesting :D
Lots of mongooses in the Caribbean, particularly Jamaica. Introduced to control the rats (introduced by man, obviously!). Rabbits in Australia are a huge problem.
I don't know about elsewhere but a lot of the political pressure to ban hemp in the UK was funded by the linen industry. At the time linen was a high value cash crop mostly grown in Ireland but it requires very specific conditions and is extremely labour intensive so a plant like hemp which grows aggressively almost anywhere without much effort was a massive threat even if the cloth wasn't anywhere near the same quality. It didn't actually save the industry because cheaper cotton from America and India also produced softer but equally durable fabrics and couldn't be banned for fake "public health" reasons.
You're absolutely correct, the prohibition of the plant itself did cause a lot of other stuff to cease existing and hemp is a really good thing to make rope and clothes from, as well as a fairly good protein that doesn't taste like anything at all so if you flavour it it'll just taste like the flavouring. It's the best vegan protein source there is (and if you add some rice protein you have a full worthy protein with high absorption properties).
I don't partake in the stuff either but it's a damn shame that we quit using it for all other things that it's great for.
You can buy hemp clothes which are really durable and natural but usually only sold by specialist stores or hippy shops. I try to buy natural fibre clothes because they feel good, last longer and are sustainable but they are increasingly difficult to find. Even 100% cotton isn’t the norm these days.
A quick google tells me that hungary, Czechia, Slovakia and Poland lea the European prison rates by quite a margin.
Its probably been mentioned earlier...sorry if this is a repeat...but the starlings flocking in unison is called murmuration. Cheers!
You got starlings... we got the grey squirrel. 😮
In the early days it really was semi-serious, but they were finding their feet then, before settling down on the more fun format.
The law about growing hemp in the UK still stands, and you can still find hemp growing in feilds within the UK. It's still used for rope for ships in the navy, you can also buy clothes and bags made of hemp in the UK.
Another animal that was bought over from the US to the UK was the grey squirrel, because it looked cute. The problem is, that it nearly killed off all of the native red squirrels in the UK. So it is legal to shoot grey squirrels in the UK, but not the red, as they are an endangered species.
The show is awesome honestly
Forget an Elf on a Shelf at Christmas I think what you said should be made. A "Muppet on a Chair", for the Christmas dinner table centrepiece. 🤔
You're right about the crayfish. The signal crayfish was introduced to Europe from North America to supplement local stock, but it carries a disease that kills European ones, as well as some local frogs etc. We're encouraged to kill (and eat) as many as possible.
We do have a problem with the red signal crayfish, also, the grey squirrels have all but replaced the native red squirrel.
QI is a lot of fun and indeed "quite interesting" however it's also quite humbling as a recurring theme is that everything you thought you know turns out to be wrong.
"Swaffelen" means hitting your soft or semi against an object or person. Not specifically the Taj Mahal. If anyone has seen any adult films will have seen against a face
On Christmas Day 1859 Thomas Austin released 13 wild rabbits on his farm at Barwon Park in Victoria. Austin was born in England where rabbit hunting was a popular sport and from that moment Australia had rabbit plagues. Then the fox was introduced to Australia from England as a sport during the 1860s and I believe to also counter the rabbits. They became an invasive pest species within 30 years. Today, foxes are widespread throughout most of mainland Australia. Foxes threaten Australia's agricultural and native species. The fucking Cane toads were introduced to Australia in 1935 to control agricultural pests, but proved to be ineffective. They adapted well to the Australian environment and spread quickly. They are now found in Queensland, New South Wales, the Northern Territory and Western Australia and are constantly on the move.
Well for me the best QI was when S Fry went thru all the things that the FACT's for had changed, and then readjusted the scores (I can not remember if Alans score went up or down but it changed a lot)
QI is the absolute best show on TV! ❤
Who can't admire the ambition of a show whose first series/season was "A" 😅
Introduced to UK also the Zander fish. Foreign bees, I think there are no English bees left and they have been replaced by Italian bees.
There are farms in the UK that are licensed to grow hemp for applications that don’t involve inhaling. Any other growing is (very) Illegal.
Hemps great for heavy uv sun apparently and also apparently has antibacterial properties so is great for hospital bedding
I have fished with hemp in the 70s .
The big flocks of starlings perform a murmuration.
Amazing to watch if you have some hemp!😅
Thats why its called QI, Quite Interesting.
Yes American Cray fish are an invasive spieces. Like the Grey squriel population to native red squriels.
And the native red squirrel in the UK is under threat by the American grey that was introduced to the UK 👍🏼
Please do QI with Jonny Vegas and Cornflakes. Its hilarious, you will love it.
during the Victorians, They introduced American Grey Squirrels into stately homes. This decimated the native British Red Squirrels. to this say you wont find any red squirrels in England, you'll have to head up to Northern Scotland to see a red one. We now have American squirrels everywhere and are considered a pest. You are allowed to kill them.
Where I live there's muntjac. The species are not native, but escaped from a zoo a long time ago and thrived. They're pretty cute and harmless unless you like growing flowers and vegetables.
Yes. Mini deer.. I've seen them in London near Epping Forest.
Most deer species found in the UK were introduced at some point. I think only red and roe are native.
A127. Heaving with them!
Harmless until the run out in front of your car in the middle of the night. Lots of them around our way.
08:10 I believe you meant to say 'This is quite interesting'. ;)
Hemp isn't used anymore because plastics are cheaper..
American grey squirrels were bought to the UK for food, but some got loose into The fields, now the UK Is covered by them,
Perhaps the Starlings were revenge for the Grey Squirrels ?
Yeah, I was about to mention that invasive U.S. animal.
QI is a total rabbit hole. One letter of the alphabet per year and they are up to V. Check out "How the giant tortoise got its name", the only question that Steven Fry says went the way he expected.
Mongooses were introduced to exxterminate snakes, not rats or mice. The mongoose is notorious as a killer of cobras in Asia. The cobra strikes faster than the human eye can see, but the mongoose is faster...
i wonder why the 'NO.' on his T-shirt has a full stop/period on it
I've seen this a lot over the the last few years
I’ve got a hemp backpack that I bought in Greece it’s class
QI is a fantastic show, entertaining AND you learn a lot of things you were taught or thought to be correct are wrong 😂
Check out the Cane Toad introduced TO Australia. Did what you expect to the environment and also led to a major drug problem.
QI is short for Quite Interesting. You get points for saying something interesting and get minus points for saying something obvious and therefore not interesting. It’s a fun show.
This was fun.
I think hemp was removed because an American politician had dealings with a wood product company and used legal controls to force the competition out. You might need to look up the details I can’t really remember so well.
Not just interesting stuff. But QUITE interesting😊
We got your squirrels in exchange for the starlings. They have almost driven our native red squirrels to extinction. They were brought over as a curiosity.
Oop! King Boomer’s planning a “hemp hunt!”.
You've found the compromise. It's a clip, but it's a long clip. I get that you can't get away with almost anything on YT, but in my opinion 20 mins+ is preferable even if it's a compilation. (QI in particular seems like a potential goldmine for you in that regard) ✌️👑
“Oh!”-Sandi Toksvig.
“No.”-King Boomer.
Just to clarify, the United States has the highest percentage of prisoners. The slave issue focuses on imprisoning black people because they have not fully acknowledged blacks as anything other than slaves, so puts them where they can be taken advantage of.
I think they typically imprison black people when they commit crimes, rather than because they consider them slaves.
Black people are 12% of America. Black males are 6%. That 6% commits over 50% of America's homicides annually and of THOSE murders 94% are of other black males. And each prisoner in America costs the government (ie, the people) way more than his or her labour produces.
B people are 12% of America. B males are 6%. That 6% commits over 50% of America's homicides annually and of THOSE homicides 94% are of other B males. And every prisoner costs the government and public more than their labour recuperates. Stephen Fry bypassing the latter statistic because it isn't emotionally provocative and going straight to the impression created by listing the "tonnage" of finished product shows a remarkable level of emotional sleight of hand and intellectual dishonesty. I really liked that program when I didn't really know anything. It's saturated with misdirection and misinformation though fortunately most of its about the past.
hemp and marijuana are actually different plants. hemp leaves, while looking the same, have very low thc levels. in uk you can still get hemp rope
Cane toads in Australia
Isn't your declaration of independence signed on hemp paper
That words used most thing only referred to tweets and you'd only really use "darn" in a tweet ironically, in other words if you wouldn't usually say it in normal speech
I like the show, it is Quite Interesting!
The 13th amendment explicitly doesn't make slavery illegal for prisoners.
Many happy hours I have spent watching QI …..and realising how pig ignorant I actually am….
Q.I. IS A GREAT AND FUNNY SHOW!!! YOU WILL LEARN A WHOLE LOT!!!! AND KNOW MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU KNOW!!!🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
Everyone feels dumb when they start watching QI - it is after all where you discover how much you learned in school was incorrect.
The trick is to keep watching......
Foxes were introduced to Australia for English gentlemen to hunt
Introducing cane toads to Australia in 1930s was a really bad idea.