QI Compilation | Best Of Cats
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"That's not my area of expertise"
Best part.
I am planning to start using that as a euphemism for it. 'The area that is not of Stephen's expertise' perhaps.
That was a brilliant line :-)
Stephen fry is just the best
BadAssMutha006 🤫
It is mine
The cat injury from falling study is an interesting one. It was measured by how many cats were treated by a vet. Do you see the problem with their conclusion?
I was hoping someone would notice that. Vets don't treat dead cats
Classic Survivorship bias
Weren‘t they counting injurys?
You don't bring a dead cat to a vet.
Still, the fact that there were ANY survivors from a 7+ storey fall is impressive.
"He launched cows through the air"
*audience laughs*
"Dead cows"
*audience disgusted*
So launching live ones is better?
Well, it's funnier.
Yeah, the audience got a little Moo-dy. I'll see myself out.
Suppose that the cow dies during launch and is then dead when flying. Is that launching live or dead cows?
@@ordelian7795 either way it's animal abuse.
They were laughing at Alan.
I should note that CC actually stood for both 'Copy Cat' and 'Carbon Copy'.
CC also gave birth to kittens in 2006.
were they all called copy copy then? or carbon cat? i prefer carbon cat....
Cody Nemo tortoiseshell Cat fur expression is epigenetic and X-chromosome dependent, so the cloned cat expresses differently than the original due to external factors.
@@nemo-x It's actually the academic go-to example of epigenetic X-chromosome inactivation.
Weird, huh?
@@nemo-x As a freshly graduated microbiologist, I wish you the best of luck! You're gonna have so much fun :)
@@mukeshcuster Carbon Cat sounds like a superhero
Thought he was going to say "cat" is derived from the Latin word "cat" for a second.
Late Latin for cat is cattus, not catulus, which always meant puppy. The original etymology of "cat" is highly uncertain. The English word may in fact hark back to proto-Germanic, and it's possible the Romans got the word from the ancient Germanics rather than the other way around.
All we really know is that this animal is called by similar names across a wide span of unrelated languages. No one really knows with whom the word originated.
@@the-chillian It seems probable that it's Afro-Asiatic in origin (e.g., Nubian "kadis", Berber "kadiska", Arabic "qitt")
@@SeventhEve That's a possibility, but no one really knows. Similarity alone isn't enough to establish a relationship, nor to indicate the direction of that relationship.
Your profile picture is haunting o_o
@@the-chillian Catullus was one of those boring old bastards that wrote loads of shit poetry in Latin.
Or was that Virgil?
At first I thought QI somehow made a crossover with 8 out of 10 cats.
Felis catus, the scientific name for the house cat, translates to kitty cat
Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature.
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses
Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses...
RIP Grumpy Cat
Wait what? GC died????
😿
Good riddance.
Bastard.
Now now ... it's my fault I watch your videos while drinking tea, I admit that, but it's YOUR fault I spit tea on the computer screen !
Hillarious! Well done !
The cat in front of Mao
seems to be taking a
Great Leap Forward.
Itll need more than 9 lives
Why does this not have a million likes? Genius.
"And they ate it."
That had me dying 😂😂
Massive survivor's bias on the last factoid though. Obviously, if a cat falls short enough, you don't need to call the veterinary because it's not hurt, and if it falls from too high and gets hurt, you'd call a guy with a shovel.
David Gustavsson 🤫
David Gustavsson 🤫
No, no, you misconstrued. The vets themselves were dropping cats from various heights and recording the results. ;-)
@@TallSilentGuy We have enough cats falling out of windows themselves; we don't have to.
Though if you have the cats that survived, recording the floors that they fell from will produce a curve, the inverse of which will display probable lethality.
I got twenty quid somewhere...
I've got £20, get me Beas agent ASAP!
I've got £ 30,-
themadplotter 🤫
fisher king 🤫
Alan's expression when stephen says ''seventh floor..and like a parachut''
Room to swing a cat.
"But only if it was a reasonably patient cat and didn't mind a few nasty cracks about the head."
- Douglas Adams.
My sister’s cat fell off the roof of their house (four storeys) and broke lots of bones. It would be five storeys up, going off the sidewall. She lived into her 20s, but spent months living in a small cage, to heal.
Aisling Bea is so gorgeous !
yes she is, a very hot woman with bedroom eyes. Even hotter when she's wearing glasses, showing off her eyes even more
I simply love QI!!!
Great compilation! :D And, yeah, RIP Grumpy Cat. :(
Not true. The 'Mao' in 毛泽东 (Mao Ze Dong) is 2nd tone, while the Mandarin word for cat 'mao' (猫) is 1st tone. So while they may be the same when transliterated without tonality - which you would normally include with pin yin - they are definitely not the same in the original Mandarin, neither character- nor pronunciation-wise.
Cancelled
Didnt understand a word you just wrote
I dont think he actually thought that it meant both cat and hat at the same time.
Stuff4Physios I wouldn’t want you at the Comedy Store!!!!
@@solomanyamin2876 I'm pretty sure that he did :-) The thing about the phrase 帽子里的猫 (mao4zi li3 de mao1) is that 帽子 does mean hat, and 猫 does mean cat, so that 毛泽东的帽子里的猫 (mao2ze2dong1demao4zili3demao1) means the cat in Mao Zedongs hat; but the characters are not the same, and the pronunciations differ on tonality, which in Mandarin Chinese makes them very different words.
For comparison, there are around 120 different words that in pinyin (phonetic transliteration method of written Chinese (meaning we write their pronunciation of Chinese characters with letters)) are spelled 'yi', if you leave out the difference in tones. For 'shi' there are about 60, if memory serves me right.
It's the single hardest thing to understand when you first start acquainting yourself with Mandarin Chinese: That the tone with which a word is pronounced changes the semantics of that word, and that so many words sound exactly alike, but change meaning anyway when you change the character associated with it.
Anywho, long story short: Yes he did, and no they don't.
Surprised that Alan didn't suggest experimenting with a blue-whale instead of a cow!
Actually, there's a slight error in the question about Chairman Mao. Mao, first tone, means cat, but Mao's name was pronounced with the second tone and means hair or fur.
I remember the first cat we ever had, a Siamese named Cleo. She was a kitten when she came to our home. I was 7 years old, the eldest of three kids; I had two younger sisters. So this cat was well accustomed to playing with children and was a near constant companion to us. One day, my sisters were walking their dolls in a baby stroller. When they got tired of the stroller and left it in the garage, me and my friends decided to take it out and see if we could use it as a catapult. We thought we could do this by releasing it at the top of a straightaway down a hill, and whatever we put in the carriage part would go flying out when the stroller crashed into the curb at the bottom of the hill. We were trying with things like basketballs or soccer balls and getting nowhere because the whole idea was silly. However, on one of the attempts Cleo suddenly appeared and jumped up on top of the stroller and rode it down the hill, and just at the moment it crashed into the curb she jumped as hard as she could, nearly crossing an entire yard at one leap. She loved it, and so did we! I can remember running in to tell our mother what we'd done, and she was almost ready to punish us for cruelty to the cat, because our description of it sounded horrible. But as soon as we started to move the stroller into position to show her, Cleo jumped right up onto it and did her thing!
Cats are fucking weird! Oh and by the way, the new film version of their famous musical will be in cinemas before Christmas. It stars Judi Dench, Idris Elba, James Corden and Jennifer Hudson, et al. Should be fun.
It was not fun :(
@@lunaborea indeed, it was a huge disappointment.
Well that didn't age quite so well...
I loved reading your recollection of Cloe though!
Had a friend accidentally put his cat in the dryer. The cat had a habit of talking naps in there, he turned on the dryer to fluff some clothes and heard the thumping noise, wondered what it was and opened the door and the cat shot out like a bolt of lightning. The dryer wasn’t on for very long but he said it wasn’t the same after and didn’t live much longer unfortunately.
:^(
That's horrible, wish I hadn't read that. You do have to look out for cats hanging out in dangerous places. Cats get harmed by being inside cars for example.
that’s horrible
Shit I kinda wish I didn't spend that £20 now.
How the hell was Clive so right about the parachuting thing, and the exact heights too, wtf
Also that's amazing that cats can survive any 7+ storey fall. And from planes even, as Stephen mentioned. That is truly amazing.
Not if you shoot the little shites with a shotgun on the way down - that usually seals it for them....
@@gazzaclarkson2547 It would be so good to say something about your being first up for target practice...
I'm not sure the message was that they can survive 'any' fall above that height, just that it is more likely.
That story about “cat” coming from the Latin for “dog” is amusing, but it’s wrong. The modern English word “cat” derives from Old English “catt” (male cat) and “catte” (female cat), which in turn come from a proto-Germanic root (*Katzus and *Katon have been hypothesized), which ultimately is probably from a proto-Indo-European root that is most likely also the ancestor of Latin “cattus.”
Gary Cooper They had something about the half-life of QI facts ages ago, didn’t they? Alan got hundreds of points in compensation.
Truth is its very difficult to pin point the origin of most words, therefore most is just educated guesses.
Tbf your theory is no more valid than theirs
Ghelma : Sure, all my theory (not really mine; I’m just citing it) has going for it is a mountain of documentary evidence and the consensus of thousands of etymologists and lexicographers. Other than that, it’s no better than the cutesy line on the TV show.
Katon: Gokakyuu no Jutsu
Anyone know what Clive was about to say about rabbits?
their young are known as kittens ..... all i can think he was going to say.
that they are vicious bastards
I thought young rabbits were called coneys.
Only by hobbits.
@@egggoboom no, coney is rabbit, hence Coney Island, island of rabbits. Don’t remember why, look it up.
Not gonna lie... but when they started about the cloned cat, and the kitten's name CC standing for 'Copy Cat', I legit thought it was CC, like for Email, where it stands for 'Carbon Copy'.
Lol! And it works, as cats are carbon-based life forms! 😆
I was expecting more Jimmy Carr, Rachel Riley and Susie Dent.
I think they tried that once, but it got out of hand...
you're after 8 out of 10 cats does countdown :)
@@steve17bf2 that's the joke :p. Hence, cats
@@jaxlaxsurprise "I was expecting more Jimmy Carr, Rachel Riley and Susie Dent." What joke?
@@steve17bf2 PtolemyJones was expecting Jimmy, Rachel, and Susie because this video is about cats and they're on Cats Does Countdown.
Those Dogs and Cat look like they're posing for a gig poster for their Beastie Boys tribute act. The Beastie Pets.
4:51 so what they're telling us is that there's more than one way to spin a cat?
Man, if the idioms are any indication, humanity has historicaly been a dick to cats.
They know what they did.
If 2020-21 has taught us anything, there are many ways to spin cats - particularly dead ones.
I love Allen trying to pussyfoot around saying ‘Nine lives’ and the Klaxon isn’t having a word of it
The Latin for cat is felis. Like feline. "Cat" comes from Proto-Germanic. "Catulus" does mean puppy though, and Roman poet Catullus' name is from there.
RIP Grumpy cat. You will live on through the Internet
Cats + QI = my internet safe space
”And they are it.” 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Stephen would prefer that explanation about swinging cats because he doesn't like cats. Neither does Sandy. There's a theme there.
My cat fell from the 3rd floor, came back 2 days later, uninjured but pregnant 😂
thank god she landed on that tom cat's dick
Fell on to an obliging male cat perhaps?
“a lovely mahogany” i adore him
I think my cat (see profile pic) might have channelled the richest cat
"Cattus" means "cat" not "Cattulus" which means "cub" in english. Don't know where the QiElves got "cattulus = dog"
Stephen said that the Romans used 'cattulus' for puppies, then for dogs.
I also thought terminal velocity was generally around 120mph, not 60mph.
@@AtomicWadey27 Terminal Velocity is the maximum velocity an object will achieve without assistance under 1 G. A feather will never reach 120mph on Earth. A cat has a different weight/mass/profile than humans so a different maximum velocity
@@Gerry1of1 ahhhh OK. That makes sense, thankyou!
@@Gerry1of1 for a human yes its about 120. But terminal velocity differs from object to object due to difference in buoyancy and drag. Now i dont know what the terminal velocity of a cat is so i cant say if they are right when they say its 60 mph but its very likely that it is much different than that of a human
4:19 I really like that color combination Stephen's wearing
Its ok dude no shame of being colour blind
@@zooobaaa9314 I actually am, hahahahahaha
Really?) May I ask, how does is look to you considering it looks good? Like, he is wearing either-blue-or-green with fuxia with bright yellow? Or maybe blue with smth bright with smth light?
Echoes from Monty Python & the Holy Grail there....
Since the falling cat study was done in the USA, British cats need to subtract one floor.
The cat was thinking “ well this jub realy went to the dogs, I’ve got to get out of here”
"...Turkish and arabic it's 6..." well I am Turkish, living in Turkey and I've only ever heard of it as 9.
I thought CC would mean Carbon Copy.
Chairman Mao isnt the same word for cat. Its a homophone. (猫) is the character for cat, while (毛) is the surname for Mao Zedong, but the latter (毛) is a root word for hair (毛发), or feather (羽毛), and even a unit of money (一毛钱). The two characters are pronounced with different tones.
people like cats
cats like houses
cats like those who give the best scratchies
If they do a second compilation, they have to do Alan's cat bit from Series S
Now they didn't make it clear if that's a UK or American seventh floor, as in the USA they tend to start with floor one as the ground floor whereas in the UK it would be counted as floor zero.
Good point.
I wanted to hear Cliive's point about the word 'rabbit'!
I would have assumed cat calling had something to do with the use of puss, but it started as a term of endearment between friends and family, more akin to calling a little girl kitten. Then later on purse/pocket slang came around for lady parts, then that was twisted back to the pour cat, something warm soft and furry.
"The Whole Nine Yards" = an idiom of unknown origin meaning a status of total commitment, or covering all matters related.
Apparently it is "The most prominent etymological riddle of our time",
and if Wikipedia doesn't hold the answer
than there isn't one.
The best I’ve heard is that the ammunition belts for the .50 machine guns in a P51 Mustang fighter was 9 yards long.
@@SvenTviking if that isn't true it should be
@@SvenTviking Damn beat me to it. Pilots that went the Whole Nine Yards literally shot every last round they had before landing.
@@SvenTviking The first recorded use of the phrase is from about 30 years before the P51 went into production so a highly unlikely origin unfortunately
I thought it was WW1 machine gun belts.
"Cows. I'd like to see cows"
8:26 fuck me, what an unexpected blast of nostalgia!
Felis Catus
is your taxonomic nomenclature
An endothermic quadruped
carniverous by nature
Your visual, olfactory,
and auditory senses
Contribute to your hunting skills
and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued
by your sub-vocal oscillations
A singular development
of cat communications
That obviates your
basic hedonistic predilection
For a rhythmic stroking of your fur
to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential
for your acrobatic talents
You would not be so agile
if you lacked its counterbalance
And when not being utilized
to aid in locomotion
It often serves to illustrate
the state of your emotion
Oh Spot,
e complex levels of behavior you display
Denote a fairly well developed cognitive array
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
For a second there, I was scared to death that a Broadway fan channel has snuck into my subs...
I have bad news from the future the Broadway musical is superior to the movie version. The movie version is cursed.
Cat's just in the dryer constantly falling landing on the dryer paddles. It's Schrodinger's dryer.
What is the terminal air speed velocity of a tabby cat?
i feel like that's something some wizened bridgekeeper would ask a buncha knights, one of whom has a crown on his helmet
@@CorvusCorone68 pass!
European or African?
Depends what you mean by "terminal".
Blue. No. Pink!
4:28
Hey look it’s Martin Freeman!
Cats were called dogulus in Rome 😂
But dog is "canis", isn't it?? That was one of the first things I ever learned in my Latin lessons. "Quintus tacet. Sol ardet. Canis tacet." Quintus is silent, the sun is burning, the dog is silent, I don't remember much else of those six years lol
Edit: ohh wait okay they say it means puppy, that's made the world right again
Wait. Alan hasn't met "Grumpy Cat"?
RIP Tardar Sauce
The cat falling thing from higher floors is probably survivorship bias.
01:52 - Because if you pet it right you can really get her purring.
Cats are better than dogs.
RIP the cameraman, killed by a very cross cat just after that photo was taken 😄
Where did I put that twenty miaow
At 4.58, Stephen Fry starts talking about a cat that was cloned and shows a picture of the kitten and the original cat behind him. If clones are supposed to be identical to the original animal, why does the kitten have different markings?
It's down to the X chromosome carrying the info for the black/orange markings, in female cats you have two (X-X), but only one chromosome of those gets used in each cell...so the fur patterns will always be kind of random. I'm sure epigenetics plays a part too, but that was after I left uni.
Pretty sure if it was a male cat (X-Y) it would look identical to the clone.
" where's your mom?"
" Upstairs watching too many hours of that British Jeopardy show,but they can talk dirty and use the F word".....replies the kid.
******* EXACTLY******😁
I had heard that nine yards was the traditional measure of a shroud.
Also, doesn't "whole nine yards" come from the nine yards of fabric it takes for a tailor to make a full suit?
I heard it was from machine gunners in American WW2 bombers. The ammo belt was 9 yards in length.
4:27 Fry looks like a proper plebian, whats happenin with his hair 😯
That cat is like seriously what the fuck people.
Fallacy of the New York study on "floors". Buildings in NYC vary in floor-to-floor height by up to 3 feet, some have "ground" floors, some have first-floors over half-buried basements, some have their "first" floor 16 feet in the air... garbage-in-garbage-out
"The whole 9 yards" if I remember correctly comes from anti aircraft guns. They had 9 yards of shells on a belt so if you used of them you gave it the whole 9 yards. I could be wrong, Someone Google it !
Close!...Not ANTI-aircraft guns, but rather the ammo belts in the aircraft guns themselves. A pilot might (for example) say "I gave him the whole 9 yards but he still got away!"
Sigh... google it and you'll find out where is not definitive origin for this phrase, just lots of made up stories.
Somebody posts a comment and suggests people google it? Why not take the time to google it first, then post a comment? And try a book, not google, which is just full of the worthless opinions of plebs.
The "whole nine yards" is from bolts of cloth: THe entire bolt used to have nine yards of fabric.
for some reason i remember it being from kilts, bc you had to use a lot of fabric - hence the whole nine yards. but maybe it's a similar enough root, like you bought the whole bolt for it
I always heard it came from the First World War and that a standard machine gun belt would be around 9 yards when laid out. So when the enemy came into no mans land you’d give them the whole 9 yards.
I reckon that the cat looks cross because it is behind Alan Davies's head who likes dogs and not cats, lmao, xxxx
In an episode of QI Alan talks about taking his 2 cats to the vet. :)
As much as I hate to be a pedant…
Mao’s name was written 毛澤東, is surname being 毛, which is pronounced máo, with a rising inflection. Mao written this way means “hair” or “fur”. On the other hand, the word for cat is 貓, which is pronounced, as Stephen rightly said, with a high, flat inflection. So really they’re two completely separate words.
In Turkey cats are said to have nine lives too. Never heard anyone saying six.
7:25 why the hell did we need that apostrophe?
Singular possessive noun. The lap of a cat hater. If you had wanted to say the laps of many cat haters, it would be cat haters'. You're welcome.
Why is there a butcher's apostrophe in the klaxon caption "Cat-Hater's"?
I wanna know what the rabbit fact was gonna be!
Bastet is watching you with malevolence in her heart ("mad f88k ing cat lover").
Surprised nobody said "It's raining cats and dogs" with that last one.
I stilll want to know where "the whole nine yards" comes from
In regards to the 7th floor, the study is a failure in one way, it probably doesn’t account for the fact more cats after the 7th die. This is a study where ‘injured cats’ are treated, i.e. The cat can be saved. Less injurues after the 7th floor means the cats are more likely to die rather than survive with an injury. I have a vague recollection that this was covered either by QI or another youtube video based on hidden statistics.
People who say they don't like cats, have never had one of their own. So, they should be saying "I don't like other peoples' cats." Once you have one of your own, you will change your mind.
Cat #1 - Trafalgar
Cat #2 - Maxine
Cat #3 - Buster
The first ever air raid siren
If Aisling was serious about that I'll make it fourty.
Hell I'd make it fifty five for her to purr every now and then
Fun fact, I can purr and my friends are obsessed with it
Another thing I heard about cats lives is, if dying of natural causes, they often slink away to die. So perhaps a superstition arose that, because you didn't find your cats body, it didn't die just disappeared. Maybe
Does your cat scratch people. No, worse. She judges you.
4:10 Swinging a dead cat was a superstitious folk remedy that was believed to cure warts.
Cat-Haters Cat-Hater's. FTFY.
You missed the point. Look at the context. The apostrophe is correct. See answers above.
No klaxon for "cat o' nine tails"?
it was a simpler time
well logically that is where the phrase came from, just because somewhere in text swinging a cat is noted 30 years earlier than mention "cat-o'nine tails" doesn't mean they aren't talking about the same thing. I'm sure the flail weapon was used before they mentioned it in a book or text somewhere, just silly logic. Yes, room to swing a cat obviously doesn't mean someone was swinging an actual cat, but a flail weapon that needs lots of room to actually swing it properly. Oh, one is mentioned in 1665 and the other 1695. Amazes me that smart people are actually very stupid sometimes.