QI XL Full Episode: Roaming | Series R With Sara Pascoe, Josh Widdicombe and Benjamin Zephaniah
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- QI XL Full Episode 11: Roaming | Series R With Sara Pascoe, Josh Widdicombe and Benjamin Zephaniah
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Rest in peace, Benjamin. I hope you have your typewriter next to you.
Fun fact: In the original Willy Wonka (written by Roald Dahl) movie (with Gene Wilder), the musical code to open the door to the world of pure imagination was a riff from Rachmaninoff.🤓❤️😊
Captions, please????
The "odd child" in more ways than one😂😂 Sad, the "model" made $10 but the artist made... oh so much more
10:23 Best answer to a question on the show.
About the piano hand size thing around 22:50 - to me the solution sounds dead easy - just make more than one size of piano? Big piano for big hands, small piano for small hands. Every hand size can play the same music, if they have the skills. Wasn't this an obvious option even back then?
I just looked it up and that this does exist today, the standard for the smallest size is called DS5.5 but it's a surprisingly recent innovation.
A piano is a really expensive instrument to have custom sizes for. Besides, many pianos aren't personal instruments like a violin, flute, or guitar, since it's not an instrument you can easily pick up and bring with you. It's much more practical to just make everything standardised. Plus, it'll be difficult for a pianist to have to get used to a new keyboard size when they perform at a new venue, and having many pianos for each key size doesn't make much sense when a concert grand piano can cost more than a house.
I think it's more about practice than genes. I am a pianist with those rare huge hands. My siblings, who didn't study piano professionally, have the exact same hand shape as mine, but theirs are much smaller.
@@maisar4563 that's anecdotal, and I can't find anything online to support it. It's just a coincidence that in your family the one who plays piano has bigger hands.
Benjamin
So...... Sandy is actually bigger than a Blue Whale????? DAMN!!!!!!!!!!
Lake Havasu City, current home of The London Bridge, with ye olde timey English pub village on the land side of the bridge, it goes out to an artificial island. Lake Havasu City, where you go to Fry in HeLL before you die, kind of a dry run, before they can dig a pit deep enough for you in HeLL, just ask my dad and step-mom. LOL
First to say r.i.p benjamin
But was he buried with a typewriter?
Hopefully @@richardvinsen2385
it's really difficult to lose these bright lights in our world. A man of words, he moved minds and hearts, he laid open a view of the world so many could enjoy, admire and relate with, we've lost a very bright light in our world. Rest in Prose Uncle Benjamin.
@@RIXRADvidzDid an AI write this?
@@Christopher_Pug nope, just my rotted old brain, sadness in words
@23:00 C-F (in the next octave :), so 16 notes? My hands aren´t that big?? But Sandi said notes.. so.. that would be18 notes. Am I a freak? Sarah got 15 (but I think that was a joke, I see her reaching C-D, which is 13), so she still has more than Rachmaninov, 12 notes, only one octave?? Big hands for his time? Some huge mistake? And then there is a bias against women bit, while the only woman on the panel has the highest span... I am confusion.. Measuring hands.. 7.874016 inch, 20cm.. Record is 12.75 inch.. Confusion again? These measurments do not make sense.
Why is Alan's name spelled "Davies" but pronounced "Davis?"
Short answer: it's a Welsh name.
@@JervisGermane But Ray Davies, as far as I've always heard, is pronounced "Davies."
Didn't the Romans also invent the sitcom?
The actual invention was religious INtolerance, he just rediscovered it within a Christian Context. F.ex. The Vikings never ever had any form of "Missionary" position of telling others what to believe. They traded with the Egyptians and.. They just thought.. "Oh so these are YOUR Gods. and what they expect of you.... Well.. these are our Gods and what they expect of us... ".. They may have had some ideologies that they stood by to the point where they would not have suffered others to "break" those rules, like f.ex. one of the greatest insults you could give a viking was to say they lied or cheated.. especially in business.. but generally speaking they treated everyone as equals UNTIL there was an actual conflict.
A lot of history is viewed from a western lens, and I kind of think that is also true when it comes to the discussion of the idea of "Social security".. I agree that the idea that everyone in the community should have their right to live (food and housing and so on) existed LONG before, but that is more a matter of how things worked within a "tribe".. We are one tribe, what we do is as parts of the community.. you kind of have to invent the "family unit", and "money" before you can talk about social security.. I think it's not so much a matter of this being overlooked as.. This is a different reference-frame where things worked differently, so as an invention it kind of still was "True" that these people invented it within that specific context.. PERHAPS reinvented it, or "invented a new framework for an old idea"..
It can be very difficult to say for sure that anything ever is invented, as most new things are just BARELY building something new on things that already existed.
@18:40 unitarianism, as it is read out (edict of Turda) was not about freedom of belief, but freedom of preaching.. (freedom of evangelising., even against the wishes of the people being evangelised) Freedom of belief would include the right to NOT be bothered by anyone´s opinion about the existence or non-existence of any theory. Still revolutionary, but only the first step on a long way. This is how I always interpreted freedom of religion. Seems in the beginning it was a given that you believed in SOME GOD.. We could just argue about details.. It is like in a true democracy, you have the right NOT to vote..
You have to start somewhere
"it's too bad that brown people didn't write things down in English for colonizers to find decades later. We can't just take their word for it!"
I love sarcasm❤
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