@@DonoVideoProductionsNo he's not. He's a predictable safe "edgy" comedian who spouts the system's status quo talking points. He's about as savage as Banksy.
@@skymanifest8339 You sound like a bitter rival comedian. And just what status quo talking points did he "spout" here? Or indeed, in general? He's an observational comedian, rarely political, so I don't know what you're on about.
@@HiArashi13 I really thought the delivery of that zero echoed the zero which I said five hours earlier. If you've been following along, you can understand what it foreshadows...
Each book has 1,000,000 zeroes (according to google), so you could finish it if you read the second one 1 trillion times per second for 3.17x10^75 years
@@matthewryan4844yeah, I totally accept that it’s still not feasible to read due to time constraints but my point was about how it could be shown in written form without using all of the particles in the universe.
You'd probably need a third volume to finish it off, since the second volume would be unlikely to have the exact number of zeros needed to bring it to exactly a googolplex.
@@mbossaful each has a million zeroes, assuming volume 1 has exactly 1 million characters including the 1, after finishing the trillions versions of volume 2 you would need exactly 1 extra zero in volume 3. I am publishing it here: 0
When Bridget went "oof" after seeing the googol written out, I first thought she was just baffled by how large the number was. But when she started covering her eyes I realized this must be a case of that circle phobia thing.
If each book has 400 pages with 50 lines per page and 50 zeros per line and weighs 100 grams, the entire set of books would weigh more than everything in the visible universe by a factor of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
@@lilymarinovic1644 have you seen the way he talks about his grandmother? He pontificates, dresses and carries himself like a fantasy thriller serial killer. Gives me the creeps. Lost his seat though hahaha
I feel bad for Bridget, having her phobia set off on several different episodes - and then having to find a way to joke about it so she won't bring the episode to a screeching halt. She was genuinely funny with her jokes about it, but it's difficult to be upbeat when you're so anxious.
At first I was surprised because the black on white zeroes didn't look that much like holes to me, but I can see it more with the white on black (and thicker) zeroes she reacted to when they showed a googol earlier.
Why doesn’t she seek help? Because there are so many objects with lots of holes close together. She won’t be able to look at Donald Trump’s face for that reason alone.
It would be too short because all you'd get is this moment and both her admission to the phobia and her honeycomb reaction in the "Public and Private" episode.
I know this series is old now, and they've been doing this for years, but in hindsight they really shouldn't be using the Guinness World Records as an authority on, well, anything really. If you look up their history, and especially the company's current iteration, its obvious that GWR is a marketing tool rather than an authority on anything other than novelty records. Like, in this example, the GWR record probably doesn't even need mentioning.
I think Ross and Norris were originally trying to compile a compendium of interesting records. They tended toward the weird because their publishing competition was things like Ripley's Believe It Or Not. But the popularity of that genre faded. And they removed all the "dangerous" records for fear they would get sued if someone got injured or killed trying to break one of the records. That made it a lot less interesting. They moved it online, so editing for space was no longer a consideration. And so, it has devolved into, "give us money and we'll tell you that your stunt is a record, provided you pass some arbitrary threshold we set, which we will keep low so you'll actually pay us."
I have the 1992 edition and the rot is already setting in, some records are thinly disguised ads. It's still pretty dense with a lot of content. I looked at a book years later, it was clear they had cut most of the records. Each one took up way more page space.
@@nope.0. Mine were older than that. I thought I still had them but I can't find them. Some of them had Ross's name on them and he died in 1975. Much better than the more modern editions.
That Googleplex number is ridiculously insane, I remember this from when I first watched this XL episode. Awwwww poor Bridget lol, three questions all of which are a trigger for her across three episodes. I’m sure there was another one in the last series gone (U Series). To be honest, as a migraine sufferer, that book when Sandy was flicking through the pages did give me a headache and made me feel a little queasy.
1:21 What's stupidest is the colossal amount of wasted paper in that book because he doesn't even bother using the whole page, just a relatively small fraction of it for the zeros. The pages of the book on the screen behind them uses the space far more effectively.
Yep, came here to say exactly the same thing lol half the fricken pages are blank!! 🤣🤣 and, why not use font size 2 or 3, something barely legible, yet still recognising its all 0's
The amount of wasted paper in the book is 100%, quibbling over the particular space-saving measures that could have been employed seems redundant when it could simply not exist.
Why dont these videos have subtitles? It's rare, in my experience, for youtube videos to not have subtitles, and this is a QI channel so one would expect they would have little issue facilitating them. It's quite annoying for thosr of us who rely on them
There are other similar books that are printouts of Mersenne Primes that are extremely long prime numbers, lots of digits, and they're just page after page of what are effectively random integers one after the other. But in terms of practical use, there's the old logarithm table books that we used before people had calculators.
When I was in high school, the most boring book according to the Book of Lists was A Pilgrim’s Progress, followed closely by Moby Dick. Apparently there’s been competition to create even more boring content in the forty-plus subsequent decades…🙄🤦🏽
"Despite everyone pretending they have it" Well ...i dont have it, but i do know that phobias are caused by people convincing themselves something is scary, even when that thing is objectivly not So yeah ...everyone pretending they have it is generally how MOST phobias work 😂
@@TonySpike Phobias are generally formed after unpleasant experiences involving the phobic stimulus or are linked to evolutionary survival mechanisms (spiders or snakes, for example). Just in case anyone actually wanted to know how they work. You can look up the two-process model of phobias for more information :)
That reminds me. About a year or so ago, I was curious about how long a movie would be if it was 10x10 in resolution and each pixel was pure binary, either black or white. And played at 24fps and no frames could be repeated. That's easy, I thought, it's 2^100. That's... Uhm... 1 267 650 600 228 229 401 496 703 205 376 frames. Or... 122 169 779 615 * the age of our universe... Assuming our universe is 13.7billion years old. In the end, I reduced it to 4x4 and could render out a breezy 43 minutes of footage. Exponential growth really goes out of control really fast.
There are 2¹⁶ = 65536 distinct 4×4-pixel 1-bit images. So the longest video you could make with all different frames would be 65536 frames long, which at 24 fps is 45 minutes, 30⅔ seconds. In general, for an m×n-pixel image with k bit depth, there are kᵐⁿ distinct images. For instance, the highest resolution TH-cam supports is 7680 × 4320, and I believe 24-bit color depth. (HDR doesn't seem to be supported at 8K resolution.) So there are 24³³¹⁷⁷⁶⁰⁰ ≈ 3.11 × 10⁴⁵⁷⁹²⁰⁹⁶ distinct frames. At the maximum frame rate of 60 fps, it would take 1.64 × 10⁴⁵⁷⁹²⁰⁸⁷ years of footage to show every one. And at the minimum frame rate of 24 fps, it would take 4.11 × 10⁴⁵⁷⁹²⁰⁸⁷ years.
The only correct answer is a book called Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. I would rather read the googleplex book until the end of time and count how many zeros were on each page than the first chapter of that dross. If anybody who sees this has read that book, you have my utmost respect, you crazy mad bastard you.
With one number per second, counting to 1,000,000,000 takes just under 32 years. However, already after 27 hours, when you're getting to the hundreds of thousands, it would become very difficult to utter the number in only one second.
"googol": A very large and useless number that was named by a nine-year-old child and is chiefly remembered because Carl Sagan mentioned it in an episode of _Cosmos._
I believe it’s only a problem if they are consecutive identical numbers, so she’d just need to keep the balances at a random amount instead of just zeroes If any holes of any kind were a problem, she wouldn’t even be able to read this comment because of all the letters in it that have holes in them
come on. it's not the heaviest reading material in the world if it doesn't really exist. They could have had the decency to add in what the heaviest reading material that physically exists is. At least the smallest book is real.
What Is The World's Most Boring Book? | QI 1306pm 30.9.24 have they that many...jokes, that is? if they're owt like me they don't do jokes just make weary or sarcastic comments... or innocent quips which seem to send the topic up for discussion to the four winds rendering it a flippant topic up for discussion. i probably think the germans are the most sarcastic folk in the world................. i cant look at tightly packed holes without feeling angsty or angry. i do enjoy taking it out on crumpets, though...
@@EebstertheGreat Comments on ‘What Is The World's Most Boring Book? | QI’ 0523am 1.10.24 that's a decent idea for an app.. to reference what it is the conversation is relating to... if your of a mind re: litigation and such... especially in america where they try to sue the ass of anything that moves.... i would say if you received any messages between 11pm last night and 5am this morning they weren't from me as i was fast asleep, being haunted by the dreams of morphias...ie: i am having trouble with douche bags accessing my accounts due to their desiring that i do not exist other than as a vicarious whimsy...as they stand out side my home sticking leaves to the window... it's worse than Emmerdale and axes... good luck!!
@@JJONNYREPP I'm talking about you. I'm asking why you keep pasting the full title of the video into your comments, along with a timestamp and stuff. It's weird.
🤔Wonder how many book signings and readings the Author has done to promote volume one? Pretty sure the number is much smaller then a Googolplex. Hopefully no one is working on a screenplay for a movie either!😂
Metro-Goldwyn-Moscow purchased the movie rights for a googol rubles, changing title to "The Eternal Number", with Scarlett Johansson playing part of decimal notation
@@nicholasperrin3241 I wasn't having a go at her. I just noticed this and it made me think shr was making it up. I'm pretty sure it's not an accent issue by the way.
I feel bad for her because people don't see it as an actual problem. Instead of praising her for not bringing it to a halt, point out how the producers obviously knew about it and booked her for it. And the ones laughing at her were also shitheads. Is it irrational? Yes. That's what phobias are. Shame on all of them. Screw saving your career making people feel good if you don't care about people feeling horrible at the jokes you make.
@@hive_indicator318 Does she go off when thinking about your handle that has the word hive in it because she thinks about what a bee hive looks like? What about if those had all been 8's instead of 0's? Those are just tinier holes. FFS!
@@hive_indicator318 to be fair, they may not have realised paper zero's would be something she also disliked. if you look up trypophobia the common examples are physical holes like honeycomb. a lot of ppl say their fear is that there's something IN the holes which wouldn't be possible with a 2d zero. the fact they got rid of the image immediately after was good too
The googolplex is NOT the "largest number ever named".. Though it is (Well; I haven't thought about it or looked it up.. it PROBABLY is).. the biggest actual finite "definition":able number named.. but.. Reality is that there isn't ONLY "infinity" (which is "named") but.. if you look into the concept of infinity there are different TYPES of infinity.. so.. there are infinities that ARE bigger than other types.. (and that is beyond things I tend to debate related to infinity where I am rather pointing out that you AREN'T talking about ~actual~infinity, rather "a number big enough and that is constantly growing to the point that numbers that DOESN'T relate to this huge number will become so small that they will be infinitesimal in nature).. So.. You can't just bunch infinity together and say that "it is a number that doesn't exist" but it is a BUNCH of numbers.. most of which have specific properties, and different TYPES of infinities (that are named) may be bigger or smaller than other types.
it's not an aversion to a single circle, its an aversion to repetitive patterns that involve holes (or i guess in this case, circles) usually it's things like honeycomb or holed sponges but I guess in this cast bridget also didn't like the zeros being close together in the book
Well it might be the heaviest book, but as for most boring substantive book, that title goes to the bible. Great work of fiction, lots of murder, rape, incest, war, death and for some reason some resurrection. And lots of Begatting. It is simply boring.
@@nunyanunya4147 Ah yes, the dyslexic defence. I have dyslexia, try again :) You just have to try a lot harder than most to pronounce and spell words properly.
@@Ryno2094 .... thank you for proving my point. your persistence to your mentality is applaudable. didn't mention I was dyslexic... ill stop replying since you are arguing my side with out me speaking. may you find the peace you tell others you bring them. shalom
@@nunyanunya4147 If dyslexia isn't part of it then just spell and pronounce things properly perhaps. I do not claim to bring peace to any, I just expect a higher standard than whatever this "tryophobia" brainrot is. People pay tax to watch some clown fake a condition.
I genuinely lost all respect (not that I had much to begin with TBF) for Bridget when she got the name of her phobia wrong. Given how much she f*cking moans about it you'd think she at least learn the name.
James's closing remark really pulls it all together
James is uber savage!
@@DonoVideoProductionsNo he's not. He's a predictable safe "edgy" comedian who spouts the system's status quo talking points. He's about as savage as Banksy.
@@skymanifest8339 You sound like a bitter rival comedian. And just what status quo talking points did he "spout" here? Or indeed, in general? He's an observational comedian, rarely political, so I don't know what you're on about.
it was the slow burn as she pictured it and slowly realised what he was saying
@@skymanifest8339 Though I completely disagree with it, this totally unnecessary dunk on James did make me laugh. It sounds so personal.
I'm waiting for the audio book to come out.
The audio book is remarkably short. "One googolplex."
I've heard it's great for insomnia
@@EebstertheGreat No, that's the abridged version. We want full version. With commentaries from the author.
@@JaneAustenAteMyCat or as a torture device.
@@HiArashi13 I really thought the delivery of that zero echoed the zero which I said five hours earlier. If you've been following along, you can understand what it foreshadows...
The best thing about the book is that, after 400-odd pages of 0s, the last page reads "This page is intentionally left blank".
Also love in the very last book after the last zeroes it just says "the end".
The book only needs two volumes. The second volume is all zeros and is read multiple times.
Each book has 1,000,000 zeroes (according to google), so you could finish it if you read the second one 1 trillion times per second for 3.17x10^75 years
@@matthewryan4844yeah, I totally accept that it’s still not feasible to read due to time constraints but my point was about how it could be shown in written form without using all of the particles in the universe.
You'd probably need a third volume to finish it off, since the second volume would be unlikely to have the exact number of zeros needed to bring it to exactly a googolplex.
@@mbossaful Well if every book has a million zeros exactly then no as a googolplex is divisable by a million without needing decibles
@@mbossaful each has a million zeroes, assuming volume 1 has exactly 1 million characters including the 1, after finishing the trillions versions of volume 2 you would need exactly 1 extra zero in volume 3. I am publishing it here: 0
I love the wide margins they used to made an impossible book even longer.
When Bridget went "oof" after seeing the googol written out, I first thought she was just baffled by how large the number was. But when she started covering her eyes I realized this must be a case of that circle phobia thing.
If each book has 400 pages with 50 lines per page and 50 zeros per line and weighs 100 grams, the entire set of books would weigh more than everything in the visible universe by a factor of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
that's quite interesting, and very very dull
@@samsowden which compliments the subject of the video very very well.
The autobiography of Jacob Rees-Mogg.
I’d rather read those zeros!
I think that's a stephen king novel
@@JonasHamillor like something from Dickens, but from.the point of view od the nasty rich snobs.
@@lilymarinovic1644 have you seen the way he talks about his grandmother? He pontificates, dresses and carries himself like a fantasy thriller serial killer.
Gives me the creeps. Lost his seat though hahaha
Wasn't he the MP for the 19th Century, pre-abolition of slavery?
My first thought for the smallest book was the little book of calm, but bill isnt there.
Love my copy 😂😂
I feel bad for Bridget, having her phobia set off on several different episodes - and then having to find a way to joke about it so she won't bring the episode to a screeching halt. She was genuinely funny with her jokes about it, but it's difficult to be upbeat when you're so anxious.
Bringing the episode to a screeching halt would probably be the best way to stop the producers doing it every time she comes on.
@@willh2690 I have a MUCH better solution! Stop bringing the cringingly unfunny Ms Christie on the show.
At first I was surprised because the black on white zeroes didn't look that much like holes to me, but I can see it more with the white on black (and thicker) zeroes she reacted to when they showed a googol earlier.
Why doesn’t she seek help? Because there are so many objects with lots of holes close together. She won’t be able to look at Donald Trump’s face for that reason alone.
What a garbage made up phobia to cry about for attention
I want a compilation of Bridget Christie's tryPophobia on QI
Weird she doesn't know the name of it.
It would be too short because all you'd get is this moment and both her admission to the phobia and her honeycomb reaction in the "Public and Private" episode.
I don't.
It's like they keep trying to freak her out.
Next time she's on, they'll probably get Courtney Love on as well !
(I can wait,)
@@likebot. Or maybe Bridget mispronounced it because she was under duress? After all, she only dropped the first P.
James's eyes are circles.
I know this series is old now, and they've been doing this for years, but in hindsight they really shouldn't be using the Guinness World Records as an authority on, well, anything really. If you look up their history, and especially the company's current iteration, its obvious that GWR is a marketing tool rather than an authority on anything other than novelty records. Like, in this example, the GWR record probably doesn't even need mentioning.
The problem is that sometimes, you do need an authority on novelty records to point at.
I think Ross and Norris were originally trying to compile a compendium of interesting records. They tended toward the weird because their publishing competition was things like Ripley's Believe It Or Not. But the popularity of that genre faded. And they removed all the "dangerous" records for fear they would get sued if someone got injured or killed trying to break one of the records. That made it a lot less interesting. They moved it online, so editing for space was no longer a consideration. And so, it has devolved into, "give us money and we'll tell you that your stunt is a record, provided you pass some arbitrary threshold we set, which we will keep low so you'll actually pay us."
I have the 1992 edition and the rot is already setting in, some records are thinly disguised ads. It's still pretty dense with a lot of content.
I looked at a book years later, it was clear they had cut most of the records. Each one took up way more page space.
@@nope.0. Mine were older than that. I thought I still had them but I can't find them. Some of them had Ross's name on them and he died in 1975. Much better than the more modern editions.
That Googleplex number is ridiculously insane, I remember this from when I first watched this XL episode. Awwwww poor Bridget lol, three questions all of which are a trigger for her across three episodes. I’m sure there was another one in the last series gone (U Series). To be honest, as a migraine sufferer, that book when Sandy was flicking through the pages did give me a headache and made me feel a little queasy.
Googolplex is tiny, try TREE(3)
1:21 What's stupidest is the colossal amount of wasted paper in that book because he doesn't even bother using the whole page, just a relatively small fraction of it for the zeros. The pages of the book on the screen behind them uses the space far more effectively.
Yep, came here to say exactly the same thing lol half the fricken pages are blank!! 🤣🤣 and, why not use font size 2 or 3, something barely legible, yet still recognising its all 0's
@@pablohassan6897 Why would you? What difference does it make how large the font is?
I'm not sure that's *the* stupidest part of it
I don't know if is less wasteful to use a smaller amount of paper before you run out of ink, or a smaller amount of ink before you run out of paper.
The amount of wasted paper in the book is 100%, quibbling over the particular space-saving measures that could have been employed seems redundant when it could simply not exist.
I went to my computer with a bowl of cheerios in hand...and stumbled into watching this!
Now you're just TRYING to set off her phobia 😏
Why dont these videos have subtitles? It's rare, in my experience, for youtube videos to not have subtitles, and this is a QI channel so one would expect they would have little issue facilitating them. It's quite annoying for thosr of us who rely on them
I see James Acaster, I click. Simple as that!
It's not available in print yet, it's still being written. 😊
I thought for certain Sandi was going to break out something by Ayn Rand.
There are other similar books that are printouts of Mersenne Primes that are extremely long prime numbers, lots of digits, and they're just page after page of what are effectively random integers one after the other.
But in terms of practical use, there's the old logarithm table books that we used before people had calculators.
Can't wait til it comes out on video
I'm guessing you could probably rub your fingerprints flat if you tried to read it in Braille.
Does it come with a bookmark, please?
Vogon poetry? 😅
Spoiler: Teeny Ted wins the Biggest Turnip Contest.
I thought the heaviest reading material was something from Eric Pickles😂
Reading a sequel before the prequels? Tush! I will wait for the 10^(10^100)-1 books are released.
When I was in high school, the most boring book according to the Book of Lists was A Pilgrim’s Progress, followed closely by Moby Dick. Apparently there’s been competition to create even more boring content in the forty-plus subsequent decades…🙄🤦🏽
Moby Dick is a great book. All my whaling knowledge came from chapters of that book.
Pilgrim’s Progress! They socked that to us at school, I loathed it! 💩👎👎
Surely not that many decades, ha :)
@@davebuchan81 it sure feels like it sometimes…😂
@@JosephFerreira-vw5yd Yeah, I'm not in great shape myself these days lol... I'm too young to be this fucked up... ha
Bridget has "trypophobia" not "try-ophobia" and it is real, despite everyone pretending they have it.
She's definitely full of shit
A word that has closely spaced loops.
@@ianstopher9111 The people naming phobias have a cruel sense of humor. Just look at aibohphobia or hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
"Despite everyone pretending they have it"
Well ...i dont have it, but i do know that phobias are caused by people convincing themselves something is scary, even when that thing is objectivly not
So yeah ...everyone pretending they have it is generally how MOST phobias work 😂
@@TonySpike Phobias are generally formed after unpleasant experiences involving the phobic stimulus or are linked to evolutionary survival mechanisms (spiders or snakes, for example). Just in case anyone actually wanted to know how they work. You can look up the two-process model of phobias for more information :)
That reminds me. About a year or so ago, I was curious about how long a movie would be if it was 10x10 in resolution and each pixel was pure binary, either black or white. And played at 24fps and no frames could be repeated.
That's easy, I thought, it's 2^100. That's... Uhm... 1 267 650 600 228 229 401 496 703 205 376 frames.
Or... 122 169 779 615 * the age of our universe... Assuming our universe is 13.7billion years old.
In the end, I reduced it to 4x4 and could render out a breezy 43 minutes of footage.
Exponential growth really goes out of control really fast.
Now consider how large of a number of frames that a 1920 × 1080 pixel image with 256 bit RGB color space could produce.
There are 2¹⁶ = 65536 distinct 4×4-pixel 1-bit images. So the longest video you could make with all different frames would be 65536 frames long, which at 24 fps is 45 minutes, 30⅔ seconds.
In general, for an m×n-pixel image with k bit depth, there are kᵐⁿ distinct images. For instance, the highest resolution TH-cam supports is 7680 × 4320, and I believe 24-bit color depth. (HDR doesn't seem to be supported at 8K resolution.) So there are 24³³¹⁷⁷⁶⁰⁰ ≈ 3.11 × 10⁴⁵⁷⁹²⁰⁹⁶ distinct frames. At the maximum frame rate of 60 fps, it would take 1.64 × 10⁴⁵⁷⁹²⁰⁸⁷ years of footage to show every one. And at the minimum frame rate of 24 fps, it would take 4.11 × 10⁴⁵⁷⁹²⁰⁸⁷ years.
The only correct answer is a book called Labyrinth by Kate Mosse. I would rather read the googleplex book until the end of time and count how many zeros were on each page than the first chapter of that dross.
If anybody who sees this has read that book, you have my utmost respect, you crazy mad bastard you.
Still more useful than the Autobiography of Hodor
Everything is better with James Acaster... he even makes NOTHING sound funny.
He is one of the good modern comics. I like his stuff too. Sharp and piss taking lol
Well, I don't usually spoil books for others, but I will spare you the long read and tell you that it ends with a 0
Ulysses, i never was able to finished it
I always find the Shakespeare discussion fascinating, but yeah, at some point reading it becomes a chore ...
What a waste of paper. Trees died for that.
That book doesn’t have any more or less objective value than a ‘normal’ one. They are all wastes, looking at it without bias.
nobody cares about trees anymore
Most paper companies plant more trees than they cut down. So if anything it was good for trees!
Paper is probably the best material to “waste”. It’s made from dirt, sunlight and air. Call me a bigot but tree lives don’t matter.
Bridget as a posh lady dating younger James would be an hilarious show, I think.
That sounds like a fun 5 minutes of Bridget saying 'This must end.' in various ways
@@LolTollhurst .. that could be the name of the show... viewers and critics could also go to town on that .....
With one number per second, counting to 1,000,000,000 takes just under 32 years. However, already after 27 hours, when you're getting to the hundreds of thousands, it would become very difficult to utter the number in only one second.
after five minutes, it would be very difficult to utter the numbers in only one second 😂
Can't wait for the sequel
the Googolerplex, 2Fast2Googly
Wolfgang should do a collaboration with John Cage. They could record a googol seconds of silence.
That is just over 3×10⁹² years.
Rounded down to the nearest 10⁹².
@@Lord_Skeptic well, since jazz is all about the notes you don’t play, it’s almost perfect.
The google plex book blew my mind. Or the theoretical printing of that blew my mind, lets put it that way.
"googol": A very large and useless number that was named by a nine-year-old child and is chiefly remembered because Carl Sagan mentioned it in an episode of _Cosmos._
I think it's remembered for another reason, too, but I would have to google it to be sure ...
I actually know the answer to this one, it's The Silmarillion.
Gosh dang it! I can't get thru this sketch without my Google home going off every few seconds! Haha
Can't you name it something less commonly named?
I'd rather read that than Father Goriot again.
They did it on purpose for sure.
To be honest, this book would be the largest waste of paper ever .
I think that achievement belongs to Dan Brown.
You couldn't print it all even if you turned all matter in the visible universe into paper and ink.
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Wolfgang needs to get out more...
2:22 I got 15 years 308 days 9 hours 35 minutes 20 seconds.
500000000÷86400÷365.2425.
The length of time that she gave would get one to 1000000780.
So the book is edited highlights of the full number...
10^(10^(10^10)) give or take...
10^10^100, not 10^10^10^10
The most boring?
The Drug Tariff.
The smallest book in the world is the book of italian war heroes.
whos dominic?
I'm just asking... why?
I still think Piers Plowman is even more boring
Her bank balance must be terrifying.
I believe it’s only a problem if they are consecutive identical numbers, so she’d just need to keep the balances at a random amount instead of just zeroes
If any holes of any kind were a problem, she wouldn’t even be able to read this comment because of all the letters in it that have holes in them
come on. it's not the heaviest reading material in the world if it doesn't really exist. They could have had the decency to add in what the heaviest reading material that physically exists is. At least the smallest book is real.
James Acaster saves the episode.
What?! Not the Collected Wisdom of Donald Trump (consisting solely of 2 blank pages).
😂🤣😂🖖❤️ He'd have the cover printed in gold and sell it to his followers telling them they have to buy a secret fluid to make the writing appear.
I was literally eating Cheerios while watching this
Ooooooo.
@@FrankEdavidson That's what they said
Rather fond of holes myself... oh well, to each their own.
My rating of your joke is: 0. Enjoy.
Every hole is a goal, for some.
Maybe its the new Dream Theater tab book?
The world's most boring book is the instructions for a new appliance, "I know what I'm doing, it can't be THAT hard!!!"... :P
Invariably followed up by 1 star on Amazon because it doesn't work anymore and it's too late for a return
10,000 German jokes.
What Is The World's Most Boring Book? | QI 1306pm 30.9.24 have they that many...jokes, that is? if they're owt like me they don't do jokes just make weary or sarcastic comments... or innocent quips which seem to send the topic up for discussion to the four winds rendering it a flippant topic up for discussion. i probably think the germans are the most sarcastic folk in the world................. i cant look at tightly packed holes without feeling angsty or angry. i do enjoy taking it out on crumpets, though...
@@JJONNYREPP What app causes people to accidentally paste the title of the video and stuff into their comments?
@@EebstertheGreat Comments on ‘What Is The World's Most Boring Book? | QI’ 0523am 1.10.24 that's a decent idea for an app.. to reference what it is the conversation is relating to... if your of a mind re: litigation and such... especially in america where they try to sue the ass of anything that moves.... i would say if you received any messages between 11pm last night and 5am this morning they weren't from me as i was fast asleep, being haunted by the dreams of morphias...ie: i am having trouble with douche bags accessing my accounts due to their desiring that i do not exist other than as a vicarious whimsy...as they stand out side my home sticking leaves to the window... it's worse than Emmerdale and axes... good luck!!
@@JJONNYREPP I'm talking about you. I'm asking why you keep pasting the full title of the video into your comments, along with a timestamp and stuff. It's weird.
With that many holes this book truly is boring
🤔Wonder how many book signings and readings the Author has done to promote volume one? Pretty sure the number is much smaller then a Googolplex. Hopefully no one is working on a screenplay for a movie either!😂
Metro-Goldwyn-Moscow purchased the movie rights for a googol rubles, changing title to "The Eternal Number", with Scarlett Johansson playing part of decimal notation
@@noatrope 😂👍By any chance are you a fan of the music of Tom Lehrer? Particularly his classic hit 'Lobachevsky'?
@@doberski6855 How dare! This joke is the original product of my own scrupulous research! :P
@@noatrope My sincere apologies good sir! I don't know where I got my idea from. Perhaps an 'old Vladivostok telephone directory'!😁👍
Thanks.
Bridget Christie is Stewart Lee's ex wife
Bridget, get some help! 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
It's not a book, it's a volume in a series. Its also a huge waste of time.
Any book I've written 😂
Well the world's most boring author is a toss up between Jane Austen and Ayn Rand, so...
The fact that she says "tryophobia" makes me think she doesn't actually have the condition she's talking about.
If you watched "Taskmaster" she's generally a very difficult person
@@donotcomment168 Or, brace yourself for this one, some comedians play up parts about themselves for comic effect!
@@spunkybackpack7387 Possibly, either she's serious or she's joking either way it's I find it annoying and it looks like I'm not the only one.
@@donotcomment168 Hello little Alex Horne why are you posting under someone else's name
i too never misspeak
Siddhartha, A Tale Of Two Cities
Well, that's even more boring than t he book of random numbers!
The book of random numbers has a use.
@@davidhoward4715 Sure it does, but that doesn't make it any less boring. ;-)
gongol unimpressivemn
Bridget didn’t pronounce the name of the fear correctly which makes me doubt her claim. She didn't even pronounce the 'p' in 'tryp'.
That is because she was too scared to 'p'
She's doing it for a bit. An unfunny one at that.
different people have different accents and dialects, I don't like her, but leave her alone.
@@nicholasperrin3241 I wasn't having a go at her. I just noticed this and it made me think shr was making it up. I'm pretty sure it's not an accent issue by the way.
Took me about three years to get through the “communist manifesto” jeez its arid fodder that document.
it's about 3 pages long lmao
I feel bad for her because people don't see it as an actual problem. Instead of praising her for not bringing it to a halt, point out how the producers obviously knew about it and booked her for it. And the ones laughing at her were also shitheads.
Is it irrational? Yes. That's what phobias are. Shame on all of them. Screw saving your career making people feel good if you don't care about people feeling horrible at the jokes you make.
Producers knew about it? There is ZERO chance that they thought a fear of holes would manifest itself as a fear of printed O's.
@@Statsy10 it literally happened last time she was on. There is ZERO chance they didn't have access to her saying exactly what it entailed.
@@hive_indicator318 Does she go off when thinking about your handle that has the word hive in it because she thinks about what a bee hive looks like? What about if those had all been 8's instead of 0's? Those are just tinier holes. FFS!
@@hive_indicator318 to be fair, they may not have realised paper zero's would be something she also disliked. if you look up trypophobia the common examples are physical holes like honeycomb. a lot of ppl say their fear is that there's something IN the holes which wouldn't be possible with a 2d zero. the fact they got rid of the image immediately after was good too
And how exactly do you know that this episode had the same producers as the episode she was on years prior?
The vibe of this show is that she just makes up pseudo-facts so she can sound smarter than everyone else. 😂
The googolplex is NOT the "largest number ever named".. Though it is (Well; I haven't thought about it or looked it up.. it PROBABLY is).. the biggest actual finite "definition":able number named.. but.. Reality is that there isn't ONLY "infinity" (which is "named") but.. if you look into the concept of infinity there are different TYPES of infinity.. so.. there are infinities that ARE bigger than other types..
(and that is beyond things I tend to debate related to infinity where I am rather pointing out that you AREN'T talking about ~actual~infinity, rather "a number big enough and that is constantly growing to the point that numbers that DOESN'T relate to this huge number will become so small that they will be infinitesimal in nature)..
So.. You can't just bunch infinity together and say that "it is a number that doesn't exist" but it is a BUNCH of numbers.. most of which have specific properties, and different TYPES of infinities (that are named) may be bigger or smaller than other types.
C'mon QI, why no subtitles ? 😮😡
What Is The World's Most Boring Book?
Lord of the Rings.
How does Bridget cope with being on QI - after all, isn't a Q just an O that's grown a little root?
it's not an aversion to a single circle, its an aversion to repetitive patterns that involve holes (or i guess in this case, circles) usually it's things like honeycomb or holed sponges but I guess in this cast bridget also didn't like the zeros being close together in the book
It’s horribly insensitive how they trigger Bridget’s phobia each time she’s ok QI.
Especially that BBC is so “inclusive” nowadays …
Well it might be the heaviest book, but as for most boring substantive book, that title goes to the bible. Great work of fiction, lots of murder, rape, incest, war, death and for some reason some resurrection. And lots of Begatting. It is simply boring.
The bible
I wonder why Bridget comes back, she always gets made fun of
Well certainly, if you are looking for experts on boredom, you’ve come to the right place
Bridget seems unbelievably difficult to work with. She doesn't even know the name of the condition she supposedly has. Child.
GODDAMN IT LAURAN! YOU CANT HAVE SYCAL CELL ANIMIA!!! I DIDNT SPELL IT RIGHT!!!!
your logic here is valid. please continue judging others pedanticly.
@@nunyanunya4147 Ah yes, the dyslexic defence. I have dyslexia, try again :) You just have to try a lot harder than most to pronounce and spell words properly.
@@Ryno2094 .... thank you for proving my point. your persistence to your mentality is applaudable.
didn't mention I was dyslexic... ill stop replying since you are arguing my side with out me speaking.
may you find the peace you tell others you bring them.
shalom
@@nunyanunya4147 shaaallooom!
@@nunyanunya4147 If dyslexia isn't part of it then just spell and pronounce things properly perhaps. I do not claim to bring peace to any, I just expect a higher standard than whatever this "tryophobia" brainrot is. People pay tax to watch some clown fake a condition.
One appearance is enough for people with weird attention-seeking affectations.
Presumably you think all phobias are "weird attention-seeking affectations"? What a strange attitude to have.
@@stephengreen3367So you're happy to accept homophobia, transphobia, and Isamophobia, are you, bigot?
@@stephengreen3367 most of them are and have no basis in medical history.
@FrankEdavidson I see you're still attention-seeking. One day you will grow up.
I genuinely lost all respect (not that I had much to begin with TBF) for Bridget when she got the name of her phobia wrong. Given how much she f*cking moans about it you'd think she at least learn the name.
I remember when trolls had some imagination and wit. Now you’re just swivel-eyed crackpots peeing in alleyways and shouting at the wind.
Born a crime
The Bible
Rolled my eyes at the woman going on about her quirky phobia. You could see the energy leave the room, from her derailing the conversation.
So, are you without any phobias?
it's crazy how someone is actually affected by a made-up phobia
Re-title it "The Modern Woman's Body Count"
Tell us you're an incel without telling us you're an incel 😂
the Quran
Stewart Lee's wife, James Acaster and Joe Lycett. This is why I, and most normal people, no longer bother watching the BBC.
Knot see propa ganda ate your brain?
Why refer to her only as someone's wife? She has a successful career of her own.
Poor Bridget. She deserved better