10 HILARIOUS QI Rounds, With Stephen Fry! 

very good

"They say, of the Acropolis..." is a very good example of this. As is Jack Dee's answer to why they don't have more women on panel shows. And of course Sean Locke on Cats Does Countdown with Rachel Riley's skiing hat.

​@al201103 That last gives me a belly laugh _every_ time.

@@annalieff-saxby568 Even though you know what's going to happen, it's still just too funny! Similarly, "I won't spit on you"!!

It’s been three days…how’s the back? 😂

A good crack or a bad crack? 🤔😂

25:47 handstand in the shower

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I have read '1984'... big brother and room 101 are very real, although, the film is just as alarming, in current times..Hxx

​@@heatherpadgett2116jet fuel melts steel

Have you ever read Sarum by Edward Rutherford? An absolutely brilliant piece of historical fiction and non-fiction that covers ten thousand years of English history.

I tried to read it but the protagonist put me off.

Yes but Has he read Ulysses. That one's a stunner, literally

Unruly is very entertaining....

I've listened to Stephen's reading of the Orwell novels. Brilliant

Thank you. I compare things in my mind to 1984 occasionally, but i realize i haven't read it, and should.

I think the better question would be. How many have have read "1984" to the end?

How would you know!? I bet you never read it either

There is no need to read it, these days the EU and USA IS 1984.

@@ptepaul5173comparing things in your mind to 1984 is something right out of 1984.

Yeah, that was done by Dilly's fillies each day using "rods" after the bombe machines had stripped off the top layer of enciphering.

But by mid44, it would have been quicker for German commanders to phone Bletchley to get their orders than to wait for their own comms clerks.

What medical grounds would require annual training on a 747 simulator?

@@Brinta3There is no connection, you are misreading my post. She stayed on the old contract (with the simulator training) until she left. She left through medical retirement. Two different things....

@@christopherdean1326 Sorry, indeed I misread! I understood it as “she stayed on the old contract (…) on medical grounds” (as opposed to colleagues who got new contracts).

While the fact sounds reassuring there definitely have been times when both pilots have been out of commission and it would have been handy if someone else could have landed the plane!

@@squee599 The records appear to show otherwise, but if you have information to the contrary, we would all like to see it...

except - - it’s from Latin

I do too. He's put on so much weight tho since he was on QI we may lose him altogether if he's not careful😕

Excellent summary for those interested.

Thank you for this! I was wondering though, I thought Babbage invented the first computer, did he not?

@@EARFQ Babbage's difference engine was technically the first programmable computer, and his niece Ada Lovelace the first programmer. But Colossus was the first programmable electronic computer, which is more what we tend to think of in respect to modern computing. Babbage also proposed the analytical engine, but it was never built, until recently at a university (can't remember which one). Technically Babbage built on the groundwork of the machinist Leibniz's, step reckoner calculating machine, but as it had storage, and was programmable it bears more in common with a modern computer than a fancy abacus. However, the difference engine was only partly constructed and the more capable analytical machine was more the first computer. But as it was never built, it's claim on the title of first computer is debatable. Leibniz and others created mechanical calculators, followed by Babbage's difference engine which was capable of only one calculation, but had "memory" storage and impressed the answers into a metal plate. Colossus ran on paper tape and used vacuum tubes to process Boolean and counting operations, and is much closer to the architecture of a modern computers processor. Because of the secrecy at Bletchley though, ENIAC was hailed as the world's first computer, until the declassification in recent decades. The first compiler, and machine independent programming language were pioneered by Grace Hopper, in her time working with the Harvard Mark I computer in the mid forties. Which lead to the creation of COBOL, which is still in use today. My dad used to write statistical programs for the Treasury using COBOL and Fortran, and I've done a little COBOL programming myself, it's not a terribly friendly language, but it is still highly capable. I guess my take on it is that Babbage was the theoretical first, with a working proof of concept, but in terms of architecture and flexibility, Colossus and ENIAC are far closer to what we would consider a usable computer, with architecture most could compare to modern components within a PC. In my original post I omitted the electronic, from first electronic programmable computer, and you're quite right that Babbage is credited with the first programmable computer, but I feel it was closer to one of the glorified abacuses, than the flexibility with which modern computers compute sums. To my mind the first programmable computer was an abacus, unless we start to draw up criteria for what constitutes a computer, and the difference between a calculator and a computer. It all gets quickly bogged down in semantics and technicalities otherwise.

@@Si74l0rd due to my (extremely) limited knowledge on computers, it seems sort of hard to place what a computer actually is, I mean if you just need a true or false programmable, then couldn’t like two cardboard boxes connected by string be a computer? Or is the defining factor that it can store these values . My dad told me about an earlier PC that essentially just used a number of buttons and lights which you could use to programme it

@@Si74l0rd very interesting btw you really know your stuff

I heard it here still sounds like bollocks

Forgive my ignorance, but why didn't they want it to be mistaken for a cherry?

Why, can't there be a bite in a cherry as well?

@@justandy333 Because a company named Apple with a cherry as a logo would be economical suicide.

@@ktom5262 Because they are already bite sized?

WTF are you talking about ?

25:52 to 26:20 and the second greatest moment

What! In the land of the free! First amendment and all that? Seriously?

Its $45 AUD on ebay, I can't be bothered to look at US listings but there's heaps of them.

Quite long ones too, and the ones in Oslo seem so confusing as a guy who doesn't drive. Like there's barely any road signs in Norway.

The Greek phrase is "Κάτι τρέχει στα γύφτικα" and it literally translates to "Something is going on in the gypsies" where "gypsies" is an adjective meaning related to the gypsy people, I am stating that to indicate that the last word is not a noun for clarity's sake, therefore the word may refer to a place where gypsies live. In any case, the idiom is used like "so what" as an answer to an insignificant statement by someone, or in an instance like "so and so happened, so what"

That’s genuinely probably harsh on Corden. At least he co-wrote a good show. Whitehall’s never done anything of any value

only Vicky did it better..

I can't stand Jack either.

Ross Noble, Jack Whitehall and Noel Fielding ruined many episodes for me. Totally unwatchable.

His dad is a producer and talent agent so he's probably very much a Nepo baby. I can't stand him much either

Victoria was a two time EPT winner before she married David, she was already very successful.

Nah, but there was this British sniper in WWI, who had a slightly wounded German lance corporal runner in his sights, but he felt sorry for him, and didn't fire. True story.

It doesn't count as cracking if you have the key to the cypher. It's possible they cracked it first, but it's not necessary to know how to break encryption to use it cor encoding and decoding.

Google Tampermonkey, then thank me later😉

Just skip the add ..you don't need to watch it

@@djdeemz7651 just shut up you don't have to comment.

There's ads on RU-vid? ;)

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The polish were already using Bombes, a machine invented by Rejewski's unit, to strip off the first layer of enciphering. We took over when Poland was invaded, and built many more Bombes. The real genius was the man behind cracking Lorenz, it was broken with a theoretical attack, with no-one ever having seen a Lorenz machine, and a royal mail engineer by the name of Tommy Flowers took that theoretical attack and created Colossus and Colossus II, the first programmable computers, running on punched paper tape, to break it consistently.

Oooh that puts you back before Galileo!

Your problem is?

He didn’t.

No?

He might be 30 years his junior but he’s no child. Couldn’t you have googled it before sounding like a ponce?

Better start drinking...

The "converted Quaker" is Sheila Hancock, widow of Johnathan Thaw, and a respected actress in her own right.

Hitler's rise to power could definately have been prevented peacefully, but the conservatives where to busy chasing after their real enemy, the socialists.

Quakers only tell people they are Quaker’s to feel better about themselves. How is anyone’s political or ideological alignment in Great Britain going to prevent a man in Germany rising to power diplomatically & hell bent on a genocidal extermination? It simply isn’t. More to the point, I think 99% of humans on earth are Quaker pacifists without realising they are. Nobody wants wars and death, but they simply happen when one of two things happen. One being that the economy in an area has become so bad that conflict is necessary for survival. Or two, being that some mad cunt has seized power and wants to kill people. It’s just a posh person wanting to sound virtuous and interesting.

What do you mean what? And by what means? It's pretty well understood how Hitler rose to power. Read some friggin history. Shes right.

The term is 'Quaker by convincement'. It's right there in the video, if you bother to listen. 'Conversion' suggests that one WAS 'A' but has subsequently become / transformed into 'B'. However, one can be 'convinced' of a premise without ever having held any prior opinion of said premise or of any similar or conflicting / alternative premise. No one is born with ANY 'religious conviction'. Everyone who adopts a 1st 'religious conviction' is 'convinced' to adopt said conviction. One can also later be 'convinced' to adopt a different conviction - eg atheism or agnosticism. Would you describe one who's first and only 'religious conviction' is agnosticism as being a 'converted agnostic'?! You appear to believe that if one is not a devout pacifist who doesn't even like to hear discussion of war then one must be a lover and promoter of war who seeks out and relishes every opportunity to discuss and expound about wars and conflict. You appear to believe there are no 'nuances of personality' in between. Do you see EVERYthing only in 'black and white'? BTW - as for 'doing something sooner', the current situations in Ukraine and Palestine are perfect examples of 'too little too late'. But the 'great' USA has appointed itself 'dictator of the world' and its financial security is inextricably tied to the profits of its 'defence' industries. So, to keep the USA 'alive' the world MUST endure wars. (So long as they're NOT on US soil.) For an 'observant historian', you seem to know precious little about the lead up to WWII and / or Hitler's rise to power.

Stephen fry hasn't been on the show for 20 years my guy.

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