@@linebrunelle1004 Sean Lock wasn't funny ? Personally I found him to be extremely comical and he was also a competent actor, but I realise that not everybody has the same sense of humour. Sean Lock's life was sadly taken early (by cancer) at the relatively young age of 58 years old. R.I.P. Mr Lock.
I learned about the "Cockney rhyming slang" from my best friend when I was 12 (30+ years ago). We were in California. He was the son of a pair of South African missionaries. If he was really hungry, he would say he was "f---in' Hank!" ==>Hank Marvin ==>Starvin' Completely updated my understanding of the use of language.❤❤❤ Thank you, Danny.🙏🏼 I miss you.
There are also native Australian mammals which aren't marsupials, notably the monotremes which are egg laying mammals. Unlike marsupials, which are found elsewhere in the world monotremes are only found in Australia.
Can I just say how funny it is that Jeremy Clarkson spontaneously came up with the idea for a space elevator a full two series before QI used it to create the brilliant “Dalai Farmer” moment? I realize that in the moment he most likely was being silly, but the irony of Stephen clearly writing it off as nonsense, then using it two years later as a “gotcha” moment is to much for me to ignore!
Jimmy was wrong, not all native mammals in Australia are marsupials, there are many species of bat native to Australia. I know he said Australasia but he clearly meant Australia, the only marsupials in New Zealand were introduced. Also Stephen was wrong saying that marsupials aren't mammals, they are mammals, mammals are any animal that produces milk and are usually divided into three groups, placental mammals, marsupials and monotremes.
@@fatphoca5009 almonds oats and soy beans don't have nipples or mammary glands so not mammals Milk can only come from the mammary gland of a mammal. White stuff from plants is juice: almond juice, oat juice soy juice etc.
I'll never forget working in a bookstore back in 1997, and a woman DEMANDING to know why "The DaVinci Code" was in the Fiction section, and NOT in Religion. 😂
Charles Gray was only in one Hammer Horror film. He played the role of Mocata in The Devil Rides Out. He was also in an Amicus production called The Beast Must Die and had an uncredited voice part in Theatre Of Blood. I did find the phrase "Arse gravy" bloody hilarious though. 🤣
Ahh, yes. Good old Ethelred the Unready. "Winter has cleared the Cheviot tract, The Pictish chief rides South, To cram the steaks his winter lacked, Into his hairy mouth. But who comes here? A monk, Astride an armour-plated neddy, Crying "men, men, the war is off For Ethelred's Unready" (Christopher Logue)
Joe Kittinger's free fall was from a height of 102,800 feet (or just shy of 19.5 miles). Still, he was a third of the way there. Kittinger's 1960 record has now been beaten and is currently held by Alan Eustace, who jumped from a height of 135,908 feet (or 25.74 miles) in 2014.
I will always remember who was who in the relationship between Tonya Harding and and Nancy Kerrigan. There was a radio morning program that was describing a wrestling match between "Terrible Tonya" Harding and Nancy "No-Knees" Kerrigan. It's awful, but it's easy to remember. Lol
IIRC the issue with something like a biro / regular ballpoint, is that pens has to be sealed for safety. Sealed non-pressurized pens of the sort, in zero g, would work fine, until the ink right at the end was spent. After that, the seal at the end prevents most or all of the ink from moving, because the ink is too thick to allow air to pass through it inside the container or around the ball. No air in to displace ink => no ink out. These days ballpoints leak less and the secondary container, the outer shell, holds enough gas to displace the tiny amount of ink inside the primary container and allow it to flow out.
How could the "crew" get in terrible trouble for accepting money for saving people, if they were fired the moment the ship sank.... they were technically unemployed at the time and no longer "crew"!
Stephen is mixing up mammal, a creature that produces milk, with placental, a creature that has a womb with a placenta . Mammals even lay eggs, like platypus and echidna. And the milk comes through the skin and not from a nipple or teet. I am surprised he does not remember this.
Stephen's subtle change of tone to annoyance towards Bill Bailey questioning the earth's roundness was really funny; he's got absolute no tolerance for idiocy
Haha seriously I thought the same thing. I think he just had a brain-fart. But they definitely wouldn’t be drinking Foster’s Lol. They’re Australian….. Aussies think Foster’s is absolute piss from what I’ve heard 😂😂
@@LPKelly380 Fosters IS piss really. I can't believe people fucking drink it. But then, any beer less than 7% tastes like water. Karpackie on the other hand... Mmmm... Er, anyway...
@@fredelmo I know exactly what you mean. 😁 It's because almost all "medium-'strength" beers/lagers (ie cans of Stella, Fosters, Heineken, Carlsberg etc. at ≤5%), they ALL just taste like bland, fizzy water! And a lot of them are brewed under the Interbrew company (conglomerate?🤔), and so yeah, all that shit is the same dull, watery stuff. Just very diluted alcohol. So *_I_* like a strong, "super-strength" beer, like; Karpackie 9%, if there's none of that then I'll have a Kestrel Super 9%. After those it's Carlsberg Special Brew 7.5% and/or Tennent's Super 9%. Karpackie is Polish and pretty much *_THE_* cheapest "Super-Strength" canned beer. Pretty much all these beers have a stigma to them! 🤔😁🤷🏻♂️ But the thing is, is that it actually *_DOES_* taste nice indeed! Goes down easy and is super easy to drink, hence it could be quite dangerous! LoL! Carlsberg Special Brew used to hold the crown for taste and value. Right up until Carlsberg changed the recipe to bring the strength (and alcohol tax!) down from 9% to 7.5%! So it tastes a pale second to how it used to. Er... Sorry, just waffling on as usual, and half-drunk coincidentally as usual! 🤔 🚬✌🏻😁👌🏻🍺 🚬🤘🏻🤪🍻🫠👍🏻 Almost everything on the shelves is just weak-ass piss-water, so I only ever drink cans that are over the aforementioned 7.5%! 😁👍🏻 All because the stronger beers have *_some_* actual flavour too them! Karpackie being the actual nicest of the lot IMHO! 😄🤷🏻♂️ 🍺😘👌🏻
@@nickthelick Well, if you like stronger beers with áctual taste, I can recommend Dutch Bargain beer! I used to work for the owners and their brewer is a genuine genius. Also really really nice. I've been in Poland a couple of times btw and they sure have excellent beer as well! Have a great day!
5:50 Stephen Fry claims that Marsupials are not mammals. Alan gets a lot of flak for being ignorant on this show, and everyone assumed that whatever Stephen said was backed up by the researchers.
@@michiganjfrog366 I know. Well done. The Sten gun also incapacitates its victim, but in a more permanent and messy fashion. Provided that the rounds don't jam in the magazine, as they did in the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich.
Loved when Sean called him "swotty"! If you look at Sean's face, he's trying to disguise his derision. I don't like Rory on this show. His smugness bloody irritates me.
In the 70's you had to put milk on Muesli the night before, and leave it in a fridge until morning. Otherwise it was like chewy grit! It was made from bits of mountain I think. 🤔
The "Mao" in Mao Zedong's name does not mean cat. It means hair. Mao meaning cat is written 猫 and pronounced in first (high) tone. Mao meaning hair or fur is written 毛 and pronounced in second (rising) tone.
‘Mother’ sounds similar as well. There’s a Chinese rhyme using all the variations on Mao. Must be hard to converse in a thunderstorm. “You want to put your mother where?”
correction ... Mammals can be generally classified into three broad groups: egg-laying monotremes, marsupials, and placentals. A marsupial is a mammal that raises its newborn offspring inside an external pouch at the front or underside of their bodies.
Not exactly true about the tree climbing dog. Two of my dogs can climb one of the trees in my garden. There's some wonderful double takes from passers by.
just looking at the Ladder mentioned by Jeremy at 1:42 the concept does exist in the form of a Space Elevator literally a lift that goes all the way to space
Me, neither! And I don't get it. I've Prime and Britbox. They aren't on there either. Just eps from M, I think... Not that I don't enjoy the compilations of the earlier ones on YT. But it's frustrating not to be able to watch them in their entirety.
@@5v4al I don't know about that but I could understand if Stephen maybe didn't like him, after all he gives all his answers like they're inflating his ego, instead of just trying to be interesting, which is the whole point of the show.
@@5v4al I think it's John Sessions who wanted the answers in advance (Dara O Briain hinted as much recently at the .Oxford Union) In this clip, right out of the blue, Fry asks McGrath the atomic number of selenium and McGrath knows; also whether the stem of recalcitrant was calx (stone) or calx (heel) isn't one of the set questions; McGrath seems just to know his stuff.
For a second, Alan's question of whether 'Outer Space' is defined by the distance from the Earth or the Sun seems naive, but it's actually not a silly thing to ask. He's thinking of 'Interstellar Space', which begins at the Sun's "Heliopause", the point where the solar wind goes no further. The reason Clarkson is defiant about the altitude of space, is because there are two definitions, one being the US Military's original, somewhat arbitrary number, and the other is the more standardised international measure, which I believe is defined by the point where an object can no longer ascend beyond via lift or bouyancy, (as in, an aeroplane or balloon), and needs rocket propulsion (or an equivalent) to go higher. Amusingly, this means that those billionaires who flew up in rockets recently didn't actually reach space. Also, the Earths atmosphere continues a fair way into space. It just gets thinner and thinner, rather than suddenly ending. So the Space Shuttle Orbiter would technically orbit within the upper atmosphere, since it usually stayed in a low orbit.
I hate my keyboard. I made 2 spelling mistakes while typing that simple 4 word sentence. Screw a stairway to heaven! Make a laptop with a working keyboard.
The President of the Continental Congress was not analogous to the President of the United States. There was no Executive Branch and the President of the Congress merely acted as a moderator in disputes and had no vote. The President of the United States had greater powers proscribed to them, via the Constitution. Prior to the ratification of the Constitution, the power resided solely in the colonial/state legislations and governors, as both the Continental Congress and the Congress of the Confederation had no real power to enact laws that governed the states/colonies. It was this lack of power and the fundamental problems that came with it that caused the Confederation to fail and the call for the Constitutional Convention to create a new system of national government. That Constitution created an Executive Branch of Government, which was headed by the President of the United States. Such office didn't exist before the Constitution was ratified; and, therefor, George Washington was the first to be elected and to govern as President of the United States. The speakers in the colonial assemblies had more power than the President of the Continental Congress.