How Many Balls Can You See? - QI - Series 9 Episode 12 - BBC Two

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@WearerOfCapes 12 лет назад

I love this, Alan's face after Jack says he might play around with them is priceless.

@viridismonasteriense 11 лет назад

I love how Jack Dee gets competitive about Alan's witty comebacks!

@jamiebellingerphoto 11 лет назад

"Jack's gonna put his willy in it". Brilliant.

@forteboston 11 лет назад

Actually it's really used simply for floral arrangements -- particularly when you're using clear glass vases and you need the flowers to stay in place, since in simple water they wouldn't. Utilizing these allows you to do minimalist work that looks suspended -- pretty cool. You can buy them at any major arts & crafts store, they're about $5 per 200 or 300.

@NavsangeetSingh 11 лет назад

Alan said one and I already started laughing xD; There's just something in his voice I swear.

@Sailorsurya 11 лет назад

You can buy these already hydrated, or a bag of dehydrated beads. They also come in other colors like black, red, blue, etc. Yes, you can use them for floral arrangements (instead of regular water), but actually there's been a more random cracked gel version available for at least 15+ years that you can mix with topsoil for your garden--- when it rains or you water your garden, the crystals absorb the water, and as the soil dries out, the crystals release their water back into the soil.

@LisaWatsonFilm 9 лет назад

First I didn't see it but then I looked back and saw every time there was a ball dropped in the container the one's you couldn't really see splashed up, I SHOULD'VE KNOWN!

@burninrock24 12 лет назад

My cousin had these in her wedding reception centerpieces! They were so much fun to play with!

@tryewa 11 лет назад

you are correct. we are using those at home at the moment. you put a couple of them into the flower pot and you dont need to water the plant

@ZondaFRoadster 12 лет назад

Not just that, EVEN JACK DEE SMILED!!!

@supravlieg 3 года назад

Goldfish packaging :)

@Page1211able 12 лет назад

used to play them when I was a kid. left them in water for a few days until they became so big that they couldn't maintain perfect transparent spheres and they sort of showed cracks. Funny how small they were when dehydrated.

@leeshajoi 12 лет назад

I have some of those hydrogel beads. They're actually only about the size of millet seeds when fully dehydrated, and they hold water for weeks on end.

@AHWIDGE 12 лет назад

Alan Davis is a genius!

@UglyPratFace7 12 лет назад

I bought these the other day! ... They're so fascinating! xD

@shekinahgonzalez3904 10 лет назад

Kisses! XDD They used to sell these as "pets" at my grade school then we used them as Air Freshner in High School. Growing up, we even believed that when we leave it in the water long enough, they'd give birth to new ones. They were real fun.

@chfgbp6098 7 лет назад

priceless wit! 😂😂😂

@AlaskanPotHead 6 лет назад

Jack Dee kills me!

@stizzulka 12 лет назад

Again, quite interesting.

@audball911 12 лет назад

"Oh, no, I broke it!" Yeah, that's what I did when we studied (played with) these in my physics class.

@Sailorsurya 11 лет назад

As a gal who works in a craft store, let me just say that these bastard things bounce all over the place if you drop them. Was trying to mix clear and black beads, figured I'd dump them into a big bowl and stir, except half of them bounced right out of the bowl and rolled all over the floor. Unsuspecting customers will open containers & try pouring them into their hands but end up dropping them everywhere, running away without telling us, customers step on them, and guess who has to clean up. :P

@LilyGrace95 11 лет назад

we used those balls for the centre decorations at the school ball a couple of years ago - they were pink and feel sooo weird - stained my hands too! :p

@VagueReferenceHere 11 лет назад

To be fair, this should be called "How many balls are there" not "how many balls can you see". Fry was pretty careful in not saying "can you see" because, with the nature of the show and their technicalities, the answer is only 5, since you can't see the rest unless moved.

@boffgirl 11 лет назад

reminds me of "buggel" that you use as water source for crickets so they dont drown, looks like water in the tub but whne u pour it, its like diced cubes

@themaxster100 12 лет назад

GORDON GORDON!!!!!!!

@WalterLiddy 11 лет назад

"see" is used to mean "perceive" or "recognize". For instance those stippled paintings where you're meant to 'see' an image in the mess of dots. If you don't perceive the image, you wouldn't say that you "see" it.

@AlbieStarr 12 лет назад

0:39 the audience.. LOL :)

@yinge101 12 лет назад

Yes, the anatomy of large furry animals is part of our curriculum now...

@jigsawpuppet1000 Год назад

Alan's water broke

@scalls95 11 лет назад

But you can still see them! They just *look* like water

@joeymediauk 12 лет назад

FUCK!!!!! THATS AMAZING!!!! AT 2:29 RICH HALL CAN ACTUALLY BE SEEN SMILING!!!

@Kartissa 11 лет назад

Technically you *can* see them, you simply can't *distinguish* them from the water.

@Like_legally_speaking 12 лет назад

i swear alan is an older version of ben from outnumbered

@angusbarter231 10 лет назад

So true!!!!

@physicsmonkey2 12 лет назад

why am i watching this small clip when i should be watching all of it on iplayer??

@DUCKFACE2986 12 лет назад

Were can u buy these

@LimitedKombat 12 лет назад

if you hold space bar it plays in slow motion and you can see them

@Goddamnitj 11 лет назад

I think its used for feeding plants water. Like if you bury some just underneath it, you can water the plant and these will hold the water...Something like that. But It sounds stupid now that Ive said it.

@20kakol 11 лет назад

Dear title of video

@michaelJrogers1992 12 лет назад

@UmtiDumti they did, they are used for flower arranging

@danielmalan7173 11 лет назад

LoL ruan!

@xilent234 11 лет назад

How mature, five grown men playing with balls.

@orlock20 12 лет назад

They are for slow release of liquids including water, fertilizer and perfumes.

@Nulono 8 лет назад

Manufacture of what?

@HereComesWheely 7 лет назад

Nulono I've seen them used in freshers that you just place in windowsills and on cabinets and such, similar to the reed diffuser air freshers.

@JoelTConnors 6 лет назад

I believe they're used in the manufacture of contact lenses.

@seabisquick 12 лет назад

Only Alan Davies could break water.

@ElectricChemicals 10 лет назад

12 People Feel Gorgeous.

@soheavyastokill 12 лет назад

my first thought: can you eat them?

@chloelovesyou1231 12 лет назад

you can now get air fresheners that have those!

@DFredleinPortfolio 12 лет назад

"funny when he put it in there you couldnt see it"

@viviane5572 12 лет назад

I saw the smaller balls but I thought it was the shape water was doing when having the bigger balls entering it

@WipeoutStar 12 лет назад

So that's how Latimer did it!

@GerardFrankMcr 7 лет назад

Those things are super cheap on eBay and I just got some. They have different colours as well! Apparently, if you leave them outside of a water container they will slowly release the water from themselves. People put them on the bases of plants so that if you go on a vacation you don't have to ask a friend to come and water your plants!!

@CJ_YT. 6 лет назад

That’s actually really smart

@azzazx6r 11 лет назад

im guessing its to hold the plants up with an apparently invisible force...

@DaFallenPixie 12 лет назад

in my high school kids actually collect these and call them water babies because the longer you leave them in the water the bigger they get. they come in a variety of colours too!

@lycanwolf45 12 лет назад

And they return to high-school insults....Thanks to Allen :)

@ehcmier 11 лет назад

That's how Clumsy Carp did it, lo those many years ago.

@tyajoy 12 лет назад

when the larger balls are dropped in you can see the smaller ones when the water moves.

@ubernathe 12 лет назад

Dude chill, it's all a game!

@Paul-A01 11 лет назад

WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

@BlakjeKaas 12 лет назад

@xVoltage21 have you seen the first 5 seconds? I'm pretty sure he says how many balls there are.

@nebzy 12 лет назад

JUST TELL ME WHAT THEY'RE USED FOR!

@susannam3923 5 лет назад

can something have the same refractive index as air? not glass obviously

@magmafang7187 6 лет назад

Make a submarine out of it

@ZondaFRoadster 12 лет назад

I knew him from Blackadder.

@MitchCyan 12 лет назад

Fuckin INVISIBLE!!!

@mortenlu 12 лет назад

@xVoltage21 Not so sure that would be accurate. If the question was how many balls can you detect, then sure, you're right. But you can still see stuff, without being aware of it. If the balls hadnt been there, the water would be much lower. So you see them, you just arent aware. Since we're being picky and all. :)

@radioactivenonesense 12 лет назад

whats it for?

@massiveredlight 5 лет назад

Алан как настоящий русский из анекдотов. Один шарик он потерял, второй сломал:)

@Prasannadahal 12 лет назад

these are sooooo cheap in nepal, costs about 10rs (thats less than ten hundredth of a pound) and you can find them in shapes of animals and cute little toy. They are small in the beginning but swells upto 10,20 times i would think..

@wrangliser 12 лет назад

Best comment ever - a new trick to use on other videos.

@handshakesnhighfives 12 лет назад

you can see them without holding the space bar...just look with your eyes :L

@BlakjeKaas 12 лет назад

@xVoltage21 Het zegt ook BBC2 maar volgens mij is dit youtube =P

@DraconicXX 12 лет назад

isn't it the surface tension that is greatly enlarged, so actually what you're holding are just balls of water? or am I wrong here?

@imanimorrison6928 11 лет назад

u can make them easy just get the air freshoner and just put them in water 4 a day :}

@marcusreading3783 6 лет назад

Stop playing with your balls Alan!

@lionandlambkl 11 лет назад

Nappies/diapers :)

@ubernathe 12 лет назад

lol it's pretty obvious you do!

@danielmalan7173 11 лет назад

I can only see 3 * 2 = 6 balls!

@Quiltfish 7 лет назад

I keep getting "Watch Now" recommendations on these for Eurovision 2017. That's incredibly insulting to QI *and* me.

@drapa25 11 лет назад

Obviously there are no balls, it's a mirage.

@SuchingYan 7 лет назад

bubble tea

@eurobred 12 лет назад

Epic, sub/thumb/faved you :) MORE VIDEOS!!

@ultimateisdumb 12 лет назад

HOW DO I KNOW STEPHEN FRY??? i just wikipedia-ed him and none of the things i found were why i knew his face. fuck.

@Franskid 12 лет назад

@hobo59 The trolls will feast on your soul soon! :O

@babygurl1291 11 лет назад

Stephan Fry TRIES to continue and then everybody else keep talking

@jess_5361 3 года назад

Rlly? No one knew that

@TheMsEleanor 12 лет назад

i thought there was 5 :I

@commandert5 8 лет назад

It's called series I, not series 9.

@HuntersMediaa 8 лет назад

Technically yes but as I is the 9th letter it makes this series 9.

@commandert5 8 лет назад

Yes, but seeing as this is the show's company, you'd think they'd have a little more respect for what the producers want to label each series.

@HuntersMediaa 8 лет назад

***** From an administrative standpoint however, it makes more sense to label the show with numbers for organisational purposes. Does it really matter though? I very much doubt the producers care.

@commandert5 8 лет назад

The producers of a show like QI have to care about very strange things, or they wouldn't be able to do a show like QI

@CloudsGirl7 5 лет назад

Depends on how many guys I'm with. My total is zero...

@katiemclaughlin2184 11 лет назад

A bit like one direction?............

@stiimuli 11 лет назад

its not theeeeeere

@caseymay123 10 лет назад

the title is wildly misleading.

@DustinShowers 9 лет назад

@shrimpoffthebarbie Год назад

How would know how many there are? A pointless question as we weren't even given the actual answer.

@frankcurtis6179 5 лет назад

The question was totally misleading as were most of the questions on QI when Fry was the host. There was only 5 glass balls because as Fry himself explained the small balls were a different material.

@firstname4337 3 месяца назад

they were still balls -- which is what he asked

@ManHeyuan 9 лет назад

Submarines? We don't really detect them by sight. We "listen" to them. Some smart guests there were.. :)

@Hellwyck 8 лет назад

+Yi Jiun 1. Radar and Sonar are used for long-term sightings, we can still see submarines if they are close to us without them. 2. "Some smart guests *they* were"

@ethanbassadone8378 8 лет назад

ps, sonar wont work on it you idiot

@Hellwyck 8 лет назад

Ethan Bassadone I'm not an idiot.

@ethanbassadone8378 8 лет назад

Clearly you are, since you dont know that this material and the surrounding water ressanates at the same frequency, therefore it will be invisible to sonar asswell

@Hellwyck 8 лет назад

Ethan Bassadone An idiot would have known the material and still made the wrong decision. I didn't know the material, it doesn't make me an idiot. You called me an idiot without knowing who I am, what does that make you? A genius? No.

@velcroman11 7 лет назад

The question was "How many balls can you see" Alan was correct he, as could I see 5 balls. Stupid, stupid question. These balls are often used in room perfumes