QI | Fireman's Pole 

I thought he said 'your logic is absolutely right' but that's so much funnier lol

Loved it! And perfectly!

Follicle lowpoint is a great name for a band

He had been balder than this, this was when his hair transplant was in need of a top-up.

He's been BALDER?!

Rob was a Norse god?

Nah, that’s balderdash

I liked it when he hijacked big fat quiz of the year that one time!

Alan Davies is the one who tries to take over.

It was like watching the lunatics take over the asylum.

Only diffence with Jimmy is that Stephen allows this to happen, maintaining his leadership role.

Like when he took over Would I lie to you?

One of his exam questions would be "Name a type of sock all men should be wearing"

I just want to thank you for responding. Because of that I just rewatched this amazing clip.

A long sock ?

Watch it again!

Professor of the Obvious.

hes great i love his smoke rant where he just states the obvious over and over and makes it funny.

Tired Sloth he sounds like a cool teacher you know

I want him as a teacher now omg

Any show he goes he takes over. He is too good of an entertainer.

Your not gonna tie him up in any legalese.

smart guy, a genius businessman that early in history I think. The homeowners could lose everything, or pay and lose a lot but not everything. Really not much of a decision who would be stupid enough to say "jump off a bridge i rather have everything burn down than sell to you cheap". So their pride would cost them their entire home.

Nero springs to mind

james friel: Either way, they would lose their home.

You might be thinking of Cresus for the last part, but if not I stand corrected.

I wonder how some of these fires have started...

got that hair plug money now.

I haven't seen him in awhile and I thought "It's looking quite sparse up there, innit."

Clive, however, never cared

Safety was the Sole reason why the poles became widespread in the First place... Rushing down the stairs is Dangerous af, especially when you Just woke up and are still a Bit sleepy, but going down the Pole is very hard to fuck up.

@@semurobo Your not suggesting governments forget valuable lessons from the past? I had a boss in the army once that had served in Vietnam. He was Infantry and went on the last tour we saw combat on. He told me he couldn't believe it when they started bringing CAMS back in with zippers and webbing with velcro. He said they had that it Vietnam. The zippers would all jam with the mud and grit from living in that hell hole. So you effectively had no map pockets because they couldn't be closed and you would just lose everything. Also they had to remove all their velcro because it made a ripping noise every time you opened a pouch which the VC would hear and start shooting at. So the uniforms got changed to buttons on the clothing and clips on the webbing. Then they just forgot about it and went back to the old flawed ways.

@@uglyduckling81 what makes you think that I would suggest that? Also, to your example I can think of a huge Advantage velcro has ober buttons. The German Bundeswehr removed all Buttons from their uniforms (for deployed soldiers, Not for ones stationed in germany). You know why? Bulletproof vests are a thing nowadays. If you get shot in your chest, the bullet will Not penetrate through the vest, but If there is a button right under the spot where the bullet hits, all that energy is transfered to the Button and the button will penetrate your chest. Might Sound like an unlikely scenario, but there have been numerous cases of people getting "Shot" by Buttons in their shirt under their armor. Bulletproof vests werent widely available during the Vietnam war, so that wasnt anything to worry about. If your trousers are loose noone cares, you have a belt for that. Velcro is the way to Go for modern uniforms.

@@semurobo That's an interesting point. However if it came down to having the VC hear me over the chance a bullet might his a button..... Think I'll take my chances on the button because Charlie Don't Surf!

@@uglyduckling81 you can Open velcro quietly you know? When you Roll it Open very slowly, it barely makes any noise. And I dont think opening your pockets is of high priority when you are that Close to an enemy that they could hear your velcro open. You wont need a map, or anything else in your pockets, when your enemy is within a few meters, everything you will need at that Point will be your gun and maybe a hand grenade. And mud might have been an important Factor in Vietnam, but in the middle east you dont really need to Care about keeping your velcro clean. Also If your pockets are closed when entering mud, the velcro wont get dirty anyways.

It's the pole that you sometimes see on pictures going from the South Pole to the North Pole. In stead of firemen or pole dancers, the earth spins around it. Due to international treaties some part of if belongs to Europe.

@@machelvet9594 not clever because they said firemans pole in the vid so shut up

@@Olliefouracre "REPLY" means that you reply to someones comment, not to the vid. You seem to be OFF with your comment. - Better luck next time.

@@machelvet9594 your reply had nothing to do with the comment anyway. And stop trying to make your self seem clever when you're replying to a joke comment

@@Olliefouracre Isn't the entire idea of QI to make jokes about a subject, joke about the jokes, make comments about jokes and even replying to a joke comment?

washing machined QI!

@Grace Furrow Besides, this is RU-vid, not the national archive of film and television. it'll do perfectly well for what it is.

I'm reeeeeeally starting to wish I used my browser plug in to download some of the actual whole episodes themselves from the given youtube page here when those from Stephen's run were more readily available (I've done this with a number of other things over the years). The compilations and clips are great, but when it comes to Stephen Fry and QI I want every damn minute. I can rarely seem to find full episodes from any of his series on here anymore.

@@kevinw712 Dude ur comment made me search the playlist I saved so I can send it to u... ru-vid.com/group/PL2QUAXGgB_cLSCyImuY3aWS-4gCRTxFA- I see they've blocked every video in my country ....suddenly I'm depressed

@@Blood0cean well first of all thank you for that link, I'd tried my hand at a playlist search myself only a couple weeks ago, and the best I came up with was much shorter than that. However the videos that were no longer included in the list that I found, they'd appeared to have been categorically removed from youtube forever. Some of these ones from your list, if it's just a matter of the right country, I wonder if using a VPN would do the trick. That's becoming a lot more prevalent now, like a given streaming service that doesn't include a particular show or something you want to see, you use a VPN (some of which are even free), to make the server think you're logging in from a different country and you can view the given content.

He’s the reason a lot of people quit smoking.

I'm really wondering how on earth these glitches are on the videos, surely the intern who's menial job it is to upload these to youtube can't be messing up that bad and I don't remember them on the original broadcasts either... I'm bewildered!

1:06

it scared the shit out of me

Thank god this comment was here, I thought my jail broken iPad was flipping out

Clive Anderson was a barrister before he became a comedian.

Good, whining fuckers.

It's not even loud.

As someone watching on speakers with a powerful external subwoofer.. ..I died

Oh thankgod, i was shitting myself that my pc was about permanently die

@@MotoCat91 same, good thing i had my niece's training potty nearby

If I was an elf, I’d want to write on the screen: “GET TO THE BLOODY POINT!”

What do you polish?

Harcix 😂

Harcix he just means he’s skinny and tall.

KJ: I thought they referred to themselves as rakes.

Harcix Ba dum tsss... P.S. I'm Polish too

Yeah, dont brethe the smoke, it will burn your throat and youll pass out after the first or seconds lungfull

How the fuck am I supposed to outrun the fire if I'm crawling on the floor, y'all are trying to kill me

Booxwee Breathe.😉👍

You'll be crawling in CO2, better than CO, but still deadly. Better to just get away as fast as you can.

@@defeqel6537 true, though at least you can see further than if youre standing with your head closer to the smoke ;)

macsnafu 🤔???

@@caralama08 It's a reference to the show Whose Line Is It Anyway? "The original host Drew Carey awarded arbitrary point values after each game, often citing a humorous reason for his decision. The points were purely decorative and served no practical purpose. He would reiterate this at the beginning of, and multiple times throughout, each episode by describing Whose Line as "the show where everything's made up and the points don't matter".

macsnafu AahahHahaha! I thought it was! 😂🤣😂 That’s Why I had a moment of confusion! Thinking 🤔 “What the heck did I just watch!?” Pmsl 😆

@@caralama08 I've watched a bunch of clips from QI, and not a full episode of it, but it just seems like the points didn't matter on this show, either.

Mac goes old skool, there. :D

Pay your taxes kids, they are there for a reason

If it was anywhere else I would not believe this.

I read about that one, That was messed up. However it was actually because the town didn't have a fire department, you had to pay for another town's guys to drive the 10 - 20 mins to come out and fight it. Which is a bit more understandable but you think they'd just make it really expensive to pay on occurance rather than let the poor bastards house burn down. Out here Ambulance membership is $60 per year as compared to $800 - $1200 if you pay afterwards.

I read this plot as a short story--author must have seen the news story!

@@mattkennedy9308 Oh yeah that's totally reasonable

And how he humiliated the Bee Gees

He's very clever

Shepherds bush is a neighbourhood. Maybe you are thinking of tennis elbow. Unless you were making a joke.

@@Lord_Skeptic "Shepherd's bush" sounds like a very unkempt crotch.

I didn't get that either!

it was a wild guess!

mademan543. I m afraid you re confusing fire stations with merry-go-rounds.

Working against each other? Typical sinful competitive nature working against saving lives....

Good to know. If this is the threshold, I won't bother watching another.

Some buildings in the US have slides for fire escapes. I used to work outside a small town in Illinois that had one at the school :)

There's actually a shirt on Alan's bug. It is a suave bug, designed for the spotlight.

That's a microphone, it clips on. They all have one, but Alan just doesn't care that his is visible.

left side of his collar look carefully

FatPanda o

TheUnstableThinker nope, there's a bug moving upwards on his collar.

He's spoofing Stephen - that's how Stephen pulls answers out of people. 😬

Vogue.

And if you can't breathe what do you do?

Which is why, like they mentioned, it is no longer built with two floors.

You seem to have an image of each person patiently waiting for the one before to have cleared the area below, which is not what happens at all. There probably isn't much in it if you're only one floor up (I still think the pole is quicker - and you have to take into account getting to and from the stairs), but for two or more floors a pole is much quicker. It's also a lot more dangerous running downstairs, especially while putting protective equipment on.

The equipment isnt taken into the living areas anymore, its required they keep it next to the trucks now..

@@otterspocket2826 Maybe because I'm a firefighter and I know how things work? Safety is no joke in the fire service, you'll get written up for not following safety protocols. They actually did a study in Japan for this. They averaged the time it'd take for a crew to remove the safety guards from the pole and have everyone slide down it one after the other, as opposed to having everyone go down the stairs, and the stairs was found faster, because everyone could go down the stairs together rather than waiting in a queue

well your telling falsehoods. Yes, the Tennessee fires are in a rural area. The area they are in doesn't have a fire department and don't want to pay for one, instead they use a nearby towns fire department which need to be paid in order to work. So anyone in the rural areas need to pay a 100 dollar or so yearly fee to be covered by the out-of-area fire department to pay for costs and staff. If you don't pay the yearly fee, you CAN pay when they show up but it costs you about 1 thousand dollars a hour while the fire department is there. The homeowners didn't have the money to pay the 1000/hour fee so the fire department didn't do anything. Sad, but the fire department needs money in order to keep working and those in that rural area actually disbanded their own fire department long ago to save money, so now they have to pay outsiders to handle their fires. Tough cookies if they refuse to pay, the house owners even said "we didn't think it would ever happen to us, so we didn't pay". They got what they paid for. Nothing.

Welcome to America, question mark.

if this is real, why don't they just put the fire out and send them an invoice? The people could pay over some time or face judicial consequences.

cat moth It’s a system the people of this town voluntarily chose for themselves. Before you go around telling people to get their priorities straight, recognize that not everyone’s priorities match up with yours.

james friel Like someone else said, if they haven't paid the fee, put out the fucking fire and bill them afterwards. I wonder what it's doing psychologically to the firefighters who work at that fire department. I find it hard to imagine that a person who is willing to do such a dangerous, life-threatening job to help other people would have no ethical qualms about intentionally letting someone's home burn down just because they couldn't afford to pay at the time

I heard somewhere that the producers originally wanted Michael Palin before choosing Stephen.

Doesn’t that make you lose consciousness, then you collapse on the floor where there is still oxygen, but then you burn to death as you’re unconscious?

I imagine they start opening the doors while they're still getting ready to leave; they're not just sitting in the truck waiting for the door to go up.

Good to know it's not my computer doing that.

Stephen farted.

I mean, I knew which point in the video you meant, I knew it would be an annoying sound, and you did say ear rape, and yet for some reason I just had to click the damned time code.

theres one in every video lmao

I've noticed that... perhaps they're sneaking in secret code, a cry for help from the boffins, lashed and chained in the QI dungeons.

True of so many things, f.

No... its the NFPA, they set the rules for fire station and fire truck for quite a while now. Insurance folk set your ISO rating, which affects your rates.

Maybe there was a miscommunication, but a long time ago, the assistant chief told me they had looked at getting a fireman's pole when they built our then-new station, but were told that it would jack up the insurance rates.

I'm sure they do their best, if not they would get negative attention from the law.

+zh11147 You might not want to extend one decision by the SCOTUS to the whole world. In the US, the police don't have a constitutional duty to protect, but some states have statutes that create a duty to act: inpublicsafety.com/2014/03/duty-to-act-legal-obligations-vs-community-expectations/ In other countries, e.g. the UK, this duty extends to the national level: www.thompsons.law.co.uk/ltext/lb0408-police-can-be-sued.htm

Milton KL Who pays for fire departments where you live? I believe most departments are supported by taxes, so even if the citizens of your country somehow don't care if firefighters let houses burn down for the sake of a story, which I doubt is true, people would demand that part of the tax law be removed if it was really happening on a consistent basis

I knew Dalmatians were "firehouse dogs" but I didn't know the details, thanks.

Dalmations were used before this as coach or carriage dogs because of their endurance and fairly large size they would run alongside the horse drawn vehicles of merchants guarding them from highwaymen.