QI | How Many Friends Do You Have? 

It would have to be an average of people who do sent out cards, though

Hallmarks Georg, who lives in cave & sends over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

I send about 40.

@@pearkore6821: That wasn't stated in the parameters & should not be assumed.

My Grandmother and my Mother BOTH kept a ledger with two columns. One was for Christmas Cards sent; the other was for Christmas Cards received. After 3 years of no reciprocal cards, that person's name was permanently deleted from their rosters. Their list (1950s, when an unsealed envelope could be sent for 3 cents in the USA) numbered about 300 at first (we are a large extended family, even today). I don't send ANY cards and I really don't want a lot of friends. My family and a VERY few close non-family members are all I want. Anything else is overkill.

151 actually.

Pikachu doesn't count he was fucking given the same rights as a Human basically!

there are pokemon that refused to be pokeballs than pikachu - team rockets psyduck as well

I just wanted to say that I'm so glad I wasn't the only nerd who thought of that.

saroachman correct can the original was rhyhorn

OHP77 would of have made that joke EVEN better, nice one!

Did that one help him move the other one's body?

I thought he was going to add that he used to have three.

This comment is 2 years old, but i would like to say that i lolled about it just now.

"...It used to be three"

Cause he did that same thing and is ashamed of himself

His wife must have dragged him there.

Because he sent one and now is married to them. He regrets sending that picture.

football friend

You've got a friend in me.

Quokka Is this the right demographic?

-1 ... I'm allergic to pineapple, perhaps in another life.

@Agent J what a buzzkill lol

For me there are good friends, who meet your definition, and there are people you are friends with when you're in the same room. Like the people you were friends with in high school but have barely, if ever, spoken to since.

"Alright! I'm a delivery boy!"

Exactly the same. I keep to myself, it's easier that way

You almost certainly do know that many people from school work any clubs family friends anyone where you know their name without guessing

I graduated 12 years ago and all my friends went to out-of-state colleges. My job has only about 10 employees that I ever interact with. I don't have more than a bare few friends, and I do not attend clubs. I'd forget my own name if people didn't keep saying it to me.

I'm pretty sure you've met at least 150 people in your life that you can vaguely remember if you really try to, even if you're a hermit crab. If you haven't you've lived a ludicrously sheltered life. As in, "I was raised in a cave by wolves" levels.

It's deceptive. I thought the same initially, but if I take just one close friend, I also know his parents, his wife, his aunt and uncle, his sister, her husband, and their two kids. So one person has become 10. If that was repeated based on knowing 15 "core" people, you'd have 150 "friends".

Acquaintance

Must've been a Monday. He'll probably raise another barn soon enough.

Maybe needed an American audience? Or an older one?

Probably because most people don't know who he actually is. I gotta admit I didn't.

I expect the point is that the sober person arriving and sitting next to you is what defines them as a friend, whereas everyone avoiding you is not

ultimateninjaboi amen🙏

Bollocks

I heard Chris Cuomo say that to Don Lemon not too long ago actually (both are news presenters on CNN). Cuomo has a self-deprecating sense of humour and he amended something about Don being smart enough to not get in jail and to bail him out later. On different occasions Don (who is black) has also said that if someone said something racist to him he would brush it off, Cuomo would say he would deck the guy for Don and need Don to bail him out, so that might actually work out better, match each others strengths and faults. Also as I recall I think they decided Cuomo's wife would let him wait a night :P

Lucy Guthrie lol

Lucy Guthrie Relationship goals

I wanna meet a handsome paladin

That’s embarrassing!

I met one of my X's in Dota 2.

Agreed, him saying lol is just funny for me. Also his name is Jupitus, it is...well the cover it in another episode but it is kind of Lithuanian, through the spectrum of a disinterested British customs agent who followed getting their names with "Next" during WW2, when they were refugees. A lot of Lithuanian names look Latin though I find.

Benji M I think so...

Yep it says PLANET EXPRESS, with the ship in the middle.

Absolute chad.

BBSes were always a very small, geeky niche, not a widely-used staple like facebook. And posted physical notes are still widely used.

An acquaintance will help you move a table. A friend will help you move house. A true friend will help you move a body.

​@@gwishart very true

I think I'd rather be accompanied by anyone than be in a foreign airport on my own

I thought he was going to say he'd had to good friends, but now he only has one that will help him bury a body. 😉

My reaction was the same. I've never sent that many Christmas cards. Even when I worked in a very large company with almost 200 people just in our department. Nor did anyone else there because I've certainly never received 150 Christmas cards.

Median is the halfway point, right? That means that 50% of people who send Christmas cards send more than 150 Christmas cards. I’m not having that. Mean is much more likely, the number being skewed by massive outliers like companies sending a million+. Americans, who are surely the biggest senders, send 1.6B Christmas cards per year, 6B greeting cards. That’s about 5 Christmas cards each, 20 greetings cards in total.

There would be a number of officers for a company though, one per 30 men. Companies get commanded by Captains or more senior lieutenants. That organization has nothing to do with being able to recognize or command men, the smallest unit is a squad, which is about 10 (differs between countries and purpose), three of those form a platoon commanded by a lieutenant. According to the Geneva Convention a military unit needs a commissioned officer to function, otherwise they are what we would currently call terrorists, not soldiers, the commission in commissioned officer gives them the responsibility to act on behalf of their countries government, normal soldiers with out that are technically acting independently of their government's supervision and outside the law. Anyways, multiple platoons make a company, 90 men is quite common and has been for hundreds of years, 120 was common in Rome (a maniple), although triarii (a specific, elite type of spearman) were in 60. In the later legions a centurion commanded 80-100 (a century) generally, but senior centurions would command a cohort, a group of centuries, like a modern battalion, 300-500ish, among them other centurions. The smallest unit was normally eight guys. All these numbers are also different for mounted, either Roman cavalry or modern tanks. A modern tank organizes very much like a squad, but with fewer people (three to four generally, depends on the vehicle and country, we prefer to have a loader, the Russians prefer to not have the extra man and have automatic loaders, which are slower), three to four tanks (again, different countries organize differently) to a platoon (which they the cavalry call a trooper, privates are also troopers, sometimes the officers are cornets or something different) with one officer, two to five platoons to a company. Anyways, 150 is quite high is fairly high right now, according to the British government the London Regiment (which is a battalion, it is merely carrying a name) currently has 13 platoons and two sections (the medical and lory drivers, also one platoon is the quartermaster's and one is signals) between five companies. At 28 men per platoon (or less, one guy is a mortarman and they aren't using mortars in Afghanistan apparently, the Brits do use 28 normally anyways, three groups of eight, a radioman, a sergeant, an officer and the mortarman), thats 72 men per company on average, or 77 if we ignore the HQ company. One is also an anti-tank platoon, one is a machine gun platoon and one is a mortar platoon, those tend to have fewer men, so we are falling well short of the 150 average they claim, which is normal for peacetime, in war time units tend to double in size. More platoons per company, more companies per battalion, etc. that is what it looked like during WW2, but in the 30s it resembled this more.

how's that going for you?

I would rather have an analogue version of Facebook, although I don't use Facebook myself anyway, but there's less chance of getting hacked in an analogue version! Either way, I would be depressed at seeing how little amount of 'friends' I had on there - Facebook friends tend to be made up of people you didn't like at school, old work colleagues you never liked, new work colleagues you tend to have but you want to keep up with who they are gossiping about, and a section of your family who you live too far away from to ever visit (but if they lived nearer you wouldn't visit them anyway!) I did have Facebook once, in the very early days, when it first came out. Think I had it for about 6 hours before it became annoying and deleted it. When I see how today people can't live without it, constantly checking to see how popular they are, how many messages they have etc, I'm glad I deleted it.

Probably associated with population density and the amount of work it takes to feed the amount of people. Also, in medieval England, there was a social class called thanes. In the 8th century one thane would have five families under them, they collect "taxes" from them, five families would allow them to live in a lifestyle that allowed them to focus on professional soldiers with all the equipment necessary, although as time went on there was an inflation with the number of people. In less viking parts of the world, like Germany and France they had "knight's fees", where one knight's fee is the amount of land to keep the knight equipped with weapons, armour and a horse (medieval knights were specifically a mounted unit). Also the bit about companies is quite wrong, it depends on the country and war time or peace time. Every company is made up of 2-5 platoons, each platoon is made up of 30ish men, three 10 man squads (which might be fewer, eight is common, depends on country and purpose), plus an officer (a lieutenant or equivalent). Usually they drift towards the two more than the five during peace time, some might be reservist ones. A fully functioning one in a combat situation certainly should be 150 men, but that is not the case for most, which are not actively in a warzone.

Thats excactly what he Said in the video

that's not really a British thing to say though, most would say a picture of your this/that depending on gender. Only very out of touch people or those saying it that way for comedy would word it that way.

You haven't heard a lot of British things then.

Claxon. Americans don't use that word. French people do

@@3eightiesopinion524 Claxon? Yes they do, I know dozens of Americans that I know for certain know the word claxon, or klaxon, not even counting us Canadians (and then it would probably be hundreds).

@@Lowlandlord i know 0. I've been to half the states and never heard it. Canadians use it. Europeans use it. Americans will say alarm, bell or ring.

Laminator Dell I have 900

You sound like a hermit.