QI | Indian Police Moustaches 

Baaaaaaaw

FINALLY! :D

honestly i'm ashamed of myself not noticing that earlier

2:18 - Sir, your moustache is lovely. 😄

@@QUARTERMASTEREMI6 Thank you, Darling.

he does

I just love that for a moment, he transforms back into General Melchit

Stephen is the very model of a modern major general

william rhodes If by that, you mean an insane, wine-soaked tyrant with the military expertise of a half-eaten teacake, who will send men by the thousands to their pointless deaths and not care one iota, but will scream in heart wrenching greif at the death of his pet pigeon?

Don't bottle it up, tell us how you really feel.

And what a shame Phil Jupitus wasn't on.

Bheeeee!!!!1

Shut up Darling!

Well, you're not the only one who is unreasonably happy! 😄

It's "Bahhh!"

Anshul Dinger Captain Haddock!

Very cool thank you anshul

He actually looks like sir Anthony Cecil hogmanay melchett. A character he played in Blackadder goes forth.

Blistering Barnacles and Thundering Typhoons!

Definitely not Captain Haddock, Captain Haddock has a full beard!

A biopic? How Melchett became a general?

We missed the chance to have him as a guest on "The West Wing"

Do you see him in this room Sir?😁

Do you see him in this room Sir?😁

"HE'S OVER THERE BAHHHHH!" walks away casually "Excellent, splendid, first class"

But that still doesn't address the "why" soldiers had to have a mustache prior to WWI.

It was basically to stop women from dressing themselves as men and joining the army, which had been a surprisingly common practice in previous centuries.

Cliff Smith Thanks for that tidbit, I was unaware.

you could have just pulled the moustache down to cover your mouth and used it as a natural gas mask.

I had assumed it was because they needed so many soldiers, they started enlisting boys a little too young to grow regulation mustaches. As for why they required them before, maybe it was something like firefighters? Before they had gas masks they grew big mustaches (and lots of firemen still do) that have a little bit of an effect on filtering out smoke.

Not to mention the creatures that live in the moustache...

This comment is tragically underappreciated

Made a note in my diary on the way here. Simply says: "Bugger."

Nice, Darling

That´s captain Darling to you.

T. Due Good Morning, Darling. Fancy a cappuccino?

Baa!

HE'S A ROTTER AND HE SHOT MY PIGEON

No, he is an odius little man. Just because he doesn't like mustaches doesn't mean that contraptions for mustaches are stupid. Just because something isn't compulsory doesn't mean that it is forbidden. Just because he can't make the little mental step from bedhair to bedmustache doesn't mean that that thing is stupid. But he wanted to be funny, so he was rude to people who like mustaches... No, I don't like them, but I don't think that views differing from mine have to be ridiculed.

@@beageler What an odd thing to get upset about.

@@ScoopMeisterGeneral Yeah, not liking people for making fun of things they don't understand is so weird. Next thing one can't jeer spastics anymore...

@@beageler No, getting upset over a clearly very lighthearted joke is weird. And it's still upsetting you over a year later, too...

@@ScoopMeisterGeneral Not ignoring you gravedigging the comment is being upset? Thankfully the mute function exists, better luck trolling with other people...

Maybe due to copyright issues :p

He did a little bit, at least. 😆

Indeed. :)

Yep, from pondy.

He's a darling man.

Having read that 'tache joke, I may never get it out of my mind!

Republiken I want one

That's the excuse, but I bet it's just to not annoy the lady when performing cunnilingus. Besides, a contraption like that pulling on the back of your ears can't be a comfortable way to sleep.

A moustache-bra!

I believe it's called a Snood, actually, and if ur going to bed with a stiff mustache or still with wax in it then you will get acne faster than a bent up mustache. I think its for teasing your mustache when it's short - you wana keep a shape in it when you don't have the wax that is the only thing otherwise keeping it in shape. That's why you really rarely see curled short mustaches - every morning it's a struggle to get the damn thing where you want it.

Having seen what happens when I sleep on my beard the wrong way, that has to be it.

It's not a bra, it's a hair net (but for the face). And it's not just in kosher deli's, any place (at least in the US) where food preparation happens, those nets have to be worn to prevent hairs getting into the food.

Love you guys so so many

Holy homophobia, Batman!

Yes, they really should have mentioned him by name, they usually do so with notable European people they discuss.

Nah, it's definitely Steve Wright in the Afternoon.

@Sunny Bear - They weren't discussing him though. They were talking about the moustache differences between the Bollywood and Tamil film industries... of all things. :)

@@Codex7777 ye who cares about some guy who has evidently made a career out of facial hair.

Definitely going down there by some point I can go over the next day

Ever heard of Blackadder?

TWATS R US?

But surely, many people brush their hair in the morning? Brushing a moustache cant be that much trouble?

Or razors??

Yeah, he is quite the bully. Really rude to mustache wearers.