QI Series 18 XL: Quiet | With Jimmy Carr, Andrew Maxwell and Sara Pascoe 

"Wu-Tang Clan killer bees on the storm" is the best thing I've ever heard in an Irish accent.

If you want to gauge someone’s ability to multitask, you need to have them do things they ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DO!!!

Yet again Alan shows he's actually very knowledgeable and cultured. Love that guy

OMG Sarah has unlocked a childhood memory, i used to worry about spontaneous combustion too! It was like quicksand or lava, i definitely thought i would need to deal with it a lot more than i have!

I really wish the description had the original air date for these episodes.

Another fav of mine... such a wonderful trio of guests and, of course, Sandi and Alan are brilliant as always. 🌻

Jimmy Carr is my favorite, I just love his laughter ! 😊

Would buy the fire alarm with Sandi saying it in just that tone.

Jackdaw backdoor sounds like an invitation to a pelvic x-ray and a visit from the RSPCA.

40:19 when i sneeze it sounds like either a lazer firing, the wilhelm scream, or if you were rock climbing and the person above you fell past.

Love the way Sandi pronounces 'Groningen' (I live there)

There is a wonderful David Gray song called Jackdaw that starts with the line "I'm like a jackdaw cawing at your back door." So, yes, Alan, someone has used Jackdaw and Backdoor.

Thank you for another full episode!

After watching, what seems like dozens and dozens of QI, - I still haven't got a clue how they score it !

Multitasking is being able to move back and forth between different activities, not doing them all at once. When I was young in Customer Service I could stop in the middle of one thing to do another thing and then get back to the original and know exactly what I was doing without thinking, though maybe my ADD was part of that. I think its more a misunderstanding of what multitasking actually is.

OK, this took me a while. I tried to find the numbers mentioned in the 'reading in bed' topic. I couldn't find them. However, than it occurred to me that there's an incompatibility in the text. It says there were 34 deaths in fire caused by reading in bed (so this is about deaths), and that's the same number as the number of fires started by cats, but that's about numbers of fires, not deaths by fires started by cats. I did find an article containing data about fires in Londen from the same period, but over 17 years, and of the 1649 causes of the fires 'in private dwellings' 222 were candles, but only 8 were by cats. Curtains were the major cause, far over 500.

Portuguese here: we do say "little saint" (santinho/santinha). It supposedly stems from the time of the black death, as a way to show comiseration for the person, because they'll soon be going to heaven. I also had a botanics teacher in college who used to tell us when we sneezed "little devil. At your age, I don't believe you're a saint."

The fact that two grown ass white men even older than me aggressively acknowledged Wu Tang, its left me feeling quite seen

Great point, we haven’t had any spontaneous combustion’s for ages..... what’s happened there I wonder

What is that tinnitus app? I need lol

As a cook/chef i am multitasking for over 30 years........

27:11 This reaction to traces of fentanyl is an urban legend, propagated by 1. stories like this and 2. videos showing people, who believed these stories and had a panic attack, when they *believed* they had come in contact with fentanyl. This drug is potent but does not aerosolize and could not do anything to a human body when touched or inhaled.

I'm a man, and I like to brag. TRUE

So was "S" the final series? Should be "T" time by now.

WOULD SO MUCH LIKE TO HEAR WHAT THEY SAYING BUT I'M DEAF AND NO SUB TITLES.........

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When you do it...? Right here, right now, Sandi. We'll sell it on tape, make a bundle, put the bundle on a stick, and hit the road in search of new jobs and a new home.

Ye olde towers of Hanoi... 128 moves to solve with 8 disks.. assuming no mistakes

Don´t do that accent with that haircut... :D

Different countries also have onomatopoeia for the sounds animals make but nobody claims that the animals make different sounds in different countries.

I breed mice for a living. They do not have noisy sex. It's noisy when the female rejects the male. In some cases she will even bite off his manhood to make sure she doesn't have to breed with him. They are fun little creatures.

Raining outside was it?..? How weird,is that why we build waterproof houses?? One of the dummest things to say,same as i saw it with my own eyes...really how astounishing....how the f... else would you have seen it???

I always hate the argument people cant multitask when people drive and talk all the time with zero problems but apparently that doesn't count

Oh no,, Sarah Pascoe. Gonna pass on this one. David got it right that time on WILTY "The good thing is that now we know a third of their team is an idiot."

So that thing about the sneeze being a learned affectation How come in every language Sandi read out, it was almost exactly the same words or word sounds used? Its obvious some people really take the piss with their sneezes, but im not sure i believe ALL of us are doing it for dramatic effect or whatever They also say that Yawns being "infectious" is also a learned affectation, which i find to be much easier to believe than the sneeze thing I mention this yawn fact because for some reason ive yawned 4 times while writing this 🥱

For anyone curious about inflatable tanks - - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_tank#:~:text=In%20one%20operation%20in%20September,landings%20at%20the%20Normandy%20Beaches. One of my favorite WW2 stories!

Thank you.