This is easily (I'm American, so I didn't watch these live and don't know the whole series) THE BEST segment yet!!!!!,......I belted out laughing, it was so natural and hilarious!!!!!!!
Not sure why he said no. I used to go on foot drill exercises when I was a St John Ambulance cadet. When ever we turned during marching, we had to keep our paces synchronized, so the rank on the inside of the turn had to reduce their pace distance, while the outer rank had to widen.
Even though the record spins at a constant speed, the velocity of the stylus is higher at the outer edge (or beginning) of the record than it is toward the center.
@@johnreynolds5383 the stylus has no velocity it is stationery. The record has one constant rotational speed. But different points on the record move at different speeds as they cover greater or lesser distances, wilst tracing they're path.
I'm retired now, and the job I had necessitated that I travel extensively, mostly in Europe but not exclusively, which I did for over 40 years. I am Scottish and from the Isle of Skye originally, and when I was first hired for the job I was told by my manager to lose my Jock accent when abroad as I would not be taken seriously or be understood with my broad Scottish accent. This was the early 80s you understand when PC was not a thing yet, I thankfully ignored his advice after a short time and found to my pleasant surprise that I was greeted with far more friendliness when I spoke naturally to people in my "Jock accent" than in some unnatural enunciation that resembled Mrs Doubtfire.
To be fair, there are some English speaking countries where a thick Scottish accent of any variety will be greeted with utter confusion. I'm thinking North America especially. I imagine you did run into plenty of Europeans who struggled to understand you, especially back then when the rates of English skills on the continent were much lower than they are now! But yes, there's nothing wrong whatsoever with that accent. It's charming, in fact. Those old attitudes about accents were always quite specific to the culture(s) of the UK and Ireland.
Carr looks plastic these days. Mystifying to me how cosmetic procedures, which are often an adjustment of a few millimeters, makes so much difference in appearance!!!
Who agrees that the Olympics would be far more interesting if they included an regular person to compete alongside the professionals to compare against. It would be far more fun.
olympics is not about having fun. its showing off the best of the best of their respective sports. you dont watch wrestling in the olympics, you’d watch WWE instead.
For my friends across the pond, Hiram Ulysses Grant was his given name. The guy signing him into West Point got it wrong, and Grant was too shy to correct him. It is often given as 'Simpson', but that was a retro fit.
@@joshuarubin3684 I have resisted for days, but that's all I can stan and I can't stan no more. The S was in his given name and it was quite deliberate, honoring both his grandfathers, both whose name began with 'S'. Grant's was a flub, Harry's was deliberate. If you are not an American, understandable. If you are, the principal wants to see you in his office right this minute. Sheesh.
I have to say the guys look damn dapper during the Queen Victoria/ 34:30 Mr Bean section. Sean was dashing with that helmet. When one side of my family came over having the last name "Johnson" at a time when so many were entering America with the same last name... they were advised to change their last name. So they did. I think it was brilliant
I agree about the dapper appearance. I though Alan, in particular, look amazing in the cream colored uniform. Hubba hubba. He is Richard Gere/"Officer and a Gentleman" handsome, which is my highest compliment for male attractiveness!!!!
If you, can, find the footage of Eric the Eel at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The crowd went wild, cheering him on. On a TV interview, one spectator said that he thought he might have to jump in and save him.
Grant's name in a bio I read was Hiram Ulysses Grant and it was the thing to put your initials on your trunk when going to West Point. He didn't want it to be HUG so he adopted his brother's name of Simpson.
My dad was an Irish Navi, he'd spend 10 hours grafting, 10 hours drinking and 4 hours sleeping. He lived on alcohol, cigarettes and lard yet was as strong as an ox and fitter than most men half his age.
Regarding the spies stealing documents used as toilet paper... ... I first heard of that in the Dennis Potter series - "Lipstick On Your Collar"... Where Ewan McGregor's character (and his characters' colleagues) has to translate Russian documents that have come to the MOD precisely in the manner described here.
Its funny that Westinghouse was associated with A/C current, yet when i drove trains for BR there was a westinghouse braking system fitted on our epbs (electro pneumatic brake) yet we drove on the third rail D/C system.
I'm really glad that at least compilations by letter are available. I would absolutely buy the DVDs, but they are either unavailable or are only playable in other regions. I'm keeping my eyes open for when they are availble for sale again, but for now I'm watching what I can online here.
The weird thing is they don’t say that about the acropolis - they say it about the Parthenon itself. So the whole silly line was totally unnecessary. Thank goodness the Qi writers didn’t know that, because I’ve never laughed so hard in my life.😂
@@Pagliacci_Rex that’s right. But it’s the Parthenon specifically that has no straight lines - not the whole acropolis in Athens. I’m an art historian and we learn that fact (or supposition) about no straight lines in our first classes.
I friend of mine used to market greeting cards with drawings of elephants on them. The paper itself was made from elephant poo: Apparently there's lots of grasses in the poo, and they are good for making paper!
Those polar explorers technically didn't use only their own power during that trip: If you define an "external power" to be anything beyond what sheer human effort can do, and I doubt that definition would be even remotely controversial. One of the forms of skiing they used was "kite skiing", which is basically what it sounds like: If you have a tailwind, you can fly a kite ahead of you, a bit like the sport of "kite-surfing". Which is basically flying a large "power kite" while standing on a surfboard, which generates enough force to propel the board and rider across the water at respectable speeds. This can even lift the board and rider several metres up into the air if the wind speed is high enough. Anyway, if you can fly a power kite of similar size and design while on skis, the same force generated by the kite can propel at least one skier to similar speeds, or can even propel the whole group if they can tether themselves together, albeit at lower speeds. So if they were using the kite skiing technique (which Rupert Lonsdon explicitly told us that they did), that would have been a supplementary power source. Which could arguably be described as a mechanical power source, since it did provide a propulsive force - it just so happens that the energy source to make it work is one of the best known renewable sources - the wind.
12:48 -- 15:14.... there's a better ironic death than any of those... strange it was not included.. or discovered by the research team... The guy that "coined the term" ""Organic ""was on live tv one day doing an interview at age 70- something and life longevity was raised as a topic... and the guy says... something like..... "You know, I never thought I'd live as long as 70?(something)... (his interview age)... but now I am here.... I have never felt better in my life and I have decided I am going to live until I am 100! " they laugh.... interview wraps up.... he walks off set.... has a heart attack and dies 😮 still in the studio lol... CRAZY!!!
Just watching this , when trying to polish the glass dome… I’ve recently played around with engraving on glass and apparently a rubber or silicone burr will polish back to a clear (er) finish .. love that find though👍
QI is one of my favourite shows of all time and Fry is one of your national treasures, HOWEVER, the British, slaver mindset/culture, when speaking about Navies - "you fed them on beer and meat". 'You fed' them? What, like slaves? If the Brit wasn't cratious enough to supply beer and meat, they'd just starve? They couldn't eat unless the Brit said so?
As much as I love Eddie the Eagle's spirit and determination, I do think the Olympics should belong to athletes who've trained extensively and are of the elite. It might not be quite as entertaining, but when it comes to athletics, I think most viewers want to see the best of the best.
i'm sure one of the crew on 'time team' tried it (archeology student) only for twenty four hours, while also trying to dig and carry dirt in a navvy type way, but got on with it quite well.. 🙂 😉
Actually, 1st people to circumnavigate the world were the huge galleons of the Chinese in 1412. They knew about scurvy and carried potted lime trees. There you go!
Strange that no one mentions the subliminal game Stephen plays when introducing the pilgrims and what they said ,,,he makes a grand pause and says HOW did they first communicate? No one fell for it and it gets forgotten…
for anyone that thinks the potential Russian names are weird.. remember we name our kids after emotions and the Japanese call them after stations like Hime or Princess. Yoshi, a boys name means joy. So it's not as weird as one might think.
@@amberswafford9305 I can't imagine being on site. Appalling. Why hang an elephant? If it's gone berserk, put it down fast. Hanging? I have a real problem with "humanity."
Wait…are they impressed that it “only took” 5 years to go from London to Birmingham? That’s 120 miles….the transcontinental railway in America is over 1900 miles and they built it in 6 years…..
Um, Actually . . . The anthropomorphic bat creatures in Star Wars are called "The Chadra-Fan" and they are a completely different species to Yoda and Grogu
And full stops generally do not appear mid sentence unless said sentence contains an abbreviation! The reason they have seat belts on some flights is so that they can identify your body.
What is at the end of the earth... _Telford Town Centre_ That is the most random thing I've ever heard.. And being from Telford, its even weirder 👀 @25:45
Love the way you did this podcast n your words. I can see also in other times, you try to be as constructive as you can in your comments. You try to be fair n I appreciate that abt you. Love watching your podcasts! Keep it going, ignore the bad comments. ❤
9:33 From all the anecdotes I've heard, Edison was a complete prick. 50:14 IINM, the same is true with dogs, cats and pigs (and I guess any mammal with patterned fur).
