QI | Why Would You Swallow A Poisonous Metalloid? 

Them eyebrows though...

Not quite! There's a class of acids called Carborane Acids, and most acids within that group are stronger. Including the strongest acid ever to be synthesized, H(CHB11F11) and some theoretical ones which have a predicted PKa of -46

Jyt apologies but you are incorrect. Carborane is considered the worlds strongest SOLO acid, with a pH of around -18. However hydrofluoroantimonic acid is still much stronger, but it is made of hydrofluoric acid and antimony pentafluoride, which has a pH in the -40s. In fact carborane is so non corrosive that it an be handled with the bare skin.

Jyt Also, pKa is different from pH...

Actually the strongest acid known is Helium hydride

@@sjaak243 It might be, I can't find the pH anywhere online and I've only just heard of it so I'm skeptical.

imagine taking one that had been swallowed but not properly handled (i.e. washed and cleaned)

Was it an assassination attempt though, or did the Crown Prince just not understand 'pull my finger' and pull his entire hand by mistake?

ass-ass-ination

@@parafraceren They will be our allies at least until the oil runs out

Rick and Morty

“The explosive device was hidden inside al-Asiri's rectum[70] and anal canal, which security experts described as a novel technique.” From the Wikipedia page for it. Novel technique my ass

Quite.

Interesting shit, you might say

*leavings

Shit ! Yeah!

Wow it actually happened. The only embellishments were the last couple of bits with the bouncing and the prince's reaction but what a hilarious way to go

If you notice/read ''15'' (i.e. link/citation 15) the prince almost embellishes it just the same, however that is in retrospect (his enhancement of the story). So yes he probably didn't say in his own language ''very good'', but still. Not overly embellished.

That makes six.

@@_Pike one of the 5 is both.

@@_Pike you're joking, right?

@Bernard McGuire Jo Brand was a psychiatric nurse for a while

Normal procedure Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet into the air, and scatter yourself over a wide area.

@@zbr76 Like fireworks

Like a kick in the pants. Precisely the back, and from a low angle.

Man hid bomb in underwear, believing he wouldn't be searched there Saudis dismiss reports bomber hid explosive in rectum CNN) -- The would-be assassin of Saudi Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Nayef hid his bomb in his underwear, apparently believing that cultural taboos would prevent a search in that part of his body

Propably not. That would be so obvious that it tends towards stupidity - which they’re not to be accused of.

"wife pays the husband" lmao yeah right

@@aloysiusdevadanderabercrombie8 you missed the joke

It is alimony. And wives who earn more than their husbands who do pay it to their divorced husbands. It's rare but it does happen.

@@simransimran9339 seems like a tall order. I get that it can and does happen. But I wonder how many men would push for it, it they had any other option. I mean, I guess it makes sense if your job is supporting your wife so she can earn the money. In that case, you may have no skills or work history. It's kind of like how there's a lot of people who would benefit from government assistance, but either have too much pride or no understanding of how to get it.

@@-8_8- well, all divorce law is like that (in my country). Basically, in my country the divorces are very often granted on the basis of fault (adultery, desertion, cruelty, etc). So if the person at fault earns more they have to pay money to the party who earns less. It's not compensation exactly. It's more about the fact that a person should be able to have the same standard of living during marriage when the rupture of the marriage isn't their fault (at least till they marry someone else or don't need alimony it anymore). Now of the person at fault is the one earning less then the court orders a "reasonable" amount of alimony. Just enough to keep people afloat till they can get manage on their own. Also, alimony isn't for life. It's only till the person actually needs it.

uppers, downers, screamers, laughers..

​@@grizzlixx rip

BLISE

“They poop once a day”. Sez you!

Shit episode..

Do the civets get addicted to caffeine or is that how de-caf is made? Haha

Was it a cabinet member or just a member of Parliament?

My brother had a pet iguana that kept getting stopped up until we figured out the correct diet for the poor little guy. Regular enemas were needed until then.

Ben Goldacre and yes, he is medically schooled. If his Wiki is still accurate, he's currently a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine.

thanks!

Isn't the inability to use a search engine a wonderful tool. For tools.

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@George holbrook So fuck off you pathetic troll.

Technically everything is radioactive to a degree

​@@HUNKragornot really? or at least not on the timescale of the universe. Even bismuth is bit borderline, given its half life of 2.01e19 years

They're absolutely horrible, aren't they? Who on earth designed them?

Dom B I was looking for this comment

Don't buy them then.

If covered or surrounded, yes. Thus why there's all those 'stories' of soldiers/etc. sacrificing themselves by covering explosives with their bodies (e.g. jumping on top of them).

Robert Glanville Explosions, not explosives. You can't metabolise C4, don't try that at home.

someone hasnt tried hard enough

Yep, since you're mostly water it helps dampen the shockwave pretty effectively, and you absorb the shrapnel that forms.

We are a fleshy crumple-zone.

Zero Helix well most of us humans can breath out through ours, breathing in is a little more problematic. 😉

It is a mood stabilizer used for Bipolar Disorder and it is in the form of salt not its metalloid form.

@@Bluu6293 no it can also be used for depression as well, alongside other serious disorders. Additionally, it still retains its toxicity in its salt forms. But I did make an error, lithium isnt actually a metaloid, which are particular elements which have properties not quite metallic or non-metallic, and lithium is definitively metallic.

TMI

He has a website and three published books. Ben Goldacre.

@@qwertyTRiG thanks!

True!

Apart from all the people who don't, since they have no bowels or intestines.

@@gwishart I have not heard of anyone like that although I know some have lost a lot of intestine.

gwishart a colostomy is still poo... just not from the usual orifice.

@@robinturner2300 Exactly

Could you make it a portable one so it provides relief for her entire career and life, not just an episode of QI?

Correct, but they fart and shite.

I'm a woman and I can confirm. We only leave little flowers in the toilet, that grow out to become waterlily's and magically open up when they hear music, to reveal glittery golden dust that spreads the fragrance of your favorite memories. Periods are a different story though. That's like hardcore torture. Hands, walls, floors covered in blood, echoed screaming, vomiting, fainting. We'll leave the place like a hardcore CSI episode. Together with the lifeless bodies of the people saying we were ovaryacting.

@@Widdekuu91 very good you get 10 points

@@Bigolddragon With Eurovision coming, I'm afraid I'm going to need douze points.

It's not

We are special because we get enemas.

She just isn't funny is she.

Not even close to being funny.

Funny Cat Videos Clearly women like her. Why should all comedians be just for men?