When I was a kid, my brother and I decided to see whom our dog liked better. We ran in opposite directions and watched to see whom the dog would follow. The dog just sat down and waited for us to come back. Smart dog
My grandma designed and built her own circular straw house with dirt-filled rubber tires for the foundation and a greenhouse around the base, connected to a hollow floor...the heat from the greenhouse warms the floor inside. The center is held up by an upside-down tree, the roots acting as beams. It's utterly beautiful.
Like, people scoff at virtual items, but at the end of the day it's a hobby like any other you spend time and money on. Let's say we replace online game with golf, and avatar with a set of professional golf clubs. If some asshole comes along and breaks your golf clubs it would be the most normal thing in the world to want some form of compensation.
And then most of these digital values have cost real money and are exchangeable for real money. They are about as real as money in a bank account. I don't know about anyone else but I would be quite upset if someone broke in to my digital bank account.
@@Awgieable I don't know what that is. Anyways, the general problem with art is the commercial application and the insane business around it. But you're right, I should respect the things themselves as art. But I can't help but thinking it's silly to buy expensive attire for an online character or something like that. Even if it's not hacked and stolen you've been ripped off hard in my opinion.
+The Bodeica Better than what? You see, Britts have no problem making fun of themselves, or others. It doesn't mean they disrespect the one they are making fun of because it's just a joke. Perhaps some Americans should learn from this and not take themselves and their country so seriously.
slovenian houses are oversized cuboids with 4 or 5 people living in a house suitable for 10 or more since land is relatively cheap anywhere outside major towns and you get your mates to help you build it - definitely not small
haha, yeah i should. I hope Fry comes as a guest in the future series and looses points for all the mistakes the elves made. The glow on Davies' face will be priceless. Fiyaaah
Love the show! Just one thing I like to say when someone mentions the "carbon footprint" - this word is the core of one of the most successful marketing campaigns ever: BP tried to shift the blame for destroying the planet from those who profit from it to customers. It so worked...The message: We don't need no laws preventing oil spills and climate crisis those normal people just have to behave better.
+Heloise O'Byrne Don't know what you're smoking, but it must really affect your perception of poshness. Stephen Fry-Cambridge, Alan Davies-University of Kent, Danny Baker-left school at age fourteen, Eddie Izzard-Eastbourne College.
Half-timbered houses use a mixture of straw and clay to fill in the "fields" between the beams of wood. That is an awesome building material. Also there are many houses with a thatched roof (which is basically straw).
The Hong Kong Real Estate market can be very superstitious. I was looking at apartments with a friend, the agent showed us a flat which was 30% below market value. We asked why and he said the previous owner committed suicide. By law estate agents in Hong Kong must disclose any ghost haunting, murder, suicide or any event which would decrease the value to superstitious buyers. The agent said he could be sued in court for not disclosing such information. In Cantonese they call this "hongza" property.
@@DerEchteBold That means there are people that believe in such things, that doesn't mean there actually is such a thing. Some people believe they have lucky socks and those socks hold a much much higher value to them than regular socks, that doesn't mean the socks are actually lucky.
Kind of agree with Alan at 6:26 there. All animals come to equilibrium with their environment by having their population be unsupportable by the environment, and then a portion of them die out. The fact that humans have consciousness in our particular way doesn't exempt us from that logic.
People may laugh at the whole MapleStory-thing, but the amount of money people spent on their accounts back in the day... Also, Elle if see this know that I miss our grinding around Ellinia and will never forget when we met outside Kerning
@@Awgieable Part of the equation is undeniably autism. Second Life (SL) is a magnet for autistic people like me. A normal social life isn't an option for people like me, but the advent of virtual worlds has given so many of us access to an approximation of a social life, and that's been very meaningful to me. My personal estimate is that 1/3 of people in SL are autistic. If I wonder about someone, I just ask them, and every one of them has said yes, they were autistic. We are not on the same social plane as most people, so we act weird. (If only the rest of you could see yourselves the way we see you!) We also tend to be unskilled at interpersonal conflict management. Given how much this prosthetic social life means to us, there's a lot at stake when people feel threatened or betrayed. So, a lot of what happens there looks like something to joke about, and ok, a lot of it is, but something very sensitive is lying just beneath the surface. I've had a stable online relationship for the past 6 years. That's never happened before, and it feels better every day! That's my best attempt to explain some of the craziness online. A lot of opinions, but some important facts too.
I was just thinking... The Brits have 'on average' 76 sq meters of home, and I look at my apartment which on paper has 77 sq meters and went... I cant wait to own a house!
I wonder if that's because so much UK housing was built by industry owners who were only interested in providing minimal accommodations for their workers. I see aerial views of so many British communities, rows upon rows of depressing-looking identical tiny boxes next to a mine or a mill or factory or whatever. Now Britain is so densely populated I don't think there's a way out. My 1-bedroom apartment in Minnesota is about 70 m^2. Just for me.
So many malinformations, I'm starting to get tired of it. Straw houses were not invented in Nebraska, they were constructed like that in Chile for hundreds of years, being earthquake resistant and not needing much wood to build it. So I presume it was Chilean immigrants who introduced this way of housebuilding to Nebraska.
they can think of the same idea at a different place, without having to do anything with eachother. But I agree that should use the oldest as the proper invention.
Lol everyone here is complaining about how incorrect this show is - it’s a bloody game show with tons of episodes that need to be able to be made easily with its primary focus on Humour not education. Really don’t get why anyone would just take these facts at face value from a show made to entertain for an hour while you veg in the couch in a half awake stupor - of course it’s not known for its accuracy. Yeh the family could have gone vegan but that wasn’t the direction they wanted to seer the conversation in.
Why shouldn't viewers demand better information? QI is a BBC show run on a license fee levied from the public, employ researchers, and are headed by people like Stephen who do want to convey truths. Viewers are not uninvolved parties who have no stake in the programme to give feedback, and the feedback they give don't go against part of what the show is for. Complaints never say they would boycott the show or anything, they're just pointing out mistakes and expressing disappointment.
That houses thing is confusing, cause most europeans live in apartments which are generally smaller than a full house. Are they only counting actual houses? Cause then in Europe they might be bigger just because its only the very wealthy who own them.
I agree that it does sound a bit strange. In Spain for example people in cities tend to live in small flats but the cities and the population are smaller. In less populated areas people have larger houses and not particularly wealthy people often have a second house in their natal village. I am not sure if this is true of other places.
I reckon they did mean actual houses, not flats or apartments because those can be way way smaller especially in big cities (I reckon up to 50m2 would be about average for a flat). In uk, even in London, lots of people do live in separate/private houses.
@@Yeesha0000 I would've guessed they meant the average living space per household, counting houses, flats, everything, cause the average for actual houses can't be as small as the 76 m² he mentioned. This confirms it: shrinkthatfootprint.com/how-big-is-a-house The average living space per person across the EU is about 42 m², btw.
I really don['t think there's much meat in the gravel sold for dog food. After one dog's teeth were worn to the gum chewing that stuff, I began dampening it with milk or gravy.
Many dogs are lactose intolerant, so careful with dairy. Also, Orijen Original is probably the best dog food. It consists entirely of meat and berries. No grain. That may be bad for the environment, but it's good for your dog. Try that. If you need to dampen it, do it with warm water. (Not warm from the tap, but warmed in a kettle or whatever.)
@@DerEchteBold I forget the details, so you're gonna have to look them up, but you're not supposed to ingest water from the hot water tap or use it for cooking because... er... something happens in the pipes that causes it to come out containing higher levels of lead and what not.
@@austenhead5303 Oh, that's what you mean, thanks! I think that mostly applies if you have really old pipes but you're right it isn't recommended to use hot tap water for consumption, I forgot about that.
Oh you're so clever aren't you.. I have friends who are practically body builders who have a largely or fully vegan diet. I do know vegans that are quite ignorant and yeah, forceful, but a lot of meat eaters are exactly the same way or even worse. I don't care much for the ethical argument but knowing how much of global CO2 emissions are due to meat consumption vegans undoubtedly have the facts on their side. But maybe you're a "climate skeptic" anyway.
Tatsujiro Kurogane On one episode they had the fact that all the ancient gladiators seem to have been vegan. I doubt you would tell all your bullshit to the faces of such kind of people ; )
+JimmyCarlinSk8 Dogs cannot go vegan; they NEED meat to be healthy. They are carnivores, even if they can digest some carbs/veg, meat is still their main diet. Same for cats.
SirusKing Sorry you are right. I confused the fact that dogs can convert a lot of carbohydrates into protein, but you are right they still need some meat.
+SirusKing Dogs can go vegan- one of the longest living dogs recorded was Bramble, a vegan dog who lived to 27 years old, or 189 dog years. They are omnivores, not carnivores; and with the correct supplementation can thrive on a vegan diet. The standard dog diet of slaughterhouse waste and filler raises a dogs risk of cancer and joint problems immensely. Cats however are obligate carnivores and need to eat meat.
Stephen mentioned how meat production produces more CO2 than wheat. Interestingly, one thing that wheat production leads to is deforestation as farmers especially in Brazil look for space to grow more crops. Hydroponics is one long term solution to this but short term it's likely to get worse.
But meat production leads to much more deforestation, about ten times as much, cause you need to grow the food for the meat somewhere, people always seem to forget that cattle and pigs don't grow on sunlight. As far as I know most deforestation in Brazil happens to grow soy for livestock feed. For vegan/vegetarian food you need much, much less of cultivated area in total, that's mainly where the bad Co2 footprint of eating meat comes from.
@@DerEchteBold There is a certain amount of irony in trying to cancel out your carbon footprint. As a professor put it, you will always affect your environment because you're part of it, but you can try to limit the damage. Vegans and vegetarians are taking the extreme route that is unhealthy for the human body.
@@11Survivor That's your opinion but it's not absolute knowledge, lots of epxerts would explain how it's much more healthy to eat no animal products. I don't know which is true and with all the contradicting 'knowledge' nowadays you can't trust anyone or anything, so I'd go by reason and it tells me that we don't need to breed and kill animals for food anymore. With animal products other than meat it also gets horrible on the industrial scale so we should really limit all of that to a minimum that could be handled by traditional farming. Btw, there is some famous German/Armenian strongman guy who did go vegan, he thought his performance would drop considerably and he'd probably should give up the 'sport' but the exact opposite happened and after a few years he was more fit and healthy than ever.
@@DerEchteBold It's not my opinion. It's fact. To be well nourished you need both animal products and plant matter. This is because you cannot synthesize all the proteins in plant matter directly, and thus need the intermediant herbivore from who's meat we can then synthesize those same proteins. That's why vegans require supplements. Supplements that require amongst a host of other resources, *animal products.*
@@11Survivor Yes, yes, B12, iodine and such ...but there are vegan people who don't use any supplements and most of them doing just fine. So maybe it's not more unhealthy than any other 'regular' unhealthy diet, cause practically no one does really eat perfectly healthy, have you thought about that?
As a german shepard owner I can say a dog will eat vegetables without the need for meat. I can give mine plain lettuce, without any sort of dressing and she'll eat it. Dogs are like us. Primarily meat eaters but also eat other stuff to compliment their diet. Even when they eat other animal's shit, they are doing so because they smelled something in it that is lacking on their own diet.
Instead of getting rid of your dog or cat, you could also just eat less meat yourself. That's one of the best and easiest ways to reduce your carbon footprint
Only up to the first question but completely agree having a dog or a child is unnecessary carbon footprint. Kids are exponentially bad for the environment and will polute for generations.
3:48~3:54 That cost obviously does not take into account the fact that cats are allowed to murder endemic Fauna, up to and including making species extinct, an achievement only overshadowed by humans. An extremely expensive result of human negligence.
@@11Survivor Could be when special made... but very doubtful (possible producing more carbon whilst preparing). As a strange way of removing carbon it is effective..
Interesting how Stephen is skeptical about hauntings in America. Yet the London Underground has had and continues to have numerous supernatural sightings...
@@DerEchteBold : there has been research done into supernatural activity ( which I believe in ), and I don't think everybody or anybody that has experienced such a thing is a liar. Or just plain crazy. Or drugged.
@@Orion3741 You have to be careful with such things around Qi, you risk quite some mockery ...at best. Sometimes the extreme ignorance towards anything Fry doesn't consider scientific is a bit sad. I'm a spiritualist to some degree and open to anything but when I just googled the subject you mentioned earlier only stuff came up that seemed horribly bogus on first sight and not worth any deeper look. But I've experienced at least a handful of situations myself you might call 'supernatural', although I really don't like the term cause if there's something to it it's perfectly natural, isn't it?!
@@Orion3741 What's the point of even looking up research on it if you're just going to believe them no matter what? Do you believe people who say they got abducted by aliens too and how they describe the inside of the ufos?
