An opinion that I have shared on many occasions. I am now looking forward to having the weight of the law behind me. Can't believe I had never heard that one before!
Thanks for sharing. It has been a lot on my mind lately, mostly because of the polarized attitudes in social media (or even in media in general). I needed to remind myself of the exact wording, because the exact words tend to slip my mind, more and more as I get older.
way too many people would genuinely rather look evil than look incompetent. there's a reason it's been used as a trope so much in dramatic storytelling, people honestly just screwing up something important but then pretending it was intentional even if it villainizes them
With regards to internet laws, there is also Cumberbund's law, which states that "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." 😉
@@wfly81 Which has become rather a problematic one here in the US, since it's so frequently used as a deflection on criticism of politicians who are legitimately emulating Nazis...
For anyone who's interested, the painting they show at 41:07-42:15 of Mr. Toad in the courtroom (shown for the question, "Ignorance of the law is...") was painted by awesome illustrator Chris Dunn.
When my granddaughters were about 5 years old, they lived with us for awhile, and one of them suddenly decided it was a great thing to say 'poop'. A LOT. I finally got tired of it, and told her that I didn't want to hear it anymore, but if she really needed to, she could write it down on a piece of paper. Six years later, we're still occasionally finding little pieces of paper with POOP written on them...
Amos' Law reminds me of a German saying “A guest is like a fish: The first day he's fresh, the second day he's a burden and on the third day he's beginning to smell."
I have to say, while the chemistry between everyone is great when they have a crowd in the studio, how utterly "friendly banter" the discussions have become without them worrying about the audience is actually quite enjoyable.
Speaking as a huge fan of the show (With Stephen Fry). This might be the least funny eqpisode of QI I've ever seen. Sandi Toksvig is not a good host, she is not funny, and jumps to the next topic so abruptly.
Amazing they brought up Lake Peigneur here. My answer was jokingly that “the Gulf flows backwards”. It’s an amazing story and even more amazing that no one was injured or killed in that event.
As an Australian I was extremely confused when this wasn’t a Christmas episode… that’s all I associate with the term “silly season”. I had no idea it referred only to midsummer, I figured it was just the end of year festivities and people taking time off work stuff.
Swede here. Names of things in IKEA are often silly even in Swedish. It started with using (real) place names for sofas but it became a thing to use Scandinavian sounding words and names. Although some names are very literal, these days many names are made up words
@@DarkDutch007 Some are more useful, because people have agreed that they have meaning, while others exist only between a very select few and would only waste time, if tried in conversation.
I think he's kinda cute and like the beard, but I can't shake the feeling he's just some posh boy who got into TV because he knows people... and its kinda annoying
@@wfly81 I disagree with both of you. I think he was always funny, and his outbursts often involve a lot of shouty energy even now. EDIT - it occurs to me part of the reason it may seem like he's improving is that the quality of guests has gone down markedly. The people who came on in Fry's tenure were top comics. These days a lot of them are sub-par (I don't mean specifically this episode, just in general).
Holly did very creative segments when she was in dictionary corner on 8 out of 10 cats does countdown. I'd love to see how she would approach taskmaster.
One silly season, a few years ago now, had Radio N.Z. National opened it's 6o'clock news bulletin with the now immortal sentence " A man, who had been drinking whisky all, day fell over!"
With that incident with the drilling-rig boring into the salt-mine in Louisiana, there was actually a recreational-fisherman in his boat on the lake when it happened, who just managed to make it to shore in time, but he decided that he'd never go fishing ever again! The reason they were drilling there was because 'salt-domes' are part of the geology of the region, & they have been mined for well over a century, but what was discovered was that as those domes were created when rising to the surface, oil was usually trapped at the sides of the salt domes by impervious sub-surface layers of clay. However, on this occasion someone made a huge miscalculation of where they were supposed to be drilling!
Thats quite intersting!! a google search tells me that there is still fish in the lake, are they the same species there before or did they introduce saltwater fish after the incident?
Here in Australia, channel 7 i believe, ran a story about spaghetti trees in the early 80's and were inundated with calls asking where they could buy them !!!!!
Some years ago, an AI was programmed to come up with new names for characters in "My Little Pony". If the show had Starly Star and Raspberry Turd, I'd probably watch it. Sandi was bang on with the wurst joke.
The funny thing about Seasons is I believe in addition to what countries' official names for the season, there'll still be the chance the locals have their own take on what the weather is actually doing... I've heard that Pittsburgh, PA's, residents say their seasons are Almost Fall, Winter, Still Winter, and Road Construction - although I think many locations around the world have Road Construction Season :( Down here in Texas, the joke is, "Yeah, we have four seasons: December, January, February, and Summer!" ;)
It is known who Murphy was. He was an engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base circa 1950. He had taken two weeks to set up an experiment, and left the last step, attaching the leads from the experimental equipment to the data recorders. All of the leads were attached incorrectly, so when the experiment was actually run, there was no usable data. Then Murphy announced his law.
Also the above is false... Look up "why did Murphy hate Murphy's law". Don't use Qi and wiki for intellectual bragging...Murphy had nothing to do with Murphy's law in reality...
“poop” is not an Americanism. As with any number of American English words, “poop” was the spelling when Britain began to colonize American, and has been retained. It is the British firm “poo” that is changed. This also occurs with the difference in how quite a few English words are pronounced.
The American English word for "poop" could have had some Dutch influences as it spoken the same and has the same meaning as the Dutch word "poep". Since New York was once New Amsterdam, there are more words used in NY and on a slightly smaller scale the rest of the US with Dutch influences like "stoep, koekje and slee" which in (American) English is "stoop, cookie and sleigh".
As to the similarities with Dutch, English is a Germanic language, evolved from Anglo-Saxon. The closest living language to English is Frisian, which is mostly spoken in the Netherlands. 99.9 percent of similarities between Dutch and English come from centuries before the Dutch colonized what is now New York
"How many legs does the Queen have?" is exactly what I expect from a good QI question. Probably doesn't have an answer, but that's not what QI is all about anyway.
The first week I spent in my new house, an old farmhouse in Vermont, I saw a fox, or should I say, it saw me, walking to the mailbox as IT was trotting up the road. It didn't stop, it merely looked my way and kept on going. 🦊
Darrold's Law of Inverse Determinism: _S=p+1_ Where _p_ is the number of pairs of socks in a dresser drawer, and _S_ is the number of individual socks you have to pull out before getting a matching pair. "Inverse Determinism" because from this it can be demonstrated that some effects determine their causes; e.g. when you're about to post a check for your gas bill. The moment you drop the letter into the post box, you will have not signed the check; but if you tear open the envelope to make sure, you will have signed the check. The particular formula for this is too involved to type here, but there is a factor _q_ which is how many stamps/envelopes you have left.
I had to laugh when, close to the end, they were talking about ignorance of the law is no excuse. I live in Canada which was metrified many years ago. For the longest time we had a problem with Americans coming in to Canada. You see, most of Canada's highways are posted for 100 KPH. So many Americans coming in thought it was great when they we cruising along at 100 MPH...........the local police were not amused. LOL
Just to explain why this is a big deal: In terms of the physics behind a car hitting something at 100 KPH versus 160,9 KPH, the amount of kinetic energy is over 2,5 times more in the case of 160,9. (This is because the formula for kinetic energy is 1/2m(v)^2 where m is mass and v is speed.)
Ok, last time i saw Ivan, he was awkwardly adorkable in looks. I was not prepared for finding him fairly sexy with that facial hair...what a difference, it definitely becomes him!
"burgandy makes you think of silly things, bourdou makes you talk about them, beer makes you do them, and champaign is what you drink after you've done them."
Here in Hungary we call that time of the summer when nothing happens "uborkaszezon" which literally translates to "cucumber season" (a literal translation of the German term).
@@skar17511 The source I got it from (The Dictionary of Hungarian Etymology) says it's "Sauergurkenzeit". I would guess it came to Hungary when German was an official language here, so it must have been somewhere in the 16th to 18th century. You may ot have heard of it simply because it's so old, and now probably forgotten. The Hungarian term was originally used to describe the season when the national assembly was not in session (hence the eventual, broader meaning "the time when nothing important happens") which was around the time pickles were usually made from fresh vegetables - including cucumber - for the winter. (at least this is the explanation the source has.)
It might be Austrian German, to be fair. "Okurková sezóna" in Czech. I always thought it had to do with reporting giant cucumbers - so I was really quite surprised they did not make the connection from giant gooseberries. :-)
As a Dane, even this small place has dialects that nobody outside the place will understand.. (Strangely unless they are from opposite ends of the country)
I have a son called Amos. And I 100% support The Amos's Law 🤣 But it also has to be Amos's Law vice versa where the kid's are not allowed to stay longer than three weeks with their parents after the age of 18.
The Tomatillo, common to Mexican cuisine, is actually a part of the Gooseberry Family, not kin to the Tomato. I'll bet that was a Tomatillo photo, w/ the old man gazing at it. Did you know that Hops (an herb in beer for bitter flavor) are part of the Cannabis Family ? U can even graft the 2, for amazing results.......
I'd double check that if I were you -- you may be thinking of the "Cape gooseberry," which despite the name is neither a gooseberry nor native to the Cape region >_>
