Regarding what to do with used Christmas trees...San Diego runs a recycling program. For several days after Christmas, residents are urged to bring their trees to stations the city sets up, and, as I recall, the trees are run through chipping machines, and the chips are put in the composting program that is run at the city landfill.
@@RickReasonnz Many do. It saves on precious landfill space so cities like to do it. And then they often give away the composted refuse to anyone willing to haul it away for personal use. I've used their compost. :)
well to be annoying, they do that with all trees usually at the city landfill all year long. They usually mulch trees, branches, wooden pallets, regular non-treated wood they make mulch out of, takes up less space at the landfill and many let you pick up the mulch to use at your house. So you can take any trees, branches, natural woods there, not just the xmas trees.
In the Vancouver area, it's usually the fire department that takes in trees for chipping. They used to burn them, which was fun, and still usually do a few just to demonstrate how fast a tree that's been allowed to dry out will burn. Where I go, they also collect donations for charities, and provide free hot dogs, popcorn, and hot chocolate.
My small town in mid Illinois took told us two different dates for pick-up of trees. The early day(first week in January) was for putting the trees around the snow piles in the 'valley' to slow the flow to the creak thus slowing the flow of melt water. The next pick-up was late February of more usually March to toss in the 'old lake'. Those were to provide water habitats for bluegill eggs.
I slowed the playback speed to 0.5 to catch what Alan saw on the background, and they sounded like a lot of the stoner's sessions I've sort of remembered..
So if Santa is off the fictional rich list because he's real... Surely, he should be topping the actual rich list? So either the question is wrong, or Forbes isn't interested in keeping their story straight.
Santa is real, but his riches are fictional. (Ask any parent who relies on Santa to actually supply presents.) To avoid this paradox, they simply ignore the fact of his existence.
Have you ever ploted a graph with one extremely high value and a bunch of smaller ones? The small ones would all look the same. So to not diminish the achievements of everybody on the rich list, Santa is, even though he would be on top" displayed on the List. It is probably the same reason why Scrooge McDuck isn't on the fictional list either
Why is this show not a thing in the States? Wait...what?!? Finding a nearly unlimited supply of intelligent, pithy, and good natured celebrities? Never mind.
You do know they reuse the same people over and over right? And often include American actors or comedians...there is litteraly an American on the first clip lol we could do it great but noone would watch it. Not enough nudity, obese midets, poligamy or kardashians lol
Random suggestions for 2020 Christmas 🎉 Party's !! Shall we start this 📋 *list with., 🤔, 1)., Everyone to *cos-play ., Queen Victoria ., Ironman, or Scrooge McDuck !? 2). Letting loose a wild hare, to *Dash about ?!?
A workmate came up with the Birmingham Winterval myth, again this year. He was telling a workmate about it, but coincidentally, she was going to Birmingham for Xmas shopping, that very weekend. So I said to her, that seeing as she was going to be there, to have look with her own eyes. Try and guess what she actually saw.
In Taiwan, hotels and shops etc do shove their christmas tree in a bin bag with all the decorations still on and kick it into a storage room until next year, when it gets dragged out looking predictably disheveled. Mafia stitches have emerged from trunks looking more robust.
I normally adore Stephen Fry, but his condescending tone when he spake to Sarah Milligan about her artificial tree made me really annoyed and disappointed with him.
Ha. That political correctness skit ages like sour milk when political correctness just gets more and more vocal every year. I mean just recently we had a singer change the lyrics of "Baby it's cold outside" because they erroneously believed it was about sexual assault or coercion.
Im not sure how it is in the UK, but in the US our offices are covered in "Happy holidays" and people are sued every year for wishing a Merry Christmas, so it rings true here.
No one's been sued for saying "Merry Christmas"; that's an urban myth put out by Faux News. The main twits responsible for that bulls---? They no longer work for Faux: O'Reilly and Kelley. Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukka, Felice Navidad, Happy Kwannza, Happy Holidays, Happy Festivus...spead some joy.
What?? Yes Saint Nicholas of Myra is the real original person of the legend but the Santa Claus figure today is still fictional. Bloody hell QI ... or I guess Forbes haha
Because telling kids the Santa they know is a corporate farce, while the real Saint Nicholas has been dead for centuries, is the perfect way of going about it for children who choose to believe.
Smaug being the richest creature ever to have been imagined by a human still not having half the amount of wealth that Jeff Bezos has is fucking madness
If you think about it, Smaug made all his gold in one go, Bezos kept going. See, If Smaug had just started a business of robbing dwarves he'd be closer to Bezos.
Flying Scott see, Smaug is ethical like that. He got the money, was happy with his lot, and stopped. Now THATS ethical capitalism (minus yknow, the genocide he committed)
@@rossgauld6421 See, might be just me, but the genocide of three whole cities, one of them a city state is not something I can look past. Though he is a very dashing wyvern.
I taught in one of the most dysfunctional school districts imaginable. We were NOT permitted to decorate our classrooms for Christmas. Sooo, being the cast iron beeotch I can be, I wrote a week-long social science lesson series on "Winter Solstice Celebrations Around the World". I had a display table with a pair of sabots, a gonfalon, a St. Lucia's wreath, a driedel, and many other outward symbols of winter solstice celebrations world-wide. Each had a 6 x 8 card with a brief history/description explaining the piece and its cultural relevance. And, yes, I had an artificial tree with lights and ornaments the children made from the various cultures' celebrations and a holly wreath. No mistletoe ball, though--the students were only seven years old.
It's never confirmed how Rich Scrooge McDuck is, my guess is they need to have some sort of number, or to be able to calculate some sort of number, in order to put a character on the list.
That Forbes list is not correct. Scrooge is richer then Flintheart. That was one of the plot points of the comics and cartoons involving Scrooge McDuck.
just some info on the first segment. You give FRESH xmas trees to animals. They only eat fresh trees, just like they eat fresh leaves off trees and bushes. They won't eat old dead trees. Even goats won't eat an old xmas tree, it isnt' fresh, it doesn't have any nutrients they can use, and it doesn't taste good. So what do you do with your old xmas trees? Unless they are fresh and cut within the past week, you throw them out and don't litter animal cages with dead trees.
Thanks you for this. The very first episode of QI I saw was the one with the rabbit. I got laughing so hard that my landlord knocked on my door to see that I was laughing at. I have been looking for that clip for ages now.
9:33, if tears did not well up as Phil runs to Stephen for the reassuring hug, YOU ARE DEAD INSIDE. or at least from the neck up. I want that welling up of overflowing Joy, every breathing moment for the rest of my mortal life on Earth.
Kristen McGeorge He was ranked as no. 1 at one time. Supposedly it’s based on him being several centuries old and how his assets would have appreciated with interest over that time.
Saint Nikolaus /Nicholas WAS real, he was the former bishop of Myra, Greece, before he died and was later canonized as a saint. He is the patron saint of selfless giving, the patron saint of children, and because his story overlaps with the story of a possibly fictional orphan turned thief character from Germany known as Kris Kringle, he is also the patron saint of thieves.
@@meens93 I mean, he looks like a piece of art! If I were an artist I would definitely paint him. Or something. I can't stop looking... Don't get me wrong, I always thought he was good looking and very funny but now... I don't know... he's perfect really
How is Flintheart on there and not Scrooge McDuck? In every medium from comics to Ducktales, Scrooge is always said to be the Richest Duck in the world and Glomgold is always no. 2.
Okay not to be that person... But why is Carlisle on there instead of Alice? She's the one who makes all the investments by predicting the market. Surely she must have more.
That rabbit that kept popping up in the winter scene was a March Hare. The question is, what was it and why was it so important to the Aztecs?
Ah, crap! I saw the answer in a dream, but now I've forgotten it!
I know it's not "Did they worship it?"
Patryk Wieczorek *WORSHIP IT WORSHIP IT*
@@moramento22 *Worship it* *Worship it*
@@ZumbaMarx you guys are insane hahaha and sadly i know why . 😂❤
Pulling Santa off the list because he's real. That made me tear up a bit. That's so sweet.
I'd give just about anything to get a comforting hug from Steven like that...
Some say the rabbit/ hare is still running around the QI studio.
Santa is real!
*NOT THERE*
*MIRAAAAAAAAAAGE*
*BWAHAHAHAHA*
Phil's so funny!
🤣🤣🤣
Regarding what to do with used Christmas trees...San Diego runs a recycling program. For several days after Christmas, residents are urged to bring their trees to stations the city sets up, and, as I recall, the trees are run through chipping machines, and the chips are put in the composting program that is run at the city landfill.
Sounds like a great idea that more cities should embrace
@@RickReasonnz Many do. It saves on precious landfill space so cities like to do it. And then they often give away the composted refuse to anyone willing to haul it away for personal use. I've used their compost. :)
That is quite common. My local borough in London does the same
well to be annoying, they do that with all trees usually at the city landfill all year long. They usually mulch trees, branches, wooden pallets, regular non-treated wood they make mulch out of, takes up less space at the landfill and many let you pick up the mulch to use at your house. So you can take any trees, branches, natural woods there, not just the xmas trees.
In the Vancouver area, it's usually the fire department that takes in trees for chipping. They used to burn them, which was fun, and still usually do a few just to demonstrate how fast a tree that's been allowed to dry out will burn. Where I go, they also collect donations for charities, and provide free hot dogs, popcorn, and hot chocolate.
5:39 - 5:43 Actually my favourite answer in QI history. That's so brilliant!
Mine is also from Rich Hall:
Q: What goes "woof, woof, BOOM!"?
A: A terrierist.
6:17, I didn’t know James May , hosted
😂 brilliant
I didn’t know Oscar Wilde was still alive
TheBlueHavoc9 Stephen
Came here to say exactly that.
At Halloween 🎃,the bears in the zoo LOVE everyone's pumpkins.
that intro just woke up my entire neighbourhood
that Barry McGuigan never seems to get any older
My small town in mid Illinois took told us two different dates for pick-up of trees. The early day(first week in January) was for putting the trees around the snow piles in the 'valley' to slow the flow to the creak thus slowing the flow of melt water. The next pick-up was late February of more usually March to toss in the 'old lake'. Those were to provide water habitats for bluegill eggs.
Jo Brand is actually Queen Victoria
I slowed the playback speed to 0.5 to catch what Alan saw on the background, and they sounded like a lot of the stoner's sessions I've sort of remembered..
Stephen Fry is just a delight.
So if Santa is off the fictional rich list because he's real... Surely, he should be topping the actual rich list? So either the question is wrong, or Forbes isn't interested in keeping their story straight.
If he's real I hope he pays his tax
Santa is real, but his riches are fictional. (Ask any parent who relies on Santa to actually supply presents.) To avoid this paradox, they simply ignore the fact of his existence.
Of course, it's not so much the cost of the food, but the expense of shipping it all up there.
Have you ever ploted a graph with one extremely high value and a bunch of smaller ones?
The small ones would all look the same.
So to not diminish the achievements of everybody on the rich list, Santa is, even though he would be on top" displayed on the List.
It is probably the same reason why Scrooge McDuck isn't on the fictional list either
this is a good typping test of what is not a fast keyboard, but i love this show.
Why is this show not a thing in the States?
Wait...what?!? Finding a nearly unlimited supply of intelligent, pithy, and good natured celebrities?
Never mind.
BBC America aired it for maybe a month years ago. It was something like 3 episodes in a row on Thursday with no reruns.
You do know they reuse the same people over and over right? And often include American actors or comedians...there is litteraly an American on the first clip lol we could do it great but noone would watch it. Not enough nudity, obese midets, poligamy or kardashians lol
Watch again and again on Britbox. American who loves QI! My favorite is You can die from eating rabbits.
It’s mostly British humour that’s why. Take a look at the IT crowd, Red Dwarf etc, the kind of stuff on American tv has some glaring differences
Its due to copyright
RIP Sean Lock
The tinsel thing was cool.
I honestly don't get it
Alan's been on the naughty list...
COPY CAT. That's 10 points to Rich Hall. Again.
Im just imagining like a dog eating tooth floss, and having it go in the mouth and out the other end, but instead with a elephant and tinsel
"Santa is real!"
Next recommended video: L Series Episode 10: Lying
Reported for humbugism
Jesus Christ. Jeff Bezos had more than 3 times the estimated net worth of a fucking gold hoarding dragon!
Stephen Fry: He [Santa] was taken off the list for a very simple reason...
Me: Operation Yew-tree?
alan losing all ability to focus over the cyclist going across the screen xD
It's a hare!
Random suggestions for 2020 Christmas 🎉 Party's !!
Shall we start this 📋 *list with., 🤔,
1)., Everyone to *cos-play .,
Queen Victoria .,
Ironman, or
Scrooge McDuck !?
2). Letting loose a wild hare, to *Dash about ?!?
I love being in the real world where there are several people several times richer than the richest being people can imagine.
A _Glaciarium_
Ooooh! @.@
Hey now, that's a _much_ more classy name than an 'Ice Rink'! Come on! Bring back the Glaciarium! 3:08 😸_👍
Noel is looking hot with that outfit, and with that hair cut.
Everytime I see clips, I always assume they're outtakes from the actual show; (a talkshow?).
It's a quiz show.
@@NitroIndigo The clips they show look like outtakes, to me.
@@AngryBeaver60 it's not a very strict quiz show.
The late bernard manning on the right....
A workmate came up with the Birmingham Winterval myth, again this year. He was telling a workmate about it, but coincidentally, she was going to Birmingham for Xmas shopping, that very weekend. So I said to her, that seeing as she was going to be there, to have look with her own eyes. Try and guess what she actually saw.
In Taiwan, hotels and shops etc do shove their christmas tree in a bin bag with all the decorations still on and kick it into a storage room until next year, when it gets dragged out looking predictably disheveled. Mafia stitches have emerged from trunks looking more robust.
You know the world is screwed when the wealthiest fictional characters are poor compared to the real worlds top 1%
Sarah Millican is mommy in that blue dress.
Wait why is Smaug the richest with 62 billion dollars when the Black Panther has 90 trillion
I call bullshit every time Scrooge and Flintheart had a rich-off Scrooge won
Only 10 dislikes :O
What does artifisssial mean? 0:38
@Kathleen Henson Listen to it again. Maybe it needs more "S's." Artifissssssial
@@ModeratelyAmused Because Lord Fry is allowed to put on a fake uber-posh accent whenever he chooses so to do.
Carlisle Cullen is the third richest fictional character how much do doctors get paid holy shit
Where did Donald Trump place on the fictional rich list?
I normally adore Stephen Fry, but his condescending tone when he spake to Sarah Milligan about her artificial tree made me really annoyed and disappointed with him.
A fictional rich list? Trump.
that fictional rich list is bs the richest is black panther 90 trillion yes trillion
Ha. That political correctness skit ages like sour milk when political correctness just gets more and more vocal every year. I mean just recently we had a singer change the lyrics of "Baby it's cold outside" because they erroneously believed it was about sexual assault or coercion.
Copy cat. Brilliant. 😅
Im not sure how it is in the UK, but in the US our offices are covered in "Happy holidays" and people are sued every year for wishing a Merry Christmas, so it rings true here.
No one's been sued for saying "Merry Christmas"; that's an urban myth put out by Faux News. The main twits responsible for that bulls---? They no longer work for Faux: O'Reilly and Kelley.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukka, Felice Navidad, Happy Kwannza, Happy Holidays, Happy Festivus...spead some joy.
Elder Fidelis Absolute garbage. You're either very gullible or a liar.
Copy cat!!
What?? Yes Saint Nicholas of Myra is the real original person of the legend but the Santa Claus figure today is still fictional. Bloody hell QI ... or I guess Forbes haha
Because telling kids the Santa they know is a corporate farce, while the real Saint Nicholas has been dead for centuries, is the perfect way of going about it for children who choose to believe.
Is Santa on the real list, then?
mirrors for snakes??? wot 0_o
Smaug being the richest creature ever to have been imagined by a human still not having half the amount of wealth that Jeff Bezos has is fucking madness
If you think about it, Smaug made all his gold in one go, Bezos kept going.
See, If Smaug had just started a business of robbing dwarves he'd be closer to Bezos.
Flying Scott see, Smaug is ethical like that. He got the money, was happy with his lot, and stopped. Now THATS ethical capitalism (minus yknow, the genocide he committed)
@@rossgauld6421
See, might be just me, but the genocide of three whole cities, one of them a city state is not something I can look past. Though he is a very dashing wyvern.
@@rossgauld6421 remember when he reached 200 billion and some commies bought a guillotine off amazon and put it outside his house
@@jrurbbehdidiwdnndjduw85eos73 whose house? Smaugs or Bezos?!
Phil Jupitus' reaction to the Santa question always makes me smile.
Brendan's to the klaxon is just as good 🤣
Brydon Sinclair Another reason to take Santa off the fictional rich list - why would he need money anyway? His operation is entirely magic-based.
@@oiooi6460 Classic Patrick!
07:16 the soft "bloody hell" by Bill Bailey is absolutely hilarious to me
3:10 I honestly thought Sandi was going to say
“it was one shilling to get in, one shilling to get out.”
Me too
Same
You just can never now how much you want a hug from Stephen Fry until you watch a video of him giving one.
So delightful!
A merry merry thankyou to all at QI, May you continue beyond the alphabet.
When they finish with letters, they should start doing questions about numerals.
@@lezzman That would go on forever.
@JinxField yeah, and I'm for it
QI over editing shows how much effort they put into their RUclips channel unlike most other tv based RUclips channels
I taught in one of the most dysfunctional school districts imaginable. We were NOT permitted to decorate our classrooms for Christmas. Sooo, being the cast iron beeotch I can be, I wrote a week-long social science lesson series on "Winter Solstice Celebrations Around the World". I had a display table with a pair of sabots, a gonfalon, a St. Lucia's wreath, a driedel, and many other outward symbols of winter solstice celebrations world-wide. Each had a 6 x 8 card with a brief history/description explaining the piece and its cultural relevance. And, yes, I had an artificial tree with lights and ornaments the children made from the various cultures' celebrations and a holly wreath. No mistletoe ball, though--the students were only seven years old.
@ One MercilessMing You, were clearly one awesome teacher!!!!!!!!!! One ❤️💚💛💜🤍💙💟💝 Merry Xmas.
@@wordreet--Thank you for the kind words.
@@onemercilessming1342 Heh, I kept choosing different coloured hearts, until I got fed up.
@@wordreet--Well, thank you for that. I only use those emoticons with my immediate family. I love words too much to avoid using them.
@@onemercilessming1342 I was just trying to keep up with your seasonal presentation variations.
Jo charges into klaxons with such great relish, doesn't she?
I've still been laughing at "Have you been talking to my husband?"
They're getting so much milage of that image of Alan pointing.
Noel in the Christmas episode looks so handsome. The sideburns were fabulous.
Simp
@@HOTD108_ shut
Loved the smile on Jupitus' face at the end there :D
Scrooge is richer than his enemies thoo thats bs
According to the article he "won his money through a round-the-world race bet, leaving loser, Scrooge McDuck, penniless."
in the newest series, Scrooge took back the title of the richest Duck in the world.
That Xylophone/Bass rendition of Jingle Bells is awesome! Plus Steven is too pure for this world
Steven? It's Stephen god damn you! Jk peace🙏
Wait...what?! Since WHEN did glomgold overtake mcduck as the richest?
Rich Hall's "quick" wit :D
Says "Merry Christmas from Sandi and Alan". First clip is hosted by Stephen. Well done, QI elves.
Why did they take the shows off RUclips? I can't afford the cost of it on cable. I'm in mourning.
Probably so you have to pay for BritBox.
Short answer: Greed.
NOEL FIELDING DRESSED AS A SUBURBAN DAD
🔥🔥🔥
But why isn't Scrooge on the list though? Flintheart Glomgold isn't richer than him.
It's never confirmed how Rich Scrooge McDuck is, my guess is they need to have some sort of number, or to be able to calculate some sort of number, in order to put a character on the list.
that ending is the most wholesome thing I've ever seen
That Forbes list is not correct. Scrooge is richer then Flintheart. That was one of the plot points of the comics and cartoons involving Scrooge McDuck.
When did James May start hosting the show?
Lol! xD
I thought the same when l first saw Allen.
Somehow, l don't think James could wittily measure up to Allen. I wonder if Allen is a tinkerer?
@@nooneyoucaretoknow6986 I was referring to the segment starting at 6:17
@@fruv
Ok. You're refering to Steven's wig. Gotta agree,
“There have been more office parties year on year”. 2020 and 2021 hold me pint.
A snake maybe an odder thing to find in a photocopier than a cat, but it’s certainly an adder thing
just some info on the first segment. You give FRESH xmas trees to animals. They only eat fresh trees, just like they eat fresh leaves off trees and bushes. They won't eat old dead trees. Even goats won't eat an old xmas tree, it isnt' fresh, it doesn't have any nutrients they can use, and it doesn't taste good. So what do you do with your old xmas trees? Unless they are fresh and cut within the past week, you throw them out and don't litter animal cages with dead trees.
james friel Please compost your tree.
@@653j521 stricķtly come dancings 2o19 starts when..
Tinsel in elephant poop made me chuckle. The last year I had tinsel was the first year I had a cat🤣🤣
Thanks you for this. The very first episode of QI I saw was the one with the rabbit. I got laughing so hard that my landlord knocked on my door to see that I was laughing at. I have been looking for that clip for ages now.
it's in the episode "Empire"
SchwarzeWitwe2 thanks for this.
Definitely! It's the episode I think is probably the best for introducing people to the show.
I finally caught sight of the rabbit, twice!
My mind gets completely blown watching Noel wearing such a homy knitted sweater, and also rockig a haircut that might suggest he has a job.
If Santa isn't real, then who brings the presents on Christmas morning?
Can I ask at 6:00 if that's a wig on Stephen (I hope it is)
Denise F Yes, it is.
9:33, if tears did not well up as Phil runs to Stephen for the reassuring hug,
YOU ARE DEAD INSIDE. or at least from the neck up. I want that welling up of overflowing Joy, every breathing moment for the rest of my mortal life on Earth.
RIXRADvidz it starts in the chest. Right around the heart.
.... You're fucking weird.
Carlisle Cullen? really? the THIRD richest fictional character? ... ?????????????? really? I know he's supposed to be rich, but that's. huh.
Kristen McGeorge He was ranked as no. 1 at one time. Supposedly it’s based on him being several centuries old and how his assets would have appreciated with interest over that time.
Saint Nikolaus /Nicholas WAS real, he was the former bishop of Myra, Greece, before he died and was later canonized as a saint.
He is the patron saint of selfless giving, the patron saint of children, and because his story overlaps with the story of a possibly fictional orphan turned thief character from Germany known as Kris Kringle, he is also the patron saint of thieves.
I read, "He is the patron saint of selfies..."
He also decked a bloke at the Council of Nicea for arguing that Jesus the Son was not equal to God the Father.
Damn! Why does Noel look so handsome suddenly?!?
Agata Olejarczyk ikr it completely threw me 😊 loved him since the boosh and have seen all his weirdness evolve - this was so tame even for him 😂
@@meens93 I mean, he looks like a piece of art! If I were an artist I would definitely paint him. Or something. I can't stop looking... Don't get me wrong, I always thought he was good looking and very funny but now... I don't know... he's perfect really
Doris was one of Joseph wives with Ruth, Sarah and Mary. That's Christmas trivia for you. Name Joseph other wives. That stumps a lot of people.
I keep my Christmas tree up ALL year EVERY YEAR!!
Well it’s not a Christmas tree then, is it?it’s just a tree you have in your house
Where's Monty Burns?
How is Flintheart on there and not Scrooge McDuck? In every medium from comics to Ducktales, Scrooge is always said to be the Richest Duck in the world and Glomgold is always no. 2.
Okay not to be that person... But why is Carlisle on there instead of Alice? She's the one who makes all the investments by predicting the market. Surely she must have more.
Merry Christmas!
Question, Why is Scrudge Mc Duck not above Glomgold?
Maybe it was just saying notice??? 3:15
I copied my ass in the office when I was in elementary school, I don't know how I wasn't caught.
THE BLUE WHALE
Yes, Santa was taken off the rich list because of the blue whale.
You donate your old Christmas tree to blue whales?
The running animal was one of Sean's best.
It's kinda scary how real people have way more money than that nowadays. Inflation is insane.