I do appreciate the truly unhinged energy that mid-pandemic panel shows all have. It’s a perfect time capsule for the general mood at the time. Taskmaster series 10 is another perfect example (11 + 12 are also quite unhinged as well tbh)
Qi has the kindest gentlest theme music. A happy invitation to join old friends for a chin wag and a sing song. Alan, Sandi and whomever decided to drop by for the evening. Such Fun !
The melody line after the intro is borrowed from Jesus Christ Superstar, 'Always knew that I'd be an apostle', the Apostles being an elite society at Cambridge which one presumes Stephen Fry was a member.
@@johnaddison-cellist6771 That's a massive stretch. The similarity is in the last note (G) only. (The line from JCS starts on D and scales straight down to G. This theme starts on B and moves down and up a few times before landing on G.) Has Howard Goodall commented publicly about this?
John Lloyd, the creator of QI, has said he really wanted to use the Sam Cooke song “It’s a Wonderful World” - the one that starts “Don’t know much about history, don’t know much biology…” Unfortunately, he couldn’t get the rights, so he asked Howard Goodall to compose something with a similarly relaxed feeling.
I watched a documentary explaining how marketing of plastic back in the 70's was the greatest marketing of all time. Then, when we all got suspicious, in comes 'recycling', another great marketing ploy so we would all feed good about using plastic. At that time, only about 20% of plastic could be re-cycled. We should go back to glass, which can be re-cycled. PS. I do re-cycle but also limit what I buy in a plastic container.
That D-ration "chocolate" bar? "Tastes no better than a boiled potato" was in the design specs. No really. Apparently they gave you the runs as well. "Hitler's secret weapon" is one of the kinder descriptions.
A lot of digital video formats are optimized for normal frequency ranges typical average humans hear. That note thing they were doing with the "noise only young people can hear" might not work across TV or youtube. We might not be hearing what they are hearing in the studio. What I mean is, a person who could hear the sound in the studio might still not hear it in a computerized video format like this that mangles high frequency sounds. The format can technically make *A* sound at high frequency, but with a lot of information loss as it only has enough time resolution to bang the wave up and down once or twice per period. That turns all high frequency waves into essentially beeps, losing the precise shape of the sound waves.
I thought the same thing but then I looked over at my graphic equaliser and there was a really loud (and fairly wide) peak around 16 kHz so it definitely made it through the digital side of things, which makes sense as most stuff nowadays uses a 48 kHz sampling rate. It surprised me though as I couldn't hear it, despite when I was younger being able to hear a 20 kHz electric dog whistle. It's a misconception though that information on the shape of the waves is lost by being digitised. If you research Fourier transforms then it turns out that the digitising process certainly cuts off higher frequency waves, but the shape of the waves below a certain point (related to the sampling rate) are reproduced perfectly. This is because of the fact that any audio waveform can be split into multiple sine waves at a bunch of different frequencies, and as long as you sample enough points to reproduce all those sine wave frequencies, you will end up with the original waveform reproduced exactly. It's quite an interesting read how it's all done.
7:53 I always wondered why they didn't just replicate the low rumbling alarm sound. I guess the bees do have more than one use though! Bridget driving around on a tractor for three days..." What's this, another bloody fence?!" *Crash*
@@davidgiles5912 I take it you never listened to loud music (I do believe you). Between rock and roll and being a shooting instructor for years, ain't no way for me. I'm 64. I can hear a very high tone....always, because it is the tinnitus.
@@markloveless1001 I learned early in my 20s to wear ear protection at concerts, even ones outside. In a Physics class in college the instructor pulled in a sound generator and I was able to hear the full spectrum. Even today I can hear the buzz of the high tension power lines in certain weather, usually when it is cold and crisp. I wear ear protection even when watching firework displays if I don't my ears will be ringing for days.
Live in Wisconsin. Practically the whole state is farmland for cows and corn. It's the fact that UK in comparison to the United States is equal to Wisconsin and the northern part of Lake Superior. Because of the distance, milk production companies have to travel long distances.
@vink6163 thankfully, as of late. They are now starting to add real cocoa in products. Haven't had oreos in a long time, but now that they actually contain cocoa I love em.
That North-South pole thing sounds like nonsense to me. Just because the north arrow on your compass is labelled north doesn't mean that they've put the 'north' of the magnet at the tip of the compass pointer. If you want your compass to point north, you orient the magnet in your compass so that south is at the tip - by definition, if your compass points north, it's because the north needle actually has a 'south' at the end. In effect QI is saying that the polarity of compass needles determines where the planet's magnetic poles are, rather than the earth's magnetic poles defining the polarity of small magnets in compasses.
It is a bit of word play, but much of QI's content is. If you were given a magnetized needle and asked which end is the north end, you could get the accepted answer by finding which one pointed to the geographic north. But if next you were given another stronger magnet fixed so it couldn't respond to the Earth's magnetnic field and were asked to find its north pole you could do so by taking your compass needle and finding which end attracts the south tip. Opposite poles attract. Hence the setup for the question: where is the 'north' end of the Earth's magnetic field? At the geographic south, where it attracts all the south ends of compass needles. Compass needles didn't define the map (geographic north/south) but rather the other way around, as you implied. So once we've defined the 'north' pole of a magnet to be the one that would point to the geographic north then that nomenclature applies to all magnetic fields, including Earth's. To put it another way, if you could somehow duplicate the Earth's magnetic field and divorce your new copy from the mass of the Earth, which end would swing around to point to Earth's geographic north? The one that came from the southern hemisphere. And since it points to the geographic north, we'd label it a north pole, just as we do tiny compass needles.
I totally feel your pain qman, I've spent a lot of time doing orienteering/land nav and cartography, and I initially got SO excited with the exercise -- yay, someone's teaching about the differences between magnetic and cardinal north! OWN BIASES TRIGGERED! I just watched the episode, and not only could I have pointed to exactly where magnetic north is right now, but also where it was in 2020 when they filmed this. And then "Damn, this isn't a lesson on magnetic north, it's a lesson on how magnets work -- curse you QI!!!!" But at the end of the day, onenof10 is totally right, you never can tell what they're going to focus on with this show -- I just love that dispelling myths and misconceptions is the anchor of the show's content. God knows public educations doesn't do it, LOL.
The physicists who defined things in the first place decided the pole of a magnet that points generally to the north shall be called the north pole of the magnet. It makes perfect sense. The thing they were pointing to had the opposite polarity. Compass needles don't determine where the earth's poles are. They detect them.
@@mikepeterson9362 Orienteering for the win! My final in ROTC orienteering happened to be at a place me and my buddy knew like the back of our hands. Did we cheat and just hop over the hills? Oh yeah bigtime. We had a remarkably fast score for some reason or another.
@@mikepeterson9362 And yes, magnetic deviation was a very real concern when we had to do it for real. One mountain had a ridiculous iron content, and even correcting for local deviation we got side-tracked, as did everybody else running the course. Took them a while to figure out why everybody blew that one.
Butyric acid is not a soapy taste. It's called "butyric" acid after "butter". It means buttery acid. It's a fatty acid that appears as butter begins to go off. It's a very powerful smell though. It has its place in culinary use. (Being an acid I would expect it to have a mildly tart taste, but I've never tried it, only smelled it. Soapy taste is associated with bases.)
Hershey's didn't do it on purpose - it was an accident. And they stuck with it. And yes, Hershey's is lousy chocolate, and I'm a 64 year old American. Bleh. True chocolate folks over here buy the British stuff.
🤣🤣🤣Not surprised about the taste of chocolate. I've never enjoyed American chocolate. The Danes showed up washed. That's brilliant. Lots of fun. I thought Holly said a "Motorway Meanie"😂😂😂😂 I have learned to adore Holly in such a wonderful comedic way... and always look forward to her being on the panel. 😂 Bridget... can't look at circles together, can play Twister😮😂😂 whatever. She must forget she's with a panel of comedians 😂
the monk complaining that the vikings "cheated" by washing and having good manners is exactly the same as incels complaining about simps today... we really dont change much as a species, do we..?
It does play through the video - I couldn't hear it but my audio goes through a graphic equaliser and there was a spike visible right around 16 kHz the whole time they were talking about it. So assuming your headphones/speakers can go that high (most should be able to) then you should be able to hear it. You may have to turn your volume up quite high though.
They played rock and roll cover up the sound of the elf wave generator. That they used to pry Manuel Noriega out of a sanctuary Church. Elf wave give you migraines and will make you shit yourself they are extremely low frequencies they played nowhere to run nowhere to hide to cover up the sound of it
"THE FIRST PERSON TO REALIZE THERE WERE MAGNETIC POLES WAS A BRITISH..." oh bull fing shit...im sure a bunch of ancient civilizations have realized that WELL before the brits did....
I do believe she has said before that since not everything has been written down, its not always easy to tell where something truly began. But please, get mad over something that really doesn't matter😂
I do appreciate the truly unhinged energy that mid-pandemic panel shows all have. It’s a perfect time capsule for the general mood at the time.
Taskmaster series 10 is another perfect example (11 + 12 are also quite unhinged as well tbh)
It feels so eerie seeing this episode. It's been 3 years since the lockdowns.
But it feels so incredibly intimate, like old pals hanging out. I really enjoyed it.
Holly and Allan have great chemistry, and I didn't think anyone could outweird Johnny, but in comes Bridget. Great show, even without an audience.
Qi has the kindest gentlest theme music. A happy invitation to join old friends for a chin wag and a sing song. Alan, Sandi and whomever decided to drop by for the evening. Such Fun !
The melody line after the intro is borrowed from Jesus Christ Superstar, 'Always knew that I'd be an apostle', the Apostles being an elite society at Cambridge which one presumes Stephen Fry was a member.
Search up 'QI theme song morse code' 😉
@@johnaddison-cellist6771 That's a massive stretch. The similarity is in the last note (G) only. (The line from JCS starts on D and scales straight down to G. This theme starts on B and moves down and up a few times before landing on G.) Has Howard Goodall commented publicly about this?
John Lloyd, the creator of QI, has said he really wanted to use the Sam Cooke song “It’s a Wonderful World” - the one that starts “Don’t know much about history, don’t know much biology…” Unfortunately, he couldn’t get the rights, so he asked Howard Goodall to compose something with a similarly relaxed feeling.
@@nixsta Yep. It was revealed in one of Stephen's last (or the very last) episode.
“Trampling on the agriculture” sounds like something Hyacinth Bucket would say.
Love Alan's smile
The music always makes me think I'm about to watch and educational children's show.
I always think of Caribbean music, the happiest, gentlest kind. It's got steel drums and that reggae syncopation.
Bridget’s guy asking her to go cross eyed, I’m fucking dying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😭
I was expecting her to explain that the guy was a weaboo, but then she did the impression 🤣
It's sourced from anime and hentai, the women frequently go cross eyed when in congress with a partner
Holly's buzzer (8:35) is "The Importance Is You Tried" by Gavin Burrough.
I thought it sounded like every time I die
Bridget in this episode might be the funniest appearance by a woman on QI. 🤣👏
I watched a documentary explaining how marketing of plastic back in the 70's was the greatest marketing of all time. Then, when we all got suspicious, in comes 'recycling', another great marketing ploy so we would all feed good about using plastic. At that time, only about 20% of plastic could be re-cycled. We should go back to glass, which can be re-cycled.
PS. I do re-cycle but also limit what I buy in a plastic container.
I got from the U.S. to Norway in 5 hours once, two hours early, because we caught the jet stream.
Great episode
That D-ration "chocolate" bar? "Tastes no better than a boiled potato" was in the design specs. No really. Apparently they gave you the runs as well. "Hitler's secret weapon" is one of the kinder descriptions.
A lot of digital video formats are optimized for normal frequency ranges typical average humans hear. That note thing they were doing with the "noise only young people can hear" might not work across TV or youtube. We might not be hearing what they are hearing in the studio.
What I mean is, a person who could hear the sound in the studio might still not hear it in a computerized video format like this that mangles high frequency sounds.
The format can technically make *A* sound at high frequency, but with a lot of information loss as it only has enough time resolution to bang the wave up and down once or twice per period. That turns all high frequency waves into essentially beeps, losing the precise shape of the sound waves.
I thought the same thing but then I looked over at my graphic equaliser and there was a really loud (and fairly wide) peak around 16 kHz so it definitely made it through the digital side of things, which makes sense as most stuff nowadays uses a 48 kHz sampling rate. It surprised me though as I couldn't hear it, despite when I was younger being able to hear a 20 kHz electric dog whistle.
It's a misconception though that information on the shape of the waves is lost by being digitised. If you research Fourier transforms then it turns out that the digitising process certainly cuts off higher frequency waves, but the shape of the waves below a certain point (related to the sampling rate) are reproduced perfectly. This is because of the fact that any audio waveform can be split into multiple sine waves at a bunch of different frequencies, and as long as you sample enough points to reproduce all those sine wave frequencies, you will end up with the original waveform reproduced exactly. It's quite an interesting read how it's all done.
7:53 I always wondered why they didn't just replicate the low rumbling alarm sound. I guess the bees do have more than one use though!
Bridget driving around on a tractor for three days..." What's this, another bloody fence?!" *Crash*
Lower frequency sounds need more energy to produce at high volume, so maybe having a massive amplifier and subwoofer was more expensive.
@@vink6163 Excellent point!
These are my three favourites Jester guests
I heard the mosquito buzzer and I'm 62 years old.
The real question is whether you heard it stop after the show finished 😝
@@vink6163 Yes I did, I heard it when it started, while it buzzed and when it stopped.
@@davidgiles5912 I take it you never listened to loud music (I do believe you). Between rock and roll and being a shooting instructor for years, ain't no way for me. I'm 64. I can hear a very high tone....always, because it is the tinnitus.
@@markloveless1001 I learned early in my 20s to wear ear protection at concerts, even ones outside. In a Physics class in college the instructor pulled in a sound generator and I was able to hear the full spectrum. Even today I can hear the buzz of the high tension power lines in certain weather, usually when it is cold and crisp. I wear ear protection even when watching firework displays if I don't my ears will be ringing for days.
I believe you as much as I believe Bridgit heard it😂😂
Live in Wisconsin. Practically the whole state is farmland for cows and corn. It's the fact that UK in comparison to the United States is equal to Wisconsin and the northern part of Lake Superior. Because of the distance, milk production companies have to travel long distances.
Don't they have refrigerated trucks? Why not bring the cocoa to the milk instead of the other way round?
@vink6163 thankfully, as of late. They are now starting to add real cocoa in products. Haven't had oreos in a long time, but now that they actually contain cocoa I love em.
That North-South pole thing sounds like nonsense to me. Just because the north arrow on your compass is labelled north doesn't mean that they've put the 'north' of the magnet at the tip of the compass pointer. If you want your compass to point north, you orient the magnet in your compass so that south is at the tip - by definition, if your compass points north, it's because the north needle actually has a 'south' at the end.
In effect QI is saying that the polarity of compass needles determines where the planet's magnetic poles are, rather than the earth's magnetic poles defining the polarity of small magnets in compasses.
It is a bit of word play, but much of QI's content is. If you were given a magnetized needle and asked which end is the north end, you could get the accepted answer by finding which one pointed to the geographic north. But if next you were given another stronger magnet fixed so it couldn't respond to the Earth's magnetnic field and were asked to find its north pole you could do so by taking your compass needle and finding which end attracts the south tip.
Opposite poles attract.
Hence the setup for the question: where is the 'north' end of the Earth's magnetic field? At the geographic south, where it attracts all the south ends of compass needles.
Compass needles didn't define the map (geographic north/south) but rather the other way around, as you implied. So once we've defined the 'north' pole of a magnet to be the one that would point to the geographic north then that nomenclature applies to all magnetic fields, including Earth's.
To put it another way, if you could somehow duplicate the Earth's magnetic field and divorce your new copy from the mass of the Earth, which end would swing around to point to Earth's geographic north? The one that came from the southern hemisphere. And since it points to the geographic north, we'd label it a north pole, just as we do tiny compass needles.
I totally feel your pain qman, I've spent a lot of time doing orienteering/land nav and cartography, and I initially got SO excited with the exercise -- yay, someone's teaching about the differences between magnetic and cardinal north! OWN BIASES TRIGGERED! I just watched the episode, and not only could I have pointed to exactly where magnetic north is right now, but also where it was in 2020 when they filmed this. And then "Damn, this isn't a lesson on magnetic north, it's a lesson on how magnets work -- curse you QI!!!!" But at the end of the day, onenof10 is totally right, you never can tell what they're going to focus on with this show -- I just love that dispelling myths and misconceptions is the anchor of the show's content. God knows public educations doesn't do it, LOL.
The physicists who defined things in the first place decided the pole of a magnet that points generally to the north shall be called the north pole of the magnet. It makes perfect sense. The thing they were pointing to had the opposite polarity. Compass needles don't determine where the earth's poles are. They detect them.
@@mikepeterson9362 Orienteering for the win! My final in ROTC orienteering happened to be at a place me and my buddy knew like the back of our hands. Did we cheat and just hop over the hills? Oh yeah bigtime. We had a remarkably fast score for some reason or another.
@@mikepeterson9362 And yes, magnetic deviation was a very real concern when we had to do it for real. One mountain had a ridiculous iron content, and even correcting for local deviation we got side-tracked, as did everybody else running the course. Took them a while to figure out why everybody blew that one.
It's NEVADDER not nev ah da . You're welcome
Hugs all round. X
I have never liked Hershey’s chocolate. It has aftertaste like soap. Now I know why. My friends disagree.
Your friends are wrong.
Butyric acid is not a soapy taste. It's called "butyric" acid after "butter". It means buttery acid. It's a fatty acid that appears as butter begins to go off. It's a very powerful smell though. It has its place in culinary use. (Being an acid I would expect it to have a mildly tart taste, but I've never tried it, only smelled it. Soapy taste is associated with bases.)
Hershey's didn't do it on purpose - it was an accident. And they stuck with it. And yes, Hershey's is lousy chocolate, and I'm a 64 year old American. Bleh. True chocolate folks over here buy the British stuff.
I totally agree. American chocolate has its issues
Between her appearances on qi and her taskmastsr season, I really question Bridget's mental acuity 😅
🤣🤣🤣Not surprised about the taste of chocolate. I've never enjoyed American chocolate.
The Danes showed up washed. That's brilliant.
Lots of fun. I thought Holly said a "Motorway Meanie"😂😂😂😂 I have learned to adore Holly in such a wonderful comedic way... and always look forward to her being on the panel. 😂 Bridget... can't look at circles together, can play Twister😮😂😂 whatever. She must forget she's with a panel of comedians 😂
the monk complaining that the vikings "cheated" by washing and having good manners is exactly the same as incels complaining about simps today... we really dont change much as a species, do we..?
i need to know, does the sound only young people can hear play through the video? or am i old?
It does play through the video - I couldn't hear it but my audio goes through a graphic equaliser and there was a spike visible right around 16 kHz the whole time they were talking about it. So assuming your headphones/speakers can go that high (most should be able to) then you should be able to hear it. You may have to turn your volume up quite high though.
@@vink6163 Thank you! I wondered myself. My son, who never listened to loud music, can still hear tones way out of my current range.
25:17
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Thats a Humpback whale, not a 🐳
More Holly please. Bridget jeeezzzz you're weirding out Johnny.
How so? By telling dull stories... badly? "Weirding out" sure has come down in the world.
@@Hexon66 world has gotten blander eh
@@Hexon66um drying out drunk insects?😂 yeah whatever cupcake
There is no audience there
31:35
Feeble minded people still believe in souls😢.
They played rock and roll cover up the sound of the elf wave generator. That they used to pry Manuel Noriega out of a sanctuary Church. Elf wave give you migraines and will make you shit yourself they are extremely low frequencies they played nowhere to run nowhere to hide to cover up the sound of it
Wasn't Noriega held up in the Vatican's embassy?
"THE FIRST PERSON TO REALIZE THERE WERE MAGNETIC POLES WAS A BRITISH..." oh bull fing shit...im sure a bunch of ancient civilizations have realized that WELL before the brits did....
Are you suggesting the British *_stole_* something!? How dare you!
But did they write it down?
@@SennaAugustus yeah....they did...thats how we know they did along with stuff like circumference of the earth and the solar system
I do believe she has said before that since not everything has been written down, its not always easy to tell where something truly began. But please, get mad over something that really doesn't matter😂