How Not To Get Struck By Lightning? | QI
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This clip is from QI Series E Episode 2, 'Electricity' with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Jo Brand, Rich Hall and Sean Lock. 
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"A fullsome pair of funbags" is Stephen GOLD
I thought he was talking about his ass!
And Jo was absolutely right, he sounded ALMOST heterosexual! :)
@@tricesimo no lol but after, they joke that Stephen would be looking back while bent over, at a fullsome pair of funbags, meaning the man behind him 🤣
“My, what a fulsome pair of funbags, m’lady.”
I've avoided being struck by lightning simply by not having any potential.
Got to love energy humor :) Could be that you have already reached your potential and can't be filled anymore.
@@tecwzrd The thing about energy humor is that you've got to stay current.
@TWX1138: _I've avoided being struck by lightning simply by not having any potential._
🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant!
@@tecwzrd I think you just need to accept your fate as resistance is futile.
I think you have enormous capacity to be shocking
I miss Sean Lock; so talented and he left us way too soon.
He died?
@@joehuiras4955 last year, he lost his battle with cancer.
@@IAmNeil It was not a loss, a draw(I think Norm)
@@smokefromashes12 Good point. It's not like the cancer lived on without him.
This clip's title reminded me of a Terry Pratchett quote from The Colour Of Magic:
_If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!_
_The Colour of Magic_ was about the fourth Discworld novel I read, having been given _Witches Abroad_ by a friend. I remember how disappointed I was with it at the time, but understanding it was his freshman effort. I may have to revisit it some day. I've read every other Discworld novel multiple times, except for _The Light Fantastic, Eric,_ and _The Shepherd's Crown._ The latter because I just can't take it. I'm also not a fan of _Raising Steam_ and _Pyramids._ That said, _Witches Abroad_ and _Carpe Jugulum_ are probably my favorite Discworld stories, followed closely by _Thud_ and _Hogfather_ in no particular order. I read Pratchett (or listen to the audio books, mostly) when I don't have enough energy to tackle something new.
@@tarmaque Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic have some good gags, but mostly they're just a bunch of jokes piled on top of each other without the depth or... y'know... plot of his later books. Later books have as good or better jokes, and said jokes are enhanced by the fact that there's a plot and characters (rather than caricatures or inversions of fantasy archetypes) holding the whole thing together. The Rincewind books just can't measure up to the Watch or Witches as far as I'm concerned, even those written later when Pratchett had undoubtedly found his groove. Rincewind just isn't as interesting a character as Vimes or Granny Weatherwax.
That book is sitting right next to me, as I sit here. Guess this is a sign to turn RUclips to play music, and start reading.
@@HellaGust We have a concord. I feel exactly the same way. I also find his last few books after he had Alzheimer's disease to be a little flat. Like _Snuff_ and even _Making Money._ Even _Unseen Academicals_ doesn't quite have the sparkle of earlier novels, although it does have its moments. Like Vetinari's speech about the otters and the salmon.
But considering the situation I understand _why,_ and choose to enjoy them for what they are while feeling privileged for the other more than 30 novels that I love.
"Stephen, I wouldn't have thought you'd need a good reason." 😂 Topped off by Stephen's reaction.
"Fullsome pair of funbags" my God I laughed so hard at that.
Jo's immediate response at the start gets me everytime!
"A lot of women wear rubber pants"
As a woman, I much align myself with Stephen's "Do they now?" response to that sweeping statement!
Yeah I have many questions about the logistics of rubber pants.
Seems like there would a few problems
I think she's referring to women past a certain age...in which yes, a lot of women do wear incontinence pads or knickers. I don't know if you're American or not, but pants in England means underpants....not trousers. 😘
@@tamielizabethallaway2413 Nope, British so I know exactly what Jo means by pants. Also, *I am* a "woman of a certain age" and I don't know anyone who uses incontinence pads or pants, including my 88 year old mother. Who *are* these women who have decided, pelvically, to just let go?
@@decodolly1535 I wear light pads! And I haven't let go thank you very much! And my pelvic floor muscles are perfectly tuned! I have lower spine issues and it pinches nerves occasionally, they're still deciding what to do about it. I also have a ton of other illnesses. You are very judgemental to presume women with urinary incontinence have just let themselves go!
@@decodolly1535
those that use them often do not have a choice in the matter, they have not decided anything.
I love when alan says why can't we harness that power, it sounds like he means him and stephen specifically
Everyone was on top form in this clip, especially Jo and Sean! I could be wrong but I think in the full episode Stephen asks which Country experiences more lightening Strikes than any other? I think the surprising answer is 'Britain'. I could be misremembering, though!
considering the common UK weather can best be described as: torrential, i'm not surprised.
I can't remember either it's been a while since I saw the episode but Venezuela has the lightning Capital of the world at lake maracaibo or something, not sure of the spelling.
Got to be florida I think.
@@madisntit6547 not necessarily as a large country may belong to a part of the globe whose weather or climate makes lightning less likely. That’s just my first thought though
@@gamesandfun781 I knew I was misremembering! Tornadoes! The UK has more tornadoes per capita or something! It was from another episode. Which is even more baffling because I have never seen a tornado!
RIP and long live Sean Lock (April 22, 1963 - August 16, 2021), aged 58
You will always be remembered as a legend.
I've been carefully avoiding saying anything about Sean Lock, since for inexplicable reasons some people seem to like him and he's dead, but "remembered as a legend" is really taking it too far.
I don't think you know what long live means.
I love that at about 1:20 when Alan's holding the imaginary pole, it briefly looks almost like the background strikes it
"A fullsome pair of funbags" is now my favourite combination of English words.
The man has a way with words.
The “backside in the air” bit is exaggeration for effect.
The real recommendation is to squat down and curl up small. That way you have the least height and the least contact area with the ground.
The record for lightning strikes is (was?) a park ranger in W Virginia. Eight times, including once through the open window of his car. In an interview he said that if he was home and lightning started up everybody near him would move into another room.
Alan's idea of mooning at the storm had merit - When was the last time the Moon was hit by lightning?
Not sure, but I think the idea is that if you are struck with your backside in the air, the charge will go through your legs to the ground, and avoid any vital organs.
@@geoff1827 My ass is a vital organ.
"A fulsome pair of funbags there" Damned if I could type because I was laughing so hard!
What's with the racism
Love you Sean Lock hope u live forever in our hearts ❤
100 years...tops. Just the way it is. How much or not at all...doesn't really matter to the dead. 1000's of books have been written about Julius Caesar...he's not aware of any of it. A small delusion we create ...for the living to cope with their own mortality.
I was hit once...luckily it came down the fence line as I was closing the main gate. Nonetheless, I was thrown to the ground in a hurry (my wife thought I preemptively dove down...but no one can be that quick. Don't know how, but I jumped right up and beelined it the 150 yards to the house. Terrible cramps that night and could barely walk for 2 days...leg muscles were just a mess.
Could you describe what was happening that caused the cramps and stiffness.
@@lisakaz35 When you receive a large electric shock your muscles spasm extremely violently. You end up with micro tears all over the tissue. Because of this you get a large influx of lactic acid. It hurts like hell for a couple days.
@@whitenoise509 Yikes. Thanks for the explanation. I had something called Transcortical Magnetic Stimulation. It felt like being hit with a cattle prod. But no micro tears.
I've heard that Lee Trevino, the pro golfer that's been struck by lightning 3 times, used to suggest that if one was caught on a golf course in a thunderstorm, the best course of action would be to take a 2 iron out of the bag and hold it in the air, because....'Not even god can hit a 2 iron!'
(I imagine he proposed this some time after he was struck the 3rd time.)
2:05 cracks me up every time
"You know what? That was almost heterosexual"
almost spat out my drink
I think Jo was onto something there because god knows I've had a hard enough time getting guys to wear a rubber
Well my response to that is call me.
@@MontysKillerRabbit yeah....call me .....when you've grown up!
If they won't wear one, don't let him wear you! Grim! 😘😘😘
I'd think that would have to be the point, wouldn't it? Someone would have to be having a "hard time" to even get one on...
RIP Sean
I remember seeing a Victorian newspaper drawing for an umbrella with a built in lightning rod and a wire that trailed behind to redirect the strike into the ground. There were reports of people then using that wire as a dog leash...
Oh NO.....
"Darling, where are you going?! It's chucking it down something frightful, and that thunder's getting closer!"
"Just taking your lovely little terrier out for a walk, dear. the little tyke needs his exercise, and I wouldn't want you getting wet. Shan't be long!"
"Darling, that's very noble of you! Thank you! And I thought you hated my dear doggy!"
...?
Where can I buy one?
Asking for a friend. A present for a friend.
QI please use subtitles on your videos.
@@BobbieRockyBuster1415 why not?
@@BobbieRockyBuster1415 Because I’m hard of hearing and struggle to follow along without them.
It’s especially hard with this channel because their audio balance is on the very quiet side.
As one that is not a native English speaker, I can see how it would be helpful, though my English is good enough that I am *usually* fine without subs. Toss in some Geordie and Scouse (I think I am saying that correctly), and I may have to give it an additional listen or two to be sure.
Also, I have a deaf aunt, and I know she would appreciate subs as well! 🙂
@@blaQI_roch fair point,I never really looked at it from that angle,my apologies.
@@BobbieRockyBuster1415 , no apologies needed! It is an understandable question. :)
Fulsome pair of funbags. Nice!
Athena poster 🤣🤣🤣
I miss Sean's quick wit xx
What was the actual answer to why naked with bottom up? Stephen said Allen's answer was sort of right, but never actually said
It's because electricity going across your heart is what kills you. So if you get struck in your behind and it goes out through your feet you are more likely to survive. Though, you'll still be badly injured.
The CDC site says to couch with your head low, but not actually lie down, to minimise your height but also your contact with the ground. So I guess that would end with your butt in the air.
I once knew an old woman who had been struck by lightning seven times in her life, or so she claimed. She had full panic attacks anytime even the smallest weather formation swept up.
Possible. Lightning more likely to strike in same places. Most attracted to a spike - stick of wood hit much more than steel sphere. Also, you don't have to be hit directly - it travels through ground, up conductors, into buildings so steer clear of telephones and other plugged in electrics or radiators or bath that's earthed when thunderstorm in area
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Laughed so hard at the end I nearly had a heart attack.
The end just turned to an Austin Powers scene 😆
1:08 perfect timing!
The fun bags or the bottom in the air? Which image will keep me awake tonight?
1:07 the lighting tries for Alans bottom :)
2:51 I think it was Emma Thompson who said that Stephen was 90% gay and 10% undecided?
Haha Stephen sounded like he was going to say "ballpark" but thought better of it given the scenario he had described
a kid in my state was killed when lightning stuck a tree, however not as they said in this clip. Rather it was the electricity traveled down the tree and into the roots. The family had been camping and the kid was sleeping on top of one of the roots
Sounds dumb maybe, but I'm really glad we had Sean while we did.
And why don't we capture the power of lightning?
Because the massive voltage only lasts a tiny fraction of a second.
Of course instantly cooked pies might become a thing if you put uncooked pies in a tree sap oven with a 40 foot steel pole on top in a field during a thunder storm.
Or just accelerate to 88mph in your DMC (assuming it is fitted with a flux capacitor).
You don't have to outrun the lightning, you just have to outrun your friend
nice clip :p
I rarely find Jo Brand funny, but she was on her game here.
Was a good quip, that was the one for this season.
This one and the clip about the Queen's Christmas lunch.
To answer Alan's question, I believe the answer is: there is no way to predict where and when lightning will strike.
Yep, and also we don't really have the means to instantly store that much electricity even when we do capture lightning (which has very rarely but still occasionally been done). So we cannot predictably harness the electricity of lightning unfortunately, and it's not for lack of trying. Capturing the power of lightning has been a huge obsession for scientists and engineers in the past.
@@stoferb876 It could probably be done in areas with high amounts of lightning, like Lake Maracaibo in northwestern Venezuela. But the machine to do it would have to be enormous and spread out over a very large area with very significant strength, capacity and resistance built-in so the lightning wouldn't destroy it.
It would likely be similar in scale to the CERN LHC.
Fullsom pair of fun bags!
If I’m ever in a situation where I’m stuck in the rain in the nood and the only way to survive is to expose my backside to everyone around, I think I’ll still just take the risk and not do that.
Wait, so who does get struck more? Men or women?
Well what we can say is if women do get struck, it's a more fun experience all round for everyone.
Always reminds me of the golf story when Lee Trevino was asked what he would do if he was playing golf when there was a risk of lightning. His answer was to pull his 1-iron out of his bag and hold it straight up.... _"because not even God can hit a 1-iron!"_
Was that an example of irony?
@@zanussidish8144 Tadum - Tish!!
Just make sure you have an umbrella with a metal core, and a friend. When the weather turns bad, offer said umbrella to said friend, and step back a few feet.
And absolutely not get near Tin Man, specially if you're Scarecrow.
@@Wecoc1 Mrs. King on the other hand...
rich hall reminds me of moe of the simpsons
Moe was, in fact, based off of Rich Hall.
THANK YOU! I was wondering why he seemed familiar...
Can't tell you the number of times I've saved myself in times of lightning strikes by crouching down while sticking my naked posterior in the air.
Both unfortunately and fortunately, friends and family knew all the answers in this one. Fortunate because survived thanks to ambulance station next door and modern tech enabling ambulance to get specialist advice over mobile phone. On car being safe space: keep hands and feet away from metal and helps if car rounded shape which they all are nowadays. If struck, you want to be soaking wet so charge carried through wet clothes (which will sort of explode) rather than dry - charge goes through you
There's this saying in German that if you encounter lightning while walking through a field (or some open space with no shelter) you should seek beeches but avoid oaks. Which is obviously stupid and utterly untrue and dangerous. But it rhymes in German and everyone loves it. 🙄
Damn that was funny
Fulsome doesn't mean what Fry thinks it does. It means disgusting.
Hate it when my bosom explodes
How *TO NOT* get struck by lightning.
LMAO 🤣
If you don't want to get struck by lightning you should get the orchestra together.
I'll show myself out.
Oooor, don't gp outside😁
Ric of sandy ..
probably
Stay inside
This is called... the lightning round?
Don't want to be struck by lightning?
DON'T EXIST.
🤣
Athena lol, young un's now be like, what's Athena 😏
Move
Hide in a dungeon
I do miss Stephen fry on qi
bosom bomb
Woah those are some world class jowls. It’s like Jabba the Hutt in a wig.
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Is it just me who thinks the outros are getting more and more out-of-tune?
It could be that there's a black hole nearby, stretching the time-space dimension and sound frequencies with it?
A black that effected the sound frequency would diminish the sound entirely. A mass of significant proportion may bend the waves but to an unnoticeable extent, most likely - the relative velocity between source and listener is the likeliest cause of pitch alteration, assuming no digital alteration / deterioration occurred.
I still don't understand why people would actually watch (and compare) those outros... Isn't everyone skipping them as quickly as possible??
@@ChiaraLoki Because sometimes I'm doing something else and watching the video in the background, so I don't always think to click off straight away.
Modern cars makes bad faraday cages.
That's just wrong. If anything they're better because roll cages are required now
Wear a mask ?. Of course that only works if everybody else wears one as well.
So posh.
Yet another clip of the unfunny Jo Brand. Did she mention her husband?
You seem like a laugh a minute 😆
@@hyperspacejester7377 as opposed to Jo Brand. Who isnt.