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  • Опубликовано: 13 май 2024
  • Lee Mack: "I once refused to help a hang glider who had become tangled in a tree because two hours earlier, he had been rude to me in a carpark."
    From Would I Lie to You? Series 12 Episode 3.
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Комментарии • 49

  • @76ToneCrome
    @76ToneCrome Месяц назад +39

    David has turned pedantry into an art form.

  • @chrisskelton2067
    @chrisskelton2067 Месяц назад +10

    This is the only tv comedy that has me laughing out loud

  • @sarahjones8396
    @sarahjones8396 Месяц назад +5

    “She climbed that tree with her bare hands”, “No, she had human hands”!!🤣🤣🤣

  • @967mviews2
    @967mviews2 Месяц назад +5

    Anton's (on David's team) verbal contribution is legendary.

    • @blackbird5634
      @blackbird5634 12 дней назад

      Wouldn't you think that if you're getting paid to add a clever line here and there, and sort of, get a laugh from the audience, you might just ask ONE question? Or make ONE quip? 🤣

  • @fishamaphone
    @fishamaphone Месяц назад +7

    Man, both David and Lee were absolutely on top of their games in this round. I wonder where Roth went?

  • @TheJoeT81
    @TheJoeT81 Месяц назад +6

    You can’t park there mate.

  • @ianitor
    @ianitor Месяц назад +8

    It was a fun lie tho

  • @KilTor5
    @KilTor5 Месяц назад +4

    My favorite one haha

  • @joshqim3110
    @joshqim3110 Месяц назад +1

    Reading this comment section I'm glad I chose psychology as a major and not anything with lots of maths in it.

  • @johanmarais3633
    @johanmarais3633 Месяц назад

    I think you are all barking (yapping) up the wrong tree - Johan Marais Johannesburg South Africa

  • @967mviews2
    @967mviews2 Месяц назад +2

    Mathmaticians enter the chat...⬇️

  • @Brewermb
    @Brewermb Месяц назад +8

    Here we go!!! if he was 20 feet up a thirty foot tree, then he was 2/3rds of the way up with a third to go. I'm probably wrong but I'm saying it anyway.😀😀

    • @noxnc
      @noxnc Месяц назад +8

      Ok, but if he was 20ft up and you say the tree was as tall as the height he stuck plus 1/3, the 1/3 is based of how high he is, so the tree would be 20+(20/3)=26.667. If you want the tree to be 30ft, you need the 20ft height he is stuck at + 10ft more, since 10 is 1/2 of 20 David is right.

    • @shewana4371
      @shewana4371 Месяц назад +6

      I watch this almost everyday in one of the compilations. And i still don't get it.

    • @sonintrepidus
      @sonintrepidus Месяц назад +2

      Ahh so lee ment plus a third of the tree but David ment plus a half the height of the guy... Both are right but lee makes more intuitive sense

    • @noxnc
      @noxnc Месяц назад +1

      @@sonintrepidus I think David is correct based on how Lee’s statement is setup. He’s giving the height of the tree by comparing it to how high up the guy is, the tree can’t be the reference for it’s own height. The thought process you outlined for each of them is probably correct, but Lee’s thought process is flawed (or, alternatively, his expression of it). You only know what he means because you are human and can infer the thought process of other humans with reasonable accuracy, even when they are illogical or poorly expressed.

    • @Brewermb
      @Brewermb Месяц назад +2

      @@noxnc Wooooosh, that is the sound of my right hand being flung backward over the top of my head!

  • @geoffroi-le-Hook
    @geoffroi-le-Hook Месяц назад

    Hans Hangglider's feet were 2/3 of the way up and his head was 3/4 of the way up. If Hans were 6 ft tall, that would make the tree 72 feet, and he was hanging from 54-48 feet above the ground.

  • @JonasHamill
    @JonasHamill Месяц назад +10

    It might be that my brain is already fried from calculating Fourier series approximation for some data I've collected.. but David's reasoning seems to be flawed. If he's ⅔ up the height of a tree, then what remains is ⅓, not ½. I welcome any mathematical proof to prove me wrong, but I think Lee was correct from the start, not David

    • @warmergosling9123
      @warmergosling9123 Месяц назад +5

      I think David's understanding is 1/2 of the distance below him (1/3)

    • @etiennelemieux472
      @etiennelemieux472 Месяц назад +9

      David is right. It's the same as "you have 100, you add 5%, you remove 5%, how much have you at the end" (the answer is not 100). We see what Lee was saying, but David was right indeed.

    • @warmergosling9123
      @warmergosling9123 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@etiennelemieux472 What? That makes no sense.
      Lee: He was 2/3 up the height of the tree (2/3)h --> h - (2/3)h = (1/3)h --> (1/3)h remaining of the tree
      How tall is the tree?
      (2/3)h + (1/3)h --> (height of man + remaining 1 third of tree)
      David: He was 2/3 up the height of the tree (2/3)h --> h - (2/3)h = (1/3)h --> (1/3)h remaining of the tree --> The remaining height of the tree is half the distance below the man
      (2/3)h + ((1/2)(1/3)h) --> (height of man + half the height of the man)

    • @SkyeHarith
      @SkyeHarith Месяц назад +1

      Hi, my brain is equally fried but it's just a matter of perspective. Call the height of the man h and the height of the tree H
      H = h + 1/3H. This is the logical way to interpret Lee's statement. This gives 2/3rd as Lee expresses.
      The other way to interpret the statement "his height plus a third" would be to implicitly add. "Of the height of the man". In this case the equation H = h + 1/3h is indeed solved by 3/4ths.
      David intentionally played on this ambiguity. They're both right.
      The problem is the

    • @kossend1
      @kossend1 Месяц назад +5

      David is right.
      Let's use parts of 100 for ease. Let's assume we know that the height of the tree is 100. 100 cm/inches/percentage, whatever - it doesn't matter for the illustration.
      Lee said that the guy was two thirds of the way up the tree. That's 66.66 recurring, let's use 66.67.
      Lee's logic is this:
      The height of the tree was how high the guy was plus a third. That is a third of the 66.67 (i.e. 22.22).
      Therefore to calculate the height of the tree using this information, it would be 66.67 plus 22.22, which is 88.89, not the 100 we know it should be.
      David's logic is as follows:
      The height of the tree was how high the guy was plus a half. That is a half of the 66.67 (i.e. 33.33).
      Therefore the tree height is 66.67 plus 33.33, which is 100, which is correct.

  • @johanmarais3633
    @johanmarais3633 Месяц назад +1

    As Trump always says, Why spoil a perfectly good story with facts - Johan Marais Johannesburg South Africa

  • @timothyaddison9661
    @timothyaddison9661 Месяц назад +2

    David is wrong here however you interpret what Lee says... David wrongly thinks that 2/3 + 1/3(2/3) is 3/4.... Which it isnt ... And even if it was then it creates a contradiction as it goes against the original statement of the glider being two thirds of the way up the tree. Therefore Lee could only have meant that the glider was two thirds of the way up the tree and the total height of the tree was 2/3 + 1/3 of the total height of the tree which (unlike David's claim) is at least consistent.

    • @afonsosousa2684
      @afonsosousa2684 Месяц назад +3

      David is correct; it's only a matter of interpretation. He's saying if the man's height is 2/3 of the tree's height, then the tree's total height is the man's height + half of that height. If the tree is 9m tall, then the man is 6m high (2/3 X 9=6) and the tree's height is the man's height (6) plus half of the man's height (1/2 X 6=3). 6+3=9
      Lee was being circular for comic effect, and obviously saying "the tree's height is 2/3 of the tree's height plus 1/3 of the tree's height) but he didn't specify "how high the man was plus 1/3 *of the tree's height*", which impelled David to nitpick.

    • @andyperry5385
      @andyperry5385 Месяц назад +1

      David didn't say that 2/3 +1/2(2/3) = 3/4. He said, "If the tree is as high as the man is, plus 1/3 (of the height that the man is in the tree), then the man is 3/4 of the way up the tree." That's a true statement. If the man is 15 feet off the ground, and the tree is as high as 15 plus 1/3 of 15, then the tree is 20 feet tall. 15 is 3/4 of 20.

    • @timothyaddison9661
      @timothyaddison9661 Месяц назад +1

      @@andyperry5385 Yes, you're right, thanks for explaining. If Lee had said the man was 2/3 of the way up the tree, and the tree was as high as the man plus 1/2, it would have been correct (I think).