Icelander here. You can both relax; nábrækur, aka necropants, have probably never existed and are a work of witchcraft folklore 🙂 The object shown in the QI episode is simply someone's idea of how it might have looked like. The beaches you thinking of are the black sand beaches in the south, most famous of which is Reynisfjara, and these can be very dangerous due to so-called sneaker waves. And yes, hydropower generates most of all electricity in Iceland, followed by geothermal power and more recently, wind power. Of course Icelanders use plenty of fossil fuels like all modern economies do, for their cars (electric vehicles not included), planes and ships. Other than that, is all fairly renewable and clean. Also, Iceland wasn't named in order to keep people away as such, it's more like Greenland was named to attract people, promising easy farming in a land of green fields. Truth in advertising was obviously not a top priority back then 😎
If I remember correctly, at the time of discovery and naming the Earth was going through a slightly warmer period and what is now Greenland was indeed green, at least around the margins and for some distance inland.
@@PortilloMoment Yes indeed. When Icelanders (who were the first Europeans to discover both Greenland and North America, but of course not the first humans to do so) were roaming in the area, it was during the so-called 'Medieval Warm Period'. However Greenland wouldn't have been vastly different than it is today... mostly covered by glaciers but with fairly large pockets of green along some of the southern coastlines. This must have looked quite nice to the Viking explorers, particularly before they spent the first winter there :-)
Brian Blessed is probably the most interesting person on the planet. Classic trained actor, played Prince Vultan in the Flash Gordon movie, has boxed with the Dalai Lama, but his greatest achievement is probably his attempts to climb Mount Everest. I think he still holds the record for reaching the highest altitude on Mt Everest without any extra oxygen. He nearly made it to the top once, but he turned back when he found out a climber behind him was in trouble, and he went to assist them. He also shares his house with hundreds of animals. He’s a proper legend.
Good to know, however he is part of my fantasy dinner party guests with Stephen Fry too? As an enormous presence, a gentleman through and through and knowledgeable same as Gyles Brandreth, imo.
His plan was to become the oldest to reach the summit of Everest, but that seems to have become impossible even for him. His backup plan is that he's now training in Kazakhstan to become the oldest person in space (the record currently held by William Shatner).
Punched a polar bear, went to the Russian space city and did all the tests for a cosmonaut and did the best on the centrifuge of anyone ever. Man is a legend there are interviews with him where the interviewer basically gave up and let him talk for hours 😂
Brian Blessed is absolutely nuts. But very funny and has a great singing voice. He originated the role of Old Deuteronomy in Cats and was the voice of the villain in Disney’s Tarzan as well as doing Tarzans yell in the movie.
Good one - You got me. John Shuttleworth claimed to be doing a tour of Iceland, then all he did was play his daft songs with his Yamaha keyboard resting on the freezers in Iceland.
Because you seemed confused at that point, I'll mention that the reason everyone laughed when Sean said "-And then you start a bank." is that it was quite a news item in Europe that the main three banks in Iceland all had taken risks by taking up massive amounts of credit in foreign banks leading up to the financial crisis in 2007-2008, which ended up ...not working out. At the end of it, and I'm quoting wikipedia here "Iceland's external debt was 9.553 trillion Icelandic krónur (€50 billion), more than 7 times the GDP of Iceland in 2007." and "...the market capitalisation of the Icelandic stock exchange fell by more than 90%".
Ropes work the exact same way. I had a small 10 tonne crane and two (very thick) ropes which were not long enough. My dad's mate showed me how you could just join the ropes using only friction. It made me really nervous when he just wove them together. I wouldn't use them until he showed me it would pull the crane over before the joint broke.
I own a pair of necropants, but I did have to steal them from the previous owner. He wasn't happy about it at all. I could tell you more, but I'm off to steal a coin from a widow. I'll be wearing my necrojacket and necrobalaklava as a disguise! Wish me luck! 😂
The necromancer pants were supposed to give you money. A sorcerer must wait for the body to be buried. Then dig it up. The punishment for doing this, was eternal damnation in hell. The only way to avoid hell was to convince someone to take the pants from you. The one in the Iceland museum allegedly is real. But it's folk lore mostly. Good show. 👍
The thought of someone spending all the time needed to put those directories together . Its the quietest clip I've seen of Brian for a long time , poor old Sean . Alan's role is to be the mischievous one on QI. and his manic persistence finally paid off . As for the trousers , despite the prospect of cash I'd rather have a sheepskin or leather coat I think . I enjoyed the reaction between you .
The man with the beard was Brian Blessed, one of the most interesting individuals ever you should look him up. He has lived a most interesting life. The things he has achieved and done will really hold your interest!❤️
But Mario and Donkey Kong weren't friends. Not from what I remember anyway. I believe Donkey Kong would throw barrels and Mario had to jump over them to get to him. I think 🤔 😂
Thinking about all the things we wear that aren't human skin. Admittedly the pants are a little creepy, but I think mainly because we treat death so weirdly.
Tearing a phone book in half is not difficult. My Dad taught me to do it when I was 8. It's all in the technique and you don't need to alter the book in any way.
I gave up on my necropants, so annoying getting a wet arse if you accidently sit in a puddle, ....Where would you put your own "junk" if the sack's for loose change?
Jodi 🤢 Nick 🤣 I agree wearing a dead persons leg skin is disgusting, and I don't understand what the point of it is they cant have much insulating properties, unless they are incredibly hairy. They must have had better alternatives.
Icelander here. You can both relax; nábrækur, aka necropants, have probably never existed and are a work of witchcraft folklore 🙂 The object shown in the QI episode is simply someone's idea of how it might have looked like.
The beaches you thinking of are the black sand beaches in the south, most famous of which is Reynisfjara, and these can be very dangerous due to so-called sneaker waves. And yes, hydropower generates most of all electricity in Iceland, followed by geothermal power and more recently, wind power. Of course Icelanders use plenty of fossil fuels like all modern economies do, for their cars (electric vehicles not included), planes and ships. Other than that, is all fairly renewable and clean.
Also, Iceland wasn't named in order to keep people away as such, it's more like Greenland was named to attract people, promising easy farming in a land of green fields. Truth in advertising was obviously not a top priority back then 😎
If I remember correctly, at the time of discovery and naming the Earth was going through a slightly warmer period and what is now Greenland was indeed green, at least around the margins and for some distance inland.
Thanks for the information!
@@PortilloMoment Yes indeed. When Icelanders (who were the first Europeans to discover both Greenland and North America, but of course not the first humans to do so) were roaming in the area, it was during the so-called 'Medieval Warm Period'.
However Greenland wouldn't have been vastly different than it is today... mostly covered by glaciers but with fairly large pockets of green along some of the southern coastlines. This must have looked quite nice to the Viking explorers, particularly before they spent the first winter there :-)
Brian Blessed is probably the most interesting person on the planet. Classic trained actor, played Prince Vultan in the Flash Gordon movie, has boxed with the Dalai Lama, but his greatest achievement is probably his attempts to climb Mount Everest. I think he still holds the record for reaching the highest altitude on Mt Everest without any extra oxygen. He nearly made it to the top once, but he turned back when he found out a climber behind him was in trouble, and he went to assist them. He also shares his house with hundreds of animals. He’s a proper legend.
A couple of hundred have summitted without oxygen, first done by 2 climbers in 78
Good to know, however he is part of my fantasy dinner party guests with Stephen Fry too? As an enormous presence, a gentleman through and through and knowledgeable same as Gyles Brandreth, imo.
@sg-yq8pm He was 68 at the time so holds the record for the oldest person to reach the height he did without oxygen.
His plan was to become the oldest to reach the summit of Everest, but that seems to have become impossible even for him. His backup plan is that he's now training in Kazakhstan to become the oldest person in space (the record currently held by William Shatner).
Punched a polar bear, went to the Russian space city and did all the tests for a cosmonaut and did the best on the centrifuge of anyone ever. Man is a legend there are interviews with him where the interviewer basically gave up and let him talk for hours 😂
Brian Blessed is absolutely nuts. But very funny and has a great singing voice. He originated the role of Old Deuteronomy in Cats and was the voice of the villain in Disney’s Tarzan as well as doing Tarzans yell in the movie.
He's also Boss Nass from Star Wars!
Jodi flinching as Alan tried to rip the phone books apart was so sweet
You're not allowed to be naked in Iceland. Especially in the frozen food isle.😮
Good one - You got me. John Shuttleworth claimed to be doing a tour of Iceland, then all he did was play his daft songs with his Yamaha keyboard resting on the freezers in Iceland.
I'm still tagged 😂
That’s a good one. :-)
Sean saying "Sean's Alive!" mimics Brian Blessed's "Gordon's Alive!" from the Flash Gordon movie that Brian was in.
Loved your expressions with those skin trousers. I was like Nick when I first saw that episode. :)
Because you seemed confused at that point, I'll mention that the reason everyone laughed when Sean said "-And then you start a bank." is that it was quite a news item in Europe that the main three banks in Iceland all had taken risks by taking up massive amounts of credit in foreign banks leading up to the financial crisis in 2007-2008, which ended up ...not working out.
At the end of it, and I'm quoting wikipedia here "Iceland's external debt was 9.553 trillion Icelandic krónur (€50 billion), more than 7 times the GDP of Iceland in 2007." and "...the market capitalisation of the Icelandic stock exchange fell by more than 90%".
So they arrested and jailed the bankers who did it, unlike us idiots who let them off.
And they jailed all the bankers involved, like we should have done everywhere else.
Kudos Iceland!😎👍
Leather trousers are cow necropants.
Aww, Brian Blessed. You should totally react to the episode where he presented Have I Got News for You. And absolute classic.
Jodi split an apple in two … for her, phone books should be a doddle!
Ropes work the exact same way. I had a small 10 tonne crane and two (very thick) ropes which were not long enough. My dad's mate showed me how you could just join the ropes using only friction. It made me really nervous when he just wove them together. I wouldn't use them until he showed me it would pull the crane over before the joint broke.
Fun fact, Mythbusters tried the interlaced phonebooks and it took two tanks to pull them apart.
Breaking news! Following the latest volcanic eruption in Iceland, we're receiving reports that two tills are closed and aisle three is out of action.
What do you think leather is?
Ah, bless Brian. Every time i see him on TV, i always remember the mini series Henry 8.0 from BBC. :)
I saw Icelandic Necropants at the Kings Cross Water Rats in '98. Great band.
Back in the day those long Winter nights must have flown by in Iceland.
I own a pair of necropants, but I did have to steal them from the previous owner. He wasn't happy about it at all. I could tell you more, but I'm off to steal a coin from a widow. I'll be wearing my necrojacket and necrobalaklava as a disguise! Wish me luck! 😂
The necromancer pants were supposed to give you money. A sorcerer must wait for the body to be buried. Then dig it up. The punishment for doing this, was eternal damnation in hell. The only way to avoid hell was to convince someone to take the pants from you. The one in the Iceland museum allegedly is real. But it's folk lore mostly. Good show. 👍
The thought of someone spending all the time needed to put those directories together . Its the quietest clip I've seen of Brian for a long time , poor old Sean . Alan's role is to be the mischievous one on QI. and his manic persistence finally paid off . As for the trousers , despite the prospect of cash I'd rather have a sheepskin or leather coat I think . I enjoyed the reaction between you .
I don't like having too many subscriptions, but i felt you called me out. I'm in
Thank you!! 🩵🩵
The man with the beard was Brian Blessed, one of the most interesting individuals ever you should look him up. He has lived a most interesting life. The things he has achieved and done will really hold your interest!❤️
Did you know that Crocs are made of crocodile.
You should watch the Xmas episode with Carrie fisher, Jimmy Carr etc
Poor Jodie, Nick is going to talk about this with everyone he meets.
Nick, wait until Jodies there too 😊
❤ from Northeast England ❤️
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They say fashion comes back around but I think we'll be waiting a while for these to come back.
You should react to the whole episode of have I got news for you when Brian Blessed hosts it.
Their phone-books (if they still have them, they probably don't) are listed by first name.
Hehe almost spit out my sip of coffee this morning
I was laughing
Jodi was right though, Mario originated on the plumber from the Donkey Kong game.
Woo hoo!!!
But Mario and Donkey Kong weren't friends. Not from what I remember anyway. I believe Donkey Kong would throw barrels and Mario had to jump over them to get to him. I think 🤔 😂
I love the way you laugh Nic 😂
I was never inside a Ton Ton. That is a vicious rumour started by Gabe!
Can’t wait for Necropant to appear on 8 out of 10 cats does countdown 👍
Have you seen Jazz Emu's English Language vid on Cats does Countdown? Something as teachers you might enjoy :)
Thinking about all the things we wear that aren't human skin. Admittedly the pants are a little creepy, but I think mainly because we treat death so weirdly.
Love Iceland, and the wife enjoys their selection of Slimming World meals.
Hey Jodi just give the word if you need an intervention to save you from crazy Nick.
Blink twice for "help"
*blink blink* 😉
Tearing a phone book in half is not difficult. My Dad taught me to do it when I was 8. It's all in the technique and you don't need to alter the book in any way.
The oddest thing about Iceland is its not made of ice 😂😎🤷♂️
Oh, they didn't should the ear pulling olympics!
Iceland status, volcanic eruptions online?
Luke Skywalker was put inside the TomTom not Han solo.
“If anyone out there has a pair of necropants” Who does he think watches their content?…. Leatherface from Texas chainsaw massacre?
Jodie of old with her squeamish reaction 😅
GORDON'S ALIVE 🗣️🗯️
Didn’t understand the telephone book thing.
leather jacket
I gave up on my necropants, so annoying getting a wet arse if you accidently sit in a puddle,
....Where would you put your own "junk" if the sack's for loose change?
Jodi 🤢 Nick 🤣 I agree wearing a dead persons leg skin is disgusting, and I don't understand what the point of it is they cant have much insulating properties, unless they are incredibly hairy. They must have had better alternatives.
What nauseates me is that there are people who believe in magic and witches.
Are you saying Harry potter isn't real😥
What about leather shoes? You are wearing skin
🤮 Gross