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- Facts about America you may not have known - as presented by Stephen Fry and Sandi Toksvig on QI.
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When it offends Jimmy to the point where he’s momentarily past making a joke, you know it’s _really_ sick and wrong.
Best comment to keep someone watching!
And when he laughs his self indulgent laugh - you know something really sick and wrong happened when he was a kid..
The best things in life are sick and wrong
Especially when it's completely made up
JoeBob Jenkins Yes, the American justice system is perfect and completely fair. Nothing wrong with it at all. No siree Bob!
Prison part got everyone really quiet
It was pretty disquieting.
It was also Quite Inaccurate. U.S. prisons do not use forced labor. And the clip neglects to inform why the prison population is so large. Specifically the '94 Clinton Crime Bill which directly lead to the mass incarceration of black men.
@@cdhilton7124 Are referring to the sentencing for offences concerning crack cocaine compared to regular cocaine? I thought many black communities were in favour of those laws because of the devastating effect crack was having on black people.
@@cdhilton7124 Actually, black men who refuse to follow the law. Agree or disagree with the laws, if you know that it's a felony, don't do it. I like Snickers bars. If possessing a Snickers bar became a felony tomorrow, with a possibility of 10 years in prison, guess what I would never carry on my person or in my car? I sure wouldn't drive around with 10 cases of them.
@@davedammitt7691 I'm certainly not making excuses. I felt like the clip made us sound barbaric instead of pointing out why certain statistics exist.
I can never tell if British shows were shot a year ago or 30 years ago.
Why's that?
@@boskee I'm guessing the lighting.
It’s the lightning but also the haircuts and their clothing style. It all just screams 70s-80s
Our lighting isn’t as bright and vivid as America shows, which I like.
We do have an eclectic group of people on tv though with different hair styles and clothing.
It’s not that their haircuts are unique or something I’ve never seen. it’s just those are all popular haircuts from the 70’s and 80’s. It wasn’t meant as an insult I like British shows and 80’s movies.
"It's not often you see a map of the jizz score for arsehole."
"Not now Stephen's gone."
Gold
Top ten lines all time
That’s what he said… I couldn’t hear over all the cheering.
Brilliant!😂
the problem with the jail system in America, its that its a business, so the more incarcerated the more funding.
Agreed.
And the prison owners finance judge's election campaigns and lobby politicians for stricter laws. It's disgusting.
As an American, I completely agree. There are so many amazing and wonderful things to be proud of in my nation, but this isn’t one of them. It’s a stain. A dark, bloody, horrendous stain and we absolutely must atone.
@W.A M.P I didn't say they lobbied the judges. They do donate to them though. The lobbying is reserved for DC.
It’s a very lucrative business too! Billions made every year. And then there’s the billions made from surveillance tech that supports other punitive measures like home detention.
"Mummy's hugs..and if they don't work.. heroin." 😂 LMAO
Nanny Turtle That's just a totally Jack Whitehall line
And if that doesn't work, mommy's Heroin
Or mummy's hugs, since he's from the UK.
He said "Mummy's". Brits say "Mummy" or "Mum", not "Mommy" or "Mom".
@Jeff Peate yeah sure it is. Not because webster thought it was more sensible to use an "o" because its a shortening of MOTHER with an "o".... obviously he also took the u out of colour and favourite because it's how babies say it too xD
I’m American. They don’t break it down that way for us here. Thank you.
Fuck me that fact about military production is absolutely outrageous.
Of course. They want you blissfully, ignorantly happy.
It’s there, just have to look in the right spots
Don't believe that shit....the US Govt has contracted with private companies not fucking prisons
Eric ORourke What are you talking about? And jail is now the new slave class of America.
As an American, I think it can be really valuable to see other cultures react to things that we've been convinced are normal. Especially in this moment when we're fundamentally re-thinking policing and the rest of our criminal justice system.
We truly live in a big turmoil and I think it's good that America gets a really good look at itself. I hope they learn from it and change and that the rest of the world might learn as well.
Name 3 these fundelmentally wrong with the legal system and I'll tip my hat.
@@kirk5152 As an American, I don't get it either. So much of how things work here is just so wrong.
@@cartoonhanks1708 Qualified Inmunity for cops, that's messed up. Unconstitutional but the patriot act is also really messed up.
Private prisons.
It’s also hypocritical for the party and the very politician that created the 1994 crime bill (senate version) to now turn and blame the other party for the results. We are definitely not perfect, no country is. But vilifying a whole group because of a few bad apples is destructive and idiotic. Your ungratefulness, while being fortunate to be living in arguably the greatest country in the world, is disgusting. Instead of threatening to tear everything down, why not working on just making things a little bit better?
I've never seen QI go so long without a joke. The panel and the audience is in shock.
Seeing Jimmy Carr in clothes other than a suit is weird....
Also his hair, teeth and lack of money laundering :P
"he mustve had a very big sphincter" killed me
''There are more 17 year old black males in prison than in college...''
Thats horrific...
......Isn't that just because they are too young for college?
@@dd-nz8ry college as in sixth form as in high school
@@dd-nz8ry Aren't they too young for prison too?
@@henriquerabelo2769 typically a minor would go to juvenile hall but it is possible for a minor to be tried as an adult for series crimes it is usually based entirely on the judge whether that occurs to my knowledge. I am unsure.
@@jocomfiresin6982 black kids and teens are also far more likely to be tried as adults, too.
"Rope made of hemp" has never been said in a more illustrious manner.
That was quite a apical-alveolar trill
That's generally how Stephen Fry works.
Regarding prison labor: the penal system in the southern states is directly transferred from slave labor. After the Civil War plantations were turned into prison farms, and Jim Crow laws ensured a steady supply of free labor.
To be truthful:
In NYS they used to make license plates for the state in prison.
They stopped that program about 10 years ago and many license plates have started peeling since then. Now one can be fined if their license plate is peeling due to the state wanting to save even more money.
I think the show that they took that clip from was filmed a fair while ago.
2:18 was such a still, sombre moment. Everyone was so horrified that nobody could even make a joke, not even Jimmy. Shocking
US prisons/neo-slavery: Mitchell and Webb, "Hans. Are we the Baddies?"
Good one 👍-up.
Not all labor in American prisons is forced. On the contrary, much of it is voluntary. Jobs are often times considered privileges, especially things like building and libraries. But either way, you lose your constitutional rights when you're imprisoned. Not sure why that's a surprise.
@@BP-or2iu Bollox. Most is forced.
@@thatdutchguy2882 Well, firstly, according to the Bureau of Justice, less than half of the US prison population works... about 800k out of 2.3 million. Only the Federal Bureau of Prisons has a requirement to work... I realize this probably isn't news to you, you seem like a scholar on the US and its penal system, but there are federal prisons and there are state prisons... Arizona, for instance, requires state inmates to work. Several other states do not. Louisiana, for instance, has a program where state inmates sign up to do work on the Capitol Building, etc... Colorado has a work program where people join and the money goes toward a fund for when they are released. You could just say "bollocks" to every thing you think you know or you could read some bleeding books.
I don't think baddies care much for Constitutions, Bollox-bot. Baddies do things like ignore subpoenas, Constitutions, criminal laws, voter laws, international laws, laws from other countries when they are on scene to molest those counties. Baddies do like money though, and deregulation that allows them more easily rape the world of resources at the expense of everyone else. Perpetual war is pretty tasty to them, and they like being butt-buddies with the military industrial complex. They also like to demonize things which scare them, like secularism, liberalism, democratic institutions, science, socialism (because they fear the right to own all the property will be taken away from them). They don't really like the masses, and any people not obscenely wealthy like themselves, but they do need the masses to feed off of, though, after watering the masses with discontent, manufactured consent and high rent.
"Not now Stephen's gone"...LOL
Stephen. '...LOL'
Brilliant :D
@@paulreeves7249 If you asked me to create a female Stephen Fry in a lab, I would end up making Sandi Toksvig.
@@paulreeves7249 She's a temp, can't wait for Fry to recover from his treatment and get back.
BigMisterApple really? What treatment?
Can’t wait for Steven Fry to be invited on the panel next to Alan
This is a great Channel. Thank you.
“This is its jizz score” man I pissed myself
3:00 .....to add on to that, the US constitution doesnt ban slavery..... it says "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude..." and then it finishes its sentence with a strong "... *except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,* shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
so, our (the US's) constitution actually says 'slavery is ok, so long as its done by the state as a punishment for breaking whatever rules the state sets'. its like the death penalty, in a way....murder is illegal unless the state does it as a revenge killing.
KandaPanda that’s for humans but yep, and it’s still done. AND they convict them on bogus charges or for the tiniest things so they have slave labour! I’ve literally seen a jail van calling incarcerated people resources! AND non-human animals (because humans are animals too) it’s done by the billions still!
KandaPanda they want their slaves and money from incarcerating as many as possible
It's not a revenge killing it's a punishment to remove a danger to society. A revenge killing would be to let the family's kill the offenders.
@@cipher88101 prison removes the danger. the state generally pushes for the death penalty but its not usually for the family of the victims...its for the public.
when you kill somebody for killing somebody, thats a revenge killing. it doesnt have to be done by the family. you think mobsters personally do hits themselves? ...or even send family? doesnt mean a hit isnt a revenge killing.
also, punishment stops when life ends....thus, its really giving a horrible human the easy way out. i would rather die than be imprisoned for life.
i was pro-death penalty for a long, long time. my change in mind was relatively new...but when you see how much it costs, the fact that it forces the victim's family to relive the crime for years to come (due to the appeal process) and allows the criminal the chance to walk (again, due to the appeal process). i also learned that many people who had a loved one killed and had that killer put to death....wish they hadnt. that's not me saying that and its not every family. dont take my word on it....look it up.
have a good day and i apologize if i was abrasive at all.
KandaPanda “prison removes the danger.” Sometimes. But too many in prison aren’t dangerous. It’s those who put them there, those in power to do so, that are the danger.
Jimmy looks bizarre in casual clothing
Completely agree. I saw him in a tube station not too long ago in a peculiar leather jacket and it was disconcerting to say the least.
Sounds like it was jarring
I think it’s the hair. I’d like hi to go shorter at the sides.
I’m amazed how accurate their analysis of the maps were! Particularly the Montana joke XD
8:04 It is not that “people who swear a lot are more articulate or less articulate”. The study (Language Sciences, Vol 52, 2015) tested general fluency against taboo fluency, and found a correlation that “fluency is fluency”. Articulation ability is suggested to be consistent “regardless of the subject matter”. It proposed that very articulate people are good with swear words, not that people who swear are very articulate.
very ironic that someone with your name would be articulate enough to understand the word let alone lecture us o n scientific studies, but thanks.
They actually do that kind of thing a fair amount on the show. I suspect it's more a matter of massaging the description to give it the most "quite interesting" soundbite than it is incompetence on their part, but it's still pretty ironic to use such a tabloidy technique when they can be so pedantic elsewhere. Sometimes they cop to it, but other times not (such as this).
"People who know more words know more swearwords" doesn't have the same counterintuitive quality as "people who swear a lot are more eloquent", given that that flies in the face of the idea that people swear when they run up against the limits of their vocabulary. But it's pretty obvious that you don't have to use a word to know it; just because I'm aware of racial epithets, I don't have to go around using them to demonstrate or even somehow improve my vocabulary. It's a sneaky inversion.
And even if you did want to make some sort of statistical prediction based purely on someone's swearing, it wouldn't be the amount of swearwords used, but the variety. You could expect those who use a wider range of swearwords to - _on the whole_ - have a wider vocabulary overall. But again, there's the massive caveat of people choosing not to swear (I swear less than I used to, and I'd like to think that my vocabulary hasn't shrunk to any significant degree!)
This stuff does make me roll my eyes pretty hard, given that "correlation does not equal causation" is such a basic principle. It's not some subtle and surprising phenomenon like Simpson's Paradox; it's a straightforward principle that really should be considered an essential component to basic media literacy.
Okay.....that argument about 'swaffeling' (roughly around 08:50) isn't correct. Yes, we Dutch know it, although the general usage of it was sort of a hype thing, it has decreased....it's not an oldschool Dutch swearing word. But it is not related to the Taj Mahal. Let's say what is done with the Taj Mahal in that concext...is done on people or objects, but not necessarily specific ones. It was our 'word of the year' in 2008.
thats a little disappointing - but nevertheless why would you need a word for this interaction with "people or objects, but not necessarily specific ones"? when youre walking through the streets, how many % of people at any given time are busy with this exercise in general, please?
I don't know how many people would be busy with it in general, o'm not even sure i wanna know. The term was probably created out of boredom, mankind has come with some of its greatest inventions by having no idea what to do with their time. xD
@@tjitse3916 sure, sure... as a german i can proudly say, that we would never ever invent ridiculous words, but someone has to do it.. i guess ;)
Hahaha, if there is anything I associate with German words....next to getting used to having capitol letters in the middle of a sentence, is that you sometimes have ridiculously loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong words. xD
There are like whole websites full of funny examples of it. German dictionaries must be huge.
Hello from nearby by the way, i live right next to Germany, from here (Nijmegen) i could fart my way into Germany so to speak (to use a bad old saying). I am glad i still know some German, i had it for several years at middle school.
@@MrNukedawhales According to his autobiography, Moby did it to Trump
Haha, well we Dutch have a lovely array of swearwords, but sadly none so specific as Jeremy's definition of "swaffelen". Not that the actual meaning is much better...
Many of the US "founding fathers" grew hemp on their plantations.
Those starling flocks are known as murmurations and they are breathtaking to watch!
In Denmark we call it Sort Sol (Black Sun) when they do that
That swear word regarding the Taj Mahal is VERY specific 😂
On Dutch television you can say anything and there's no watershed anytime will do, also the Taj Mahal is a bit specific
That's why I fucking love being Dutch because i can say whatever the flippidy fuck i want as long as it is relevant or necessary.
@@TestarossaF110 Unless the subject is cursing, how would it be relevant?
it's actually banging your penis against an object, doesn't have to be the Taj Mahal
@@TestarossaF110 the only word you can't curse with is cancer in Holland
@@pacifistapx0876 or a person...
Wow now I know how starlings defend themselves from sharks by gathering to give a like fish it works for them a hundred percent of the time just incredible
when they put it like that, the 3 strikes your out rule really does sound like a way to get legal slavery
Of course, you have to wonder what someone who has already committed two violent felonies is doing walking around free to commit additional crimes. Since this was shot, the law has been amended so that the third strike also has to be a violent felony.
@@almostfm in most states in 2 serious crimes (felonies) and a severe violent crime and this is a relatively recent change, and in California the third offence can be anything, misdemeanor or felony. a felony could be murder sure, but it could also be manufacturing and distributing drugs (in some states, simply having them without the intent to distribute), vandalizing government property, copy right infringement, manslaughter and saying something that law enforcement views as "threatening" sure these are all horrible, but do you really deserve life in jail for 3 of them? (obvious exception is murder, you do than deserve life in jail (most of the time))
@@almostfm also "you have to wonder what someone who has already committed two violent felonies is doing walking free" once someone has served their time, they're free to go, no matter how bad it was, they've been punished already, if you view their punishment as too little, or not harsh enough, you need to vote for people who can change laws.
@@user-dx8nj7qj2g I'm sorry, but that's just not correct. The law was changed in California in 2012 to require the third strike to be a felony, with the first two being a "violent" or "serious" felonies. Vandalizing government property doesn't count as a felony unless the damage is under a certain amount, and copyright infringement would be a Federal matter, so the three strikes law would not apply
@@user-dx8nj7qj2g I think it will help for you to know the genesis of the law. In 1993, a 12 year old girl named Polly Klass was abducted from a slumber party, sexually assaulted, strangled, and then buried in a shallow grave. The man who was arrested and confessed was named Richard Allen Davis, who had a list of felony convictions as long as your arm, including several kidnappings, attempted kidnappings, bank robbery, pistol whipping someone, and beating a sleeping woman with a fireplace poker. I'm not counting all of the other stuff he'd done, but you can read the details here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Allen_Davis#Criminal_justice_record
Because the system said he'd "paid his debt to society" and the state legislature was unwilling to act, the voters of California passed a ballot initiative that made Three Strikes the law to ensure guys like him couldn't get out to commit more crimes. And I know of nobody who was sentenced to life (actually, 25 years to life) who was convicted of just those three crimes. Both of the people that Lord Fry mentioned also had long criminal histories, including multiple violent felonies.
Mummy’s hugs....if that doesn’t work heroin 🥰
“Gosh” for “God” and “Geesh” for “Jesus” were essentially ways of canceling that reflexive use of their names “in vain” (which was a big deal at one point) halfway through the word like “fudge” or “dang” lol
I think the desire by parents to avoid cursing in front of their kids necessitated a detour substitute for every example of profanity there is haha
Haha that’s a good final point
Which isn't necessary seeing as how God's name isn't God.
@@bremCZ Why would he need other name? that makes no sense.
@@user-zd2kl9yg4v Because it was a sin to speak the lords name outside of church. So outside of church they simply referred to him as "God".
@@bremCZ Wait, does god have different name in church? I haven't been there for a lont time, and it was all in Polish while I knew only Ukrainian, so i have no idea what other name can be.
"I'd very much like to say something hilarious but something must be done!"
That’s a lot coming from him
We could start by not letting violent offenders go in the first place. They never mention the first two crimes, notice?
@@OneVoiceMore, bearing in mind the USA’s startling proclivity for locking up its citizens, I’d wager that the first two crimes aren’t all that serious either. It’s not like the first two crimes are going to be murder and armed robbery but it’s stealing cookies the third time that gets them two life sentences.
Starlings can cause major problems for cherry orchards, too.
The other thing that they're doing is wiping out native bird species, like the mountain bluebird and western bluebird (which are making a comeback thanks to thousands of volunteers monitoring nesting boxes). A starling will go into a nestbox and build a nest right on top of bluebird eggs, or even bluebird babies.
Best painkiller in the world: Mummies Hugs
and if that doesn't work: Heroin
This is great, not just the video clip but reading the the comments
4:37 That sounds like a poem written for "A bit of fry and laurie"
You CAN say swaffelen on Dutch tv in fact a lot of people did when it became Word of the year a few years back
It's just not hitting the Taj mahal per se. It can be anything. Or anyone. It's just that the first time someone swaffeled, it was the Taj Mahal... And he was arrested I believe haha
The late Buckley brilliantly defended his use of "damn" most eloquently, as he was known to do, by saying it was used as an intensifier during intense debate or speech.
Where else are we supposed to get Space Marines?
Tychus: It’s about time!
Colombus was the first Colombian drug lord
@Michael Black woooosh
"They can swear continuously for 2 minutes without repetition. Or hesitation."
That's an episode of Just A Minute I want to hear!
Well, anyone can do this really, all you have to do is think of all the terrible deceases in the world, both current and ancient and you have your repertoire of Dutch swear words ;) Although there are a few exceptions, where genitalia or related professions are thrown in, most still remain deceases.
And of course we have regional differences, each region prefers their own decease.
It's actually gotten to the point that in some areas they simply use it in everyday speech. Which is a bit unsettling for people not from that area. I still haven't gotten used to my cousins saying the word cancer in every sentence.
Good thing Shakespeare never mentioned pterodactyls
"Can I be an American?"
My friend: Not now.
Why?
My friend: Cause' Stephen's gone.
6:08 Sandi sure can be titillating...
It is so weird seeing JimmyCarr without a suit on.
Anyway. I am all for punishment. But if punishment isn't combined with rehabilitation, both in and out of prison, then the whole system is incredibly unfair.
The big problem here is both the slave labor and for-profit prison systems. They both provide serious perverse incentives for locking people up for trivial shit. Surprisingly, the most common victims of that are black people. Funny how that works.
Some people are criminals and can never be "rehabilitated". We're not talking about the kind of trash who see a phone or wallet on a bathroom sink in an airport and put it in their pocket rather than try to find the owner. Those people are scum, but probably don't deserve to be locked up. There are people whose first thought when they see a vulnerable person (small female, elderly, disabled, etc.) at an ATM at midnight is an easy an opportunity to steal some cash and/or a car. There are predators who see a drunk gal leaving a bar after closing time and see a quick, easy piece of ass. There are people who will loot homes and businesses after a disaster. There are some people who will start throwing fists or use weapons when they are 'disrespected'. These people are defective at the core and cannot be fixed. MAYBE they can be scared into not repeating those crimes as quickly and easily as they did before, but they cannot be turned into good people. I'd prefer that they be shot in the head, but society disagrees, so I guess locking them away from the rest of us is an OK alternative.
Yeah but if we don't keep putting our people away to jail the companies that operate the jails will go out of business and then where will they be? Got to think about the poor prison companies now.
Punishment doesn't work as a deterrent.
It is a better deterrent than capital punishment though.
Dave Dammit while it’s certainly possible those people exist, they’re *very* few and far between. As far as I can tell that’s a small fraction even of the jail population in sane countries - and as such it’s gonna be something like 1% of prisoners in America.
"Gosh" and "darn" are technically curse words in America the same way tomatoes are technically fruit.
Steven Coffin Tomatoes are legally vegetables in the United States
Well, many different curse words are some kind of change from the original curse words. Some are even made up. Even I uses some diversion of some of the danish curse words
Well they were a way of avoiding using God’s or the lord’s name in vain, which was at one time a big deal.
“Gosh” for “God” and “Geesh” for “Jesus” were essentially ways of canceling that reflex halfway through like “fudge” or “dang” lol
I think the desire by parents to avoid cursing in front of their kids necessitated a detour substitute for every example of profanity there is haha
they were originally invented to be cursewords though. Theyre cursewords in the same way that hommus is an aphrodesiac, it was invented to do that but no one uses it that way anymore
@@JacksonBockus that's ridiculous because they literally are a fruit.
of course, a country that elected a fascist, conman pumpkin as president isn't going to know a fruit if they see it.
The prison part is so f@kt up is mind blowing.
you know something's a huge issue when Jimmy Carr doesn't make jokes about it- smh American prison system
Son there are two words I want you never to use. One is "awful" and the other is "swell".
Okay dad, what are they?
Also...my doctor has me on two types of oxys, Adderall and Kolonopin.
I can't believe this guy got two life sentences for stealing 9 video tapes. He should have pleaded insanity. As one of the tapes was Jimmy Carr's
Dennis Johnson Nice.
Hearing her call the Midwest _“the Northern Central bit”_ is weirdly infuriating.
Hey at least they know American geography, I guarantee a good portion of us Americans couldn't point to Britain on a globe. So give the lady some credit.
01100110 00100000 01110101 I know, I know. Still didn’t make that any easier to swallow, LOL.
@@AmishMicrowave 01100110 00100000 01110101 00100000 00110010 :)
She'd also be the type to say that the electoral college is a stupid system and that everyone there hates gays and black people
Mindaugas Mazrimas I appreciate the Electoral College, but let’s not shut down debate about it with mindsets like that.
I've never heard of all these facts they're saying. Most States push too hard for prison time and people become institutionalized.
His statistics about blacks in prison vs college is wrong, my guess is the source they cited was improperly read or wasn't peer review or board reviewed. That being said, yes The U.S. has a prison problem mainly from imprisoning low risk offenders, Competitive Prosecutors, bad narcotics laws and Private Prison who goal is to get as many cheap labourer as possible.
raven maximus, if anything, the numbers about blacks in prison are low
@@h3llblaz3r12 i believe this was filmed several years ago.
@@h3llblaz3r12 This was filmed almost over a decade ago.
@@h3llblaz3r12 probably just old stats like Jaime said.
Here we go a swaffeling among the leaves so green.....
I actually hummed that! :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
If you intersect the Gosh map with the Darn map, there’s only a very specific area left.
So why is ‘Gosh Darn!’ such a cliche?
It is an interesting thought, however it does not neccessary ring true that "Gosh Darn" is as local as what you are describing. It is possible that the programming does not at all take into account combinations of "gosh" + "darn" and only shows single usages of either "gosh" or "darn". It is also possible that "gosh darn" is much more commonly used in spoken american rather than written (on twitter). Which again does not account for other mediums of written american, like other social networks, fx Facebook, RUclips comments, Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit and so on. Least to say news media like The Times and so on.
That said, you could be right and the combination of "gosh" + "darn" is just very unique, which could be because "gosh darn" is represented as "goshdarnit" or "gosh darnit" or "gosh darn it" correlating to "goddamnit" / "god damnit" / "god damn it", as that is what they are a eufemisme of. "gosh darn" could also be niche, which I assume is what you mean by "cliche"? because it does somewhat sound rather dated. But to qoute some random youtuber "But hey, that's just a theory". :)
Welcome to the land of the free
Land of the Free Labor, more like.
Lol good joke
College doesn't start until you're 18, for most people, so that statistic makes sense
I noticed that too. Not a very good statistic.
They probably meant enrolled not literally in.
Ah right. From a British perspective that sounds very significant but it turns out to be a useless stat
Since this is a British show it makes perfect sense. Most of what USA call high school they call college. Same word, different meaning. I believe college is from 16 in UK. What is called college in USA is called university in most countries.
By “college” he meant UK college which is comparable to High School at starts at age 16
Dutch can swear really well.. Some use multiple swearwords every sentence.
Just put the name of a disease in front of everything. Easy.
When I worked in Amsterdam, when the guys in the office swore, they would do in English. So there they are gabbing away in Dutch, and then a F**k or worse would pop out. Strange.
Wouldn’t mind a show like this in the states.
It'd end up pretty dumbed down and sensationalised
EVO6 unfortunately you’re right, but I’d probably still watch lol.
Do you guys not do panel TV shows in America?
Zachary Wilson Not like this
@@zacharywilson9596 There's an American version of _Whose Line is It Anyway?_ but other than that no. There are game shows which have 'real' people, sometimes being aided by celebrities, and talk shows/chat shows.
Did anyone else try the swearing test?
The start of this is so depressing!
i see Fry i click.
I would argue that the reason asshole is so rarely used in southern tweets is because in the South it is considered a relatively serious cuss word, whereas it was considered less offensive in the northeast. But that's just my observation.
Jimmy kills me every time
yup, welcome to the land of the free!
Alex T that’s sarcasm, right?
In the land of the free..........
And the home of the brave.
And the home of the depraved
The brave was the Indian they butchered.
The land of the free....free to do as they tell you.
They're in your childrens heads!
@@Euphoriasmotion2011
Do What They Say
Just A Slave
Cradle To Grave
U.S.S.A
18 Years Old Enough To Die
Taken Away Don't Ask Me Why
Blind Eyes Backs Against The Wall
Smell Of Vomit In The Torture Hall
Neo-Nazi Fascist Cops
Bash Your Brains Until You Drop
Rapes And Murders Every Day
But Play Too Loud And You Will Pay
Leaders Smile On My T.V
But They Don't Give A Damn About Me
Writing Laws For Mind Control
Try And Make You Fit The Mold
Written in the 80s. Indestroy - USSA if you want to look it up and hear it. Good song :)
You can kill who you like.
Speaking as someone raised in Georgia, I can say with some authority that the term "asshole," and the actual assholes so named, is/are very big, in every sense of the word, in the deep southern US.
Maybe that isn’t a telescope Columbus is holding....it’s a blunt.
I was in court one day and watched a guy get his 3rd strike. Life in prison for shoplifting a tie to go to a job interview.
It's called a Murmuration of Starlings.
Starlings! Hardly getting our own back over grey squirrels is it?
7:54 to 7:59 is Gold.
I have never heard it so clearly as American imprisonment as industrialised slavery.
Well, the brits should know. They did it to us, indonesian, the indian (IN INDIA), South Africa etc in 1819...
Maybe they should all refuse to work they might get shorter sentences if the prisons can't make money off them
@@nfspbarrister5681 I don't think America needed any lessons:- Fighting erupted between forces of the United States and those of the Philippine Republic on February 4, 1899, in what became known as the 1899 Battle of Manila. ... The war resulted in at least 200,000 Filipino civilian deaths, mostly due to famine and disease. Some estimates for total civilian dead reach up to a million. Philippine-American War - Wikipedia
How depressing
Ive had starlings land in my back yard and the yard was black with white flecks instead of green! It was insane!
Jimmy is the man. We NEED to do something about this. And then he follows up his moral point with a sick (in both ways) joke. Jimmy Carr is a fucking legend.
I love that on the 'Gosh' map there's this massive orange ring in Nebraska, and then just to the northeast of it in South Dakota it goes dark blue, like everybody in Pierre or wherever that corresponds to just decided, "You know what? I'm never saying 'gosh'. Not ever, not even once. And nor should you."
9:55 Isn't that guy the traffic warden from Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels?
Yup. It is. So he survived then, did he? XD
Yep, Rob Bryden: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Brydon
ruclips.net/video/pPIr46MLZag/видео.html
Rob Brydon. He hosts another show, "Would I Lie to You". Worth checking out.
I'm from Montana and I swear like a sailor lol
I have a question for all of you Britons. Elizabeth II is the queen of Canada. However, Canada did not exist as an English territory during the reign of Elizabeth I. So is the queen called Elizabeth I of Canada, or Elizabeth II of Canada?
It’s weird watching people hear about the prison industry for the first time
The first time they're hearing about the prison system in the land of the least free.
Ahh the irony of the supposed 'Land of the Free' which has the highest level of incarceration in the world.
First minute. I thought it was more. I added Jail & Prison.
But where’s the ‘drat’ GI z-score? You can’t hide it forever
Yes, as a Dutch I can say: swaffellen means exactly that.
Ah America land of the free.
No one forces you to commit crime, mate.
The starlings don't flock up in huge flocks until the fall and winter and cause relatively little agricultural damage in the USA. Where they do cause problems is if you live near a winter roosting site because of the large amount of bird shit at that site. In spring they pair up and spread out.
Swaffling has very little to do with the Taj Mahal but isn't far off, you could definitely swaffle that building
This video is mildly amusing in parts but not nearly as funny as the triggered Americans in the comments section who seem to regard this as some sort of political proclamation from the UK rather than a compilation of excerpts from a light entertainment programme.
nope we see it as some sort of incorrect excerpts from a light entertainment program. Such as more black 17 year old americans in jail than in college. True, because most people don't go to college until ages 18-19 if they get out of high school. SO its just bad facts and "truths" which QI puts out all the time (how many moons does the earth have lol". Just nonsense facts. Of course there are more 17 year old black males in jail than in college, because you don't start college at age 17 lol. There are more 17 year old white males, asian males, latino males in jail than in college, because you aren't in college at 17 except for rare cases.
@@eolsunder Did I mention, " triggered Americans in the comments section"?
@@eolsunder uh, speak for yourself? I was 17 in my first year at uni. I had turned 18 while there. And I wasn't a "rare case" either. As for the moon thing, they had also talked about how it was a definition thing, the question was posed just for fun to see the panelists struggle. it hardly proves your point as "nonsense" when they themselves had fun with it. It's like Alan Mac said...triggered American. Kindly stop making the rest of us look bad, will you?
@@eolsunder You might want to look up the difference between US and UK definitions of the word 'college'.
@W.A M.P "virtue signaling"! Really? I guess you went to gaol rather than college. Wankpuffin..
There are more Black 17-year-olds in prison than in college in the USA. I wonder if the fact that the vast majority of 17-year-old Americans are still in high school and don't start college until age 18 has anything to do with it?
Thx1138sober College in the UK is attended at 16-18 years old. I believe they are speaking of that and not University, which I believe is the meaning of college in the US?
@@emmet-jamesblondel1708 The Claim was that more 17-year-old Blacks are prison than in college in the USA. In the USA college is attended after high school. In the USA college and University mean the same thing and the vast majority of college students in the USA do not start college until after their 18 birthday and the vast majority of 17-year-olds of all races in the USA are still high school students.
@@Thx1138sober Why would a British programme use American terminology?
@@gwishart The comment was made about the USA, since there are very few 17 year old college students of any race in the USA. So, the statement that "there are more black 17 year olds in prison in than in college is really a meaningless statement, kind of like saying that teenage pregnancy is not an issue for 20 year old women.
@@Thx1138sober Are you even listening? He might be talking ABOUT Americans, but he's talking TO Brits. Of course he's going to use the British term.
Darn you to heck!!!
That's it that's the full list of quite interesting things about the us and it's less than thirteen minutes.
"...And the land of the free."
It's a tv show from another country go live in central Africa or a town in the middle east controlled by a radical muslim dictator then let's see how much you love America
@@kf4914 Yeah... From Britain... Where I'm from.
I live in Thailand... And I think America sucks.
It didn't used to.
But it's gone downhill badly.
@@BKKfreak well I know England sucks
@@BKKfreak it's just certain states that sucks but england is so small it sucks as a whole
@@kf4914 Let's not fool ourselves... You've never been out of the country.
You've never been to England.
You have no special insight here... You're a useless, talentless troll.
Come back when you've got some friends smart enough to tell you you're neither funny nor original.
Not saying that US incarceration rates aren't insane, but the 17 year olds in jail vs college thing is not so surprising. The vast majority of students in the US don't finish high school until they're 18. If you go to 18-24 year olds, the rate of college attendance for black Americans is between 35 and 40%, depending on the year. In short, they cherry picked a number that might seem astonishing in the UK but which makes a lot more sense in the context of the timing of the US educational system.
College is 16-18 in the UK, which I assume is the equivalent of US high-schools. College is not university.
Stephen was saying more 17 year olds are in prison than highschool.
@@SomeInfamousGuy No, because he took his statistics from American sources. "College" in America refers to post-secondary education. We have community colleges, junior colleges, colleges of arts...and universities are collections of colleges.
@@seikibrian8641 Surely he could have just translated for the British audience?
The statement may have been taken from a speech by B. Obama back in 2007. www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21791038
@@seikibrian8641 Where did he quote for that stat?
Thanks.
5:35 mummy's hugs ,and if it didn't work then heroin. ha ha
a year later without realizing i give a thumb up to my own comment. lol
Just commenting from Montana to show we exist