An excellent episode! I loved Clare Balding's contributions, Stephen Fry yet again added a lot of interesting bonus info, and the comedy was great - Jimmy Carr and Dara Ó Briain are a safe bet.
I’m glad that so many editions of QI are in RUclips. The bad amateurs who run (down) the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are in the habit of bleeping out those words that they consider to be unfit for the ears of their audience, so nowadays I avoid the ABC’s broadcasts of QI.
Honest to god I have seen a random man in the street genuinely slip and fall over a discarded banana-peel. It was probably the greatest thing I've seen in my life.
There was an old guy in my village when I was growing up who'd trained his horse to wait for him outside the pub, so when he staggered out blind drunk, he could slump onto its back and it would walk him home and dump him in the hedge by his back door, even if he was actually asleep whilst on its back.
Vincent Don't know if that story is true or not, but I guess it could be. I've fallen asleep while riding a motorcycle and a snowmobile as a passenger. Didn't fall of from either one, so a horse is believable :)
Just learned that Claire Balding's domestic partner, Alice Arnold, used to be in a relationship with Sandi Toksvig. It might make for some awkward banter if they were on an episode of QI together.
+theAngryscotman I read somewhere that there was a horse named Potoooooooo because its owner named it Potato but his secretary thought he was saying "pot-eight-o" and wrote that down :D
Luckily it's only the thoroughbreds that rule applies to. The rest of us are allowed to name our horses what we want. Though there are some variety within the particular breeds. Usually we have to use the same initial as the sire to our horses. But if your horse is of no particular breed, you can call them whatever you like.
13:22 "So, apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation roads, fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" Guide dogs.
I quite like having none comedians on the panel, they usually give sincere and intelligent answers, something for the other panelists to play off and something interesting to learn.
Without putting my glasses on, the flowers on Allan's shirt looked just like Pinkie Pie. I was disappointed by this after seeing other panelists wearing Naruto t-shirts and whatnot :( On a somewhat less trivial note: Thank you for uploading this episode! I don't know how I ever got out of bed when there wasn't QI to watch for breakfast :D
"for thousands of years" kinda tells you that even though it seems wasteful to hunt bison that way, it was sustainable if there were still plenty of bison there.
***** So if you spend ten years of your life doing research to write a book and a guy with a printing press offers to publish it and give you 90% of the profits, while someone else copies it without your permission and keeps 100% of the profits for himself (or uses the information in it for his own good, without compensating you for your research), the first one (that recognised that the information in the book is _your_ intellectual property, and a product of _your_ hard work) is the one "abusing" you...? Methinks someone is trying very hard to justify his own visits to the Pirate Bay (and failing at basic epistemological arguments). Oh, and only truly insecure people vote on their own posts (yes, we can all see it was you).
RFC3514 Then, in essence, your only incentive for creating knowledge is fame and glory. Try and think of knowledge not as something quantifiable, but a metaphysical state, that we, as a human race, can share - for the better of everyone. It is what Gadamer named conjunction of horizons.
That thing about exciting horses with ginger struck me as quite interesting, but then why is it called "gingerly" when it could be argued that that's quite the opposite? Just a thought that popped into my head.
Blue Peter first became involved with The Guide Dogs for the blind association in 1964. The target for that years Christmas appeal was for 3 tons of silver paper and foil, enough to buy one guide dog. The result was 7 and half tons of silver paper and foil, enough to by two guide dogs (Honey and Cindy) with some money left over to help maintain a third dog.
"Everyone in those times knew the banana peel was a reference to horse manure..." - My old teacher said she had read such a gag in a book then - but she hadn´t known what banana is.
i live in Canada , and we have a saying that in black bear country you carry pepper spray and wear bells , and their scat has berry's and fruit in it , in grizzly country their scat smells like pepper and has bells in it ,,, strange isnt it ? but on a serious note we have found that the insulation in Coleman coolers is what the bear truly love its like a honey wafer to them so when they rip open your car and smash all your stuff they really are after the cooler not whats in it just the insulation .
That top lip trick works on wildebeest too, I've seen clips where wild dogs will grab the top lip and the wildebeest just freezes and that makes it easy for the other dogs to come and kill it... not sure when such a response could ever be a benefit in nature.
Regarding the 'internet hunting', legislating against it without it existing makes a lot of sense. There is no technical reason this couldn't be built, but it would be a proper arse to ensure the necessary animal welfare that hunters actually tend to care deeply about. Some guy plans to start offering it, so they ban it ahead of time. Stephen frames it as absurd, but it would be significantly harder to ban if they have to take some guy who already had a business to court, rather than just hammering it through the state assembly. And while the effort to stop him was under way, some 17 year old with a spoofed identity would have been firing a rifle at an animal from his moms basement.
a friend of a friend of mine had/has a piranha and it would eat any other fish he put in there but when(like a dumbass) I put my hand in there he swam away scared
Richard Laning Red Oscars are more deadly. They're out of the gate aggressive with nothing to stimulate such behavior. I remember being harassed by them as a small child. lunge at your face they would.
Not aggressive? I have had the opportunity to pet some falabella horses and I can tell you, as soon as you stick out your hand to pet them they launch at you to bite your hands off. And they kick really bad.
I think there has been quite a lot of preparation by some of the contestants here. So!me of the answers may have been given. When Balding said "ginger" out of the blue and hey presto! It's the correct answer. Some "guess" that was. It was a bad idea to have her on the show.
I thought she did very well. She is not a comedian but she made people laugh and knew how to pitch it. I think ginger is something she had probably heard somewhere and was there in the subconscious. I didn't know the answer until she said it when I knew she was right. And I then vaguely remembered having heard it when I worked in a stables.
“Gingering up” horses is a well-known practice. It’s not at all surprising that someone who grew up with horses would have heard of it. But the fact that she knew something that you didn’t is threatening enough to you that she doesn’t deserve to be on the show? Kind of pathetic.
Canadian here; with all bears, except Polar, you are best to stand your ground and assume a body posture to present the largest visual profile to the bear. Scream, thrash branches against the ground....it's not about scaring the bear off, more about confounding them. Bears are rather intelligent. When met with your erratic behaviour they become flummoxed, and flee. If met with a grizzly you might be better off climbing a tree. Polar bears are the largest living land carnivores; with adult males topping 700 kg, they're not to be trifled with. In fact, Churchill, Manitoba residents leave their parked cars unlocked so anyone under threat of a Polar bear attack has a safe space to retreat to.
@jasonarthurs3885 Thanks for that valuable information. If I say If I'm ever mad enough to go the freezer of the planet I'll try & remember how not to get eaten😉😏😄
black bears have been known to attack/maim/kill humans, a hunter was killed and eaten a few years ago by a black bear, can't remember if it was in spring when they leave hibernation and feel a bit hungry or in the fall, maybe it wanted a late season meal?
the bit about Indians belies the fact that there were desperate tribes ranging from the peaceful hippy type to the warmongering to the buffalo genocidal types... it truly was diverse to the point where you need to specify which tribe when and when.
@@Furnus105 My knowledge is a bit rusty but I do know that while they did fight among themselves the only known occurrences of tribal extermination was over the fur trade in the 1600's when it became increasingly obvious that the ones that held the fur trade would hold more power with their respective dutch or french allies.
Now I'm interested to know when this episode was in comparison to the Countdown episode where Rachel talks about Susie not being able to get out about fingering a horse.
3 stallion could not have possibly been the founders of the breed. i suspect there were mares of various breeds involved until there were enough thoroughbred mares to be bred by t'bred stallions.
That is not true about the banana skins, actually the banana was a hugely popular food in new York (not sure about time periods) so there were huge amounts of banana skins around on the streets, so the papers made up that throwing banana skins would likely result in broken limbs and they said a women slipped on one and died, so people would stop throwing them in the streets when finished eating them, it later then became a well known thing in comedy.
The idea that something is made to be illegal before it has happened isn't that crazy. Say someone in another country came up with a loophole allowing them to kill someone; would we really wait for it to happen to us before we made it against the law? Besides there are quite a few good reasons why the remote hunting should in fact be illegal
Misrepresentation of the hunting technique. Plains Indians preserved and dried the meat. The hides were used for clothing, dwellings and other things. The bones were used as tools/utensiles and such. And the number of beasts roaming the plains were a result of land management. The indians expanded the plains but felling trees and burning the terrain which allowed the grasses and even flowers to grow in place of the trees. The trees block out the necessary sunlight for certain plants to grow. This type of forest-grassland management is still used in places like Japan.
Hilarious to hear Brits talking about running away from a bear. Running triggers predator response. Bears are much faster than people. Black bears stalk with fixed gaze: fight for your life. Grizzly bears will challenge charge: staying still avoids triggering predatory attack. Lack of experience, lack of video research. But this was recorded years ago.
It sounds like there are a couple of audio cuts in that part, so it's anyone's guess what Stephen _actually_ said (or what he _meant_ to say, which is often not the same). My best guess is that he either meant to say that real horses have a sustained output around 494 watts (approximately 2/3rds of 1hp) or that one hp is defined as 735 ~ 746 watts (it varies between different industries).
Valentine Gonsalves - The alternative, of course, is that QI is very often wrong. But that's simply inconceivable. If Stephen Fry says something that doesn't match reality, then reality must change!
You're clearly not looking in the right places for your video games. There's plenty out there if you're willing to look a bit. :-) Although I do agree that the mega-hyped games these days have astonishingly little focus on the actual writing and story, which is sad. Completely with you on that one.
@@marcoboscarol2420 Thanks, but I still don't understand, tried looking it up, found nothing. Does it just mean like big time mainstream stuff, that is highly advertised, talked about and hyped?
@@DerEchteBold Its literally a call for attention, for anything, a new product, danger and so on. Usually is three big red AAA with an explanation under them. Its a little difficult that you have not seen it at least once
Can someone recommand me some quality British shows as this one please ? I'm french and I don't know many british shows ;p I will be really grateful if someone could help me
+Nawelle Benarab If you want witty panel shows, Have I Got News for You is good! If you want comedy featuring Stephen Fry, Blackadder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie are good. If you want drama featuring Alan Davies, Jonathan Creek is good.
+Nawelle Benarab For additional British panel show goodness, also check out Would I Lie To You? and Was It Something I Said? and 8 Out of 10 Cats (I also like their "Does Countdown" side series).
Nawelle Benarab No problem at all! I hope you'll enjoy them. (If you think of it, do let us know, I would be happy to hear. And if you didn't like them, then perhaps we will have more/other suggestions for you.)
I know this is super old, but at 22:40 Stephen talks about smallpox blankets being distributed to indians, and IF this happened, it happened on an extremely limited basis, as in, there is like one example of someone talking about in in a letter and it may or may not have actually even happened then iirc.
It is a reality. It was commonly used in North America, especially in Canada when the French and British enlisted Native Americans to fight. Biological warfare is nothing new. It was also used by the Roman and Byzantium empires to expedite siege situations and normally used Smallpox ,although Anthrax and Typhus were very effective also. Infected cloth was the usual vector of infection.
@@calumdunn2025 " It was commonly used in North America" Basically every source that has said this has been debunked. Smallpox was spread 99.99% accidentally, there MAY have been ONE single proven instance where a colonel TALKED about doing it on purpose, but it isnt even proven that it actually went through.
Gingering a horse makes the horse appear "frisky" because the poor beast is dancing around in pain trying to get the ginger OUT! It BURNS! Some idiot is going to try it now, and make some poor beast suffer. Honestly, this show is so irresponsible.
Run downhill from black bears because their claws are curved and they can't do it quickly. Climb a tree with a grizzly because their claws are straight and they can't climb. If you're ever in the States, it really wouldn't take much of a refresher to know which to do because they live on opposite sides of the country.
Grizzlies can climb trees. Both species of bears have curved claws, with the brown bears being much larger. Grizzlies can outrun a horse in a sprint both up and downhill. Black bears can be found in Grizzly country. Lower 48 black bears seldom attack people but Alaskan black bears are very aggressive toward people and do kill. If you are in bear country, make noise, carry bear spray and it's smart to be armed with something large enough to stop a bear if needed. No need to remember which way to run because running just gets you attacked.
Europeans did not intentionally spread smallpox, ironically the reason why it was able to spread so quickly is that North American natives used to be much more densely populated.
Horses can't vomit? Pretty sure a 30 year old mare vomited on my hands last year, the slimy grassy mess didn't appear from nowhere... "Feed her an apple" the farmer said. "It'll be fun"... Not my kind of fun tbh.
If she was old she probably chewed up the food and let it dribble out. Horses can't vomit and can die of what for other animals would be a simple stomach ache.
They weren't. They originally came over with the Spanish and some escaped, over time feral herds grew and they've now been living wild for hundreds of years but strictly speaking they aren't native to the Americas
Nice Whitesplaining/victim blaming about Native American hunting practices. For the second or third time, I have seen Steven try to gloss over things he didn't think were true or didn't want to believe were true. Anyone who knows about this in detail knows this is how the Neolithic hunters hunted Mammoths 10-13 thousand years ago, and maybe a handful of tribes still used it 500 years ago. They were stalking the herds on foot and ambushing arrows and spears.
Your information on the buffalo jump is fictional. Every part of the animal was harvested. It was the settlers who killed the buffalo, not the indigenous people.
I ADORE QI but the total lack of any knowledge of any Indigenous American history is terrifying to me. I cannot believe colonial history is so urgently overlooked in England...
I think a slanted view of other countries (or even people's own) history is by no means only a British phenomenon. History is as they say written by the victors and it is common for countries to exaggerate their own victories and play down (even ignore) their defeats or what nowadays would be seen as unpopular/unethical acts..
They didn't explain _why_ "Western" shows are no longer as dominant. They were crushed almost entirely by _one movie._ Blazing Saddles lampooned the ridiculousness (and casual racism) of old Westerns so successfully that they all died within a couple years.
sorry I have to nitpick here and I know it's 5 years on but there is no such thing as a white horse. They are either grey or albino which is a complete lack of pigment in either a person or animal,
I thought for many years that this was true but apparently white (not albino) horses do exist but are very rare. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_horse I am not sure however whether they were referring to this on the programme or to the fact that there is a subtle difference between the questions: What colour is this horse? And: What colour do we call this horse?
So. If some cultures of First People moved around Turtle lsland and killed by cliff fall, surely vulture and other carrion/carnivore also benefitted? You forgot that they moved as Predators...8...and many other predatory and carrion species would migrate on the same route.....there wasnt a great heap of wastefull kill....there was gluttony for many species......intentional or not.
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An excellent episode! I loved Clare Balding's contributions, Stephen Fry yet again added a lot of interesting bonus info, and the comedy was great - Jimmy Carr and Dara Ó Briain are a safe bet.
I’m glad that so many editions of QI are in RUclips. The bad amateurs who run (down) the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are in the habit of bleeping out those words that they consider to be unfit for the ears of their audience, so nowadays I avoid the ABC’s broadcasts of QI.
You Aussies are a delicate mob 🤣
I've never heard more uses of the word "cunt" than I did during my three month stay in Melbourne.
Honest to god I have seen a random man in the street genuinely slip and fall over a discarded banana-peel. It was probably the greatest thing I've seen in my life.
Peter Timowreef Someone defined comedy as a man carefully stepping over a banana-skin … and falling down a manhole.
You don't get out much, do you?
You are just nasty. You find pleasure in someone's pain?
@@tselengbotlhole750 yes, and I also find great pleasure in your stupidity. Say something dumb again, will you?
@@simonvanderheijden432 You've never seen a man slip on a banana peel in real life, have you?
Thanks for posting. You are the reason I have moments of happiness with QI. :)
Thanks for uploading these. I couldn't find series H anywhere until recently and I'm extremely grateful to you.
There was an old guy in my village when I was growing up who'd trained his horse to wait for him outside the pub, so when he staggered out blind drunk, he could slump onto its back and it would walk him home and dump him in the hedge by his back door, even if he was actually asleep whilst on its back.
Vincent
Don't know if that story is true or not, but I guess it could be. I've fallen asleep while riding a motorcycle and a snowmobile as a passenger. Didn't fall of from either one, so a horse is believable :)
@Vincent Roche
Nah, I don't have narcolepsy. Just had had a long day on both occasions
"As a passenger" applies to both of them.
true winghorse.
I believe that. We don't credit subconscious enough.
Just learned that Claire Balding's domestic partner, Alice Arnold, used to be in a relationship with Sandi Toksvig. It might make for some awkward banter if they were on an episode of QI together.
certainly seems to have a 'type'...
@@RIXRADvidz Aryan type?
how would you know that?
I went out with a friends ex. It was my friend that set us up.
Or maybe they're mature adults and can be civil and friendly to each other.
QI, the series that makes me more interesting everyday by learning random facts
so naming horses is like signing up for an online gaming account and the name you want is taken so you have to make it more and more stupid.
+theAngryscotman I read somewhere that there was a horse named Potoooooooo because its owner named it Potato but his secretary thought he was saying "pot-eight-o" and wrote that down :D
Jane Xemylixa That is wonderful
Luckily it's only the thoroughbreds that rule applies to. The rest of us are allowed to name our horses what we want. Though there are some variety within the particular breeds. Usually we have to use the same initial as the sire to our horses. But if your horse is of no particular breed, you can call them whatever you like.
@@theAngryscotman is your name a more stupid one or a descriptive one?
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13:22 "So, apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation roads, fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Guide dogs.
I quite like having none comedians on the panel, they usually give sincere and intelligent answers, something for the other panelists to play off and something interesting to learn.
Perhaps an episode with all non-comedians as an experiement? Clare Balding, Rev Richard Coles, and Prof Brian Cox ... well, maybe not.
Ms Balding is not a nun.
i love this show man!
Jimmy Carr doesn't look right without a suit jacket...
Bears make barking and woofing sounds when they are stressed and showing confrontational behaviour at the very least - so they do make vocalizations.
When people ask “ does a bear shit in the woods ?” I say” no, in the middle of the trail”
I can confirm that banana peels are indeed very slippery.
Without putting my glasses on, the flowers on Allan's shirt looked just like Pinkie Pie. I was disappointed by this after seeing other panelists wearing Naruto t-shirts and whatnot :(
On a somewhat less trivial note: Thank you for uploading this episode! I don't know how I ever got out of bed when there wasn't QI to watch for breakfast :D
Leinad Namkcew And a meaningless insult to you too, mr :D
It does look a bit like Pinkie. :)
"for thousands of years" kinda tells you that even though it seems wasteful to hunt bison that way, it was sustainable if there were still plenty of bison there.
It was only sustainable because native american populations where so low. It was still terribly inefficient.
MAVERICK, best western tv show. Drop dead gorgeous, James Garner.💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
Dara is freaking hilarious! I totally lost it when he mentioned video games and getting stuck in a wall.
I thought we were done with diarrhoea?
"Nothing belongs to me, everything belongs to the BBC"
The almighty British Broadcasting Corporation.
And not just this show, literally EVERYTHING, they're like the New World Order! :)
The Belongings Behemoth Conglomerate.
Big Booty Company
***** So if you spend ten years of your life doing research to write a book and a guy with a printing press offers to publish it and give you 90% of the profits, while someone else copies it without your permission and keeps 100% of the profits for himself (or uses the information in it for his own good, without compensating you for your research), the first one (that recognised that the information in the book is _your_ intellectual property, and a product of _your_ hard work) is the one "abusing" you...?
Methinks someone is trying very hard to justify his own visits to the Pirate Bay (and failing at basic epistemological arguments).
Oh, and only truly insecure people vote on their own posts (yes, we can all see it was you).
RFC3514 Then, in essence, your only incentive for creating knowledge is fame and glory.
Try and think of knowledge not as something quantifiable, but a metaphysical state, that we, as a human race, can share - for the better of everyone. It is what Gadamer named conjunction of horizons.
I totally agree with Dara regarding moving house to accommodate a child's hobby 😊
27:02 "... they _bearly_ growl." Exactly.
That thing about exciting horses with ginger struck me as quite interesting, but then why is it called "gingerly" when it could be argued that that's quite the opposite?
Just a thought that popped into my head.
Because you've got to get your gingery hand up the horse's arse very stealthily.
Eddie Izzard has really stepped up his game here.
You made me chuckle. Genuinely.
Stephen is particularly well dressed in this episode.
That's a fox hunting costume.
I thought he borrowed that outfit from Sandi Toksvig
No mention of Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump?
Blue Peter first became involved with The Guide Dogs for the blind association in 1964. The target for that years Christmas appeal was for 3 tons of silver paper and foil, enough to buy one guide dog. The result was 7 and half tons of silver paper and foil, enough to by two guide dogs (Honey and Cindy) with some money left over to help maintain a third dog.
It’s unsettling to hear any reference to Alan’s dad after you’ve read Alan’s autobiography.
"Everyone in those times knew the banana peel was a reference to horse manure..." - My old teacher said she had read such a gag in a book then - but she hadn´t known what banana is.
Very interesting indeed
3 comedians and a game show contestant
31:49 that was exactly what i was thinking!!
Ah yes, the ABC... the Alan Broadcasting Company
Clare: I want the Blsck Beauty music st my funeral.
Alan: I'll arrange it 🤣
Penis Sausage man was a bit cranky at times 😂
i live in Canada , and we have a saying that in black bear country you carry pepper spray and wear bells , and their scat has berry's and fruit in it , in grizzly country their scat smells like pepper and has bells in it ,,, strange isnt it ? but on a serious note we have found that the insulation in Coleman coolers is what the bear truly love its like a honey wafer to them so when they rip open your car and smash all your stuff they really are after the cooler not whats in it just the insulation .
That top lip trick works on wildebeest too, I've seen clips where wild dogs will grab the top lip and the wildebeest just freezes and that makes it easy for the other dogs to come and kill it... not sure when such a response could ever be a benefit in nature.
Who Gnu?
@@prickyX Haha
Dagnabbit, thought this was a Red Dead Redemption 2 instructional. ;)
Have a friends uncle how tripped on a banana peal, had to ambutate his leg....
I felt so ashamed when I laughed the first time...
Did the wife banana split?
But the second time you laughed the shame was gone, is that what you’re saying?
Dara ERRRRRRbrien
Using horses in trench warfare: completely okay
Blind person owning dog: animal abuse
Regarding the 'internet hunting', legislating against it without it existing makes a lot of sense.
There is no technical reason this couldn't be built, but it would be a proper arse to ensure the necessary animal welfare that hunters actually tend to care deeply about.
Some guy plans to start offering it, so they ban it ahead of time. Stephen frames it as absurd, but it would be significantly harder to ban if they have to take some guy who already had a business to court, rather than just hammering it through the state assembly. And while the effort to stop him was under way, some 17 year old with a spoofed identity would have been firing a rifle at an animal from his moms basement.
What was the quote at the end of this episode?
"If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle." - Rita Mae Brown
Thank you!
ehhhhhhhh watching from the future and hearing alan talk about his dad..........
Jimmy isn't joking around in this episode
Wait, wait, wait! There weren't any horses in NA before Europeans brought them over? Whoa.
True. They're not indigenous.
I thought it was the Spanish.
When horses died back in on 19th century London streets were there not knackermen to process the dead horses?
I beg to differ Mr. Fry. Piranhas are dangerous. Port of Obidos, Brazil 1981
a friend of a friend of mine had/has a piranha and it would eat any other fish he put in there but when(like a dumbass) I put my hand in there he swam away scared
Richard Laning Red Oscars are more deadly. They're out of the gate aggressive with nothing to stimulate such behavior. I remember being harassed by them as a small child. lunge at your face they would.
Not aggressive?
I have had the opportunity to pet some falabella horses and I can tell you, as soon as you stick out your hand to pet them they launch at you to bite your hands off.
And they kick really bad.
I think there has been quite a lot of preparation by some of the contestants here. So!me of the answers may have been given. When Balding said "ginger" out of the blue and hey presto! It's the correct answer. Some "guess" that was. It was a bad idea to have her on the show.
I thought she did very well. She is not a comedian but she made people laugh and knew how to pitch it. I think ginger is something she had probably heard somewhere and was there in the subconscious. I didn't know the answer until she said it when I knew she was right. And I then vaguely remembered having heard it when I worked in a stables.
“Gingering up” horses is a well-known practice. It’s not at all surprising that someone who grew up with horses would have heard of it. But the fact that she knew something that you didn’t is threatening enough to you that she doesn’t deserve to be on the show? Kind of pathetic.
20:08 Is this where figging came from?
Canadian here; with all bears, except Polar, you are best to stand your ground and assume a body posture to present the largest visual profile to the bear. Scream, thrash branches against the ground....it's not about scaring the bear off, more about confounding them. Bears are rather intelligent. When met with your erratic behaviour they become flummoxed, and flee.
If met with a grizzly you might be better off climbing a tree.
Polar bears are the largest living land carnivores; with adult males topping 700 kg, they're not to be trifled with.
In fact, Churchill, Manitoba residents leave their parked cars unlocked so anyone under threat of a Polar bear attack has a safe space to retreat to.
@jasonarthurs3885
Thanks for that valuable information.
If
I say
If
I'm ever mad enough to go the freezer of the planet I'll try & remember how not to get eaten😉😏😄
Of course Americans can’t just call them guide dogs like normal people 😂
Haha
Horse dung. Priceless
Clare Balding looks like Dara with a wig
black bears have been known to attack/maim/kill humans, a hunter was killed and eaten a few years ago by a black bear, can't remember if it was in spring when they leave hibernation and feel a bit hungry or in the fall, maybe it wanted a late season meal?
Hope it enjoyed him!
the bit about Indians belies the fact that there were desperate tribes ranging from the peaceful hippy type to the warmongering to the buffalo genocidal types... it truly was diverse to the point where you need to specify which tribe when and when.
And they had wars between themselves didnt they?
@@Furnus105 My knowledge is a bit rusty but I do know that while they did fight among themselves the only known occurrences of tribal extermination was over the fur trade in the 1600's when it became increasingly obvious that the ones that held the fur trade would hold more power with their respective dutch or french allies.
Now I'm interested to know when this episode was in comparison to the Countdown episode where Rachel talks about Susie not being able to get out about fingering a horse.
3 stallion could not have possibly been the founders of the breed. i suspect there were mares of various breeds involved until there were enough thoroughbred mares to be bred by t'bred stallions.
Since when do horses have better stamina than dogs?
The horse nose clamp thing... When you watch lions take down a buffalo or wildebeest don't they also go for the snout?
We tend to say that they go for the jugular but...
That is not true about the banana skins, actually the banana was a hugely popular food in new York (not sure about time periods) so there were huge amounts of banana skins around on the streets, so the papers made up that throwing banana skins would likely result in broken limbs and they said a women slipped on one and died, so people would stop throwing them in the streets when finished eating them, it later then became a well known thing in comedy.
The idea that something is made to be illegal before it has happened isn't that crazy. Say someone in another country came up with a loophole allowing them to kill someone; would we really wait for it to happen to us before we made it against the law?
Besides there are quite a few good reasons why the remote hunting should in fact be illegal
Misrepresentation of the hunting technique. Plains Indians preserved and dried the meat. The hides were used for clothing, dwellings and other things. The bones were used as tools/utensiles and such. And the number of beasts roaming the plains were a result of land management. The indians expanded the plains but felling trees and burning the terrain which allowed the grasses and even flowers to grow in place of the trees. The trees block out the necessary sunlight for certain plants to grow. This type of forest-grassland management is still used in places like Japan.
"Guide Cats for the Blind" by Les Barker:
ruclips.net/video/KmHgEul2ZP4/видео.html
Hilarious to hear Brits talking about running away from a bear. Running triggers predator response. Bears are much faster than people. Black bears stalk with fixed gaze: fight for your life. Grizzly bears will challenge charge: staying still avoids triggering predatory attack.
Lack of experience, lack of video research. But this was recorded years ago.
40:30 ???? but 794 watts is more than 1 horsepower. the whole thing doesnt make any sense.
It sounds like there are a couple of audio cuts in that part, so it's anyone's guess what Stephen _actually_ said (or what he _meant_ to say, which is often not the same).
My best guess is that he either meant to say that real horses have a sustained output around 494 watts (approximately 2/3rds of 1hp) or that one hp is defined as 735 ~ 746 watts (it varies between different industries).
+Valentine Gonsalves thats still more than 1 horsepower.
Valentine Gonsalves
1 horsepower is about 735 watts
Valentine Gonsalves - The alternative, of course, is that QI is very often wrong. But that's simply inconceivable. If Stephen Fry says something that doesn't match reality, then reality must change!
"Badly written video game" ...any AAA game released these days
You're clearly not looking in the right places for your video games. There's plenty out there if you're willing to look a bit. :-) Although I do agree that the mega-hyped games these days have astonishingly little focus on the actual writing and story, which is sad. Completely with you on that one.
What's AAA?
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Attention x 3
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Thanks, but I still don't understand, tried looking it up, found nothing.
Does it just mean like big time mainstream stuff, that is highly advertised, talked about and hyped?
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Its literally a call for attention, for anything, a new product, danger and so on.
Usually is three big red AAA with an explanation under them. Its a little difficult that you have not seen it at least once
Can someone recommand me some quality British shows as this one please ? I'm french and I don't know many british shows ;p I will be really grateful if someone could help me
+Nawelle Benarab If you want witty panel shows, Have I Got News for You is good! If you want comedy featuring Stephen Fry, Blackadder and A Bit of Fry and Laurie are good. If you want drama featuring Alan Davies, Jonathan Creek is good.
Mellanie Black
thank you so much for your help ^^ I will watch one of these shows tomorrow thanks to you ;p
+Nawelle Benarab For additional British panel show goodness, also check out Would I Lie To You? and Was It Something I Said? and 8 Out of 10 Cats (I also like their "Does Countdown" side series).
Vincent Oostelbos
Thank you really much for your help; I will watch these shows as soon as possible, thank you for your help :p
Nawelle Benarab No problem at all! I hope you'll enjoy them. (If you think of it, do let us know, I would be happy to hear. And if you didn't like them, then perhaps we will have more/other suggestions for you.)
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I know this is super old, but at 22:40 Stephen talks about smallpox blankets being distributed to indians, and IF this happened, it happened on an extremely limited basis, as in, there is like one example of someone talking about in in a letter and it may or may not have actually even happened then iirc.
It is a reality. It was commonly used in North America, especially in Canada when the French and British enlisted Native Americans to fight. Biological warfare is nothing new. It was also used by the Roman and Byzantium empires to expedite siege situations and normally used Smallpox ,although Anthrax and Typhus were very effective also. Infected cloth was the usual vector of infection.
@@calumdunn2025 " It was commonly used in North America" Basically every source that has said this has been debunked. Smallpox was spread 99.99% accidentally, there MAY have been ONE single proven instance where a colonel TALKED about doing it on purpose, but it isnt even proven that it actually went through.
Gingering a horse makes the horse appear "frisky" because the poor beast is dancing around in pain trying to get the ginger OUT! It BURNS! Some idiot is going to try it now, and make some poor beast suffer. Honestly, this show is so irresponsible.
I think it was clear why and they certainly did not encourage it. Fry specifically pointed out that it would probably be considered 'doping'.
Run downhill from black bears because their claws are curved and they can't do it quickly. Climb a tree with a grizzly because their claws are straight and they can't climb. If you're ever in the States, it really wouldn't take much of a refresher to know which to do because they live on opposite sides of the country.
Grizzlies can climb trees. Both species of bears have curved claws, with the brown bears being much larger. Grizzlies can outrun a horse in a sprint both up and downhill. Black bears can be found in Grizzly country. Lower 48 black bears seldom attack people but Alaskan black bears are very aggressive toward people and do kill. If you are in bear country, make noise, carry bear spray and it's smart to be armed with something large enough to stop a bear if needed. No need to remember which way to run because running just gets you attacked.
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You could always give them the fingers.
Don't go to the U.S.
Europeans did not intentionally spread smallpox, ironically the reason why it was able to spread so quickly is that North American natives used to be much more densely populated.
Europeans did indeed spread it wilfully, by giving them infested covers.
How was david not on this episode?
Anybody here in 2043?
Not yet
I’m here 😊
Horses can't vomit? Pretty sure a 30 year old mare vomited on my hands last year, the slimy grassy mess didn't appear from nowhere... "Feed her an apple" the farmer said. "It'll be fun"... Not my kind of fun tbh.
If she was old she probably chewed up the food and let it dribble out. Horses can't vomit and can die of what for other animals would be a simple stomach ache.
What a waste of a great panel. Very little on this episode was QI. Even the audience seemed bored.
mustang native to amarica
the native horses were extinct in the Americas by the time man got there.
They weren't.
They originally came over with the Spanish and some escaped, over time feral herds grew and they've now been living wild for hundreds of years but strictly speaking they aren't native to the Americas
One horsepower is 735.5 W not whatever Steven said.
746 Watts
Maybe there are different horsepowers?
The woman is so posh.
Nice Whitesplaining/victim blaming about Native American hunting practices. For the second or third time, I have seen Steven try to gloss over things he didn't think were true or didn't want to believe were true. Anyone who knows about this in detail knows this is how the Neolithic hunters hunted Mammoths 10-13 thousand years ago, and maybe a handful of tribes still used it 500 years ago. They were stalking the herds on foot and ambushing arrows and spears.
Your information on the buffalo jump is fictional. Every part of the animal was harvested. It was the settlers who killed the buffalo, not the indigenous people.
I ADORE QI but the total lack of any knowledge of any Indigenous American history is terrifying to me. I cannot believe colonial history is so urgently overlooked in England...
@Agent J Yes.
@Agent J That made very little sense
I think a slanted view of other countries (or even people's own) history is by no means only a British phenomenon. History is as they say written by the victors and it is common for countries to exaggerate their own victories and play down (even ignore) their defeats or what nowadays would be seen as unpopular/unethical acts..
Conial history is overlooked everywhere… we don’t want to be fonfronted with our cruel, wilful, beastly past.
They didn't explain _why_ "Western" shows are no longer as dominant. They were crushed almost entirely by _one movie._ Blazing Saddles lampooned the ridiculousness (and casual racism) of old Westerns so successfully that they all died within a couple years.
Well done, Mel Brooks! I'm not PC,but all those Westerns were boring, and Blazing Saddles one superb film.
Claire is the expert - but Stephen won’t stop talking.
I will stop watching though.
sorry I have to nitpick here and I know it's 5 years on but there is no such thing as a white horse. They are either grey or albino which is a complete lack of pigment in either a person or animal,
I thought for many years that this was true but apparently white (not albino) horses do exist but are very rare.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_horse
I am not sure however whether they were referring to this on the programme or to the fact that there is a subtle difference between the questions:
What colour is this horse?
And:
What colour do we call this horse?
A golden opportunity missed by Alan. What is shoved up a horse's botty to make it more frisky? ... a very small bluewhale. Gees I'm funny ...
So. If some cultures of First People moved around Turtle lsland and killed by cliff fall, surely vulture and other carrion/carnivore also benefitted? You forgot that they moved as Predators...8...and many other predatory and carrion species would migrate on the same route.....there wasnt a great heap of wastefull kill....there was gluttony for many species......intentional or not.
Wow I’ve never seen Steven say so many incorrect things in a row when talking about the natives quite crazy
micheal murphy like? Genuinely curious.
Haha
Horse dung. Priceless