for WW2, yes, the original 'touch screen' was pecked at by the captive avian 'pilot' - I think it was the Germans/Kriegsmarine that were developing it for the Henschel glide & boosted bombs.
In East. Germany in 1986 they had very strange toilet paper the like of which I had never seen before. Around 2000 the same stuff turned up in British supermarkets called parchment paper, supposedly to make cakes with. There's nothing new under the sun
@@oldbatwit5102 I probably would, if I could be arsed. They've admitted a few mistakes, it would be honest and entertaining to see them make a special episode about those.
I seem to remember a segment where they touched on that, something like 80% of QI facts proven untrue within about 7 years. Edit, found it, 60% within 10 years. The half life of QI facts: ruclips.net/video/8kBD3lOax44/видео.html
Imagine if they decided to just send free, double ply, luxury toilet paper printed with friendly messages like a bunny rabbit saying "Have a nice day!"...could have won the hearts and minds of the people in a week.
Sure they did But it never turns up on archaeological digs because the Athenian spies made off with it to see what messages were inscribed on the papyrus sheets.
Submarines were first used in the USA Civil War... which predates ww1 by a considerable margin. The cold war wasn't really a war... Who researches this stuff?
Submarines were not first used in the American Civil War in the way that they became a thing in WW1 - in comparison there were a handful of Submarines built that were more or less useless. The H.L Hunley was the most successful and only submarine that sank an enemy vessel with a torpedo, that not only took out the enemy vessel but the Hunley and all it's crew as well. By contrast to WW1, the small amount of subs used in the American Civil War were manoeuvred with a crew using paddles and most of them sank. The Russo-Japanese war featured the first "fleet" of engine propelled subs at Vladivostok of about 6-7 Russian subs, but did not have any significant impact, were not good at traveling very far and did not take down any vessels. It wasn't until the creation of the U-boat from the Germans in WW1 did true submarine warfare become a thing - the impact of these U-boats was so colossal in magnitude it became almost a certainty that Germany was going to win the war, I kid you not when I say the world was almost unprepared. They were a massive problem for the British, as the U-boats were able to travel fast and far and were almost undetectable, basically circling the British Coasts and starving supplies from reaching the British. The impact it had was so dramatic that the US was more or less forced to join the war less they allowed the Germans to win and take over British Naval Resources to build more of them.
Seagulls eat sea food, breed inland a bit, flock on beaches and prefer the sea side; especially now that we hang out there and leave food around. They fish, and they like crabs too. They will take a clam up and drop in on rocks in order to have lunch. Their cries set the mood on the coast. Smart, great flyers. Lovely.
There are birds that fly out at sea for months at a time, even sleeping while flying, whereas gulls stick to the coast. I'm pretty sure gulls are still considered sea birds though.
How refreshing to hear Stephen Fry say first and second world war, insted of world war one and two, like it's some kind of silly books, and people waiting for the third to hit the shelf any day soon. 1.ww and 2.ww if you please.
Just use water. Toilet paper is not clean enough... imagine you have mud on your fingers. Do you wipe them or wash them? I'd prefer to wash them. Then wipe to remove the residual water. I don't understand why people use toilet paper to clean up after doing number two... Yucky! You can clean your hand after that in the wash basin using soap, if available.
I mean, after you've wiped the filth off your ring with your bare hands, you can wash your hands with soap and water _if available._ You know, _if you want to._ I don't see what the issue is, guys. I mean it's not like the India/Pakistan region of the world has a major issue with transmitted infections from fecal filth everywhere in the community or anything, right? You don't think your bathroom practices could have anything to do with that? No? Nothing at all?
OH MY GOD! YOU'RE PRACTICALLY A HERO! What an astounding achievement. I'm guessing the notification bell told you this channel had posted a video, and you hurriedly jumped in, adrenaline pumping, and hit the thumbs up, even before you started watching the video. Then rushed to type how you were the first. By then, 13 people had typed "First!" in the comments, but they weren't the first to watch the video, because they just sit there waiting for new videos to upload so they can type "First!" Get a life idiot.
one can nearly hear the Guy in Highcomand going : " I have a cunning Plan! "
" Stick A Tail On It And Call It A Weasel "
Missing Sean... RIP
omg, I had to look it up , RIP you beautiful b****rd :( I will miss you
Gotta love Stephen Fry
yay a comment
Clive Anderson suits this "Inspector" look lol!
And jim moir looks like a flasher
Hes a lawyer, so close enough haha
Amazing how often Alan Davies completes someone else's joke when it doesn't even need completing.
I could watch General Melchett and his guests talk about war-related oddities all day long.
Surely that's Darling at the back.
I wouldn’t Pooh Pooh that comment!
Baaaaay! Come on Darling for God's sake.
Damn you, now I'll have to go on a Melchett spree.
@@eefneleman9564 its easy, just shout, shout and shout again!
Big advantage in trench warfare being a shortarse.
Actually, only when it wasn't raining.
@@lunsmann "Snorkels ready lads!" 😀
Easier to retrieve the injured. 👍 😁
I see. Sea gulls are literally littoral birds.
Litgulls.
:grins: One Golden Pun Point to you, sir! :)
Phil Jupitus is the worst, unfunniest comedian of all time.
Barely funny, but oh boy, your pool of talent is very small if you think he's the worst.
I see Jo Brand: INSTANT DISLIKE!
Every dislike for Jo Brand is one more "joke" about how poor of a man her husband is.
The thumbnail looks like Stephen’s doing “E.L.Wisty”.
You could say British Army had shortage of Men.
Typical, always ends with poo. Lumps of it. Never fails.
Weirdest thing I've seen was 2 full goats (dead) in a suitcase.
I don't know who asked, but I want to know more?
@@JimBiddle. in the first bit about the severed limbs just reminded me of it.
It's be even stranger if the goats were alive in a suitcase.
When I worked at Heathrow I once found a human skeleton which was missing one leg..... and it had signs that it hadn't been dead all that long.
@@Crusty_Camper and? Did it make it through customs or is that legal?
should have paired up the short arses with the tall blokes and got them to fight one in front of the other like in discworld
Jonathan Livingston Seabird..
Anyone remember?
Water >>>>>>>>>>>>> toilet paper. Always will be. Lmaooo
Didn't they even make some birds actually steer torpedoes or something? Pigeon guided rockets?
Pigeon guided ship to ship missiles, trained by B F Skinner - this was mentioned in a different QI ep.
for WW2, yes, the original 'touch screen' was pecked at by the captive avian 'pilot' - I think it was the Germans/Kriegsmarine that were developing it for the Henschel glide & boosted bombs.
@@razor1uk610 It was the Americans developing it , came to nothing in the end.
In East. Germany in 1986 they had very strange toilet paper the like of which I had never seen before. Around 2000 the same stuff turned up in British supermarkets called parchment paper, supposedly to make cakes with. There's nothing new under the sun
Used to have toilet paper like that in the seventies in the UK. Brand name was Izal
I'm still hoping for a compilation of QI untruths. Sometimes they really spout nonsense.
Perhaps you might like to make a compilation of your own and post it here so we can all share your many revelations.
@@oldbatwit5102 I probably would, if I could be arsed. They've admitted a few mistakes, it would be honest and entertaining to see them make a special episode about those.
@@leftrightandcentre833 I'd watch that.
I seem to remember a segment where they touched on that, something like 80% of QI facts proven untrue within about 7 years.
Edit, found it, 60% within 10 years. The half life of QI facts: ruclips.net/video/8kBD3lOax44/видео.html
@@northernric81 Thank you.
How funny! NOT! Disrespectful.
There is an advantage to being a small soldier. It is more difficult for a sniper to shoot you.
This brigade is a small brigade and that brigade is far away...
You're also likely to be less physically strong. Can't carry as much or walk as far carrying as much which is more important.
The sniper in question: "Ahhh, a challenge!"
Can you please make the next video's volume lower? Its SooOooOoOoOOooOOo loud
that seagull war idea is reminiscent of trained sharks from a certain movie vilain.
I do hope not too many whales came a cropper due to use of gulls for submarine detection!
The thumbnail looked like dara o'brein dressed up as Stephen fry.
Imagine if they decided to just send free, double ply, luxury toilet paper printed with friendly messages like a bunny rabbit saying "Have a nice day!"...could have won the hearts and minds of the people in a week.
Seagulls and the war = Vought seaplanes
❤😂👍
The Spartans never used toilet paper!
Sure they did
But it never turns up on archaeological digs because the Athenian spies made off with it to see what messages were inscribed on the papyrus sheets.
@@babboon5764 nope, no paper yet. It would have been toilet papyrus.
@@stephenbarrett8861 As explanations go, its thin.
But it might just paper over the cracks?
Correct. They used captured Athenians or Thracians. Small ones on a stick. Shity, smelly work, but at least it was regular.
Submarines were first used in the USA Civil War... which predates ww1 by a considerable margin.
The cold war wasn't really a war...
Who researches this stuff?
Submarines were not first used in the American Civil War in the way that they became a thing in WW1 - in comparison there were a handful of Submarines built that were more or less useless. The H.L Hunley was the most successful and only submarine that sank an enemy vessel with a torpedo, that not only took out the enemy vessel but the Hunley and all it's crew as well. By contrast to WW1, the small amount of subs used in the American Civil War were manoeuvred with a crew using paddles and most of them sank.
The Russo-Japanese war featured the first "fleet" of engine propelled subs at Vladivostok of about 6-7 Russian subs, but did not have any significant impact, were not good at traveling very far and did not take down any vessels.
It wasn't until the creation of the U-boat from the Germans in WW1 did true submarine warfare become a thing - the impact of these U-boats was so colossal in magnitude it became almost a certainty that Germany was going to win the war, I kid you not when I say the world was almost unprepared. They were a massive problem for the British, as the U-boats were able to travel fast and far and were almost undetectable, basically circling the British Coasts and starving supplies from reaching the British. The impact it had was so dramatic that the US was more or less forced to join the war less they allowed the Germans to win and take over British Naval Resources to build more of them.
Is that "and I'm a PC" at 5:00
The American version of it, yes
Seagulls eat sea food, breed inland a bit, flock on beaches and prefer the sea side; especially now that we hang out there and leave food around. They fish, and they like crabs too. They will take a clam up and drop in on rocks in order to have lunch. Their cries set the mood on the coast. Smart, great flyers. Lovely.
And if people don’t leave enough food, the gulls will just take it from their hands.
Fecking nightmare for chihuahuas though …
They are pretty fond of landfill sites too.
The cries set your mood too if you have to keep hearing them all day.
And, most importantly, they've got adorable knobbly knees.
What did we do before toilet paper ?
Hay, leaves, sticks, or whatever you see fit. But civilized people now use a bidet. Highly superior.
Toothbrush
If a gull is not a sea bird there are no sea birds, I mean it's not like any of them nest at sea.. (they are of course sea birds).
There are birds that fly out at sea for months at a time, even sleeping while flying, whereas gulls stick to the coast. I'm pretty sure gulls are still considered sea birds though.
Lol ... penguins, puffins, albatrosses etc are real sea birds... as they spend considerable time at sea. Unlike seagulls.
@@rahowherox1177 Lol...
Great Man at Work...
Stephen Fry..
How refreshing to hear Stephen Fry say first and second world war, insted of world war one and two, like it's some kind of silly books, and people waiting for the third to hit the shelf any day soon. 1.ww and 2.ww if you please.
What a strange thing to get hung up on
That didn't age quite so well
Minehead Skegness bognor regis
Billy Butlin built his First holiday camp in Ingoldmells, NOT Skegness.
@@G1ZQCArtwork But those 3 are all that remain. And in the classiest of places.
@@aaaatttt101 There is NO Butlins holiday camp in Skegness. Never has been, it is in Ingoldmells, North of the border.
@@G1ZQCArtwork Bit pedantic. Still addressed under Skegness. walking distance.
@@aaaatttt101 No, its over the border in INGOLDMELLS. It is clearly NOT in Skegness.
Just use water. Toilet paper is not clean enough...
imagine you have mud on your fingers. Do you wipe them or wash them? I'd prefer to wash them. Then wipe to remove the residual water.
I don't understand why people use toilet paper to clean up after doing number two... Yucky!
You can clean your hand after that in the wash basin using soap, if available.
Clatty b'stard!
I mean, after you've wiped the filth off your ring with your bare hands, you can wash your hands with soap and water _if available._ You know, _if you want to._ I don't see what the issue is, guys.
I mean it's not like the India/Pakistan region of the world has a major issue with transmitted infections from fecal filth everywhere in the community or anything, right? You don't think your bathroom practices could have anything to do with that? No? Nothing at all?
Hard to believe we won the war sometimes 🤣
You had some help, didn't you?
We didn't :'(
@@martintaper7997 YES a lot the rest of the british empire,usa,ussr to name a few
@@offensivediscourse8514 My country helped your country; my family sacrificed their lives for your country!!!
@@martintaper7997 your family FOUGHT my family. You ruined everything...
Surely, a submarine could just wash its periscope clean, oh I don't know, in the ocean?
So this channel Isn't official channel of family fued 🤯!??
*Feud
I highly doubt you finished basic education, let alone obtain a doctorate.
They had a childrens uniform department for te short guys .
Second
first loser!
@@lfo414 second loser
first 👍's up
well done. have a sweetie
OH MY GOD! YOU'RE PRACTICALLY A HERO! What an astounding achievement. I'm guessing the notification bell told you this channel had posted a video, and you hurriedly jumped in, adrenaline pumping, and hit the thumbs up, even before you started watching the video. Then rushed to type how you were the first. By then, 13 people had typed "First!" in the comments, but they weren't the first to watch the video, because they just sit there waiting for new videos to upload so they can type "First!" Get a life idiot.