QI | How Did Captain Scott Keep His Lads Entertained?
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- Опубликовано: 16 янв 2017
- 18 January: On this day in in 1912, Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole.
From QI Series I, Episode 16 - 'Ice'
With Brian Blessed, Sean Lock, Ross Noble
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It's such a pleasure to listen to Brian Blessed speak.
You mean BRIAN BLESSED!
Such blessed words
SCRRRAAAMMMMMBBBBLLLEEEDDDDD
he's a great actor, but it's kinda painful watching him try to be funny. he hinges his whole act on IM BRIAN BLESSED AND IM LOUD
it is and he was in the Flash Gordon movie so intelligent and movie star to boot
"I am just going outside and may be some time."
Captain Lawrence Oates - died at age 31 in 1912 in Antarctica.
One of the greatest quotes ever recorded - humbling every time.
How do we know as Rimmmer speculated in Red Dwarf "Captain Oates was a prat! If that'd been me, I'd've stayed in the tent, whacked Scott over the head with a frozen husky, and then eaten him." Before adding: "How do we know that Oates went out for this legendary walk? From the only surviving document: Scott's diary. And he's hardly likely to have written down, "February the First, bludgeoned Oates to death while he slept, then scoffed him along with the last packet of instant mash." How's that going to look when he gets rescued, eh? No, much better to say, "Oates made the supreme sacrifice", while you're dabbing up his gravy with the last piece of crusty bread"
Steven and Brian. What an incredible combo.
This is the quietest Brian Blessed has ever been in his life.
I never realised how much Brian Blessed sounds like Patrick Stewart until I listened to this clip while browsing in another tab.
And on that note, I would love to see Patrick Stewart on QI.
It isn't quite so surprising when you consider they're both from Yorkshire and started their careers at a time when actors were intensively coached to hide their regional accents.
@@gwishart Quite interesting!
Actually, Patrick Stewart is younger so it's the other way around.
They knew each other as younglings
And they went to same acting school on scholarship
Amundsen was lucky, eh? He had something to say about luck:
"I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck."
Exactly. People forget that, for example, Amundsen brought snow-dogs to the Antarctic, whereas Scott brought horses. Little details like this were destined to cost the British the race.
That is one of the lessons which Amundsen and co learned from living among the Inuit in Canada - it's the kind of survival philosophy which Ray Mears is an example of today.
That's not to say that Scott didn't know what he was doing.
Agreed and Amundsen had done his homework. But he was lucky in the regard that he took a route that could have easily ended in a cul-de-sac. So he was lucky in that regard.
Brian Blessed is a great character but once again he trots out the old gripe by the Brits that Amundsen was lucky and that he was responsible for Scott's death because Scott was devastated with disappointment. Amundsen was very well prepared and a perfect example of the definition of luck being preparation meeting opportunity. Blessed also got it wrong by mentioning Amundsen's wife-he never married. I love QI but when a guest asserts an incorrect "fact" so convincingly I then doubt everything that they say.
@@Raveityourway Why do so many people think Scott didn't have dogs? Scott's expedition had multiple dog teams, as well as the ponies, and additionally had several tracked vehicles powered by petrol engines.
British reaction when dying of starvation and hypothermia: can't complain, really
Mustn't grumble
they were made of sterner stuff that's for sure
“Bit chilly innit”
Which is funny cos British people moan and moan then when it comes to the end “we fucked up. Can’t complain.”
Still, at least it wasn't raining.
I want both Brian Blessed and Stephen Fry to narrate my life. It would make things so much more interesting
Nowadays in Antarctica they watch The Thing (1982 version). I find that hilarious and awesome at the same time.
Really?!? I didnt know that, thats awesome!
@@kaistzar2831 It's a tradition for the researchers at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Even better, they watch the movie after the last flight out has left for the winter.
they should be watching hamlet, the undecuated folk!
Surely the greatest horror/action movie ever made
@@SenMysrana Oh that is so cool! What a fantastic little bit of knowledge that is to know!
Strangely Burke and Wills who mapped (kind of ) a path to northern Australia also took a grand piano with them.
R.I.P Sean Lock❤️
I’m loving the scarfs
Roald Amundsen disappeared in a plane over the arctic. So it's Amundsen of the Arctic then
Brian is the perfect person to play Argilac the Arrogant or Ormund Baratheon The Laughing Storm
When he asked the question, I immediately thought of the man playing the bagpipes for the Penguin, but that was in Antarctica.
Scott of the Antarctic was in Antarctica. So it's the same place.
I thought Captain Oates' last words were "The cold never bothered me anyway!"
Or have I got that very wrong? 😁
Isn't that a line from Frozen?
The story about almundson’s wife telling him that Scott died isn’t true as Roald Almundson never married and was a bit of a loner. Even after a bit of time the men on his exposition came to dislike him. A great story but false.
Might have been an adjunct or assistant, then. Private secretary, who in the retelling eventually morphed into a fictitious wife.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn
*Amundsen.
As I have heard before, 'don't let the truth get in the way of a good yarn.'
@@WilliamJohnson-ml7ij the motto of the daily mail and fox news I believe?
My favourite 4!
Hammond Organ...LOL. Underappreciated.
“For God’s sake, look after our people.”
Better men from a better time. R. I. P.
scott is dead.... but GORDEN'S ALIVE!
Times when honour, courage, self sacrifice and modesty were the norm.
Brian looks like he'd rather be flying a spaceship to Mars or wrestling a Bear in the forest...
The latter i think
He'd done one of those, I think. Don't remember which.
There's a good chance Oates didn't intend to die.
LoneKharnivore ITS AN ALL MAN CAST SOMEONE CALL THE GUARDIAN
@@FloozyMcDoozy694 ... evidence?
The really need sad outro QI music for these clips for which a bouncy jingle would be less appropriate.
Keep*
BubbleManStudios did :)
Nigel Blackwell Oh yeah. Heavens QI, a double whammy.
BubbleManStudios poop happens. Maybe they uploaded via mobile. Always rewrites my text. :D
Did he manhaule the Piano to the South Pole?
They couldn't afford an actual Burberry scarf for the guy on the far right?
Sean ya mean?
Brian Blessed trots out the old story that Amundsen was "lucky". He wasn't, he had planned and was prepared. He pioneered a new route while Scott was covering ground that had already been crossed by Shackleton. Also Amundsen never married so he couldn't have found out about Scott's death from that source. He was in Wisconsin lecturing. A journalist reported that he "looked like the picture of grief and strove to conceal his emotions." It's always frustrating to hear people like Brian Blessed stating falsehoods so confidently that they are accepted as facts and equally frustrating to see that Stephen Fry seems to be accepting his story. I would never again trust anything that Brian Blessed confidently asserts.
I learned about the antarctic expeditions in my class about leadership, and learned that Scott was such a shit leader and stuck so rigidly to the british navy's idea of chain of command that he essentially ruined his expeditions because he would not take advice from anyone else, and made a bunch of horrible executive decisions because of it. Amundsen was a fairly strong leader, but he was no less an ass than Scott, and at one point almost abandoned his crew because they couldn't keep up.
They were both ruthless in their own way. As you say Scott was a navy man who couldn't work outside the rigidity of navy rules and regulations. Amundsen did not stand for any criticism which was why he cut Johanssen from the polar party. I've only recently read in "1912 The Year The World Discovered Antarctica" that he nearly did the same to one of the other guys who was crucial to the expedition, Bjaaland. Another member of the expedition said "That's OK by me but things can be said in several ways. Mr A. always chooses the nastiest and most haughty one". The same guy also said " ...in the last few days he has actually initiated quarrels...". Despite that I prefer Amundsen to Scott.
@@petermortimer6303 Yeah, Amundsen was not an easy man to work with. He's hailed as a great hero here in Norway, but they never talk about his methods.
@@TwinrehzLike many famous people he was a complex character and it's hard to come to terms with the idea that those we admire are not perfect.
I can imagine that he wouldn't have been popular in Norway when he carried out the deception to go to the South Pole instead of the Arctic. I can't figure out how he got away with it. His list of achievements is impressive, the Belgica expedition, the North West Passage, first to the South Pole, first to the North and South Poles, in the expedition that was the first verified to reach the North Pole. Scott never really discovered anything.
buncha saps
You know, when you write a massive paragraph like that, in response to two words, you never really come out on top.
it was a joke mate
Burn The Town Where I Was Born so much autism, did your hear a whoosh when the joke went over your head ? Top yourself.
@@paul-mw6pc No it wasn't.
@@malahammer yes