CLASSIC QI REACTION Series P Ep 16 XL - Post (Susan Calman, Holly Walsh, Matt Lucas)
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
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Hope you enjoy my first reaction to Episode 16 XL of QI (Series P) starring Sandi Toksvig and Alan Davies, guest starring Susan Calman, Holly Walsh and Matt Lucas!
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I know peoples favourites are usually, Phil Jupitus, Bill Baily, Sean Lock or Jimmy Car. The four I love abundantly, especially the first two. But someone I dont see nearly enough love for in this show is Susan. Susan Calman in this show is just amazing, in every one of her appearances. She was on one of the recent episodes of the show, series T from december. Shes just amazing. Susan Calman appreciation post. Also Matt Lucas in this episode is amazing.
The Susan Calman/Sandi Toksvig chemistry of Sandi's run of The News Quiz was absolutely spectacular, she's a real treasure
I use w3w for shipping.
It's an absolute game changer for emergency services. When a guy in a town I know broke his back in a forest, the paramedics knew where he was within a 3m square.
Yeah, my brain's failing to recall the details but some years ago a man was taken sick in Griffith Park in LA and an ambulance was summoned to his location using w3w and saved his life. I love it to bits, myself. It's not likely to replace traditional street addresses where those are reliable but there's much more of the planet where street addresses are not reliable.
@karlmortoniv2951 Hong Kong 🇭🇰 still doesn't have postcodes, so it can help there. There is nothing worse than being in Causeway Bay and finding out you have to go across the bay to Kowloon because 2 addresses were near identical, and a gwei-lo like me couldn't spot the difference :/
Yes What3Words is great. A large number of car manufacturers such as Jaguar, Mercedes, Mitsubishi have now built it to the GPS in their cars. You just have to say the three words and the car will take you to with 3 metres of where you want to go. U.K. emergency services are beginning to use it, as are delivery companies. The problem with post codes in the U.K. is that they are not always geographically accurate. I gather it is worse in the States and Canada. It is also the reason why Ireland over using a unique code for every house, building.
I'm not fond of What3Words because it's a proprietary system encoding your information within a secret database. It is clever, though.
Ireland has a pattern of one-off houses in the countryside, and even in urban areas not all streets are numbered, so many houses have the same address. That was the rationale for the completely unique postcode system (named eircode). The first three characters define the broad area; the final four characters are unique and random, with no pattern. My next-door neighbour's code is unrelated to mine. This means that new development won't interfere with the pattern, as there is no pattern. Even apartments in the same building have unrelated codes.
We still have several government buildings here in Prague with pneumatic tubes installed, the world's last preserved pneumatic post system. And I know about at least one commercial bank here still using pneumatic tubes for cash withdrawal to keep and preserve the history of their historic building with this unique system.
When I was growing up pneumatic tubes were the way drive-thru banking happened. ATMs made that go away, pretty much, but one sees it occasionally.
@@karlmortoniv2951 There are still grocery stores here in London Ont that still use them to send cash/coupons to the offices in the back! Thanks to QI, I gave the cashier a bit of a backstory to their use!
Regarding Susan Calman: have you come across her travel documentary series "Secret Scotland"? She's such a joy in that.
No raised eyebrow at the phrase "Camberwell carrot" . It's a reference from the film Withnail and I which is a much loved film and worth watching.
Seconded. Grabbed and reinforced.
Musical tip, the symphonic metal band Nightwish song Shoemaker is a tribute to Eugene Shoemaker and his resting place on the moon. Gorgeous song.
By the by, audience call has gone out for Series U this week, Neil. This was one of those episodes where I was wondering which it was but 2 minutes in it's all come back to me. Agree with you and Sandi on merpeople.
The usefulness of the what3words system goes way beyond post and freight services. Think of it this way… postal addresses are only created for places where people live or where there are businesses but if you need emergency assistance or breakdown assistance a system where every location on earth, not just inhabited locations, has its own unique identifier is a massive benefit. It’s why since this show aired lots of organisations and emergency services have started to use this system.
Bottomfeeder fish don't have horizontal tails, they just swim on their sides and evolution moved their "bottom" eye to the top
Almost all British post boxes are pillar boxes. There’s a few of a different design in more rural areas- basically a small box raised on a stick. There’s also a different design for franked mail only boxes.
There are some that are built into walls too.
Are the post boxes that are red and metal and painted like pillar boxes but are a little shorter, wider, and have two slots (one on the left and one on the right) still considered pillar boxes? 95% of the post boxes I saw while wandering around London were as I described rather than the more traditional pillar box with a single slot.
Totally tubular coffin my dude! just popped into my head after the musings at the end 😅
'bogart' is indeed coined after Humphrey as he was never seen without a cigarette.
If you are interested in murder mysteries, Susan had a show where two contestants tried to figure out "who did it" based on clues given in filmed reenactments (I say reenactments, but it's fictional)
Yes. In Ireland every address has its own postcode. Very handy for finding people in remote cottages in the middle of nowhere.
Surely the Egyptians invented queues, you only have to look at the hieroglyphs on the walls of the tombs, everyone is in a queue 😁
in 2015 the first hospital in Denmark, Køge Sygehus has introduced a tube system to handle blood samples. An 800 meter (2,624 feet) pneumatic tube system sends blood samples to analysis and gives patients answers within one hour. The system reduces time waste, increases patient satisfaction, and saves the hospital millions.
so it is comming back
and santa is on greenland not in canada 🤭 he did reply me many years ago 😜
I've got tickets to be in the audience of a U episode next month. I'm looking forward to it... I've wanted to be in the audience for years...
That's something I want to do before I die. I've attended live tapings here in LA and I must say the lustre wore off quickly but I'm keen to see a "QI". 😃
Very jealous! I'll have to make a trip before they finish filming Z.
We have pneumatic "post" in one big hospital here. Czechia.
That game Holly says about "who would you ask to get you a gun". We kinda played that for real as younger people.
We'd play a round of "dare" with playing cards. The loser would often (not get a gun) have 60 minutes to buy Heroine or Cocaine. Get a phone call from a celebrity. Get a ride in a strangers car. Sometimes the prize pot got into silly amounts. We had some crazy challenges. lol. Call an emergency ambulance for a seizure but once in the ambulance talk them into letting you out and for every mile they take you costs you £10, the closest hospital is 10 miles away. Other things were convince a stranger to drive you to the local wooded area, up an unlit dark muddy road, and wait for you as you fetch something 'personal' thats in that wooded area. The longer they wait for you the less you pay.
Try and steal a child's toy in front of the parents, Automatic win if you successfully flirt with the dad, if you're a guy, or mom if, you're a lass.
Convince a stranger to let you sleep in on their sofa but after 10 every minutes of talking Hitler and the Nazi's must be brought back into the conversation.
Show your dick/breasts/fanny/bum to the till worker in the off licence to get the most free alcohol.
The what three words system is great. As said it's used in Mongolia because they move constantly and what three words allows them to update their postal address constantly.
And a year or so ago I found an injured bird, I was able to give the what three words location, the RSPCA were able to send someone to the exact location which had no post code.
The RSPCA probably had to pay the company behind What Three Words to look up the location. You could have used an open system like latitude and longitude. If you are having to open an app to look up three words, open an app that shows longitude and longitude instead (Google Maps for instance) and save charities and emergency services some money. Don't be fooled by marketing from What Three Words. Their system is only one way, unless you are willing to pay. I was disappointed that QI didn't point this out actually.
@@jeffrey44 The three words are much easier to remember than longitude and latitude, speaking for myself.
@@karlmortoniv2951 But you don't remember the words or the coordinates, you look them up. When you found the bird, you had to look up the three words and read them off a screen. You probably didn't remember what they were 5 minutes later because there is no need to remember them. The same applies to coordinates but it's a free and open system.
Imagine if you were a Mongolian. Would you be happy that your countries postal system relies on a commercial company with a monopoly? It would make more sense for a government to create it's own state owned system.
@@jeffrey44 Dude, you don’t have to use it. Longitude and latitude for you if it makes you happy.
@@karlmortoniv2951 What a selfish attitude. It's not about my choice to use it or not. I have to pay for it so you can use it because you have been taken in by marketing. Don't you think it's strange that your choice is to use the system that is advertised over the free system that isn't?
The band Nightwish has a great song about Shoemaker been buried on the moon.
The George Washington thing is a weird sort of thing they had for a little while in the States, where every time a general became so successful as to merit a new star that no general had recieved before, they gave an extra star to Washington first, so he became the first 3-star general after someone living became the first 2-star general, and again with 4 and 5 stars, and when they gave him a sixth star (I think in response to Eisenhower getting a fifth), they decided to also formally declare that no other person shall ever recieve six stars, so that's the logic they're using.
I don't necessarily agree with the whole "fire the rocket over land" argument you've put up, incidentally, because if they did choose to launch a rocket from Calgary to Edmonton like you suggested, and it missed, you might be able to get the rocket back, but it poses a greater injury risk by order of magnitude compared to doing it over the water.
There's a grocery store in London Ont that still uses pneumatic tubes for cash from the cashiers to the offices! Thanks to QI I could tell the cashier a bit of history about it! Closer to you though, there's one under the streets of Vancouver called (I think, the Rabbit). It carries nuclear material from the lab where it's made to the clinic where it's used for imaging. They installed it because the traffic is worse than the half-life of the material. 5 mins versus ~25 mins, which is needed because it's only viable for about 30 mins...
Used to use a pneumatic tube every week when I worked at Makro,when I cashed up at the end of the shift,I'd put the cash in a cloth sack,into a lil pod,then I'd send it up the tube👌👀💜
Good stuff
@@NeilTalks only time I've seen one outside of a bank🤷♂️😂
Most of the banks around where I live use pneumatic tubes for their drive thru if they have more than one lane. Likewise the drug store I work at used one in the pharmacy for the second drive thru lane. I believe at least one local hospital also uses that system to rush samples to their lab if they need results “now”. And I know of one bar (not local sadly) that uses a pneumatic tube system for delivering their ‘James Bond Special’ to the waiters station. The action of the tube makes the martini shaken not stirred. It’s a clever trick that amuses the customers.
BC Emergency Health Services can apparently use what3words, if you should need them. There are what3words apps for both major phone OS's. If you've got a Subaru (or one of a handful of luxury marques) with navigation you can use it instead of an address.
You are forcing the person or organisation to pay What Three Words to look up your location. Don't be that person, just use langitude and longitude that anyone can match to a location without having to pay a company.
1:35 so, basically, “Ok, fellas! This episode was always in the queue, aye!”?
Father Christmas' post code is 'Santa's Grotto, Reindeerland XM4 5HQ'
William Congreve, best known as a pioneer of rocket artillery in the Napoleonic war. If you want to experience travelling in a tube, the Southampton swimming pool has a fully enclosed slide that runs outside the building, and is several hundred yards long.
was he meant to be the chap in "Sharpe" that was introducing rockets to a rather skeptical Richard Sharpe ?
@@highpath4776 No, I can't remember the Lts name, but when Sharpe and Harper are sat in the barn, Pat mentions a friend who'd seen them testing the rockets in England. Pat calls them Congreve Rockets, so I imagine the young Lt had been taught by Congreve.
The General of the Armies of the United States is a rank that was only given to 3 people in history: George Washington, John J Pershing (for commanding the US Expeditionary Forces during WW1) and Ulysses S Grant (to commemorate his 200th birthday). Only Pershing was ever given the rank/title while leading the armed forces during a war.
Beat me to it. There was also a push IIRC for Marshall and MacArthur after WW2 (cos it felt like it should become a thing in peacetime) and Norman Schwartzkopf and Colin Powell in the wake of Gulf War 1.
What 3 words takes your longitude and latitude and translates it to a proprietry and corporately owned system that charges emergency services for it's usage.
It's utility is debatable.
I'd recoomend episodes with Sue Perkins, like Gothic.
Seconded! I've previously recommended the Gothic episode. It's series G episode 13.
I disagree with the mermaid thing. Since they can breathe underwater, that means the fish part effects the mammal part, so why can't the mammal part effect the fish part by having a horizontal tail? They are not mutually exclusive.
Holly Walsh is well hard - the Vinnie Jones of comedy.
what 3 words is phenomenal, especially as a dog walker, i can tell my wife exactuly where she ran off to within a 3m exact location... i believe it also works if you need police or ambulance to find you and you arent exactly sure, oh im along the path in the woods thats near a log... nope, slope,monkey,hairless - exact location. its incredible
It's a nice idea but the proprietary implementation is really dystopian.
@@verbaluk1 I'm guessing the proprietary nature of the system becomes less of a deal breaker when you've fallen down a cliff and shattered your legs.
So your wife carry the app so you can track her? And the dog can find her. Does she run off very often?
@@laserpanda94 By the time it becomes a deal-breaker it's already too late. If it ever becomes a de facto part of the emergency services infrastructure, w3w can charge what they like and the public sector will be forced to pay or explain to the public why they 'let people die'. If we've learned anything from the behaviour of venture-capital-backed tech firms in the internet age, it's that it's not a question of 'if' but 'when' this will happen.
@@laserpanda94 You'd just give the coordinates of where you are. If you are opening an app anyway, why not one that shows your langitude and longitude? You probably already have an app for that anyway, why download an app that is going to cost the emergency services money to convert back in to coordinates anyway? Cut out the middle man and save the country some money.
Ho Neil you can "what 3 words" the location of where you are to our emergency services, if say you have a phone and you are injured in the middle of nowhere.
Love your reactions! You really should watch "Imbroglio" and "Justice."
Will do! I'll add them to the list.
Did you notice Susan's Tardis?
I refuse to accept that the hallucinations of horny sailors that had a 90% fatality rate for centuries of sailing have to adhere to any relation to reality whatsoever.
Inventing and contemplating the odds of getting a licence for a pneumatic (with helmet!) amusement park ride has to be the most DP thought process I have ever watched you have. "I have been given a crazy project. Lets get it done. Legally."
Search and rescue use what three words, that way they have an exact location.
Did you check you're what three words Neil?
If Alan Davies was ever unavailable for QI, Susan would be a suitable stand-in.
I dont know why susan would even suggest you cant open your eyes in sea water.
Have you checked out anything from the "t' series yet? I think they have all been great
I think Alan has reached his use by in the T series -he derails everything with very unfunny shouty BS.
But she didn't cycle the world did she Sandi? Stop doing this 😑