How Can You Tell A Nob from A Yob? | QI
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This clip is from QI Series N, Episode 4, 'Noble Rot' with Sandi Toksvig, Alan Davies, Jeremy Clarkson, Jason Manford and Sara Pascoe.
Once again Alan nails the human experience
I can't believe that lady went back into the stall upon seeing Sandi 😂😂😂
I sort of lean over to one side and then reach round back, no standing up or going down the front for me, so, there's a third option, if one were ever needed... :P
I second this!
Same!
I think that is they way nearly every sit-wiper does it. The going through the front thing, as near as I can tell, was invented by stand-wipe weirdos.
When Jason Manford says "reach in", he means reach round back.
@@andrybak Oh he definitely meant reaching in as in between the legs, risking a mudslide over one's lower parts....... :S
I found out about the other half of wipers because I married one.
Same
I think it's mostly women who wip from back to front between their legs men reach behind and wipe backwards 😅 don't know if there's a "proper"way😅
@@michaelharrison3602apparently women particularly should be wiping front to back, as it reduces infections in front
just because you married one doesn't fully explain why you found out.
@@20shourya
Sometimes couples get comfortable and stop bothering to close doors.
the problem with wiping forwards (if you’re female) is you’re introducing a wonderful yeast infection medium. I learned this from childbirth classes if your baby is a girl.
So you could always stay seated and wipe backwards/away, non?
Whether you wipe sitting or standing, always wipe crack to back.
@@Tao_Tologyif you are seated, you can't possibly be cleaning your arse. Stand up and don't be gross.
@@angrytedtalks Nonsense.
If you are standing then your bum cheeks are together (rather than apart when you are sitting).
It is _literally_ more difficult to wipe when standing, (plus any tp you use will be being pressed/squeezed against your bum cheeks on the way out. 🤢 )
@@Tao_Tology- Try not to imagine the standing folk’s likely skid marks and lingering odour; they’re one wedgie away from being a bio-hazard.
I'm still waiting to find out how to tell a Nob from a Yob.
You can check out "U and non-U" online. It was a somewhat contentious claim that at any rate doesn't really apply anymore. But the premise was that many middle-class English people consciously adopted a purportedly "posher" style of speech, substituting words that sounded fancy or French like "serviette" for napkin or "toilet" for loo. Meanwhile, the upper-class English felt secure in their station and had no reason to put on airs and thus kept speaking the way they always had. So you could tell someone was middle-class if they sounded like they were trying to act upper-class.
This was only relevant for a brief period when RP was still respected. Since the late 1960s, nobody has respected RP, so nobody tries to imitate it anymore.
Words from French are used by the upper class, words from Germanic are working class - for instance Rendevous (French) vs Meeting (from moot, Germanic).
Mostly due to the large influx of French Nobs in 1066.
Not so relevant now.
"You, Sir, are a yob."
"Oo be a nob."
You, non you.
@@richardpj847 Maybe so, but in modern times, it was completely the other way round, as EebstertheGreat (if indeed that is their name) points out. Frenchified words (serviette, perfume, mirror) were used, during the period of RP's ascendancy, by middle-class wannabes, while the toffs had their napkins, scents and looking-glasses. Some of those observations went out of date very quickly (mirror won over looking-glass pretty much completely); others lasted longer; some are still around to some extent.
And I mean, nobody has ever said "rendezvous" to mean "meeting", surely. A rendezvous is a specific *kind* of meeting: one where people (usually two people) gather at a pre-arranged time and place, usually in neither party's premises. It has connotations of secrecy, or sexual dalliance, or both. No toff has ever said "Must be orff, old boy, I'm late for a rendezvous with m'steward." The posh word for "meeting" is "meeting".
The language you use is how you tell. They say that
🤦 At least she could have waited for you to emerge before the greeting!!!!!!
How Can You Tell A Nob from A Yob? | QI 1854pm 12.6.24 i am a nob verging on being a yob. a new pasture for me.... yobism. all due to lack of a decent pub, water supply or social scene.... Scandinavians have great complexions... can i seriously ask - what is this obsession with crap and toilet habits with you people? bog roll? dunno.... doesn't seem like too heavy a word to use... unless yer of the bog = god kultur...
Its kinda weird that they'd bring Clarkson back on after... everything. Not that he isnt funny but dude's a nutjob and not in a fun way.
That last story. Oh lord, if I'd burst in on someone and then cottoned on that it's Sandy Toksvig, I would have run away in mortification.
What do you call a posh bouncer?
A door knob.
Some people really should take wiping classes.
Have you not done a UA-cam search for the instructive videos?
@@Phil_Cleaver not me Cleaver, come on man. I already took my classes.
I certainly had not known about how the other half lives.
It's more complicated that stand or sit. There is also wipe front to back or back to front, or ... Circular. 🇨🇦
Mate of mine was on a porter loo as high as a kite on XTC...he thought he heared his phone falling into the shithole and after some internal deliberation he decided to go arms deep into the shit to stir for his phone.
Thats when someone called him and he heared his phone in his pocket.
Sobered up quite quickly after that. 😂
🤣🤣🤣
heared ......
NASTY!
Please tell me he answered it with his other hand and said something along the lines of "hi, yeah, look, I can't talk. I've dropped my phone down the khazi and I need to find it... What do you mean 'how am I talking to you?'"
I was going to say that there's no 'arm in it.
But then I realised he did have his 'arm in it.
There are also the "folders" vs the "scrunchers" ...
I guess nobody actually teaches you what to do (or if the do I don't remember it) so you come up with a system that works for you and assume everybody else came to the same conclusions.
yes!
Surely scrunching is only effective for women wiping their weewee hole? Since scrunching would be incredibly ineffective for arse work.
I guess I fall somewhere in the middle on that too? and I clearly remember my mom instructing me never to wipe back to front, horrifying to think any female bodied adult would do that
Watched to the end to hear Sandi explain that you referred to a napkin if you were U and a serviette if you were non-U, but it instead became a discussion about wiping your bum!
"You're Sandi Toksvig" --> so why no full-length QI-videos anymore? :(
A lot of the older episodes are floating around but the newer series like U are locked behind BBC iPlayer unfortunately.
I have a bidet and a travel bidet
Notice how no one, even in the comments, has stated which group was the oblivious one? Or did I miss it? And how has QI brought me to ask about such a topic? 😅
Both are. Both groups don't know about the existence of the other.
You are probably still oblivious about nobs and yobs.
It's toilet humour in its purest form.
And that’s how the blue man group was formed
bog roll sounds vile, I've never said that. Toilet paper.
That's non U. Lavatory, not toilet.
What about Anal Wipes? Those damp, individual tissues you can get to wipe your bum with. They're smoother on the botty than paper and they leave it smelling sweeter, too.
The way to tell a nob from a yob is to ask them to recite the following sentence: "Thousands and thousands of boy scouts, routing around in their brown trousers". Results guaranteed!
Well, this devolved rather quickly...
Ahem, some of us do both: first sitting down then standing up.
What episode?
Wait... none of you spin?
😂🤣😂🤣 🌪️
Spin?
I don't understand why people stand up? I just sit and reach back.
I find it hurts to wipe sitting down, that's why I stand up.
How To Get On In Society by John Betjeman
Phone for the fish knives, Norman
As cook is a little unnerved;
You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes
And I must have things daintily served.
Are the requisites all in the toilet?
The frills round the cutlets can wait
Till the girl has replenished the cruets
And switched on the logs in the grate.
It's ever so close in the lounge dear,
But the vestibule's comfy for tea
And Howard is riding on horseback
So do come and take some with me
Now here is a fork for your pastries
And do use the couch for your feet;
I know that I wanted to ask you-
Is trifle sufficient for sweet?
Milk and then just as it comes dear?
I'm afraid the preserve's full of stones;
Beg pardon, I'm soiling the doileys
With afternoon tea-cakes and scones.
Bidet all the way...
Wait so is it Loo paper or Toilet paper?
Bog roll.
Shit wipe.
toilet paper. it's called toilet paper
I thought it was a guy vs girl thing for a long time. I stand, but could understand why a girl would wipe after peeing before getting up; whereas, most men don't wipe after peeing, they just let their underwear turn more yellow like Patrick Star.
I carry a tissue with me for urinal. Can't think of getting the underwear getting wet.
The usual method is to shake it off. That works better for some than for others.
@@EebstertheGreat and singing taylor swift
@EebstertheGreat Men and women are a little bit like laundry. Men shake off, but women drip dry.
and shake it for a while, I'm told! ua-cam.com/video/U1_bIPPPxz4/v-deo.html
Flush. Tea-bag the bowl for a bracing rinse. Repeat if the water’s tinted. Shimmy the water off while sitting. I respect trees too much to use TP.
there is 100% post-consumer recycled TP... and I hope you do your own laundry...!
eta, and now at least one or two bamboo brands, technically a grass!
dear god tell me there aren't female bodied people wiping back to front if that's what he means...
I don’t wipe at all, I just wash and go
It's a real time saver to not wipe XD
Toilet + separate bidet = excellent
Toilet + in-built nozzle _that squirts you with fluids from inside the toilet you've just used_ = vomit inducing 🤢🤮
@@Tao_Tologyso what do I have ?
@@CricketEngland An electronic device and an internet connection.
'all else is surmise and heresay'
@@Tao_Tology In fairness it's not as bad as that'd be; it's a nozzle off the clean water intake/tank. (And on the good ones, it's even heated.) No real difference tbh, except you haven't got to move fixtures.
Did she say at 04:02 'You are all sat to talk to me. Can I have..'?
She said “You’re Sandi Toksvig!” The woman who burst in recognized her.
@@pittofdoom And then 'Can I have...[presumably an autograph]?'
@Elitist20 Well, she would have had plenty of paper for one. I'm not sure what she'd use as a writing implement, though.
Can you use the blue water as a substitute ink?
Answers on a postage stamp, please.
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Sage words.
Women should wipe from behind. It reduces the risk of UTIs and yeast infections. Men can do it however they like.
the wiping tidbit is from reddit.
If you got dog poop on your hands, would you wipe it off with toilet paper? Or would you use water?
Do you touch food, people, and objects as often with your bare ass as you do with your hands?
Both. Wipe it off then thoroughly wash your hands.
Psyllium husk, chia, and flax. You're welcome.
Just don't use a Gimpy Gimpy leaf. It may look nice, but it isn't.
What you name your children is no concern of mine.
FIFTY FIFTY
U and non-U are the stupidest linguistic terms ever. I’m glad they moved on from that pretty quickly.
Language defines our world. We can only really see and accept what we can create in our minds.
The idea that an alien spacecraft can land on center field at half time during the Super Bowl and only about 1% of the population watching would see it is not too far off.
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Jason is the one with least star power ever I have seen on TV! He is most like a regular guy who was in the audience and who joined in!
Stand up. Don't be lazy and do a proper job of cleaning your arse.
Stand up and then wipe? I don't trust those people 🫣
I don't trust the ones who sit, that's just gross.
You shouldn't exist. Stand up and don't be disgusting.
Ask any service member, regardless of country or branch, how bum fodder is used. We have gotten to see LOTS of different versions of how to wipe your bum....