AMERICA! Facts You MAY NOT KNOW! QI Funny Answers With Stephen Fry & Sandi Toksvig
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- AMERICA! Facts You MAY NOT KNOW! QI With Stephen Fry & Sandi Toksvig
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The way the energy left the room when the prison statistics were read out , pretty intense .
Though the "there are more 17 year old black men in jail than in college" is disingenuous as college is rarely ever started before 18.
More like ridiculously insane!!
@@merlinious01 I think Stephen is using the English version of college, in the UK college is 16-18ish, what American calls high-school. So if that's the case that's incredible sad.
@@siriusgaming3981 but that is my point exactly. The English version of college is meaningless in the USA. There is no equivalent.
Of course there are more 16 year olds in prison than in college in the US, there are virtually no 16 year olds in college of any race.
Even if there were only 100 16 year olds in prison nationwide, I would be shocked of that didn't still outnumber those in college at 16.
@@merlinious01 i agree in general, but im betting youre quite far off on your last sentence, im betting theres probably at least a 100 14 year olds in college nation wide. With 300 million+ citizens you get a lot of geniuses as well.
"The Diabetics Society helped themselves to five hundred quid" That was just the sweetener! I'll get me coat.
Can somebody explains how did they do it?
😂😂😂😂😂
@@NomanAhmed3 Set up a monthly donation by Direct Debit
It really should have been Greenpeace.
@@NomanAhmed3 because he published his bank details in the newspaper...
"Not now Stephen's gone" bruhhhhhhh 🤣
Agreed
“Not now that Stephen’s gone…”
Oh, Clarkson, you beautiful beast 😂
rude
Beast is the right word. Not fit for civil society.
Imagine the moment of deciding a nuclear launch was necessary, cracking open the code sheet and just finding a page of eight zeros, I think you'd have to laugh
Wait. That's actually a good point! Imagine you were trying to get access to the number for malicious purposes and all you found were eight zeros - I don't think I'd believe that was actually the code. I wonder if that might be part of the reason then.
"Congratulations, Mr. President. This was a test of the Emergency Broadcast System."
i mean ofcourse he is comfortable in his own skin, he is really good looking despite his age
Plot Twist: You have to enter the code via a rotary telephone dial.
The Dutch are truly in a class of there own when it comes to swearing, they have a very descriptive language that lends itself to spectacular abuse.
The way the fact was presented was seriously misleading. Sandi seemed to suggest articulate people swear a lot, but the study she cites showed that articulate people lots of swear words. They don't necessarily use them.
"... lots of swear words..."
"... know lots of swear words..."
@@timothyjames6412 like omg the word magdenvlies, what kind of person devises a word like that?
Ja lekker hè!!
Swaffelen is about the deed itself, not about a specific object it is done to. So not necessarily the Taj Mahal. xD
It was started with a student doing this against the Taj Mahal though so it is actually correct.
@@malarkan85 is there proof he didn´t do it elsewhere before? And it has been done at other places since, probably at more at other places. Does this require a different term? It's the what, not the where.
@@tjitse3916 No, the word gained notoriety because the student specifically placed a clip of him doing that on the Taj Mahal, after that it of course gained the meaning of banging it against anything but the original reference was still about doing it at/to the Taj Mahal.
@@malarkan85 the fact that it became generally know for happening at 1 location doesn’t bring it in existence. Folks have done this for ages I dare to state. Wether the word starter specifically for that occasion is also debatable, one doesn’t randomly come up with a word.
Besides all that, no one associates the term exclusively with the Taj Mahal, not that I know, I haven’t come across anyone with that tendency.
@@tjitse3916 "Folks have done this for ages". Sounds wild in the Netherlands not gonna lie.
I got to see Magna Carta on display at the Treasury in the late 90s. Didn't really strike me at the time. Glad I got to see it.
I think the U.S. National Archives has a copy or did have one awhile.
"The" Magna Carta is a misnomer, there are four surviving 1215 originals and thirteen variously dated reissues.
That is strange Abe, I did not think you were alive in the 90s.
@@Malpheron It was the 1890s. His death was faked (hence how he can post a UA-cam comment now).
It’s displayed in Lincoln Castle, free to walk In and have a look.
Interesting that someone finally pointed out the real reason we have so many people in prison. It's not a criminal thing , it's an economic thing. As they stated it makes the U.S. economy more competitive with other countries.
What do you mean "finally"? Everybody knows it is about economics. It is constitutionally legalised slavery
@@tilltronje1623 Of course it is. That's why they don't talk about the free labor aspect, just how they're reducing crime by jailing all the folks. I'm sure some need to be in prison but, to lead the entire world in the numbers of prisoners doesn't say much for our society
@@tilltronje1623 - No, it isn't. You're just attempting to obfuscate the real issues of crime, as you leftards are always so apt to do.
@@Fos3tex Ladies and gentlemen, here we have a troll. Not very skilled, as their lazy use of "leftards" shows.
2/10. See me after class.
Except hear it costs 60k per year to have someone behind bars. So the cost outweighs the benefit.
The jail bit was genuinely sad
That's because in America jail/prison is purely for the profit motive.
Land of the free eh?
Everything about America, that used to make it “great”, is nothing but a lie these days.
“Home of the free” - nope.
‘Richest and most powerful nation” 25 trillion in debt, and the other part, clearly a falsehood given the rise of dictators in the world and how often they flip America the bird without consequence.
“Separation of church and state” - :rolling eye emoji:
Racism is systemic, the NRA still controls gun laws, and the dumbest citizens would rather take an anti-parasitic for horses, picked up from a garden centre, than risk the vaccine. (viruses aren't parasites) Jesus Christ….
Despite the 3 strikes rule, there is still a phenomenal amount of serious
crime. It would seem that the clever crims get away while the less cunning get caught.
@@SpringLeafWolf no it isn't. Private prisons are illegal where i live and the issue persists. It's a societal failure within our boot licking culture. State run prisons will not fix it
"Thora Hird" I love Ross Noble.
No matter how many times I hear those prison stats it blows my mind.
it's pretty disgusting really. Shows that there is no meaningful focus on stopping crime or rehabilitation, just the business and making money.
Land of the free, so they say.
Ross Nwoable
That awkward moment Die Hard with vengeance teaches you facts...
Military helmets are no longer manufactured in prisons after the contractor was found pushing shoddy workmanship leading to a recall.
We'll find a new contract to fulfill
Prisons don't really manufacture office furniture either. They paint and assemble the parts they purchase from actual manufacturers. I used to work for one that supplied several prisons. We sold the parts to prisons because it wasn't really competition since the profit margin was higher on just the parts when we could eliminate most of the labor on the manufacturing process.
Why would fort Knox need to house all those bouillon cubes? They are like a quid fifty for a pack of twelve, seems rather extreme. Seems you don't mess with Americans and there minestrone.
Fort Knorr
We take our soups very seriously over here....
Does that make Fort Knox a Bouillabase?
@@andrewcharles459 wow omg somebody graduated with an honours degree.
A quid fifty??? U got some goddamn expensive stuff there
When you know the answer and the panelist’s don’t. Feeling smug for five minutes. 😇😂
When you know how to use apostrophes correctly. Feeling smug for much longer than 5 minutes.
@@MrSimonmcc
English is my second language of the four I speak fluently. Either way, feel free to correct this comment and bathe in your pedantic glory!
My smugness goes away quickly, when I realise I only know the answer cos ive seen the episode before.
"panelists", not "panelist's".
You do know it's not real they rehearse everything they say what they're supposed to say
Well its *not* true about the Taj Mahal (because its not *that* specific as to what you hit it agaisnt) *but* ..........
Jeremy was right. And
Swaffelen was named as the word of the year in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2008.
I think that he mentioned the Taj Mahal, because the most famous case was a Dutch student who was caught doing it there.
@@apoorvachandras Good words truly fail me.
I considered 'Surely everyone does that though'?
Through to 'Maybe he was studying advertising'?
In the end, confounded by the though anyone could find a building sexually stimulating, all I could think of was, 'I wonder if thats where they came up with the ides to punch cylindrical holes through bricks'?
I'm always in awe of how other countries know more about the US than the US does. Not surprised, but in awe.
The irony is that the very best and easiest source of data for all this stuff, for all countries, is the CIA world fact book, which sounds super secret but actually isn't and is freely available.
It still amazes me of how much Americans are in denial of the state of their country. It is a thirdworld banana republic with nukes and a 269 Trillion debt.... and half voted for trump and 15% believes qanon....... and 17% believes chocolate milk comes from brown cows.......
@@CyberBeep_kenshi We're not in denial just tired
@@Luna-ln7qh ah, you're from the 'not qanon' part of america i guess? :)
When they don’t give you a decent school system, which is starved of money, and up-to date books, but do instead allow religious beliefs to override the truth, then there’s not much chance for people to be well versed in the reality of the states, let alone the world.........
3:27 right before he said this i was thinking about how my coworkers and I say "gosh" more than normal people because we work in an elementary school
clarksons impression of americans is hilarious 😂
Seriuosly stunned faces at 7:39, USA prison stats.
The stats are pretty abhorrent.
Argus!
@@davethorson3739 Time was, when a lot more people would have recognised the cover.
@@flaneur5560 A friend of mine painted that cover on the wall of our high school cafeteria. One of the best albums ever made!
Land of the free, eh?
Same with the Netherlands.... However Jeremy was almost richt about about "zwavvelen"
He said the third Reich about the Germans though
If Die Hard 3 taught me anything is that the Federal reserve in NY has more gold than fort knox
I can't abide Clarkson but I must confess, his joke at Stephen's expense made me LOL.
Actually I didn't understand the reference to Spandau Ballet until they started singing Gold
Planted joke!
Fort Knox? Ha! It's for tourists.
-Simon Gruber
The Taj Mahal isn't really in the definition of swaffelen but it might have something to do with the origin story
Anyone else know the gold question from watching Die Hard 3?
"Fort Knox is for tourists!"
Yup know your classics
I’ve had a bit of a crush on Alan Davies for awhile. Smart, funny, and comfortable in his skin.
Has nobody seen Die Hard with a Vengeance??
Seen it many times lol
Has it vanished?
"Fort Knox. Ha! It's for tourists"
I'm glad Stephen asked coz I didn't get toe Spnndau Ballet reference either.
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I'm jealous of Stephen's purple jacket. Shirt was a bit loud, but nice jacket!
@10:46 What a sweet story Jeremy tells
Definitely using the Dutch word Swaffelen around the missus, day to day, from now on. Until she cracks and asks what it is 😂
It means more specifically to slap one’s flaccid or semi against something, the whole taj mahal thing is what one Dutch tourist did lmao
Incarceration replaced slavery in the U.S. Disgusting.
Check the 13th Amendment: It isn't a replacement, it's an intentional continuation. While the US did restrict slavery, it was never actually ended. It's even still heavily based on race, what with the impacts of things like overpolicing.
@@chakatfirepaw Was just about to reply the same thing. The 13th amendment very clearly says "except for a punishment for a crime"
No, it didn't. Imprisonment is a punishment for committing crimes. Slavery wasn't. MAN, some of you people are obtuse!
@@Fos3tex Your insistence on oversimplification leads me more and more to believe you're just a troll.
EDIT: Troll status likelihood raised from 40% to 95%. Troll rating: Mediocre.
@@Fos3tex What? Are you actually that clueless? Slavery is still very much a penalty for crimes, even in the US. Might want to read the constitution properly, especially the part about slavery, where it explicitly states slavery is to be abolished except against convicts, and is in extremely active use everyday. How have you not heard of the forced labour prisons the US has?
Around the World, for most of history limited time slavery has been a punishment replacement people could choose for not being able to pay bills or variety of other crimes.
"not now Stephens gone" 😂
It's bothering me that nobody is pointing out that 4500 tons is well more than "not quite half" 7000 tons. Not quite half the total doesn't work either, as those total to 11500, and that's still pretty much between a third and a half
I think he was probably saying 'not quite half' like 'its close to half but not really'. And not in the sense of 'not quite half' strictly meaning less than half the value of. Which wud sorta make sense in this context, for him to stretch to use the word half, as he is trying to highlight the smallness of fort knox in comparison.
fun fact: slavery is illegal in the US, unless you're a prisoner.
fun fact : slavery was only m,ade illegal in the uk in 2010!!!
@@wcgebn That's only because "slave" was not a legally recognised state of being. Legally speaking, you had been kidnapped. Just a weird technicality of legal language, not permission for slave labour.
@@rossmorton7002 that's right, "slave" was a commodities term, no need to change the law when they could just pretend the law was irrelavent.
That's how the British government paid compensation to their friends & family for the dissolution of slave plantations. The local MP here in Dorsets family used that money to buy a huge estate in Dorset & put the rest into an irrevocable trust that will keep their descendants in power for perpetuity. There are many examples of this in the UK.
Hmmm.... So.... Just a silly, overlooked, unused law.... or a way to launder the money of the plantation owners for their descendants that are still, & will always be, in positions of power bought & paid for with slave labor?
That's a tricky one!... Which do you think is more likely?
@@wcgebn the plantations are still here in the US, but they've been rebranded as "Private Prisons", for-profit companies that sell inmate labor for pennies on the dollar, if that much, and have a vested interest in keeping as many people as possible incarcerated.
@@wcgebn This is such a terrible misconception.
This is a old clip but if stats are similar can tell you the reason SA has a lower percentage in is because criminals get let out again after only serving a tiny fraction of their sentence if they ever make it to jail that is.
Fort Knox is a good place to store a few things.
The Untied States Army Armoured Warfare College is there a, I believe, the 8th Armour Division.
Better than your average security detail.
All the armor related schools (basic and advanced) have moved to Ft. Benning as of 2010.
@@alanhays3033 that's right. The Patton Armour museum is still there. And they get awfully nervous when you park a big truck nearby.
@@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869 Actually that is called the Patton Museum of Leadership now. All the armor and vehicles were moved to a huge new facility at Ft. Benning. Unfortunately it's not open to the public yet....(sigh)
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@@alanhays3033 Wow, a lot has changed since I was there.
I’m quite pleased with myself for anticipating that the Presidential nuclear trigger code during the dates mentioned would have been a combination of zeros.
Genuinely impressed that Jeremy Clarkson can identify Arkansas on a map.
He is a very smart man, he just knows that his personality gets him a lot of money so he acts in a certain way on camera
@@bertiesaurus As the saying goes, it's easy for a smart man to pretend to be an idiot, but it's very hard for an idiot to pretend to be smart.
@@bertiesaurus
Oh. You've met him away from the public gaze?!
@@greypilgrim228
'Smart' is in the eye of the beholder.
To someone who can count to 10, a person who can count to 20 seems 'smart'.
A Reagan, 2 Bushes and a Trump were elected POTArse.
And let's not start on UK PMs or Aus PMs.
@@trueaussie9230 not entirely sure what you’re implying by that
4:30 “who swears the most” and “who can write down more swear words” are not the same thing at all. They should have documented people’s natural usage then correlated the results with IQ tests
Wow, you totally missed the context of that exchange, well done.
Watch it again, without making assumptions next time.
@@caitthecat "Watch it again, without making assumptions next time."
I just did. 4:19 You should take your own advice.
"IQ" and articulacy are not even in the ballpark of being the same thing. And of course your method won't prove any kind of causation. I think there will be zero correlation with intelligence but there may be a correlation with articulacy simply on the basis that swearing is more of a class thing, and people in the lower classes tend to have a lower education level.
'not now stephens gone"!!
Slavery ended in 1833 in england. 32 years later in the US. "How appalling!" Apparently, the term "british empire" has also been forgotten.
Yea they all want to ignore that. Doesnt make our Jail statistics less appalling though. Dont we have the most people in Jail? Are we a 1st world country? I'll be honest England doesnt look all that bad comparatively, at least you can go to the hospital without going bankrupt there..
"except as a punishment for crime..." so the question is really when did US stop deliberately convicting Black people in order to use them as slaves and lesser humans? Oh and by the way, Britain was the reason the slave trade ended across most of the wold
@@manu-tonyo9654 Which nation brought slavery to the Americas?
@@nickdanger3802 Spain
@@nickdanger3802 Do you not have Google?
My mum was a warden of a REAL prison in my fine country of (classified), not a jail an effing prison. This is stooooopidly accurate.
I've been saying for years that prisons are filled with people who belong there, but if we hadn't given them the job, they'd be walking the streets bored and pissed about it.
Gosh, Darn it. Haha!!🤣🤣
America: we are the land of the free
Also America: still have legal slavery in 2021
Look at who just under half of our country elected for a 4 year presidential term. The same group who's rich members break the law with impunity while preaching to their followers how prison is about punishment and not rehabilitation. The conservatives have just the right words to scare these people that the other side are going to take their guns, kill babies, and raise taxes, despite none of the runners in 2020 agreeing with gun control, abortion rates lower than the 90s, and republicans slashing the rich's taxes and adding a little caveat in the same bill that sneakily raises taxes on the middle class the first year of the next president's term.
The conservatives and center leaning dems like Biden are the reason America refuses to join the rest of the world despite the fact that most of the country would agree more with Bernie Sander's policies if they weren't given a name or party association. Good ideas are called bad ideas because republican media poisons their minds against ANYTHING with a "Dem" affiliation. Perfect example is minimum wage to $15 and the affordable care act. In florida, the min wage bump was a proposition with no party affiliation and passed with flying colors, and a ton of Republicans when asked about the affordable care act will say it's a godsend until you make the mistake of calling it Obamacare. Sorry for the rant, it's just so exhausting these last few years and watching British media helps me forget.
@@tricursor2481 Watching the Brexit snafu does have a bit of "at least it's not just _our_ politicians marshalling utter morons to lead us down the drain" vibes.
*Till Tronje*
There is no such place as America.
There was...until 1913, at which point the country and it's people were sold by it's president and both parties to a cartel of zionist bankers.
It's now a Corporation paying taxes to the English Crown!
How ironic is that?
320+ million slaves and only a small minority of them are aware of their legal status.
@@tricursor2481 lol. Biden center leaning? On what planet are you living???
@@dashroodle9507 When I read that I literally laughed out loud too. Man, some people really live in their own worlds.
I genuinely didn't know gosh darn it was an American phrase.
It doesn't have to be the Taj Mahal, whatever strikes your fancy will do.. just saying
thank you for clarifying!
Or whatever your fancy strikes....
@@davethorson3739
Damn! I’m four months too late. 😉
@@q.e.d.9112 I'm five months late.
Jimmy Carr never fails to deliver.
Thank you Die Hard with a Vengence for telling me that the gold is in New York
When it comes to swearing how articulate are you when you make up your own?
My fav is "twatarsewanker" 😁
My mother's favourite was "soddibitchibuggercow".
Three strikes law depends on which state you are in
Choose wisely.
State of depression
Hey! They didn't HAVE to commit that third crime!
The point is well taken and yet it is a very flawed system.
A point can be made that disproportionate sentences do not, in reality, deter crime to any great degree.
There's a whole movie about Gold Reserve of New York heist.... with Bruce Willis
Yup, we Dutch know how to swear… I won’t do it here though.
Borderline shocked Brits know about Montana at all
We only know about it because of Hannah Montana
Movies. Your chief cultural export
lol the quite pause after the Facts! LOL 7:32 truth hurts. act right!
Gosh is a swear word...it's news to me! Lol
Mariana Sirtis looking younger than ever in that first clip!
That's Shappi Khorsani
Seeing their stunned faces during the reading of the imprisonment stats was surreal. Watching that woman’s jaw drop when the black male statistics were read made me feel some kind of way. Nations really do live within their bubbles… not trying to be negative but examine the facts as they are can dig up a lot of emotions.
Omar Marrufo This is filmed in the UK not the USA... maybe YOU need to do your homework lol...
The 'great USA' has long lived within its own insular and paranoid 'bubble', alleging it is the 'leader and policeman of the world' and convinced EVERY other nation (and planet!) is planning to invade it.
Thanks to the internet and the rise of China and other nations Americans have considered and treated as 'inferior', Americans are being forced to face some very unpleasant and unsettling truths about themselves and their nation.
The 'great USA' is now at the very beginning of some very painful psychotherapy and first must accept that "the emperor has no clothes".
The stats were quite interesting. (Pun)
Civilised countries lock up their criminals, China has them 'Disappeared'
@@rd9337 so you think that the government of China has 9 million people “disappeared” for things such as shoplifting. It’s easily proven false but americans as always prove to be capable of amazing levels of stupidity if it lets them avoid self-reflection
@@rd9337 Yeah that's right, the USA isn't as bad as all those other evil countries my government told me weren't free and I should hate, it's actually just that 9 million+ people per year in china are disappeared by the government, vanishing without a trace. Ignore the fact that that would practically flatline population growth and you'd think somebody would notice, China evil.
We Aussies are pretty good at swearing, including the sheilas.
Queenslander.
Take 5
The code was 00000000
Now it's 00000000PS
Soon it will be 00000000PS-a-daisy
The code was never 8 zeroes.
Gi Z score map would look like a Jackson Pollock painting
The "Gosh" map shows, as red-ish, pretty much the Bible Belt (IINM).
The invented pronouns are clustered around a handful of blue state universities.
By the show's own reasoning, those would be the most articulate states then. Well spotted.
I'm not sure that "the original" Magna Carta exists or ever did. King John didn't sign one.
The U.S. Constitution specifically forbids peonage but exempts military service and prison labor. "Land of the free."
In American New England high school, we used "s%
We say ash hole a lot in nw Oregon but it isn't represented in tweets apparently
There are many, many a Fort Knox. Not only in the United States, either.
5:55 can anyone explain jimmy's switchblade joke?
Nope. Makes no sense. Switch blades can be operated one handed afaik.
It's illegal to own a switch blade, unless you have a disability which prevents you from opening other knives. The people pictured appeared to only have one arm, therefore allowing them to own the blades, implying false imprisonment
@@speddymuffin4174 thank you
@@speddymuffin4174 only in some states. In most, they are perfectly legal.
@@DirtForester no.. no they are not. That's dangerous misinformation..
A British panel looking at a map of the US and casually naming off the different states.
America, like its people, is way too big
The 8 o's are suggestive, normal people say H O L Y C R A P.
I wish I was living in the UK.
Er, if you publish your checking account number and somebody can guess your bank/routing code, or you mentioned your bank earlier, it's rather easy to make a withdrawal
5:45 Prison, not gaol!
Fort knox, its for tourists
Jim Henson's home town really likes the word Darn. Good to see most of Mississippi is still puritanical.
Clarkson was actually funny here. Confusing and amusing
Actually 'In the land of the free' you find the least amount of free people.
Can I just say that “gosh” is not a swear word?
It’s not exclusive to the Taj Mahal btw.
Slavery wasn't reinvented. In America slavery is quite literally still legal as long as you're in prison. It's written in the constitution. Prisoners can be used as slaves.
And America has private prisons that are run for profit contracted to the American government guaranteeing them a certain number of prisoners will always be provided.
America has guaranteed by contract that they will provide private corporations with a steady supply of slaves.
Capitalist America engages in corporate slavery. We genuinely need help. The state suppresses anyone that speaks out. They're arrested, beaten, oftentimes killed, for protesting the police state and prison slave trade.
America really is the richest 3rd world country. If it were somewhere else in the world, Amnesty International would be getting involved.
Amasing that these Brits are bang on with the name of states.
Do Americans really not learn the place names of other countries? I thought that was one of those over the top jokes at the expense of Americans and in reality it would be covered at some point.
@@AlexaFaie I’m Canadian so I couldn’t really say…. But I’m guessing the answer is “no”
A US fact can turn the vibe at QI serious and heavy for a few seconds when every comedian looked down in lack of things to say. Took a fearless genius like Jimmy Carr to pull the show out of the awkward silence.
And even THEN he's like, "I want to make a joke but just can't. This is disgusting."
I think the argument for swearing and vocabulary is faulty because the knowledge of swear words does not imply the use of them. For example, I'm more articulate than most of my peers, but I choose not to swear for everyone's sake even though my peers don't seem to have that consideration. Therefore, knowledge does not imply usage.
It was badly explained. However, within the UK, it appears that swearing does not indicate linguistic deprivation. The old adage "Swearing is a sign of a poor vocabulary", is not true.
Im honestly surprised Davies could pick out Montana. Half us Americans can't.
As a European, Wyoming and Iowa are the ones I can never place.
Hi
Seven hundred tonnes of bouillon - that a hell of a lot of clear soup, if you ask me.
😃😂🤣✌
Considering one ton of water = one cubic meter and an Olympic pool contains 2500 cubic meters of water it would fill about 3/10ths (0.28 or 28%) of an Olympic pool (or one third of a hot air balloon, but I dont know why you'd do that) and it'd fill 65 concrete mixing trucks. None of those really help with visualisation but they definitely made it weirder
So how many of you actually looked up the Dutch word swafflen?
Apparently at one point 'Swafflen' was the Netherlands *"WORD OF THE YEAR"* :)
The word of the year was swaffelen, it was often mentioned on tv when it was word if the year and it doesn't involve the Taj Mahal or any other building
Seven thousand tonnes of soup?
Youd need a switch blade if you had one arm
You folks arrest people for saying mean things.
I knew te first question thanks to Hard kill 3
yes the one from die hard 3 federal reserve
I did not know that 93% of stuff is made by prisoners.
I mean you're in jail what are they going to do if you refuse to work? If you don't we'll.... put you in jail?
That's probably just a joke for the sake of making a joke, but if you're interested: Its the only way for them to make any money, which they still need to do, to some extent. Some have relatives on the outside to support, and you commonly have to buy things for yourself in prison. And I don't mean underhanded smuggling deals, but as in they have little kiosks for stuff like cigarettes. Or you might need medication, and in the states you're not very likely to get that handed to you, just because you've been locked up somewhere where you can't chose your source of income.
solitary - it drives you slowly crazy
Prolong your confinement , take away privileges...make sure your time inside becomes as unpleasant as possible.
More articulate people might KNOW more swear words, but generally the people who use swear words more are not using more words but using a couple of words much more often.
How do American prisons make money?
A private prison can offer its services to the government and charge $150 per day per inmate. Generally speaking, the government will agree to these terms if the $150 is less than if the prison was publicly run. That difference is where the private prison makes its money.
How much money do American prisons make?
$74 billion
The American prison system is massive. So massive that its estimated turnover of $74 billion eclipses the GDP of 133 nations.
I think the reason the Chinese have less prisoners is because most death penalty cases are carried out. Plus they have more crimes with death sentences.