QI | Why Didn't They Build A Railway At Slough?
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- Опубліковано 10 сер 2016
- 11 August: On this day in 1968, steam railway was retired in Britain.
From QI Series E, Episode 1 - 'Engineering'
With Bill Bailey, Rob Brydon, Jimmy Carr and Alan Davies
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Somebody should count the instances where Bill Bailey uses his pen as a pipe after a joke.
Dude so many times
Unpossible
Yes! I thought it was just me.
Excellent idea! When do you start?
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The silly thing is they built two stations at Windsor in the 1840s which are both closer to Eton College than Slough.
Rob Brydon, Bill Bailey, and Jimmy Carr. Possibly the most classic QI panel, I love it!
They only needed a ventriloquist and it would've been perfect....
+Gordon Freemason Noooooooo
Perfection, except for Carr and the desperate Brydon....
Or Phill Jupitus.
Jupitus shouts a lot but isn't that funny. Opinion of course.
Alan Davies with they built a station but no railway killed me.
See Dartmouth station.
Alan's gag about there being a station but no railway applies to Dartmouth, where the station is on the other side of the Dart river to Kingswear, where the train from Paignton (and by extensiojn Newton Abbott/Exeter) terminates.
Weirdly my wife's hometown in Northern Germany only came into existence because of the railway.
When they built the line going north from Hamburg, both Uetersen and Esingen said they didn't want to give away land to build a station. Uetersen especially because they had a small harbour on the Pinnau River and the barge owners were afraid of competition. They had more or less a monopoly on the transportation of goods and people to Hamburg and the North Sea and didn't want to give that up.
So a farmer from Esingen who lived in between those villages sold a big part of his land under the condition that he may open a pub in the station building.
Soon factories were built around that station in the middle of nowhere, as well as housing for the workers. And very quickly Tornesch - named after the farm "Tornescher Hof" - became a small town. And then it got so big that it grew onto the border of Esingen. In the late 1930s the Nazis decided that villages and towns that were directly connected should be merged into one municipality. So now the village that didn't want a train station is a small part of a town that is only on the map because they built the train station anyway.
Also their neighbour Uetersen later built tracks for freight trains connecting a chemical plant at the harbour with the train line because its safer and cheaper to transport their materials and products by train. After all the tide dependent Pinnau River is way too narrow and shallow for modern ships. But they still use flat river barges to bring solid raw materials up from the Elbe River.
Pretty sure a ton of towns only came into existence because of the railway.
to this day i put pins in my mouth. works never been kissed.
That you did not say you always hold a pin in your arse tells the world all about you.
But have you been rogered?
The hairpin thing reminds me of a joke. An old nun, an attractive young woman, an English and a French gentleman are sharing a train compartment. Suddenly they drive through a tunnel.
It gets dark, you hear a slapping sound followed by an "Ouch!" and when they leave the tunnel the French man has a red cheek.
The nun thinks "Typical! That French swine couldn't control himself and must have groped that poor little girl."
The young woman thinks "That French debauchee must have mistaken the nun for me in the dark. Serves him right!"
The French man thinks "Mon dieu! This British bastard must have touched the girl and poor me gets the response."
The English man thinks "Oh, I'm so excited for the next tunnel. Then I gonna hit him even harder."
Glad there's one now, from what David Brent's been saying it sounds amazing
He is from Reading!
Had things to do, but realised I couldn't live the rest of my life not knowing why there's not a station in slough
No regrets.
I just like the idea of Eton pupils buying a Have-it-away-day ticket to London.
Puts a whole new meaning on it a 'Have it away day'!
It was the railway link from Slough to what became the Windsor Central station that was objected to by Eton College.
Wasn't that originally the District Line (Railway)?
@@stevevasta The District Railway for a while had rights to run trains over it, but the line itself was always a part of the Great Western Railway.
Someone should make a montage of all the times Bill has mimed smoking a pipe.
Funnily enough that's exactly what you do at Eton on the weekends, you go into London and get drunk.
And then become prime feckin minister!
I suppose kids who go to Eton are the only ones who can bloody afford a night out in london every week
Stephen does a really good impression of Jacob Reese-Mogg
Great clip, everyone’s on top form
Has the panel ever been Bill, Jimmy, and Sean Lock? Only just occurred to me that that would be my dream line-up but I'm not sure if I've ever seen it...
Davies was on fire in this episode.
"No, really. C'mon! Actually!"
🤣👍
Once again, no warning that Jimmy Carr was in this clip.
Hi, Slough is just amazing, I have made couple of videos portraying different places of Slough and currently working on more videos. Hope you guys will like it. I will highly encourage the feedback.
Funny That when modern technology like a train came along, people had fears of negative sides of it. When the internet came along loads of people had the same kind of fears
To be fair, with the internet most of these fears have been borne out. And also some horrors that we didn't think of.
I had terrible misgivings when they brought in the new 5p coin all rhose years ago.
But then, I do tend to fear change 🤣
That Eton pupils would ride the internet to London to pick up prostitutes?
Ah yes, Slough College, never as posh when you realise where it really is. 😂
Wasnt ever posh
I think Bill just thought of a way to save the railways.
When Rob farts its magnificent 0:43
Slough is in Berkshire , not Buckinghamshire
It was _historically_ in Buckinghamshire, though. 1974 brought loads of changes across the UK.
I'd love to have seen the Eton classmen ride the B&O train pictured to London.
Odd the producers didn't dig up a photo of The Rocket instead of the famous American railway sporting the first US built loco: Tom Thumb.
Fun show though and it was just a photo.
Why would they use Rocket? That ran the Liverpool and Manchester railway, equally as irrelevant as the Tom Thumb
There’s two stations in Windsor already only 200 yards from Eton, so this makes no sense
Because it was Slough.
Maybe they didn't think it was fit for humans then, let alone Betjeman's "now" or now. Yet it's literally 3 MINUTES by car from Eton College, arguably the most well known independent school in the country.
'Come friendly bombs ...' was the first reason I thought of too, although Betjeman's plea was much later.
If Jimmy Carr grew up in slough I'll eat my hat. Gerrards Cross most likely
Archimedes It was Burnham
Slough's in Berkshire not Buckinghamshire.
Was just about to say the same.
Irrelevant. Slough and Eton were part of Buckinghamshire during the period that Stephen is talking about.
Fair enough.
You guys must be Berks
Or young Bucks?
Eaton was concerned with raising proper little lords that only lusted after other boys. Couldn't allow access to women!
you do realise they'd have found that in London too....
@@danwic Oh yes, but those would have been common boys. Can't have that!
I laughed, so it was funny...
Eton, more like rent boys !
The fantasies men have they then make laws against!
I honestly think he's only pretending to be offended...
no one would ever want to go there ;-)
Slough's in Berkshire.
Was stephen a bit pissed with jimmy about the woman prostitute joke?
Yes. There was a distinct, if fleeting, 'vibe' in the air. We can only speculate as to why.
Perhaps for homosexual public schoolboys the idea of sex with a female prostitute (implying a working class lady) was considered acceptable, but sex with working class gay men was considered taboo. Perhaps gay sex was viewed as something to keep within the bounds of one's own social and economic class.
... as if paying working class man for sex places the upper class client beneath the working class prostitute (so to speak) and this violates the social hierarchy too much. Perhaps too much of this behaviour would undermine the air of authority which the social hierarchy of the past relied on (obeying orders etc).
Women didn't count because women were largely exempt from the manual labour of the day, and the wars, so they would rarely be under the direct command of an upper class man, the way most working class men would be.
That would be my best guess.
Wtf did I just read? It's cos Stephen's gay.
Not at all. He was just impersonating a,posh bloke who has never seen boobs before
I miss Stephen... sigh.
Stop trying to hit him then.
When I see a train I always think of prostitutes.
It's all that film imagery of trains going into tunnels.
Is the laughter canned?
No, live studio audience. It's actually quite a good thing to go to, because a lot of good stuff doesn't even make it onto the show.
sloughs in Berkshire not Buckinghamshire....
Minx Crossey True today but i used to be part of Buckinghamshire.
Brem
Did you?
HS W4551 Ha! Apparently I did.
Not always it use it be in buckinghamshire
Swapped in 1974
0:53 hear this again. Remember he's gay.
what does his being gay have to do with it?
What a horrible name , slough.
Stephen gets offended over a gay joke but sexual harassment? Nah that's cool
No one got offended. Well maybe you, but who cares really. The offended can fuck off ;-)
Stephen doesn't get offended at their jokes about him...
This is a hate crime. Rape should never be a joke. Boycott Fry for this hate crime. And don’t pay the licences fee either.
People make fun of literally every crime under the sun, especially assault, robbery and murder, all the time, all of which are also traumatic and imprint a mental scaring onto someone's ability to lead a productive life, but when there's even a vague semblance of humour applied to something sexual, suddenly everyone has a hissy fit, because "pEOPle ACtUalLLy geT RaPEd ItS nOT fUNnY FoR thEm". This selective outrage is the main problem with modern comedy.
Studies have shown that celebrities talking about rape makes it more likely for women to come forward and report it. Presumably you want women to be raped, and not report it? That's pretty disgusting - shame on you.
Making fun of sexual assault ...
It's a fucking comedy show. Lighten up.
Piss off and watch your ‘race relations’ playlist ✊
It's not assault if it happens in the dark.
Go be triggered elsewhere
They’re making fun of the act of sexual assault and those who might do it, not the would-be victims of it.
Excellent episode featuring four men. No coincidence.