My Grandmother and my Mother BOTH kept a ledger with two columns. One was for Christmas Cards sent; the other was for Christmas Cards received. After 3 years of no reciprocal cards, that person's name was permanently deleted from their rosters. Their list (1950s, when an unsealed envelope could be sent for 3 cents in the USA) numbered about 300 at first (we are a large extended family, even today). I don't send ANY cards and I really don't want a lot of friends. My family and a VERY few close non-family members are all I want. Anything else is overkill.
I have hundreds of acquaintances but maybe three friends. To me, friends are people you can count on, people you can screw up around and they don't care, people who ask for your help when they need it. You can lend money to a friend and be sure you will get it back without having to ask. Anything else is all the rest in varying degrees or in other words, an acquaintance.
For me there are good friends, who meet your definition, and there are people you are friends with when you're in the same room. Like the people you were friends with in high school but have barely, if ever, spoken to since.
years ago i read an article that said just that. Most of us have maybe three really GOOD friends, the people who go that extra mile for you, and who you may not see for years, but can just pick up where you left off. Then there is a larger number, neighbours, colleagues, people you mingle with because of circumstance. If you leave the area, the job, whatever, those friendship wither in time. Anyone known to you outside that group is hardly a "friend", just someone whose nae you know, and whose face you recognise.
Agreed, him saying lol is just funny for me. Also his name is Jupitus, it is...well the cover it in another episode but it is kind of Lithuanian, through the spectrum of a disinterested British customs agent who followed getting their names with "Next" during WW2, when they were refugees. A lot of Lithuanian names look Latin though I find.
My reaction was the same. I've never sent that many Christmas cards. Even when I worked in a very large company with almost 200 people just in our department. Nor did anyone else there because I've certainly never received 150 Christmas cards.
2:04 way back in 1986 I was getting ready to send that year's Christmas cards...a total of 25 and realized how expensive it was and never sent them and haven't sent any and haven't received any since!!!
I graduated 12 years ago and all my friends went to out-of-state colleges. My job has only about 10 employees that I ever interact with. I don't have more than a bare few friends, and I do not attend clubs. I'd forget my own name if people didn't keep saying it to me.
I'm pretty sure you've met at least 150 people in your life that you can vaguely remember if you really try to, even if you're a hermit crab. If you haven't you've lived a ludicrously sheltered life. As in, "I was raised in a cave by wolves" levels.
It's deceptive. I thought the same initially, but if I take just one close friend, I also know his parents, his wife, his aunt and uncle, his sister, her husband, and their two kids. So one person has become 10. If that was repeated based on knowing 15 "core" people, you'd have 150 "friends".
Well if the threshold is people I'd go meet at a bar at 3am... the number is much higher. If the number is how would help me bury a body it is significantly lower. However to me a friend is a person who asks "how are you doing? " and is a) willing to hear the honest answer and b) knows if you will actually tell them and asks anyway.
Before the days of Facebook there were various BBS pages, which stands for bulletin board system. Before that, people would post various information on cork boards, poles and walls scattered around communities.
The criteria for who you call a “friend” should be the people you would allow to stay over in your residence for the weekend. There’s lots of acquaintances you’d have any day, but how many of you would you honestly be okay having under your roof for two days?
I heard Chris Cuomo say that to Don Lemon not too long ago actually (both are news presenters on CNN). Cuomo has a self-deprecating sense of humour and he amended something about Don being smart enough to not get in jail and to bail him out later. On different occasions Don (who is black) has also said that if someone said something racist to him he would brush it off, Cuomo would say he would deck the guy for Don and need Don to bail him out, so that might actually work out better, match each others strengths and faults. Also as I recall I think they decided Cuomo's wife would let him wait a night :P
I can’t see myself being in the transit lounge bar at Hong Kong airport at 3:00 a.m., but I don’t think I’d be embarassed to join anyone there ... no more embarrassed than I would be at being there at all.
I consider a friend to be someone who can remember my name two times out of three and doesn't pretend to be on the phone when they meet me unexpectedly.
I heard this before about how many men an officer would be able to efficiently command. With 150 men you'd be able to get to know them decently well (at least well enough to be able to recognize them instantly (not necessarilly by looks, but also by voice)). After that, it'd just be too many. I'd assume that given time you can get to know more than that, but 150 seems to be the amount one can get to know in a reasonable time frame (given enough interaction of course).
There would be a number of officers for a company though, one per 30 men. Companies get commanded by Captains or more senior lieutenants. That organization has nothing to do with being able to recognize or command men, the smallest unit is a squad, which is about 10 (differs between countries and purpose), three of those form a platoon commanded by a lieutenant. According to the Geneva Convention a military unit needs a commissioned officer to function, otherwise they are what we would currently call terrorists, not soldiers, the commission in commissioned officer gives them the responsibility to act on behalf of their countries government, normal soldiers with out that are technically acting independently of their government's supervision and outside the law. Anyways, multiple platoons make a company, 90 men is quite common and has been for hundreds of years, 120 was common in Rome (a maniple), although triarii (a specific, elite type of spearman) were in 60. In the later legions a centurion commanded 80-100 (a century) generally, but senior centurions would command a cohort, a group of centuries, like a modern battalion, 300-500ish, among them other centurions. The smallest unit was normally eight guys. All these numbers are also different for mounted, either Roman cavalry or modern tanks. A modern tank organizes very much like a squad, but with fewer people (three to four generally, depends on the vehicle and country, we prefer to have a loader, the Russians prefer to not have the extra man and have automatic loaders, which are slower), three to four tanks (again, different countries organize differently) to a platoon (which they the cavalry call a trooper, privates are also troopers, sometimes the officers are cornets or something different) with one officer, two to five platoons to a company. Anyways, 150 is quite high is fairly high right now, according to the British government the London Regiment (which is a battalion, it is merely carrying a name) currently has 13 platoons and two sections (the medical and lory drivers, also one platoon is the quartermaster's and one is signals) between five companies. At 28 men per platoon (or less, one guy is a mortarman and they aren't using mortars in Afghanistan apparently, the Brits do use 28 normally anyways, three groups of eight, a radioman, a sergeant, an officer and the mortarman), thats 72 men per company on average, or 77 if we ignore the HQ company. One is also an anti-tank platoon, one is a machine gun platoon and one is a mortar platoon, those tend to have fewer men, so we are falling well short of the 150 average they claim, which is normal for peacetime, in war time units tend to double in size. More platoons per company, more companies per battalion, etc. that is what it looked like during WW2, but in the 30s it resembled this more.
I know an insane amount of people I'd consider acquaintances in my small city but I've lived here my whole life and basically never leave, but there's literally three people in my life I'd look at as friends, not including my partner. But I know bloody everyone.
I would rather have an analogue version of Facebook, although I don't use Facebook myself anyway, but there's less chance of getting hacked in an analogue version! Either way, I would be depressed at seeing how little amount of 'friends' I had on there - Facebook friends tend to be made up of people you didn't like at school, old work colleagues you never liked, new work colleagues you tend to have but you want to keep up with who they are gossiping about, and a section of your family who you live too far away from to ever visit (but if they lived nearer you wouldn't visit them anyway!) I did have Facebook once, in the very early days, when it first came out. Think I had it for about 6 hours before it became annoying and deleted it. When I see how today people can't live without it, constantly checking to see how popular they are, how many messages they have etc, I'm glad I deleted it.
I'd heard the thing about military companies and Facebook friends before, and suspected it might be because of the size of early human communities. At one point, you may have been lucky to even meet more than about 150 people in your lifetime, so that may have been when the Dunbar number was 'set', so to speak.
Probably associated with population density and the amount of work it takes to feed the amount of people. Also, in medieval England, there was a social class called thanes. In the 8th century one thane would have five families under them, they collect "taxes" from them, five families would allow them to live in a lifestyle that allowed them to focus on professional soldiers with all the equipment necessary, although as time went on there was an inflation with the number of people. In less viking parts of the world, like Germany and France they had "knight's fees", where one knight's fee is the amount of land to keep the knight equipped with weapons, armour and a horse (medieval knights were specifically a mounted unit). Also the bit about companies is quite wrong, it depends on the country and war time or peace time. Every company is made up of 2-5 platoons, each platoon is made up of 30ish men, three 10 man squads (which might be fewer, eight is common, depends on country and purpose), plus an officer (a lieutenant or equivalent). Usually they drift towards the two more than the five during peace time, some might be reservist ones. A fully functioning one in a combat situation certainly should be 150 men, but that is not the case for most, which are not actively in a warzone.
Median is the halfway point, right? That means that 50% of people who send Christmas cards send more than 150 Christmas cards. I’m not having that. Mean is much more likely, the number being skewed by massive outliers like companies sending a million+. Americans, who are surely the biggest senders, send 1.6B Christmas cards per year, 6B greeting cards. That’s about 5 Christmas cards each, 20 greetings cards in total.
A good friend will bail you out of jail at 3 o'clock in the morning. A true friend will be sitting next to you in the cell, saying "That was fucking awesome".
that's not really a British thing to say though, most would say a picture of your this/that depending on gender. Only very out of touch people or those saying it that way for comedy would word it that way.
@@3eightiesopinion524 Claxon? Yes they do, I know dozens of Americans that I know for certain know the word claxon, or klaxon, not even counting us Canadians (and then it would probably be hundreds).
It's so nice to see Rich smiling a genuine smile for once. He looks relaxed and happy. None of that grumpy competitive prickliness that's so embarrassing to watch. I do hope the poor lamb's not coming down with something...
I feel like I have lots of friends if we are going by this statistic. If we mean good friend i think of like people i could invite to my home by themselvses. I have a lot of friends i would never invite like that, but maybe hang out with together with others. If we are strictly talking good friends, i think i have about 7 or 8
According to geneticist Ian Franklin and biologist Michael Soulé, 50 is enough to avoid inbreeding. Frédéric Marin did a computer simulation and gave the lower bound 98.
This was a bit insane. I don't send Christmas cards and I don't receive any. I have one very good friend locally, and 40 on Facebook who I either know or started out as friends of friends. Three have passed on but I honour and remember them by keeping their pages. Where on earth are these figures from? I don't have more than a few a acquaintances so I'm really struggling with the origins of this QI claim
Considering how many people send *no* Christmas cards, there've gotta be some people sending *thousands* each to average out to 150.
It would have to be an average of people who do sent out cards, though
Hallmarks Georg, who lives in cave & sends over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
I send about 40.
@@pearkore6821: That wasn't stated in the parameters & should not be assumed.
My Grandmother and my Mother BOTH kept a ledger with two columns. One was for Christmas Cards sent; the other was for Christmas Cards received. After 3 years of no reciprocal cards, that person's name was permanently deleted from their rosters. Their list (1950s, when an unsealed envelope could be sent for 3 cents in the USA) numbered about 300 at first (we are a large extended family, even today). I don't send ANY cards and I really don't want a lot of friends. My family and a VERY few close non-family members are all I want. Anything else is overkill.
I thought he was going to follow up that "I have two good friends" with something like "Well, used to. I have one now."
OHP77 would of have made that joke EVEN better, nice one!
Did that one help him move the other one's body?
I thought he was going to add that he used to have three.
This comment is 2 years old, but i would like to say that i lolled about it just now.
"...It used to be three"
Phil's Planet Express shirt is the real win here.
"Alright! I'm a delivery boy!"
I have hundreds of acquaintances but maybe three friends. To me, friends are people you can count on, people you can screw up around and they don't care, people who ask for your help when they need it. You can lend money to a friend and be sure you will get it back without having to ask. Anything else is all the rest in varying degrees or in other words, an acquaintance.
For me there are good friends, who meet your definition, and there are people you are friends with when you're in the same room. Like the people you were friends with in high school but have barely, if ever, spoken to since.
years ago i read an article that said just that. Most of us have maybe three really GOOD friends, the people who go that extra mile for you, and who you may not see for years, but can just pick up where you left off. Then there is a larger number, neighbours, colleagues, people you mingle with because of circumstance. If you leave the area, the job, whatever, those friendship wither in time. Anyone known to you outside that group is hardly a "friend", just someone whose nae you know, and whose face you recognise.
there was also 150 original pokemon
151 actually.
Pikachu doesn't count he was fucking given the same rights as a Human basically!
there are pokemon that refused to be pokeballs than pikachu - team rockets psyduck as well
I just wanted to say that I'm so glad I wasn't the only nerd who thought of that.
saroachman correct can the original was rhyhorn
3:16 one guy really didn't like the joke
Cause he did that same thing and is ashamed of himself
His wife must have dragged him there.
Because he sent one and now is married to them. He regrets sending that picture.
If that's the definition of "friend", I have about 7 billion friends.
football friend
You've got a friend in me.
Quokka
Is this the right demographic?
-1 ... I'm allergic to pineapple, perhaps in another life.
@Agent J what a buzzkill lol
"Raised a barn today, LOL!" Hahaha!
Must've been a Monday. He'll probably raise another barn soon enough.
People don't comprehend the difference between friends and acquaintances.
0:33 the way I’ve heard it is “a friend will come to your funeral, a good friend will clear your browser history” 😂
Jupiter's original remark about the Amish was the funniest thing I've ever seen that didn't get an audience response.
Agreed, him saying lol is just funny for me.
Also his name is Jupitus, it is...well the cover it in another episode but it is kind of Lithuanian, through the spectrum of a disinterested British customs agent who followed getting their names with "Next" during WW2, when they were refugees. A lot of Lithuanian names look Latin though I find.
If I was in a transit lounge bar at 3AM I'd either be asleep or drunk out of my mind so I'd probably not care.
I expect the point is that the sober person arriving and sitting next to you is what defines them as a friend, whereas everyone avoiding you is not
That "James Taylor" came out really fast.
03:50 "Raised a barn today LOL" Aaahahahaha :)
Alan's reaction to the Christmas cards 😂😂
My reaction was the same. I've never sent that many Christmas cards. Even when I worked in a very large company with almost 200 people just in our department. Nor did anyone else there because I've certainly never received 150 Christmas cards.
2:04 way back in 1986 I was getting ready to send that year's Christmas cards...a total of 25 and realized how expensive it was and never sent them and haven't sent any and haven't received any since!!!
I literally don't know 150 people. Outside of family I probably only know a handful.
Exactly the same. I keep to myself, it's easier that way
You almost certainly do know that many people from school work any clubs family friends anyone where you know their name without guessing
I graduated 12 years ago and all my friends went to out-of-state colleges. My job has only about 10 employees that I ever interact with. I don't have more than a bare few friends, and I do not attend clubs. I'd forget my own name if people didn't keep saying it to me.
I'm pretty sure you've met at least 150 people in your life that you can vaguely remember if you really try to, even if you're a hermit crab. If you haven't you've lived a ludicrously sheltered life. As in, "I was raised in a cave by wolves" levels.
It's deceptive. I thought the same initially, but if I take just one close friend, I also know his parents, his wife, his aunt and uncle, his sister, her husband, and their two kids. So one person has become 10. If that was repeated based on knowing 15 "core" people, you'd have 150 "friends".
Well if the threshold is people I'd go meet at a bar at 3am... the number is much higher. If the number is how would help me bury a body it is significantly lower.
However to me a friend is a person who asks "how are you doing? " and is a) willing to hear the honest answer and b) knows if you will actually tell them and asks anyway.
I think its quite subjective since everyone has differing views as to who a friend is.
Before the days of Facebook there were various BBS pages, which stands for bulletin board system. Before that, people would post various information on cork boards, poles and walls scattered around communities.
BBSes were always a very small, geeky niche, not a widely-used staple like facebook. And posted physical notes are still widely used.
The criteria for who you call a “friend” should be the people you would allow to stay over in your residence for the weekend. There’s lots of acquaintances you’d have any day, but how many of you would you honestly be okay having under your roof for two days?
An acquaintance will help you move a table.
A friend will help you move house.
A true friend will help you move a body.
@@gwishart very true
Phil Jupitus is a Futurama fan.
a good friend will come bail you out of jail. But a true friend will be sitting there next to you, saying, "damn, that was fun."
ultimateninjaboi amen🙏
Bollocks
I heard Chris Cuomo say that to Don Lemon not too long ago actually (both are news presenters on CNN). Cuomo has a self-deprecating sense of humour and he amended something about Don being smart enough to not get in jail and to bail him out later. On different occasions Don (who is black) has also said that if someone said something racist to him he would brush it off, Cuomo would say he would deck the guy for Don and need Don to bail him out, so that might actually work out better, match each others strengths and faults.
Also as I recall I think they decided Cuomo's wife would let him wait a night :P
I haven't sent 150 Christmas cards in my life.
I don’t need friends I just need connections and the more connections I got the closer I can get to my goals in life
how's that going for you?
Oh god that pleasure gauge is absolutely 100% real. The pleasure is measured using the SI pleasure unit kilopleasants
💯 percent agree with Rich
"Friend" is misleading in this context, it would be more accurate to say "people you know" or something along those lines.
Acquaintance
Is Phil wearing a Futurama Tshirt?
Benji M I think so...
Yep it says PLANET EXPRESS, with the ship in the middle.
Absolute chad.
My sister and her husband met on world of Warcraft lol
Lucy Guthrie lol
Lucy Guthrie Relationship goals
I wanna meet a handsome paladin
That’s embarrassing!
I met one of my X's in Dota 2.
Phil has a Planet Express t-shirt!!!!
I love that Phil is wearing a Planet Express shirt
I can’t see myself being in the transit lounge bar at Hong Kong airport at 3:00 a.m., but I don’t think I’d be embarassed to join anyone there ... no more embarrassed than I would be at being there at all.
I think I'd rather be accompanied by anyone than be in a foreign airport on my own
that pleasure meter is the most awkward thing
Raised the barn today! LOL...
i used to have two friends, now i just have one really good friend
I consider a friend to be someone who can remember my name two times out of three and doesn't pretend to be on the phone when they meet me unexpectedly.
I swear that's Hanna Gadsby in the thumbnail photo but turns out it's Phil Jupitus without a beard. 🤣
love allan's shirt
I really thought that Hall was gonna say "I had two good friends.." Or hoped maybe.
I thought he was going to say he'd had to good friends, but now he only has one that will help him bury a body. 😉
Alan knows the drill.
I heard this before about how many men an officer would be able to efficiently command. With 150 men you'd be able to get to know them decently well (at least well enough to be able to recognize them instantly (not necessarilly by looks, but also by voice)). After that, it'd just be too many.
I'd assume that given time you can get to know more than that, but 150 seems to be the amount one can get to know in a reasonable time frame (given enough interaction of course).
There would be a number of officers for a company though, one per 30 men. Companies get commanded by Captains or more senior lieutenants. That organization has nothing to do with being able to recognize or command men, the smallest unit is a squad, which is about 10 (differs between countries and purpose), three of those form a platoon commanded by a lieutenant. According to the Geneva Convention a military unit needs a commissioned officer to function, otherwise they are what we would currently call terrorists, not soldiers, the commission in commissioned officer gives them the responsibility to act on behalf of their countries government, normal soldiers with out that are technically acting independently of their government's supervision and outside the law.
Anyways, multiple platoons make a company, 90 men is quite common and has been for hundreds of years, 120 was common in Rome (a maniple), although triarii (a specific, elite type of spearman) were in 60. In the later legions a centurion commanded 80-100 (a century) generally, but senior centurions would command a cohort, a group of centuries, like a modern battalion, 300-500ish, among them other centurions. The smallest unit was normally eight guys. All these numbers are also different for mounted, either Roman cavalry or modern tanks. A modern tank organizes very much like a squad, but with fewer people (three to four generally, depends on the vehicle and country, we prefer to have a loader, the Russians prefer to not have the extra man and have automatic loaders, which are slower), three to four tanks (again, different countries organize differently) to a platoon (which they the cavalry call a trooper, privates are also troopers, sometimes the officers are cornets or something different) with one officer, two to five platoons to a company. Anyways, 150 is quite high is fairly high right now, according to the British government the London Regiment (which is a battalion, it is merely carrying a name) currently has 13 platoons and two sections (the medical and lory drivers, also one platoon is the quartermaster's and one is signals) between five companies. At 28 men per platoon (or less, one guy is a mortarman and they aren't using mortars in Afghanistan apparently, the Brits do use 28 normally anyways, three groups of eight, a radioman, a sergeant, an officer and the mortarman), thats 72 men per company on average, or 77 if we ignore the HQ company. One is also an anti-tank platoon, one is a machine gun platoon and one is a mortar platoon, those tend to have fewer men, so we are falling well short of the 150 average they claim, which is normal for peacetime, in war time units tend to double in size. More platoons per company, more companies per battalion, etc. that is what it looked like during WW2, but in the 30s it resembled this more.
It's now 10 years later and I can confirm that the prediction about marriages in the US came true! It's 40% actually!
I had two friends now I just have one good friend.
I know an insane amount of people I'd consider acquaintances in my small city but I've lived here my whole life and basically never leave, but there's literally three people in my life I'd look at as friends, not including my partner. But I know bloody everyone.
There are 150 pixels on that background
150 people is the largest possible anarchist grouo (with no formal laws and structures)
There is a Vast gap between the number of people you may consider friends and those you may consider acquaintances.
you can pretend to not know 150 people but if you start naming teachers, politicians, athletes, celebrities, it's pretty easy.
Lincoln invented what could be referred to as an analogue Facebook, so it really isn't that obscure an idea.
I would rather have an analogue version of Facebook, although I don't use Facebook myself anyway, but there's less chance of getting hacked in an analogue version! Either way, I would be depressed at seeing how little amount of 'friends' I had on there - Facebook friends tend to be made up of people you didn't like at school, old work colleagues you never liked, new work colleagues you tend to have but you want to keep up with who they are gossiping about, and a section of your family who you live too far away from to ever visit (but if they lived nearer you wouldn't visit them anyway!) I did have Facebook once, in the very early days, when it first came out. Think I had it for about 6 hours before it became annoying and deleted it. When I see how today people can't live without it, constantly checking to see how popular they are, how many messages they have etc, I'm glad I deleted it.
sadly the figure stephen cited as a prediction 10 years ago is currently at 1 in 5, not 1 in 3
A few close friends and progressively more less and less close. Also depends on the person and their situation.
The guy at 3:15 at the bottom obviously could give a shit that he's there
Merci.
UA-cam, why must you hurt me by recommending this?
I have no friends.
how many i have? none !
You forgot, a soldier will fell ok, going to a bar, in a strange land, with another strange soldier :).
Sounds so very Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Easy, the answer is zero.
I'd heard the thing about military companies and Facebook friends before, and suspected it might be because of the size of early human communities. At one point, you may have been lucky to even meet more than about 150 people in your lifetime, so that may have been when the Dunbar number was 'set', so to speak.
Probably associated with population density and the amount of work it takes to feed the amount of people. Also, in medieval England, there was a social class called thanes. In the 8th century one thane would have five families under them, they collect "taxes" from them, five families would allow them to live in a lifestyle that allowed them to focus on professional soldiers with all the equipment necessary, although as time went on there was an inflation with the number of people. In less viking parts of the world, like Germany and France they had "knight's fees", where one knight's fee is the amount of land to keep the knight equipped with weapons, armour and a horse (medieval knights were specifically a mounted unit).
Also the bit about companies is quite wrong, it depends on the country and war time or peace time. Every company is made up of 2-5 platoons, each platoon is made up of 30ish men, three 10 man squads (which might be fewer, eight is common, depends on country and purpose), plus an officer (a lieutenant or equivalent). Usually they drift towards the two more than the five during peace time, some might be reservist ones. A fully functioning one in a combat situation certainly should be 150 men, but that is not the case for most, which are not actively in a warzone.
Thats excactly what he Said in the video
A friend would lie for you, a true friend would die for you
I wonder whether 150 Christmas cards is actually an average or a median. The latter would make more sense.
Median is the halfway point, right? That means that 50% of people who send Christmas cards send more than 150 Christmas cards. I’m not having that.
Mean is much more likely, the number being skewed by massive outliers like companies sending a million+.
Americans, who are surely the biggest senders, send 1.6B Christmas cards per year, 6B greeting cards. That’s about 5 Christmas cards each, 20 greetings cards in total.
None. I have no friends. I am alone.
Got me interested so I checked and I have exactly 150 friends on Facebook. Stephen is a genius 😂
Who the fuck sends 150 Christmas cards?
A good friend will bail you out of jail at 3 o'clock in the morning. A true friend will be sitting next to you in the cell, saying "That was fucking awesome".
Dunbars number sounds a lot more scientific than monkeysphere...
Who has the time or energy to have 150 friends. I have 2 friends and that's all I need. Well 2 good friends, they wouldn't help me move.
If that's the definition, than I have a nearly infinite number of friends.
Almost any Marine in history.....
Well now I feel like shit. I have like 35 Facebook friends, half of which are family, none of which do I hang out with, and I don't even play WOW.
What a definition of friends 🤣🤣🤣
To quote the comedienne Andi Osho, "online dating is the biggest scam since Nigeria got email."
A friend will come and bail you out of jail. A good friend will be sitting there next to you saying, "damn, that was fun."
0. final answer
the fuck was that Pleasure Meter bit?
Being an American, I've never heard a more British thing than "send a photograph of your genitals"
that's not really a British thing to say though, most would say a picture of your this/that depending on gender. Only very out of touch people or those saying it that way for comedy would word it that way.
You haven't heard a lot of British things then.
Claxon. Americans don't use that word. French people do
@@3eightiesopinion524 Claxon? Yes they do, I know dozens of Americans that I know for certain know the word claxon, or klaxon, not even counting us Canadians (and then it would probably be hundreds).
@@Lowlandlord i know 0. I've been to half the states and never heard it. Canadians use it. Europeans use it. Americans will say alarm, bell or ring.
It's so nice to see Rich smiling a genuine smile for once. He looks relaxed and happy. None of that grumpy competitive prickliness that's so embarrassing to watch.
I do hope the poor lamb's not coming down with something...
I have A LOT of friends
Confirmation bias?
I feel like I have lots of friends if we are going by this statistic. If we mean good friend i think of like people i could invite to my home by themselvses. I have a lot of friends i would never invite like that, but maybe hang out with together with others. If we are strictly talking good friends, i think i have about 7 or 8
Where I'm from the average person has approximately 4 friends & 30 associate's
The christmas card figure must be biased toward the CEO of moonpig
That Facebook figure should be adjusted now
Would have been really funny if also he said he used to have 3 really good friends.
My last 3 partners I met online.
razed the barn today lol
Joe Ksiazek
Ha, that spelling makes it even funnier!
*Reads title*
*Me:* the fuck are friends?!
I send zero cards
I probably haven't known even half of 150 people in my life.
Also 150 Pokemon.
=Nil !
i have no friends :c
With a closed off group of 150 individuals, I wonder how long it takes until incest becomes a problem
According to geneticist Ian Franklin and biologist Michael Soulé, 50 is enough to avoid inbreeding. Frédéric Marin did a computer simulation and gave the lower bound 98.
I have 56 on fb
Laminator Dell I have 900
The average person actually only sends 3 Christmas cards a year. Santa Claus is a statistical oulier and should not have been counted.
This was a bit insane. I don't send Christmas cards and I don't receive any. I have one very good friend locally, and 40 on Facebook who I either know or started out as friends of friends. Three have passed on but I honour and remember them by keeping their pages. Where on earth are these figures from? I don't have more than a few a acquaintances so I'm really struggling with the origins of this QI claim
You sound like a hermit.
People lie bc their insecure about belonging or whatever the sh”t. Most people collect 5-15 good acquaintances/ close friends in their whole life.
I have 4 friends and I write 2 Christmas cards to people in my entire life. But those people are dead now. (Not because of the cards, I think.)
I guess I'm doing something wrong on Facebook. I belong to a Monty Python group, a Mel Brooks group, Canadian Humour group, etc. No luck yet. 🤔🖖💕🙂
150 friends it's the Crisis to be... who wants that ? Not me.... i am introverted!