I was staying in a small family run hotel in Madrid and wasn’t feeling well so called reception. The young lady said that they had a doctor on the staff and sent him to my room. He said it was just a stomach bug and prescribed some pills. I said that I was surprised such a small place had a doctor. He smiled and said “No-one expects the Spanish inn physician”
For the longest time, there were many theories for why birds seemed to disappear during the winter - some more bizarre than others. Some thought the birds were shapeshifters and changed into other animals during the winter lol
This may be an ignorant comment from me but like 200 years ago, why didn’t they assume that flying animals… Flew away during cold periods. I wonder where they went… Also weren’t carrier pigeons a thing before this
@@DiamondHackerz I suppose back then, so little was known about how species actually live; the extent of knowledge primarily involved the human race and that was all. Of course with today's understanding, even the most basic of trivia, we can infer that they migrate. To think back then even the most fundamental knowledge of animal species today wasn't even considered, or reserved to experts
well they probably asked others. "hey france, england, spain! have you seen where our birds have gone? they disappeared again." "no they arnt here. our birds have disappeared aswell." the idea of little creatures traveling thousands of miles, even over oceans, just seemed impossible.
Or perhaps that African hunter decided to follow the stork, thinking: "It has to fall soon, and after all this nuisance, it would be a shame to let it escape..."
How is the stork supposed to catch his food or even drink water with a spear in its head and neck making it impossible to move? Also might have just died of exhaustion and hunger / thirst after it came back. Always assuming the worst only cause "ze Germans". Btw just fyi in 1820 there was no Germany.
Love to see a classic episode of QI with Stephen, Alan, Jo Brand and Jimmy Carr. Really very strange for them to have left a completely empty chair next to Jimmy - usually they have another guest there? What a mystery. Oh well, can't have been anyone important.
It's thanks to this comment and the video description that I found Graham Linehan. Really sad that being anti-transgender cost him his marriage 😞 But it's important that we fight back ✊
I think Alan is wrong about the Spanish Inquisition using impalement. They used various methods of torture - but executions were quite rare (less than 3% of cases) and where generally dealt with by the secular authorities, typically by burning at the stake. Impalement has been used as a punishment by many autocratic regimes, over the centuries; notably within the Ottoman empire; in Europe, it's especially associated with Vlad III of Wallacia, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula (son of the dragon).
I think you're right about the impalement. I have my doubts about the death toll, particularly overseas. The Inquisition went wherever the Empire went.
As far as I know (Early Modern Historian speaking), you are right about all of this. Impalement was a wide-spread form of punishment in Eastern and Eastern central Europe, but I have never ever come across it as something done by the Spanish Inquisition. The westernmost examples of impalement being employed as a judicial punishment of which I know all come from Moravia, where in 1663/64 a number of Christian spies were impaled for having shown Tatar invaders (who had come with the Ottoman army attacking Habsburg fortresses in nearby Hungary and Slovakia) the passes over the White Carpathian mountains - an act of treason that resulted in the subsequent killing and enslavement of thousands of Moravian peasants. Even there, it is possible that this extreme form of punishment was only chosen because it was associated with the same Ottoman Empire in whose attack the defendants had been complicit - at least I am not aware of any other instances of impalement in Moravia/Bohemia/Czechia, or to the West & North of it.
@@chevalierdupapillon Thanks for these details. It sounds as though the use of impalement in the Balkans - for example, by Vlad III - might have been a deliberate use, for dramatic effect, of a notoriously cruel practice that was associated with hated enemies in the East. Public execution, after all, isn't just about killing people - it's political theatre, and terrorism.
@@auturgicflosculator2183 My reference for the rate of executions associated with the Spanish Inquisition is "The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe" by Brian Levack, which is widely respected as accurate. I don't recall any details on figures from overseas - but keep in mind, the Inquisition had no jurisdiction over indigenous peoples.
Maybe look up some of Linehan's opinions - I can't post them here as the comment will be deleted. I don't have strong views on 'trans issues' - unlike seemingly everyone else it seems - but I do remember when homophobes used to say similar things about gay people. I don't think he should be cancelled (I don't think anyone should be), I think he should be criticised.
Fun fact, this is actually the last recorded instance where Graham Linehan went a full four minutes without tweeting something deranged. It was complete fluke that it was caught in camera.
@@acme181169 Graham Linehan has publicly said "almost every central trans figure is a nonce" and that the trans flag uses "paedophiliac colours" designed by a "panty sniffing pervert". I don't have strong views on 'trans issues' - unlike seemingly everyone else it seems - but I do remember when homophobes used to say similar things about gay people.
Linehan desperately needs to see a psychologist. Brilliant writer, but this weird obsession he has is not healthy. Graham Linehan has publicly said "almost every central trans figure is a nonce" and that the trans flag uses "paedophiliac colours" designed by a "panty sniffing pervert". I don't have strong views on 'trans issues' - unlike seemingly everyone else it seems - but I do remember when homophobes used to say similar things about gay people. I don't think he should be cancelled (I don't think anyone should be), I think he should be criticised.
A brilliant clip with Samuel Johnson’s assertion that swallows fly round and round until diving underwater for the winter and Jimmy saying that perhaps Monarch butterflies migrate as caterpillars and that’s why they can’t be seen! 😂😂😂
Graham Linehan has publicly said "almost every central trans figure is a nonce" and that the trans flag uses "paedophiliac colours" designed by a "panty sniffing pervert". I don't have strong views on 'trans issues' - unlike seemingly everyone else it seems - but I do remember when homophobes used to say similar things about gay people.
Linehan desperately needs to see a psychologist. Brilliant writer, but this weird obsession he has is not healthy. Graham Linehan has publicly said "almost every central trans figure is a nonce" and that the trans flag uses "paedophiliac colours" designed by a "panty sniffing pervert". I don't have strong views on 'trans issues' - unlike seemingly everyone else it seems - but I do remember when homophobes used to say similar things about gay people. I don't think he should be cancelled (I don't think anyone should be), I think he should be criticised.
@@TailedFeature Maybe look up some of Linehan's opinions - I can't post them here as the comment will be deleted. I don't have strong views on 'trans issues' - unlike seemingly everyone else it seems - but I do remember when homophobes used to say similar things about gay people. I don't think he should be cancelled (I don't think anyone should be), I think he should be criticised.
The spanish inquisition did not practice impaling nor most forms of torture; it was by no means a nice group of people, their raison d'etre was positively genocidal, but their methods were otherwise & their true purpose was expanding the crown's wealth
Graham Linehan has publicly said "almost every central trans figure is a nonce" and that the trans flag uses "paedophiliac colours" designed by a "panty sniffing pervert". I don't have strong views on 'trans issues' - unlike seemingly everyone else it seems - but I do remember when homophobes used to say similar things about gay people.
First they're talking about storks, then they're talking about the Spanish Inquisition.
I wasn't expecting that.
😂
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
That's a good joke
I was staying in a small family run hotel in Madrid and wasn’t feeling well so called reception. The young lady said that they had a doctor on the staff and sent him to my room. He said it was just a stomach bug and prescribed some pills. I said that I was surprised such a small place had a doctor. He smiled and said “No-one expects the Spanish inn physician”
Beat me to it 😂
For the longest time, there were many theories for why birds seemed to disappear during the winter - some more bizarre than others.
Some thought the birds were shapeshifters and changed into other animals during the winter lol
This may be an ignorant comment from me but like 200 years ago, why didn’t they assume that flying animals… Flew away during cold periods. I wonder where they went…
Also weren’t carrier pigeons a thing before this
@@DiamondHackerz I suppose back then, so little was known about how species actually live; the extent of knowledge primarily involved the human race and that was all. Of course with today's understanding, even the most basic of trivia, we can infer that they migrate.
To think back then even the most fundamental knowledge of animal species today wasn't even considered, or reserved to experts
Odd that they thought 'birds disappear or submerge in water in winter' before they thought 'maybe they go somewhere else'.
Apparently, they also thought the birds turned into mice or other kinds of birds, according to the wikipedia page.
well they probably asked others.
"hey france, england, spain! have you seen where our birds have gone? they disappeared again."
"no they arnt here. our birds have disappeared aswell."
the idea of little creatures traveling thousands of miles, even over oceans, just seemed impossible.
@@NeilLewis77the fact humans are lying about this is insanity though 😂
Imagine the African hunter had been searching for the stork for a few days, because he was SURE it's fallen somewhere nearby...
Or perhaps that African hunter decided to follow the stork, thinking: "It has to fall soon, and after all this nuisance, it would be a shame to let it escape..."
"Your brother carved that spear just for you, and now you've gone and lost it." -the hunter's mother
The storks have to get babies somehow... STI's are just an occupational hazard.
Stork Throat Injuries?
😂😂😂
😂@@vegancam
Stork Transported Infants? 🤣🤣😂😂
So basically, this bird raised a very important point... :P
So the stork survives with a spear through his body and a flight from Africa to Germany, only for the Germans to kill him and put him in a museum.
😂
How is the stork supposed to catch his food or even drink water with a spear in its head and neck making it impossible to move? Also might have just died of exhaustion and hunger / thirst after it came back. Always assuming the worst only cause "ze Germans". Btw just fyi in 1820 there was no Germany.
Love to see a classic episode of QI with Stephen, Alan, Jo Brand and Jimmy Carr. Really very strange for them to have left a completely empty chair next to Jimmy - usually they have another guest there? What a mystery. Oh well, can't have been anyone important.
Wow, you really showed them.
It's thanks to this comment and the video description that I found Graham Linehan.
Really sad that being anti-transgender cost him his marriage 😞
But it's important that we fight back ✊
@@BerylLx That's not sad at all - he deserves all the crap he gets for his bigoted nonsense
You don't really object to Grahams opinion on the trans issue, you object because he's anti woke.
@@BerylLx Ask his ex- why they broke up.
It showed how far Birds can migrate.
I know there's a live audience but......
3:29 that's some canned laughter, isn't it?
Probably a laugh from elsewhere in the recording.
I think Alan is wrong about the Spanish Inquisition using impalement. They used various methods of torture - but executions were quite rare (less than 3% of cases) and where generally dealt with by the secular authorities, typically by burning at the stake. Impalement has been used as a punishment by many autocratic regimes, over the centuries; notably within the Ottoman empire; in Europe, it's especially associated with Vlad III of Wallacia, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula (son of the dragon).
Back in the halcyon days when QI was still Interesting, funny and watchable.
I think you're right about the impalement. I have my doubts about the death toll, particularly overseas. The Inquisition went wherever the Empire went.
As far as I know (Early Modern Historian speaking), you are right about all of this. Impalement was a wide-spread form of punishment in Eastern and Eastern central Europe, but I have never ever come across it as something done by the Spanish Inquisition. The westernmost examples of impalement being employed as a judicial punishment of which I know all come from Moravia, where in 1663/64 a number of Christian spies were impaled for having shown Tatar invaders (who had come with the Ottoman army attacking Habsburg fortresses in nearby Hungary and Slovakia) the passes over the White Carpathian mountains - an act of treason that resulted in the subsequent killing and enslavement of thousands of Moravian peasants. Even there, it is possible that this extreme form of punishment was only chosen because it was associated with the same Ottoman Empire in whose attack the defendants had been complicit - at least I am not aware of any other instances of impalement in Moravia/Bohemia/Czechia, or to the West & North of it.
@@chevalierdupapillon Thanks for these details. It sounds as though the use of impalement in the Balkans - for example, by Vlad III - might have been a deliberate use, for dramatic effect, of a notoriously cruel practice that was associated with hated enemies in the East. Public execution, after all, isn't just about killing people - it's political theatre, and terrorism.
@@auturgicflosculator2183 My reference for the rate of executions associated with the Spanish Inquisition is "The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe" by Brian Levack, which is widely respected as accurate. I don't recall any details on figures from overseas - but keep in mind, the Inquisition had no jurisdiction over indigenous peoples.
I never knew that butterflies migrated. I just thought they died when winter came. 🤔
Even more amazing: Monarch butterflies migrate over _multiple generations_.
Of course African swallows are non-migratory, so they could have possibly brought the coconuts, it would have to come with the stork.
It impaled the coconuts with the arrow.
Chlamydia was my first thought as well 😆.
Thanks.
I feel a few folk want to approve of airbrushing people from history. We know how that ended.
Maybe look up some of Linehan's opinions - I can't post them here as the comment will be deleted.
I don't have strong views on 'trans issues' - unlike seemingly everyone else it seems - but I do remember when homophobes used to say similar things about gay people.
I don't think he should be cancelled (I don't think anyone should be), I think he should be criticised.
How
Informational and funny 😆 , a good combo for comedy programs. The British people are smart people.
Fun fact, this is actually the last recorded instance where Graham Linehan went a full four minutes without tweeting something deranged. It was complete fluke that it was caught in camera.
Almost as though that's not all there is to him.
When you say deranged, do you mean being anti surgical intervention in children's lives?
@@Varrik159 At time of recording? Maybe. At time of commenting? Nope.
@@acme181169 Graham Linehan has publicly said "almost every central trans figure is a nonce" and that the trans flag uses "paedophiliac colours" designed by a "panty sniffing pervert".
I don't have strong views on 'trans issues' - unlike seemingly everyone else it seems - but I do remember when homophobes used to say similar things about gay people.
Linehan desperately needs to see a psychologist. Brilliant writer, but this weird obsession he has is not healthy.
Graham Linehan has publicly said "almost every central trans figure is a nonce" and that the trans flag uses "paedophiliac colours" designed by a "panty sniffing pervert".
I don't have strong views on 'trans issues' - unlike seemingly everyone else it seems - but I do remember when homophobes used to say similar things about gay people.
I don't think he should be cancelled (I don't think anyone should be), I think he should be criticised.
A brilliant clip with Samuel Johnson’s assertion that swallows fly round and round until diving underwater for the winter and Jimmy saying that perhaps Monarch butterflies migrate as caterpillars and that’s why they can’t be seen! 😂😂😂
Survived the arrow in Africa to get killed and stuffed in Germany.
What did Johnson mean? African or European?
just when you forget THAT guy exists... there he is 🙄
Lol grow up
@@TailedFeature you first ;)
Graham Linehan has publicly said "almost every central trans figure is a nonce" and that the trans flag uses "paedophiliac colours" designed by a "panty sniffing pervert".
I don't have strong views on 'trans issues' - unlike seemingly everyone else it seems - but I do remember when homophobes used to say similar things about gay people.
Linehan desperately needs to see a psychologist. Brilliant writer, but this weird obsession he has is not healthy.
Graham Linehan has publicly said "almost every central trans figure is a nonce" and that the trans flag uses "paedophiliac colours" designed by a "panty sniffing pervert".
I don't have strong views on 'trans issues' - unlike seemingly everyone else it seems - but I do remember when homophobes used to say similar things about gay people.
I don't think he should be cancelled (I don't think anyone should be), I think he should be criticised.
@@TailedFeature Maybe look up some of Linehan's opinions - I can't post them here as the comment will be deleted.
I don't have strong views on 'trans issues' - unlike seemingly everyone else it seems - but I do remember when homophobes used to say similar things about gay people.
I don't think he should be cancelled (I don't think anyone should be), I think he should be criticised.
The spanish inquisition did not practice impaling nor most forms of torture; it was by no means a nice group of people, their raison d'etre was positively genocidal, but their methods were otherwise & their true purpose was expanding the crown's wealth
Well nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
@@PotentiallyAndy KLAXON!!!
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Actually a German That had been to Africa,brought back an arrow and thought “That Stork looks tasty!”
But African spears are non-migratory!
No, don't bring Graham Linehan on.
Graham Linehan has publicly said "almost every central trans figure is a nonce" and that the trans flag uses "paedophiliac colours" designed by a "panty sniffing pervert".
I don't have strong views on 'trans issues' - unlike seemingly everyone else it seems - but I do remember when homophobes used to say similar things about gay people.
How Did This Bird Change History? | QI. 25.11.24. He's got a stork on.........how big is that.....?
Oh look it's the guy who was so relentlessly transphobic his wife and child left him.