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This clip is from QI Series P, Episode 4, 'Parts' with Sandi Toksvig, Alan Davies, Ed Balls, Sara Pascoe and Johnny Vegas - Розваги
I was told some people eat the placenta to get the nutrients back from the pregnancy, I would tell them a majority of those nutrients did not go into that placenta. Eat the baby.
Think of the 250+k you save on having to put up with the damn rugrat.
To those people, I say get out and wash off my vomit
The Other, Other white meat. I want my baby back baby back baby back.... ribs
The laughter of sandy alone makes these clips great. 😅 So Gleeful. Also great panel. Alan taking one for the team, as it's tradition. 😊
What Is The Most Useful Organ?
A pipe organ!
I was going to say the mighty Wurlitzer!😆
Don’t give up the day job
Too late. I already quit, got a whiteboard, and now stand out on the corner, writing jokes and hoping I get donations.
@@brianm6337 didn't Sandy say that it started with the letter P though?
'A Pipe Organ' starts with the letter A.
Why did J. S. Bach have so many children?
His organ didn't have any stops! 😁
Sarah's cardigan is divine ❤
Hammond organs are very useful although quite bulky and they require careful consideration before moving.
They sound good too
Transplants can be hell tho.
Take it away, scutters
I needed this today thanks :)
SNL had a "Placenta Helper" skit in the '70s that never ran, due to censorship.
Censorship??
@@zapkvr Of the Standards And Practices variety, one assumes
@@TheGreatAtario idk - was Scientology a thing then? The only people I've ever heard of eating placenta were, allegedly, Tom Cruise and them.
@@zapkvr Contrary to popular belief the US is not the bastion of freedom everyone thinks it is, there are lots of things that can not be shown on TV for example.
Is the skin classed as an organ because i'd say that, regulates temperature, protects against infections and damage, filters the blood, prevents water loss and is used your whole life rather than only before birth.
Don't know about you, but I currently value my heart higher than a placenta.
johnny vegas is a delight
And WHAT A Gentleman, amirite?
Who?
Very Gwyneth Paltrow…
Thanks to putting the word goop in my head her name now always reminds me of the 90's dance tune "Doop".
This vid was suggested to me like 5 times in a day. Yep, worth the click.
The way Ed looks at Johnny 😂
Cold placenta sandwiches the next morning...
😳😰🤭🤢🤮
Something tells me, someone in Scotland has deep fried a placenta.
Oh for sure.
A foot-cranked organ, because you can exercise as you annoy the neighbours with you organy tunes, unless it's Bee Theme, because who doesn't love that little ditty... :D
Hammond b3!
I mean... the brain is the most useful organ I would think
Yea but with out the heart the brain is pretty much useless
Yes, but only when used, so that drops it a few ranks due to the infrequency.
It doesn't start with a p unless you're a pea brain, nyuk nyuk.
@@CricketEnglandWithout the rest of the body every organ is pretty much useless.
Not for some people.
Captions would be appreciated
Corn-fed
I'm fairly sure the word Ed was going for was cultivated, not curated.
Isn't the photo of the male swimmer Johnny Weissmuller?
Looks like it. From his days as an Olympic contester.
I think it's Ivor Biggun
@@stephengreen3367 Not Biggus Dickus?
Personally, I don’t think any amount of pseudoscience around placentas is gonna make me commit cannibalism
Exactly! It's weird how this is somehow acceptable when eating any other discarded human organ would get you shunned from all society. Trendy bollocks beats rational consistency once again...
I can respect not wanting to eat placenta, I wouldn't. But is it cannibalism?
I mean, you'd get millions of someone's cells from snogging, and folks don't consider snogging a form of cannibalism despite the fact it involves another humsns cells getting consumed.
Though the placenta is made by humsn body, in a sense I think of it more like an adaptor plug or charging cable, rather than the appliance itself.
@aodhanmonaghan4664
The difference is that the purpose of snogging does not require culinary preparation lol.
Also, the placenta being an organ is offal that requires preparation like other offal and meat. The placenta's purpose does not change anything.
@natashagoode501 you're approaching cannibalism from a culinary perspective.
I was approaching it from a legal perspective. For instance, to my knowledge, no individual has been imprisoned for cannibalism after being caught biting their own fingernails, despite fingernails being undeniably part of a human, with cells and DNA.
The PURPOSE of the consumption of human tissue is generally seen as irrelevant.
Whilst Hannibal Lecter might discuss the subject of cannibalism by musing about wine pairings etc, I don't think it's unreasonable to approach the topic from the perspective of the law, as most people would
@aodhanmonaghan4664 negatories. My reasoning is from a legal perspective. Nails aren't an organ, nor are shedded dead skin cells which are the waste product of the skin organ. There is a legal definition of cannibalism that is fairly consistent across all jurisdictions. Self-cannibalism is also a thing, but a discussion for another time.
The issue raised on QI referred to the consumption of other people's placentas (placentas are legally defined as an organ) for the taste and enjoyment. And that is the issue here.
What is the answer
Placenta.
@@krashd how??
How is eating a placenta not considered cannibalism?
It would be self-cannibalism, which many people already commit with anxiety in hair and fingernails or by children with nasal secretions.
It could be considered cannibalism, but cannibalism is often not explicitly a crime in and of itself. Courts can still prosecute it as desecration if a body and possibly murder, but I think they’re hesitant to criminalize the act itself due to its likelihood in the moral grey area that is imminent starvation.
Ya know... there's almost a market for mock placenta.
Or
Impossible brand placenta! *ew* For the vegans who want all the taste, but none of the fuss.
@@CharlieQuartz That would only apply if it was saved for the baby to eat once it was older.
@@urkerab Ah my mistake I assumed the placenta was an organ made by the mother, but it is a product of the fetus
OK
"Cannibalic" food: placenta
😨
Day 900000 of asking for subtitles on QI videos
u wot
@@SmashPortal It's true. Aristophanes references the lack of subtitles on QI in several of his plays.
Agree to op. Mostly to learn new words as english isnt my native tounge.
@@BadgerUKvideo Come now, don't exaggerate. They only said 900,000 days. 318 BCE.
Of course, as everyone (with Google) knows, Aristophanes died in 386 BCE.
Now, your Cicero, he *was* always banging on about subtitles in QI!
I messaged the QI support email about the constant freezings that were happening (which they responded to), and those seemed to have stopped. You could try that to see what they say.
Wouldn’t eating a human placenta make you a cannibal? I’m not entirely sure that’s something to strive for…
I'm a landscaper, and we once had a customer throw her baby's placenta in the hole we had dug for a tree we had just planted for her....that tree later died, soooo, bad omen?
We later replaced it eventually
It festered and choked the tree with germs and putrid mess of proteins, of course. Fertilizers are what comes out of the whole process, when the mineralization is finished.
No such thing as a superfood.
Oh, yes there is. I've cooked things that could withstand a 200 kiloton nuke before.
So we can’t survive on just clean water and organically grown avocados?
@@smoothrocky1847 Add a pinch of salt. You'll be fine. 😉
@@brianm6337- Depends on the water source dun dun dun
The Aztecs ate a green algae called tecuitlatl, which you can buy today under the name spirulina. It looks like moist green powdered paint and smells like a pier, but it is one of the healthiest foods known to exist. They were also very fond of sarcasm, even their public proclamations would be sarcastic, sometimes. Two random facts, how many points do I get for that?
The people I'd heard about eating placenta stew was vegans. It's the only meat that doesn't require harming the creature it came from. It's ethics combined with missing eating meat, not a desire for health benefits.
Johnny’s comedy style is basically acting drunk
And like an idiot. He's probably quite intelligent though... Or it's not actually an act 😂
Hmmmm maybe🤣
Nah. That used to be his style, now he's more "bloke who's just woken up and is remembering all the things he did last night, but who is more curious than ashamed."
Gonk
Actually Sandy is incorrect. The placenta is not "made by a woman", it is part of the foetus. It has the same DNA as the foetus. The mother provides nutrients through the placenta but the placenta is very much made by the baby, and is part of the baby until it is cut.
One could easily argue that neither the fetus nor the placenta are created without a woman's body. Therefore, Sandy's comment is true.
But I know better than to say that and get involved in a gender war.
@@sburch1529 made in a woman ≠ made by a woman. Once fertilisation occurs, aside from resources and storage space, the fœtus makes itself
@@aodhanmonaghan4664the same could be said about your other organs. You just provided resources and space to the stem cells and, *poof*, now you've got a spleen.
Isn't that cannibalism?
Turn up at the Labor Unit with a cool-box and a hopeful expression ???
'Labor' surely?
@@Tao_Tology
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Um ... yeah.
Actually.
I'll just fix it.
*Imagines the delivery room where the woman's hollering "Don't throw that out! Those are the tasty bits!"*
@@Tao_TologyUmm... No? Only if you're American. Labour is the accepted British spelling for all meanings of the word.
The reason why they say "there's no reason to do it" is because we have food. Grocery stores. You can just eat literally anything else. For mammals in the wild, a mother eating her placenta is a great way to easily reclaim nutrients and calories that were spent on gestation, that doesn't require hunting or foraging. Humans do not need to hunt nor forage, so you don't need to autocannabilize after birthing to get back up to speed.
Not every human can easily access food just as food is not a scarcity for every wild animal.
@@krashd if a human being in the modern world has to resort to eating a placenta after giving birth something has gone terribly wrong
Nope.
Animals eat it so na to indicate new life.
Animals that prey on young have ONE less indication that young vulnerable life B available to eat. We all have to eat. ❤
what is a pontch?= what the hell are they talking about at the beginning?
Paunch, a beer belly.
@@robertredmond8709 thank you 😂
Take a look a Jeremy Clarkson now that’s a paunch
It's a California State Trooper.
Paunch (n.) : a dancer's friend
Casual cannibalism
This clip proves that one pillar of humor is abject disgust.
It was proved long ago. As exhibit one I present Derek & Clive.
I have never heard of this practice of eating placenta🤢 ...guess that explains my lack of money
What a lot of QI viewers don't get is that most if its questions are entertainment clickbait, both on TV and UA-cam vids.
"What is most useful human organ?" is a teaser for laughs. I first thought, "Well in what context?". Reproduction? Life support? Auto immune disease protection? Then I wondered if this whole segment wasn't designed for the klaxon upon Alan saying penis, or the later derogatives about placenta eating "being stupid".
Someone in production thinks these topics up ... primarily for ratings based on amusement ... or to "say something", like mocking minority lifestyle choices. All rather contrived if you ask me.
PS, And why is a placenta any different to eating liver (lambs fry), tripe, or haggis?
Um, because one is definitely cannibalism? But the others are disgusting too in their own right.
1. Clearly, many organs are vital. The placenta takes on - at least for a certain period - the role of many of these vital organs. So arguably it its three vital organs at once, so the argument does make some kind of sense.
2. A "minority" isn't just a group with few people in it. Instead, it's a term describing a lack of institutional power (which is why non-crappy stated protect the rights of minorities as they cannot easily protect themselves). "Rich idiot" might be a minority in terms of numbers, but definitely not when it comes to power. So pretending that this is an attack on somebody that needs protection is laughable at best.
3. Cannibalism is a major factor when it comes to the development of diseases. So it's like you were calling driving without a seat belt a minority lifestyle choice. Yes, few people do it. And it's stupid and dangerous.
@@DonoVideoProductions
Nonsense. Cannibalism is just a morai distinction between human and non human meat. It's a false moral judgement. Served placenta vs liver vs sheep's brains blindfolded, you wouldn't know the difference. In a jungle air crash, what are ya gunna choose -- death by starvation or a bit of human protein.
@@DrZaius3141
Infantile strawman. I never suggested minorities needed protection. Lol.
And where on earth did you learn that nonsense about diseases via human flesh.
She said you can eat it, it's just not a "superfood" or high in nutrients.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence 😂😂
And both absence of evidence AND evidence of absence are not a support to the claim.
Anyhoo, no studies have shown that there _is_ a benefit, which is a much stronger indicator than "maybe......somewhere"
Absence of evidence can be evidence of absence if there *should* be evidence.
@@Varrik159 Absolutely! 😃
But researchers have limited time and resources. So, they are limited in what they can study. If any studies were done on this, they can only comment on what they had initially set out to study. It just so happens that there are no benefits which were being looked out for. That does not mean some future study will not show evidence for some benefit somewhere 😁
Unwatchable
But yet
I’m so done with all this misandry …
Johnny was on fire here 🤣