QI fact of the day
 

on the bbc website they have the QI fact of the day .. that is if you havent shrunk it .. well todays is ....

QI Fact of the Day

According to insurance statistics, the most dangerous cars are green and driven by the Chinese.


So how did they work that out .. from the delivery drivers from your local chinese .. Mayflowers delivery driver drives a silver car .. :D:D:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

I dunno ... maybe the Chinese govt. encourages dangerous driving as a means of population control.:confused: And green cars are hard to see, unless they have day time running lights.

Re: QI fact of the day
 

I drove a bright green VW beetle for many years - had one shunt - the other car was a write off - but beetles were built like tanks:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

On QI last night,

"Madam, can I smell your pussy?"

"Certainly Not"

"Oh, it must be your feet then."

Re: QI fact of the day
 

That is older than well erm ..........................................

Re: QI fact of the day
 

This has been common knowledge for years..it's a well known fact that most people "in the know" steer well clear of Chinese people driving green cars. :)

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Todays QI fact of the day ...

Wild boars can be repelled by playing Britney Spears's song "Oops!...I did it again" at them.


No wonder they can be repelled .. think the deaf are the only ones who can listen to that ...:D:D:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

"Hell is a place where the motorists are French, the Policemen are German & the cooks are English" Anon. :D :D :D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

mcdonalds is teh worlds largest toy manufacturer.

whod have thunk it ? :)

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Cashman?:D:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Bife , is Portuguese slang for British males, leaning heavily on the British fondness for Roast Beef, our ladies are known as Bifas. :rolleyes:

Re: QI fact of the day
 

although not measured it is safe to assume it would take some licking :eek:

Re: QI fact of the day
 

hahahahahaha

Re: QI fact of the day
 

stones in glasshouses ? :confused::D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

like you'd know :D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

I always watch Britney Spears with the sound turned off:rolleyes:

Re: QI fact of the day
 

I think Flashy, he's attempting your Einstein quote :rolleyes:


"Imagination is more important than knowledge" seems to equate:)

Re: QI fact of the day
 

The expression "Robbing Peter to pay Paul" comes from a time when land belonging to Westminster Abbey (dedicated to St.Peter) was sold to raise money for repairs to St.Pauls Cathedral.


Taken from "A Miscellany of Britain" by Tom O'Meara

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Not sure you are correct Dave... I thought it was robbing the Peter (Gas Meter) to pay Paul (the bloke who owned the off licence round the corner). ;)

Re: QI fact of the day
 

thats what i always said, but then gas meters weren't around way back, so i'll give him that.:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

OK Mancie I'll allow some deviance on the ins & outs, it's probably a regional thing I would imagine. :) or a modern day equivalent:rolleyes:

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Another one from the bbc ..

Top hats have been fashionable for almost 200 years, but when the first one was worn in 1797 by James Heatherington, he was immediately arrested and fined 50 pounds for behaving in a manner 'calculated to frighten timid people'.


When was the last time you saw someone wearing a top hat .. besides at a wedding ..

Re: QI fact of the day
 

does the guy on the monopoly board count ?

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Quite often over here (Germany) the chimney sweeps do, well some of them, usually the old boys "Masters in their craft" sort of thing wear them as a tradition :)

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Today's quote "A broad definition of crime in England is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper classes" Anthony Jay

Re: QI fact of the day
 

todays on the bbc website:

25% of the world's sheep are fat-tailed.

There are in Arabia two kinds of sheep worthy of admiration, the like of which are nowhere else to be seen. One kind has long tails no less than four and a half feet long which, if they were allowed to trail along the ground, would be bruised and develop sores. As it is, the shepherds have enough skill in carpentry to make little carts for their sheep's tail. The carts are placed under the tails, each sheep having one to himself. HERODOTUS


so who gets close enough to the sheep to decide if theyre fat tailed .. and how ..
i can see this going to the over 18s ..

Re: QI fact of the day
 

It's easier to just slap you and remove it :p

Re: QI fact of the day
 

you wouldnt and as its on the bbc website .. how can you say that its not suitable for aw ... especially as its in anything goes ..

Re: QI fact of the day
 

you said you were waiting for it to move to over 18's lol not me

Re: QI fact of the day
 

so who gets close enough to the sheep to decide if theyre fat tailed .. and how ..
i can see this going to the over 18s ..

I believe that'd be the Welsh then !!:smack: :D :D

Guess that's another group I've upset then !! :p

Re: QI fact of the day
 

The late journalist Bill Deedes' father, Herbert, inherited Saltwood Castle and thousands of acres of Kent but, unable to cope with life after the Boer War, lost the lot. As his father had no money to educate him, Bill joined the Morning Post in 1931. He thus became the first member of his family for 500 years to do an actual job.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. JERRY SEINFELD

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Did you realize, that a Country famous for its' Champagne, Cognac & Wines (France) has more "Whisky Distilleries" than Ireland ?? :cheers:

Re: QI fact of the day
 

I think we should have a rule against mentioning France :D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Hoody Blell Cashy, how old are you, no gas meters back when, first gas meter I ever remember was back in 1935, you put pennies in a slot and turned a key, then a dial showed you how much you'd put in, emergency pennies were kept on a shelf next to the meter.
Retlaw.

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Wrong, its the Scots, thats why they wear kilts.

Retlaw.

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Ok, I can live with that, should they need to be mentioned though for whatever reason can the term "cheese eating surrender monkeys" ( Quote from Jeremy Clarkson) be deemed acceptable ??? :rolleyes:


Chalk up another section of the populace: idunno: :bingobang

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Those lousy slapper two timing sheep !!! :D Holiday fling was it ?? :biggrin8:

Re: QI fact of the day
 

another one :D:D:D


The fathers of Christopher Marlowe (1564-93), Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75) and Louis Braille (1809-1852) were all cobblers.

My father had a profound influence on me: he was a lunatic. SPIKE MILLIGAN

Re: QI fact of the day
 

If its good enough for the BBC how could we not accept it :D:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Good call, well considered & a sensible common sense decision made, you will go far young man :alright: continue your sterling work !!! :D :D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

another one ..:D:D:D


US comedian George Carlin's mother took him and his five year old elder brother and ran away from his father when George was less than one year old. His father died when he was 10, although Carlin didn't remember him. Carlin claims his earliest memory is sitting in the family living room listening to a partial eclipse of the sun on the radio.

Whoever has not got a good father should procure one. FRIEDRICH NIETSCHE

Re: QI fact of the day
 

His father died when he was 10?:confused: How old was he when George was born?:confused::confused::D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

another one folks .. :D:D:D

In Irish, fear means man and bean means woman.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. MARIE CURIE

Re: QI fact of the day
 

another one :D:D:D:

Human beings are born with only two inbuilt fears: the fear of loud noises and the fear of falling. All other fears are abnormal and have to be learned

Everything is so dangerous that nothing is really frightening. GERTRUDE STEIN.

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Is that one from Japan?:confused::D:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

i was thinking more about the panic the researchers feel when their pint glass is nearly empty ....:D:D:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Slightly O/T, I never really understood the half full/half empty debate so one night in the pub we decided to sort it out once and for all. It was eventually concluded that it depends whether your glass is being filled or emptied at the time but I'm still none the wiser as to why that makes people either optimists or pessimists.

Re: QI fact of the day
 

One for the researchers, some days ago someone mentioned they wished they could have an "ology", well Gentlemen you can :eek: in your line of work the title "Tegestology" should be quite suitable :) your qualifications should be quite literally lying around you !!! :D :D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

another one for you ...

Deipnophobia is the fear of dinner party conversations.

All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required". DAVE BARRY

I always thought that was being shy ... rather than Deipnophobia ... :D:D:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

You were well fetched up then - taught not to speak with your mouth full.
I think that the guest opposite spraying his meal in your direction is enough to turn anyone deipnophobic

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Make your mind up,see post #44:confused::D:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Triskeidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.

Diphallic terrata is the condition of being born with two penises (penii?).

Re: QI fact of the day
 

heres another one .. and you cant say anyone who's a member of this site has this fear ..:D:D:D

Allodoxaphobia is the fear of opinions.

I prefer my people to be loyal out of fear rather than conviction. Convictions can change but fear remains. JOSEF STALIN

Re: QI fact of the day
 

So what is the fear of following through when farting?

Re: QI fact of the day
 

"Your search - diarrheaology - did not match any documents".

PS diarrheaphobia does

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Blast that is me goosed then :(

Re: QI fact of the day
 

I should have searched for a phobia, not an ology

Try this
The Phobia List
Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of painful bowels movements.
Scatophobia- Fear of fecal matter.

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Acrophobia is fear of heights, which remarkably few people know.

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Usually if constipated that might apply.

That is a certainty when being bombed by seagulls.

Re: QI fact of the day
 

It appears that the high brow intentions of passing on gems of useless information has indeed "gone down the pan" & the expression "talking sh**e" seems to be taking on some significance. :)

Re: QI fact of the day
 

heres another ...:D:D:D

Thassophobia is the fear of sitting. Papyrophobia is the fear of paper. Ecophobia is the fear of home. Euphobia is the fear of hearing good news.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost. LLOYD DOUGLAS

Re: QI fact of the day
 

And Phobophobia ??? :D :D :D You guessed it a phobia of phobias :clown:

Re: QI fact of the day
 

heres another ...:D:D:D

There are 47 species of feline, including lions, tigers, pumas, bobcats, ocelots, jaguars, leopards, cougars, cheetahs, lynxes and domestic cats.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece. LEONARDO DA VINCI

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Been a bit quiet on here for a bit so time for some reanimation . :)

No word in the English Language rhymes with Pint, Diamond or Purple !! :D :D

Go on I know you'll be googling & looking in Dictionaries. :thankya:

Re: QI fact of the day
 

or Orange!

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Well I might ..Then again I Mint' not..lol... 1 down 2 to go!!!!!!!

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Don't need to as I Hirple all the time:tongueout:D:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

lol...:D:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Angle Iron, Benipete you two really need some electrocution lessons, you really do !! :D :D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

And month and silver. :)

Re: QI fact of the day
 

KURPLE - how's that then:rolleyes::D:D

Now put your cap on and stand in the corner:D:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

I'll let you have that one, although it isn't out of the pages of the "Concise Oxford", credit where it's due you dragged it out of somewhere "Urban", you hip & down wiv da kids or wot Man !! :hippy:

Re: QI fact of the day
 

No I went to Skerton school in Lancaster and passed G C E 's when they had a meaning.:rolleyes:
We took them at the age of 15 in those days:theband::D:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Ahh....... GCE's & O'levels, I remember those. Ask the kids now & they'll ask you what songs have they done ? or what computer game's it from. I don't know the loss of a generation. :(

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Anyway to get back on track, did you know ? the "RED SEA".......... isn't !! :D:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

It most certainly is.:mosher:

Re: QI fact of the day
 

and the Black Sea isn't either......though the Dead Sea maybe.:)

Re: QI fact of the day
 

They all:mosher: are:rolleyes:

Re: QI fact of the day
 

ok folks a new one for you ...

In ancient Greek, paignia dorkalidon (lit. 'antelope playthings') are dice made from the vertebrae of a gazelle.

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.


now try saying paignia dorkalidon when you've had a few in the railway ... :D:D:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Trivia (a Roman Goddess) to whom sacrifices were offered at crossroad. Due to travellers engaging in gosssip at such places, her name Trivia (3 roads coming together) became associated with such information.

(taken from "The ultimate loo book"" by Mitchell Symons. :biggrin8:)

Re: QI fact of the day
 

How about ya Shill ? or are you waiting for St.Pats on Wednesday ? :D :thepint:

Re: QI fact of the day
 

here you go dave .. another from the bbc website ...

Only two people have ever won both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) and Al Gore (1948-).

No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Re: QI fact of the day
 

well to say ive ran for being a councillor and failed twice i must say (before anyone else gets in with it) .. i mustnt have dieted enough ..:D:D:D:D:D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

im a lancashire lass with irish ancestry .. though it is northern irish .. mother and father from co armagh .. which you may know the area .. i'll come up with something for st paddys day ..

like guinness in ireland tastes nothing like the guinness you get over here ... mind you it tastes horrible anyway .. preferred Black Bush over the black horrible stuff .. expensive tastes i have ... :D:D:D but thats my irish cousins fault he introduced me to that ..

Re: QI fact of the day
 

got these from this website: ireland facts

In olden days, a pig was often allowed to live in the house with the family on an Irish farm. He (or she) was commonly referred to as "the gentleman who pays the rent."

The longest place name in Ireland is Muckanaghederdauhaulia, in County Galway. Try saying that when your drunk .. i cant even say that when im sober ..:D:D:D

"11th Night" is a celebration still widely observed by Protestant groups in northern Ireland, who build huge bonfires across the country on the night of July 11th. The fires are lit on the night before the July 12th commemoration of William of Orange’s defeat of King James, a Catholic, in 1690 in the Battle of the Boyne. The battle took place near Drogheda, north of Dublin.

An odd Irish birthday tradition is to lift the birthday child upside down and give his head a few gentle bumps on the floor for good luck. The number of bumps should allegedly correspond to the child’s age plus one.

and finally a little poem that was taught to me at the age of 13 by a b&b owner in ballycastle ...

If you werent so Ballymena
With your Ballymoney
You'd have a Ballycastle
for your bloody home!!!!

Re: QI fact of the day
 

another one for you :D:D:D

Gerald R Ford (1913-2006), 38th President of the USA, is the only US President who was never elected as either President or Vice President.

I guess it just proves that anyone in America can be President. GERALD FORD

Re: QI fact of the day
 

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.Hugh Leonard

There are so many strange things in the world beyond our knowledge, and maybe there are ghosts too, though I do not understand why they should come back to this world when they have gone from it. Peig Sayers

My grandmother made dying her life's work.Hugh Leonard

there is a village in Kerry called Inch and on a road sign outside the village there is this "Inch 1 Mile".

Irish aviation fact = Shannon became the worlds first duty free airport in 1947

Bushmills, Couny Antrim is the Worlds Oldest Whiskey Distillery based on the undisputed fact that a seven year licence to distil dating from April 20th 1608 is attributed to the distillery. Located near the village of Bushmills in Co. Antrim. It is though that distilling may have begun on the site as early as the thirteenth century, but the first permit was granted by James VI and I to Sir Thomas Phillipps, a local landowner, in 1608.

Irish Quotes from Famous Irishmen

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Are you aware that the "Shillelagh" isn't what it appears to be ? :D


Is Your Shillelagh a Sham?
by Bridget Haggertyhttp://www.irishcultureandcustoms.co...kthornHead.jpg

In his very informative book, Things Irish, Anthony Bluett writes that according to a leading folklore authority, the short, stubby blackthorn cudgel sold to tourists as the "ancient Irish shillelagh" has no tradition in Ireland at all.

What I have mistakenly called a shillelagh all these years was once a very popular weapon in 19th-century London. Very handy to have - but not something the Irish would have used at that time, or earlier. Their weapon of choice would have been a cane made from oak, blackthorn, ash or holly.



Information from the "Irish culture & Customs" web site :)

sitehttp://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/AEmblem/Shillelagh.html

Re: QI fact of the day
 

you mean something like this ... :D:D:D my cousin made it for my dad when he was ill one year .. brought all the way back from ireland .. and its lived in the living room ever since ... and no one ever notices it .. now if some of my visitors had known that was there ..i wonder if id have had the conversations that ive had ... by the way it does hurt .. have been swiped round the back of the legs in my younger years by my granny in northern ireland .. she had one!!! :D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

and also ....

Origins and History of the Shillelagh Stick
Sticks have been used as weapons since fighting began, however the skilled use of hardwood clubs by the people of Shillelagh led to these clubs to be called Shillelagh's by Richard II in 1395. With the dispersion of these peoples through the ages the term Shillelagh spread throughout Ireland and the new world in reference to a weighted fighting stick.

When it became illegal for any Irish person to carry a weapon their Shillelagh's were often elongated to appear as a walking stick but were just as effictive a weapon when the need arose. These irish who emigrated to America enjoyed the right there of all men to carry arms and Shillelagh's became very promenant in the faction fights in the turbulant years of the young United States. Many Irish Americans can remember this kind of Shillelagh in use or will have heard stories about them while most English and Irish people will remember them as walking sticks or lucky charms from home.

Shillelagh Sticks

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Heinrich Heine, a German Poet who died 1856, left everything to his wife with the proviso she re-marry the reason being "So there will be at least one man to regret my Death" :confused: :D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

i liked the quote at the end of it ...:D:D:D

The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of Germany (1500-58) was said to have spoken French to men, Italian to women, Spanish to God and German to horses.

All skill is in vain when an angel pees in the touchhole of your musket. GERMAN PROVERB

Re: QI fact of the day
 

another one ...

During World War II, Germans owned most of the delicatessens along the coast of Long Island, New York. It was not uncommon for U-boats patrolling the Atlantic to surface and send a dinghy ashore to pick up breakfast.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake! SIGMUND FREUD

Re: QI fact of the day
 

There appears to be a rather "Teutonic" theme just of late on this side :)

Having a poke at the "Hermans" a truly British Pastime long may it remain so :D

Re: QI fact of the day
 

another one ...

All centipedes are predators. They kill their prey with poisonous claws attached to their heads. The Giant Centipede is 30cm long and kills small mammals and reptiles. It is extremely painful to be bitten by one.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. OMAR BRADLEY (1893-1981) US general

Re: QI fact of the day
 

heres another ..

Goldfish are much more intelligent than they look and enjoy music.

Goldfish don't bounce. BART SIMPSON

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Nobody knows where the word "golf" comes from.

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. DAVE BARRY

Re: QI fact of the day
 

so which numbskull repealed it ...:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::D



King James II of Scotland (1430-60) made golf illegal on pain of death.

Golf always makes me so damned angry. KING GEORGE V of England (1865-1936)

Re: QI fact of the day
 

Approximately 20 million golf balls are lost in water hazards on British golf courses every year.

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball. DON CARTER

Re: QI fact of the day
 

The Dutch claim it ! Golf was first mentioned in the Netherlands around 1297 & it is presumed to be a corruption of the Dutch word " Kolf " which means club or bat. :D Or so they maintain ! ;)