@@Aldoz and yet the irrefutable proof is Henry Ford being credited for inventing the mass produced car, bringing it into the affordability of the common man, even the poor, instead of having it clenched in the hands of european aristocracy and the extremely wealthy only. So yes, it is 100% true, just poorly phrased. We drive on the right side cuz we're the only ones in our right minds 😜🤭
I used to be the friend in that situation a lot as a kid. My parents would be chatting with someone at the grocery store or something and after we left I would ask who it was and my parents would say they have no idea. I didn’t understand why you would be talking to someone so friendily when you don’t know them. I still don’t talk to strangers like that but I understand other people do. I also remember when I was a kid one time I was walking with my parents and I ran ahead of them and there was a young Australian couple walking the opposite way. As they approached me one of them said “G’day!” and I just froze in shock. I’d never actually heard someone say g’day in real life and I didn’t know what the appropriate response was. Also, I was scared by the fact a stranger had greeted me. Even at 8 years old I was riddled with social anxiety when talking to strangers. So I ended up not saying anything to them because I was in too much shock to think.
Well I guess they used alcohol or something to get them to calm down? Don't know though, but I just always find that they were way cleverer than us lot from modern times think
@@stoat2 It still is ;) but would the Romans have had access to it? Opium Poppies are native to Southern Asia. They could have traded it for it though.
@@MerkhVision the Romans did use opium poppies and some other plant anaesthetics in human medicine, at least if you were rich enough to pay for a clever Greek doctor.
@@amun1040 yes but it wouldnt, a defanged and declawed bear is afraid of most anything, because of the psychological effect of having no fangs or claws.
Or... And this might be madness to suggest... But horrible histories tended to fact-check things, so probably read the same books at the elves, rather than just make shit up based on their own ignorance and bigotry like certain people.
@@peterclarke7240 Well, based on the fact that almost nothing I've seen of QI is ever correct (and how often they've had to officially recant things they've said on the show) and the fact that Horrible Histories is at best an elementary grade glance at History, I'd say they're only half a step removed from just making shit up. They clearly just read wikipedia articles that exclusively don't have sources listed.
@@CharlesFreck Horrible Histories wasn't inaccurate though. Their historical advisor, who was paid to go through each sketch for historical accuracy, said there were only like 40 mistakes in the entire original run of the series. The a lot were either found to be false based on evidence they didn't have access to at the time (like them saying Richard III didn't have a hunched back) or slip-ups regarding timeline (like them using a photo of Dali that wouldn't have been taken by that point in history, or referencing pizza in a renaissance sketch)
The first to build straight roads of any length was probably also the first to build roads at all. A straight road through the middle of a small village is still a straight road.
wrong. roads weren't build at first, they just happened when people used a path often and then in order to not walk on a muddy path they build some of them into roads. chances of the first road being build on a strait foot paths is very low.
@@oddballsok I'd say likely even before that. Uruk usually is considered the first city, founded at least centuries before Babylon, and I'm somewhat confident that they had roads. I'm just wondering whether something before Uruk may have had something worth describing as straight roads too.
@@OriginalPiMan Uruk was the first megacity but was nowhere near the first city. Uruk thought the first city was Eridu and there were a bunch of temples there about it over like 2000 years but it was so often destroyed by flooding it'd be hard to say. That said actually Cursus' in England and similar structures at Gobekli Tepe and other neolithic monuments very often involved tons of earthenwork for straight paths that even accounted for drainage. So I'd guess some neolithic age culture as part of some Kurgan or Ancient China or the Near east. Egyptian and Kushite tombs back when they were all herders and only built permament settlements for the dead also involved reinforced straight paths because the presence of that tomb complex represented their ownership of it as a campsite in a bend in the Nile or wherever even if they weren't going to be back for months. idk just more guesses.
The town my mum is from outside Glasgow was originally a Roman settlement and the name is related to that. So it always confused me when people said Hadrian’s wall was as far as the romans went because Glasgow is much further north. The Antonine wall actually ran through that town.
Deer paths, from grazing places to water sources, were the first roads; other ruminants in larger herds trampled massive routes in similar ways as they took seasonal migrations. We followed them for food, but the roads were grass-eaters inventions.
I live near two of them in Iowa! They are north-south roads, which are supposed to be along section boundaries. As you go north, fewer sections fit between the same longitude (north-south) lines, so they adjust every few miles by 50 feet or so.
I was hitchhiking in southern Idaho and I found a 16# Purple BOWLING BALL which I picked up and bowled for several miles, a few hundred yards at a time. The roads have a double yellow line and if you bowl it just right it will keep rolling between them for as long as traffic allows.
Dara, I'm awfully sorry, but I am fascinated by Newgrange. People are obsessed by Stonehenge, but they should be about Newgrange, it's just as remarkable, even more.
@@emmettcoop1 Yes! Well, both sites are about the same age (as far as I know), but the stones were erected in Stonhenge only a thousand years after Newgrange was finished. It's impressive that Stonehenge has remained a centre of activity for so long, but there might be an even older site hidden under all the construction of Newgrange.
Newgrange at the Winter Solstice is on my bucket list. Sadly it's very hard to get a ticket. The Neolithic people should've thought about tourists when they built the place.
@@ulture Agreed, this is a terrible oversight during the construction process. I propose that we unite to file a complaint to the government to rebuild the complex in accordance with modern standards.
@@ambergris5705 You both comment humorously - but I've heard complaints from American Good Ole Gals in that vein Not spoken in jest whilst on tour in Europe! 🤔😱🙄
@@gamehappenings Well besides the aqueduct, roads, sanitation, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, and public order..what have the Romans every do for US?! :)
@@elaineb7065 not England nor Scotland existed during Roman times. So no Scots and no Saxons. Get your silly cliched 'facts' sorted. Plus, the Angles settled the lowlands before any Scots. So technically they, the Lowlands, should be part of England too.
As a driver in Montana, I can attest you can be driving on the freeway and not see another driver for 40 miles. A busy freeway has a car infront of you, at least 20 miles ahead, and a car behind you at least 15 behind. You stop at a rest stop just to see another human.
6:30 I'm a bit confused. the roman emperor from 14-18 was Tiberius: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius . She sounds to be referring to Elagabalus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roses_of_Heliogabalus . Also, when she mentions the name there is a weird distortion both times 6:307:09 . In the second one, it sounds like it was spliced in from the first occasion. We don't see sandy say the name in both occasions. Sounds like they might have said tiberius instead and fixed it in post.
Sad fact most of the people remaning in pompeji were slaves or servants, who were forced to stay by their owners/masters to prevent looting! So horrible and sad!😭
@@beageler The Roman laws against disobedient slaves got a bit tougher after Spartacus's Slave Revolt. Any twit complaining about his "Freedumbs" quickly got an education that made a Mandingo lashing look like a massage. Slaves, like women in today's Afghanistan, learned to shut up, get inside and keep their noses clean.
How come the QI panelists no longer use the buzzer? It's only used now during the introduction. At the very least, it should be used during the General Ignorance segment.
The Limes Getmanicus was a Roman millitery wall across lower Germany some three hundred miles long but is outclassed by a thousand miles wall across Africa, some of which is seen today.
@@beageler I was just saying that it's derivative is the Latin word, salarium, which means salt ration. Over time that was shortened to salary, and came to mean any contracted payment. I wasn't claiming that Roman soldiers' literal compensation for their labour was sodium chloride.
@@lulairenoroub3869 Easy, I only made an aside on you using salary and pay as if they have differing meaning. I didn't imagine that that was what you were saying.
I think she probably had the wrong name written in her notes/script and they had to dub it over later and speed it up to fit with the pacing of her sentence.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Etienne Lenoir (a Belgian) made his Hippomobile in 1863, while Carl Benz's Motorcar came into production in 1885. Maybe the Germans were first to commercialize cars but it seems like the 'invention' was Belgian.
5:02 I’ve never really understood what Rich Hall was talking about here. From the way he describes it, it doesn’t really make sense. You don’t need to make any turns to accommodate the curvature of a sphere - you can simply draw a straight line between any two points. Was it something else he was referring to?
They are called correction lines. Longitude lines converge at the poles and become closer go gather as you go north or south. They are more common the closer you get to the poles. In American rural areas they are often landmarks useful for giving directions.
Americans drive on the right because Henry Ford found it is easier to manufacture cars with steering wheels on the left with your right hand. Since most people are right handed he put the steering wheel on the right. Since Early German cars weren’t on a line it didn’t really matter since they weren’t counting the minutes it takes to build a car.
Don't if it's still a thing during Sandi's reign, but a lot of Stephen's facts have been 'updated', debunked or just plain wrong. And it does give me a sense of smugness for reasons I can't really explain. Possibly because I'm an arse. Feel free to discuss.
Cool! Isn't that really the hallmark of solid intellectual inquiry? The fact that our "facts" are constantly under revision with the addition or review of evidentiary support? Maybe not for the facts they just got wrong altogether, but certainly for the facts that have since been debunked, revised, or otherwise altered.
@@zbr76 in fact that is the whole point of QI's regular revisiting of the question "how many moons does the Earth have", that science and scientific fact are not static things but depend on our understanding and interpretation
Lord Skeptic, so they clearly hadn’t watched Roman Mars’s TED talk on vexillology (czcams.com/video/pnv5iKB2hl4/video.html ) where he explains that rule 4 of flag design is that a flag should _”Never have lettering of any kind”._
Tiberious was emperor in 14-37ad so I don't know ow what's he's talking about with the flamboyant prankster emperor. They must have gotten the time frame wrong. I
@@andrewbergman4783 All right, all right, but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater water system and baths and public order...what have the Romans done for us?
Asking why Americans drive on the right is definitely a nationalist type of question since two/thirds of the world drives on the right and many of the countries that drive on the left, only do so because they were British colonies when their traffic laws were made. Also, while it's true that Americans didn't invent the car, they invented mass production which increased the output and lowered the cost which created the need for traffic laws.
So by the same logic, any question by a left handed person is nationalist? Or is it another -ist, then? Also, since people didn't warp before the invention of the car, traffic laws are way older than the car.
@@beageler i feel sorry for you. Because you think before modern times that people had to be regulated for the most mundane of tasks. Wagons were not mass used. So there wasn't much point for "traffic" laws. Just like there wasn't much need for street lights or even stop signs. Just curious if you think in the 1700s they had a stripe painted down the middle of roadways too. haha
@@ModeratelyAmused First: You certainly have odd sensibilities to feel sorry for me for that. Second: Modern times started quite some time before the invention of the car. But yes, I think there were common usages for traffic even in the middle ages and before. Obviously. Third: Big cities had to deal with literal tons of horse manure every day. And even if no vehicles were used at all, I'd think they had traffic laws. Fourth: You not only couldn't grasp that my main point was making fun of the screwy logic in your first paragraph, your answer was also so ineptly snooty that you made me write quite a lot because of an aside comment of mine. And you made me write it in a very snooty way, myself.
@@beageler picture a dirt road and up to 5 people on horses at the same time, going different directions, this is the scenario you are talking about where they wouldn't know how to avoid each other without government intervention. jesus christ
@@ModeratelyAmused en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_Acts I'm done talking with someone who is so determined to be wrong and so dismissive to people trying to tell him otherwise. It wasn't even worth doing a simple google search?
I have an idea for a *Best Of* compilation: *Best Of QI Audience*
Get shouty man in there
Hear hear!
@SarkyBegger well they kinda did do best of audience now lol
That video was posted three months ago.
“Uneven Camber!”
It just occurred to me that after all these years Alan must have some fantastic dinner party conversations that he still gets a little bit wrong.
“Sorry for being late father. There was traffic. As you know, all roads lead to Rome, not all lead out of Rome.”
Rome’s pretty hilly this time of year....
Amsterdam barely an incline.
They said it was hilly on TripAdvisor!
@@tvdan1043 Moving ON from hilly...
mike smith there’s no crime in Holland as well
@@melle7505 Lisbon's very hilly.
I love the comeback “Maybe because we invented the f***ing car!” Only downside is that it’s not true
We mass produced and popularized them, so close enough
Close in the fact that the moon is closer to earth than the sun 😂 (but it's still thousands of miles away)
Wanjibon the first car was invented before the USA was even a country, so I’d say it’s a stretch
@@Aldoz and yet the irrefutable proof is Henry Ford being credited for inventing the mass produced car, bringing it into the affordability of the common man, even the poor, instead of having it clenched in the hands of european aristocracy and the extremely wealthy only.
So yes, it is 100% true, just poorly phrased.
We drive on the right side cuz we're the only ones in our right minds 😜🤭
Confector Tyrannis very few places drive on the left side of the road, and they’re usually related to a certain great empire
Is it just me or is Alan Davies slowly turning into James May?
It's the circle of life
Reaching that age where you start looking like someone's Aunt
That and James May is slowly turning into Alan Davies
Cheese
I love the anecdote at the end. Exactly my experience of North and South!
What did he say at the end? I couldn't catch it
@@ninoska.noe. "he said 'morning' and i said 'morning' and my mate said 'who's that?'"
I used to be the friend in that situation a lot as a kid. My parents would be chatting with someone at the grocery store or something and after we left I would ask who it was and my parents would say they have no idea. I didn’t understand why you would be talking to someone so friendily when you don’t know them. I still don’t talk to strangers like that but I understand other people do.
I also remember when I was a kid one time I was walking with my parents and I ran ahead of them and there was a young Australian couple walking the opposite way. As they approached me one of them said “G’day!” and I just froze in shock. I’d never actually heard someone say g’day in real life and I didn’t know what the appropriate response was. Also, I was scared by the fact a stranger had greeted me. Even at 8 years old I was riddled with social anxiety when talking to strangers. So I ended up not saying anything to them because I was in too much shock to think.
I feel bad for the Roman slaves who were instructed to declaw and defang those lions and bears, long before general anaesthetic had been invented
Don't forget to feel bad for the bears and lions too...
Well I guess they used alcohol or something to get them to calm down? Don't know though, but I just always find that they were way cleverer than us lot from modern times think
opium was a thing back then
@@stoat2 It still is ;) but would the Romans have had access to it? Opium Poppies are native to Southern Asia. They could have traded it for it though.
@@MerkhVision the Romans did use opium poppies and some other plant anaesthetics in human medicine, at least if you were rich enough to pay for a clever Greek doctor.
somehow i don't think lions and tigers and bears would need claws and fangs to kill me.
no, evidently you'd die of fright.
Oh My.
they can clearly trample and stroke you without those
Bear is 3 to 5 times as strong as a person, it would probably take him 3-4 hits to shatter our skull or rip cage
@@amun1040 yes but it wouldnt, a defanged and declawed bear is afraid of most anything, because of the psychological effect of having no fangs or claws.
The last job I had, I often got paid insults. Served me right for working at the tax office, really.
You and I watch all the same stuff :)
Sometimes, I really wonder if the elves get their facts by watching old episodes of Horrible Histories.
After listening to no such thing as a fish I’m almost certain they do
Or... And this might be madness to suggest...
But horrible histories tended to fact-check things, so probably read the same books at the elves, rather than just make shit up based on their own ignorance and bigotry like certain people.
@@peterclarke7240 nahh that can't be it
@@peterclarke7240 Well, based on the fact that almost nothing I've seen of QI is ever correct (and how often they've had to officially recant things they've said on the show) and the fact that Horrible Histories is at best an elementary grade glance at History, I'd say they're only half a step removed from just making shit up. They clearly just read wikipedia articles that exclusively don't have sources listed.
@@CharlesFreck Horrible Histories wasn't inaccurate though. Their historical advisor, who was paid to go through each sketch for historical accuracy, said there were only like 40 mistakes in the entire original run of the series. The a lot were either found to be false based on evidence they didn't have access to at the time (like them saying Richard III didn't have a hunched back) or slip-ups regarding timeline (like them using a photo of Dali that wouldn't have been taken by that point in history, or referencing pizza in a renaissance sketch)
The first to build straight roads of any length was probably also the first to build roads at all. A straight road through the middle of a small village is still a straight road.
wrong. roads weren't build at first, they just happened when people used a path often and then in order to not walk on a muddy path they build some of them into roads. chances of the first road being build on a strait foot paths is very low.
still no answer...
so i guess the first administrative empire(s); Persia ? Babylon ? Egypt ?
@@oddballsok
I'd say likely even before that. Uruk usually is considered the first city, founded at least centuries before Babylon, and I'm somewhat confident that they had roads. I'm just wondering whether something before Uruk may have had something worth describing as straight roads too.
@@OriginalPiMan Uruk was the first megacity but was nowhere near the first city. Uruk thought the first city was Eridu and there were a bunch of temples there about it over like 2000 years but it was so often destroyed by flooding it'd be hard to say.
That said actually Cursus' in England and similar structures at Gobekli Tepe and other neolithic monuments very often involved tons of earthenwork for straight paths that even accounted for drainage. So I'd guess some neolithic age culture as part of some Kurgan or Ancient China or the Near east. Egyptian and Kushite tombs back when they were all herders and only built permament settlements for the dead also involved reinforced straight paths because the presence of that tomb complex represented their ownership of it as a campsite in a bend in the Nile or wherever even if they weren't going to be back for months.
idk just more guesses.
" The problems with Practical Jokes is that quite often, they get elected." - Will Rogers
"What was a Roman Soldier's salary?"
I feel like there's a Grecian Urn joke in there somewhere...
Just got back from Rome and a visit to the Colosseum. Second time that I’ve been and it’s a beautiful city! 🇮🇹❤️
Pliny died going to save his friend in Pompeii, but they aren't sure if he made it there in time or if he died on his way from a heart attack.
Thank you Mike Duncan for making me love the Romans.
Yep that podcast was a triumph
How did a Roman soldier march with a stone in his sandal?
Sinister dexter, sinister dexter, sinister sinister sinister...
Challenge to the Elves for the next video... all the patronising applauses for Alan!
There was a show called QI
Who talked about Romans gone by
They talked of Rome
It is the home
Of the debunking many a-lie
@Griffin Marvelous! I would slightly change the ending though:
"It is the home
of debunking many a lie."
OrganDanai I have done so.
The town my mum is from outside Glasgow was originally a Roman settlement and the name is related to that. So it always confused me when people said Hadrian’s wall was as far as the romans went because Glasgow is much further north. The Antonine wall actually ran through that town.
I knew 2 of Diocletians capitals!! Ive never been more proud
Same here, Milan and Trier.
I only got Trier, for some reason I was set on Ravenna as the italian capital.
@@gerdforster883 I think Ravenna was capital for a while towards the end of the Western empire.
@@staygoldponyboy8881 It was. And after the Fall of the western empire, it was the de facto capital of Theoderic's realm.
Deer paths, from grazing places to water sources, were the first roads; other ruminants in larger herds trampled massive routes in similar ways as they took seasonal migrations. We followed them for food, but the roads were grass-eaters inventions.
I'm sure other animals did it before mammals even existed.
Oh look what’s that orange hedge coming towards us?
That would be the Scotts.... ;p
Aye, the Scots even
Or even the Scotti
Stephen Fry should get a klaxon for thinking that the people in Mesopotamia were mainly Arabs in the time of Hadrian.
In Canada, we call those road adjustments correction roads.
I live near two of them in Iowa! They are north-south roads, which are supposed to be along section boundaries. As you go north, fewer sections fit between the same longitude (north-south) lines, so they adjust every few miles by 50 feet or so.
I just absolutely love you all!! :)
Hilarious
🤜🏻👍🤛🏻♡♡♡
If you're going to walk Hadrian's wall, it's recommended you go south to north.
Obviously. You want something to look forward to
Any reason why
@@Ash-ey9oy
It’s easier.
@@pcarrierorange Well. Easier than going the full 72 miles east to west, anyway.
Romans did get to Ireland , They just didn't conqueror it , but the Romans knew of and visited Ireland often or as the Romans called it, Hibernia
I was hitchhiking in southern Idaho and I found a 16# Purple BOWLING BALL which I picked up and bowled for several miles, a few hundred yards at a time.
The roads have a double yellow line and if you bowl it just right it will keep rolling between them for as long as traffic allows.
They say of the acropolis where the parthenon is......
What do they say? What do they say?
dielaughing73 he's going to say he's going to say
How was it not included?! It's a classic
@@wightwitch Because it's about the Greeks, not the Romans
@@cruz1ale oh yeah...duh. I just got so excited with the ancient atufd
Dara, I'm awfully sorry, but I am fascinated by Newgrange. People are obsessed by Stonehenge, but they should be about Newgrange, it's just as remarkable, even more.
Aint it older too?
@@emmettcoop1 Yes! Well, both sites are about the same age (as far as I know), but the stones were erected in Stonhenge only a thousand years after Newgrange was finished. It's impressive that Stonehenge has remained a centre of activity for so long, but there might be an even older site hidden under all the construction of Newgrange.
Newgrange at the Winter Solstice is on my bucket list. Sadly it's very hard to get a ticket. The Neolithic people should've thought about tourists when they built the place.
@@ulture Agreed, this is a terrible oversight during the construction process. I propose that we unite to file a complaint to the government to rebuild the complex in accordance with modern standards.
@@ambergris5705 You both comment humorously - but I've heard complaints from American Good Ole Gals in that vein Not spoken in jest whilst on tour in Europe! 🤔😱🙄
What did the Romans ever do for us?!
The aqueduct, roads, sanitation, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, public order, public health
@@gamehappenings Well besides the aqueduct, roads, sanitation, irrigation, medicine, education, wine, and public order..what have the Romans every do for US?! :)
Built walls to keep the sassenachs out. Should have kept them maintained...
@TomisHoare Oh sod off!
@@elaineb7065 not England nor Scotland existed during Roman times. So no Scots and no Saxons. Get your silly cliched 'facts' sorted. Plus, the Angles settled the lowlands before any Scots. So technically they, the Lowlands, should be part of England too.
I have idea, "edit all the moments Alan gets a patronising applause". He suggests it about 1minute in.
It seems Jeremy Clarkson took a leaf from Diocletan book and decided to retire and grow vegetables as well.
Such a good show, I'm surprised it's on the web at all with the 3ks in the background
As a driver in Montana, I can attest you can be driving on the freeway and not see another driver for 40 miles. A busy freeway has a car infront of you, at least 20 miles ahead, and a car behind you at least 15 behind. You stop at a rest stop just to see another human.
Paradise
And then discover that the driver is a serial killer with an AR15! 😱🙄😵💫
Knew it was plini from tasting history or we its called. Yay
That channel has exploded recently, hasn't it?
@@dujezarkovic2384 it really has i guess. Ive been watching cooking channels all quarantine and learned to cook well.
Pliny
Elagabalus was his own spirit animal.
1:29 It has been spoken, It must be done.
6:30 I'm a bit confused. the roman emperor from 14-18 was Tiberius: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius . She sounds to be referring to Elagabalus: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roses_of_Heliogabalus . Also, when she mentions the name there is a weird distortion both times 6:30 7:09 . In the second one, it sounds like it was spliced in from the first occasion. We don't see sandy say the name in both occasions. Sounds like they might have said tiberius instead and fixed it in post.
I assumed she meant he ruled from age 14-18.
@@FreshlyBakedLePain ah. would make a lot more sense.
Please do a video of all the times Alan's been patronised.
I think that video would last hours
That's basically just uploading all episodes.
‘It worked so well that he could retire……and live to see the empire fall into vicious infighting and purging.’
He grew cabbages too tho!
@@lilymarinovic1644 Ahaha, yes he did. I imagine the cabbage soup was a great consolation.
Hindu civilsation had straight roads , underground sewage, private bath etc..at least 4000 years ago in current day Haryana Pakistan even in Combodia.
That would be in-salting
Good morning, clever people around the world :)
Good evening.
Still waiting for the best of best of qi compilations compilation.
Sad fact most of the people remaning in pompeji were slaves or servants, who were forced to stay by their owners/masters to prevent looting! So horrible and sad!😭
If that is true, they either chose to die or they were stupid.
@@beageler The Roman laws against disobedient slaves got a bit tougher after Spartacus's Slave Revolt. Any twit complaining about his "Freedumbs" quickly got an education that made a Mandingo lashing look like a massage. Slaves, like women in today's Afghanistan, learned to shut up, get inside and keep their noses clean.
How come the QI panelists no longer use the buzzer? It's only used now during the introduction. At the very least, it should be used during the General Ignorance segment.
Well please come on, pick something.
That sound is one of the most irritating endings to videos. Especially when I am watching via a chromecast or something and have a queue of videos
Do you often just repeat things you hear?
@@mrcroob8563 Never.
@@FreakyLeek at least once
@@digitized_fyre Awh, I quite like it myself. It's a bit of fun
5:49 but they drive on the right in germany too
Elogabalus (6:30) was actually emperor from 218-222.
Probably referring to his age
There is nothing about phoenicians in the show? Maybe you can make one about them?
The Limes Getmanicus was a Roman millitery wall across lower Germany some three hundred miles long but is outclassed by a thousand miles wall across Africa, some of which is seen today.
Carthago Delenda Est
Hannibal wants to know your location.
@@divyaveersinghpalawat6158 Great. Cato wants him to know that he should stop hiding in Anatolia like a coward.
Scipio linkes that
3:39 - Diocletian was also a raging autocrat and campaigned all the time. He spent so much money on things that they had to reform taxes.
Their salary was salt. It's just that it was called a salarium, and it wasn't their pay, it was their salt ration
Ahh, and modern soldiers are payed in rations, too? Board /= salary. You even point that out yourself...
@@beageler Do you think I'm saying that salt was what they were paid for the job they did?
@@lulairenoroub3869 I think that's the meaning of salary, yes.
@@beageler I was just saying that it's derivative is the Latin word, salarium, which means salt ration. Over time that was shortened to salary, and came to mean any contracted payment. I wasn't claiming that Roman soldiers' literal compensation for their labour was sodium chloride.
@@lulairenoroub3869 Easy, I only made an aside on you using salary and pay as if they have differing meaning. I didn't imagine that that was what you were saying.
Roman legionaries pay after deductions for uniform etc. around 78 denarii. Per annum. But his pay would be doubled in the reign of Julius Caesar.
The intro sting blew out my eardrums
What's up with the weird fast-forward whenever Sandi says Elagabalus?
I think she probably had the wrong name written in her notes/script and they had to dub it over later and speed it up to fit with the pacing of her sentence.
@@MidasTushie Sounds plausible, I guess.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Etienne Lenoir (a Belgian) made his Hippomobile in 1863, while Carl Benz's Motorcar came into production in 1885. Maybe the Germans were first to commercialize cars but it seems like the 'invention' was Belgian.
5:24 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Tiberius retired
5:02 I’ve never really understood what Rich Hall was talking about here. From the way he describes it, it doesn’t really make sense. You don’t need to make any turns to accommodate the curvature of a sphere - you can simply draw a straight line between any two points. Was it something else he was referring to?
I think what he was saying is that it makes the road a straight line on a flat map
They are called correction lines. Longitude lines converge at the poles and become closer go gather as you go north or south. They are more common the closer you get to the poles. In American rural areas they are often landmarks useful for giving directions.
He's talking about maps, which aren't spheres...
I can't believe that I got salt correct.
But..... wasn't salt incorrect??
Pokemon Death Star
lol
The Romans may not have invaded Ireland but the Scots did. And of all people it was apparently the Scottish 'hero' Robert the Bruce and his brother
Americans drive on the right because Henry Ford found it is easier to manufacture cars with steering wheels on the left with your right hand. Since most people are right handed he put the steering wheel on the right. Since Early German cars weren’t on a line it didn’t really matter since they weren’t counting the minutes it takes to build a car.
I got news for you, Britain and Germany aren't the same country.
The germans invented the car
Longest fortification in Europe? Well, what about the Maginot Line in France?
Hadrians wall is a continuous fortification, maginot had a bunch of mountains separating it a bit
Don't if it's still a thing during Sandi's reign, but a lot of Stephen's facts have been 'updated', debunked or just plain wrong. And it does give me a sense of smugness for reasons I can't really explain. Possibly because I'm an arse.
Feel free to discuss.
In series J a panel talked about the half-life of QI facts, so they regularly get debunked or updated.
Cool! Isn't that really the hallmark of solid intellectual inquiry? The fact that our "facts" are constantly under revision with the addition or review of evidentiary support? Maybe not for the facts they just got wrong altogether, but certainly for the facts that have since been debunked, revised, or otherwise altered.
@@zbr76 in fact that is the whole point of QI's regular revisiting of the question "how many moons does the Earth have", that science and scientific fact are not static things but depend on our understanding and interpretation
SPQR
Lewis Hancock, I think you'll find it's actually MNOPQR
Lord Skeptic, so they clearly hadn’t watched Roman Mars’s TED talk on vexillology (czcams.com/video/pnv5iKB2hl4/video.html ) where he explains that rule 4 of flag design is that a flag should _”Never have lettering of any kind”._
Lord Skeptic, yeah, you _wish._ it's easy to say that now --- now that I've exposed the problem.
Um
What?
they were not paid in salt but they were given a salt ration on top of their wage
0:53 He should have said "citizens of Pompei" but he said "most of the people in Pompei when Vesuvius erupted". Most, if not all of them died.
No, what he said was fine. Are you ok?
@@jockmackay9582 Most of the people who survived were not in Pompei when Vesuvius erupted. He said as much himself! Are you ok?
I'm fine you silly pedant. It's you who appears to be having a mild breakdown.
Would you like me to call someone?
@@jockmackay9582 Yes. Your mother. Tell her your meds have run out.
@@JimFortune do you just copy and reword everything that people say to you?
You understand how monumentally stupid your original comment is surely?
But how come Portugal has burial mounds that are near identical to the ones in southern Ireland Dara!
I suspect those are much older than the Romans.
'ooz a'?
ROMANES EUNT DOMUS!
ROMANI ITE DOMUM* - now write it 100 times...
People called roman, they go the house ?
To whomever 'edits' these compilation clips; please fix the intros volume. It hurts... genuinely it hurts...
Tiberious was emperor in 14-37ad so I don't know ow what's he's talking about with the flamboyant prankster emperor. They must have gotten the time frame wrong. I
Aisling is beautiful
That's handy cos she ain't funny.
Sorry but the Elagabalus story about the flowers is probably not true as it is from the Historia Augusta
Alright nerd
Ireland has lkots of ancient architecture, like Dun Aengus, thats pretty good,
How do you go about declawing a lion prior to sedatives?
This was also prior to workplace safety laws.
@@xergiok2322 so... Send in the slave and hope for the best? I gave my cat a bath the other day and I'm surprised I eave both eyes.
@@KatMcKiv I suspect they had a bunch of people who tied the lion up tightly prior to declawing it.
I wonder what the total amount of points the audience has since Stephen started giving them out 🤔🤔🤔
I'm only here bc I know the Parthenon clip will be.
EDIT: I. Am. Crushed.
The Parthenon is _Greek_
@@AndrewTBP I...I knew that...*smoke bomb*
But what about the Acropolis where the Parthenon is?
That's Greek you bonehead
tahutoa 😂
@@tahutoa I am big dum dum
3:53 Which episode is this clip from?
Series B, Episode 7
Whatever did the Romans do for us?
“Iraqi, Arabs” Hey, wait a minute, weren’t they Persians back then? Not Arabs?
What did the Romans ever do for us?
@@andrewbergman4783 Yes the aqueduct but...
@@andrewbergman4783 Yes, sanitation and aqueducts but, other than that, what have the romans ever done for us?
@@andrewbergman4783 The roads go without saying.
@@andrewbergman4783 All right, all right, but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater water system and baths and public order...what have the Romans done for us?
@@andrewbergman4783 yeah but besides that. What have they ever done for us?
"Mornin',"
"Mornin',"
"Who's that?"
6:39 is aload of bullshit...there was no emperor named that
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known by his nicknames Elagabalus & Heliogabalus.
Mentioned in _I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General_ too.
QI should be more circumspect about presenting lurid, fanciful stories about Roman emperors as gold plated fact.
Regarding Elagabalus, Sandy also said that he was emperor from 14 to 18, which is not true. He was emperor from 218 to 222.
@@Tiberius_Edgeworth She's talking about his age.
liminal fruitbat Ohhh that makes sense then. Quite right. He was really young.
Best of design? Haha
Why are Americans convinced they invented the car? Sorry, have you heard of Germany? Probably not, but look it up, will you!
Some people think that since ford invented the automated assembly line then he did the rest
@@haikumagician4363 ford also invented the 8 hour shift, so that he could have 3 shifts covering 24 hours, instead of 2 10 hour shifts
@@BigBadLoneWolf Also: he was a terrible antisemite and collaborated with the Nazis.
It was a joke!!!
@@RainbowSunshineRain A joke with a false premise. That's what we are complaining about, not the joke itself.
The intro is way too loud.
Romanes eunt domus
People called Romanes they go the house?
It says Romans go home
wtf volume
Asking why Americans drive on the right is definitely a nationalist type of question since two/thirds of the world drives on the right and many of the countries that drive on the left, only do so because they were British colonies when their traffic laws were made.
Also, while it's true that Americans didn't invent the car, they invented mass production which increased the output and lowered the cost which created the need for traffic laws.
So by the same logic, any question by a left handed person is nationalist? Or is it another -ist, then?
Also, since people didn't warp before the invention of the car, traffic laws are way older than the car.
@@beageler i feel sorry for you. Because you think before modern times that people had to be regulated for the most mundane of tasks. Wagons were not mass used. So there wasn't much point for "traffic" laws. Just like there wasn't much need for street lights or even stop signs. Just curious if you think in the 1700s they had a stripe painted down the middle of roadways too. haha
@@ModeratelyAmused First: You certainly have odd sensibilities to feel sorry for me for that.
Second: Modern times started quite some time before the invention of the car. But yes, I think there were common usages for traffic even in the middle ages and before. Obviously.
Third: Big cities had to deal with literal tons of horse manure every day. And even if no vehicles were used at all, I'd think they had traffic laws.
Fourth: You not only couldn't grasp that my main point was making fun of the screwy logic in your first paragraph, your answer was also so ineptly snooty that you made me write quite a lot because of an aside comment of mine. And you made me write it in a very snooty way, myself.
@@beageler picture a dirt road and up to 5 people on horses at the same time, going different directions, this is the scenario you are talking about where they wouldn't know how to avoid each other without government intervention. jesus christ
@@ModeratelyAmused en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_Acts
I'm done talking with someone who is so determined to be wrong and so dismissive to people trying to tell him otherwise. It wasn't even worth doing a simple google search?
The more clips from qi I watch, the more I think it's all a load of nonsense.