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  • čas přidán 20. 06. 2024
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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

Komentáře • 175

  • @futtbugly5986
    @futtbugly5986 Před měsícem +159

    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.

    • @brianm6337
      @brianm6337 Před měsícem +13

      Think of the 250+k you save on having to put up with the damn rugrat.

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 Před měsícem

      To those people, I say get out and wash off my vomit

    • @1978sjt
      @1978sjt Před 26 dny

      The Other, Other white meat. I want my baby back baby back baby back.... ribs

  • @alxk3995
    @alxk3995 Před měsícem +21

    The laughter of sandy alone makes these clips great. 😅 So Gleeful. Also great panel. Alan taking one for the team, as it's tradition. 😊

  • @brianm6337
    @brianm6337 Před měsícem +67

    What Is The Most Useful Organ?
    A pipe organ!

    • @GalapagosPete
      @GalapagosPete Před měsícem +4

      I was going to say the mighty Wurlitzer!😆

    • @CricketEngland
      @CricketEngland Před měsícem +1

      Don’t give up the day job

    • @brianm6337
      @brianm6337 Před měsícem +6

      Too late. I already quit, got a whiteboard, and now stand out on the corner, writing jokes and hoping I get donations.

    • @daddymuggle
      @daddymuggle Před měsícem

      ​@@brianm6337 didn't Sandy say that it started with the letter P though?
      'A Pipe Organ' starts with the letter A.

    • @JimC
      @JimC Před měsícem +6

      Why did J. S. Bach have so many children?
      His organ didn't have any stops! 😁

  • @OldrNwizr2
    @OldrNwizr2 Před měsícem +15

    Sarah's cardigan is divine ❤

  • @LysanderLH
    @LysanderLH Před měsícem +16

    Hammond organs are very useful although quite bulky and they require careful consideration before moving.

  • @matty101yttam
    @matty101yttam Před měsícem +2

    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.

  • @AllenKnutson
    @AllenKnutson Před měsícem +12

    SNL had a "Placenta Helper" skit in the '70s that never ran, due to censorship.

    • @zapkvr
      @zapkvr Před měsícem

      Censorship??

    • @TheGreatAtario
      @TheGreatAtario Před měsícem

      @@zapkvr Of the Standards And Practices variety, one assumes

    • @billberndtson
      @billberndtson Před měsícem

      @@TheGreatAtario idk - was Scientology a thing then? The only people I've ever heard of eating placenta were, allegedly, Tom Cruise and them.

    • @krashd
      @krashd Před měsícem

      @@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.

  • @AdamTheTA
    @AdamTheTA Před měsícem +1

    I needed this today thanks :)

  • @BenMCramer
    @BenMCramer Před měsícem +2

    johnny vegas is a delight

  • @g3cd
    @g3cd Před měsícem +6

    Don't know about you, but I currently value my heart higher than a placenta.

  • @alexbanks9510
    @alexbanks9510 Před měsícem +138

    Day 900000 of asking for subtitles on QI videos

    • @SmashPortal
      @SmashPortal Před měsícem +2

      u wot

    • @BadgerUKvideo
      @BadgerUKvideo Před měsícem +19

      @@SmashPortal It's true. Aristophanes references the lack of subtitles on QI in several of his plays.

    • @thatdudeinorange5269
      @thatdudeinorange5269 Před měsícem +11

      Agree to op. Mostly to learn new words as english isnt my native tounge.

    • @DeathlyTired
      @DeathlyTired Před měsícem +8

      @@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!

    • @matthewkemmer
      @matthewkemmer Před měsícem +2

      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.

  • @lordyhgm9266
    @lordyhgm9266 Před měsícem +17

    Personally, I don’t think any amount of pseudoscience around placentas is gonna make me commit cannibalism

    • @Varrik159
      @Varrik159 Před měsícem +5

      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...

    • @aodhanmonaghan4664
      @aodhanmonaghan4664 Před měsícem +3

      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.

    • @natashagoode501
      @natashagoode501 Před měsícem +3

      ​@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.

    • @aodhanmonaghan4664
      @aodhanmonaghan4664 Před měsícem +1

      @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

    • @natashagoode501
      @natashagoode501 Před měsícem +1

      ​@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.

  • @TheJoeT81
    @TheJoeT81 Před měsícem +2

    The way Ed looks at Johnny 😂

  • @welcome_back_to_1972
    @welcome_back_to_1972 Před měsícem +2

    This vid was suggested to me like 5 times in a day. Yep, worth the click.

  • @ryansmith841
    @ryansmith841 Před měsícem +25

    I mean... the brain is the most useful organ I would think

    • @CricketEngland
      @CricketEngland Před měsícem +3

      Yea but with out the heart the brain is pretty much useless

    • @ErisRising
      @ErisRising Před měsícem +4

      Yes, but only when used, so that drops it a few ranks due to the infrequency.

    • @Pagliacci_Rex
      @Pagliacci_Rex Před měsícem

      It doesn't start with a p unless you're a pea brain, nyuk nyuk.

    • @Tao_Tology
      @Tao_Tology Před měsícem +10

      ​@@CricketEnglandWithout the rest of the body every organ is pretty much useless.

    • @brianm6337
      @brianm6337 Před měsícem +2

      Not for some people.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Před měsícem +4

    And WHAT A Gentleman, amirite?

  • @DaraulHarris
    @DaraulHarris Před měsícem +20

    How is eating a placenta not considered cannibalism?

    • @CharlieQuartz
      @CharlieQuartz Před měsícem +7

      It would be self-cannibalism, which many people already commit with anxiety in hair and fingernails or by children with nasal secretions.

    • @emd476
      @emd476 Před měsícem +2

      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.

    • @brianm6337
      @brianm6337 Před měsícem

      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.

    • @urkerab
      @urkerab Před měsícem

      @@CharlieQuartz That would only apply if it was saved for the baby to eat once it was older.

    • @CharlieQuartz
      @CharlieQuartz Před měsícem +1

      @@urkerab Ah my mistake I assumed the placenta was an organ made by the mother, but it is a product of the fetus

  • @THEchiQ
    @THEchiQ Před měsícem +5

    Very Gwyneth Paltrow…

    • @krashd
      @krashd Před měsícem +1

      Thanks to putting the word goop in my head her name now always reminds me of the 90's dance tune "Doop".

  • @telemarkaeology
    @telemarkaeology Před měsícem +3

    Cold placenta sandwiches the next morning...

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke Před měsícem

    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

  • @garethwilkins6744
    @garethwilkins6744 Před měsícem +1

    Something tells me, someone in Scotland has deep fried a placenta.

    • @krashd
      @krashd Před měsícem

      Oh for sure.

  • @GIJRock
    @GIJRock Před měsícem +1

    Captions would be appreciated

  • @mirthenary
    @mirthenary Před měsícem +3

    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

    • @lajoswinkler
      @lajoswinkler Před měsícem +1

      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.

  • @manuellayburr382
    @manuellayburr382 Před měsícem +7

    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.

    • @sburch1529
      @sburch1529 Před měsícem +5

      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.

    • @aodhanmonaghan4664
      @aodhanmonaghan4664 Před měsícem +5

      @@sburch1529 made in a woman ≠ made by a woman. Once fertilisation occurs, aside from resources and storage space, the fœtus makes itself

    • @SpeakShibboleth
      @SpeakShibboleth Před měsícem

      ​@@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.

  • @Tillyard86
    @Tillyard86 Před měsícem +7

    Johnny’s comedy style is basically acting drunk

    • @Phreak0matic
      @Phreak0matic Před měsícem

      And like an idiot. He's probably quite intelligent though... Or it's not actually an act 😂

    • @SkodaYetiFan96
      @SkodaYetiFan96 Před měsícem

      Hmmmm maybe🤣

    • @peterclarke7240
      @peterclarke7240 Před měsícem +3

      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."

  • @krashd
    @krashd Před měsícem

    I'm fairly sure the word Ed was going for was cultivated, not curated.

  • @pacanukeha
    @pacanukeha Před měsícem +2

    Corn-fed

  • @drshahmeerkhan106
    @drshahmeerkhan106 Před měsícem

    What is the answer

  • @CritterKeeper01
    @CritterKeeper01 Před měsícem

    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.

  • @sheltyhorn4332
    @sheltyhorn4332 Před měsícem +1

    Isn't the photo of the male swimmer Johnny Weissmuller?

  • @wassholm
    @wassholm Před 16 dny

    Wouldn’t eating a human placenta make you a cannibal? I’m not entirely sure that’s something to strive for…

  • @AnnaAnna-uc2ff
    @AnnaAnna-uc2ff Před 14 dny

    OK

  • @werothegreat
    @werothegreat Před měsícem +1

    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.

    • @krashd
      @krashd Před měsícem

      Not every human can easily access food just as food is not a scarcity for every wild animal.

    • @werothegreat
      @werothegreat Před měsícem

      @@krashd if a human being in the modern world has to resort to eating a placenta after giving birth something has gone terribly wrong

    • @PippaRilley
      @PippaRilley Před 26 dny +1

      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. ❤

  • @teemusid
    @teemusid Před měsícem

    Hammond b3!

  • @lenarsa66
    @lenarsa66 Před měsícem

    "Cannibalic" food: placenta
    😨

  • @Pagliacci_Rex
    @Pagliacci_Rex Před měsícem +3

    No such thing as a superfood.

    • @brianm6337
      @brianm6337 Před měsícem +4

      Oh, yes there is. I've cooked things that could withstand a 200 kiloton nuke before.

    • @smoothrocky1847
      @smoothrocky1847 Před měsícem +1

      So we can’t survive on just clean water and organically grown avocados?

    • @brianm6337
      @brianm6337 Před měsícem

      @@smoothrocky1847 Add a pinch of salt. You'll be fine. 😉

    • @smoothrocky1847
      @smoothrocky1847 Před měsícem

      ​@@brianm6337- Depends on the water source dun dun dun

    • @imcallingjapan2178
      @imcallingjapan2178 Před měsícem

      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?

  • @josephrankin9406
    @josephrankin9406 Před měsícem +1

    Turn up at the Labor Unit with a cool-box and a hopeful expression ???

    • @Tao_Tology
      @Tao_Tology Před měsícem

      'Labor' surely?

    • @josephrankin9406
      @josephrankin9406 Před měsícem +1

      @@Tao_Tology
      .
      Um ... yeah.
      Actually.
      I'll just fix it.

    • @brianm6337
      @brianm6337 Před měsícem +1

      *Imagines the delivery room where the woman's hollering "Don't throw that out! Those are the tasty bits!"*

    • @jonathannash8471
      @jonathannash8471 Před měsícem +1

      ​@@Tao_TologyUmm... No? Only if you're American. Labour is the accepted British spelling for all meanings of the word.

  • @H.P.
    @H.P. Před měsícem

    Isn't that cannibalism?

  • @chet7219
    @chet7219 Před měsícem

    Gonk

  • @winkletter
    @winkletter Před měsícem +3

    This clip proves that one pillar of humor is abject disgust.

    • @zapkvr
      @zapkvr Před měsícem

      It was proved long ago. As exhibit one I present Derek & Clive.

  • @TimosGarden
    @TimosGarden Před měsícem +3

    what is a pontch?= what the hell are they talking about at the beginning?

  • @styx85
    @styx85 Před měsícem +1

    Casual cannibalism

  • @mirthenary
    @mirthenary Před měsícem

    I have never heard of this practice of eating placenta🤢 ...guess that explains my lack of money

  • @thedolphin5428
    @thedolphin5428 Před měsícem

    What a lot of QI viewers don't get is that most if its questions are entertainment clickbait, both on TV and CZcams 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?

    • @DonoVideoProductions
      @DonoVideoProductions Před měsícem

      Um, because one is definitely cannibalism? But the others are disgusting too in their own right.

    • @DrZaius3141
      @DrZaius3141 Před měsícem +3

      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.

    • @thedolphin5428
      @thedolphin5428 Před měsícem

      @@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.

    • @thedolphin5428
      @thedolphin5428 Před měsícem

      @@DrZaius3141
      Infantile strawman. I never suggested minorities needed protection. Lol.
      And where on earth did you learn that nonsense about diseases via human flesh.

    • @chlorophyllheart
      @chlorophyllheart Před měsícem

      She said you can eat it, it's just not a "superfood" or high in nutrients.

  • @girishkamath1992
    @girishkamath1992 Před měsícem +3

    Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence 😂😂

    • @Tao_Tology
      @Tao_Tology Před měsícem +1

      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"

    • @Varrik159
      @Varrik159 Před měsícem +2

      Absence of evidence can be evidence of absence if there *should* be evidence.

    • @girishkamath1992
      @girishkamath1992 Před měsícem +1

      @@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 😁

  • @mepatton
    @mepatton Před měsícem +1

    Unwatchable

  • @RainbowSunshineRain
    @RainbowSunshineRain Před měsícem +1

    I’m so done with all this misandry …

  • @GorillaUdder
    @GorillaUdder Před měsícem +6

    Johnny was on fire here 🤣