syscall girl posted:

They do corrections on the show. I think episode K Knowledge talked about how a given percentage of "facts" will not be factual after x number of years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGgmmX-dzgU

Ozz81 posted:

More silly things

Chard posted:

give me back my 37 seconds you motherfucre

Dick Trauma posted:

And to a lovely picture of me with my parents:

Say Nothing posted:

Dick Trauma posted:

And to a lovely picture of me with my parents:

CobiWann posted:

Three pages AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE REAL ANSWER IS?!?

A simple internet search posted:

The thing that starts with "H" and means you will always be the bridesmaid and never the bride is 'halitosis'. However, it does not actually exist. It was invented by Lambert Pharmacia, the makers of Listerine, so that they could sell mouthwash. Listerine, which is named after Joseph Lister, inventor of antiseptics, was originally sold as an antiseptic, but then without changing the formula the company began selling it as a substance for washing floors, a cure for gonorrhoea, and then as a mouthwash. As it was the first ever mouthwash, they decided to invent the idea of halitosis to shift Listerine, and it worked, expanding the size of their company greatly.

Birb Katter posted:

CobiWann posted:

Three pages AND NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE REAL ANSWER IS?!?

Dick Trauma posted:

I was playing with an online Dreamscope generator.

This is what it did to my avatar:



And to a lovely picture of me with my parents:

Say Nothing posted:

Acne Rain posted:

deep dreaming is basically the Dogscape story

Birb Katter posted:

A simple internet search posted:
The thing that starts with "H" and means you will always be the bridesmaid and never the bride is 'halitosis'. However, it does not actually exist. It was invented by Lambert Pharmacia, the makers of Listerine, so that they could sell mouthwash. Listerine, which is named after Joseph Lister, inventor of antiseptics, was originally sold as an antiseptic, but then without changing the formula the company began selling it as a substance for washing floors, a cure for gonorrhoea, and then as a mouthwash. As it was the first ever mouthwash, they decided to invent the idea of halitosis to shift Listerine, and it worked, expanding the size of their company greatly.

Wikipedia posted:

Contrary to the popular belief, also raised on QI, that Listerine coined the term halitosis, it actually dates from the 1870s,[34] although it only became commonly used in the 1920s when a marketing campaign promoted Listerine as a solution for "chronic halitosis". The company was the first to manufacture mouth washes in the United States. According to Freakonomics:

"Listerine [...] was invented in the nineteenth century as powerful surgical antiseptic. It was later sold, in distilled form, as both a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea. But it wasn't a runaway success until the 1920s, when it was pitched as a solution for "chronic halitosis"— a then obscure medical term for bad breath. Listerine's new ads featured forlorn young women and men, eager for marriage but turned off by their mate's rotten breath. "Can I be happy with him in spite of that?" one maiden asked herself. Until that time, bad breath was not conventionally considered such a catastrophe. But Listerine changed that. As the advertising scholar James B. Twitchell writes, "Listerine did not make mouthwash as much as it made halitosis." In just seven years, the company's revenues rose from $115,000 to more than $8 million."[35]

CaptBushido posted:

Screenshots and clips of QI look fine and all but just about every good zinger joke looks so obviously scripted. Just everytime I see something from it I think "FAAAAKE"

Gorilla Salad posted:

Here's a tip - if someone is trying to tell you that bad breath is not a thing, odds are they smell like a rat crawled into their mouth and died.

Even then, mouthwash from a century ago bears no relation to the formulations used today.

Jippa posted:

I have to keep reminding myself that panel based comedy shows are such an alien concept to some americans. Another tip - they aren't really playing for points.

CaptBushido posted:

Screenshots and clips of QI look fine and all but just about every good zinger joke looks so obviously scripted. Just everytime I see something from it I think "FAAAAKE"

I've never watched the show.

CaptBushido posted:

Screenshots and clips of QI look fine and all but just about every good zinger joke looks so obviously scripted. Just everytime I see something from it I think "FAAAAKE"

I've never watched the show.

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

I get the same feeling.

I'm curious though if it's just loosely scripted, or completely down on paper like @Midnight where they're all "Here's your jokes, read them in order."

Edmond Dantes posted:

I'm so sorry.

Hogge Wild posted:

it's not scripted, but they cut half of the footage away, so tv/youtube watchers get to see a funnier show than the audience.

spog posted:

Not to mention that a lot of the contestants are stand-up comedians who are all near the top of their profession. It's not surprising that they come out with some good stuff.

Jippa posted:

I have to keep reminding myself that panel based comedy shows are such an alien concept to some americans. Another tip - they aren't really playing for points.

Mierenneuker posted:

Never Mind the Buzzcocks would just break them.

Picnic Princess posted:

Look how loving cool and funny I am by not liking QI, you guys! Suck my dick!

LoonShia posted:

I never noticed that Busey is wearing a yin-yang pin at his neck.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

I really don't want to meet the Yin version of Busey.