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Yeah filthy animal with a little stocking filler, especially for Alan

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60% of the world's Christmas decorations are made in China in a single town there China gets the name from the Qin

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Dynasty which invented candles in about 200 BC. So my seasonal starter is

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What did the chin make their candles from bear in mind?

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This is a present for you Alan's an absolute gift. This what did they make their candles from?

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Blue whales whales generally not only a blue whale bonus you get this festive cheer

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Often it's something quite menacing

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It's quiz maz, so we're going quizzing. Has anybody had a bad quizzing experience had a few

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Oh have you like what well about four years ago?

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My mom got really jealous of her twin sister who was doing very very well at trivial pursuit

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And she said can I ask the next question and what she asked was why have you done nothing with your life?

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That's terrible, yeah it ruined the quiz

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I would imagine that had a third impact on the family as well

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Anybody else been in quizzes that have not gone well I did a pub quiz and the other team were late and

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They come all the way from Croydon or someone and this place at all feel like Marco Polo coming all the way up here

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And I said and I thought this was really funny. Who's he? That's good. You see

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And they look to be absolutely blank thinking we're gonna stop

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It was a joke you see feel like Marco Polo

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They did stuff us actually

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Not for a single question, I had no idea what they were talking about and then when they did sport they did lacrosse

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It's not a sport a sport. It's got a net in it

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It is a legitimate sport it is it's just I don't know anything about it

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Maybe it wasn't even lacrosse. I'd switched off by then. It's an ancient sport. Actually, it's a Native Americans. That's probably what the question was

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Done with you there. Yeah, you might have laughed at the Marco Polo gag as well

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Josh any bad quizzing experience I found out a family thing a pub quiz that's not your mother

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Tie breaks a tie break though, isn't it?

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So I've always been told that there's this guy I'm a descendant of called Saban Baring Gould who wrote the lyrics to Abide With Me

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That's the claim to fame in the family and the claim to fame in the family

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Okay, and it came up in a pub quiz and I was like, here we bloody go. What's out here Saban Baring Gould and it wasn't him

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That's not even a name

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That's a firm of Chartered Surveyor

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Biggest shock in a family is you discover you're not related to the person who wrote Abide With Me

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FA Cup final day ruins now I

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Used to host a quiz right? I worked at a pub. There was no internet. So I had to go to the library every week and

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fundamentally work out of children's atlases

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To set the questions and I asked a question one week and it was word on the body

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But I wrote it down in hearst and said the knee

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Telling me I was an idiot

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But then three months later, it was a Christmas quiz. So you got outside teams coming to the pub

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It was brilliant because in the quiz you go according to the Vegas Medical Dictionary

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Work on the body. Would you find the clavicle? And it was just beautiful watching the locals go. It's the knee

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It's gonna make you feel good. The elves tell me that barring gold your relative you'd write onward Christian soldiers. Oh onward Christian

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Yeah bet it's a bigger hit in there do you feel better now I genuinely feel on cloud nine

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Did a quiz once on Radio 2 and it was Ed Stupot and he said can you name three people from the world of entertainment who?

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Came originally from Denmark and I went this as a Victor Borge. I came up with Hans Christian Anderson

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In a moment of madness we did the celebrity version of you know family fortunes

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Worst mistake we ever made why

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Name something you'd bite and not swallow and my dad buzzed in and said a towel towel in the same way again

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Well, you know you think they look at your dad and just mouth quietly

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Pub quiz is notorious for igniting furious rouse about tiny quibbles

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So we asked our Twitter followers to send us examples of petty quarrels at pub quizzes

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So here are a few that they sent us. What is the act of eating outside called anybody?

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The same thing lots of teams answered alfresco and the quiz master said a picnic and there was uproar for at least 10 minutes

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From Scott Doherty who sent us this in here's another one. This is from a Barker and Jones

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What is the connection between the word murder and the horse red rum? Red rum is murder backwards

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Absolutely, the answer that quiz master had his murder is red rum backwards

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Their answer that they gave is that the two are anagrams of each other, which is also correct

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quiz master refused to accept

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Okay, let's try this one who can spell Fahrenheit

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Called C spaniel once had an argument about how it's felt. He is here with us in the audience

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There he is right there. Now, how did you settle how it was actually spelled?

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I contacted Leiden University and asked them to get hold of an original copy of Fahrenheit's signature

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Do you think it's possible darling you were taking it a little bit too soon I believe so and I've calmed down now and I'm on

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Yes, they did how did you contact them? Well, it was using email, but it was pretty how did you spell it in email?

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It wasn't Celsius

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Call yourself C spaniel, but it's an anagram of my name. Is it an anagram or just your name backwards?

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Could be both. Okay. Well, thank you very much for coming in. That's fantastic

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Origin of the word quiz anybody know? Oh, we've had this one. You have had this one before someone said

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I'll make up a word and everyone will be saying it. Yeah, that's the bit that we definitely proved wasn't true that bit

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The truth is we don't know in the late 18th century it meant an odd or eccentric person

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But there was also a thing called a quizzing glass, which is a marvelous thing

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It's a magnifying glass and used to be worn on a chain around the neck and you held it up to to look closely

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At things but in the mid 18th century quizzing was mocking somebody by examining them closely with a quizzing glass became quite the thing

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So you all have one you mock them by looking at yes, so it was used as a sort of oh, is that what you're wearing?

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So the king of dealing with the quizzing glass was a man called Bo Brummel in the 18th century

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It was said he could destroy a person's social standing altogether by just using his quizzing glass like this

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I mean he was an amazing guy in his heyday. It took him five hours to get dressed very like yourself Johnny

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It's they're very similar

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I think it's so rude of someone who takes that long to get dressed to then insult other people with his little glass

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I don't like him. You don't like him. He polished his boots in champagne

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He said to have had three different hairdressers for different parts of his head a bit for the front bit for the back

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But for the sides, he said between them. They've really fucked it up

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He once caught a chill and he blamed his valet for forcing him to enter a room containing a damp stranger

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Tis the season to be jolly and tonight we have some jolly silly questions

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In fact, we have trawled the QI archives for the silliest questions. We've been asked over the years

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This one is from 2006 and it's from a mr. Alan Davis

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This is the question that you asked in 2006 perhaps you would read it out

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If you went up into space with a mouse and an elephant would they both become weightless at the same time?

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Right, so there is you in 2006 asking this question

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You're in the wonder stuff

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What do you reckon you've had 12 years to think about it if you went into space with a mouse and an elephant would they

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Both become weightless at the same time. I would say that yes, they would because gravity

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Disappears from both of them at the same moment, right? Yeah, if there's no gravity you basically you weigh nothing

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So it doesn't matter how big or small you are. Yeah, but the elephant would be so afraid of the mouse. Maybe he jumps

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Elephants can't jump did you know that?

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That's one of the reasons why they're afraid of mice

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If only the elephant had the foresight

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To stitch a tiny hat for the mouse right learn to fly. Ah, well, we will come on to flying elephants in just one moment

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I'm so glad because I know nothing but I watch a lot of Disney films

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Well, then this is the show for you

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Here's another science question if you are in a place with no gravity and somebody

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Would they both feel the same when they hit you? No, okay. Why not because they're both weightless

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I reckon if you hit had two items that are weightless and one is smaller than me. Yeah

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Then that would deflect off me

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More in the same way that I would deflect off an elephant because I'm smaller than an elephant does that make sense? No, not really

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It's gonna be controlled by their mass

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It is about mass it's about momentum. Yeah, if you've got a big ship on the water and you push it

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Yeah, and you've got a little paper boat and you push it and there are two people in dinghies

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How many species of elephant are there today

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One Asian kind and there are two African there's the African forest in the African savannah and there's the space elephant

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Dumball Dumbo, okay, what would happen to Dumbo's ears when he came into land?

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We're too easy Josh, we've got to keep moving they're catching us every time

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Do we know why human ears pop? Oh, it's air pressure and the sinuses and the various head cavities

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They're in your ear canal. So when the outside pressure changes, there's an imbalance and we equalize this thanks to the eustachian tube

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So it's able to release air down into the throat and that is that sort of feeling when it equalizes that you hear a pop

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Elephants all the different chambers in an elephant skull are connected with these broad open channels

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So I think Dumbo would certainly not have to hold his trunk and blow does that mean if they go underwater

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Did he just say that

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Okay, here's a good dumbbell question how big would Dumbo's ears have to be to enable him to fly

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30 meters either side. Okay, so we have actually done the maths. I would say they'd have to be longer at the back

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So they'd need to it's not how wide they have to be it's the depth

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I don't know why you didn't go into something technical for a living

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I will show you my big bug of rejection letter

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Honest to God the one-off NASA is just yeah, you're not allowed to come up and you're not allowed to bring your elephant either

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So is that to the width

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If they were rigid they would have to be a 20-foot ear span is what we've worked out

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But if they were floppy like hang glider, this is Dumbo they would have to measure and we've done this to scale

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Okay, they would have to measure 60 foot from tip to tip in order for this to work

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But it won't work. There's no tiny mouse sat on it

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I'm the tiny mouse. I think is the way to do it

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And that's so if you take that darling, so that's how big we're real

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The ears would have to be that big. I'll be honest if they were that big the mother would reject him. Yeah

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Honest to God, I've never ever presented this show looking at an elephant's ass

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Right time for a sing-song Christmas is often a time when you're given the gift of a book and I was given one

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Should I stay or should I go by James Ball which poses some interesting questions raised in songs?

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Hopefully we can sort a few of them out. Have a listen to this

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Okay, so how much would a puppy under six months old actually cost for a pet shop in the UK

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You can't get them from pet shops, that is the correct answer you cannot get them from pet shops since 2019 speaking to a dog rescuer

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You get them now from breeders or authorized rehoming centers as the rules changed in 2019

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That's to be a licensed breeder and you must ask to see the mother. Yes, you must see the mother

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I want to see your mother

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Is it a feeding thing it is to do with feeding darling birds are able to distinguish rather subtle changes in air pressure

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And they may know that a storm is coming and they want to feed as quickly as possible before the weather changes

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It's to do with that. My dad is in Australia and he had grapes outside of his house in Adelaide and all of these

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Birds it's like they just had chatted to each other

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They just turned up all at once and I ate everything in two minutes and went away Wow

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Why is it that we never see baby pigeons? What do you think the reason they're invisible till they're six months old?

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Quicker than most species and they tend to stay in the nest until they're fully fledged and the fact is honestly

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We don't really see baby birds of any kind really we'll see ducks and so on

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But mostly we don't see baby birds anywhere

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The way you can tell a baby pigeon you do occasionally you see them in the street and the adults have red orange

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Eyes you can see the adult there and the babies still have dark eyes

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So that is one of the ways in which you can tell when they love I thought pretty the babies aren't they?

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Yeah, that's you'd have to be a mother to love

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My dad used to race pigeons when I was a kid. Did he win?

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Persons of professional comedians

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20 quid to do that

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Let's have another song question how many roads must a man walk down

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Okay, so my question is

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How much road should a boy walk down before he becomes a man? Oh in terms of aging?

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Well, let's try and just work out how many miles between your fifth and your 18th birthday

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So that makes you a man how many roads?

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8,000 roads 8,000 roads. I'm gonna say 25,000 roads. I'm gonna go

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100 miles a year and it's 13 years

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One thousand three hundred miles. Okay, it's not enough. It's not enough. It's going to make a very very fat person

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You're telling me that I'm a beast because I've walked on the pavement instead of the road

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They reckon on average a boy ought to walk 15,000 steps per day that's 35 and a half thousand miles

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Between their fifth and their 18th birthday

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So there are just under 250,000 miles of road in the UK

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So the answer to Bob Dylan's question for the British ban is you should aim to walk down one seventh of all British roads by

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The time you are 18

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That was a really long afternoon in the office. Yeah

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So my question as woman is how many roads must a man walk down before he admits he's lost

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It says all of them only six percent of men surveyed said they would ask for directions or consult a man

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Realizing their loss the average man drives an extra 900 miles while lost

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So if you think lands end to John and greats is 874 miles and that's how much extra time men will drive

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Now is the new thing where men think they know better than the sat nav

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Here's another extremely silly question

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Submitted in 2011 by mr. Alan Davis, so

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Thank you so much, what is the aquatic equivalent of a sheepdog

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You're right from about 1840 to 1930 off the coast of Eden in New South Wales

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There was a pod of orcas such a type of dolphin and they were recorded herding whales towards fishermen

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And they were rewarded with the tongues and lips of the whale it became known as the law of the tongue

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The indigenous people the human people are thought to have cooperated with orcas from we don't know perhaps thousands of years

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But it came to an end with the death of the lead orca who was known as old Tom

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But Laguna in southern Brazil

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There's a group of bottlenose dolphins and they have been collaborating with local fishermen to herd fish since at least 1847

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So they drive shoals of mullet towards the fishermen in shallow water and then they indicate the sort of specialized head and tail movements

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Where the humans should throw the nets and then they share the catch and there's about 200 fishermen who are entirely dependent on the dolphins

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And they never fish without them and it seems to be a single group of dolphins

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About 20 of them. Yeah, and it rather suggests it's been handed down as it were in the family

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Exactly as it has for the fishermen. There's also dogs that heard fish

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They're called Portuguese water dogs and they've been used for this purpose for absolutely centuries. The Portuguese call them Portuguese fishing dogs

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Unbelievably fast you run at me and i'll get you when you're running

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When I go to get my haircut, I take a photo of him in actually

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Actually that would suit you darling

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You could get a little brown beard like he's got

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I

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Turns out that there actually are aquatic sheep dogs after all sort of anyway, not as silly as you thought

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Now here is another it's christmas time for her majesty's speech

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But what did people sing before there was a national anthem?

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Onward christian soldiers

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Anybody know god save the king when when does that come? I imagine it's victorian

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I don't think that god save the king started in victorian times. No

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You rule britannia

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Well, they performed publicly in the same year. So god save the king

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It was first publicly performed in 1745. It was the band at the theater royal dreary lane

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And it was played nightly. It was a sort of defiant response to the jackabite victory at the battle of preston pan

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But there is a third patriotic song which is much older used to be more popular than either of those things

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It was called britain's strike home was written by henry percel in 1695 for a production of a play about

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I don't know what we say anymore. Did we say buddhica? Yeah buddhica buddhica is the way forward

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We still say bodhicea in ethics where she lived

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He's got it right

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It was sung by a druid to whip up resistance against the romans

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And it used to be hugely popular this song the entire house of commons sang it spontaneously in 1797

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When war was declared by pit it was played on board ship

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During the battle of trefalgar the last recorded instance of it being played as a sort of patriotic rallying cry is december

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1914 but it's since fallen out of public consciousness

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So we've got a quick version performed by the academy of ancient music. Have a listen to this

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You come from a composing family

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Terms of kind of patriotic songs. Yeah, I prefer three lions

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In fact, it was written in the kebab house

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Fight fight

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Okay, so we are all going to sing uh, here we go

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That was really shit

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It felt like dinner at nigel farage's house

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The original national anthem a song about druids fighting romans

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Uh now for a q question. Has anybody here ever had the quabbles and don't spare me the details

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intergestion diarrhea

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I've had like collie wobbles collie wobbles says that is to do with your digestive area, isn't it? No, no

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That's when you're just like a bit unsettled. Okay. Yeah, oh I went out in the garden

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I think an owl's watching me. I've got the collie wobbles

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Like I feel his eyes on me like it's not hooting. Yeah, I think it's there

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He's looking at me, but his body's facing the wrong way, but his head's coming right round

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What might it do to you if it's watching you it might think i'm a shrew or something. I don't know

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It's going to its head. Okay, so it's not quabbles. It's an emotional thing. It's physical. It's a very old word

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It's it's actually a word from possibly an in the wiltshire dialect. It's the wrinkles that form on your fingers

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Um when you are oh, I hate them

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Why do you hate them? Oh when you when you rub them against each other they kind of oh my god, I hate that

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Why do you think we have them? Do you know what the reason is? Is it for grip?

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Yeah, well we don't know but it's possible that is one of the suggestions that it's a sort of evolutionary adaptation

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Because you had to handle objects quite often with wet hands and it helps drain water away from the fingers

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So you get a better grip

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It's not simply because your skin is saturated because you would have it all over wouldn't you it is very useful for doctors

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As a diagnostic tool, uh, particularly on an unconscious patient because it you might suspect

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Damage to the autonomic nervous system like your breathing and your digestion and your heartbeat and so on

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If you wet the hand and you can see which bits wrinkle elephants have permanently cobbled skin anybody know why

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They're always in the bath

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When humans appear they jump out the bath

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They're cobbled from head to toe

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Is it a surface area? It is it is to do with staying cool. Yeah

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So they have these tiny interconnected crevices and the cracks in the skin it retains five to ten times as much water

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As it would if it was smooth. It is beautiful. Isn't it elephant skin is the most glorious feeling to it

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It's just soft and exquisite. They have wonderful. Where did you meet an elephant? It's part-time job as a mouse. Yeah

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Which brings us to the

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Quizmasy quagmire of quandary's which is our quizmas general ignorance fingers on buzzers, please

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How many months of the year does it snow in britain?

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Uh, yep

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All of them

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Is the correct answer?

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All rain in the uk begins to snow

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Is the actual answer albeit unbelievably good noise good interested

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Oh gonna tell that what's a people at home in the morning

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Very high up in the atmosphere unless it's a very cold day

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The snow melts as soon as it hits the warm air and it falls to the ground as rain

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Do you know what sandy? I love a party with a happy atmosphere. Yeah

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Why can't you have a party on the moon? I don't know why can't you have a party on the moon? No atmosphere

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Um

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Most british rain is caused by something called the burger on

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Findeisen process so the tops of the clouds are made of a mix of ice crystals and supercooled water droplets

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So that's water which is below freezing point but has not frozen and the liquid water clumps around the ice crystals and forms

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Snowflakes below freezing point, but it hasn't it hasn't actually frozen. I know it is perfectly possible

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Um, and they should be stoned

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Yes

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They form snowflakes which grow until they're heavy enough to fall out of the cloud

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So in britain and other temperate climates nearly all of the rain which we get starts as

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That's amazing. So you start snow and you're drifting a bit

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Drifting and then you think oh i'm turning i'm turning

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That's exactly what it's like just like

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Why is ice slippery?

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Oh good question, it's the watery bit on top of the ice. Oh, yeah, does that sound right?

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Well, I think you should probably ask sandy rather than me

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When your foot goes down it melts the top into the ice

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Would you ever look at me again when you're answering a question? We're not in this together

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It's an old theory that it used to melt when you stepped on it or that by stepping on the ice somehow

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She's just really yanked him

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Yeah, she's got a lot of life insurance

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It was a theory that if you stepped on the ice the pressure you exerted melted the top layer and

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This water is then what you slid on. You'd have to be stupid to think that

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Would need to be extreme we've been talking about elephants if you put an elephant in high heels

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You still could not exert enough pressure to make that happen. I think you'd be locked up

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What

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I'm glad to see an elephant in high heels

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Yeah, but would you put it in four like two pairs of high heels or just two like do you want to make it sexy?

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Or is it an experiment?

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There's a team from the university of amsterdam who may have solved the problem and I think it's a matter of loose molecules

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So ice has a very regular

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Crystal structure so I am going to just you're going to get this johnny and you're going to enjoy it a little bit

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Of science, okay

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So the ice that's down at the bottom is each bit here's a molecule here's a molecule of ice

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Yeah, and it is attached. Can you see that to three? It's got three different things that it's attached to

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When you say ice what you're looking at there are mice

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Down below the surface has got three things that it is attached to the stuff that is up

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So up here mickey is mickey up here on the surface is only attached to two

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Yeah, what that means is they kind of move around they don't really stick together

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They detach themselves and reattach themselves in various ways

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And so it is literally like marbles on a dance floor and it would be slippery even if you weren't on it

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Madam you claimed it would all become clear

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Okay, now you explain it johnny when you put your foot in it it melts a bit that's

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Alan i'm back in your camp. I feel my work here is done

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Um

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Name an animal that you should leave a carrot out for

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Is it a reindeer?

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Is it a spooky garden owl? It is a spooky garden now. No

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It's not a rabbit. Is it a hedgehog? Did you say rabbit hedgehog? Hedgehog? No, should he have said rabbit?

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So bad news for children who leave carrots out for rudolph reindeer is finding it hard to eat carrots

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They don't have incisor teeth on the upper jaw

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So they never evolved to eat them because it's not a food stuff they would find in the wild at all

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Have you heard about the carrot swindle? Do you know about the carrot swindle?

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When you go to your self-serve checkout everything you put on for way you just press carrots

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Really? Yeah, so you'd be like buying an anvil and you'd press carrot. Yeah, so you put down what's an expensive vegetable

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Prosecco

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I'm not doing it josh. I'm a very honest customer. Where did you learn this from a reindeer?

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Because what what they found in the supermarkets the reason they started to become suspicious

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Was because they were selling millions of tons of carrots and that thousands and thousands of bottles of prosecco were being stolen

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And they started to watch people and sure enough people just putting all their washing on the thing pressing carrots and putting it

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Or they're watching

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They were putting all their shopping on the thing pressing carrots again, they've got six bags

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They paid 12 quid theft from self-service tills has doubled in the last four years

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So you should not put this information up. I'm doing it for sainsbury's. Yes, alan alan when you put your washing on

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What should you press?

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Why why should we not give carrots to rabbits? What's the reason for that? Oh, she's not good for them greens greens

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You're absolutely right wild rabbits don't eat root vegetables in any way or fruit at all too much sugar

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It's not good if it causes tooth decay best diet for pet rabbits is hay supplemented with some dark vegetables

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But certainly not carrots. Let me show you the world's biggest rabbit. This is uh, darious owned by annette edward

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He is not happy about being picked up there is he

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Bill bailey's got two of those and he told me that his was the biggest rabbit in the world

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Well, apparently this one measures four foot four inches from nose to tail costs are over 2000 pounds a year in food bills

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We're gonna have to have a rabbit off with bill and this

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That is brilliant, it's fantastic, isn't it? I mean that's nearly as tall as me mind you a lot of things

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I know but you just want that to be in the garden when a cat comes over trying to bully it

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The unrealistic thing about the father christmas story is that reindeer don't actually eat carrots

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Now I think it's time for a cup of cheer who would like a glass of wine

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What a way to fall off the wagon this is going to be

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It really just feel like christmas at my house because the glasses are plastic

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Very expensive very expensive glasses that matter call that cristal. Oh, that was a good day at pound land, wasn't it?

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When you got there

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So, I know you like to know a little bit about wine don't you josh love

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Yeah, okay

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So how far in advance should you open the wine for your christmas dinner to make sure it is properly aerated october?

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I would say 15 minutes. It's intolerable to open a bottle of wine and wait for more than 15 seconds

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I can't wait for the fedora russia round

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And are we allowed to drink this just telling if your mother says it's okay

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I'll go as christian soldiers everybody

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Red wine red wine the best way if you are going to aerate red wine my sofa smells like

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Is not to be counted at all or or indeed aerate drink it straight from the bottle

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Honestly might as well is the truth of it

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But if you really and truly wanted to aerate it what you need to do is to put it in a blender

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Or do what i've done here

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Which is I poured out a bit of the wine put the cork back in and give it a jolly good shake

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But just leaving it open for an hour or putting it in a decanter or something. It's actually pointless, frankly

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I like the idea of using your nutribullet the next morning. It's that would take some time

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Lots of people believe that aerating good wine makes it worse. There's a guy called emil

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Pienu he's often thought of as a sort of forefather of enology

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So the the guy who knows about the study of wine and said it should be avoided at all costs

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So don't bother with it at all. Don't even pull over

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With all the drinking we'll be doing this christmas we're all going to have stacks of glasses and cups

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So who fancies a christmas cup stacking contest?

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Okay, so take out your stack of cups. Yeah

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And what you need to do is you need three cups here

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And three cups here and six cups in the middle. Okay. Have I got a child lock on my cups?

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Have you done it? Yeah, okay. Well done. So it's a proper sport is recognized by the american amateur athletics union junior olympics

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So here is what you have to do. You have to take the stack on the left

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And make three like this then you have to take the six in the middle and make them into a stack as well

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like this

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And then you have to make the stack of three

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So this is the shape that you should end up with and once you've done that in order to do it as a proper

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Sport stacking contest you then have to return it to how it was but you have to start the same way

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uh

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And back like this, okay

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So i'm gonna have a competition. Yep. See who can do this fastest. Yep. All right, this is so exciting

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Start on the left

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Yeah, okay

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A stack of three a stack of six a stack of three ready steady go

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Three and a six

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I'm just gonna take them down again from the left to the right

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To see if there's somebody in the audience

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I'm gonna pick anybody want to have a go anybody i'm gonna go

423
00:41:17,940 --> 00:41:21,780
Okay, the guy just put his hand up here. Come and have a go my darling. Let's uh, let's challenge you again

424
00:41:28,460 --> 00:41:32,699
Let's uh, what's your name? Uh, lee lee. Lee. This is josh. I've got bad news for you lee

425
00:41:32,780 --> 00:41:35,260
You're about to get your ass handed to you

426
00:41:36,940 --> 00:41:39,420
Uh both put your hands on the board before you start

427
00:41:40,699 --> 00:41:42,699
Okay, are you ready? Not really

428
00:41:43,099 --> 00:41:44,619
Okay

429
00:41:44,619 --> 00:42:02,250
Whoa, what's good? He dropped my first car

430
00:42:03,050 --> 00:42:06,519
Otherwise, I thought we were pretty well matched

431
00:42:07,639 --> 00:42:12,039
Best of three. Okay, put your hands on the mat so no cheating. You think that's gonna make a difference. I do

432
00:42:12,599 --> 00:42:50,070
You should be ashamed josh i've ruined christmas. You should be ashamed of yourself cheating at christmas

433
00:42:51,670 --> 00:42:57,349
Boys hands on the mat. They're gonna give you best of three. Are you ready?

434
00:42:58,070 --> 00:43:12,260
Go champion stacker lee norton

435
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:28,280
Second and a happy christmas to alan who comes first, but once a year

436
00:43:29,159 --> 00:43:35,510
Now what we're gonna do

437
00:43:36,389 --> 00:43:40,630
Merry christmas and a happy two year. Here we go two three