UK: 2010 was the year it became illigal to own a slave

[DVTimes]

Did you know that it only became illigall in the UK to own a slave.

QI: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ouse_and_Home/

[SmokeyTheBear]

video doesnt work outside uk

[DVTimes]

Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear

video doesnt work outside uk

i suspected you would not see it.

do you get qi (bbc tv) in the usa? i know you get some uk shows. its hosted by stephen fry (who i belive is known in the usa).

anyway its a sort of quiz show.

this week it was on about crazy uk laws. and one law was in 2010 that made owning a slave illigall.

in the uk we have lots of old laws that have never been changed such as if your in york, you can shoot a sctotishman with a bow and arrow.

[maxxtro]

Great show. Funny AND educational

[DVTimes]

the other week it said that piranha are not mostars trhat strip you to the bone in seconds, but in fact are rather tame.

apprantly the story of them stripping people to the bone was president teddyu bear (i know thats not his real name, but i always think it is) showing off, and boasting about one of his trips.

And that became a sort of truth.

So now people think these fish are killers.

[DVTimes]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha

Theodore Roosevelt's description

There exists a legend that piranhas will skin and eat a human being alive, which is said to have been started with American President Theodore Roosevelt's visit to Brazil, and a spectacle set up by Brazilian fishermen. To guarantee a good show for the adventure-loving Roosevelt, locals blocked off a portion of an Amazon tributary with nets and dumped hordes of starving piranhas into it when Roosevelt explored the region on a hunting trip. Then they sliced up a cow and tossed it in the river, setting off a wild feeding frenzy that quickly reduced the carcass to bones—the "instant skeleton" now associated with piranhas. Roosevelt presented piranhas as vicious creatures in his 1914 book Through the Brazilian Wilderness, indicating that

They are the most ferocious fish in the world. Even the most formidable fish, the sharks or the barracudas, usually attack things smaller than themselves. But the piranhas habitually attack things much larger than themselves. They will snap a finger off a hand incautiously trailed in the water; they mutilate swimmers—in every river town in Paraguay there are men who have been thus mutilated; they will rend and devour alive any wounded man or beast; for blood in the water excites them to madness. They will tear wounded wild fowl to pieces; and bite off the tails of big fish as they grow exhausted when fighting after being hooked. But the piranha is a short, deep-bodied fish, with a blunt face and a heavily undershot or projecting lower jaw which gapes widely. The razor-edged teeth are wedge-shaped like a shark’s, and the jaw muscles possess great power. The rabid, furious snaps drive the teeth through flesh and bone. The head with its short muzzle, staring malignant eyes, and gaping, cruelly armed jaws, is the embodiment of evil ferocity; and the actions of the fish exactly match its looks. I never witnessed an exhibition of such impotent, savage fury as was shown by the piranhas as they flapped on deck. When fresh from the water and thrown on the boards they uttered an extraordinary squealing sound. As they flapped about they bit with vicious eagerness at whatever presented itself. One of them flapped into a cloth and seized it with a bulldog grip. Another grasped one of its fellows; another snapped at a piece of wood, and left the teeth-marks deep therein. They are the pests of the waters, and it is necessary to be exceedingly cautious about either swimming or wading where they are found. If cattle are driven into, or of their own accord enter, the water, they are commonly not molested; but if by chance some unusually big or ferocious specimen of these fearsome fishes does bite an animal—taking off part of an ear, or perhaps of a teat from the udder of a cow—the blood brings up every member of the ravenous throng which is anywhere near, and unless the attacked animal can immediately make its escape from the water it is devoured alive.

[DVTimes]

qi is a top show

[Dappz]

ummmmmmmmmmmmm this was to cool

[seeandsee]

old stupid laws

[Chosen]

Thanks for the info...

[Sarah_Jayne]

A great show that showcases the quickest minds we have in comedy. Last year, I went to a taping of David Mitchell's radio game show where it was Fry and Davies as contestants along with Rob Brydon. It was one of the funniest things I have ever witnessed.

[ottopottomouse]

[spazlabz]

dammit! and I was so going to get me one next year

THANKS A LOT UK!

[DVTimes]

Some facts from the show:

We have in fact 3 moons.

When you see the sunset you do not, its an mirage.

UK has the smallest houses.

Sharks are nice.

The unlikest man alive (who died in the last year or so) was a jap in japan who was near the firtst nuke going off in Japan during ww2. Then got on a treain and got nuked by a second nuke in Japan later.

Left and right is a consept.

Romon solders were vegetarian.

[DVTimes]

•Octopuses have six legs
•Oranges aren't orange
•Bats aren't blind
•Napoleon wasn't short
•Vikings didn't wear horned helmets
•Diamond isn't the hardest substance
•Bank notes aren't made of paper
•Testosterone doesn't make you aggressive
•Cheese doesn't give you nightmares
•There is no such thing as a fish

[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by ottopottomouse

looks like fun