290: No Such Thing As A Winter Fax Machine

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Alex, James, Anna and Andrew discuss Tolstoy's hat-wearing habits, nuclear-powered icebreakers (literal, not conversational) and how to hack a fax from the moon.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of NoSocings The Fish. My name is Alex Bell.
0:18.1	No, a weekly episode, no, what is it? A weekly podcast coming to you.
0:22.0	You're doing real good.
0:23.2	Shut up. I'm hosting a weekly podcast from the offices of QI.
0:28.6	From the QI offices in Covent Garden, my name is Alex Bell and I'm joined by James Harkin,
0:33.2	Adria Hunter-Marie and Anna Chisinski. And I forgot what I have to next.
0:38.0	This is once again, we are going to drown the microphone to share our favourite facts in the last
0:43.3	seven days. I know a particular order here we go, starting with you, James.
0:48.2	That was the flawless. I thought it was brilliant. I would say flawless.
0:51.1	It's so nice, you've given us outtakes for a year.
0:53.9	See, we all think down is a complete idiot, but now I see how difficult that job is.
1:00.6	It's not easy. You found respect for the man.
1:03.6	Okay, well, my fact this week is that in Japan, you can buy left-handed chopsticks.
1:10.2	Amazing.
1:11.0	Isn't that cool?
1:11.8	It's not amazing because chopsticks are just a stick.
1:14.5	How can they be left-handed?
1:15.8	You would think they're just a stick, but I went to a shop in the Shiki Market, which is in Kyoto,
1:20.9	and they had a whole shop full of chopsticks. If they were just sticks, I don't think they'd be
1:25.5	able to do that. I think you've been had.
1:28.9	Did you spend a lot of extra money on them?
1:30.4	No, because I'm not left-handed, so they weren't really for me.
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