@@NoProtocol or put another way, i think your viewership would feel most comfortable with you in a restroom without doors, or seated next to you on a bus while hoiking up their sinus into a plastic bag. Terms of endearment. :)
For all the faults in this crazy world, I'm glad we all lived in the timeline where Karl Pilkington existed. A unique mind but a based mind and as you put it "he just says it".
Re the "us/I" thing, I think it's just a case of ease. "Could you give us a call/couldja giss a call," flows more naturally than "could you give me a call/couldja gimme a calll," and most of modern spoken English is formed around making older written English easier to say (ie "Gloucester" being pronounced "Glossta," etc.)
I've got an oldie but a goodie chill track for you. 'In Dreams' by Roy Orbison, it featured in David Lynch's film, 'Blue Velvet'. Anyways, RIP David Lynch. ...Nice vid, Karl's great and all the best.
literally one of the best travel shows of all time no bs 😅 Also Karl Pilkington is one of the funniest humans on planet earth lol I can't tell you how much I have died from laughter and come back from laughter because of Karl lmao love the Ricky Gervais show with Ricky, Steve and Karl 😅
18:43 apparently it has something to do with old English. which had different rules about how us and me worked. it's more common in the north, but also pretty common everywhere else, too It's kind of an informal way of talking. and I think it's stuck around because it's just easier to say. Giv-us (give us) is easier to say than giv-mee (give me)
9:53 Those whitey things are air bladders aka swim bladders, which fish have to give them balance and level in water. If you gut a fish you'll find one. Anyway, looking forward to see more Idiot Abroad episodes with you.
Thank you for sharing your smile with me I love Karl and his antics, Gervais is a genius, with all the war and corruption going on just lately it’s a welcome break to laugh and smile for a while and seeing your smile adds a nice touch thank you keep the vids coming 😃
I stumbled upon your channel a few years ago, and you have become quite frequent visitor on my screen. My favorite non-musical youtuber, actually. As for Chinese music, I highly recommend listening to album Sister Drum by Dadawa. Looking forward to your next video, cheers.
Yeah please do more if you can. Love all your reactions. No bullshit, Just straight to the reaction. It's what makes you stand out from the rest. Much love. x
Karl's reaction to the wall in general and to the food kills me 😂 he always has this way of saying exactly what you're thinking, saying something completely off the wall, or saying something incredibly profound. And sometimes he does all of that in one sentence! I'm listening to a lot of jazz and instrumentals, I started with the Seatbelts, and got the soundtrack to whiplash added in, I also put in some albums from Daedalus and some city pop. Sort of an impromptu "focus" playlist.
37:02 It’s a bit of a gimmick in that the pieces are heated and cooled in a way that makes them more brittle than standard, more pliant metal. That combined with the length of the piece makes it easier to break. The piece Karl is trying to do it with would be more difficult to break. This is also the reason why when the guy was banging them together beforehand, he was very, very gentle because if he tapped them together much harder, they’d have broken. Still hurts though, just not as much as you’d initially think.
Are you ready for the Karl Pilkington rabbit hole? I suppose you're already down it though. "A radio with headlights...." I don't even know why that cracks me up every time. It's just such a weird thing to notice and mention.😂 "I guess it'll be a surprise then...." as the lady draws the blinds on the bus. "If that was a squid with a tumor on its head he'd into it" "It's the alright wall of China" Legendary gems from the K-man. I can never get enough of him tbh. And the camera man didn't even flinch at the needle! What a champion! If you're looking for Chinese artists to feature let me introduce Moyun Official. She does great cover and some traditional song on the Guhzeng. You will be amazed!
Gotta love Karl! The bus trip brought back memories. Close friends of ours went to the USA in the 1980s/90s, don't remember exactly when. They booked a Greyhound bus and couldn't believe how cheap it was. In Australia Greyhound was quite prestigious. My friend Georgia had that exact experience - woman sitting next to her brought her own jar onto the bus and hawked into it for the entire trip. I still gag even while typing this 🤮
MUSIC about China: OTTO - Lavanda ..because he says: "Em Bora Tao, Em Bangladesh Goa, Na China Mao, Free Tibet para mim é pessoal" this one is special because Otto is my personal friend. my favorite album is "Certa Manhã Acordei de Sonhos Intranquilos" (and chicken hearts is not weird, it's just a normal sunday afternoon barbecue) 😊
10:06 This part always totally cracks me up. Lmao! One of the most unusual snacks I had from Indonesia was actually something that looked like dried little minnow fish. - served almost like a seasoned trail mix. While the flavor and texture wasn't too bad if you didn't look at it. But it was actually quite unsettling visually, as it looked like you were eating whole fish out of someone's aquarium. Truly taking goldfish crackers to the next level.
When a Chinese friend first pointed out a spicy bullfrog joint on our street in Hangzhou, I thought she might have misspoken. I’d heard of fancy French restaurants selling frog legs, but never of mom-and-pop spots serving the same fat frogs I’d once run away from as a little girl. She was right, though. People first began dropping bullfrogs into tubs of steamy broth in Sichuan, the Central Chinese province known for its blisteringly spicy food. Since, the dish has made its way to restaurants in just about every region of the country. Sichuan’s sticky, marshy climate makes bullfrogs easy to find, and now people all over queue up for hot pots of spicy frogs and leave trails of tiny bones in their wakes. A bit of Chinese frog history…lol and don’t forget to suck the toes. 😂😂😂
Music - song I currently listen too. She she she, Piya Malik - forget me not. New Funk/soul. Flatbush zombies ft’ Dia - U&I. Hip hop. Dennis Ferrer, K.T. brooks - how do I let go. House music. M-Dubs, Richie Dan - over here (sugar shack break beat funk) Old skool garage. The stone roses - she bangs the drum. Indie. Scott storch, Abbie stair - on my own. Pop. The E.N.D - the pharcyde. Hip hop. Great reaction videos! Love that you get straight into the video and don’t pause constantly, but when you do I like your input. God bless sister. ❤🏴😎
the metal snapping, it's hardened but untempered steel which snaps really easily (i'm a blacksmith, and i've lost a few projects to that xD). It'd still hurt, but it's not that difficult to break
As you say "Giv'us" is a Northern expression meaning "Give me". Karl is from Manchester. I say it myself and I'm from Lincoln which is almost North but not quite.
@NoProtocol.subscribed while back & surprised you've done idiot abroad!seen it many times before but your beautiful smile & intelligence & curiosity,makes it worth watching again🤗
Frog legs are dope, this old small town restaurant here in Central Texas called Antler's Cafe (the old one at 46 and 281 NOT the new one) used to sell them for whatever reason and I loved them as a kid, partly because that place was one of the half dozen or so places to eat within 10 miles of my parents business and the ranch I grew up on but regardless I ate there a lot and I'd almost always order those things until the highway moved or something like that and they had to sell it (thats if IIRC, but moving the highway/road a few yards this or that way is insanely common here for whatever reason) and then they moved locations but the new one sucked so no more frog legs. I can't explain the taste, kind of like beansprouts but not in taste, in that they both do have a distinctive taste thats sort of mild and instead the consistency is the strangest part of both of those things, frog legs are sort of slimy at least when fried and the meat is like a weird fish/mammal hybrid consistency that I've never experienced before with anything else. Also the bones are really weird like proportionally wise IIRC but anyway point is you should try them sometime Also if that syntax threw you off I probably just gave you an aneurism but thats what happens when I stop reading books for awhile, if I don't regularly read its like I forget how to English and I end up having to start reading everyday again within a year or two or you get this boondock rusty knife lobotomized rat level of grammar
18:54 Linguist here: I'm not an expert on this area, but it might have developed out of situations where you might use the inclusive we (referring to the speaker and the listener) in indirect commands, like "Could you go and fetch us a cuppa?" where you mean both yourself and the other person. In this case it might be a shorthand for; I want a cup of tea, do you want a cup of tea? And could you also make it? Then it would sort of naturally develop into a "polite" way of asking. The reason I'm saying "polite" is that it's not necessarily politeness but more out of a sense of not wanting to come across as too demanding in the same manner as "like" is used to make statements less emotionally invested, as in "This is, like, totally awesome." where you are testing the waters with other people to see if they agree with your sentiment. French and my own Danish has a similar thing to the "us" phenomenon with impersonal constructions used instead of "I", like "One thinks about these things a lot.", "Could one have/get a coffee in this place?"
London Calling: The ‘us’ thing is a wonderful peculiarity of the Yorkshire dialect, basically substituting ‘us’ for ‘ours’. So if I was from Yorkshire with a strong local dialect I might invite you to ‘us’ house rather than ‘our’ house.
I just had a thought when Karl imagined giving Suzanne his name written in Chinese and saying it was her name and then let 20 years go by and then by chance having a Chinese visitor in their home and telling Suzanne it's actually says Karl. One could go wild with the different thoughts that Suzanne might have at that point. Surely none would be positive.
Great reaction! Yeah the "Us" thing, is a common dialect among working classes, probably something to do with the long history of England with classes, as the Parliament is 800 years old and always different representations between working class and aristocracy. It is not just a Northern thing, but Northerners heavily identify with their counties like "Yorkshire" who closely border the Scottish, many historical reasons. So So it could be used in different ways like "Us" as English to differentiate between English and Scottish or "Us" as working class, or "Us" as in the city (Manchester) or county (Yorkshire) based on the context. Long comment but I thought you might want English people to tell you. Rather than a random person just googling it 👌 Love from East Anglia. More Karl 😅 "A Fetus!"
Let’s see, I’ve been listening to Aurora a lot and there’s too many of her songs to recommend. Try “It Happened Quiet (Live at The Current)” to see the range of her voice, or “Exist for Love” if you want a love song that makes you melt. Finally, “The Dark Dresses Lightly (Live)” is a recent release that I can’t get enough of! More Idiot Abroad! Love watching Karl entertain the world.
I ate wild palmetto bugs in South Florida. When i say "wild" I mean it was not at a restaurant or food cart. We caught palmetto bugs, cooked them over a campfire and ate them. Palmetto bugs are basically giant cockroaches
I aite some mad stuff in Zimbabwe when I lived with the locals for a year…… I had crocodile kudu mapany worms spiders, snakes, all sorts of bugs, giraff but only when they got meat of it for the lions we have some of it
11:25 My favorite thing to do (not really crazy tho) is when cooking a turkey to pan sear the liver in butter and eat it as a snack with a glass of white wine while cooking and prepping things.
Assuming he was around 12 years old when he was a paperboy, the price of mars-bars would have been "15 pence" in the early 80's. Or about 18 cents, american. Now comparatively, 18 cents in the early 80's had the equivalent buying power of 55 cents today. There are 104 weeks in two years, multiply it by 7 and we find out he stole roughly 728 mars-bars. If each one of those is worth 55 cents, then to pay back his old employer he'd owe $400.40 american or £326.98 in England's disney-fun-bucks.
On using "us" instead of "me" - I don't know its origins, but its use is fairly ubiquitous across working-class Britain. It's pretty much exclusively used when casually asking for something trivial, downplaying, or trying to appear less direct with a request. For example if you said to a friend "get me a drink", it could sound like a demand, whereas "get us a drink" would be a better equivalent to "would you mind getting me a drink?". Some common examples might be: "give us a sec", "give us a quick hand", "do us a favour, move your car out way", "chuck us a light"
It's an interesting thing. I think the "us" is an implicit, polite sort of "okay, wait, we're in this together". It's like, the people who we/I normally fraternise with are here with us/me now, as we/I am speaking lol. it's a strange polite, colloquial, nonsensical rendition of something that ultimately doesn't;t make full grammatical sense, but nevertheless works on that colloquial level. "Okay, wait for us mate!" means "Okay, whether I;m here by myself or not, wait for 'us', like, wait a second, we;re in this together and/or ""I;m imagining a third/fourth party here over my shoulder who might agree with me--a kind of imaginary solidarity and therefore I'm okay''' etc., etc
Karl Is so deadpan I can't tell if hes being really funny or seriously means what he says. I honestly think it's half and half. He's just bantsing with the lads. He's not a bad guy. He just has a very narrow perspective of what life is. Being ignorant doesnt make you a bad person.
The Hu is a Mongolian rock band, apt for the great wall reference. lol I just listen to a lot of Prof and Atmosphere lately. But just found out about a guy named Shaboozey, not a bad sound.
. Kate Bush and Boy George and Jools Holland and the Group: Squeeze were all born within 2 miles of where I have lived on the edge of South East London for 41 years. Where I used to live,11 miles away, in the heart of S E London,I was born 2 miles from David Bowie and in the same street as Charlie Chaplin and 500 yards from Actor: Sir Michael Caineface-green-smiling
The north of England has a stronger influence from Vikings, whereas as the south was more influence by France. Until we got rail, travel was rare, and local dialects had a thousand years to diverge. Television has been the great equaliser but there are still real communication differences the further you go. Newcastle is basically its own language.
I think the strangest thing ever ate was trout. I much prefer sea fish. I'm fortunate a lad brings us a van from Fleetwood on a Wednesday as well as Fridays
On the projects, that is what hobbies are for. Find something you can be passionate about. Something that builds community and takes you outside of your house. Because he is right, when you stop moving, you start dying sooner. Stay active.
Love the reaction. You looked a bit dodgy with the lady on the bus 😂 as for us I’m from the north of England and I use that phrase. But unfortunately I have no idea why I use it. Sorry 🤷🏻♂️
I could not imagine any youtuber I'd rather watch this with!
That is such a compliment
I only know of this because of NP
ditto
@@NoProtocol or put another way, i think your viewership would feel most comfortable with you in a restroom without doors, or seated next to you on a bus while hoiking up their sinus into a plastic bag. Terms of endearment. :)
Agreed
I've been waiting for you to start this series. I can't wait to go on this journey with you.
For all the faults in this crazy world, I'm glad we all lived in the timeline where Karl Pilkington existed. A unique mind but a based mind and as you put it "he just says it".
Oh, this came out right when HD TV was just kicking off, so they mention it loads 😂
Haitch
It's not worth doing in HD.
Asking a "Fortune Teller" in the middle of China if he knows who Bruce Springsteen is, is peak Karl.
I'd forgotten about this show. Am crying laughing here. Thank you my dear, I really enjoyed that. Best wishes to you.
one of the best TH-cam reactors 🙌👏 hands down. so knowledgeable and your videos are so chilled. keep it up. much respect Birmingham UK. 🇬🇧.
Karl is a genius. He's just so smart we can't even comprehend it.
Yeah no.
A great series to follow, Karl is great!
He had me cracking up this episode
Pilkers is always great entertainment. The whole series is very funny. Cruel but funny!
Nice one, I've seen this show a million times. Looks like I'm going for a million and one.
I am definitely subbing to your Patreon having heard that. I found your channel with the first Karl related video you posted I stayed for your smarts
"The Alright Wall Of China" cracks me up every time.
I watched every episode!! And occasionally, was able to breathe!! He is absolutely genuine.
Your random UK city was quite pleasing. I'm from near Newcastle (8 or 9 miles east, on the coast). :)
Re the "us/I" thing, I think it's just a case of ease. "Could you give us a call/couldja giss a call," flows more naturally than "could you give me a call/couldja gimme a calll," and most of modern spoken English is formed around making older written English easier to say (ie "Gloucester" being pronounced "Glossta," etc.)
Love this series. Karl is one of the funniest. I recently finished "Sick of It", so funny.
I've got an oldie but a goodie chill track for you. 'In Dreams' by Roy Orbison, it featured in David Lynch's film, 'Blue Velvet'. Anyways, RIP David Lynch. ...Nice vid, Karl's great and all the best.
literally one of the best travel shows of all time no bs 😅 Also Karl Pilkington is one of the funniest humans on planet earth lol I can't tell you how much I have died from laughter and come back from laughter because of Karl lmao love the Ricky Gervais show with Ricky, Steve and Karl 😅
18:43 apparently it has something to do with old English. which had different rules about how us and me worked. it's more common in the north, but also pretty common everywhere else, too
It's kind of an informal way of talking. and I think it's stuck around because it's just easier to say. Giv-us (give us) is easier to say than giv-mee (give me)
Surprised no one else reacts to this marvelous series. Looking forward to more of your reactions!
9:53 Those whitey things are air bladders aka swim bladders, which fish have to give them balance and level in water. If you gut a fish you'll find one. Anyway, looking forward to see more Idiot Abroad episodes with you.
Thank you for sharing your smile with me I love Karl and his antics, Gervais is a genius, with all the war and corruption going on just lately it’s a welcome break to laugh and smile for a while and seeing your smile adds a nice touch thank you keep the vids coming 😃
Thank you for being genuine, a lot of reaction-based channels are obnoxiously fake, not the case with yours, it's a breath of fresh air!
A good reaction video .. KP is hilarious.
I stumbled upon your channel a few years ago, and you have become quite frequent visitor on my screen.
My favorite non-musical youtuber, actually.
As for Chinese music, I highly recommend listening to album Sister Drum by Dadawa.
Looking forward to your next video, cheers.
Yeah please do more if you can. Love all your reactions. No bullshit, Just straight to the reaction. It's what makes you stand out from the rest. Much love. x
I was only able to see a few episodes here in The Philippines, but I loved the series. Brilliant. As always, love ya.
It’s a brilliant series.
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street, such an amazing Saxaphone solo.
Right up my alley! I love saxophone
@@NoProtocol Jungleland or She's The One, both by Bruce Springsteen then!
best you tuber ever. intelligent, funny and non judgemental love it !!
Excited to watch this with you. I love this series.
More please. Love this program.
Yo, No P, I felt so bad for you during the "throat noises" bit, but your reaction was CRACKING ME UP dude ahahaha.
You soldiered through!
Karl's reaction to the wall in general and to the food kills me 😂 he always has this way of saying exactly what you're thinking, saying something completely off the wall, or saying something incredibly profound. And sometimes he does all of that in one sentence!
I'm listening to a lot of jazz and instrumentals, I started with the Seatbelts, and got the soundtrack to whiplash added in, I also put in some albums from Daedalus and some city pop. Sort of an impromptu "focus" playlist.
Karl is a hilarious dude
37:02 It’s a bit of a gimmick in that the pieces are heated and cooled in a way that makes them more brittle than standard, more pliant metal. That combined with the length of the piece makes it easier to break. The piece Karl is trying to do it with would be more difficult to break. This is also the reason why when the guy was banging them together beforehand, he was very, very gentle because if he tapped them together much harder, they’d have broken. Still hurts though, just not as much as you’d initially think.
Are you ready for the Karl Pilkington rabbit hole? I suppose you're already down it though.
"A radio with headlights...." I don't even know why that cracks me up every time. It's just such a weird thing to notice and mention.😂
"I guess it'll be a surprise then...." as the lady draws the blinds on the bus.
"If that was a squid with a tumor on its head he'd into it"
"It's the alright wall of China"
Legendary gems from the K-man. I can never get enough of him tbh.
And the camera man didn't even flinch at the needle! What a champion!
If you're looking for Chinese artists to feature let me introduce Moyun Official. She does great cover and some traditional song on the Guhzeng. You will be amazed!
Gotta love Karl!
The bus trip brought back memories.
Close friends of ours went to the USA in the 1980s/90s, don't remember exactly when.
They booked a Greyhound bus and couldn't believe how cheap it was. In Australia Greyhound was quite prestigious.
My friend Georgia had that exact experience - woman sitting next to her brought her own jar onto the bus and hawked into it for the entire trip. I still gag even while typing this 🤮
MUSIC about China: OTTO - Lavanda
..because he says: "Em Bora Tao, Em Bangladesh Goa, Na China Mao, Free Tibet para mim é pessoal" this one is special because Otto is my personal friend. my favorite album is "Certa Manhã Acordei de Sonhos Intranquilos" (and chicken hearts is not weird, it's just a normal sunday afternoon barbecue) 😊
Love series. Look forward to next episode with you
Karl is just that bloke at work, and everyone knows him.
It's a perfect way to describe the man, I agree,he is exactly that.
"Nils Frahm- Says". Electronic, atmospheric masterpiece from a predominantly piano/classical artist.
Great track 👍
@@jakemorrison8507 thanks!
I've watched both series a couple of times now and each time it's just as funny.
10:06 This part always totally cracks me up. Lmao! One of the most unusual snacks I had from Indonesia was actually something that looked like dried little minnow fish. - served almost like a seasoned trail mix. While the flavor and texture wasn't too bad if you didn't look at it. But it was actually quite unsettling visually, as it looked like you were eating whole fish out of someone's aquarium. Truly taking goldfish crackers to the next level.
When a Chinese friend first pointed out a spicy bullfrog joint on our street in Hangzhou, I thought she might have misspoken. I’d heard of fancy French restaurants selling frog legs, but never of mom-and-pop spots serving the same fat frogs I’d once run away from as a little girl.
She was right, though. People first began dropping bullfrogs into tubs of steamy broth in Sichuan, the Central Chinese province known for its blisteringly spicy food. Since, the dish has made its way to restaurants in just about every region of the country. Sichuan’s sticky, marshy climate makes bullfrogs easy to find, and now people all over queue up for hot pots of spicy frogs and leave trails of tiny bones in their wakes.
A bit of Chinese frog history…lol and don’t forget to suck the toes. 😂😂😂
Music - song I currently listen too.
She she she, Piya Malik - forget me not.
New Funk/soul.
Flatbush zombies ft’ Dia - U&I.
Hip hop.
Dennis Ferrer, K.T. brooks - how do I let go.
House music.
M-Dubs, Richie Dan - over here (sugar shack break beat funk)
Old skool garage.
The stone roses - she bangs the drum.
Indie.
Scott storch, Abbie stair - on my own.
Pop.
The E.N.D - the pharcyde.
Hip hop.
Great reaction videos! Love that you get straight into the video and don’t pause constantly, but when you do I like your input. God bless sister. ❤🏴😎
Do all of them this is amazing
Glad u watch it much love from United kingdom 😂❤
Greatest travel series ever created🔥🐐
This is going to be a great series!
the metal snapping, it's hardened but untempered steel which snaps really easily (i'm a blacksmith, and i've lost a few projects to that xD). It'd still hurt, but it's not that difficult to break
As you say "Giv'us" is a Northern expression meaning "Give me". Karl is from Manchester. I say it myself and I'm from Lincoln which is almost North but not quite.
No Protocol Awesome Video Today!!🔥🐐🐐💎
@NoProtocol.subscribed while back & surprised you've done idiot abroad!seen it many times before but your beautiful smile & intelligence & curiosity,makes it worth watching again🤗
Nice all karl things are great, happy you're watching it.
I think "us" is an evolved dialect term of the Northern working class. Signalling a sense of solidarity.
Thank you for this explanation!
How did I not know this existed? LOL this is gonna be fun!
The animated stories of Karl are hilarious.
"The alright wall of china" should be on a t-shirt 😂
Nice reaction. I think Karl has learned to quip by being around Ricky. I heard this old classic yesterday…Bread - Guitar Man (1972)
Love the video protocol stay motivated Dream big 1 mill on the way
Frog legs are dope, this old small town restaurant here in Central Texas called Antler's Cafe (the old one at 46 and 281 NOT the new one) used to sell them for whatever reason and I loved them as a kid, partly because that place was one of the half dozen or so places to eat within 10 miles of my parents business and the ranch I grew up on but regardless I ate there a lot and I'd almost always order those things until the highway moved or something like that and they had to sell it (thats if IIRC, but moving the highway/road a few yards this or that way is insanely common here for whatever reason) and then they moved locations but the new one sucked so no more frog legs.
I can't explain the taste, kind of like beansprouts but not in taste, in that they both do have a distinctive taste thats sort of mild and instead the consistency is the strangest part of both of those things, frog legs are sort of slimy at least when fried and the meat is like a weird fish/mammal hybrid consistency that I've never experienced before with anything else. Also the bones are really weird like proportionally wise IIRC but anyway point is you should try them sometime
Also if that syntax threw you off I probably just gave you an aneurism but thats what happens when I stop reading books for awhile, if I don't regularly read its like I forget how to English and I end up having to start reading everyday again within a year or two or you get this boondock rusty knife lobotomized rat level of grammar
18:54 Linguist here: I'm not an expert on this area, but it might have developed out of situations where you might use the inclusive we (referring to the speaker and the listener) in indirect commands, like "Could you go and fetch us a cuppa?" where you mean both yourself and the other person. In this case it might be a shorthand for; I want a cup of tea, do you want a cup of tea? And could you also make it? Then it would sort of naturally develop into a "polite" way of asking. The reason I'm saying "polite" is that it's not necessarily politeness but more out of a sense of not wanting to come across as too demanding in the same manner as "like" is used to make statements less emotionally invested, as in "This is, like, totally awesome." where you are testing the waters with other people to see if they agree with your sentiment.
French and my own Danish has a similar thing to the "us" phenomenon with impersonal constructions used instead of "I", like "One thinks about these things a lot.", "Could one have/get a coffee in this place?"
Very elaborate, thank you!
London Calling: The ‘us’ thing is a wonderful peculiarity of the Yorkshire dialect, basically substituting ‘us’ for ‘ours’. So if I was from Yorkshire with a strong local dialect I might invite you to ‘us’ house rather than ‘our’ house.
9:52 It's fish swim bladder. It's to modulate buoyancy.
I just had a thought when Karl imagined giving Suzanne his name written in Chinese and saying it was her name and then let 20 years go by and then by chance having a Chinese visitor in their home and telling Suzanne it's actually says Karl. One could go wild with the different thoughts that Suzanne might have at that point. Surely none would be positive.
Great reaction! Yeah the "Us" thing, is a common dialect among working classes, probably something to do with the long history of England with classes, as the Parliament is 800 years old and always different representations between working class and aristocracy. It is not just a Northern thing, but Northerners heavily identify with their counties like "Yorkshire" who closely border the Scottish, many historical reasons. So
So it could be used in different ways like "Us" as English to differentiate between English and Scottish or "Us" as working class, or "Us" as in the city (Manchester) or county (Yorkshire) based on the context.
Long comment but I thought you might want English people to tell you. Rather than a random person just googling it 👌 Love from East Anglia. More Karl 😅 "A Fetus!"
YES !! WE BACK WITH KARL !!
I have no idea what time I was born. I seem to remember asking my mother once and she didn't know either. 😂
Let’s see, I’ve been listening to Aurora a lot and there’s too many of her songs to recommend. Try “It Happened Quiet (Live at The Current)” to see the range of her voice, or “Exist for Love” if you want a love song that makes you melt. Finally, “The Dark Dresses Lightly (Live)” is a recent release that I can’t get enough of!
More Idiot Abroad! Love watching Karl entertain the world.
Carl winning at life for being the king of us average Joes. Go Carl!
Karl
I ate wild palmetto bugs in South Florida. When i say "wild" I mean it was not at a restaurant or food cart. We caught palmetto bugs, cooked them over a campfire and ate them. Palmetto bugs are basically giant cockroaches
I aite some mad stuff in Zimbabwe when I lived with the locals for a year…… I had crocodile kudu mapany worms spiders, snakes, all sorts of bugs, giraff but only when they got meat of it for the lions we have some of it
11:25 My favorite thing to do (not really crazy tho) is when cooking a turkey to pan sear the liver in butter and eat it as a snack with a glass of white wine while cooking and prepping things.
I’m not a big fan of liver but never tried it from turkey. Doesn’t sound bad!
Assuming he was around 12 years old when he was a paperboy, the price of mars-bars would have been "15 pence" in the early 80's. Or about 18 cents, american.
Now comparatively, 18 cents in the early 80's had the equivalent buying power of 55 cents today.
There are 104 weeks in two years, multiply it by 7 and we find out he stole roughly 728 mars-bars.
If each one of those is worth 55 cents, then to pay back his old employer he'd owe $400.40 american or £326.98 in England's disney-fun-bucks.
Thanks for doing the math! ;)
Yeah, you’re right, it does tend to be northern people that use “us” for “me”. Couldn’t tell you why, though 😂
Her smile😍
Snail in the butter oil was surprisingly good
On using "us" instead of "me" - I don't know its origins, but its use is fairly ubiquitous across working-class Britain. It's pretty much exclusively used when casually asking for something trivial, downplaying, or trying to appear less direct with a request. For example if you said to a friend "get me a drink", it could sound like a demand, whereas "get us a drink" would be a better equivalent to "would you mind getting me a drink?".
Some common examples might be:
"give us a sec",
"give us a quick hand",
"do us a favour, move your car out way",
"chuck us a light"
Dude's 99% intrusive thoughts.
The long videos are great! I hope you keep going with this series.
I loved it. Sincerely hope you'll do more episodes.
My favourite Kate Bush album is Aerial (part 2 especially).
It's an interesting thing. I think the "us" is an implicit, polite sort of "okay, wait, we're in this together". It's like, the people who we/I normally fraternise with are here with us/me now, as we/I am speaking lol. it's a strange polite, colloquial, nonsensical rendition of something that ultimately doesn't;t make full grammatical sense, but nevertheless works on that colloquial level. "Okay, wait for us mate!" means "Okay, whether I;m here by myself or not, wait for 'us', like, wait a second, we;re in this together and/or ""I;m imagining a third/fourth party here over my shoulder who might agree with me--a kind of imaginary solidarity and therefore I'm okay''' etc., etc
9:00 it's funny because there is no part of Mandarin or Cantonese that sounds like the English letter "L" haha
Oh hell yeah goated series
Karl Is so deadpan I can't tell if hes being really funny or seriously means what he says. I honestly think it's half and half. He's just bantsing with the lads. He's not a bad guy. He just has a very narrow perspective of what life is. Being ignorant doesnt make you a bad person.
05:00 don't its a aquired tasted literally tastes like pickled onions crisps and it hurts your palate
15 minutes in and there are just too many quotable lines! 😂😂😂😂
🎶 That would be Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Breakdown
I love Karl!
The Hu is a Mongolian rock band, apt for the great wall reference. lol
I just listen to a lot of Prof and Atmosphere lately. But just found out about a guy named Shaboozey, not a bad sound.
Music wise I've been loving aurora
. Kate Bush and Boy George and Jools Holland and the Group: Squeeze were all born within 2 miles of where I have lived on the edge of South East London for 41 years. Where I used to live,11 miles away, in the heart of S E London,I was born 2 miles from David Bowie and in the same street as Charlie Chaplin and 500 yards from Actor: Sir Michael Caineface-green-smiling
The north of England has a stronger influence from Vikings, whereas as the south was more influence by France. Until we got rail, travel was rare, and local dialects had a thousand years to diverge. Television has been the great equaliser but there are still real communication differences the further you go. Newcastle is basically its own language.
the forged iron (i guess) bar, must be long.. the "souvenir" part he brought to the room and tested on his head, was too short..
I think the strangest thing ever ate was trout. I much prefer sea fish. I'm fortunate a lad brings us a van from Fleetwood on a Wednesday as well as Fridays
On the projects, that is what hobbies are for. Find something you can be passionate about. Something that builds community and takes you outside of your house. Because he is right, when you stop moving, you start dying sooner. Stay active.
Kung Fu is a good one. I have trained in it for 12 years and done boxing for one year so far. Fun, good communities.
Love the reaction. You looked a bit dodgy with the lady on the bus 😂 as for us I’m from the north of England and I use that phrase. But unfortunately I have no idea why I use it. Sorry 🤷🏻♂️
You're channel is easy to watch. Thanks.