Parents are old and have wisdom. Wisdom is intelligence multiplied by experience, so even if your dad is no more intelligent than you are and has an intelligence of 1 if he has 3 experience then his wisdom will also be 3 and that has to be useful.
The people who listen to the XFM series know that when Karl first started talking, Ricky and Steve were both really interested by him, but the heads of the radio station told them "don't let Karl talk" because they thought his stupidity would ruin the show. Up until he started talking, Karl was just a guy who pressed the buttons. But Ricky went against the orders of the station and let Karl speak because he knew Karl's rambling was funny, and Karl quickly became the star of the show.
I'm with Karl on this one. When the furniture shop advertises their beds on the shop floor, then they shouldn't advertise the beds with mattresses when the mattresses have nothing to do with the purchase.
They put mattress on the beds so you can see what the bed frame looks like with a mattress on top. If they didn't, you would just be showing people a bunch of empty frames and it wouldn't look appealing.
I do agree with Karl. I can understand that shops sell mattresses separately because sometimes people only need a new mattress but if someone is buying a bed frame, surely the shop assistant would ask the person whether they had a mattress or not. Like Karl said, it isn't a bed without a mattress!
Where I live we just put all our unwanted stuff in the street and the council just come and collect it, usually it's gone before they come. I've found computers in working order, CRT monitors, TVs etc BUT never touch any type of furniture people chuck furniture out because often it's full of BED BUGS.
Karl actually has a good point. Why do they have the different beds on display, so you can try them out, if the matress isn't "part of the deal"? Let's face it, if you buy a bed the main selling point of it is the matress.
The recycling center near me doesn't do much recycling, it's more of just an acceptable place to leave or remove unused items. Somewhere to take a TV or a bed so you aren't just cluttering your street but also a place that folks with no cash can pick up free furniture, I know a guy who collects the TV's that get left in the electronics shed and tries to fix them to sell on, if he can't he just brings them back to the place.
Calling someone a fuck-wit is huge in the UK, it means having no wit or being stupid, similar to how we say "fuck-all" to mean nothing, at some point fuck must have been synonymous with zero or nothing here in the UK, because it's used a lot to mean no or nothing. "Did you get that promotion you hoped for?" "Did I fuck!" (no) "Did you fuck that girl last night?" "Did I fuck!" (again, no)
This reminds me of when I bought my stove/oven. The wire that goes from the unit itself to the wall, you have to buy seperately from the delivery man. :P
I have no idea how Karl doesn't quitely dislike these guys, constantly being ridiculed and laughed at. Must suck. After a week or so of watching these I'm getting somewhat tired of them berating him I can only imagine how bad he feels.
Definately. Some of the stuff that they rag on him about is in Karl's favor, but a lot of the stuff he says really is painfully dumb. Some of the stuff i can agree with, like having a machine that has the doctor feel the way the patient feels so he can get a better understanding of the sympotms of a specific illness. I however cannot agree with his idea that recycling is too much work, or that having newborn babies come out of our bodies after we die would be a good solution for overpopulation.
I've got to say that I fully agree with Karl that a mattress is a piece of furniture. The OED defines furniture as 'The movable articles that are used to make a room or building suitable for living or working in'. A mattress would definitely constitute furniture by that definition.
Now what might the video have with poverty or government? Well, the US local governments, now under budget stress, are charging more and more to remove items from private homes or rentals. And yes, must get it to the curb or the recycling stations. It's a big project for anyone, and requires more than an individual person. Cities now on recyclables (basic) and recyclables (advanced) which involve medications, lead, electronics, paints, and other items to be removed from the "recyclables" and "general landfills". Cities itself have management and workers, and have been asked to have their own designated "health and human services" coordinator (usually non-profit, involves transportation). And then, there is composting, and so forth. Julie Ann Racino 2016
I like Karl because he can be a lazy person and ignorant to a lot, but at the same time he seems extremely trust worthy in many aspects and seems willing to admit when he's incorrect or ignorant to facts. It's his opinions and beliefs that he holds strong to, as misguided as many of them are. That's more than you'll get from a lot of people unfortunately. If the smartest of us had some of the self-zen as karl does the world would be a better place. Like how he talks about the mattress store salesman, He goes to him for advise and help not once considering the salesman aspect. To be so trusting takes a lot of peace. Ironically all this probably leads to him living an uniquely happy and productive life.
All the humor in these things comes from Karl. The other two guys just toss insults and laugh at him, and occasionally they get him going on a topic of conversation.
Agreed. It is like Curb Your Enthusiasm without the underlying sanity/insanity issue. Karl is just supposed to be stupid, but occasionally his stories don't sound all that unreasonable (like this one).
i love the show i think the only annoying bit is i can tell Ricky understands Karls points or at least the basic gist of what hes sayin, but will jump on the opportunity to give him shit for improperly explaining it instead of just helping him with his wording, not everyones blessed with higher education, actually karls pretty fuckin smart for having a daft vernacular
Yup. People purchase beds so infrequently, it's easy for them to forget about the mattress. If you worked in a furniture store you'd see this situation EVERY DAY... any halfway-decent salesperson would know to bring the subject up. Karl's stupidity is that he thinks a bedframe should automatically come with a mattress, when the problem is that the salesperson should have asked him if he needed one. I hope Suzanne made him launder the sheets after they'd been on that nasty mattress...
Dewey Ricky Gervais the person is a fucking asshole who cheers when someone gets killed by wildlife because he is so fucked up by preservation. I think killing togets and elephants is just evil too but I think anyone who makes a joyful Twitter post about it and then has his legion of just-as-fucked-up animal rightists reply with cheers, happiness and “he deserved it”s (thousands and thousands of people) is a piece of shit human.
I'm with Karl on this one, someone who works in sales in a bed shop should at least mention a mattress to someone buying a bed. If they don't, they aren't very good at sales.
it's "functional", therefore it's not furniture. Sooooo is a cabinet not a piece of furniture it to is functional. Sometimes I feel like Steve and Ricky are really less intelligent than Karl
I love how karl's solution to every problem is "called me dad up"
Peter Williams It's interesting that his dad has to teach him how to do everything but never seemed to have done so while actually raising him
Peter Williams I still call my dad whenever I'm in a similar situation
I call me mum. lol
Parents are old and have wisdom. Wisdom is intelligence multiplied by experience, so even if your dad is no more intelligent than you are and has an intelligence of 1 if he has 3 experience then his wisdom will also be 3 and that has to be useful.
I don’t even know mine he’s a cu** tho
The people who listen to the XFM series know that when Karl first started talking, Ricky and Steve were both really interested by him, but the heads of the radio station told them "don't let Karl talk" because they thought his stupidity would ruin the show. Up until he started talking, Karl was just a guy who pressed the buttons. But Ricky went against the orders of the station and let Karl speak because he knew Karl's rambling was funny, and Karl quickly became the star of the show.
"I ordered the bed"
"Yeah?"
"It turned up"
"Oh well done"
"It turned up"
Vernatrozz oh well done ✅
Fucking hell that's a victory! 😂😂
"fucking hell, that's a victory! nothing went down shit creek this time!"
😂
Vernatrozz life oon
"Back then, I wasn't as wise as I am now."
*Instantly rolling on the floor*
I nearly fell off my bed😂😂
Brainstormer623
What was he?
Some snot in a jar? @@Station9.75
Elite 😂
I could listen to Karl all day.
"A bed isnt a bed without a matress, its a climbing frame" LMAO
It's true though
J u 7jhhmk
Dan Hague Yes lad oldham fan here aswell born n bred
lol... it's so true. I thought the same when shopping for my first bed.
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This might be the greatest Ricky laugh ever, ‘I wasn’t as wise as I am now’ 🤣🤣🤣
Funniest shit ever😂🤣
I'm with Karl on this one. When the furniture shop advertises their beds on the shop floor, then they shouldn't advertise the beds with mattresses when the mattresses have nothing to do with the purchase.
John C or they could at least quote you the price for both the bed and the mattress
Watched idiot abroad,u rly miss someone who can call out karls bullshit every now and then.
They put mattress on the beds so you can see what the bed frame looks like with a mattress on top. If they didn't, you would just be showing people a bunch of empty frames and it wouldn't look appealing.
You'd have to be a bit special to not know that though. Quite a bit special.
Agreed. It’s like buying a sofa without the seat cushions
Karl is like a British Charlie Brown so depressing yet funny
OMG he is!!
Bryson Murray Yeah, only funnier.
ancilodon Charlie Brown isn’t comedy
Hugh Janes - A Let's Poop Channel I was trying to be gentle.
Charlie Brown had cancer.....who's the funny guy now!
Ricky's laugh after snot in a jar is just infectious 🤣🤣
Snot in a jar gets me every time
I do agree with Karl. I can understand that shops sell mattresses separately because sometimes people only need a new mattress but if someone is buying a bed frame, surely the shop assistant would ask the person whether they had a mattress or not. Like Karl said, it isn't a bed without a mattress!
3:56 I almost peed myself bc I was laughing so hard
"Now back then I wasn't as wise as I am now"
xD
"Dad, it's your fuck-wit son again!"
3:46 'Back then I wasn't as wise as I am now'
this is the funniest 9 minutes of the podcasts I was in tears
''Ung up,annoyed''
Lol
One of my all time favourite snippets of Karl's life :)
Karl's face at 4:03. LOL!
I love Karl's "it's madness" hand wave for some reason...
Where I live we just put all our unwanted stuff in the street and the council just come and collect it, usually it's gone before they come. I've found computers in working order, CRT monitors, TVs etc BUT never touch any type of furniture people chuck furniture out because often it's full of BED BUGS.
CouchPotato343 Well..
And maybe a hooker. Or two. Or five if you're in a _really_ bad part of town.
But if you see a rubber dinghy be sure to call Alf though. His back is in agony and he's still terrified of flooding
Must look real nice and tidy where you live.....
IF YOU CAN'T CALL A MATTRESS FURNITURE THEN I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'D CALL IT
"Spoongy bit?"
While I wouldn't be sure (and don't really care either way), I think an ornament or a decoration would be more accurate.
an ornament or a decoration is like fruit bowl or a statue or something dude, not a mattress. you literally but mattresses from the furniture store.
'Bedding'.
hahaha did this dude say he wouldn't call a mattress a piece of furniture but he would call a mattress a decoration
"Depends how big they are." I absolutely love Karl's answers. He's got a good one for everything.
Uncle Alf sounds like a legend!! Everyone should have an uncle Alf :)
I LOVE AND ADORE KARL PILKINGTON!!!
Karl actually has a good point. Why do they have the different beds on display, so you can try them out, if the matress isn't "part of the deal"? Let's face it, if you buy a bed the main selling point of it is the matress.
I don't think calling a mattress furniture in that context is that strange.
Love his genuinely brilliant movie ideas!
Wish had more!
3:56 over and over
+ᏰᏗşιℓ The fucking funniest!
I am so with him on furniture collections, they are an absolute mare. One to Karl yet again :P
I worked for a recycling center before. Almost everything gets chucked into the landfill anyway
The recycling center near me doesn't do much recycling, it's more of just an acceptable place to leave or remove unused items. Somewhere to take a TV or a bed so you aren't just cluttering your street but also a place that folks with no cash can pick up free furniture, I know a guy who collects the TV's that get left in the electronics shed and tries to fix them to sell on, if he can't he just brings them back to the place.
"Fuck-Wit" is one of the greatest things I've ever heard.
Calling someone a fuck-wit is huge in the UK, it means having no wit or being stupid, similar to how we say "fuck-all" to mean nothing, at some point fuck must have been synonymous with zero or nothing here in the UK, because it's used a lot to mean no or nothing.
"Did you get that promotion you hoped for?"
"Did I fuck!" (no)
"Did you fuck that girl last night?"
"Did I fuck!" (again, no)
I’ve heard that since I was old enough to understand it. It’s a big saying on the east cost of Canada. But then, we’re all British and Irish too.
@@DaniHMcV same here in Aus
Steve: "Sorry he's driving around a mattress in his van. What is he a fucking serial killer":]
I agree with Karl about the mattress thing :') it's like selling a sofa without the big cushions
"So i called my dad up"
"Dad it's your fuckwit son again"
😂😂😂😂
"Oh didn't think of this. So I called my dad up" 😂😂😂
Steve covering his eyes when Karl said he wasn’t as wise as he is now. Don’t know why that that really made me laugh.
like all great minds karl pilkington is ahead of his time.
This reminds me of when I bought my stove/oven. The wire that goes from the unit itself to the wall, you have to buy seperately from the delivery man. :P
"Dad, it's your fuck-wit son again."
I just realized. Is that a chinese homeless person?
Was gonna comment thisxD
Arturo Millán he was only about 12
I have no idea how Karl doesn't quitely dislike these guys, constantly being ridiculed and laughed at. Must suck. After a week or so of watching these I'm getting somewhat tired of them berating him I can only imagine how bad he feels.
like he says quite often.. he's a grown man, and he's made quite a lot of money from it
SWIFTzTrigger would you be willing to be berated constantly for a few million dollars? I think that most people would.
Definately. Some of the stuff that they rag on him about is in Karl's favor, but a lot of the stuff he says really is painfully dumb. Some of the stuff i can agree with, like having a machine that has the doctor feel the way the patient feels so he can get a better understanding of the sympotms of a specific illness. I however cannot agree with his idea that recycling is too much work, or that having newborn babies come out of our bodies after we die would be a good solution for overpopulation.
Bet you have a right laugh with your mates. Fuck
the issue with your statement is that he deserves to feel bad, because he's a *Fucking idiot*
I went to Stretford tip in 2022 and there was a massive queue.
Snot in the jar gets me rolling on the floor every time 🤣 Gotta love British humor
at 3:45 when Karl says "now back then I wasn't as wise as I am now", Karl cracks up right before Ricky and Steve do xD
This video just kills me, easily the best KP moment for me.
Steve's laugh throughout this is the funniest part
3:08 all furniture is functional
7:26 Ricky: Hang On?? Why didn't you smell it haha.
I'm just amazed to no end by how Karl's life works.
karl is right a bed without the mattress is just a bed frame
axelskull he said climbing frame.
"Back then I wasn't as wise as I am now..."
xD
"We bought a sofa, we got a table"
He's from Manchester (North West). Ricky's from Reading (Just north of London) and Steve's from Bristol (West Country)
There's always a queue at the tip
There's always a fucking queue at Stretford tip! Jams up the whole Road nearby all the way up to the motorway!
“I’m not a bed man I go to the bed man to get bed advice”
I've got to say that I fully agree with Karl that a mattress is a piece of furniture. The OED defines furniture as 'The movable articles that are used to make a room or building suitable for living or working in'. A mattress would definitely constitute furniture by that definition.
they're furniture if you pop 'em up against a wall!
8:29 and yeh thats true the tip there is always packed
2:07 LMFAO
Can't just throw products into the Land
- eventually it'll come back up to bite us 🌪🌫🔥🌊
the way karl describes it, the seller probably didnt know he wanted a full bed combo
“How many people does it sit?”
“Depends how big you are”
I love how “matter-of-fact” he can be
"SOME SNOT IN A JAR"
The people who disliked this video were snot in a jar.
funny thing is, theres just a blue sofa thats been dumped outside some garages near my flat
"what was he, a snot in a jar?" hahaha :)
Now what might the video have with poverty or government? Well, the US local governments, now under budget stress, are charging more and more to remove items from private homes or rentals. And yes, must get it to the curb or the recycling stations. It's a big project for anyone, and requires more than an individual person. Cities now on recyclables (basic) and recyclables (advanced) which involve medications, lead, electronics, paints, and other items to be removed from the "recyclables" and "general landfills". Cities itself have management and workers, and have been asked to have their own designated "health and human services" coordinator (usually non-profit, involves transportation). And then, there is composting, and so forth. Julie Ann Racino 2016
Why didn't he just return it to Alf?
DisturbedAidan2 - because Alf isn't Argos.
I like Karl because he can be a lazy person and ignorant to a lot, but at the same time he seems extremely trust worthy in many aspects and seems willing to admit when he's incorrect or ignorant to facts. It's his opinions and beliefs that he holds strong to, as misguided as many of them are. That's more than you'll get from a lot of people unfortunately. If the smartest of us had some of the self-zen as karl does the world would be a better place.
Like how he talks about the mattress store salesman, He goes to him for advise and help not once considering the salesman aspect. To be so trusting takes a lot of peace. Ironically all this probably leads to him living an uniquely happy and productive life.
What kind of accent does Karl have? I love it...it's part of what makes his stories so great.
"I'm not a bed man. I go to the bed man, to get bed advice."
What a quote
He's got a point, a bed is useless without a mattress.
Ricky's laugh 😂😂
These podcasts would be way more listenable if Ricky toned his witch's cackle down a few turns.
I think you've summed him up perfectly.
Snot in a jar.
Clive Warren.
I'm with you there too. It's like advertising a hamburger but then you only get the bun, the condiment, lettuce, tomato, cheese, etc but no meat.
All the humor in these things comes from Karl. The other two guys just toss insults and laugh at him, and occasionally they get him going on a topic of conversation.
"Back then I wasn't as wise as I am now."
"Back then I wasn't as wise as I am now" Genius!
Agreed. It is like Curb Your Enthusiasm without the underlying sanity/insanity issue. Karl is just supposed to be stupid, but occasionally his stories don't sound all that unreasonable (like this one).
i love the show i think the only annoying bit is i can tell Ricky understands Karls points or at least the basic gist of what hes sayin, but will jump on the opportunity to give him shit for improperly explaining it instead of just helping him with his wording, not everyones blessed with higher education, actually karls pretty fuckin smart for having a daft vernacular
More of these I listen too the more I see Ricky and Steve as bullies, and Karl has some valid points but just gets picked on.
they're doing it on purpose. That's where the comedy comes from.
@@Station9.75. Yeah they helped him a lot to
You're about 2 decades too late with your worry pal.
Amazing clip!
“Sorry hes driving around with a matress in the back of his van? What is he a fuckin serial killer?”
Funniest thing Steve ever said
He didn't notice the mattress hahaahah
Yup. People purchase beds so infrequently, it's easy for them to forget about the mattress. If you worked in a furniture store you'd see this situation EVERY DAY... any halfway-decent salesperson would know to bring the subject up.
Karl's stupidity is that he thinks a bedframe should automatically come with a mattress, when the problem is that the salesperson should have asked him if he needed one.
I hope Suzanne made him launder the sheets after they'd been on that nasty mattress...
I mean he’s not wrong , it had to come up at the store
YOO-WHO ITS ME A HO HO HO
Karl Pinkleton is actually pretty smart compared to the other two baffoons.
The performer "Ricky Gervais" is much different that the person "Ricky Gervais."
Dewey Ricky Gervais the person is a fucking asshole who cheers when someone gets killed by wildlife because he is so fucked up by preservation. I think killing togets and elephants is just evil too but I think anyone who makes a joyful Twitter post about it and then has his legion of just-as-fucked-up animal rightists reply with cheers, happiness and “he deserved it”s (thousands and thousands of people) is a piece of shit human.
@@DaniHMcV Loser.
I love Ricky's cackle
I'm with Karl on this one, someone who works in sales in a bed shop should at least mention a mattress to someone buying a bed. If they don't, they aren't very good at sales.
it's "functional", therefore it's not furniture. Sooooo is a cabinet not a piece of furniture it to is functional. Sometimes I feel like Steve and Ricky are really less intelligent than Karl
"Alf's got one in the back of a dirty old fucking van."
3:45 😂😂😂😂
That laugh kills me