That doesn't mean they have the most conservative pronunciation, however. Which is notable, because they don't. The American accent is closer to early modern English than RP is.
@@highviewbarbell no ones was talking about the accent, I was talking about pronunciation, kp accent derives from the area his from, I. E. Manchester, that has nothing to do with how he pronounces the word urinal, I'm not sure what your point is
Thinking about it, it seems odd. I hearrd someone talking, saying how Americans always stress the last half of a word or name, like bernARD as opposed to our BERnard but our urINAL is unlike their URinal..
Indeed, in the UK it's always pronounced U-rye-nal. To say, 'uree-nal' would probably make folks in the UK think they're talking to someone from America.
@@RottingEarth No problem. Agreeing to differ. I don';t know which bits' incorrect, but II'm still waiting to hear someone local (ie UK) refer to the the Duchamp artwork or the office's pan as a uree-na;;. LIke the poster above, I lhear the U-rye-nal..
@@sudeshkrishnan4564 pretty sure you are both right, it's just regional probably and I'm sure in the past I've used both as I'm not sure cos I use the word so rarely
"Is that because he's tall though?" In Karl's words - "it's the eyes!". The 'Karl vs Steve - all the insults' video is a must watch/listen (it's just audio from their radio show) for you at some point!
How words are spelt should dictate how they are pronounced, not by how a particular country pronounces them 😄 that's how language works 😉 Ur-eye-nal is how it should be pronounced. There's only one 'N' which softens the 'I' sound to 'eye' How would you pronounce this word: spinal? Same last four letters where the 'I' sound is softened and is pronounced as 'eye' To pronounce it the US way, it would need two N's - Urinnal.
Karl saying about his dad's mate taking him to the pub and no one fretting about it is a very accurate description of life in northwest England up until the early 90s. It's not that no one cared, it was just more likely you'd seen one of your "aunties" or "uncles" and they'd taken you for a bit of a mooch somewhere.
yeah true, especially if there was a pub nearby... every estate has a local pub and it was just part of culture in the 80s and 90s familes would be at the pubs with kids running around eating pop n crisps
I live in the US and grew up in in a small town in the 70's. As a kid my cousins and I would leave our house at 9 AM. At that point anything was up for grabs, our uncle worked at the local bar. So we would stop in there have a few soda's, then go down to the Train Depot where my Grand Dad worked and see if we could hop a train to the next town. Some day's we just went fishing or collected soda bottles to cash in so we could go to the Diner and get a Hamburger or Fries. It was a great time to be a kid.
Karl has always considered Stephen a "freak" because of his height (6'7", I believe). Karl's description of how he reacted to first meeting Stephen is too funny. lol
Karl had his moment of true excitement on the radio show. There would be genuine news and lots of music information. A band named "Half man half biscuit" were doing a gig and Karl read the name of the band and had his moment of wonder. He soon lost interest when Steve told him it was a band name and not a news story.
A flea circus was an OLD trick where you would have a miniature circus with bicycles riding on tight wires and a trapeze act etc. only it was just a trick, no fleas just an automated model that had "invisible" performers.
I doubt there was anything there to learn about the immune system from Karl. I imagine this was just Karl discovering the immune system for the first time and he was excited to tell Suzanne about it.
When they showed him from above on the bike going in circles, they could have had it like The Flintstones, when Fred Flintstone paced back and forth, and went further and further into the ground as he paced. The song "stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni." ...... In this case, "stuck a candle in his head and called him lighthouse man." 😂 I guess we can say that Karl finally got them back for all their antics, by telling Stephen "Now I can look at you." :D
I'm defo not a pure soul so I totally get you about the pillow man. I have, however, observed some individuals who appear to have 'given up' under less harsher circumstances while some with far greater challenges carry themselves with a certain positivity and dignity that almost makes me jealous. I love your frank insights like these, even touching on subjects you may not be comfortable with. Look forward to more of these!
You get a lot of regional variation in pronunciations in the UK, especially over a relatively small area. How Karl pronounces urinal is how we’d mostly pronounce it in England at least
Should do a video on all the British accents. I think you’d be surprised how different we all sound. Wouldn’t be funny but might help you work out how English people talk
Urinal pronounced that way is the standard way we say it over here, but Karl does have some very specific sounding words because he's from Manchester and his dialect/accent is very regional. Brits can easily understand, but from an outside perspective I can understand why it might be challenging to listen to him :)
I get with what other option do they have , if a celeb suffers something like illness or accident and recovers everyone is , like , oh she’s so brave .
Such a joy to watch…creativity flowing regardiing art…started a new job last week, 6am every morning and weekends off now, which after 10 years in hospitality is better, as I’ve routine now. What I did previously, you’d get days off which were always different, and different start/finish times
@22:44 I watched the funny actress Judy Holliday last week in 'Bells Are Ringing' from 1960 and she said "sloth" to rhyme with "both" not "moth". For unknown reasons, American pronunciation of this word has changed in the intervening 63 years.
If you like these 90% of the clips weren’t recorded for this show. They had a radio show on the radio station xfm in the early 2000’s and they just use all the clips from that. There are hundreds of hours of it on RUclips just search for XFM
If you were trying to read it, the drive in was called McDoodles. Todd Browning's 'Freaks' was the movie with Pillow Man and others in it. Banned in this country for decades! Johnny Eck was the half man and there were rumours that Leonardo DeCaprio had bought the rights to his life story in order to play him. Never happened, though. I heard years ago that 'Folically Challenged' was the new term for bald. Maybe Protein or Carb Challenged for skinny?
Always found the immune system anecdote quite a cute insight into Karl and Susanne's relationship 😊 Get what you're trying to say about living with blind o deafness though not the best wording - 'if you've always been like that it's just how life is for you' might be better - but that doesn't really count for people who lost those things, same if you had an amputation. Re your point on Pillow Man; if the lad could have a shave he could probably do himself in.
It's Steve's eyes mainly! But we're used to them now. I mean sure, do I look up at him occasionally mistakenly believing that Sharknado has occurred, and a stray Hammerhead hunting diwn survivors has caught me at a vulnerable moment? sure, of course. but thats just our steve.
Agree. Sometimes in situations like these people get laughed off when being real just to keep it 'light'. An interview with Chester (Linkin Park) a few days before his passing comes to mind.
A few years ago we were told that the word 'fat' was offensive and we should use the word 'obese.' Then the word obese was deemed offensive. Similiarly, when i was young non white people were referred to as coloured because the word black was offensive, then we were told to say black because coloured was offensive, and now we have to use 'people of colour!' 🤔
Karl has done remarkably well in life. He's never done anyone any harm, but he narrowly avoided killing a man when he threw a rock off a cliff, missing him by inches!
If the pillow man can roll and light his own cigarettes, then he could set fire to the house or get himself a drink from under the kitchen sink. I think Karl was getting at the fact that completely able people decide to exit all the time, so people at such a disadvantage as the pillow man and still decide to continue must be very determined.
Karl misses a lot of his H’s so Heck become Eck and Head becomes Ed etc. I’m pretty sure Manchester isn’t part of Yorkshire but it’s a similar accent, we tend to drop letters in the north. Mancs must drop their H’s like we drop out T’s and G’a or somethin’
I usually hear people saying "ur-INE-al" but I'm sure I've heard others say "UR-in-al". I think it's pretty much interchangeable here and If one person says it one way, the person they're talking to will subconsciously copy the way they just heard it said. Similar with "Skedule" vs "Shedule" for 'schedule' - both are common. Brilliant reaction as always 😄 Also, I can't wait for us to use metric fully. It's so strange that I have to say "I'm 5 foot 9, 175 cm" every time but I hope it catches on fully one day so we can stop having a crazy mixed system! 😆
A very good friend of mine is deaf. Her employer completely refuses to describe her as deaf. Instead, they say she has a hearing deficit, which she finds very insulting.
He pronounces urinal correctly though, ironically, you did pronounce "pronunciation" as "pronounciation" at that point :-p When I lived in Japan I visited the house of a couple of Americans - turns out they had a urinal in their house. I said "I've never seen a urinal in someone's house before" and they couldn't work out what I was saying. Their Australian friend had to translate since I'd never heard the American way of saying "yoo rin ull"
I think with ur nephew the point they were trying to make was to get them out of the habit of using any physical features that someone can't do anything about as descriptors, rather get them calling ppl by thier name or by something they can have a choice like the one with the blonde hair, or the blue shirt
How surreal to hear a native English-speaking voice describing height in metric 😂. I mean, I'm not complaining. For once I didn't have to translate in my head. Btw, if I saw someone who was 210cm here in Denmark, I would maybe look, but I wouldn't really be that surprised. I'm 186 and I have a bunch of friends who are all taller than me xD Anyway, It's just funny how what is a normal size works out. I remember being absolutely blown away by the sheer size of onions in the US. They are like thrice the size of the ones we've got here.
Hahahha! First of all the Imperial system is just stupid and second of all, yeah, everywhere has their own average. I know in most of Europe he isn't a giant, but in Argentina the average male height is 1.75 m, so he is easily one of the top 30 tallest people in the country!!! (I am assuming) LOL
I tried reading the number plate too but I could not see it that well, the name of the drive thru was made to look like MacDonalds but they were actually at a place called WacDoodles.
I think the word you were looking for near the end was nutters 🤪 You made me wonder how I pronounce 'urinals'. I think I say it either way, maybe people in my family say it different ways and I just picked up both. It's not one of Karl's unique things though lol. Steve does look quite freaky and it's not just his height. It's the height combined with his facial features especially his eyes which stick out of his eye sockets. If you ever watch Steve vs Karl all the insults which is a compilation from these podcasts of all the times they are both having a go at each other you end up feeling more sorry for Steve and feeling like Karl is more of the bully. A lot of people react to those after reacting to this and An Idiot Abroad. Just depends if you are still wanting more Karl after you're done with these. This was thoroughly entertaining and because of that I was thoroughly entertained 🤗😋
your little rant at the end about words you can/can't say reminds me of George Carlin's "7 words you can't say on tv". You should react to that if you haven't!
If a street was full of kids a group or gang probably wouldn't hang around in the same place... The logic works both ways... I'm not saying if all the kids went out now it would force gangs off the streets, but if the streets weren't surrendered to the gangs in the first place they wouldn't be there...
Parents don't want their kids out because every instance of anything bad happening is now reported on and shared online ad nauseum, but statistically it's generally safer in most areas. Crime rates have steadily fallen in most places in the developed world, safety measures like helmets are far more common and kids can be given cell phones with GPS. Things aren't worse, people are just more scared.
@@davidz3879 The 90s is far later than any stats I ever read. In any case, unless you're talking to a 90 year old, people aren't going to be talking about what it was like raising kids in the 50s.
A flea circus was a little sideshow thing where people would attach a small wire harness to fleas and attach them to little carriages and other things as a novelty little show and charge people to look at the amazing feats of strength hence a flea circus very popular in Victorian times ! Also on the urinal thing Americans get very confused with words with the letter u in and tend to pronounce them wrong aluminium is the one everyone thinks of but there's also route pronounced root , buoy which is used at sea as a marker etcetera should be pronounced as boy not boo-wee ! And some words confused you so much you took the u out completely like the word colour ! Also if your going to pronounce words your own way then come up with some rules for spelling and pronunciations and stick to them when I was a kid I watched westerns and people would talk about that great American hero Jim Bowie (pronounced bow-ee) now I here people pronouncing it as boo-wee so which is it , does that not float your boat, buoyant or not !
To a certain extent, sure. But I think if you're making fun of someone or shunning them in some way, then they have a valid reason to be upset. Just pointing that out lol
I'm 6' 2" and a friend of mine is 6' 5", he's the shortest of him and his two brothers so when i'm around them even I feel small! (his sister is 6' 0" as well)
I needed a laugh, you and Jay Peezy break my maudlin so thank you for sharing your laugh. Sad to say it's rare for me, chuckle or smile, imo? You brighten our day.
"Yur-in-all" makes more sense to me than "your-ine-all". We don't say "your-ine" we say "yur-in" when talking about wee. Plenty of English words are wacky lol
I can't believe that, the streets remain the same unless maybe the area, ends gone a tad down hill I just feel people are bombarded with more negative information these days with access to devices etc Kids should go out and play man better than just staying in their rooms unsupervised on phones or computers that's where all the harmful information and creepy people hide!
You need to get used to more northerners I think. You seem to catch southern accents like Ricky’s, Steve’s from the midlands so you’re just fortunate he doesn’t have a thick accent and Karl is from the north of England in Manchester (about 40 miles away from me)
about the weird pronunciation and if its just karl or not, hes also more northern than ricky gervais and steven merchant, not only is the accent different, different pronunciation can happen too l0l
The only episode where the opening titles are different and you need to watch is season 3 episode 1 For once Karl was pronouncing urinal the way we say it here
Karl has a heavy Manchester accent so some of his pronunciations were difficult for me to understand the first time I listened. I’ve listened to these videos and the radio shows so many times now that I know exactly what he’s talking about. Sometimes I even know what he’ll say before he even says it.
Karl is saying urinal correctly, remember the English invented English 😂😂
They plagiarized it.
@@TheScreamingMime your not wrong Bruce, like aluminum, tomatoes, I could go on 😉
I thought Adam and Eve did.
That doesn't mean they have the most conservative pronunciation, however. Which is notable, because they don't. The American accent is closer to early modern English than RP is.
@@highviewbarbell no ones was talking about the accent, I was talking about pronunciation, kp accent derives from the area his from, I. E. Manchester, that has nothing to do with how he pronounces the word urinal, I'm not sure what your point is
They didn't question his pronunciation of 'urinal' because that's how English people pronounce it
Thinking about it, it seems odd. I hearrd someone talking, saying how Americans always stress the last half of a word or name, like bernARD as opposed to our BERnard but our urINAL is unlike their URinal..
Indeed, in the UK it's always pronounced U-rye-nal. To say, 'uree-nal' would probably make folks in the UK think they're talking to someone from America.
@@sudeshkrishnan4564 incorrect but ok mate
@@RottingEarth No problem. Agreeing to differ. I don';t know which bits' incorrect, but II'm still waiting to hear someone local (ie UK) refer to the the Duchamp artwork or the office's pan as a uree-na;;. LIke the poster above, I lhear the U-rye-nal..
@@sudeshkrishnan4564 pretty sure you are both right, it's just regional probably and I'm sure in the past I've used both as I'm not sure cos I use the word so rarely
"Is that because he's tall though?"
In Karl's words - "it's the eyes!". The 'Karl vs Steve - all the insults' video is a must watch/listen (it's just audio from their radio show) for you at some point!
"Eyes bulging with imagined riches"
Damn, I came to comment this and it's the first comment at the top. 🤦♂😂
"he was playing pool and having trouble keeping his glasses up.." 😂
"Eyes that pop out of their head.......Steve"
@@nickbryant6236I was about to comment that 🤣
Love how Ricky is just dying with laughter most if the time lol
How words are spelt should dictate how they are pronounced, not by how a particular country pronounces them 😄 that's how language works 😉
Ur-eye-nal is how it should be pronounced. There's only one 'N' which softens the 'I' sound to 'eye'
How would you pronounce this word: spinal? Same last four letters where the 'I' sound is softened and is pronounced as 'eye'
To pronounce it the US way, it would need two N's - Urinnal.
Do people call it ur-ine? 🧐
They don’t flinch at him saying urinal because he said it correctly. It’s English remember 😂🙈
Episode 1 of series 2 is legendary! Gonna be great
If Karl asks "Are you with me?" Ricky is always going to answer no. And I'm always going to say yes.
Lol
Karl saying about his dad's mate taking him to the pub and no one fretting about it is a very accurate description of life in northwest England up until the early 90s. It's not that no one cared, it was just more likely you'd seen one of your "aunties" or "uncles" and they'd taken you for a bit of a mooch somewhere.
yeah true, especially if there was a pub nearby... every estate has a local pub and it was just part of culture in the 80s and 90s familes would be at the pubs with kids running around eating pop n crisps
@@Writeous0ne Karl grew up in the same estate as my Nana and yes there was a pub there 😊
I live in the US and grew up in in a small town in the 70's. As a kid my cousins and I would leave our house at 9 AM. At that point anything was up for grabs, our uncle worked at the local bar. So we would stop in there have a few soda's, then go down to the Train Depot where my Grand Dad worked and see if we could hop a train to the next town. Some day's we just went fishing or collected soda bottles to cash in so we could go to the Diner and get a Hamburger or Fries. It was a great time to be a kid.
Karl has always considered Stephen a "freak" because of his height (6'7", I believe). Karl's description of how he reacted to first meeting Stephen is too funny. lol
it's the EYES
It's both. Lanky bloke with gangly eyes
Mandy perfect timing for reacting to the Karl Vs Steve insults compilations
Awesome, thank you!
Karl had his moment of true excitement on the radio show. There would be genuine news and lots of music information. A band named "Half man half biscuit" were doing a gig and Karl read the name of the band and had his moment of wonder. He soon lost interest when Steve told him it was a band name and not a news story.
That bit was hilarious. I imagine the man saying "I'm going for a dip" :)
Stop dunking on him ;)
half man half biscuit and man moth. Both Karl classics
Never go swimming
A flea circus was an OLD trick where you would have a miniature circus with bicycles riding on tight wires and a trapeze act etc. only it was just a trick, no fleas just an automated model that had "invisible" performers.
Yeah it's just a fun novelty thing that Karl seems to take at face value, like the Mexican jumping beans
The Pillow Man would be called "handicapped" or "differently abled" today. He was featured in the movie "Freaks" (from the 1930's, I believe).
Thank you Gary
It's Steve's bulbous eyes and height. You see him in Logan?
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You never did anybody any harm” that’s is brilliant 😂
"It's the eyes."
I doubt there was anything there to learn about the immune system from Karl. I imagine this was just Karl discovering the immune system for the first time and he was excited to tell Suzanne about it.
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When they showed him from above on the bike going in circles, they could have had it like The Flintstones, when Fred Flintstone paced back and forth, and went further and further into the ground as he paced.
The song "stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni." ...... In this case, "stuck a candle in his head and called him lighthouse man." 😂
I guess we can say that Karl finally got them back for all their antics, by telling Stephen "Now I can look at you." :D
To be fair, Karl pronounces words in a Northern way. Northern English has different words and pronunciations depending on region even.
Barely English tbh
english: quite good
I'm defo not a pure soul so I totally get you about the pillow man. I have, however, observed some individuals who appear to have 'given up' under less harsher circumstances while some with far greater challenges carry themselves with a certain positivity and dignity that almost makes me jealous. I love your frank insights like these, even touching on subjects you may not be comfortable with. Look forward to more of these!
You get a lot of regional variation in pronunciations in the UK, especially over a relatively small area. How Karl pronounces urinal is how we’d mostly pronounce it in England at least
Should do a video on all the British accents. I think you’d be surprised how different we all sound. Wouldn’t be funny but might help you work out how English people talk
I just joined the Patreon Mandy! So glad I did, there's a lot of content to enjoy 🤗
Thank you so much Tony!! 🤗🌈🌷
Yeah, Mandy puts a lot of time and effort into her extra content 😊
Mandy, Karl pronounces urinal the British way; you pronounce it the American way.
AKA, the wrong way 😎
Urinal pronounced that way is the standard way we say it over here, but Karl does have some very specific sounding words because he's from Manchester and his dialect/accent is very regional. Brits can easily understand, but from an outside perspective I can understand why it might be challenging to listen to him :)
congrats on 15K subs Mandy!
Thank you Robo!! 🥳🤗🙌🏻🎉
I get with what other option do they have , if a celeb suffers something like illness or accident and recovers everyone is , like , oh she’s so brave .
Such a joy to watch…creativity flowing regardiing art…started a new job last week, 6am every morning and weekends off now, which after 10 years in hospitality is better, as I’ve routine now. What I did previously, you’d get days off which were always different, and different start/finish times
Hope you are happier with your new job Mark! 🤗🙌🏻
@@MandyCaneLane thank you…three month trial but positive so far
@@markdavidson9100 fingers crossed then! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🌻
Regarding the urinal pronunciation, Joe Wilkinson had a hilarious poem, involving urinals, on 8oo10cdcd, and IIRC he pronounced it the same way.
@22:44 I watched the funny actress Judy Holliday last week in 'Bells Are Ringing' from 1960 and she said "sloth" to rhyme with "both" not "moth". For unknown reasons, American pronunciation of this word has changed in the intervening 63 years.
If you like these 90% of the clips weren’t recorded for this show. They had a radio show on the radio station xfm in the early 2000’s and they just use all the clips from that. There are hundreds of hours of it on RUclips just search for XFM
The last ep of s1; you're a third of the way though this hilarious show.
If you were trying to read it, the drive in was called McDoodles. Todd Browning's 'Freaks' was the movie with Pillow Man and others in it. Banned in this country for decades! Johnny Eck was the half man and there were rumours that Leonardo DeCaprio had bought the rights to his life story in order to play him. Never happened, though. I heard years ago that 'Folically Challenged' was the new term for bald. Maybe Protein or Carb Challenged for skinny?
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Mandy look up pillow man under 'the living torso," also check out the guy that Karl only mentioned in passing " Johnny Eck.
Absolutely agree
You’ve got to watch Karl v Steve the insults Really funny. Great reaction as always 😂😂👏👏👏
Always found the immune system anecdote quite a cute insight into Karl and Susanne's relationship 😊
Get what you're trying to say about living with blind o deafness though not the best wording - 'if you've always been like that it's just how life is for you' might be better - but that doesn't really count for people who lost those things, same if you had an amputation. Re your point on Pillow Man; if the lad could have a shave he could probably do himself in.
Yeah, wording wasn't the best! Also the 'Pillow man' thing was just a joke 🤪
It's Steve's eyes mainly! But we're used to them now. I mean sure, do I look up at him occasionally mistakenly believing that Sharknado has occurred, and a stray Hammerhead hunting diwn survivors has caught me at a vulnerable moment? sure, of course. but thats just our steve.
Hard not to feel bad for Karl at times, sounds like he was having an existential crisis at the end and everyone was just laughing it off lool
Agree. Sometimes in situations like these people get laughed off when being real just to keep it 'light'. An interview with Chester (Linkin Park) a few days before his passing comes to mind.
A few years ago we were told that the word 'fat' was offensive and we should use the word 'obese.' Then the word obese was deemed offensive. Similiarly, when i was young non white people were referred to as coloured because the word black was offensive, then we were told to say black because coloured was offensive, and now we have to use 'people of colour!' 🤔
IKR -- people of colour = good, coloured people = bad -- Nuts eh?!
We are all 'people of colour!'
You need to listen to Karl vs Steve… It’s pre podcast and less scripted.
Karl has done remarkably well in life. He's never done anyone any harm, but he narrowly avoided killing a man when he threw a rock off a cliff, missing him by inches!
I don't think unintentionally counts.
@@neezduts69420 Unintentional but stupid probably counts depending in his age
@@annother3350when he was a very young child it's one of the previous episodes
@@neezduts69420 Does Karl say how old he was at the time?
@@davidz3879 he says his dad was with him but didnt say how old
Karl's favourite subject!
Congrats on the 15k, yaayyy🍾 👏 ✨️
Thank you Steve! 🥳🎉🌈🙌🏻
If the pillow man can roll and light his own cigarettes, then he could set fire to the house or get himself a drink from under the kitchen sink. I think Karl was getting at the fact that completely able people decide to exit all the time, so people at such a disadvantage as the pillow man and still decide to continue must be very determined.
Karl misses a lot of his H’s so Heck become Eck and Head becomes Ed etc. I’m pretty sure Manchester isn’t part of Yorkshire but it’s a similar accent, we tend to drop letters in the north. Mancs must drop their H’s like we drop out T’s and G’a or somethin’
Pillow Man could always roll off a balcony.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yes. Yes he could!
I usually hear people saying "ur-INE-al" but I'm sure I've heard others say "UR-in-al". I think it's pretty much interchangeable here and If one person says it one way, the person they're talking to will subconsciously copy the way they just heard it said. Similar with "Skedule" vs "Shedule" for 'schedule' - both are common. Brilliant reaction as always 😄 Also, I can't wait for us to use metric fully. It's so strange that I have to say "I'm 5 foot 9, 175 cm" every time but I hope it catches on fully one day so we can stop having a crazy mixed system! 😆
LOL, I believe there are only 3 countries that do not adopt the metric system. The U.S. and 2 very small countries I can never remember 🤪
A very good friend of mine is deaf. Her employer completely refuses to describe her as deaf. Instead, they say she has a hearing deficit, which she finds very insulting.
I feel like nowadays there is no way to win... Do you know sign language? 🤗
@Mandy Cane Lane I know a little BSL but very good with makaton, which I learned through work.
No need for sign language, just send her an SMS
He pronounces urinal correctly though, ironically, you did pronounce "pronunciation" as "pronounciation" at that point :-p
When I lived in Japan I visited the house of a couple of Americans - turns out they had a urinal in their house. I said "I've never seen a urinal in someone's house before" and they couldn't work out what I was saying. Their Australian friend had to translate since I'd never heard the American way of saying "yoo rin ull"
Mandy and her freak cat and friend 😂😂.
Lol
Yay, 15K 😀 ... definitely doing something right Mandy (and I think it's all to do with you being you ! ☺)
Haha, thank you Steve! I am chuffed! 🤪
There's many times I go out without locking my door. But that's really just cos I've fk all worth nicking.
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I think with ur nephew the point they were trying to make was to get them out of the habit of using any physical features that someone can't do anything about as descriptors, rather get them calling ppl by thier name or by something they can have a choice like the one with the blonde hair, or the blue shirt
Hmm, whatever ... (call me Dimples or Smart-ass, or anything but 'Honey')
Karl has known many very unusual people throughout his life.
Steve being one of them
How surreal to hear a native English-speaking voice describing height in metric 😂. I mean, I'm not complaining. For once I didn't have to translate in my head. Btw, if I saw someone who was 210cm here in Denmark, I would maybe look, but I wouldn't really be that surprised. I'm 186 and I have a bunch of friends who are all taller than me xD
Anyway, It's just funny how what is a normal size works out. I remember being absolutely blown away by the sheer size of onions in the US. They are like thrice the size of the ones we've got here.
Hahahha! First of all the Imperial system is just stupid and second of all, yeah, everywhere has their own average. I know in most of Europe he isn't a giant, but in Argentina the average male height is 1.75 m, so he is easily one of the top 30 tallest people in the country!!! (I am assuming) LOL
I tried reading the number plate too but I could not see it that well, the name of the drive thru was made to look like MacDonalds but they were actually at a place called WacDoodles.
When i google pillowman i got tons of stuff about that idiot that sells pillows lol
Lmao!
You should take a photo of your 2 meter 10 mate holding your small cat.
Lol! Yes I should! Shame he moved to Italy! 🤣🤣
Get him to come to you or send your cat to Italy lol 🤣😂😂😂🤣😂😂😂🤣😂😂🤣😂😂🤣
There are a lot of references to male genitals in this show!
Giving a whole new meaning to 'a knob of butter'.
6.8ft i think. Had to google it, pretty tall. Thanks for the videos. Rinsed all of series 1 again watching your reactions :)
Glad you enjoyed! 🙌🏻🤗
End of season 1, fantastic job! Monkey News comes back for one episode in season 2!
I think the word you were looking for near the end was nutters 🤪 You made me wonder how I pronounce 'urinals'. I think I say it either way, maybe people in my family say it different ways and I just picked up both. It's not one of Karl's unique things though lol. Steve does look quite freaky and it's not just his height. It's the height combined with his facial features especially his eyes which stick out of his eye sockets. If you ever watch Steve vs Karl all the insults which is a compilation from these podcasts of all the times they are both having a go at each other you end up feeling more sorry for Steve and feeling like Karl is more of the bully. A lot of people react to those after reacting to this and An Idiot Abroad. Just depends if you are still wanting more Karl after you're done with these. This was thoroughly entertaining and because of that I was thoroughly entertained 🤗😋
Haha, thank you Daniel! 🤗🌻
Ahhh man I love re-watching this with you 😂 I missed so many little tiny bits that are hilarious haha
So glad you enjoy! 🙌🏻🤗
your little rant at the end about words you can/can't say reminds me of George Carlin's "7 words you can't say on tv". You should react to that if you haven't!
Haha, I have seen that years ago!! 🤣😅
Karl’s diary is the best thing in history.
Do they sell copies?
@@MandyCaneLane I don’t know but he has his own book
We call that a small cat in the UK and a big guy
If a street was full of kids a group or gang probably wouldn't hang around in the same place... The logic works both ways... I'm not saying if all the kids went out now it would force gangs off the streets, but if the streets weren't surrendered to the gangs in the first place they wouldn't be there...
29:09 I've often wondered if there's a survivorship bias here. We only see the survivors, those who overcame adversity.
Very true!
The hard U Urinal is how most brits say it.
Do a RUclips search for The Living Torso if you want to see footage of Pillow Man lighting a cigarette and looking cool.
you should check out Karl vs Steve all the insults especially the men in black 2 episode ,hilarious 😀
Parents don't want their kids out because every instance of anything bad happening is now reported on and shared online ad nauseum, but statistically it's generally safer in most areas. Crime rates have steadily fallen in most places in the developed world, safety measures like helmets are far more common and kids can be given cell phones with GPS. Things aren't worse, people are just more scared.
Crime rates have fallen significantly since the 90s, but are still far higher than they were in the 50s.
@@davidz3879 Source? Locations covered?
@@dupersuper1938 It's true of most of the developed world, certainly the UK & US.
@@davidz3879 The 90s is far later than any stats I ever read. In any case, unless you're talking to a 90 year old, people aren't going to be talking about what it was like raising kids in the 50s.
Most people look at the past through rose coloured glasses, not sure what colour Karl’s are.
A flea circus was a little sideshow thing where people would attach a small wire harness to fleas and attach them to little carriages and other things as a novelty little show and charge people to look at the amazing feats of strength hence a flea circus very popular in Victorian times ! Also on the urinal thing Americans get very confused with words with the letter u in and tend to pronounce them wrong aluminium is the one everyone thinks of but there's also route pronounced root , buoy which is used at sea as a marker etcetera should be pronounced as boy not boo-wee ! And some words confused you so much you took the u out completely like the word colour ! Also if your going to pronounce words your own way then come up with some rules for spelling and pronunciations and stick to them when I was a kid I watched westerns and people would talk about that great American hero Jim Bowie (pronounced bow-ee) now I here people pronouncing it as boo-wee so which is it , does that not float your boat, buoyant or not !
Say what ever you want if it upsets someone that's there problem lol
#facts! 🤪
To a certain extent, sure. But I think if you're making fun of someone or shunning them in some way, then they have a valid reason to be upset. Just pointing that out lol
I'm 6' 2" and a friend of mine is 6' 5", he's the shortest of him and his two brothers so when i'm around them even I feel small! (his sister is 6' 0" as well)
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210cm is very slightly under 7ft tall, it's about 6'11.
It’s the bug eyes
The intro isn't the same on the very last episode if I recall
I needed a laugh, you and Jay Peezy break my maudlin so thank you for sharing your laugh. Sad to say it's rare for me, chuckle or smile, imo? You brighten our day.
I am so honoured!
It's Steve's eyes Karl takes shots at
And yeah us English say urinal like karl
"Yur-in-all" makes more sense to me than "your-ine-all". We don't say "your-ine" we say "yur-in" when talking about wee. Plenty of English words are wacky lol
Thank you for being the only one that supported me on this 😅🤣
@@MandyCaneLane No problem! Best wishes from jolly ol' England lol
I can't believe that, the streets remain the same unless maybe the area, ends gone a tad down hill I just feel people are bombarded with more negative information these days with access to devices etc
Kids should go out and play man better than just staying in their rooms unsupervised on phones or computers that's where all the harmful information and creepy people hide!
You need to get used to more northerners I think. You seem to catch southern accents like Ricky’s, Steve’s from the midlands so you’re just fortunate he doesn’t have a thick accent and Karl is from the north of England in Manchester (about 40 miles away from me)
29:09 He could have thrown himself into the salt pot. 😋
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about the weird pronunciation and if its just karl or not, hes also more northern than ricky gervais and steven merchant, not only is the accent different, different pronunciation can happen too l0l
Yeah it's pronounced as Karl pronounced it here, it is the English language so we're right 🤷♂️😝
The only episode where the opening titles are different and you need to watch is season 3 episode 1
For once Karl was pronouncing urinal the way we say it here
30:00 There's always hunger strike 😇
Aye, but if people force fed him or stuck an IV in him, dying wouldn't be worth the struggle. Lol
Googling 'pillow man freak' will bring up a plethora of pictures and information.
This is one of my favourite episodes of this show! 😂 Loving your reactions
Thank you! So glad you are! 🤗
R G looks like a Flintstone
Karl has a heavy Manchester accent so some of his pronunciations were difficult for me to understand the first time I listened.
I’ve listened to these videos and the radio shows so many times now that I know exactly what he’s talking about. Sometimes I even know what he’ll say before he even says it.
please react to the xfm show they did after you finished this series
Yeah whatever the cat lady said
Urinal was pronounced how I say it.
Oh, Mandy.... someone is being controversial!!! Looking forward to reading the comments loooooooooooool
Haha, comments are always the weirdest when I watch this show 🤷🏻♀️
Steve did look kinda funny at this time, later on he changed his look up a bit
He can't change his height or eyes.
Karl’s favourite subject 😂