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.
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
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)
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.
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).
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
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.
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 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
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.
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'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.
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.
"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.
"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
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
"A bed isnt a bed without a matress, its a climbing frame" LMAO
It's true though
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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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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!
This might be the greatest Ricky laugh ever, ‘I wasn’t as wise as I am now’ 🤣🤣🤣
Funniest shit ever😂🤣
"Now back then I wasn't as wise as I am now"
xD
Snot in a jar gets me every time
Could listen to these for hours absolutely hilarious. KP is a one off just naturally funny and ppl think Ricky and Steve created him as a character 😂
Ricky's laugh after snot in a jar is just infectious 🤣🤣
this is the funniest 9 minutes of the podcasts I was in tears
One of my all time favourite snippets of Karl's life :)
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
Uncle Alf sounds like a legend!! Everyone should have an uncle Alf :)
''Ung up,annoyed''
Lol
I am so with him on furniture collections, they are an absolute mare. One to Karl yet again :P
3:46 'Back then I wasn't as wise as I am now'
"Back then I wasn't as wise as I am now..."
xD
"Dad, it's your fuck-wit son again!"
"Depends how big they are." I absolutely love Karl's answers. He's got a good one for everything.
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.....
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 agree with Karl about the mattress thing :') it's like selling a sofa without the big cushions
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
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.
Karl's face at 4:03. LOL!
I love Karl's "it's madness" hand wave for some reason...
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
I'm just amazed to no end by how Karl's life works.
This video just kills me, easily the best KP moment for me.
I LOVE AND ADORE KARL PILKINGTON!!!
I don't think calling a mattress furniture in that context is that strange.
"Oh didn't think of this. So I called my dad up" 😂😂😂
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.
“How many people does it sit?”
“Depends how big you are”
I love how “matter-of-fact” he can be
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
"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
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.
Snot in the jar gets me rolling on the floor every time 🤣 Gotta love British humor
karl is right a bed without the mattress is just a bed frame
axelskull he said climbing frame.
they're furniture if you pop 'em up against a wall!
"So i called my dad up"
"Dad it's your fuckwit son again"
😂😂😂😂
Steve's laugh throughout this is the funniest part
He's got a point, a bed is useless without a mattress.
3:56 over and over
+ᏰᏗşιℓ The fucking funniest!
"Dad, it's your fuck-wit son again."
The people who disliked this video were snot in a jar.
I just realized. Is that a chinese homeless person?
Was gonna comment thisxD
Arturo Millán he was only about 12
There's always a fucking queue at Stretford tip! Jams up the whole Road nearby all the way up to the motorway!
He's from Manchester (North West). Ricky's from Reading (Just north of London) and Steve's from Bristol (West Country)
I think you've summed him up perfectly.
"SOME SNOT IN A JAR"
"We bought a sofa, we got a table"
"Back then I wasn't as wise as I am now."
the way karl describes it, the seller probably didnt know he wanted a full bed combo
Steve: "Sorry he's driving around a mattress in his van. What is he a fucking serial killer":]
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).
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
There's always a queue at the tip
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.
8:29 and yeh thats true the tip there is always packed
“I’m not a bed man I go to the bed man to get bed advice”
Snot in a jar.
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.
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.
3:08 all furniture is functional
These podcasts would be way more listenable if Ricky toned his witch's cackle down a few turns.
"Back then I wasn't as wise as I am now" Genius!
What kind of accent does Karl have? I love it...it's part of what makes his stories so great.
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 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
I mean he’s not wrong , it had to come up at the store
Arggh I didn't think of this!
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.
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 :)
Amazing clip!
7:26 Ricky: Hang On?? Why didn't you smell it haha.
Ricky's laugh 😂😂
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'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.
Why didn't he just return it to Alf?
DisturbedAidan2 - because Alf isn't Argos.
Clive Warren.
That is his whole "schtick", yes. (:
2:07 LMFAO
Some of the best moments on this show is when Karl is annoyed.
Karl Pinkleton is actually pretty smart compared to the other two baffoons.
My friends and I have theorized that he might be too intelligent to communicate with regular people...either way, he is a laugh riot.
I agree with all of you. Mattress = furniture.
He didn't notice the mattress hahaahah
I love Ricky's cackle
He told the story to make them laugh. That was the intention there.
They took Karl's new sofa!
See, I bought a bed once and it was the whole thing. Karl is right... again
Of course a mattress is furniture
Funny thing is when you go to a furniture store *gasp* there are beds there. So Karl's right.