It's more that Karl is a bit thick, but he's good-natured and he ups the ante a little with his persona more for these shows. He's genuinely just very comfortable living in his little bubble, not caring about anything even comparing the Great Wall of China to a highway in the UK. The entire joke now has become Merchant and Gervais just amazed that someone so average and unassuming about the world exists.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
I can always count on you for terrible, extremist opinions about music.
Edit: While I would agree that it is lazy, to say it is pointless and shameful is just empty hyperbole. As long as it is well done, and adds enough to really separate it in some distinctive way from the original song, then there's nothing wrong with that.
yeah I mean it's funny how you call my opinion extremist and then go ahead and agree with my opinion but whatever.
I can always count on you for terrible, extremist opinions about music.
Edit: While I would agree that it is lazy, to say it is pointless and shameful is just empty hyperbole. As long as it is well done, and adds enough to really separate it in some distinctive way from the original song, then there's nothing wrong with that.
yeah I mean it's funny how you call my opinion extremist and then go ahead and agree with my opinion but whatever.
One-third of your opinion.
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#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
As long as it is well done, and adds enough to really separate it in some distinctive way from the original song, then there's nothing wrong with that.
Pretty much any classical song titled "____ dance" is just ripping off (to varying degrees) peasant music that was already around.
Hell, a notable portion of classical music is basically based around getting famous for writing down peasants' music and taking credit for it.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I can't seem to find it now but I could swear I remember Gervais once admitting that Karl's on-air personality is at least in part a persona that he plays up
He's called Karl the funniest man in England for this reason
they are clearly not his friends, based on what I've seen of the show
You're assuming alot, based on what you've seen from a carefully written and edited documentary. He himself said to people going on about bullying that he's "damn near forty he can take care of himself. " (paraphrased from An Idiot Abroad.)
In other words why are you white knighting a middle-aged bald man?
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
I feel like that's a pretty good summation of all narrowly-avoided disasters?
I take your quotations and raise you with The Darwin Awards.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Touche! I can't do the little squiggly thing on this keyboard, windows is dumb with its keys and its weird codes you have to put in and crap. I prefer the Mac way, where you just hit alt and boom, there you go.
I meant the thing on top of the e. The accent mark? I dont know.
So I guess you don't have a european keyboard then? Both the acute (the one used in Touché) and grave diacritics are available on most european keyboards (kind of because we use them), normally just next to the backspace button.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
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HeadCreepsNOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING!Registered Userregular
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I'm skeptical
Nope, wrong.
hrm.
that's not "in on the joke"
he thinks these guys are his friends
they are clearly not his friends, based on what I've seen of the show
yeah I mean it's funny how you call my opinion extremist and then go ahead and agree with my opinion but whatever.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
One-third of your opinion.
That is exactly what I was saying they don't do.
exactly
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Pretty much any classical song titled "____ dance" is just ripping off (to varying degrees) peasant music that was already around.
Hell, a notable portion of classical music is basically based around getting famous for writing down peasants' music and taking credit for it.
He's called Karl the funniest man in England for this reason
You're assuming alot, based on what you've seen from a carefully written and edited documentary. He himself said to people going on about bullying that he's "damn near forty he can take care of himself. " (paraphrased from An Idiot Abroad.)
In other words why are you white knighting a middle-aged bald man?
STEAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6L7HgNZ0Sc
TWITTER TWATS
I swear the best breakers are in Toronto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Rf2vZqiSg
VICTORY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyw6cq86kY
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1EBqPZyo88
followed by the poison frog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnsTHvMeoiU
"why is it that annoyed?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waVAFoMYBXM
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Pretty sure they ended up using this in an actual commercial for Die Hard 4 (or the DVD or something), which was very amusing to me at the time.
This wouldn't be funny if the bear mauled the guy to death.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
that
is true?
"That wouldn't be entertaining if the virus on the nuclear bomb hadn't worked on the alien mothership."
"That wouldn't be funny if that skateboarding guy had broken his neck when he tried to do a loop-the-loop"
"That wouldn't be funny if his testicles were completely useless for the rest of his life after she kicked him."
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@hoodiethirteen
I take your quotations and raise you with The Darwin Awards.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
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@hoodiethirteen
think every keyboard I've ever had has been like this~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyZA7rXpIxc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmY9s8Gzv-Y
EDIT: (I made it through 30 seconds of this before closing it. Who here thinks they can go longer?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feFHnIhJtG4
TWITTER TWATS
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@hoodiethirteen
10 seconds. No fucking way. O_o
So I guess you don't have a european keyboard then? Both the acute (the one used in Touché) and grave diacritics are available on most european keyboards (kind of because we use them), normally just next to the backspace button.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
I got 2 minutes in
I regret everything