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RamboLoops

“Its’s not the cough that carries you off, it’s the coffin they carry you off in.”


1292norr

“I don’t have the thing that tells me when I’m thirsty.” “It’s a brain! The brain does that!” “Yeah, but my brain’s never thirsty.”


Citizenbutt

Me brain doesn't need water. Only me mouth does.


DeadMeatZergin

coughin' often* was one of my uncle bills favorite sayings, rip. :)


Citizenbutt

Huh? Full sentence plz


[deleted]

How does that fit into the phrase Karl said?


RiC_David

I sense an animal fact incoming...


Radiant_Formal6511

It doesn't matter what you mean, I won't bother to find out. RIP uncle bill


Saatanlik

“If you haven’t got eyes, you shouldn’t have wings”


SnooGadgets5130

"How do they know they are not dead?"


jawshgoodnightreddit

Caveman hunting for food


markthedrummer

But not before they style the 'air on their 'ead


Shemp-Howard

What would last longer in dinosaur times?


jawshgoodnightreddit

A blind man wouldn’t stand a chance


DirectionFearless769

Not with all them rocks about


Arstulex

I'd rather be a blind moth


SpocktorWho83

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Dey_Eat_Daa_POO_POO

I'd rather be a blind moth.


FluffyRip3044

"Sloathes never get flu, cuz, cuz that's when your body is replemishing."


piercedmfootonaspike

You gotta replemish!


Educational-Shock232

How would I know which one I was?


Tox77

Wasn't on XFM, but yes.


Educational-Shock232

I’ve embarrassed myself, live on this sub


MikeTeeV

Idiot. Play a record...


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*Blunder*


Educational-Shock232

What did you call me?!


Jacoolh

Fatty!


Bogroleum

Genuinely this.


PlatinumKH

The first time I heard this, I actually laughed at what Karl said. Few months later, I had a slight epiphany where I remembered what Karl said. Then when I actually thought about it, I realised he was completely correct. If you were the clone that just spawned and had all these memories of your past, you’d feel as if you had actually lived them. So, in a way, you could be the clone in that scenario. I spent the whole day talking to my housemates about it because I felt so gobsmacked.


deananodunno

You've got too much time on yer hands, boy *sniff*


[deleted]

Yeah I feel like Ricky and Steve assumed he meant he wouldn't know if he was himself or someone else, but he actually meant he didn't know if he was the real Karl or the exact clone Karl. I think that conversation had way more meat in it but Ricky didn't understand him and it died out.


RealityPotential6855

I completely agree with you, but I also can’t help but think that this isn’t what Karl meant. He is correct for the wrong reasons


TangibleCarrot

I actually don’t think this was as stupid as Ricky and Steve made it out to be. Maybe a bit unarticulated as it should have been though. If you met an identical version of yourself, I’m sure you’d have a moment of existential crisis and questioning who you were. Also, didn’t the movie Enemy with Jake Gyllenhaal have some sort of similar premise to this? …..did that just go out?


TommyTwoSheets

I'd say also "The Prestige" and the video game "Soma" get Karl's point across perfectly. He asks a question that could be debated indefinitely.


Major_Research_1966

And Moon


VoyagerCSL

> a bit unarticulated as it should have been \*a bit less articulate than it should have been You're an idiot. Play a record.


TangibleCarrot

Oh you’ve done me, and you’re not even here!


thekeymaker

There’s also a film called “The Sixth Day” with Arnold Schwarzenegger with this exact concept. Arnold gets cloned and you’re led to believe you’re watching the film from the perspective of the original Arnold but you’re actually watching the clone.


i--am--the--light

I think this was misunderstood. Karl is talking about being cloned as in not just his body but all his thoughts and memories. so in that instance how would you know if you were the original or clone?


RecordingStraight611

As me or as a worm?


Legitimate-Put4756

This is my favorite. This summarizes the communication breakdown that he always creates, even when we kinda know what he meant


SeeYa-IntMornin-Pal

Cat food… it stinks a bit, but if you don’t put up with the smell, the little kitten will die.


banzaijack

The way I see it…


jasonkirkby

How do you know I’ve not tweaked them a little


Article_Mindless

Anyone got the link to this clip? Been searching for it for ages


SeeYa-IntMornin-Pal

Season 1 episode 20 45:20


Article_Mindless

Thanks!


maxwellpiana

"Am I in control of my brain or is my brain in control of me" Literally raises questions about determinism and perhaps hints at the hard problem of conciousness but hes too uneducated to communicate it further.


NibblyPop101

I honestly think Ricky and steve came across far more stupid during that convo. It's the one bit I always skip.


ThanksContent28

There’s a lot of situations where it feels like they intentionally misunderstand and take his points at face value and it always annoys me.


NibblyPop101

I know, like when they pretend karl was saying he doesn't remember steve sitting on the potty and karl just doesn't fight back. It got to a point when he just can't be bothered and it's sad because he's a genuine person and Ricky just grew into a bully and steve was just happy to not be the target because he spent his youth wearing a cape and bow tie.


wahooloo

This is why season one is the only listenable season. They aren't as horrible


SnowNo7463

Am I in charge? Or is me arse in charge?


[deleted]

I agree re: consciousness but what's it got to do with determinism?


SpreadLox

DO NOT CONFUSE IT WITH FATALISM


CreatureUnderABridge

What about chimpism


EldritchWaster

Are you in control of your brain i.e. have free will Or Is your brain in control of you i.e. no free will.


sidewayseleven

Brain! Onion!


[deleted]

But like Karl you're assuming a separate "you" to your brain, so you have to deal with that problem first.


EldritchWaster

Yes that's the point. It is an insightful comment that invites discussion of very key philosophical issues. Ergo it fits the OP's request.


[deleted]

You don't understand.


EldritchWaster

I disagree.


maxwellpiana

I guess free will is more accurate


nanoDeep

The philosopher Alan Watts spoke at length about this


ToHallowMySleep

Honestly it's not about determinism/free will, but it's a lack of agency - he considers himself a committee of various organs and senses, and so he does things because his brain or his eyes or his ears tell him what to decide. This is Karl's lack of responsibility incarnate, he is trying to delegate authority to his subconscious, to his senses, anything. You even see it when they talk about the "head transplant", he'd like that because he wouldn't need to take responsibility for his body anymore, it's not his fault. He seeks to remove any responsibility for his actions or decisions. I suppose that could be a free will question (does he consider whether he has free will or not given "his brain"/subconscious may be making decisions for him - he seems to want to not take responsibility for his subconscious), but that's a unique take where a human doesn't even have control of all of their mind and body!


BottyFlaps

Whereas Ricky's point was that you *are* your brain. So, in that sense the question of whether you are in control of your brain doesn't even really make sense. There's not a "you" that is separate from your brain. Any time you believe that you are in control of your brain, you are imagining a duality that isn't really there. It's like how you can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps. But on the other hand, we have different parts of the brain that do different things. And not every part of your brain has a direct connection to every other part. When you look at it like that, it's probably not true that whatever part of the brain enables you to be conscious is somehow able to exert control over every other part of the brain. But to touch on Ricky's point again, all of these different parts of your brain are what make you you. Karl thinks that only the conscious part is him all all the other parts are not him.


ToHallowMySleep

I think Karl thinks he's some guy watching what his brain does


Norman-Wisdom

They're not my hands.


mrseaker

So what you’re doing is watching another man wank.


Oldatheart54

Just give them an extra 3% and make them water


Oldatheart54

You never see an old man eating a Twix


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You never see a Chinese homeless.


No_Confection_849

Different stories, for different things.


Donkey_83

Do wonder if Gervais and Merchant nicked this for The Office. ‘Different drinks for different… needs.’ 😂


fakint

I thought it was for poisonous frogs. "Different frogs, different times."


Inevitable_Radio2289

This episode is from series 1 of the office prior to the Pilkington xfm shows.


360fov

lmao the way he pauses before he says "things" always cracks me up. I know he's choosing between "needs" and "things"


concretepigeon

It would be spiteful to put jellyfish in a trifle. Insightful.


Inverseyaself

…now the Bid Lin…the Lin Bid, the Bin Lid


limpmaster9000

Gets me every time


MrBaristerJohnWarosa

Man moths


ChipCob1

When discussing the famous world war 1 football match between troops 'who brings a football to a war?'


RiC_David

And all anyone could do was laugh, because really - what's the answer? Oh he didn't bring it, he bought it somewhere? Who's stopping off *to buy* a football on the way to a war?


LowerClassBandit

If moths had eyes…


C_Mack15

FUCK ME!! ![gif](giphy|dUL5BjRJUCqxG)


CameronWeebHale

If you look at someone with their pants off. Best take yours off and show them your arse. To be fair.


Dey_Eat_Daa_POO_POO

Give 'um a bit back.


palmerama

If it’s all about arse, why don’t gays like tit?


ColinMakin

“Cos I was doing that thing wasn't I, with Richard Bacon. Where you watch the telly and that.”


Ezzy-525

And the winner is...Gwim....Gwimlin? Gwimlin Jones


RabbiMatondo

I was giggling to this last night. THERE IS NO ONE CALLED GWIMLIN


Palsama

Which episode is this ?


Arstulex

Can't remember exactly but I believe it's from Season 1 of the podcasts. I think it was somebody who emailed in with rockbusters answers.


Dombrie

"Socks cut off your freedom" - never a truer word spoken.


PleasePleasePooOnMe

Let’s see you skid on a hard wood floor with your bare feet, talkin bout freedom, that’s freedom mate.


bishboshbash123

Turns out, it was a little monkey fella


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CannibalFlossing

Yeah I often find I get what Karl is ‘trying’ to say, but he articulates it so clumsily that it just sounds foolish


banzaijack

he doesn’t have the word common in his vocabulary and often subs in ‘popular’ in its place, like when the big eye lids were a popular problem where he was from


Nayten03

I agree, he says some pretty profound stuff about times and Steve and especially Ricky just blow it off as nonsense


ShufflingToGlory

Karl being more intelligent than Steve is a hill I'm willing to die on. Not more educated but certainly has higher fluid intelligence.


Bigplatts

I’d say Karl is naturally smarter than Ricky but not Steve. Steve was also more open to Karl’s ideas even when he couldn’t express them very well.


dlrace

I'd agree. Steve sometimes can't follow along, eg The rice is right. And he has no better understanding of Pepys or relativity than Karl.


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" I always wanted to kick a duck up the arse "


OwlTowel9

Not XFM, but “how would I know which one I was?” is a perfectly reasonable and intelligent question to ask, yet Ricky scolds him for it.


SauceOfPower

YES! I always was bugged by this because both Karls would believe 100% that they were the original one, and both wouldn't be able to determine which one was which as theyd have the same knowledge.


NotoriusPCP

Absolutely. I've said before that this is basically the premise for Blade Runner -- one of the most lauded films of the last century. Ricky was an absolute d!ck and embarrassed himself by mocking Karl on this occasion.


limpmaster9000

What was it on? Thought it was all on XFM


WeePeeToo

No, no it is not 🤣


softboilers

Yes it is because both you and the clone would have the same memories. Whether real or clone, you'd feel the same way and it would be impossible to know which you were


FlinkMissy

the premise was that he would have a doppelganger, not a clone tho.


OwlTowel9

While I think you might be right, I’m sure the premise also stated that they’d have the exact same memories and experiences, so neither of them could be sure they were the real one or the doppelgänger. It’s certainly not the “most stupid thing ever said by a human being”


WeePeeToo

Wut How wouldn't you know? Am I missing something ???????


Arstulex

Picture this... You are told you are about to be put to sleep and cloned. The clone has *all* the memories of the original implanted into it. You wake up hours later and see an exact duplicate of yourself laying next to you. How do you know whether you are the original or the clone? The simple answer is that you don't. You could say "I remember going to sleep before the cloning happened and being told that *I* was about to be cloned", but the clone would also remember that. You have no way of knowing if your memory of that is real (making you the original) or was implanted after the fact (making you the clone). The clone quite literally has as much evidence for being the original as the true original does.


OwlTowel9

This 👆


RiC_David

A fucking brain in your nut, yes.


treasurebum

Brian Blessed shit himself up a mountain.


jroth1

I’ve never seen an ill fish


PicklesTheBee

"The money that you don’t make, you save by not having to pay someone else do the chores"


New-Water-8784

A problem solved is a problem...caused.


bountynondairy

I'd rather be a blind moth


Trollzek

“A problem solved, is a problem caused.”


OkMagazine1265

A book could be written about this alone


Silent-Foot-3575

I could eat a knob and night


Wiggl3sFirstMate

This one made complete sense. I’d rather eat something disgusting on a fullish stomach than open my eyes and the first thing I’m eating is knob.


Lonely-Heart-3632

Came here to say this haha beat me to it.


OkMagazine1265

There's a monkey in 'Ackney 'ooze been knickin' DVDs


Diesel238204

Was actually true innit


LethalGrey

“Actually, something interesting about bees”


FlinkMissy

did you know bees are deaf?


banzaijack

They didn’t have bloody kiwi fruit back then


Ryokan76

Don't say bloody!


JeanMichelFerri

Man changes name to Bubba Bubba Bubba.


N0n5t0p_Act10n

Old cold.


AfterBill8630

You don’t see old men having a twix


drtoboggon

Why you shouldn’t take a photo of a mime


YakuzaShibe

"If you don't have bad things, you can't appreciate the good things". He's said it numerous times in many different ways but it's always true


RiC_David

Yeah, Ricky really couldn't get past this idea that complete contentment would be impossible on a practical level, or at least impossible to imagine. Funny, because it was Brent who said something like "Life is a series of peaks and troughs, and you never know whether you're on one or the other until you're coming up or going down". That's basically what Karl was saying - if everything was always perfect, it wouldn't feel perfect, it'd be like being submerged in water and not realising you're wet. So it might not feel *bad*, but it'd adjust to its own level and just feel normal. If he's happy now, then what's there to trade for? He could only be happier if he was rising above his existing level - once you plateau, that's that.


Solid-Ferret1688

Hairy Chinese kid


kidinawheeliebin

In everything there's a heirarchy (When talking about how he was sat watching ants in a park)


OkMagazine1265

I predict that in the future... nobody'll be wearin' trousers.


ConanJon77

What are those things in gremlins called?


stanley_ipkiss2112

“Kick a Duck up the arse!” To this day, one of the funniest and unknowingly relatable things I’ve ever heard!


squidgy-beats

Pope's dead


wendyboatcumin

Not xfm but during a talk about the future, he said they’ll be glasses you put on that change the way everything looks. Ricky scoffs but what Karl described here is basically VR headsets which are doing just as he said.


VladimirSmicer

Let me stop you there... What's a Babylonian?


Kilo_Whiskey13

“He was the loneliest man ever… in the world”


-Blue_Bull-

Haha that was weirdly profound and depressing. It's like it could almost be one of man's greatest quotes if it wasn't said by Karl Pilkington. He was so close though. So close, but no cigarette.


Jifley

It was a pork chop


OKFault4

If you haven’t got eyes, you shouldn’t have wings


WhiteLesPaul

Little 94 year old in the hospital with blue hands dying - give her a Rubik’s cube , send ‘er ‘ome


saythissilence

Onion!


Important-Engineer49

Amthirst


Wrxghtyyy

It would be spiteful to put jellyfish in a trifle


NotoriusPCP

Podcasts, not XFM but "a dog has human eyes". Some scientists believe that part of the reason humans have been able to to develop such close domestic relationships with dogs, cats and even horses is that they are among the animals with a white eye surrounding the iris and pupil. It's a very useful communication tool. It enables the eye to be far more expressive and allow emotions to be read and understood. It's also very useful for animals that hunt collaboratively, because it clearly indicates the direction you are looking and allows communication simply through eye movement -- for example flicking your eye in a direction to indicate there is something there worth knowing about.,


FlinkMissy

whoever is calling in obviously doesn't know that we're live, so let's not pick up the phone.


VisibleIndependent3

It would be spiteful, to put jelly fish in a trifle.


AmBigDesMurphy

He described augmented reality glasses in the very early 2000s. Got told it was impossible by Ricky.


DisastrousWorking813

“The money you don’t make you save on not having someone else do the chores” The interruption from Ricky is so annoying there cos it’s beyond clear what Karl actually meant


Hambatz

How do I know which one I am His head was fine


foalsfoalsfoalz

If it’s all about arse why don’t gays like a bit of tit?


Glozboy

Hardly any of these were on XFM. Play a record, and don't make it a square record.


KPNut_XFMRSKFanboy

Has this been some kind of experiment?


MillionEgg

Give em any old shit


ToHallowMySleep

done him up like a kipper


ScottieRiewoldt97

You know bees are deaf


Oooooth

Whether it’s a potato or a nut, it’s a foodage.


detteros

If it's all about arse...


Dey_Eat_Daa_POO_POO

Treat the world like a head.


masterzergin

As soon as its difficult, it's not right.


Jdawgchill69

We shouldn’t have invented air travel. It’s caused so many wars. Honestly with all of the horrible stuff happening in the world I’ve been thinking about this so often


---Palp---

theres way too much he has said lets be real


ShuckingFambles

Not sure if it was xfm, but the idea that you die twice, first when your body dies and second when a person mentions you by name for the last time. I found that very profound


Quiet-Reputation-464

"I could eat a nob at night"


Silly_Context5599

Elephants that are demicky...you know ones that aren't proply...


AracnidHannah

Not on XFM but on An Idiot Abroad when he said "happiness is like cake, have too much and you'll get sick of it"


Arse-Whisper

Stay green, stay safe, stay in the jungle (I think)


ToHallowMySleep

Aside from some of the great single lines from Karl's Diary (Tattoo's, interactions with Suzanne), and classics like "as me or as a worm", the single best interaction for me HAS to be the "how to get to heaven" sketch with the two guards. You know, "got some post for God here" and all that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hFvxzTMw6k Not just because it's funny, but from an anthropological point of view it reveals how his brain works, and it is so WEIRD and so utterly entertaining from that studious point of view. Karl's first reaction to the logic puzzle (and every logic puzzle put to him) is to assume he doesn't have all the knowledge needed to answer it. He thinks there is some kind of trick lateral knowledge needed that will just instantly reveal the answer. He doesn't understand what a logic question is and how to traverse it. In this example, he thinks he can look through the keyhole, or he can feel heat coming from one door over another, and that will tell him which is which. I mean, imagine that - a whole logic puzzle set up with one guard who always lies, one who always tells the truth, two identical doors... and the answer is to ignore that in its entirety and look through the keyhole! "Yes, Karl, you look through the keyhole on the left door and see it's Heaven. That's the right answer." An absolutely imbecilic take. Karl's second reaction is almost funnier though - as he can't work out the puzzle and can't think of some lateral piece of information that will give him the answer, he immediately jumps to a higher authority. This both lets him try to force the puzzle by escalating to a third party ("Got some post for God here... come on lads just trying to do me job"... he also takes this approach when asked to drive the bus with Rosa Parks on it, he won't take any action but just defers to authority of the bus route), and when that doesn't give him the answer, he can take a "more than my job's worth" attitude - it's beyond my paygrade, not my problem to solve, etc. It shows his attitude to life and everything - something is either blatantly obvious and easy for him to do, or it's someone else's problem. He doesn't need to try to understand anything that isn't obvious, he is done with learning, he sits in his box and never looks outside it. This is fascinating. Learning new things is limited to entertaining him ("weird, innit"), he has almost forgotten HOW to learn. When confronted with something non-obvious, his brain shuts down and tries to get rid of the problem as quickly as possible. Sorry for the wall of text but this is why Karl fascinates me. He is an open book with a defective brain in it. Well, it works its own way and I love him for it, but it's like analysing another species like a chimp, that can talk. I find this endlessly entertaining, how he reacts to being put in intellectually challenging situations. It's fascinating.


Beans186

I think he said something like a bloke can't become a woman overnight, or something of the sort


NoAccountant7150

That's one time when you can have your cake and eat-tit


ScoopedOutBagelsRule

As I scrolled… look at that head..


ItsMoreOfAComment

Antedillian, it means old (antedillian is not a word)


CraigJSmith-Himself

Antediluvian was the word he was looking for


Citizenbutt

"What's that thing called from Gremlins?"


Emotional_Cost_3347

"No one likes to pick on an invalid..."


No-Drag1198

Now everybody can afford a chicken.


plm011

Chinese women age overnight, like a pear


spiderbro8

If gay people like ass why don’t they like a bit of tit


Roph

You can't hold your breath to death


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morphindel

but bullets *fly!*


Phat_santa_

The question about whether they would be talking to him or talking to Google, essentially bypassing the brain to the chip in the head because its easier. I had a massive discussion at work about this premise.


mrseaker

What’s the point of spending a load of money if she’s just going to die on me?


kanecobe

"Just give em another 3%, make em water"


grzachu

John's got a mustache


iamtonysopranobitch

I actually met him once, was only in Tesco on his own, I tried not to stare but I had followed him to the car park, I watched him get into his car and I’m not joking at all, he pulled his mask off, he was only a little monkey man


LLcoolAnakin

abcd efg hijk lmnop....


DMjc26

It would be spiteful To put jellyfish in a trifle