LOWKEY PROFOUND?! Americans React To "Meet Karl Pilkington II"

[@BaresEatBeats]

I know it’s an unorthodox point to make on a KZbin video, but your videos have helped me so much over the last few days. Thank you.

[@stewrmo]

Sending you love and strength bud. 👊

[@chrisparti]

Without some understanding of the Atom, we wouldn't have any electronic devices, medicines, vaccines, advanced materials etc.. the list is endless...

[@DruncanUK]

Also - if we hadn't tried splitting (smashing as Karl says) the atom we wouldn't have developed nuclear energy and many other discoveries, and more we haven't found yet.

[@Thishandleisavailabl.e]

@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek arguably one of the greatest technologies we have discovered.

[@grantfoster8833]

@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek Nuclear energy is very clean and very safe. Nuclear weapons are very expensive and extremely dangerous. They are two completely different things.

[@allclearwindows572]

Vaccines have nothing to with atoms, the word vaccine come from the latin translation of cow (Vacca) or (Vaccinia) meaning cowpox. The science of vaccines were discovered when cowpox was injected in to children which gave them immunity to smallpox. The discovery came about when scientists noticed that milkmaids who contracted cowpox were immune to smallpox.

[@echo1174]

Karl is the new William Blake Ha!

[@shawnurch8755]

You’d be suprised how many Karl pilkington clips are out there, many of us longtime fans still find rare/new content now and then

[@caroline1426]

Agreed and Ricky. I listen to the XFM pod casts a lot and still find clips I’ve not heard before x

[@DJEylisium]

I believe ive heard it all now years and years of listening, couldn't count how many times I've listened to all the XFM series 🤣

[@Necron00b]

The flaw in Karl ( and most peoples) understanding of trying to understand the big bang, is that learning about it teaches us about the fundamental make-up of the universe and therefore the interactions and connections of matter...which makes all things and could lead to new ways of making materials or medicines..which directly effects humanity on a day to day scale. Karl always makes things sound sensible but if you think about it longer than 15 seconds his ideas completely breakdown.

[@Carmichael_]

Its Pseudoscience

[@jgreen2015]

Biology is basically chemistry applied to living things Chemistry is basically physics applied to interactions between atoms There's no way to know where one seemingly silly nugget of knowledge can lead to. Science isn't just about breaking things down to their fundamentals but also in then combining those individual facts in a way to master them and do the things we/need them to do. It was just a curiosity when first splitting the atom. A "useless" piece of science just to see what one is made up of But it lead us to Nuclear power production. The only real viable solution to climate change

[@andrew348]

Karl is correct about 50% of the time, even if he doesn't describe things properly.

[@Steve0272.]

@@Carmichael_ cosmology and the theory is not pseudo science , it is science the concencous of experts agree it's the most probable explanation , we do not have a more reliable method to seperate imaginery from reality than science

[@marywood8794]

@@jgreen2015 Right now, nightly on the news we are all hearing that due to the war between the Russians and the Ukrainians, the largest nuclear power plant could end up destroying Europe and likely more...that alone is a non-starter for nuclear power for many people.

[@ScienceFollowsTheEvidence]

'Lowkey' :) Another word taken out of context by the millennials. 🤣

[@sidarthur8706]

a lot of people have this attitude that science is a waste of money because the applications of the findings of pure research aren't obvious straight away and people are looking for something that can improve their lives directly. they're missing the point. when rutherford made gravel of an atom he couldn't see the benefit of doing it, that only came decades afterwards. but now we've got a clean source of energy. he thought he'd just found out something that's only of interest to scientists. when we know more the benefits come in spades and knowledge is always worth far more than the pennies we spend finding it out

[@louisajh]

Great to see this, Watching from England, can you do reactions to more Karl and Warwick please 🙏🏽

[@stewrmo]

I would go back and see my Dad again, fit, healthy and strong, playing with me as a wee boy, in our old house's front garden, before his illnesses. I would stand at the bus stop across the road and just watch our unadulterated joy and love. Miss you Dad.

[@gfbhvvgfff7465]

Nice words , I would do the same

[@darylhayes2483]

Guys seriously you need to comment and do a watch of when Karl meets Warwick Davies it’s truly special. Many thanks love watching your reactions, wishing you health, wealth and happiness. Daryl

[@wildwine6400]

Another you've missed is "Shortlist interview with Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington" its Ricky and Karl playing a game called "Mr and Mrs" where Ricky has to guess the answers Karl would give to questions asked to Karl . Its about 21 minutes long

[@mrmoran0077]

Could someone explain the use of "lowkey" to me?, there's a chubby kid that does reaction vids and he says it every ten seconds and it really boils my piss

[@DDoig1]

I searched for "chubby kid reacts" and I couldn't find them haha.

[@sidarthur8706]

i think it means below the threshold of discernment

[@mrmoran0077]

@@sidarthur8706 Possibly, however I suspect that the aforementioned chubby kid will not have a clue what that means. It's hard work keeping up with "youth speak" nowadays 🙂

[@mrmoran0077]

@@DDoig1 I'll spare the laddies embarrassment by not naming him 🙂

[@Sdw77]

Loved it fellas🫶🏽nice 1👍🏽🙌🏽👏🏽

[@XENONEOMORPH1979]

get the rubbish to a live volcano ,use a belt drive machine throw the rubbish into it and let it go into a live volcano job done and sorted .

[@Wagoo]

There's already lava everywhere that they've not put back in volcanoes.. tidy it all up and fill in the hole!

[@stewrmo]

And the giant toxic cloud, from burning all that plastic, styrofoam, etc, would kill us all! 😁

[@shirleyhenderson9978]

That was the most hilarious thought provoking conversation ,great reaction ,loved it

[@emmanuelgoldspleen2905]

Just think through the scenarios in your head. "I don't want to."

[@fullfacility]

It's sometimes hard not to argue with Karl's simple logic.

[@socrates1954]

"Emmm....do you know Terry the slug?" 😂😂😂

[@philiphind7830]

A slug is a homeless snail lol

[@charliewalker9443]

Thank you for getting around to this, I love all things Karl!

[@postiekeefveness4415]

Before the Big Bang there was somebody heard to say " Whoops"

[@sporkfindus4777]

Dilkington

[@lewismantle3887]

The thousands, millions, billions of dollars in research that has been spent on ‘science’ have led to the things that most people would take for granted, have led to them not dying before the age of 30. The frontier of modern day physics is currently investigating (among thousands of other things) the quantum - which will hopefully lead to quantum-computing that is accessible to everyone, and will lead to technological advances which will solve problems that we don’t even know that we have yet. Anyone suppressing the minimal amount of tax expenditure for science and technology advancements that they contribute to, seriously underestimate where they would be if that had been curtailed 200 years ago.

[@stewrmo]

Well said bud. I became type 1 diabetic at 14 and if I was born even in the time of my Grandparents my life would have been a whole lot worse.

[@chi6801]

YUSSS been waiting for this so long lmao I'm so glad you did this :))))

[@jimmydodds7897]

I think it's around the 11 century that english would begin to get muddled.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

The thing with time travel is - if we can do it now, they can do it in the future, and by then the trouble with tine travel will be known and regulated, which means time travel now would be prevented, it's a cyclic thing, if it exists it would be controlled, if not now in the future, and they would travel back and fix history... So if you changed it they'd change it back, because being from the future they're the ones subject to the most disruption of time...

[@sidarthur8706]

that would lead to overcrowding of time travellers at the hospital where hitler was born. that's why no one ever time travels. they'd like to but the practical problems can't be overcome

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@sidarthur8706 Actually NO! You do something, they go back before you did it and prevent you doing it, in effect you never did it, no time travel events other than the one correcting the first - that didn't happen.

[@guillaumeshearmur656]

How far back in time can you go back and still be understood using English? That's an easy question to answer, you just need to look at literature. Have a look at the differences between Beowuf, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and modern literature.

[@jacquilewis8203]

I would love to go back in time to many era's and meet some great thinkers and writers. Pluto, Shakespeare, James Joyce etc.

[@gtaylor331]

Pluto, Shakespeare, Joyce, Newton, Einstein, Pilkington......

[@christianking3915]

Pluto or Plato 🤔

[@christianking3915]

But they wouldn't speak our English language 🙄

[@jacquilewis8203]

@@christianking3915 bloody autocorrect I had wrote Plato. Correct not as we know it now, or not at all. I would like to add Yeats. Would love to meet him.

[@Paul-pc2le]

Love the reaction gents always make the day happy. There is another you might have missed. It's an idiot abroad the preview show. I know you'll both love it.

[@IAVAIN]

Will The Ricky Gervais Show make a return or is it getting blocked? Imo I prefer that to moaning of life

[@5hanesBoard]

I love that the black and white thinking Ricky Gervais believes in the "impossibility" of a Big Bang Theory, theory being the operative word; That the universe was suddenly created from a singularity.

[@Fyrecide]

"We're not here long enough to care" That's the point though: it's thinking of the future of humanity, and not just yourself/your own short life. Hawking was doing the research that will eventually allow us to travel the stars when it is much, much more important for us to do so. He was laying the groundwork for understanding that will lead to so many breakthroughs in our own technological and economical evolution that it's almost incomprehensible. To say "well, it really doesn't matter now so forget it" is incredibly shortsighted and is the kind of thinking that ultimately kills a species. We absolutely would not be where we are today without people like him, and there are plenty of other people tackling more current-day critical issues that it's not even remotely as if Hawking is doing any kind of disservice to humanity for thinking so far ahead. Also, his comment about shooting rubbish up into space: it would cost billions of dollars to take less than 1% of our rubbish into space, that's Ricky's point. We'd bankrupt ourselves before we even made a micro-dent. More to the point: there's already so much debris in our orbit that it's already providing a huge risk for going into space, something we'll inevitably need to do in the far, far future. If we start increasing the rate of rubbish pushed into our own orbit, we'll essentially condemn the future of the species to dying on Earth. That's the whole point that Karl can't compute: he's only thinking of his own lifespan, which the more we advance, the more dangerous that type of mentality becomes. We need to constantly be analyzing and assessing our impact on the world and our species of we're ever going to persist, which is the whole point of life: to live.

[@Average_Brad]

Guys, dunno if you have or not, but you really need to react to Learn English with Ricky Gervais.

[@eileentaylor1691]

the debris would have to come down sometime and crash into earth....which is exactly what is happening !!

[@jamiedeering3400]

There's actually an additional bit to this video or its somewhere but no longer on KZbin but theres a video where Karl meets Warwick Davis for the first time

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

I think Karl has a point about the pointlessness of trying to understand the universe only to forget it all when you die. The thing with science is that once you understand something complex and ultimately useless, it tends to help in the understanding of something useful. Like, once we understood what held atoms together, then we were on the path toward nuclear energy because we knew what was needed to split the atom.

[@chrisparti]

I disagree, because each generation of scientists start where the previous generation of scientists left off. If no one bothered to understand anything because its forgotten when they die, then we would still be living in caves. "It's a wise man who plants a tree under whose shade he will never sit."

[@jgreen2015]

@@chrisparti "if I have seen further than anyone else it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants" Isaac Newton

[@chrisparti]

@@jgreen2015 Absolutely right, all the great scientists recognise the work done by their predecessors..

[@eileentaylor1691]

but if we stop thinking about these things then nothing would move on or get better!!!!!

[@DJEylisium]

How much of the XFM shows have you guys listened to?

[@Adam-jv9wz]

Did anyone else think they're either both girls or both boys? I got hung up on one liar, not 2

[@thehangingparsiple5692]

I hate to admit it, but I still don't get the boy and girl logic thing....😬

[@noomiolssen2205]

You could travel back to the 1500s and still communicate with fellow Britons.

[@MrBaronCabron]

That's why they conquered the entire globe, and live rent free

[@bmxerqf882]

I'm not sure about that, I struggle to interact with people from 2022

[@noomiolssen2205]

@@bmxerqf882 "Innit tho" 🤣

[@emmanuelgoldspleen2905]

Speaking Middle English n that? Yes, you could. But I'd rather go back to when no one in Britain spoke English. They spoke a language similar to what Welsh is now. And a few thousand years earlier, the people living there were speaking a non-Indo-European language similar to Basque.

[@RyanCarrington]

WatchMojoUK have just dropped a top 10 list of Bob Mortimer moments... 👀

[@ItsMeYourRealDad]

Bob Mortimer....yay.....watchmojo.....meh

[@BunniMonster]

WatchMojo is the worst channel for anything comedic. I haven't seen the video in question but I can probably guess how it goes: Narrator: Here Bob Mortimer says "Hand Lion". Cut to clip of Bob. Bob: "A hand lion". Smash cut to a clip of James Corden laughing in a scene from Gavin and Stacey. Narrator: Here Bob coos down the Dove from Above. 5 second clip of Bob cooing before cutting to a random clip of Johnathan Creek picking up a vase. Narrator: This may be the funniest punchline ever, it relies heavily on timing and delivery but before we show the clip, we're going to tell you the punchline in that soulless, humour-destroying way we always do... Cut to a shot of Simon Cowell smiling at some tart on BGT. etc etc

[@sh4969]

Put all nuclear waste straight into the sun

[@Ana-wt7xf]

I've learnt so much watching David Attenborough's documentaries. I've learnt about plants and animals, how similar they are to us. The Pufferfish that constructs a masterpiece of love, really blew my mind. 💞🐟

[@Wagoo]

But why is the puffer fish so angry that it has to go around killing people in Japan? Why does it need that power?

[@Ana-wt7xf]

@@Wagoo li deman a deu per qué hi ha coioneres

[@christianking3915]

I looked into my family 🌳 and found that i was related to Dave the slug 🦠

[@Wagoo]

Oh God. They'll all be wanting to come 'round for Christmas now

[@Ati-MarcusS]

LOL nice Idea but ...

[@littleghostfilms3012]

Karl cracks me up into howls of laughter just like Ricky's. You can feel his idiotic, but priceless, revelations coming on as he talks his way to them. Get this man a security detail, and protect him at all costs. God save the Queen, and Karl, we mean it Man!

[@andrew348]

These guys act like evolutionary biologists don't get paid for studying the past. Them studying is also them worried about feeding their family. No different than a construction job. Also scientific research isn't a straightforward thing. Much of the funding of space exploration has led to technologies that everyone uses daily.

[@connoryoung8951]

Theoretically if we could break down atoms to their building blocks we could create our own atoms and therefore create any resource we want.

[@TranceHeed]

I feel like some Americans don’t get Karl like they don’t get sarcasm. Although Karl is actually being serious, it’s his stupidity that doesn’t come across ha.

[@allankirk1128]

If a time machine was born, you could only go back, because the future has not happened yet.

[@johnwest219]

Hey you guys your views on the Isle of man TT. You want MAD Have a look at Macow road race it's as mad as a box of frogs

[@lemmy9809]

WHY would anyone want to go back in time when they already know what it's like ...its called history...go forward to see something you would never see and how mankind is destroying itself lmao ..you know I'm right ✅

[@bmxerqf882]

There's loads of things we still don't know about the past

[@lemmy9809]

But we know enough and absolutely nothing about the future..wake up my friend

[@bmxerqf882]

@@lemmy9809 if you've got a time machine nothing is stopping you doing both. I'd definitely go backwards first to get used to it in a place where you can predict what the world is like first

[@lemmy9809]

No sense of adventure..go into the unknown..imagine the experience..like taking a drug for the first time ....go to bed with your warm milk ffs ..jog on you boring us now 😴

[@bmxerqf882]

@@lemmy9809 you told me to wake up, how can I do that by going to bed?

[@fiverx2159]

It seems like if you were a caveman you would have been angry about the invention of the wheel.

[@gastrickbunsen1957]

I'm not a fan of flies and therefore I love spiders, we don't have poisonous spiders.

[@watchreadplayretro]

Oh Karl, in some far away universe, there are a whole people like you that have (somehow) made their civilization work! lol Brilliant, thanks guys!

[@adamtheaker]

You NEED to play Karl’s game Rockbusters trust me

[@garrywrightham3928]

I'd go back in time to before karl filmed an idiot abroad so I could watch it all again for the first time

[@puressenceuk35]

Halfway through Moaning of Life? I am missing something, looks like you've only put up a reaction to epiosde one?

[@adamtheaker]

Patreon

[@wildwine6400]

Im surprised he didn't suggest sending the rubbish into the sun and just burn it

[@dentyph5169]

I mean he's not wrong when he said science is everything

[@fiverx2159]

Curiosity brought Columbus to the americas. It was a costly endeavour but according to you it would be pointless? Just because you can’t see a benefit to something doesn’t mean there isn’t one.

[@Wagoo]

It also helped him solve crimes

[@stewrmo]

@@Wagoo "Just one more thing...."

[@dilpunjabi9452]

there is part 2

[@voorheesjason3161]

1st 👊🏼😬👊🏼 Love you guys 👊🏼🇬🇧👊🏼 Stop sleeping on " Alan Partridge & Bottom " 🤭 Asisde from Vic & Bob, this is equal, if not better 🤣🤣🤣 Trust me, I'm UK ... you've just hit the gold-stream of comedy 🤣 You're welcome 😊 🙏 With, Alan ... watch " KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU ", and you'll slowly be introduced to the man 😬👌🏻 Then take on " I'm Alan Partridge " 😬👍🏻 Bottom ... just watch S1 : e1🤭

[@Ozzpot]

Karl's inability to understand at the most basic level what evolution even is; that is to say, it drives design, but without agency, and without specific purpose in mind, is why ideas like creationism flourish. It's so easy to say "God did it" and not have anything more complex than that to get your head around. The amusing thing is, the vacuum in Karl's bald, round, Manc head hasn't even been filled with that. It simply remains a vacuum. He really is "lowkey" fascinating.

[@oldmansakuga]

🤓

[@taz454]

Dude on the left sweating watching a video. Mop that brow my man 😅 👍 no hate ❤️

[@nadir1030]

Awesome Reaction Guys Karl Ricky Gervais Great Duo

[@paulpatterson3514]

If you haven't already, you need to watch Karl Pilkington gets a prostate exam. It's hilarious . .

[@HappyHammer55]

Just found something you would love. Try Peter Kay plays Queen on shovel guitar. Brilliant.

[@jasonbudgeon5327]

Karl speaks truth on a living life basis haha only lives 2 streets away haha

[@duncanwyer2460]

He has a point send rubbish into space and let it burn up on reentry 😂