The Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington
Karl Pilkington
Language: English
Pages: 384
ISBN: 1782111549
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Karl Pilkington is back on the road, and this time he's on a journey of self-discovery, in The Moaning of Life, the follow-up to An Idiot Abroad
Karl Pilkington is 40 years old. He's not married, he doesn't have kids, and he has a job where he's known as an "idiot." It's time for him to take stock and face up to life's big question—what does it all
mean? Karl is no stranger to travel, and now he's off on a series of madcap adventures around the globe to find out how other cultures approach life's big issues. Traveling from far-flung tribes to high-tech cities, Karl experiences everything from a drive-through wedding in Las Vegas to a vocational theme park in Japan. He meets a group of people in Mexico who find happiness through pain, attends a clowning school in Los Angeles, and even encounters a woman in Bali who lets him help deliver her baby. Have his experiences changed him? Find out in this hilarious new book where Karl shares his stories and opinions in his inimitable style.
job to pay my way and not be a burden on someone else. Work wasn’t something that I thought you were meant to enjoy. It was a way to make money, which you could then use to enjoy your life when you weren’t working. I left school with no qualifications worth speaking of, and the only work experience I’d had was playing a shepherd in the Christmas nativity play, which wasn’t something I wanted to take any further. My teachers asked me what I was planning on doing when I left, but I’ve never been
can’t I just go in? DR NAKAMATS: You cannot. Even my family cannot. I’m only one. KARL: But I don’t want to use it. I just mean to sit in there and . . . DR NAKAMATS: No. KARL: Definitely not? DR NAKAMATS: This here is very clean. Nobody. KARL: No, I’m not going to do anything! DR NAKAMATS: No, no, no. Stay outside. KARL: I can’t believe you won’t let me in. So even your wife has not been in? DR NAKAMATS: No, of course. KARL: So who cleans it? DR NAKAMATS: Automatic cleaning. That’s my
said. ‘No, it’s not. People do it every year with Jesus’s birthday.’ The good thing with her asking meant that at least there wasn’t going to be a surprise party for me. If there is one thing that I don’t like it’s a surprise, and she knows it. If you want to know another thing I don’t like, it’s fuss. I can’t be doing with people making a fuss of me. The first time it happened was when I started work. I was on a training scheme at a printing company and the boss bought a cake and called me to
breaking things. I think it’s because I saw it as an unnecessary waste, and that annoys me. I really don’t like waste. Just two days ago I ate six fish fingers as they were all frozen together and couldn’t be separated. I cooked them and ate them all rather than throwing them away. Then there’s the amount of junk mail that comes through my front door. It’s unbelievable, and the waste of paper makes me angry. Three or four times a day leaflets are being shoved through my door. I’m convinced it’s a
later he found Shivani. GOPAL: Shivani. KARL: Shivani. GOPAL: She can marry with British guys. She can go abroad, there is no problem. Everything will suit you, and her parents will permit for you to settle over there . . . Should I show you that profile? KARL: Yeah, let’s have a look. (reading from screen) Hmm . . . non-vegetarian, that’s alright. She’s never married. GOPAL: Born . . . ’78. Her weight is around 47/48 . . . KARL: How big is that? GOPAL: She’s slim. KARL: Yeah, er . . .