"Oh, you had Covid-19, did you? Well I had Covid-20!"

21:21 vision

@@endlessmoose2954 Simon's an O.G. He'd've had Covid-1.

But these go up to eleven...

Everyone knows a Simon!

+Oliver Warburton And most of them work in IT!

+Oliver Warburton To true, I used to work with someone like that in IT, funnily enough he also was called Simon. Even the "it's not your computer its (wernum hogs) computer" bit this guy used to say to users.

Greeny Well said. I couldn't agree more.

+Greeny You're absolutely right. A huge part of the original was that it was made to look like a documentary, and it was very convincing. The US remake is way too far-fetched to be believable.

That's why it's so amusing, as it is like an actual documentary.

So true🤣🤣

hahahah

Genuine lol to this 😂

Lmao very well put Sir 🤣

This guy is what I picture the majority of r/atheism posters as

+Magooch86 He goes online and writes "I just happen to have a nine inch penis, I guess that would be considered big. It isn't important though, I don't know why people care so much".

that's because everyone on Reddit is either an it guy or an it student

Magooch86 spot on.

perfect

hes internet nerds personified period, nevermind reddit

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA🤣🤣🤣🤣 I used to know a fella who would go around BULLshitting people and he did wear a Jack Daniels T-shirt! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oh, i love him soooo much. Pity he is not around much!

Ayyy nice Darkspace reference ;D

KZfaq comments sections can be a dreadfully dark place.

@@astrowiz3544 *Dark Place, not space 😛

Most underrated show of all time

True. Also, shows the contrast between Gareth, who has 'achieved' something and the IT guy who is making it up. Gareth, although flawed in many ways, is ultimately an honest guy.

@@kevinbermingham3135 looking into that one a bit deep matev

@@kevinbermingham3135 and then foreigners, women or the disabled take advantage of it

@@SyntaxErr19287 No such thing

I love the breakdowns people write on this comedy, it shows how well the nuances were put across by the cast along with the quality of the acting.

haha I've recently just come back from holiday doing some paddle boarding for the first time and took to it quite well. I told everyone the guy renting out the boards said to me "hoy no professionals!"

Brilliant 🤣🤣🤣

Its Garth

​@austin33785 it's Gareth

The wig The glasses The catchphrase ……. Brilliant

@@NegotiableHemingway haha nice one.

@@NegotiableHemingway You beat me to it 😂

That Bruce lee story about the fight is basically the fight scene between Bruce lee and brad pitt in once upon a time in Hollywood

Hit cancel.

​@JJJ111JJJ good.

That's the one bit that's a bit relatable from an IT guy's point of view. How many times do people not listen?

@@shaunhunterit342 Congrats Shaun, you've outted yourself as a Simon.

@@GeoffreyBronson 😁

Yeah, it's a stereotypical trait, but they do love to hold all the information, revel in the fact that they're the only ones with it, reluctantly dish it out in the smallest chunks possible, and always be right. I once had an IT guy tell me 'RTFM' rather than just give me the answer quickly, but even when I played the game of massaging his ego it took several more e-mails back-and-forth and two days had elapsed before he actually told me what to do. That kind of behaviour is par for the course I reckon, the power mad bull$hitters!

What, gone off Tim now have ya....

shalom1948hellyeah All right calm down mate, there's no need to get offensive, I didn't call you fatty as soon as I saw you.

Maybe you should switch to salads I could've said.........but I didn't.

Yes..guys like the Simon character always seem to have a knack for homing in on weak/sensitive points and exploiting them. If you are going to take the piss out of someone like 'Simon' then you'd better be prepared with robust defences.

metafis ohhhh. Political.

Oi, no professionals.

Matthew Holness actually played IT guy on Bruiser too, worth checking

As an IT guy: yeah

@@spacegerrit9499 former IT in the Civil Service here and this character is dead on 😂

​@@andyb3666Aussie here. Brutally accurate IT guy portrayal.

Never come across a computer guy being obnoxious. Met a bullshitter plenty of times

+ben1349 Can you explain what that means?

+Fernando Hernandez It is suggested throughout the series that Tim has feelings for Dawn (the engaged receptionist whom also appears to have feelings for him). Saying this to Tim in front of his new kinda-girlfriend would be embarrassing to say the least and damaging at the most.

Gareth's face when he says that :D

Tim was trying to win some small symbolic victory, this guy came back and hit him where it hurt

Hiding behind the IT bloke as well, haha.

"Well you should be".

+liverush24 making a Shi# load with computers

+Matt Russell We all knew them in primary school :)

I suspect the sixteen people who've downvoted this are those guys.

I once posted a comment on KZfaq and another commenter said "Oi no professionals"

I would be too. Simon is probably the most accurate depiction of an IT guy I've ever seen. Plus, the burn at the end is great. Lol.

Rightly so. Merchant was the real secret weapon with Gervais' earlier creations. Without Merchant we see Gervais doing utter trash like After Life.

Absolutely agree. Merchant of Venice is a way better writer.

pretty sure it came from bruiser originally…

​@spenser9908 They were the perfect mix. Hello Ladies is good but there's something not quite right. After Life is cringe, but not in the good way we expect. Their collaborations were where the magic happened.

Perfectly on the spectrum

@@keithrobson593 You do realise a "Spectrum" was one of the first home computers. It's most popular model had 48k of memory and used a Z80 processor.

That's Freeman's acting range in a nutshell.

​@@philiphudgens4726 Tim from The Office making his Tim from The Office faces.

Ricky & Steve said they really liked this character but they felt they’d made their point sufficiently

@@doves9204 "I've got a go kart"

@@doves9204 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mb1dldCn3NzYfXk.html

@@doves9204 The "go kart" thing is referencing a Ricky Gervais anecdote, in conversation with Karl Pilkington and Stephen Merchant.

@@95PW "Don't lie."

​@@7th_son886haha proper deep cut

He nailed that role.

Relax it was great but not bafta worthy

Should have been knighted

@@scottxtapes9743 Italien eller Storbritannien? Vem vinner i en brandsläcknings-tävling?

Watch Gareth Marenghis dark place. He's the star

And that is usually where I come in, and get completely pissed off with both of them and start losing my shit and arguing with both of them about all of their stupid crap. And once that box has been opened it stays open until one of us no longer works there. Days, weeks and months of arguing follows, with me feeling like I'm the only sane person left on earth.

+liverush24 You're definitely not sane.

ShellysAshes​ Or able to spell. Now corrected.

+ShellysAshes class

*liverush24 I'm the guy who laughs at you guys.

Hilarious and also incredibly subtle. The writing for this show was something else.

I'm not interested in making a SHIT load out of computers

+YB90Gaming *I'm making (otherwise the line doesn't work).

I turned over in the air, landed, pulled over and said what were you worried about.

Jez eight minutes fifty one, got a certificate (points to certificate )

What were you worried about

As an I.T. guy myself, one should remember that this scene is simply unrealistic and wrong. One would never hit "cancel" upon the installation of a firewall being completed since that would negate the entire process. The installation would necessitate a secondary routine in MSDOS which would simply demand an affirmative response from the user by offering no counter-options but simply the presentation of a message telling the user the DOS routine had reached a successful climax. The writers clearly weren't professionals.

@@TonyEnglandUK it’s a fictional comedy series

@@arashagz5718 I can't believe you actually took that post seriously lol

@@TonyEnglandUK I have failed so badly here.

@@TonyEnglandUK Oi no professionals.

SAME

LMAO Same, I never noticed that before XD

You must be deaf if that took 50 goes

Correct..... at last

Oh, that's what he said. I totally couldn't work out what it was, and was going to post here asking!

What did he say at the end? I didn't quite get it

@Chris Kavanagh thanks but I still didn't get what it means. Sorry 😅

@Chris Kavanagh ah yes! Dawn. Now I get it. Thanks so much for explaining!!

It's also awkward because Tim doesn't like to admit that he was interested in Dawn because she goes out with one of the warehouse workers who could easily beat Tim's ass, and because it makes him look weak, pining after somebody else's girl.

hmm

haha

😂😂

Yeah amusing how he knew they were worried while he was driving (and couldn't see them) but also questioned why they were worried!

“What we’re you worried about?” gets used at least once a day at my place of work amongst the group of us that watched the office.

oh he's done Tim again!!!

Ooh Low Blow! How did "He" know that Tim liked Dawn. Another one was Lee who in his own way wanted to say to Tim "Hands Off Of My Woman!"

@@laminage how did he know ? Cus Tim flirts with Dawn all the time, the others would gossip about it and he may have watched series 1 where Tim asked Dawn out on tv.

***** k

shalom1948hellyeah did you ever comprehend sentence structure?

my anal hole just loosend up.

Just fuck me already. why bother with 4play.

He's a dreamweaver and visionary - plus actor.

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is sublime. A Gun for George is worth a watch too.

I loved him in blockbusters...

Fin Doktor which D was a Russian dissident..

Dostoyevsky

Well, that's kind of ingrained in him. He can't help it. He is like that in real life too. He was made for the office. The office

Yup, brilliant! Yet also at the same time being pretty threatened by him.

Quite topical these days, what with false news etc...its amazing how many people believe something "cos they once read it somewhere".

I did this in high school in conversation and waited to see how long it took people to call me out, ask me what book, or catch on that i was pulling their leg

I wonder if this was inspired by Karl Pilkington saying he believes in the Biblical Flood because "it's out there in book form"

They definitely picked that up from Karl

"gone off dawn now, have you"

"Did you hear what i said?" "What did i say?"

All right calm down mate, there's no need to get offensive, I didn't call you fatty as soon as I saw you.

Maybe you should switch to salads "What's your real name?" "Nathan..." "That's a good name!" "Is it?" "Yeah..."

At last...

What, down at Superquotes?

Can I be in your family?

Jossy M they ommited how they all look alike

There's a couple things from the xfm shows that ended up in extras or the office

@@jorson4960 to be fair that was Karl....and Ricky tried to swiftly shut him up ha

How did he get slaughtered? He has 2 girls into him.

The geek deserves it though. He's a prick to Tim. And Gareth.

​@@hehwhwh727because it made Rachel realise that she was just second best

​​@@hehwhwh727 Tim's reaction showed he was put down. He could only come back with "shut up". Tim was the "player" in a very small pond of nerds and freaks and that comment made him feel it and Rachel realize it.

He got savaged!

A very good point.

Just glad the Americans never got to trying to remake this scene

@@shaunhunterit342 I'm just glad that there wasn't some sort of mediocre American version of the Office.

@@Myndir Yes, I'm also grateful that there aren't countless people praising that show and even claiming it's as good as or better than the original. That would really suck.

@@shaunhunterit342 Lot of nutters out there innit.

Funny because since you commented Barrichello has slipped down to 4th place all-time in number of race starts.

pickledegg1989 nice catch, 10/10

Yep, they're all pretty condescending. They assume everyone knows about IT. And if you say something wrong, they'll give you a dirty stare.

We had a double sided VCR in the 80s called a Phillips 2000. Sounds a bit like Harry Potters broomstick (Nimbus 2000). It was exceptionally good however as soon as my Dad had bought it the local Video store shut down and all you could get was Betamax. We were a little bit gutted to say the least. At the time it was a big deal to have a VCR and all we could do with it was record Coronation Street !

They did exist. We also had the Phillips 2000. VCR ultimately won the market share meaning double sided recorders weren’t then widely adopted.

The fact that he didn't get more screen time makes it more memorable. That's the genius of the office

The problem with Tim is he's _soooo_ TOUCHY!

Plot twist - *You* were that kid

needles1987 grown up?! :P

needles1987 Oh, my God. That is true.

And Gareth is like Neil.

I thought you were talking about Martin Freeman because of the hair, then “no professionals” came up lmao.

On heroin

I don’t thank god. I couldn’t handle wankers like him. My late dad would say “he has tickets on himself”.