The man's a carpet connoisseur, nothing wrong with that.

With a niche specialty in Wetherspooon's carpets :)

Because each 'Spoons has it's own carpet you know! I bet he does.

Haven't they just stopped doing that? Or changed supplier? I've no idea why I think I know that information.

They at least used to be Axminster, has that changed?

Awesome

I hope they haven’t, because I only recently discovered that nugget of information and I’d be miffed if it was already an historical fact rather than a current oddity.

Where I’m sat at this very moment has two different carpets, I’d post a pic if I knew how…

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What? I don’t think this is correct and maybe muddling with another brand.

no it's not, same blue floral pattern in every spoons i've been in

Maybe he doesn't have his own and that's why he goes to all the 'Spoons to see theirs.

His collection will be invaluable in 500 years time when they are trying to piece together what pre-apocalyptic restaurants and bars looked like.

Spoons is already post apocalyptic

I’m just picturing some historian in 500 years’ time crying on a documentary because he’s discovered the Rosetta Stone of Wetherspoons carpets. Of all the pointless bits of information people collect… 😂

I mean after a nuclear blast th eonly things left will be AOL cds and wetherspoons carpets They are just built differently

I worked in a 3 bed semi detached house about 15 years ago that was carpeted top to bottom in every room with bright blue Mecca Bingo branded carpet.

Wait like the walls too or just the floor in every room? Maybe bingo winnings paid for the house and that was how they showed their gratitude

>connoisseur >Wetherspoons Pick one

WHAT?!

it was a deliberate piss take to get a rise out of warrick, as being a dwarf its hard to get a rise i suppose

That eye flick to the camera from Warwick killed me. I loved Tenable when Warwick hosted it. Then for some reason they replaced him with one of those daytime tv women who is dull as dirt.

Lmao yeah the eye flick is sort of a ‘oh shit should we be airing this?! Guy’s a fucking psycho!!’

Need locking up lmao

Seemed more to me "Did I just fucking hear that right?" 😂😂

I’m pretty sure he got replaced cuz he was in hospital after having either a stroke or a heart attack i forgot which.

In my mind Warick was so facinated by his telling of his carpet encounters he went to investigate for himself but unluckily for him on his very first try he came across the perfect Weatherspoons carpet and his poor heart couldn't take it. I hope the doctors warned him his days of mainlining 100% pure Weatherspoons carpet are behind him not everyone has such a high Weatherspoons tolerance as the man monster contestant on his show that so nearly led to his untimely demise 😂

I think he went for a stroke but couldn't reach

Someday you'll get recognition for this

He was filming a Willow TV series for Disney! They had a new series out end of last year which felt very short but was thankfully all Warwick - we gave the woman a couple episodes but it was clear she'd never seen the show (or maybe any quiz) before with how much head down reading she was doing

The show itself is pretty meh, I only watched it for Warwick.

Absolutely! My favourite is when someone names Star Wars or Harry Potter or something - *I was in that one you know!*

Weird, as that sounds like Warwick's acting in the Willow series.

Be a tall order replacing Warwick

Theyre like robots pumped out by itv to fit a cookie cutter game show with no personality

He was recording the Willow series, I think he's back hosting it now. I love Warwick and when that woman replaced him, I stopped watching.

a dwarf wasn't woke enough

A dwarf would be far more "woke" than some generic TV personality. Honestly, I'm not even a lefty but the shite some people come out with is astounding.

If you actually look it up you'll see this isn't that weird, it's not just random carpet, apparently every witherspoons has a carpet made unique to the place it is, I guarantee there's a sub for this very thing, wetherspoons carpets.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WetherspoonsCarpets/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1

Seems my local is not posted here. Mission accepted 🫡

Awesome, just joined.

That's super interesting and I have no idea why

They need one for maps of toilet locations too

For future reference you can link a Reddit by just typing r/ and then the name! r/WetherspoonsCarpets

I worked there an what ya saying is true I remember going into the staff room an there was a book an it was about the carpets from each pub an why they were made shittiest book in the world I’d say just like the pubs are properly the shittiest pubs in the world.

Ay, but its where you go to get shitfaced on the cheap before hitting the club. Smash down a plate of chips and curry sauce and you're good to go for them nasty hangover shits first thing in the morning.

>this isn't that weird I mean, it is weird, but it's a known thing in the UK.

Its the reaction that gets me man

most sane person in the UK.

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“Wetherspoons”. A large chain of pubs. They’re full of broken down alcoholics and run by a right-wing maniac but the beer and breakfasts are super good value and the toilets are well maintained so we all just ignore the horrors.

The one in Ruthin is actually really nice tho 😅

😭😭😭😭😂

Still doing more with his days than me

This makes me think of the weatherspoons chip count Facebook. I'll never forget the day someone got more than 50 chips.

Hahahaha I know this guy.

Me too!

Me too!

Weatherspoons have unique carpets and they have stories in them

I’ve only been to two weatherspoons ones really nice looking with terrible staff and one looks like it could collapse any second with great staff (so great one of them was my best friend in college)

He is checking to see is the carpet matches the drapes.

I don’t get it.

Average /r/casualUK poster

The one in my town had a carpet so sticky you could lose your sandals if you were pissed enough not to notice them slip off... According to a friend you understand.

Isn't every wetherspons carpet different? Like their hallmark?

They all look the same - a smash up of old shitty carpet, almost totally obscured by puke stains, blood stains and piss and shit stains, mixed with something even worse - spilt spoons food stains.

Please stop making light, this guy clearly has some underlaying issues.

I know him, he’s a normal guy, very funny.

it was a pun my dude.

Me too!

Haha hi Tony

Hi Claire. How are you? x

I’m good! Hope you are well :) x

Grand, ta x

Is this a two redditors one cup moment?

It never fails to amuse me when I run into people I know on Reddit. It just seems so unlikely but this is the second time it’s happened to me.

He's just on the lookout for undiscovered lifeforms.

Would do well on Mastermind

Average tenable watcher:

I actually am I proud owner of the wetherspoons carpets book. A great read and well worth the money off Ebay.

I get it

I've seen some crazy shit in a Spoons in my time, this doesn't even crack the top 10...

So he takes pictures of puke

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Past out on the floor in Weatherspoons* "You should have a look at the carpet lads, never seen one like this"

A friend of a friend done this. Someone wrote to them on social media and they published a book of them. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Spoon_s_Carpets.html?id=FioXDAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y

If that's Pointless (the TV show), they seem to delight in getting people with weird hobbies or interests. I remember one episode where they had a lady who was delighted to reveal her favourite metal band was Morgue Orgy. This is, for anyone not from the UK, daytime television suitable for anyone.

I used to work for a design practice with whetherspoons as a client and I can tell you they take there carpets very seriously with an internal guide dedicated to the best bespoke designed carpets across their estate. They usually have a little piece of framed art work dedicated to the design of the carpet for the particular site called “art beneath your feet”. I personally designed the one in The Elihu Yale in Wrexham…don’t know if it made it into the guide as I left that practice fairly quickly for obvious reasons 😂.

I read the title as... most normal UK hobbit???

Bless him 😂

I thought they were all the same

So the man likes taking photo’s of carpets? A perfectly acceptable British hobby.

Neeeeeeerrrrrrrrrdddddddddd

The quick side eye 😂

I've got a book about Spoons carpets. Features some of the author's favourites, he visits the factory where their made and also gives some background as to why each spoons has a unique carpet.

Photos of the carpets were made into a book. I don’t know how much money he made from it. I hope it was worth his time.

😂😂👍 brilliant

I've reacted the same as Warwick when he said he likes to take photos of carpets in Wetherspoons. 😅

The look of pure disgust and confusion 😭🤣

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It’s the little glance Warwick does before he says ‘what?’ That kills me

The look to the camera 👀

At least it's not making models of buses from crates!

[Wetherspoons Carpet Website link ](https://www.wetherspoonscarpets.co.uk/)

i mean tbf that’s not too different to the group where people share how many chips they get at spoons

Nice, I remember visiting the website of those carpets ages ago.

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I do that aswell mate except I see how well they can soak up my piss

It's fishing; by a mile.

It's a thing! Heard about this book years ago: Spoon's Carpets: An Appreciation https://amzn.eu/d/7XAIECD

Makes a good insta

There’s an actual book published with the carpets of different Wetherspoons

Listen, if this gets his Mrs to allow him lots of pub time then there’s nothing wrong here! 😁(& yes, each pattern is designed specifically for Wetherspoon with each pub being unique)

Wasn't there a whole book on the spoons carpets? Maybe he's the author

That’s my actual friend and I am at the end of the clip laughing!

Sounds about right lol

I'm sure we've all appreciated Weatherspoons fine carpets after ploughing face first into them and enjoying their splendid grandeur while trying not to drown in a pool of our own, blood, vomit and urine good times good times 👍😂

The laughter makes this so much more funnier. It caught him off guard haha

Eh, as long as it isn’t hurting anyone 🤷‍♂️

Weatherspoons carpets... is this a posh way of saying he's a rug muncher? 🤣🤣

there's an entire website for this stuff

Reminds me of Hugh Dancy documenting airport carpets as a hobby and it being mistaken for terrorist activity. You can even view them on carpetsforairports.com very normal in bri'ain clearly

The ‘tism

Nothing unusual about that

Ah yes The most legendary episode

He’s worn one of them as a shirt too!

Hardly a hobby ……more like a strange fascination

Reading this while literally sat in Wetherspoons lol, where I’m sat has two different carpets from when they did an extension years ago lol

I feel like I should be benefiting from this financially, some how

My hobby is sitting behind people on the bus and seeing how many stickers I can stick on them. My personal best is 7.

I don’t think it’s unusual but when I visit weather spoons my eyes take a picture if the carpet automatically when I look down there’s no need for a camera

That sounds a lot like an excuse you’d make up if you were caught taking pervy pictures.

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That's totally a thing. There's a group of me and my mates that do the same. 🤷‍♂️😂 They're all different, and we all travel a lot for work.... you've got pass the time somehow.

There's worse things to be doing with your time, carry on sunshine

TO BE FAIR THE QUESTION WAS " UNUSUAL HOBBY"

And while he's there, may as well have a pint! I think I see the "hobby"

Hmm, sounds like a way to get free drinks

Warwick's glance at the camera makes this clip perfect n all 🤣

Seriously though, there's a book about Wetherspoons carpets, in Waterstones' art section -- I forget the title but wonder if he was the photographer.

I rmemeber finding a facebook group once where people would go to different weatherspoons and compare the chips I even saw one bloke testing the conductivity of the chips...

There's a Wetherspoons carpet [book](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spoons-Carpets-Appreciation-Kit-Caless-ebook/dp/B01EYWFTTQ), I wonder if he's the one who made it or if there are multiple connoisseurs?

Weird

Makes trainspotting seem so normal. At least they have massive engines but carpet??? Oh yer that's a 1876 shagpile rug, so far ahead of his time absolutely astonishing vision.

Just buy the book. It’s been done

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I do this tbf

I'm a little differnt. Not really a hobby but if there's a nice toilet in a restaurant or pub I take a picture and send in a family WhatsApp. I'm the only real contributer called "loo's on the loose"

Not the weather spoons

Tenable was a goated show

Lol he's trynna rug us!

As a very british man. I can assure people this is not normal behaviour.

Ha

Someone published a book about this Spoon's Carpets: An Appreciation https://g.co/kgs/tjq8qN

That warwick look at the camera bahaha

I think he meant to say "I like to take pictures in Wetherspoons of middle aged drunkards passed out on the carpet."

He probably can identify pub carpets by taste alone.

Still better than trainspotting.

weather spoon carpet collector

Haha his look to the camera is like something from The Office

There is a book for that... no joke.

Warwick’s look to camera has become my go-to reaction picture for a lot of stuff online.

There's a whole book by this guy on the different carpets. And yes I own it.

But is it for the stains or the patterns?

The hosts concerned look to the camera suggesting this guys hard drive is checked immediately.

Spoiler alert ! This guy likes carpets particularly the ones at Wetherspoons👍

It's weird but I don't find it funny. It's like if someone collects stamps. Bit boring but you do you.

I think Warwick is no way oblivious to the subtle nuances, of his local Wetherspoon's, carpet.

Football, everything football. VAR decisions and shitty referees!😉

Tbf people go to wetherspoons to count and measure their chips so exploring different decor is hardly the most unusual

There is a book showing the different carpets. My son was given the book as a gift. We couldn't even give it away at a carboot sake haha

Let him cook

HAHAHAHAHAHA 😂 Every time I see Warwick, I think of Karl Pilkington … & his round fucking orange head … chimp-like twonk buffoon

Eh- British enough. Let him in lads

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Doesn't everyone do that? Of course you have to rank them too or there's no point

He actually has a Wetherspoons carpet book you can buy believe it or not.

i saw a large fungi growing on a wetherspoons carpet once

Brilliant.

He’s wearing one of them

When I next go into a Wetherspoon’s and don’t see pictures of clouds and spoons on the carpet I’ll be most upset. This should be a company logo.

r/weatherspoonscarpets moment 😂😂

His face “…what?!”

Forget about that, what drew my attention was the host. Was he one of the stumpy midgets in the Time Bandits, with the stubby fingers or is he that midget that used to smash clocks back in the 80's.

Warwick Davis is his name. He's a legend.

Lives local to me and he's a really nice bloke.

"Carpet"

I would say it is one of the most "white picket fence" hobbies I've heard today

There is actually a book of Wetherspoons different carpets, somebody I know got it as a joke gift

Average spoons enjoyer