He's gonna make a great old man with that beard and that look on his face. One day, in a nursing home, all he'll do is make that movement with his lips while having that look in his eyes and everyone will feel judged. He might give a smile to the most professional of the nurses once in a while, but he'll judge the hell out of every other occupant of that nursing home while ranting at them silently with that look on his face. They'll say it's because of his stroke, but that wasn't a stroke. That was just the day he finally had enough.
I'm not against WhatsApp in general, but it's the groups that I find intolerable for all the reasons that David has outlined so passionately & correctly here.
Indeed. Everyone feels like they need to react to everything, even though they have nothing to add to the conversation. Some people don’t seem to have a life.
That's the thing with WILTY. David, Rob and Lee have known each other for years and are friends, and have toured together. How can they find things to claim on this show that they wouldn't already know about each other?
@@karlbassett8485 there’s the card about David having a man-bun during the lockdown and at the end Lee says “it’s also a lie because he never once had that hairstyle when I Zoomed him”
Priorities on this show: 1. Be funny and entertaining. 2. If you're lying, act like you're telling the truth, and vice versa, but not too blatantly or it'll be obvious that's what you're doing (this can get a bit recursive but only within reason), 3. Be funny and entertaining.
David is absolutely right here. You can leave the phone for a couple of minutes and there are already 100+ messages that are almost always completely pointless. There _may_ be one important detail that you need to know, however, forcing you to go through a barrage of memes and inane comments. I don't use WhatsApp either. I hate it.
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@@HashimAziz1 Or he knows how to communicate perfectly fine, just not through WhatsApp. It might be shocking to you but there are other ways to communicate, including conversations in person.
@@HashimAziz1I strongly prefer textual communication over verbal. Any yet I have found that any form of group message will still always be awful. It is important for me to know that we are meeting in a different pub, or that we are not putting out Stock B until the last of Stock A has sold out. I don't need to know how your husband is recovering from his accident and I don't need to see pictures of your cat, however cute. And that is setting a high bar in comparison to what I have had to wade through before.
@@jaylamont2870 I’m not setting up a WhatsApp group just for one event. I have WhatsApp groups for different friend groups and we organise in there if we’re going to do something.
The trouble is a mismatch between expectations of people about what these groups are for and different taste/feelings about what is worth reading & posting. Some people genuinely care about others news and probably expect that others will care when they post their news about their cat / family. People have different senses of humour too. Some groups have a genuine flow between chit chat and heart to heart conversation, information, commentary & humour - similar to what you'd get in holiday of friends sharing accommodation. In too many other groups eg. Someone is there to hear necessary information but finds themselves trapped in traffic of memes, or they are there for friendship and find themselves only hearing advice & 'tips'. Also people need to up the quality of their messages and decrease the length & volume when it is going to higher numbers of people.
@@HashimAziz1 When I was in uni my "friends" were vapid and irreverent. They had these utterly insubstantial meme chats (often involving my face edited into other pictures); I told them, directly, repeatedly, that I was not interested in that style of "communication", but as quickly as I left the groups they made new ones and added me back in. So no, if they don't get it, it's not necessarily a communication problem.
@@cov9290 Free platforms like Facebook, Whatsapp etc gather data that is then bought by marketing companies. Thus, you're the product for the marketing companies. TikTok is the Chinese equivalent of this.
To me, this was blatantly true from the beginning. I can see David preferring to die with dignity over _WhatsApping_ a hotel's reception... Preposterous stuff.
I would never. I also will not scan a QR code to get a menu at a restaurant...they are not entitled to my information just so I can eat a burger. Ridiculous!
If Zuckerberg wants to pay my phone bill, my data must be more valuable than I ever realised.. Deleting WhatsApp was the quickest way to rid myself of stupid people. 😊
@@nahadoth2087 Yeah, it's a weird comment to make. I'm not a fan of WhatsApp either, but it's the only end-to-end encryption service you can easily convince people to use. It may still track some user data, so services like Signal are a far better option, but it's better than people defaulting to something like Facebook Messenger.
@@fkklkomvocl1234gv It's owned by China. They are well documented to use it in their surveillance efforts of US citizens. The state government of Texas even passed a law prohibiting any use of TikTok in or on official grounds.
1:03 That really is the gesture of our time, isn't it, looking at your phone for a moment to check what that message is about, instantly realising it's irrelevant and putting the phone away again.
At 1:55 David suddenly realised that his hatred for WhatsApp was teetering on the slender line between "hilarious rant on panel show" and "actual murderous rampage" and thought he'd better stop or they'd come back after the ad break with him pounding the bloody ruin of Lee Mack's face into a studio wall screaming "WHATSAAAAPPPP!!!!" while the terrified audience screamed and ran for the exits.
We need to build a new society based on the rantings of David Mitchell. Everyone just stays home and reads, goes out briefly to buy food, nod at others as you pass by, and go home.
This is fascinating: I've seen clips of the show from a decade ago, and to see the spunky, young fiery ranter David Mitchell transform into a quietly cranky old man over the years is a treat!
They are the perfect combination for WILTY. Obviously, it's not real life, it's a TV show, and parts of it are probably scripted/rehearsed/edited, and all that. That's just TV. And I'm sure that what we see onscreen are exaggerated comic personas of who DM and LM actually are. But I think in the case of WILTY, a lot of their actual personalities do come through, and it's always very funny to watch. Great show.
@@stnarud actually if you want to be so specific, he's talking about the noise that comes from whatsapp when a message is received but nobody really cares because its all a joke. Lighten up.
Thank you, David Mitchell! You have addressed 2 of my biggest aggravations in life, no make that 3, : people's obsession with social media, how we are being forced to accept new technology (and are punished if we don't), and spell check.
I still don't understand why I have to type a whole paragraph with my friggin' thumbs, instead of just calling someone with the phone. WE've gone backwards, we're back to using telegrams instead of speaking to each other.
"it's horrible!" said David 😌👌 Oh I am SO with David on this one. Every time someone adds me to a group without my consent (which I do reject every time nonetheless), I either leave on the spot or mute and wait for a few days before leaving. I am the only one in the family that is not in the "family group"!
Yup me too. They add me on my birthday, every year, and I leave the group immediately after I thank em all for all the nice messages.... Which they could have just sent directly to me. Why does everyone need to see how nice you're being to me????
I hate it when my brother adds me to a group for each celebration (e.g. birthday & Christmas) just to ask what presents... never speaks to me other than that, has no interest in my daughter, but continuously adds us to stupid pointless WhatsApp groups that we leave as soon as we've written our response. I think groups are just a way to be lazy for some people because they can't be arsed to copy & paste a message to someone else.
I have a friend who's got social anxiety but is still using WhatsApp very actively as an effective way of communication. Her anxiety makes her not want to bother anyone who doesn't want to be bothered, so she's created 5 different groups with different constellations of the same 6 or 7 people and uses a different group depending on who she doesn't want to bother with a group text. It's so confusing to keep track of those groups, I'd much rather get the occasional message that's not meant for me.
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I had that situation with a couple of hotels, where you had to WhatsApp them so they'd send you a code or something to let you in and give you the keys... I noped out and went somewhere else.
Had my first smartphone 10 years ago and never, ever allowed a phone to give me auditory notifications, I highly recommend it. The constant interruptions utterly destroy your ability to focus. We got plenty of good documentaries and books confirming this by now.
I get what he means. I thinks it’s great for one on one conversations but if you are in a group where most of the conversation doesn’t need your attention, having it go off every ten secs is going to get annoying. Yes you can mute it but you know you are going to need to check it eventually just to make sure you’re not missing anything important and so it’s always in the back of your mind. 0:45 is spot on what the problem is, constantly getting our attention for nothing.
the benefits of having a full understanding of customising notifications is a life saver. i only have 3 group chats with people who have push notifications that actually come upon my phone, the rest are filtered
My whole street got connected in a group when Covid started but it's now and endless stream of someone saying something and then 15 mesages of people saying the same thing. Only interesting thing we have had is when a neighbour warned us of a bad tradesman.
Yes, I agree with David, that's why I haven't allowed WhatsApp to send me notifications. I check it once every couple of hours or so and that's it. If someone wanted to contact me urgently, they can just call. But WhatsApp is super useful if you have family that's not living in the same country as you. You don't have to pay money for international calls and it doesn't matter whether they are using Android or iOS.
You could use different apps that do the same but do not consider your phonebook and all the pictures ect. you send their data and have fewer security leaks. (I know of companies for whom installig whatsapp on a company phone is considered a valid reason to lay you off.)
Right, the issue is about receiving pointless notifications all the time and I totally agree it sucks, but you can fix it very easily. You can even individually mute notifications on the chats you don't want to be notified about and still receive notifications from others. Even outside of Whatsapp I think people should be way more strict about what they allow their devices to notify them about.
What David's saying is exactly the reason I avoided Whatsapp for years! It's incredibly annoying being in a group chat with your phone pinging away like a broken microwave. I've since discovered you can actually just talk to one person on Whatsapp, and that's much more serene.
I’m 31 and I completely relate. I deleted all social media the moment I left school and never looked back. I have no idea what the difference between any of these platforms are.
@littleman787 yes, and it's handy for talking to my friends in other countries for free. On the other hand, I have seen adults form little clique-y exclusive off shoots of larger groups, like in high school, just to Billy others
@@littleman787 - So you think a proprietary application and network designed to make people communicate in groups and stay permanently engaged with the platform "is not social media"...? 😆
2:18 to 2:27 - I genuinely cracked up at the stunned expression on Josie’s face during this exchange. She genuinely looked like a child learning for the first time how chicken nuggets are made.
OMG David Mitchell has nailed this perfectly. I am a member of one group that I just can't leave - they are my oldest and dearest friends but the nonsense messaging starts at around 5am, bing, bing, bing, bing....so after being woken several times I angrily put the phone on 'do not disturb' but invariably forget to turn it off, thus missing calls and messages during the day that actually matter. Now I am sure there is some fancy way that youngsters can circumnavigate this problem but I couldn't be arsed. David does it again!!
Why not mute the group and just check in when you feel like? Or better yet, read the WhatsApp terms of service. You'll delete the app so fast, and wonder why anyone is crazy enough to voluntarily put that kind of security vulnerability on their phone. 😅
I am totally with David (I have never used WhatsApp), but somebody should tell him or Victoria that you can set notifications to silent, or switch them off altogether.
That only solves some of the issues for that particular user and doesn't address many of the other problems with the app (or the usage of phones in general)
I was looking at booking a hotel recently and when I read in people's comments that you have to 'Whats App' reception, it put me off booking there (among other bad reviews).
This particular card and the interplay between the panelists that result from it seemed to turn the game show into a discussion panel. I find that rather interesting. "Game Show? What Game Show?"
I was finally bullied into downloading whatsapp today for a school thing and this was on my mind the whole time. i can't believe it's come down to this
I was in a similar situation, got it after refusing to for 5 years a couple of months after I turned 16 - I jumped before I was pushed. Luckily not having had for that length of time means that I haven't been pulled into any large and pointless chats.
I will never, as an American, understand how seemingly the entire world has completely bought in to whatsapp, and we haven't. I thought Americans were supposed to be the worst about protecting our own privacy from malicious Silicon Valley companies; and then I found out all of Europe primarily uses a Facebook app to communicate!? How did you let this happen! You were the chosen one!
"If it's free, you're not the customer, you're the product.". This is 100% True, if anyone is wondering. Also, your Ring Doorbell gives free access to its camera and microphone to law enforcement without a warrant. You agreed to it by agreeing to the End User License Agreement.
That’s the truest thing he’s ever said on this show and the least he’s cared about pretending otherwise
He just wants to get his message out to the world. Which is a little ironic considering the subject!
@@nnmartin94 its global issue
His five point pen policy rant would like a word with you 😅
@SideshowCris
Yes, but could he care less?!
The subject was about him hating small talk and annoyances, projecting a point about silly talk is different
That moment (1:56) when his eyes narrow as he visibly holds back a few choice words- so wonderfully David Mitchell.
He has to stop himself twice
you can see the words physically trying to escape his lips 😭
Best bit 🤬
He's gonna make a great old man with that beard and that look on his face. One day, in a nursing home, all he'll do is make that movement with his lips while having that look in his eyes and everyone will feel judged. He might give a smile to the most professional of the nurses once in a while, but he'll judge the hell out of every other occupant of that nursing home while ranting at them silently with that look on his face. They'll say it's because of his stroke, but that wasn't a stroke. That was just the day he finally had enough.
@@NamelessBody I was about to say, he's really blossoming into the grumpy old man that he always was.
From the moment David finished reading the card you already knew it was true.
I knew it was true before he started.
Same here. I could feel the disdain in his voice as he read the card.
I you've seen David on this show before, you knew it was true about 1/3 into him reading it.
Absolutely!!!How can it not be??😂😂
Even if they made it up it was true.
As someone who has watched a compilation of David being angry probably 100+ times, I couldn't have known it was true faster
This sounded closer to the old David. The unmarried David.
Victoria mellowed him right out.
Yeah, this has the same energy as his classic "angry logic" rants.
“You know what? After listening to David I don’t want to speak to anyone ever again” 😂
We heard
Yall really don't get it?
@@Cristobal_2012 people quote their most favorite part so they can highlight it and see how many people liked that part as well you genius
David is speaking absolute facts, and everyone looking at him like he's crazy.
I'm not against WhatsApp in general, but it's the groups that I find intolerable for all the reasons that David has outlined so passionately & correctly here.
it's like any app, it can be useful but people just abuse it
Indeed. Everyone feels like they need to react to everything, even though they have nothing to add to the conversation. Some people don’t seem to have a life.
problem is people try to force you into these groups, be it friends family or god forsaken work. the last 1 being the hardest to try to get out of.
I just turned of all group notifications. That is also a solution
He talked about the noises. You can silence your phone or mute the groups for 8 hours or a week. Control the tech don't let the tech control you
Lee has 100% heard this rant in private before.
That's the thing with WILTY. David, Rob and Lee have known each other for years and are friends, and have toured together. How can they find things to claim on this show that they wouldn't already know about each other?
@@karlbassett8485 Like most things British, it isn't about winning, it's about being as sarcastic as possible, while having a good old moan.
@@karlbassett8485I think they do know some of the things before hand to en extent tbf. But just play along with it for entertainment purposes lol
@@karlbassett8485 there’s the card about David having a man-bun during the lockdown and at the end Lee says “it’s also a lie because he never once had that hairstyle when I Zoomed him”
david some times forgets he's supposed to be lying
No , he is suppose to be entertaining. And he is
If it's the truth doesn't he have to tell the truth? Just attempt to tell it in an unconvincing way?
Priorities on this show: 1. Be funny and entertaining. 2. If you're lying, act like you're telling the truth, and vice versa, but not too blatantly or it'll be obvious that's what you're doing (this can get a bit recursive but only within reason), 3. Be funny and entertaining.
You know, sometimes, when you make a lot of television, you … uhh …. eh.
I’m not wearing any trousers.
I noticed one time he forgot the lie and had to look at the card.
Hi face at 1:58 (after saying: " you can't ring down to reception, YOU HAVE GOT TO WHATSAPP THEM!), it's priceless
How about just actually WALKING down.
"If it's free then you're not the customer, you're the product"
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@@karlbassett8485 not all parks actually
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David is absolutely right here. You can leave the phone for a couple of minutes and there are already 100+ messages that are almost always completely pointless. There _may_ be one important detail that you need to know, however, forcing you to go through a barrage of memes and inane comments.
I don't use WhatsApp either. I hate it.
@@HashimAziz1 Or he knows how to communicate perfectly fine, just not through WhatsApp. It might be shocking to you but there are other ways to communicate, including conversations in person.
@@HashimAziz1I strongly prefer textual communication over verbal. Any yet I have found that any form of group message will still always be awful.
It is important for me to know that we are meeting in a different pub, or that we are not putting out Stock B until the last of Stock A has sold out.
I don't need to know how your husband is recovering from his accident and I don't need to see pictures of your cat, however cute. And that is setting a high bar in comparison to what I have had to wade through before.
@@jaylamont2870 I’m not setting up a WhatsApp group just for one event. I have WhatsApp groups for different friend groups and we organise in there if we’re going to do something.
The trouble is a mismatch between expectations of people about what these groups are for and different taste/feelings about what is worth reading & posting.
Some people genuinely care about others news and probably expect that others will care when they post their news about their cat / family.
People have different senses of humour too.
Some groups have a genuine flow between chit chat and heart to heart conversation, information, commentary & humour - similar to what you'd get in holiday of friends sharing accommodation.
In too many other groups eg. Someone is there to hear necessary information but finds themselves trapped in traffic of memes, or they are there for friendship and find themselves only hearing advice & 'tips'.
Also people need to up the quality of their messages and decrease the length & volume when it is going to higher numbers of people.
@@HashimAziz1 When I was in uni my "friends" were vapid and irreverent. They had these utterly insubstantial meme chats (often involving my face edited into other pictures); I told them, directly, repeatedly, that I was not interested in that style of "communication", but as quickly as I left the groups they made new ones and added me back in.
So no, if they don't get it, it's not necessarily a communication problem.
There's the David I love. Haven't seen a good angry rant from him in a while.
"If it is free, you are not the customer you are the product". Damn that's good, I have to remember that one
Watch The Social Dilemma. One of the main guys in it popularised that phrase I think.
It’s also completely true.
That's Facebook in a nutshell
I didn’t really understand that
@@cov9290 Free platforms like Facebook, Whatsapp etc gather data that is then bought by marketing companies. Thus, you're the product for the marketing companies. TikTok is the Chinese equivalent of this.
I love that. "If it's free, you're not the customer, you're the product."
David Mitchell is my spirit animal, and no clip of his illustrates this more than this exact one.
😂
To me, this was blatantly true from the beginning. I can see David preferring to die with dignity over _WhatsApping_ a hotel's reception... Preposterous stuff.
You should go back at that moment and watch his eyes at 1:56
It's so in character for him I wouldn't have been surprised if someone had reverse psychologied themselves into thinking it was a lie.
Back to walking.
I would never. I also will not scan a QR code to get a menu at a restaurant...they are not entitled to my information just so I can eat a burger. Ridiculous!
David has a good point. Whatsapp is owned by Facebook and Facebook's users are in fact the product, with the advertisers being the customers.
If Zuckerberg wants to pay my phone bill, my data must be more valuable than I ever realised..
Deleting WhatsApp was the quickest way to rid myself of stupid people. 😊
What's app is owned by meta, who own Facebook, sorry, I'm a stickler.
@AndySmith-85 Meta is a new name for them. The company is still Facebook.
@@AndySmith-85 It’s just a rebrand for fucks sake
David is absolutely correct.
1:55 the anger 😂
His eyes at 1:56 and 1:57 when they narrow
2:00 Rob does a bit of innuendo and is not ready for the response 🙃
Only way he could grab the laughs after her candid response was to pretend he wasn't intentionally dropping the innuendo
2:00 I don't know how many times I've rewatched this part 😂
Her answer is the best bit of this whole video and no one else is talking about it! 😂
@@hairyneil i genuinely think it went over everyone’s heads
She had other things on her mind 😂😂
@HashimAziz1 the aubergine emoji hehe
wow she genuinely had an epiphany about living in a surveillance state in real time on television. Brilliant.
Her justification ("it's free!") was baffling.
@@nahadoth2087 Yeah, it's a weird comment to make. I'm not a fan of WhatsApp either, but it's the only end-to-end encryption service you can easily convince people to use. It may still track some user data, so services like Signal are a far better option, but it's better than people defaulting to something like Facebook Messenger.
@@nahadoth2087 What does Tik Tok have to do with China?
@@fkklkomvocl1234gv Tik Tok is owned and run by the Chinese government.
@@fkklkomvocl1234gv It's owned by China. They are well documented to use it in their surveillance efforts of US citizens. The state government of Texas even passed a law prohibiting any use of TikTok in or on official grounds.
1:03 That really is the gesture of our time, isn't it, looking at your phone for a moment to check what that message is about, instantly realising it's irrelevant and putting the phone away again.
This is my favourite bit 💎
At 1:55 David suddenly realised that his hatred for WhatsApp was teetering on the slender line between "hilarious rant on panel show" and "actual murderous rampage" and thought he'd better stop or they'd come back after the ad break with him pounding the bloody ruin of Lee Mack's face into a studio wall screaming "WHATSAAAAPPPP!!!!" while the terrified audience screamed and ran for the exits.
What ad break? This is a BBC programme. There are no ad breaks.
We need to build a new society based on the rantings of David Mitchell. Everyone just stays home and reads, goes out briefly to buy food, nod at others as you pass by, and go home.
Already there mate
@@RedBatRacing Same here! Lockdown? Piece of cake!
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@The Lord of Entropy My country actually didn't have one, but I wasn't gonna let that stop me from not going out!😄
@The Lord of Entropy Sweden. Everyone called us crazy at the time, but once the dust had settled it turned out we did better than most.
This is fascinating: I've seen clips of the show from a decade ago, and to see the spunky, young fiery ranter David Mitchell transform into a quietly cranky old man over the years is a treat!
Let's be honest, David Mitchell has always been a grumpy old man deep down lmao and we love him for it.
LOVE DAVID......HE'S ADORABLE AND HILARIOUS!!!!! A deep and wise man to say the least!!!
2:21 The awkward silence when everyone realises David isn't wrong 😂
She actually says 'never thought about it like that'
@@MrCooll971 Yes, the look of horrified realisation on her face in the second before the camera cuts away to Lee is just awesome to behold.
That was the most obviously true card David ever read.
Similarly to the most obviously untrue card Lee ever read where he said he has perfect pitch :D
David Mitchell & Lee Mack are true geniuses when it comes to comedy
They are the perfect combination for WILTY. Obviously, it's not real life, it's a TV show, and parts of it are probably scripted/rehearsed/edited, and all that. That's just TV. And I'm sure that what we see onscreen are exaggerated comic personas of who DM and LM actually are. But I think in the case of WILTY, a lot of their actual personalities do come through, and it's always very funny to watch. Great show.
And Rob has been a wonderful support and addition to them from the second he became host!
Hope this show never ends absolutely hilarious year after year
I'm with David on this one 100%. Social media are a terrible waste of time.
It's really more of texting service than social media
"It's free."..."If you're not the customer, you're the product!" Perfectly said, and absolutely right.
Mildly carcinogenic 🤣🤣🤣 that's the phrase I've been looking for to describe whatsapp. Thank you.
Well, he's talking about pretty much any messaging service that offers groups lol. It's just WhatsApp is the most popular.
@@stnarud actually if you want to be so specific, he's talking about the noise that comes from whatsapp when a message is received but nobody really cares because its all a joke. Lighten up.
That was my favorite part! Gotta love an angry yet eloquent Mitchell rant!😄
The fury of his silence!
2:00 actually best joke of the video and no one is even talking about it -_-
That you are the only person to mention it gives me hope for humanity.
"If it looks like a free lunch, then chances are you're what's on the menu."
Here's what you do: tap on the three dots, 'Mute notifications".
Your phone won't ring but you can read the messages when or if you want.
I couldn't agree more with David, the constant phone chatter is destroying us!!
anyone can send messages on a phone but very few can hold a articulate conversation or argument because people have literally forgotten how to.
David. A man after my own heart.
The short silence after "If it's free, you're not the customer you're the product". 🤯
Thank you, David Mitchell! You have addressed 2 of my biggest aggravations in life, no make that 3, : people's obsession with social media, how we are being forced to accept new technology (and are punished if we don't), and spell check.
I think spell check is as vital as the green cross code, but with you on the other two.
Seems like u can't adapt to basic shit.
I still don't understand why I have to type a whole paragraph with my friggin' thumbs, instead of just calling someone with the phone. WE've gone backwards, we're back to using telegrams instead of speaking to each other.
"it's horrible!" said David 😌👌
Oh I am SO with David on this one. Every time someone adds me to a group without my consent (which I do reject every time nonetheless), I either leave on the spot or mute and wait for a few days before leaving. I am the only one in the family that is not in the "family group"!
1000% when anybody tries to add me to a group text, I usually end up ignoring them for several days out of spite. Can’t stand that shit
But how on earth are you going to know what peoples food looked like when they go out for a meal!?
Yup me too. They add me on my birthday, every year, and I leave the group immediately after I thank em all for all the nice messages.... Which they could have just sent directly to me. Why does everyone need to see how nice you're being to me????
I hate it when my brother adds me to a group for each celebration (e.g. birthday & Christmas) just to ask what presents... never speaks to me other than that, has no interest in my daughter, but continuously adds us to stupid pointless WhatsApp groups that we leave as soon as we've written our response. I think groups are just a way to be lazy for some people because they can't be arsed to copy & paste a message to someone else.
I have a friend who's got social anxiety but is still using WhatsApp very actively as an effective way of communication. Her anxiety makes her not want to bother anyone who doesn't want to be bothered, so she's created 5 different groups with different constellations of the same 6 or 7 people and uses a different group depending on who she doesn't want to bother with a group text. It's so confusing to keep track of those groups, I'd much rather get the occasional message that's not meant for me.
I had that situation with a couple of hotels, where you had to WhatsApp them so they'd send you a code or something to let you in and give you the keys... I noped out and went somewhere else.
David will make the cutest little grumpy old man in a few decades
Whenever David is asked to rant about something, you know it's going to be good.
Hh Josie's so unintentionally hilarious
I have never felt so in sync with David Mitchell as I do now... :)
1:52 Love how when he finishes his short rant you see it in his face that he's still angry.😑😤
I can't agree more! We can't ever relax, ever! Bring back the days when office hours were respected and emergency numbers were for emergencies
They are in other countries like France and Portugal... I really don't understand why people here allow this kind of intrusion into their lives 🤔
@@molimolinana I live in Spain! Siesta time should be preserved!
David Mitchel is in fact the coolest guy in the world.
Had my first smartphone 10 years ago and never, ever allowed a phone to give me auditory notifications, I highly recommend it. The constant interruptions utterly destroy your ability to focus. We got plenty of good documentaries and books confirming this by now.
And he's married to Victoria.
I got nothing but respect for this man.
David Mitchell has left the SATURDAY LADS NIGHT OUT group.
2:01 hun was thinkin she just wants to get railed all the time the poor thing 😭
0:58 he starts looking into the camera, pleading directly with the country.
The older I get the more I realise I'm turning into David Mitchell
Come to the bright side
@@magnusgranskau7487 Are we the goodies?
I get what he means. I thinks it’s great for one on one conversations but if you are in a group where most of the conversation doesn’t need your attention, having it go off every ten secs is going to get annoying. Yes you can mute it but you know you are going to need to check it eventually just to make sure you’re not missing anything important and so it’s always in the back of your mind. 0:45 is spot on what the problem is, constantly getting our attention for nothing.
Completely agree with David, especially the hotel!
2:23 “If its free, your not the customer your the product”
That is so true ngl 😂
Spitting truth. SPITTING!
the benefits of having a full understanding of customising notifications is a life saver. i only have 3 group chats with people who have push notifications that actually come upon my phone, the rest are filtered
My whole street got connected in a group when Covid started but it's now and endless stream of someone saying something and then 15 mesages of people saying the same thing. Only interesting thing we have had is when a neighbour warned us of a bad tradesman.
Yes, I agree with David, that's why I haven't allowed WhatsApp to send me notifications. I check it once every couple of hours or so and that's it. If someone wanted to contact me urgently, they can just call. But WhatsApp is super useful if you have family that's not living in the same country as you. You don't have to pay money for international calls and it doesn't matter whether they are using Android or iOS.
Exactly!
You could use different apps that do the same but do not consider your phonebook and all the pictures ect. you send their data and have fewer security leaks.
(I know of companies for whom installig whatsapp on a company phone is considered a valid reason to lay you off.)
Right, the issue is about receiving pointless notifications all the time and I totally agree it sucks, but you can fix it very easily. You can even individually mute notifications on the chats you don't want to be notified about and still receive notifications from others. Even outside of Whatsapp I think people should be way more strict about what they allow their devices to notify them about.
It's also a direct line to China for all your personal information.
What David's saying is exactly the reason I avoided Whatsapp for years! It's incredibly annoying being in a group chat with your phone pinging away like a broken microwave. I've since discovered you can actually just talk to one person on Whatsapp, and that's much more serene.
I’m 31 and I completely relate. I deleted all social media the moment I left school and never looked back. I have no idea what the difference between any of these platforms are.
Can't fault you for doing that, honestly
there's way more people not on social media these days. Anyone with any sense comes off it.
Whatsapp is not social media ffs, it's a DIRECT TEXTING SERVICE
@littleman787 yes, and it's handy for talking to my friends in other countries for free.
On the other hand, I have seen adults form little clique-y exclusive off shoots of larger groups, like in high school, just to Billy others
@@littleman787 - So you think a proprietary application and network designed to make people communicate in groups and stay permanently engaged with the platform "is not social media"...? 😆
You can see the seething hatred on his face hahaha :D Love David
I'm with you David you beauty !
2:18 to 2:27 - I genuinely cracked up at the stunned expression on Josie’s face during this exchange. She genuinely looked like a child learning for the first time how chicken nuggets are made.
OMG David Mitchell has nailed this perfectly. I am a member of one group that I just can't leave - they are my oldest and dearest friends but the nonsense messaging starts at around 5am, bing, bing, bing, bing....so after being woken several times I angrily put the phone on 'do not disturb' but invariably forget to turn it off, thus missing calls and messages during the day that actually matter. Now I am sure there is some fancy way that youngsters can circumnavigate this problem but I couldn't be arsed. David does it again!!
Why not mute the group and just check in when you feel like?
Or better yet, read the WhatsApp terms of service. You'll delete the app so fast, and wonder why anyone is crazy enough to voluntarily put that kind of security vulnerability on their phone. 😅
Bro dosent know what muting or archiving is. Do yall not know how to use a phone.
I am totally with David (I have never used WhatsApp), but somebody should tell him or Victoria that you can set notifications to silent, or switch them off altogether.
That only solves some of the issues for that particular user and doesn't address many of the other problems with the app (or the usage of phones in general)
@@nicolaim4275 I know, that's why I am with David on this despite knowing how to switch off notifications.
I would have loved if it had been a lie and he'd have calmly said, "it's actually quite useful."
Or, better, "What's Whatsapp?"
David: "I am not and will never be a member of any WhatsApp group"
Me: "That's true, next question."
2:42 😭😂😂
David Mitchell is my spirit animal.
1:22 definitely.
I was looking at booking a hotel recently and when I read in people's comments that you have to 'Whats App' reception, it put me off booking there (among other bad reviews).
This particular card and the interplay between the panelists that result from it seemed to turn the game show into a discussion panel. I find that rather interesting. "Game Show? What Game Show?"
There are so many texts that I get where I just question “what do I do with this?” or “why couldn’t someone solve this themself?”
I was finally bullied into downloading whatsapp today for a school thing and this was on my mind the whole time. i can't believe it's come down to this
Should have taken the F.
@@heroclix0rz unfortunately we're traveling to another country together and they want to be able to ~*"contact us"*~ or something 🙄
I was in a similar situation, got it after refusing to for 5 years a couple of months after I turned 16 - I jumped before I was pushed. Luckily not having had for that length of time means that I haven't been pulled into any large and pointless chats.
I will never, as an American, understand how seemingly the entire world has completely bought in to whatsapp, and we haven't. I thought Americans were supposed to be the worst about protecting our own privacy from malicious Silicon Valley companies; and then I found out all of Europe primarily uses a Facebook app to communicate!? How did you let this happen! You were the chosen one!
DEFINATESLY
'David Mitchell rants' you had me at David Mitchell rants.
As soon as he started we knew it was true. The passion was too real to be a lie.
"If it's free, you're not the customer, you're the product.".
This is 100% True, if anyone is wondering.
Also, your Ring Doorbell gives free access to its camera and microphone to law enforcement without a warrant.
You agreed to it by agreeing to the End User License Agreement.
Surely Lee already knows the answer to this after so many years together
He’s right…again!
Priceless! Good old British humour! 😂
The phone is there for my convenience, not everyone elses.
That diary of a ceo guy is a terrible human being.
I am exactly the same and lost my job because we used WhatsApp 🤣
I would die of malnutrition 😂😂 you can’t ring down lol ❤❤❤
I'm with you David!
So clearly true that I forgot I was watching WILTY and not another David Mitchell rant compilation
I agree wholeheartedly with David. ("You are not the customer, you are the product") .
1:51 his face lmao, you know he means it.
Love his rants.
I was expecting him to say, "Of course, it's a lie! You can just mute the notifications if you don't like them. Any idiot knows that"