What about someone experiencing back pain from lifting a commically small weight to emphasise their lack of physical well-being and fitness? That can be funny, if done correctly.
David Mitchell in the sketches about the posh persons that unaccountably still run churches, restaurants and clothes shops are actually documentary footage.
The funniest thing about this sketch is not that they think younger generations will be immortal, it's that they think younger generations have pensions.
@@clayz1 Holy shit, imagine the ridiculous requirements in the future. "PHD and 40 years experience required to become McDonald's head burger flipper."
@@blacklightredlight2945 Sir, thanks for the application to work at Mcdonald's, but it looks like there is a gap in your CV for 8 millenia, what were you doing for that time?
I wouldn't allow myself to become ageless if you give me all the riches in the world. Death is easy, everything can do it, but living has always been hard.
If these guys write their own skits, they deserve some sort of genius award. Truly, some of the best, most creative comedy I've ever seen. Delightful to the mind.
I agree, but why did they add a laughter track to this series? It would've been so much funnier without the distracting 'other people laughing' like its the fkn 70s merica'. They didn't do it in Peep Show, so what made them think they had to do it with this show. There's obviously no fkn studio audience, and who the fk gives a shit about other people laughing around you
@@neanda laugh tracks give the audience a clue as to when a joke was, so it can give them a little hint to say "hey think about that line a bit more" and then they can more appreciate the humour before the next one comes up.
@@neanda there actually is a studio audience lmaoo. Look up a behind the scenes. Most are filmed in front of an audience or have the audience watch the clip.
They're both brilliant, but the acting from David Mitchell as Robert calls him out on being jealous of his future children was absolutely perfect. The way he desperately scrabbles to cover up his shame by trying to change the topic was great :)
It was Gunther's own damn fault though. He needlessly got himself killed because he was demoted recently and wanted to prove himself. When his squad approached a roadblock of two German machine guns, he charged at it, against the orders of his sergeant. The Germans first tried to wave him off, but he wouldn't stop, so they shot him.
I'll look back on this from the end of time and smirk, smugly, I shall smirk my extra special smug smirk that makes my face ache, a legit troll face of smug smirkiness.
Im actually, quite often, felt jealous about future generations, how they'll travel across the universe, how they won't have to suffer cancer, or even worst baldness or the end of your favourite series. I think we all have been there because in the grand scheme of time we're all the unluckiest generation now that we can see farther and wonder.
Ah yes, we the generations who have access to fairly advanced healthcare, a wealth of information at our fingertips, daily safety nets in the form of society, are truly the unluckiest ones.
01:47 "I've seen you take vitamin C. - and We all thought you were a right $#€&" says the posh people that are still unaccountably parts of comedy duos with their own tv show. Fact: Before Mitchell, Webb were comedy partnered with a nice, Australian girl.
To be honest I think that if all of those who came before me, parents, family, friends, mentors, everyone I've looked up to and appreciated; if they've all left, I don't think I'll feel that tied to sticking around anymore either. People tend to forget that older people get lonelier as they get more isolated due to death. I'd rather be in the last generation to die, than the first to live indefinitely, to be honest.
You would have an infinite amount of time to find new friends and also, chances are your body could be altered. Imagine being, say, 25 forever. Now THAT could be fun.
You would just make new friends. Older people don’t make new friends because they don’t see the point when you’re going to die soon. When you’re immortal you have all the time in the world to completely reboot your life.
The perks of being the first generation of immortal is you can choose when you die. 60, 100, 150, 500, 1,000, whenever you think is the appropriate maximum lifespan.
@@lpsp442 Maybe I've misinterpreted you but it sounds like you don't know that taking vitamin C does absolutely nothing, which is the whole point of David's comment.
@@lpsp442 Taking it as a supplement wouldn't do much unless you have a deficiency. The whole immune system thing seems exagerated. There's a whole load of nutrients important for a function immune system. Vitamin D is apparently one which is probably more important as apparently a significant number of people are deficient in it.
i imagine instead a world where only the rich are allowed to die. death becomes a privilege. us lower class types would be forced to live (and serve) forever.
@@rakninja the rich wouldn't bother keeping the proletariat alive forever, they are fine with turnover in the workforce, prefer it, actually. but the bigger point is that the completion of workplace automation will render the proletariat redundant, at which point it will be eliminated, one way or another.
who would want to live forever? think about it if youre immortal a day will come when the world completely bores you, youll have done everything there would be nothing to enjoy eventually youd want to die, im happy with 50-60 years thats enough time to enjoy myself while my body is fit and able and my mind hasnt turned into a vegetable.
We are all going to smart bastards, though. I'm sure we could figure out how to take breaks. With automation we may need not apply even. Who knows. On a different note You can always make your schedule more accurate if you decide to take matters into your own hands
At the risk of sounding incredibly pessimistic, I don't know that I would envy anyone who gets to live through another hundred years of the directions we seem to be heading, let alone forever. Just because life lasts forever doesn't mean its inherent worth suddenly is universally recognized. More likely the opposite, actually.
Would also suck to be the last generation to lose your parents (to natural causes) Also, the first people to live forever will probably be ridiculously rich :(
A generation being rich requires only a few incredibly rich people to make it rich on average. If you came up with some sort of guaranteed method of becoming immortal you would be rich too... Go back to school
+Srithor Whut? By that logic my mum, who is nearly 60, hasn't fully matured yet because neither of her parents have died. Perhaps to some degree losing people (not necessarily parents) is part of the maturation process, but that's only true because we live in a world where death is a regular feature. If death were very rare, then we wouldn't feel that being prepared for death was so important. As for being rich - I imagine that if we were basically immortal, we'd all rearrange our priorities a bit better. If maturity and wisdom comes with age, imagine what a world would look like with an average population of 500. We'd probably stop worrying about whether our houses are bigger than our neighbours' houses, or how many diamonds we can cram onto our hands, and start thinking a bit more about what it actually means to live a good life. Of course if this actually happened it would bring a whole new set of social problems, but it's interesting to speculate...
If immortality became a thing than having children would pretty much have to stop. Obviously people would die from accidents and possibly illness (though if we can stop people from dying of old age I reckon a heart attack and cancer are nothing to the future doctors), but if people were still having children then population would sky rocket. So they'd be the last generation ever. Also I doubt they'd be rich, why would everyone be rich all of a sudden? I say it's a strong guess that by the time immortality is even a remote possibility, then AI and machines will have replaced pretty much all of the human workforce. If we keep to capitalism, everybody would get much MUCH poorer. But still being immortal has fuck all to do with that really.
@squamish4244 ".we have enough massive egos crashing around already..." And since we have no immortals, it makes good sense that "massive egos" can only arise from inexperience, haven't you noticed how (pre) adolescents are the most egocentrics and this tends to level off as people age? Believe me, my friend, the longer you live the smaller you will realize you are ;-) immortality can only bring humbleness and solidarity to the human condition. I'll watch that talk, thank you =)
It's actually quite possible that someone who is currently at the age of 50 with exercise, a good diet, and a lot of luck will be still around when the technology to reverse aging comes around.
If human immortality ever became a reality, then that would be the generation to pity. And immortality at what age? Thirty? Sixty? Eighty? Who would want to be 80 forever?
Actually, the lucky generation would be the next one. I mean, immortality sounds great. But I don't want to watch my parents and close relatives die. Well, maybe some of them... But I would be able to endure the annoying ones, if I knew the ones I like were alive as well. Being able to enjoy the last generation of parents that aren't centuries old but won't die on you. Those are the real lucky bastards.
You're assuming everyone will sit and wait quietly until everyone starves instead of the strong killing off the weak to maintain a sustainable population level.
sure it will be same, only I'm 24 and it's still a lot of time till retirement and I want my summer holidays to start now... then again if we really do become immortal won't they take away our ''summer holidays''... I wonder if you can live indefinitely on the wealth you have accumulated in your pension fund during a lifetime... then again in 50 years' time everything will be done by robots and people will just supervise, it's moving towards that, slower than people in 60s-70s believed but is
Actually, those born in the 50's are also included in this, assuming they don't fall prey to illnesses like cancer, alzheimers or the likes. This is because medicine today can keep bodies alive for well over a hundred years. Within 50 years we have a good chance of seeing people in their 140's as the maximum age expectancy continues to rise along with medical progression. Then by the time we can actually become biologically imortal, they'll make your body appear younger and be stronger, so it doesn't matter if you were old, feeble and fragile and being at deaths door at the time of becoming biologically immortal. Those that are well into their 70's or late 60's however.. they better hope that this immortality comes quickly. OR just go for clinical freezing and thaw out sometime in a few decades. We can all be immortal!
I would kind of like to see a new series of this show with the 'behind the scenes' skits that now have David married with a kid. I'm curious how they'd play it ;).
Assuming accidents and suicides are impossible, humanity would have time to figure out how to avoid being victim of things like the Sun's expansion and heat death of the universe. Also immortality is no guarantee of a happy life, just a long - and possibly miserable - existence. Imagine...having to queue up for something stupid the government forces you to do. Multiply that by infinity, because that's what will happen (unless we get rid of the initiation of force).
I dunno... Would I want to be part of an immortal generation with a Earth terrifying being depleted of every possible resource until the only thing to eat is char-grilled rocks?
they can keep the 200 years unless they find a way to maintain youth, i said 60 as the rough number generally im refering to when you age to a point when you can do anything because its danger or to strenuous for you. Also im 22 and my views are almost identical to peemseas's, just in case you plan on bringing up offspring in this.
Why did they add a laughter track to this series? It would've been so much funnier without the distracting 'other people laughing' like its the fkn 70s merica'. They didn't do it in Peep Show, so what made them think they had to do it with this show. There's obviously no fkn studio audience, and who the fk gives a shit about other people laughing around you
Atheists are jealous because they think future generations will live forever and Christians are sad because the point is moving on to heaven. And living forever 😇
when's the last time you saw a christian turning down medical treatments that would meaningfully prolong life, not just muck around with the endgame, because they wanted to get to heaven sooner? no, no christians actually believe in heaven, if they really believed in it they would arrange to have themselves martyred, not hard to do if you want to be martyred.
@@scottmatheson3346 You make an assumption then argue it. YOU are assuming that God doesn't want us to treat life as a precious. We do. But you're confusing treating this life with care and love (and yes far too many Christian treat it selfishly) means we don't really want to go to heaven. Just because I care for my family and try to have a nice life as a child and young person. Doesn't mean I don't want to go out and live another life as an adult. The same applies. Both are inevitable. I hope that helped you understand. Oh and just because you don't know of any Christian turning down medical treatment to prolong life only shows possibly a few things, that you don't know many Christians, you're young, you didn't bother to google it. God Bless and I hope you understand this is all meant friendly. Too many people assume arguing postures these days. I took yours peaceful as well.
"There is nothing funny about back pain!"
*It's funny because it's true*
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GumGumOnigiri just check my immortal kids playlist
lumbago is a very debilitating, slow and agonizing death
What about someone experiencing back pain from lifting a commically small weight to emphasise their lack of physical well-being and fitness? That can be funny, if done correctly.
I love the sketches that are just the two of them talking between scenes.
I swear David Mitchell is already immortal. You can watch him in any video spanning over about the last 20 years and he's always the same.
David Mitchell in the sketches about the posh persons that unaccountably still run churches, restaurants and clothes shops are actually documentary footage.
There's a certain type of English person who looks 40 years old from the age of 18 to 60.
Tom Scott for instance
@@ximono Not sure whether Tom Scott looks 40 from the ages of 18 to 60 or if he just looks 18, 40, and 60 at the same time, all the time.
He was fatter in the original WILTY days
The funniest thing about this sketch is not that they think younger generations will be immortal, it's that they think younger generations have pensions.
Well they may do when they get older.. After presuming they were gonna live forever and be disappointed - Being his point lol
I love these self-aware sketches. Get me every time.
”You just wait David, until you’ve got a baby. Then you’ll feel the same. You won’t want
to kill or hate anymore.” :)
I really wonder what is David Mitchell's stance on killing babies today.
@@Richard_is_cool I hear he's mostly given it up
@@Richard_is_cool I think he only has it as a hobby these days
@@flyingskyward2153 Reassuring.
I like how he takes solace in the fact that their pensions are going to be screwed.
Being immortal with no prospect of growing success, only perpetual homelessness. ALL the copper and aluminium are gone. Living on hand outs.
@@clayz1 Holy shit, imagine the ridiculous requirements in the future. "PHD and 40 years experience required to become McDonald's head burger flipper."
@@blacklightredlight2945 Sir, thanks for the application to work at Mcdonald's, but it looks like there is a gap in your CV for 8 millenia, what were you doing for that time?
I wouldn't allow myself to become ageless if you give me all the riches in the world. Death is easy, everything can do it, but living has always been hard.
If these guys write their own skits, they deserve some sort of genius award. Truly, some of the best, most creative comedy I've ever seen. Delightful to the mind.
I agree, but why did they add a laughter track to this series? It would've been so much funnier without the distracting 'other people laughing' like its the fkn 70s merica'. They didn't do it in Peep Show, so what made them think they had to do it with this show. There's obviously no fkn studio audience, and who the fk gives a shit about other people laughing around you
@@neanda laugh tracks give the audience a clue as to when a joke was, so it can give them a little hint to say "hey think about that line a bit more" and then they can more appreciate the humour before the next one comes up.
@@neanda there actually is a studio audience lmaoo. Look up a behind the scenes. Most are filmed in front of an audience or have the audience watch the clip.
@@massimom2542 and in some skits, the audience is part of the prop!
@@neanda There's a studio audience you fucking moron.
You won't want to kill or hate anymore, gets me every time :)
The "Yes and I agree with you" bit is seriously underrated. Also, I've been quoting "There is nothing funny about back pain" for years.
They're both brilliant, but the acting from David Mitchell as Robert calls him out on being jealous of his future children was absolutely perfect. The way he desperately scrabbles to cover up his shame by trying to change the topic was great :)
It’s a good thing someone with a camera caught this conversational snippet in between sets as it’s actually kind of amusing.
It would be incredibly frustrating to be the last generation to die. Like taking a stray boche bullet to the the dome on November 10th 1918.
That would fucking suck
Tell that to Henry Nicholas John Gunther killed 10:59am November 11, 1918.
Not only that, but if there is such a thing as an afterlife, imagine being the new guy for all eternity.
Lol... Well, at least you could console yourself that you were the last person to get access to the afterlife.
It was Gunther's own damn fault though. He needlessly got himself killed because he was demoted recently and wanted to prove himself. When his squad approached a roadblock of two German machine guns, he charged at it, against the orders of his sergeant. The Germans first tried to wave him off, but he wouldn't stop, so they shot him.
I still grasp at the vague hope of living forever, and yes, this is very relatable.
Love the reference to Ben Goldacre! You know you've made an impact on society when Mitchell and Webb reference you.
I agree with David on this: there IS nothing funny about back pain. Except that joke.
"I'm not saying ALL the sketches have to be about children dying!"
David Mitchell really might be my soulmate.
"Smug little immortal bastards" 😄
Mitchell and Webb are possibly the funniest comedy duo ever.
You accidentally wrote the word, possibly, there
"...you won't want to KILL or HATE anymore....." :D
"I'm not saying *all* the jokes have to be about children dying."
I had to watch this twice because I was laughing so hard I missed about half of it.
I stopped hating kids when I realized that life will ensure that they suffer a lot in the future. What a soothing reflection it is.
Hahahaha. My man, whenever a young person makes fun of me for being old I just shut my mouth and grin and nod at them. It feels wonderful.
@@MandleRoss But what happens if they do cure aging and you're the last to die of old age? Won't the joke be on you then?
I'll look back on this from the end of time and smirk, smugly, I shall smirk my extra special smug smirk that makes my face ache, a legit troll face of smug smirkiness.
Hey look, if my pension is big enough to be screwed on, I'm all for it. ;)
Im actually, quite often, felt jealous about future generations, how they'll travel across the universe, how they won't have to suffer cancer, or even worst baldness or the end of your favourite series. I think we all have been there because in the grand scheme of time we're all the unluckiest generation now that we can see farther and wonder.
Just think about all the people dying in ww2 or the black death
Cheer up, maybe the AI kills them all
@@professionalmemeenthusiast2117 a man can dream
Ah yes, we the generations who have access to fairly advanced healthcare, a wealth of information at our fingertips, daily safety nets in the form of society, are truly the unluckiest ones.
David’s spiteful ness is always a laugh
Or take the cynical approach: Read the comments, and console yourself with the thought that each of their posters will age and fail.
I have chronic back pain, and it's true. There is nothing funny about back pain.
Hahahahaa...classic!
Slathe The Space Marine if we can make fun of cancer and AIDS we can make fun of back pain
Mine isn't chronic just yet, but give it another 2 ton shipment of books and it might be. Just imagining it as to be permanent is already a kill joy.
Backpain gets u vicodin or oxy. U'll find it funny then.
"Smug little immortal bastards"
Yes. Yes I would like to know that any kid I have is as mortal as me.
01:47 "I've seen you take vitamin C. - and We all thought you were a right $#€&" says the posh people that are still unaccountably parts of comedy duos with their own tv show. Fact: Before Mitchell, Webb were comedy partnered with a nice, Australian girl.
What happened to the nice Australian girl? She's gone. They're all gone. And we're back
I looked through the comments for this particular joke.
"Smug little immortal bastards!"
To be honest I think that if all of those who came before me, parents, family, friends, mentors, everyone I've looked up to and appreciated; if they've all left, I don't think I'll feel that tied to sticking around anymore either. People tend to forget that older people get lonelier as they get more isolated due to death.
I'd rather be in the last generation to die, than the first to live indefinitely, to be honest.
You would have an infinite amount of time to find new friends and also, chances are your body could be altered. Imagine being, say, 25 forever. Now THAT could be fun.
You would just make new friends. Older people don’t make new friends because they don’t see the point when you’re going to die soon. When you’re immortal you have all the time in the world to completely reboot your life.
And you will have your own immortal family, maybe few of them.
The perks of being the first generation of immortal is you can choose when you die. 60, 100, 150, 500, 1,000, whenever you think is the appropriate maximum lifespan.
Let me guess, you’re under forty. Am I right?
I'v seen you take vitamin C ... Lol
Seeing immortality-resenting fake-David disparage the wonderful effects of Vitamin C is exactly what made this sketch
@@lpsp442 Maybe I've misinterpreted you but it sounds like you don't know that taking vitamin C does absolutely nothing, which is the whole point of David's comment.
@@Bob3D2000 I pity your immune system
@@lpsp442
Taking it as a supplement wouldn't do much unless you have a deficiency. The whole immune system thing seems exagerated. There's a whole load of nutrients important for a function immune system. Vitamin D is apparently one which is probably more important as apparently a significant number of people are deficient in it.
I've
He wouldn't be jealous, but rather he would be envious.
THANK YOU!
Jonathon Assouline obsolete meaning.. they are synonymous these days and you know it!
How did they use it wrong? I'm confused.
Envious - want what they have. Jealous - don't want them to take what you have.
No... they have different meanings in Latin.
This'll be a fun video for Barbara Mitchell to watch someday
*David after reading an article about how kids will live forever:* Typical!
Let's be realistic, only the extremely rich and powerful will be immortal.
Not if we eat them first.
Immortality, ie not getting old and expiring of old age just guarantees that your death will be violent or of horrible disease.
@@YourXavier I wouldn't want to eat shit, tbh.
i imagine instead a world where only the rich are allowed to die. death becomes a privilege. us lower class types would be forced to live (and serve) forever.
@@rakninja the rich wouldn't bother keeping the proletariat alive forever, they are fine with turnover in the workforce, prefer it, actually. but the bigger point is that the completion of workplace automation will render the proletariat redundant, at which point it will be eliminated, one way or another.
oh I love Mitchell so much hahaha
The fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
If don’t get immortality no one should!
Dear UA-cam Algorithms, why would you recommend this random 10year old sketch?
..you knew I would comment...you knew I would feed you...well played.
I for one am not ashamed to admit I am jealous. I'd love to live longer than just 100 years
Dead god i wouldnt not want to live forever...
All these people in the comments saying how they are mature enough to know living forever is a bad thing *face palm*
Smug little, immortality-rejecting bastards.
Smug, little, contrarian bastards. Well, at least we can console ourselves that our meta-contrarianism is far superior.
who would want to live forever? think about it if youre immortal a day will come when the world completely bores you, youll have done everything there would be nothing to enjoy eventually youd want to die, im happy with 50-60 years thats enough time to enjoy myself while my body is fit and able and my mind hasnt turned into a vegetable.
Imagine working until you're infinity years old. I'd rather just die on a schedule.
We are all going to smart bastards, though. I'm sure we could figure out how to take breaks. With automation we may need not apply even. Who knows.
On a different note You can always make your schedule more accurate if you decide to take matters into your own hands
At the risk of sounding incredibly pessimistic, I don't know that I would envy anyone who gets to live through another hundred years of the directions we seem to be heading, let alone forever. Just because life lasts forever doesn't mean its inherent worth suddenly is universally recognized. More likely the opposite, actually.
I have used that ‘yes and I agree with you’ trick in the past to great effect
gotta admit both had good points
Would also suck to be the last generation to lose your parents (to natural causes)
Also, the first people to live forever will probably be ridiculously rich :(
They would need to be.
Blingo88 Poor immortal people will be wage slaves for all eternity.
A generation being rich requires only a few incredibly rich people to make it rich on average. If you came up with some sort of guaranteed method of becoming immortal you would be rich too...
Go back to school
+Srithor Whut? By that logic my mum, who is nearly 60, hasn't fully matured yet because neither of her parents have died. Perhaps to some degree losing people (not necessarily parents) is part of the maturation process, but that's only true because we live in a world where death is a regular feature. If death were very rare, then we wouldn't feel that being prepared for death was so important.
As for being rich - I imagine that if we were basically immortal, we'd all rearrange our priorities a bit better. If maturity and wisdom comes with age, imagine what a world would look like with an average population of 500. We'd probably stop worrying about whether our houses are bigger than our neighbours' houses, or how many diamonds we can cram onto our hands, and start thinking a bit more about what it actually means to live a good life. Of course if this actually happened it would bring a whole new set of social problems, but it's interesting to speculate...
If immortality became a thing than having children would pretty much have to stop. Obviously people would die from accidents and possibly illness (though if we can stop people from dying of old age I reckon a heart attack and cancer are nothing to the future doctors), but if people were still having children then population would sky rocket. So they'd be the last generation ever.
Also I doubt they'd be rich, why would everyone be rich all of a sudden? I say it's a strong guess that by the time immortality is even a remote possibility, then AI and machines will have replaced pretty much all of the human workforce. If we keep to capitalism, everybody would get much MUCH poorer. But still being immortal has fuck all to do with that really.
FOAD
Technically, they're going to die anyway when the universe experiences heat death.
A few billion years is a pretty good run.
Who's to say they can't leave for another universe, or make one of their own?
@squamish4244 ".we have enough massive egos crashing around already..." And since we have no immortals, it makes good sense that "massive egos" can only arise from inexperience, haven't you noticed how (pre) adolescents are the most egocentrics and this tends to level off as people age? Believe me, my friend, the longer you live the smaller you will realize you are ;-) immortality can only bring humbleness and solidarity to the human condition. I'll watch that talk, thank you =)
Living indefinitely sounds like hell. And if they have a choice to die then David can take matters into his own hands
The earth would get very crowded if that happened.
It's actually quite possible that someone who is currently at the age of 50 with exercise, a good diet, and a lot of luck will be still around when the technology to reverse aging comes around.
If human immortality ever became a reality, then that would be the generation to pity.
And immortality at what age? Thirty? Sixty? Eighty? Who would want to be 80 forever?
@JocastaWoolfolk I learnt about the singularity from the Big Bang Theory :D
David's got lumbago
I've totally become a sanctimonious father.
This sounds a lot like a scene from Peep Show.
first time i saw webb win an arguement in one of their sketches.
Sup, my fellow immortals.
They also did this on The Peep Show
I wonder what David thinks about this now he has kids!
There's a fourth season? Good lord, why didn't I know about this
The article said *future* generations. Not the *next* generation.
Damn UA-cam Algorithim giving good stuffs.
He's not jealous, he's envious.
0:53The first time David was taken back by a question
fully agree :S
💜
@VoidDestriant Yes.
Makes me quite sad because it may very well be true.
Actually, the lucky generation would be the next one. I mean, immortality sounds great. But I don't want to watch my parents and close relatives die. Well, maybe some of them...
But I would be able to endure the annoying ones, if I knew the ones I like were alive as well. Being able to enjoy the last generation of parents that aren't centuries old but won't die on you. Those are the real lucky bastards.
We would never want people to never die. The world would overpopulate and then we’d all die
You're assuming everyone will sit and wait quietly until everyone starves instead of the strong killing off the weak to maintain a sustainable population level.
sure it will be same, only I'm 24 and it's still a lot of time till retirement and I want my summer holidays to start now...
then again if we really do become immortal won't they take away our ''summer holidays''... I wonder if you can live indefinitely on the wealth you have accumulated in your pension fund during a lifetime...
then again in 50 years' time everything will be done by robots and people will just supervise, it's moving towards that, slower than people in 60s-70s believed but is
They should get the band back together!
BEN GOLDACRE Reference?! Oh this is complete!
Those silly old mortals were funny. I must research what a 'pension plan' is though.
I'm confused, are we in America or Great Britain
Actually, those born in the 50's are also included in this, assuming they don't fall prey to illnesses like cancer, alzheimers or the likes. This is because medicine today can keep bodies alive for well over a hundred years. Within 50 years we have a good chance of seeing people in their 140's as the maximum age expectancy continues to rise along with medical progression. Then by the time we can actually become biologically imortal, they'll make your body appear younger and be stronger, so it doesn't matter if you were old, feeble and fragile and being at deaths door at the time of becoming biologically immortal.
Those that are well into their 70's or late 60's however.. they better hope that this immortality comes quickly. OR just go for clinical freezing and thaw out sometime in a few decades. We can all be immortal!
@VoidDestriant
Well um. Yeah, actually, it does?
I love Ben Goldacre!
If you laughed at a line, it was funny. You don't have to post it here for approval to laugh.
I would kind of like to see a new series of this show with the 'behind the scenes' skits that now have David married with a kid. I'm curious how they'd play it ;).
Assuming accidents and suicides are impossible, humanity would have time to figure out how to avoid being victim of things like the Sun's expansion and heat death of the universe. Also immortality is no guarantee of a happy life, just a long - and possibly miserable - existence. Imagine...having to queue up for something stupid the government forces you to do. Multiply that by infinity, because that's what will happen (unless we get rid of the initiation of force).
hear hear!
I see you taking vitamin C!
I dunno... Would I want to be part of an immortal generation with a Earth terrifying being depleted of every possible resource until the only thing to eat is char-grilled rocks?
Karth38 plenty of rocks though
cool
On the plus side, when you take into account disease and violence, they'll be lucky to make it past 800 or so.
@Zscheesus in a moral stand point webb wins. but logically i would still want to live forever.
they can keep the 200 years unless they find a way to maintain youth, i said 60 as the rough number generally im refering to when you age to a point when you can do anything because its danger or to strenuous for you. Also im 22 and my views are almost identical to peemseas's, just in case you plan on bringing up offspring in this.
The thought of living forever makes me want to die now
Why did they add a laughter track to this series? It would've been so much funnier without the distracting 'other people laughing' like its the fkn 70s merica'. They didn't do it in Peep Show, so what made them think they had to do it with this show. There's obviously no fkn studio audience, and who the fk gives a shit about other people laughing around you
I suppose they'd better make sure the environment is in order
@crysisgamerz I used to be immortal. Then I took an arrow in the knee.
Atheists are jealous because they think future generations will live forever and Christians are sad because the point is moving on to heaven. And living forever 😇
when's the last time you saw a christian turning down medical treatments that would meaningfully prolong life, not just muck around with the endgame, because they wanted to get to heaven sooner? no, no christians actually believe in heaven, if they really believed in it they would arrange to have themselves martyred, not hard to do if you want to be martyred.
@@scottmatheson3346 You make an assumption then argue it. YOU are assuming that God doesn't want us to treat life as a precious. We do. But you're confusing treating this life with care and love (and yes far too many Christian treat it selfishly) means we don't really want to go to heaven.
Just because I care for my family and try to have a nice life as a child and young person. Doesn't mean I don't want to go out and live another life as an adult.
The same applies. Both are inevitable.
I hope that helped you understand.
Oh and just because you don't know of any Christian turning down medical treatment to prolong life only shows possibly a few things, that you don't know many Christians, you're young, you didn't bother to google it.
God Bless and I hope you understand this is all meant friendly. Too many people assume arguing postures these days. I took yours peaceful as well.