I am overall pretty happy with what I have. Which means that more stressful for me around christmas and the like is not so much "What do I get others" but people asking what I want. I have no clue, and people kind of get upset when I tell them that I don't know what I want!
A friend and I each ask for liquor. She wants Grey Goose Vodka, and I ask for Bombay Sapphire Gin. For both Xmas and B-days. Booze makes everything better.
@ChrisKerel Yeah that's what me and my sister started doing when we hit the age to buy alcohol. It's brilliant, we do all the shopping in 1 shop in under an hour, and everyone is happy with their gifts. :D
@AnomalousAnemone I second that. Regarding the video, I'm still lucky enough to be a child, and so it's socially acceptable for me to make a christmas or birthday list. This is great, because I get what I want, and the people who get it for me know that I will/do like it.
@AnomalousAnemone Bit of a late reply, but it's actually a rather famous (for lack of a better term) horse sound that is public domain, which means it can be used by anyone without fear of copyright infringement, so it is often easier to use such sounds rather than trying to record your own.
I like the 'let's take you shopping' gesture towards gift giving. "How bout we find something you like, you don't own and would like to own, and I'll cover it for you."
If you care that it's really a zero-sum game in the end then nothing will really suffice.
The money system fails on the premise that if every Christmas every person sent x money each to his friends he would receive the exact same amount back.
Coincidently, I just sent a birthday/holiday wish list to my parents (the only people who actually want to buy me things - and they usually get me things I don't want...). It's all things I'll buy myself someday - if they don't buy it for me first... ;o)
it's different when you're a child because you only have to buy a box of chocolates and in return you get loads of lego, so you actually make a profit
i think it is mainly the thought that counts with gift giving. although it is pretty pointless. if you get a gift for someone then don't expect one back.
Have to say, of all your rants which make me nod, which is all of them except the ones that presuppose a British cultural background and which only make me giggle at your vitriol, this one I agree with the most wholeheartedly. My significant other and I have long ago disposed of the pretense of gift-giving and just take one another out to the celebrant's favorite restaurant on their birthday. Christmas is a wash so we don't bother.
@tehc111 There will be a shitstorm when people try to correct somebody and get it even more wrong in the process and then try to bluster their way out of it by pretending that they have checked. People who push lies with bluster should always be attacked, it's as much of a duty as stopping a BMW driver pushing in after driving past a quarter of a mile queue of cars, we just owe it to posterity never to let them get away with it.
Where's the "Add David Mitchell to Your Wishlist" button on this page? The Amazon Universal Wishlist is for some reason not allowing me to click it... Come on, now. I know he can be bought for a price! Just look at what he's willing to do to himself for the 50 quid they give him for each of these sessions.
This is similar to my carefully thought out wedding gift scheme.
Prob 1 Currently people leave a list in a shop, you have to go to the shop, buy the thing, take it home, cart it to their house shortly before the wedding, wasting significant portions of 2 days.
Prob2 after the wedding guest are left in limbo while the important people go off to get photos.
Solution: couple buy the gifts, have them at the reception, and while waiting guests choose a gift for which to reimburse the couple.
@Oct23rd4004BC ahaha I think THAT would be the kind of spin for those bridezilla "real weddings" programs that would possibly instill the perfect American values and prepare them for bankruptcy + divorce courts before even walking the aisle: crazy expensive wedding AND they have to put another however much buying their own bedding, tableware, linens o.o (I've been to a $150k wedding; I kept wanting to hurl when I thought about how they were RENTING Wedgwood plates for over $300 a pop-to BORROW!)
Sounds like a brilliant idea. It sounds somewhat like the lists you get for weddings, when you go to some home appliance store and they have an online list for a certain persons wedding and you can see that the need a blender or a toaster and you can choose which you'd like to buy for them.
well, peepshow/jeeves and wooster dvds are always a great gift and edgar allan poe hand written poems with a picture of a koala giving a baby hyrax a tummy rub also never disappoint...but that s just me...
My birthday's coming up at the end of this month so I know it won't be long until the "What do you want?" phone call comes along from at least one relative. As I'm moving in with my OH three days later, the answer is, "As many Anything vouchers as possible please." :) Alternatively, I'll settle for a Sainsbury's giftcard. It would be nice to be able to eat something but beans on toast in the three weeks before moving in and my Student Loan landing.
Such a list already exists on Amazon. It's called a 'Wishlist' unoriginally enough and you find it by simply entering the person's email address provided they have an account with Amazon.
@jjpaterson87 Horse's tongue. From the only adage "don't look a gift horse in the mouth." Basically, if you've received something for free then you shouldn't complain about its condition.
@Myzelfa The view count stops at about 300 but the views continue to be counted. Its to avoid self promoting of videos by repeated viewing or using a computer program to repeatedly view them. Once the individual view count starts gets nearer to the actual count, the view count updates again. These videos are likely to be viewed several times by individual users so it's quite likely to have the view count frozen this way. They aren't doing anything wrong though.
@Meechree Dialogue requires 2 or more people to be speaking... hence "DI" meaning TWO(or twice or double) vs MONO meaning ONE. A bacterial cell monoculture only has ONE bacteria type in it... a diode is a TWO-ELECTRODE simple semiconductor, thus named because it has a CATHode and an ANode, TWO electrODEs.
@Meechree The caps were ONLY to emphasize how words mesh, NEVER to attack-I hope you didn't think that. I think knowledge is hot(+helps w/creativity&health:YOU WIN!) &I won trolls! Ppl attacking directly/insulting instead of politely asking/correcting...THAT makes people idiots, not a normal error. While I was sure I was right, they were sure they were, too, and someone is ALWAYS smarter than us, so I try to always be open to being taught. Challenge/debate=good; put-downs/arrogance=suckage.DFTBA
@UnspecifiedCarnage Yes, because wanting youth to be educated beyond the mistakes of the masses is SO pretentious. If someone incorrectly "corrects" someone, I explain what they don't understand so that they will be better able to apply it to things that matter more than the web: jobs, exams, college entrance essays, dissertations, little things I've had plenty of. We happen to be watching a witty, sarcastic "wordplayer." It's not as if they hijacked a LOLcat video. Your presumption is ignorant.
@122172639 You're not pretentious for correcting him, but the way you did it was. Explaining something to someone using big words you hope they don't understand in order to reassure yourself of your own intellectual superiority, THAT is pretentious. Especially so when it also transpires that you were incorrect in your correction...
@UnspecifiedCarnage As I already explained, the capital letters are to emphasize how words fit together. If you want to disagree with how Latin works, take it up with the textbooks that are considered authoritative... dialogue precedes when, in the 15th century, dia- was first altered to mean through.
@122172639 Dialogue actually comes from the Greek dialogus, which means "converse", which is in turn derived from dia- "across" + legein "speak". Think about it, di does indeed mean two, but you logic would dictate that a dialogue could contain two people ONLY... I suggest you do some research next time. Especially if you are planning on writing a dissertation...
@122172639 The "dia" from dialogue comes from the greek meaning "through" and "logos" meaning speech. Speaking through, as in conversation. Similarly "diarrhoea" literally means "run through", like what comes out of your mouth. In English "dialogue" is used to mean a conversation or speech which is like conversation (like a soliloquy), but "dia" certainly does not mean "two" or there'd be no room for anyone else. "di" means two. If you want to be smart, you should learn shit.
@jacksawild Which came first, the Latin or the Greek? If you want to be smart in etymology, go to the BEGINNING&'learn shit" starting w/the origin, DUO. You failing to grasp Latin prefixes does not alter their function. See: Diaoxide? Diaode? Diaiodide? We often change spellings for ease: dye-uh-i-o-dyed or dyye-o-dyed? Diiodide. We drop the A if a vowel is next ie dioxide,2oxygen,vs DIALYZE,separate the 2(NOT THROUGH)&diaphragm: fence/tissue mass between 2. A/AD is a PREPOSITION: to, of&from 2.
@122172639 Do you think latin came before the greek? My goodness. This is the problem with the internet, a little bit of information is a dangerous thing. The latin would be dia-logicus and it means EXACTLY the same thing as the greek: speak through. I studied the classics for many years, but I'm sure google makes you an expert.... oh.. what a surprise.. You're a meercan. Go watch Fox, moron.
@jacksawild Dia- came first from Latin in the first century. In Greek, it only later, ~the 15th century, began meaning "through" and then it was "through two" to start. I checked textbooks, you know, those big heavy things little kids use to prop things up, before correcting the other person. You studied for many years? I'm sorry that you apparently had a teacher that didn't know his or her shit. I wouldn't have been hired to teach linguistics and composition if I got my info from google, kiddo.
@122172639 In future kindly refrain from uncorrecting people, it really pisses off people who know shit when people spout bollocks while appearing to correct a mistake. The prefix on the word dialogue is not DI it is DIA. It is of course an easy mistake to make, a monologue is a person speaking alone, from the Greek prefix mono (alone). Di is the Greek prefix for two so "obviously" that's what a dialogue is. But the prefix is actually DIA, meaning through, as in talking through.
@MartinJWillett Dia="to" "two." etymonline. com search "dia-" In THE future, kindly refrain from showing how little you know to the entire Internet with Neanderthal-like arrogance, ie "ooh imma gonna troll somebody cuz I think I know more, duhhrrr, than them professor folk up thar. I got wikipeedonya!" In lieu of that, politely ask for references. Mine are university textbooks. dictionary. com AND the link have it; they do not, though, go back to the field, MEDICINE, that devised so many words.
@122172639 DI is two. The word is NOT di-logue, is it?
Epilogue is end talking, prologue is beginning talking, monologue is alone talking and dialogue is THROUGH talking. The prefix is DIA not DI. Just try actually looking it up rather than pretending you have.
DIA means either through or across, as in diameter.
You physically CAN'T have checked this out, you just arrogantly assumed that you must be right and you are actually DEAD FUCKING WRONG - and provably so.
@MartinJWillett Physically can't have checked it out? I guess you don't think textbooks dealing with word origins, prefixes, and suffixes--and I CHECKED mine before correcting them, probably the difference between me and most--are suitable sources? They're considered authoritative by experts in the field. Dialogue predates the 15th century, when dia- started meaning through at times. The word dialysis means separation of 2; diaphragm is a fence/tissue between 2 (not through); read a book on it.
@122172639 The Greek is from the 15th century... What the holy living fuck? And I suppose you think diagonal means "two lines" or diameter means "two measures"... If you want me to believe you teach this then you are crazier than a box full of retarded band saws. Give it up, every word you utter makes you look more and more foolish. If my Latin teacher got hold of you he would literally shit in your mouth and call you Delores you mad, bad, crazy halfwit. Off you fuck.
@jacksawild OK, clearly, you can't grasp that language evolves... the Romantic languages caused both "a" and "dia" to evolve over time. The use of dia to mean through is predated by the use of it to mean to/from/of two. Your Latin teacher apparently had a very dense student. Etymology doesn't simply go to the common current use. That's the only point being made, that the idea of "through" was predated by the idea of of two/twice. "Through" is simply a LATER adaptation. You need to study more.
@jacksawild PS Diagonal actually means TWO ANGLES. Pentagon=five angles. Polygon=multiple angles. just look up the word then look up "-gon" which always refers to angles... so the prefix is talking about connecting TWO: "connecting two nonadjacent angles or vertices."
@122172639 You also think that a diagonal means two angles? Shall we list the subjects you fail at: maths, languages, biology and most important humility. Dia = through, gonia = angle as in from angle to angle. You're getting confused. There is a polygon called a digon: di = two = gonia = angle (look it up for the love of god). I don't believe for a second that you have any education, if you do then it's a sad indictment of your country's standards of same. Now shut the fuck up.
@jacksawild Why do you keep insisting that someone living IN this nation is American or was educated here, has their roots here, etc? Not only are you presumptuous, but you're a troll: the entirety of your activity on YT=troll one person here, troll another there; argue nonstop with people about things you are so uneducated in it's like seeing a six year old try to explain the sun, but in your case, you're a very angry, parents-fighting-so-I-retaliate type of kid. I feel sorry for you. Goodbye.
@122172639 When you are in a hole you really should stop digging. The prefix DIA is ANCIENT Greek, it means through or across. End of. Just look it up and shut the fuck up!
The Oxford School Dictionary
Prefixes:
Di-, twice, two [Gk.]
Dia-, through [Gk.]
Other DIA words which have fuck all to do with two: diabetes, diagram, diagnosis, diagonal and my prescription for you: diazepam.
@MartinJWillett Actually, diagonal does deal with two, two angles: "connecting two nonadjacent angles or vertices" -gon meaning angle, or connecting 2 edges "extending from one edge of a solid figure to an opposite edge," both with a straight line(pentagon=5angles). You cite modern words which vary ie diagnosis, which means learn APART(discerning between,not through) vs diakinesis(activity of 2 bivalents), ALL predated by diachylum,2juices(litharge+oil),diadelphian(stamens in two bundles),etc.
@122172639 You are truly pathetic with your need to try to justify your error. A diagonal is a line drawn THROUGH a shape. Diabetes is when water pisses right THROUGH you. Diarrhoea is when shite streams THROUGH you. Dialogue is talking a matter THROUGH, regardless of the number of people speaking. If it was talking between two people we would have words such as triologue for three people speaking.
The prefix DIA (διά) means through, across or apart and it has done since Ancient Greek times.
Listen to yourself! You sound like raging 14 year old trolls. Omg this video is about gifts, stop flaming each other over the word "dialogue". Dear God you people must lead dull lives. I used to be like this when I was like 14, 15, and 12217etc guy says he has been studying this for years or whatever, so he's probably even older than I am.
@MartinJWillett Diazepam is TWO(though it's DI not DIA and couldn't be dia because there's a vowel next) azo(covalent nitrogen bonds) groups bound to a 7-ring compound group (epine comes from hepta). Can you spare me your ignorance? I quickly explained to someone a bit of language(old vs new) I was immersed in for 8 of 11 post grad yrs: year-round Latin, (in-+organic+phys)chem, pharmacology, etc paying tuition as a composition&linguistics professor for 3?Still do terminology. Your arrogance=sad.
@122172639 I don't give a flying fuck what you might have studied in the past, truth doesn't work like that. I have checked out dozens of sources for this and not a single one suggests that the word dialogue has any connection at all to the number two. Couldn't you just try to do the same? And then take a chill pill, I recommended one earlier. Sometimes the prefix DI meaning two is followed by a root starting in A (such as dianthus), but dialogue is not such a word, the prefix is διά, not δι.
@MartinJWillett Yes, on a Sunday night, I'm sure you sprinted to a uni/searched a $1200+ sub I DOUBT you have access to, partly based on your EXCESSIVE time commitment to bitching at&trying to shred the YT masses. Make yourself a nifty timeline of di/dia/dya/duos&trace them ENTIRELY back, not just modern Greek; note changes (ie diadest reverted to dyad-pronunciation)&which DIA words meant what for 2200yrs. They (ie Linne) wouldn't ADD an A to dichylum. "Truth doesn't work like that," TROLL. BYE!
@122172639 You are suggesting that every single internet source and dictionary is wrong and the only way that this can be proved is via a paid subscription or by being you?
There is nothing less charming than somebody who waves their claimed qualifications around, unless that is somebody who waves their claimed money around. You have demonstrated several errors and changed your story, made a clearly dishonest analysis of several words and failed to demonstrate your central argument.
@MartinJWillett You disregard support from 3 reliable web sources that disagree w/your hollow assertion; why would I take yours? You gave faulty examples, failed to cite anything predating modern Greek, failed to comprehend a simple ANCIENT Greek-Latin link & backed out, ignoring words you lack a proper explanation for as you lack the sources to tell you what I double checked BEFORE typing (video=a monologue). Go back to teen minions who find wiseacre doublespeak, vitriol,&empty debate alluring.
@122172639 You type like a retard and claim to be educated to such a degree that nobody could possibly doubt you. In fact I doubt every single twisted point you think you have made.
You have NOT demonstrated that the prefix on the word dialogue is anything other than dia, which means through or across. All you have demonstrated is the fact that you are prepared to stoop to any depth to seem to win an argument which you claim is trivial and presumably beneath your expensive heights of learning.
@122172639 Being called a troll has really really hurt my feelings...why oh why would you call me such a thing!? Oh right yeah because you're American and that's such a bad bad name to be called. Try an english insult? If you were THAT educated you would think you would stop arguing and take the moral high ground...?
@indiechick5 As adorable as your name is (as I'm sure you are, too), I've no interest in exploring lesbianism. If my husband & I ever become open to outside encounters, he'll be the "girl-getter." Thanks for your overwhelming concern, though; I forget to check for trolls as I'm not on here much and am used to people who love learning (ie Nerdfighters on YT)& forget how many default to aggressive arguing, never peaceable inquiry for those 2. The one I replied to initially, though, is quite kind.
@UnspecifiedCarnage Whatever you are arguing/debating about, there is no need to bring up sex and nationality. The fact that you can think that way in this day and age makes me feel physically sick. Take your outdated views somewhere else.
@UnspecifiedCarnage Chicks assuming I have dicks & dicks saying it's because I'm a chick; you're a disservice to humanity, never mind where a vagina spat you out. The idea of dual citizenship must really blow your head off. I suppose you believe Neil Gaiman is American because he purchased a home here and chose to raise his family here, or is he simply another traitor? Maybe you should go back to imagining yourself on Craggy Island as truth isn't a concern for you & globalization seems a fright.
@MartinJWillett ok let's be honest, people rarely thank other people for giving their opinions. People give opinions all the time without being thanked.
@zippidy0 I only returned to get the context for a reply left 2 days ago & just saw your posts. You're free to share your views & I welcome all civil discourse, so thank you. As an educator, I like taught info to be accurate & quickly expressed how this is a monologue vs dialogue to a lovely chap I've communicated w/beyond this video. Rather than truth-seekers/academics who debate to learn & teach, personally insulting my presumed nationality&gender & saying "retard" revealed THEIR intentions.
@122172639 False. That would be duologue. the 'dia' in dialogue is greek for 'across' or 'through'. A dialogue can be between as many people as you like.
@theWordsHere Yeah I know, I was just pissing about. Check out the comments on Alex Jones' videos when they are first uploaded and you'll see what I mean, funny shit.
Hard Times reference = ♥
blueelectricsmoke 20 hours ago
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blueelectricsmoke 20 hours ago
I want the Booker shortlist now. Damnit Michell. I have enough books that I'm too lazy to start reading.
ArchiveEverywhere 5 days ago
I think the visual pun at the start of this episode is brilliant, though I probably disagree with everything said in it. Such is life, I guess.
Weendigo172 1 week ago
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renzling 1 week ago
This is actually a brilliant idea.
wardzer 2 weeks ago
I am overall pretty happy with what I have. Which means that more stressful for me around christmas and the like is not so much "What do I get others" but people asking what I want. I have no clue, and people kind of get upset when I tell them that I don't know what I want!
cyber952 3 weeks ago in playlist Series 3
A friend and I each ask for liquor. She wants Grey Goose Vodka, and I ask for Bombay Sapphire Gin. For both Xmas and B-days. Booze makes everything better.
upallhours9 4 weeks ago
@upallhours9 Glad she never got something crap like Absolut or Smirnoff.
MajBlood 3 weeks ago
@MajBlood We are very specific, so we both know what to expect. :-)
upallhours9 3 weeks ago
That makes so much sense.
aksquash 1 month ago
2:15 No. This is SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
k9pker 1 month ago
Haven't any of you noticed the picture behind him is of someone with a facial cleft? :P
TheConnorian 1 month ago 3
Just buy people alcohol, easy
ChrisKerel 2 months ago
@ChrisKerel Yeah that's what me and my sister started doing when we hit the age to buy alcohol. It's brilliant, we do all the shopping in 1 shop in under an hour, and everyone is happy with their gifts. :D
qeinar 1 month ago
Good horse snort sound at the end from....Age of Empires 2?? is that the sound when you have made a cart from the marketplace?
AnomalousAnemone 2 months ago
@AnomalousAnemone I second that. Regarding the video, I'm still lucky enough to be a child, and so it's socially acceptable for me to make a christmas or birthday list. This is great, because I get what I want, and the people who get it for me know that I will/do like it.
AgentMcgeek 2 months ago
@AnomalousAnemone Bit of a late reply, but it's actually a rather famous (for lack of a better term) horse sound that is public domain, which means it can be used by anyone without fear of copyright infringement, so it is often easier to use such sounds rather than trying to record your own.
c0rse 1 month ago
Isn't gift-giving like the oldest economic system?
So I guess the first reason is the correct rationale.
Unoriginalname84 3 months ago
Are we looking a gift horse in the mouth or is this all coming from the horse's mouth? :P :S
MrShnizzle69 3 months ago
Who made this website yet?
I'll register...
SuperFlons 4 months ago
I like the 'let's take you shopping' gesture towards gift giving. "How bout we find something you like, you don't own and would like to own, and I'll cover it for you."
If you care that it's really a zero-sum game in the end then nothing will really suffice.
GoodW0lf 4 months ago 2
My Birthday's in October
WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
hazworther 5 months ago
The money system fails on the premise that if every Christmas every person sent x money each to his friends he would receive the exact same amount back.
MrYobitchez 5 months ago
David Mitchell's combover officially frightens me now.
elchoaro800 6 months ago
whats in the background
mittROMNEY666 6 months ago
@mittROMNEY666 It is something about looking a gift horse in the mouth. The thing at the top is the uvula.
RogueLavender 6 months ago
@mittROMNEY666 He's inside a horse's mouth. The whole scene is playing off of the phrase "Never look a gift horse in the mouth." :-)
LihAniaih 5 months ago
@LihAniaih oh i get in now thanks
mittROMNEY666 5 months ago
Alcohol, buy alcohol.
ItsScienceBitch 6 months ago
Running out of ideas much?
hazy33 6 months ago
Im terrible at thinking of gifts so all i can get is stuff i know for a fact people need. Most of this is expensive. Sat-navs, DVRs e.t.c.
LethalJizzle 6 months ago
Brilliant idea. If the world listened to David Mitchell, it wouldn't be so god damn broken
saborwolf 6 months ago 2
Presuming that you're going to get any presents? I just get boxes of dissapointment filled with air, and i'm grateful.
GonzoFrogbottom 6 months ago
David is an absolute genius.
ASaxonAtHeart 6 months ago
What's the difference between Kerry Katona and a Twix? You only get two fingers in a Twix.
(Originally it was Joan Collins, but I've updated it for you young folks.)
FreindlyRanger 6 months ago 28
@FreindlyRanger who teh hell is kerry katona?
TheByakuzo 3 weeks ago
@TheByakuzo You could google her, but don't waste your time. Let's just agree about the two fingers and leave it at that.
FreindlyRanger 3 weeks ago
stupid subtitles
itsakitten 6 months ago
Coincidently, I just sent a birthday/holiday wish list to my parents (the only people who actually want to buy me things - and they usually get me things I don't want...). It's all things I'll buy myself someday - if they don't buy it for me first... ;o)
sockpuppety 6 months ago
This makes me think of Sheldon at Christmas in season 2 of "The Big Bang Theory" (a brilliant anylysis and solution.)
sockpuppety 6 months ago
Why Have An Argument? Its Just Stupid...
PixiePaprika 6 months ago
Or you can just fuck the whole idea of annual gifts and save them for when you truly want to show appreciation of deeds or express genuine affection.
Xanatos712 6 months ago
Willies
UbiquitousLazar 6 months ago
it's different when you're a child because you only have to buy a box of chocolates and in return you get loads of lego, so you actually make a profit
zippidy0 6 months ago
For once David actually thinks of something that would perfectly well! Brilliant!
MrJesusX 6 months ago
Last time I checked, it was still unsure whether or not dia- "through" was derived from duo "two".
Fjarhultian 6 months ago
I'll give someone a link to this channel. It's free, but they'd want to have it.
Fjarhultian 6 months ago
Anyone else see this posted on Pharyngula?
zfinet3 6 months ago
i think it is mainly the thought that counts with gift giving. although it is pretty pointless. if you get a gift for someone then don't expect one back.
ec123456789able 6 months ago
Since the comment a few weeks ago about his tight pants, he is either sitting sideways or hiding his crotch behind a prop.
Spannerxl 6 months ago 2
Have to say, of all your rants which make me nod, which is all of them except the ones that presuppose a British cultural background and which only make me giggle at your vitriol, this one I agree with the most wholeheartedly. My significant other and I have long ago disposed of the pretense of gift-giving and just take one another out to the celebrant's favorite restaurant on their birthday. Christmas is a wash so we don't bother.
meatrace 6 months ago
Okay, absolutely no doubt that David and I think the same about social convention anymore. No doubt at all. He's a brilliant man.
PianoWizzy 6 months ago
Speaking of predating the 15th Century, in the 12th Century, there was a street in
London called Gropecunt Lane
macgibbon 6 months ago
lol got you detergent XD
DuncanRoosterT 6 months ago
Did David Mitchell just say dick?
afro10k 6 months ago
I don't really get the opening animation. Is it something to do with the phrase: 'Right out of the horse's mouth'?
MegaAdmiralAckbar 6 months ago
@MegaAdmiralAckbar I would imagine it is to do with the phrase "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth"
superbad297 6 months ago 2
@superbad297 That makes sense. Thanks!
MegaAdmiralAckbar 6 months ago
@MegaAdmiralAckbar It's from the phrase "Never look a gift horse in the mouth".
Lexivor 6 months ago
I can only imagine David's friends being one of two things:
1.) Almost exactly like him in every way.
2.) Nothing like him at all and he's the "posh" one of the group xD
TheLMan101 6 months ago
why the fuck is there a shitstorm over latin and greeks and shit in these comments
watch the video and fuck off
tehc111 6 months ago
@tehc111 There will be a shitstorm when people try to correct somebody and get it even more wrong in the process and then try to bluster their way out of it by pretending that they have checked. People who push lies with bluster should always be attacked, it's as much of a duty as stopping a BMW driver pushing in after driving past a quarter of a mile queue of cars, we just owe it to posterity never to let them get away with it.
MartinJWillett 6 months ago
Nice guy, indeed.
CetteFoisDemain 6 months ago
giving gifts isn't that hard. he just relies too much on logic.
fujikokun 6 months ago
5 people haven't read the bone-setters' daughter. neither have I but i really like this video.
Jez32uk 6 months ago
Where's the "Add David Mitchell to Your Wishlist" button on this page? The Amazon Universal Wishlist is for some reason not allowing me to click it... Come on, now. I know he can be bought for a price! Just look at what he's willing to do to himself for the 50 quid they give him for each of these sessions.
122172639 6 months ago
David and I need to meet.
MysticalFlyingMonkey 6 months ago
If I'd known this, I'd have looked in a lot more horses mouths
TimLake 6 months ago
This is similar to my carefully thought out wedding gift scheme.
Prob 1 Currently people leave a list in a shop, you have to go to the shop, buy the thing, take it home, cart it to their house shortly before the wedding, wasting significant portions of 2 days.
Prob2 after the wedding guest are left in limbo while the important people go off to get photos.
Solution: couple buy the gifts, have them at the reception, and while waiting guests choose a gift for which to reimburse the couple.
Oct23rd4004BC 6 months ago
@Oct23rd4004BC ahaha I think THAT would be the kind of spin for those bridezilla "real weddings" programs that would possibly instill the perfect American values and prepare them for bankruptcy + divorce courts before even walking the aisle: crazy expensive wedding AND they have to put another however much buying their own bedding, tableware, linens o.o (I've been to a $150k wedding; I kept wanting to hurl when I thought about how they were RENTING Wedgwood plates for over $300 a pop-to BORROW!)
122172639 6 months ago
Sounds like a brilliant idea. It sounds somewhat like the lists you get for weddings, when you go to some home appliance store and they have an online list for a certain persons wedding and you can see that the need a blender or a toaster and you can choose which you'd like to buy for them.
DreamfallenOne 6 months ago
He went a little Tony Hancock there for a minute :)
kevfulchester 6 months ago
Preach it brother! Say it how it is!
ApolloHelix 6 months ago
this started off good but now it's just annoying
arnoldlayne1991 6 months ago
So, so true.
31morts 6 months ago
I like to think it was Robert Webb who bought him the men's grooming voucher.
gregthegreat62 6 months ago 75
Banknotes: the Everything Voucher.
EzloMinish 6 months ago 105
@EzloMinish the Anything voucher would be more accurate, wouldn't it? But perhaps that's picky.
lemoutan 6 months ago
well, peepshow/jeeves and wooster dvds are always a great gift and edgar allan poe hand written poems with a picture of a koala giving a baby hyrax a tummy rub also never disappoint...but that s just me...
jeremyshambles 6 months ago
I actually really like that system... It'd make being a college student much easier
SasuNaruCollection 6 months ago
I've just wish listed David :) - I call dibs...
goulygliu 6 months ago
Amazon wishlist is brilliant
sianchild 6 months ago
The "gift horse" metaphor is lost as it ACTUALLY looks like your sitting on presents in a huge uterus :/
Artbug 6 months ago 3
Amazon wishlist has a button that lets you add anything off any website...
zahrimuk 6 months ago
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zahrimuk 6 months ago
I think he must have read "Scroogenomics."
bubstube13 6 months ago
definitely on to something here. Like a wedding registry.
beeDUB75 6 months ago
I agree with David. Wish lists like the one on amazon are God sends! When I get married I'm gonna use the Amazon wishlist to register for presents ;)
s10dlka 6 months ago
Actually, I'd be quite happy with a solemn exchange of bank details.
idedesign 6 months ago
My birthday's coming up at the end of this month so I know it won't be long until the "What do you want?" phone call comes along from at least one relative. As I'm moving in with my OH three days later, the answer is, "As many Anything vouchers as possible please." :) Alternatively, I'll settle for a Sainsbury's giftcard. It would be nice to be able to eat something but beans on toast in the three weeks before moving in and my Student Loan landing.
Kayleigh
ghostmadlittlemiss 6 months ago
Not to look a gift-mitchell in the mouth, but...
NotRelatedToBob 6 months ago
This video...so true. I hate hate hate buying gifts and I'm always awkward about receiving them.
DanieleGiorgino 6 months ago
Aaaaaand shelden from the big bang theory's mind melts
Yailyblog 6 months ago
Brilliant!
88Lamont 6 months ago
Please Mr Mitchell, can I live in your world?
ddemonicflame 6 months ago
Such a list already exists on Amazon. It's called a 'Wishlist' unoriginally enough and you find it by simply entering the person's email address provided they have an account with Amazon.
limericklad2000 6 months ago
I wish I had more Everything Vouchers.
Reibusu 6 months ago
David, that's not a novel idea. I have what has to be the world's largest Amazon wish list for the exact reason you just proposed.
RageTreb 6 months ago
This Thing© is perfectly timed! Just one week before my birthday and my parents ask me what I want as presents. (To which I answer: I'll think about it, call me again next week. And then I haven't thought about it...)
Thanks again for pointing out the awkwardness of our social conventions, David, you always make me feel less neurotic in comparison. Cheers!
Schensue 6 months ago
is that a vagina in the background?
jjpaterson87 6 months ago
@jjpaterson87 Horse's tongue. From the only adage "don't look a gift horse in the mouth." Basically, if you've received something for free then you shouldn't complain about its condition.
TacticusPrime 6 months ago
You're my personal hero! My favourite comedian, writer and actor. Another thing, David was born in the same city as me. Awesome :D
Ph0enixAsh 6 months ago
@Ph0enixAsh Er, London?
otocan 6 months ago
@otocan No he was born in Salisbury, which is where I'm from. He lives in London now though.
Ph0enixAsh 6 months ago
Nobody checks my Amazon wishlist. :(
teawesome 6 months ago
Why does this video have more ratings than views?
Myzelfa 6 months ago
@Myzelfa Because the view counter is updated less frequently for some reason
katMaybes 6 months ago
@Myzelfa The view count stops at about 300 but the views continue to be counted. Its to avoid self promoting of videos by repeated viewing or using a computer program to repeatedly view them. Once the individual view count starts gets nearer to the actual count, the view count updates again. These videos are likely to be viewed several times by individual users so it's quite likely to have the view count frozen this way. They aren't doing anything wrong though.
dhwilko 6 months ago
5 people can't keep up with David's sarcastic dialogue.
Meechree 6 months ago
@Meechree *monologue
FYC
m4rcus4ur31ius 6 months ago
@m4rcus4ur31ius No....dialogue. The words he speaks are dialogue.
Meechree 6 months ago
@Meechree Dialogue requires 2 or more people to be speaking... hence "DI" meaning TWO(or twice or double) vs MONO meaning ONE. A bacterial cell monoculture only has ONE bacteria type in it... a diode is a TWO-ELECTRODE simple semiconductor, thus named because it has a CATHode and an ANode, TWO electrODEs.
122172639 6 months ago
@122172639 Now I feel like an idiot and you win. ><
Meechree 6 months ago
@Meechree The caps were ONLY to emphasize how words mesh, NEVER to attack-I hope you didn't think that. I think knowledge is hot(+helps w/creativity&health:YOU WIN!) &I won trolls! Ppl attacking directly/insulting instead of politely asking/correcting...THAT makes people idiots, not a normal error. While I was sure I was right, they were sure they were, too, and someone is ALWAYS smarter than us, so I try to always be open to being taught. Challenge/debate=good; put-downs/arrogance=suckage.DFTBA
122172639 6 months ago
@122172639 Haha, no I didn't mean it that way. I just didn't realise how stupid I was being >< Thanks though (:
Meechree 6 months ago
@Meechree do you realise the war you've started?!!
Natalie52 6 months ago
@Natalie52 I didn't until you notified me. Holy shit!
Meechree 6 months ago 8
@122172639 Pretentious git...
UnspecifiedCarnage 6 months ago
@UnspecifiedCarnage Yes, because wanting youth to be educated beyond the mistakes of the masses is SO pretentious. If someone incorrectly "corrects" someone, I explain what they don't understand so that they will be better able to apply it to things that matter more than the web: jobs, exams, college entrance essays, dissertations, little things I've had plenty of. We happen to be watching a witty, sarcastic "wordplayer." It's not as if they hijacked a LOLcat video. Your presumption is ignorant.
122172639 6 months ago
@122172639 You're not pretentious for correcting him, but the way you did it was. Explaining something to someone using big words you hope they don't understand in order to reassure yourself of your own intellectual superiority, THAT is pretentious. Especially so when it also transpires that you were incorrect in your correction...
UnspecifiedCarnage 6 months ago
@UnspecifiedCarnage As I already explained, the capital letters are to emphasize how words fit together. If you want to disagree with how Latin works, take it up with the textbooks that are considered authoritative... dialogue precedes when, in the 15th century, dia- was first altered to mean through.
122172639 6 months ago
@122172639 It's Greek, not Latin... Dialogue comes from the Greek, no wonder you're so wrong, you've got your ancient languages mixed up.
UnspecifiedCarnage 6 months ago
@122172639 Dialogue actually comes from the Greek dialogus, which means "converse", which is in turn derived from dia- "across" + legein "speak". Think about it, di does indeed mean two, but you logic would dictate that a dialogue could contain two people ONLY... I suggest you do some research next time. Especially if you are planning on writing a dissertation...
UnspecifiedCarnage 6 months ago
@122172639 The "dia" from dialogue comes from the greek meaning "through" and "logos" meaning speech. Speaking through, as in conversation. Similarly "diarrhoea" literally means "run through", like what comes out of your mouth. In English "dialogue" is used to mean a conversation or speech which is like conversation (like a soliloquy), but "dia" certainly does not mean "two" or there'd be no room for anyone else. "di" means two. If you want to be smart, you should learn shit.
jacksawild 6 months ago
@jacksawild Which came first, the Latin or the Greek? If you want to be smart in etymology, go to the BEGINNING&'learn shit" starting w/the origin, DUO. You failing to grasp Latin prefixes does not alter their function. See: Diaoxide? Diaode? Diaiodide? We often change spellings for ease: dye-uh-i-o-dyed or dyye-o-dyed? Diiodide. We drop the A if a vowel is next ie dioxide,2oxygen,vs DIALYZE,separate the 2(NOT THROUGH)&diaphragm: fence/tissue mass between 2. A/AD is a PREPOSITION: to, of&from 2.
122172639 6 months ago
@122172639 Do you think latin came before the greek? My goodness. This is the problem with the internet, a little bit of information is a dangerous thing. The latin would be dia-logicus and it means EXACTLY the same thing as the greek: speak through. I studied the classics for many years, but I'm sure google makes you an expert.... oh.. what a surprise.. You're a meercan. Go watch Fox, moron.
jacksawild 6 months ago 2
@jacksawild Dia- came first from Latin in the first century. In Greek, it only later, ~the 15th century, began meaning "through" and then it was "through two" to start. I checked textbooks, you know, those big heavy things little kids use to prop things up, before correcting the other person. You studied for many years? I'm sorry that you apparently had a teacher that didn't know his or her shit. I wouldn't have been hired to teach linguistics and composition if I got my info from google, kiddo.
122172639 6 months ago
@122172639 You're wrong.
jorenvonk 6 months ago
@122172639 In future kindly refrain from uncorrecting people, it really pisses off people who know shit when people spout bollocks while appearing to correct a mistake. The prefix on the word dialogue is not DI it is DIA. It is of course an easy mistake to make, a monologue is a person speaking alone, from the Greek prefix mono (alone). Di is the Greek prefix for two so "obviously" that's what a dialogue is. But the prefix is actually DIA, meaning through, as in talking through.
MartinJWillett 6 months ago 3
@MartinJWillett Dia="to" "two." etymonline. com search "dia-" In THE future, kindly refrain from showing how little you know to the entire Internet with Neanderthal-like arrogance, ie "ooh imma gonna troll somebody cuz I think I know more, duhhrrr, than them professor folk up thar. I got wikipeedonya!" In lieu of that, politely ask for references. Mine are university textbooks. dictionary. com AND the link have it; they do not, though, go back to the field, MEDICINE, that devised so many words.
122172639 6 months ago
@122172639 DI is two. The word is NOT di-logue, is it?
Epilogue is end talking, prologue is beginning talking, monologue is alone talking and dialogue is THROUGH talking. The prefix is DIA not DI. Just try actually looking it up rather than pretending you have.
DIA means either through or across, as in diameter.
You physically CAN'T have checked this out, you just arrogantly assumed that you must be right and you are actually DEAD FUCKING WRONG - and provably so.
MartinJWillett 6 months ago 2
@MartinJWillett Physically can't have checked it out? I guess you don't think textbooks dealing with word origins, prefixes, and suffixes--and I CHECKED mine before correcting them, probably the difference between me and most--are suitable sources? They're considered authoritative by experts in the field. Dialogue predates the 15th century, when dia- started meaning through at times. The word dialysis means separation of 2; diaphragm is a fence/tissue between 2 (not through); read a book on it.
122172639 6 months ago
@122172639 The Greek is from the 15th century... What the holy living fuck? And I suppose you think diagonal means "two lines" or diameter means "two measures"... If you want me to believe you teach this then you are crazier than a box full of retarded band saws. Give it up, every word you utter makes you look more and more foolish. If my Latin teacher got hold of you he would literally shit in your mouth and call you Delores you mad, bad, crazy halfwit. Off you fuck.
jacksawild 6 months ago 2
@jacksawild OK, clearly, you can't grasp that language evolves... the Romantic languages caused both "a" and "dia" to evolve over time. The use of dia to mean through is predated by the use of it to mean to/from/of two. Your Latin teacher apparently had a very dense student. Etymology doesn't simply go to the common current use. That's the only point being made, that the idea of "through" was predated by the idea of of two/twice. "Through" is simply a LATER adaptation. You need to study more.
122172639 6 months ago
@jacksawild PS Diagonal actually means TWO ANGLES. Pentagon=five angles. Polygon=multiple angles. just look up the word then look up "-gon" which always refers to angles... so the prefix is talking about connecting TWO: "connecting two nonadjacent angles or vertices."
122172639 6 months ago
@122172639 You also think that a diagonal means two angles? Shall we list the subjects you fail at: maths, languages, biology and most important humility. Dia = through, gonia = angle as in from angle to angle. You're getting confused. There is a polygon called a digon: di = two = gonia = angle (look it up for the love of god). I don't believe for a second that you have any education, if you do then it's a sad indictment of your country's standards of same. Now shut the fuck up.
jacksawild 6 months ago
@jacksawild Why do you keep insisting that someone living IN this nation is American or was educated here, has their roots here, etc? Not only are you presumptuous, but you're a troll: the entirety of your activity on YT=troll one person here, troll another there; argue nonstop with people about things you are so uneducated in it's like seeing a six year old try to explain the sun, but in your case, you're a very angry, parents-fighting-so-I-retaliate type of kid. I feel sorry for you. Goodbye.
122172639 6 months ago
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indiechick5 6 months ago
@122172639 When you are in a hole you really should stop digging. The prefix DIA is ANCIENT Greek, it means through or across. End of. Just look it up and shut the fuck up!
The Oxford School Dictionary
Prefixes:
Di-, twice, two [Gk.]
Dia-, through [Gk.]
Other DIA words which have fuck all to do with two: diabetes, diagram, diagnosis, diagonal and my prescription for you: diazepam.
MartinJWillett 6 months ago
@MartinJWillett Actually, diagonal does deal with two, two angles: "connecting two nonadjacent angles or vertices" -gon meaning angle, or connecting 2 edges "extending from one edge of a solid figure to an opposite edge," both with a straight line(pentagon=5angles). You cite modern words which vary ie diagnosis, which means learn APART(discerning between,not through) vs diakinesis(activity of 2 bivalents), ALL predated by diachylum,2juices(litharge+oil),diadelphian(stamens in two bundles),etc.
122172639 6 months ago
@122172639 You are truly pathetic with your need to try to justify your error. A diagonal is a line drawn THROUGH a shape. Diabetes is when water pisses right THROUGH you. Diarrhoea is when shite streams THROUGH you. Dialogue is talking a matter THROUGH, regardless of the number of people speaking. If it was talking between two people we would have words such as triologue for three people speaking.
The prefix DIA (διά) means through, across or apart and it has done since Ancient Greek times.
MartinJWillett 6 months ago
@MartinJWillett @jacksawild @122172639
Listen to yourself! You sound like raging 14 year old trolls. Omg this video is about gifts, stop flaming each other over the word "dialogue". Dear God you people must lead dull lives. I used to be like this when I was like 14, 15, and 12217etc guy says he has been studying this for years or whatever, so he's probably even older than I am.
zippidy0 6 months ago
@zippidy0 Nobody asked you, nobody cares for your opinion or how old you are.
MartinJWillett 6 months ago
@MartinJWillett Diazepam is TWO(though it's DI not DIA and couldn't be dia because there's a vowel next) azo(covalent nitrogen bonds) groups bound to a 7-ring compound group (epine comes from hepta). Can you spare me your ignorance? I quickly explained to someone a bit of language(old vs new) I was immersed in for 8 of 11 post grad yrs: year-round Latin, (in-+organic+phys)chem, pharmacology, etc paying tuition as a composition&linguistics professor for 3?Still do terminology. Your arrogance=sad.
122172639 6 months ago
@122172639 I don't give a flying fuck what you might have studied in the past, truth doesn't work like that. I have checked out dozens of sources for this and not a single one suggests that the word dialogue has any connection at all to the number two. Couldn't you just try to do the same? And then take a chill pill, I recommended one earlier. Sometimes the prefix DI meaning two is followed by a root starting in A (such as dianthus), but dialogue is not such a word, the prefix is διά, not δι.
MartinJWillett 6 months ago
@MartinJWillett Yes, on a Sunday night, I'm sure you sprinted to a uni/searched a $1200+ sub I DOUBT you have access to, partly based on your EXCESSIVE time commitment to bitching at&trying to shred the YT masses. Make yourself a nifty timeline of di/dia/dya/duos&trace them ENTIRELY back, not just modern Greek; note changes (ie diadest reverted to dyad-pronunciation)&which DIA words meant what for 2200yrs. They (ie Linne) wouldn't ADD an A to dichylum. "Truth doesn't work like that," TROLL. BYE!
122172639 6 months ago
@122172639 You are suggesting that every single internet source and dictionary is wrong and the only way that this can be proved is via a paid subscription or by being you?
There is nothing less charming than somebody who waves their claimed qualifications around, unless that is somebody who waves their claimed money around. You have demonstrated several errors and changed your story, made a clearly dishonest analysis of several words and failed to demonstrate your central argument.
MartinJWillett 6 months ago
@MartinJWillett You disregard support from 3 reliable web sources that disagree w/your hollow assertion; why would I take yours? You gave faulty examples, failed to cite anything predating modern Greek, failed to comprehend a simple ANCIENT Greek-Latin link & backed out, ignoring words you lack a proper explanation for as you lack the sources to tell you what I double checked BEFORE typing (video=a monologue). Go back to teen minions who find wiseacre doublespeak, vitriol,&empty debate alluring.
122172639 6 months ago
@122172639 You type like a retard and claim to be educated to such a degree that nobody could possibly doubt you. In fact I doubt every single twisted point you think you have made.
You have NOT demonstrated that the prefix on the word dialogue is anything other than dia, which means through or across. All you have demonstrated is the fact that you are prepared to stoop to any depth to seem to win an argument which you claim is trivial and presumably beneath your expensive heights of learning.
MartinJWillett 6 months ago
@122172639 Being called a troll has really really hurt my feelings...why oh why would you call me such a thing!? Oh right yeah because you're American and that's such a bad bad name to be called. Try an english insult? If you were THAT educated you would think you would stop arguing and take the moral high ground...?
Nevermind ey!
indiechick5 6 months ago
@122172639 No girl likes a know it all. You are going to die a lonely virgin.
indiechick5 6 months ago
@indiechick5 YAY GO YOUTUBE ARGUEMENTS THAT PROBABLY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ACTUAL VIDEO THUMBS UP TO WHOEVERS ENDING THIS :D
DuncanRoosterT 6 months ago
@indiechick5 I've also been told they don't like besserwissers like @MartinJWillett. :)
xen0ninja 6 months ago
@indiechick5 As adorable as your name is (as I'm sure you are, too), I've no interest in exploring lesbianism. If my husband & I ever become open to outside encounters, he'll be the "girl-getter." Thanks for your overwhelming concern, though; I forget to check for trolls as I'm not on here much and am used to people who love learning (ie Nerdfighters on YT)& forget how many default to aggressive arguing, never peaceable inquiry for those 2. The one I replied to initially, though, is quite kind.
122172639 6 months ago
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UnspecifiedCarnage 6 months ago
@UnspecifiedCarnage Whatever you are arguing/debating about, there is no need to bring up sex and nationality. The fact that you can think that way in this day and age makes me feel physically sick. Take your outdated views somewhere else.
BocadillosYum 6 months ago 2
@UnspecifiedCarnage Chicks assuming I have dicks & dicks saying it's because I'm a chick; you're a disservice to humanity, never mind where a vagina spat you out. The idea of dual citizenship must really blow your head off. I suppose you believe Neil Gaiman is American because he purchased a home here and chose to raise his family here, or is he simply another traitor? Maybe you should go back to imagining yourself on Craggy Island as truth isn't a concern for you & globalization seems a fright.
122172639 6 months ago
@122172639 only* a woman
UnspecifiedCarnage 6 months ago
@122172639 i'm pretty damn sure you're right
blessedspear 5 months ago
@MartinJWillett OH OK YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR MY OPINION, I DID NOT REALISE YOU HAD THE AUTHORITY TO TELL ME WHEN OR WHEN I CAN'T GIVE MY OPINION.
zippidy0 6 months ago
@zippidy0 I said nobody asked for your opinion and you will notice that nobody has thanked you for offering it.
MartinJWillett 6 months ago
@MartinJWillett ok let's be honest, people rarely thank other people for giving their opinions. People give opinions all the time without being thanked.
zippidy0 6 months ago
@zippidy0 I only returned to get the context for a reply left 2 days ago & just saw your posts. You're free to share your views & I welcome all civil discourse, so thank you. As an educator, I like taught info to be accurate & quickly expressed how this is a monologue vs dialogue to a lovely chap I've communicated w/beyond this video. Rather than truth-seekers/academics who debate to learn & teach, personally insulting my presumed nationality&gender & saying "retard" revealed THEIR intentions.
122172639 5 months ago
@122172639 False. That would be duologue. the 'dia' in dialogue is greek for 'across' or 'through'. A dialogue can be between as many people as you like.
sekander94 2 weeks ago 2
Omgs there is only 620 views and 674 likes...
DO I SMELLS CENSORSHIP AND COSNPIRASY?
gingergiblet 6 months ago
@gingergiblet They are continuing to have issues updating view counts. Apparently views are getting stored, just not necessarily updated.
theWordsHere 6 months ago
@theWordsHere Yeah I know, I was just pissing about. Check out the comments on Alex Jones' videos when they are first uploaded and you'll see what I mean, funny shit.
gingergiblet 6 months ago