David Mitchell rants about WhatsApp for three minutes | Would I Lie To You? - BBC 

He has to stop himself twice

you can see the words physically trying to escape his lips 😭

Best bit 🤬

He's gonna make a great old man with that beard and that look on his face. One day, in a nursing home, all he'll do is make that movement with his lips while having that look in his eyes and everyone will feel judged. He might give a smile to the most professional of the nurses once in a while, but he'll judge the hell out of every other occupant of that nursing home while ranting at them silently with that look on his face. They'll say it's because of his stroke, but that wasn't a stroke. That was just the day he finally had enough.

@@NamelessBody I was about to say, he's really blossoming into the grumpy old man that he always was.

He just wants to get his message out to the world. Which is a little ironic considering the subject!

@@nnmartin94 its global issue

His five point pen policy rant would like a word with you 😅

@SideshowCris Yes, but could he care less?!

I knew it was true before he started.

Same here. I could feel the disdain in his voice as he read the card.

I you've seen David on this show before, you knew it was true about 1/3 into him reading it.

Absolutely!!!How can it not be??😂😂

Even if they made it up it was true.

This sounded closer to the old David. The unmarried David. Victoria mellowed him right out.

We heard

Yall really don't get it?

@@C84__84 people quote their most favorite part so they can highlight it and see how many people liked that part as well you genius

No , he is suppose to be entertaining. And he is

If it's the truth doesn't he have to tell the truth? Just attempt to tell it in an unconvincing way?

Priorities on this show: 1. Be funny and entertaining. 2. If you're lying, act like you're telling the truth, and vice versa, but not too blatantly or it'll be obvious that's what you're doing (this can get a bit recursive but only within reason), 3. Be funny and entertaining.

You know, sometimes, when you make a lot of television, you … uhh …. eh. I’m not wearing any trousers.

I noticed one time he forgot the lie and had to look at the card.

Watch The Social Dilemma. One of the main guys in it popularised that phrase I think.

It’s also completely true.

That's Facebook in a nutshell

I didn’t really understand that

@@cov9290 Free platforms like Facebook, Whatsapp etc gather data that is then bought by marketing companies. Thus, you're the product for the marketing companies. TikTok is the Chinese equivalent of this.

parks

it's like any app, it can be useful but people just abuse it

Indeed. Everyone feels like they need to react to everything, even though they have nothing to add to the conversation. Some people don’t seem to have a life.

problem is people try to force you into these groups, be it friends family or god forsaken work. the last 1 being the hardest to try to get out of.

I just turned of all group notifications. That is also a solution

He talked about the noises. You can silence your phone or mute the groups for 8 hours or a week. Control the tech don't let the tech control you

How about just actually WALKING down.

Her answer is the best bit of this whole video and no one else is talking about it! 😂

@@hairyneil i genuinely think it went over everyone’s heads

She had other things on her mind 😂😂

​@HashimAziz1 the aubergine emoji hehe

His eyes at 1:56 and 1:57 when they narrow

😂

Only way he could grab the laughs after her candid response was to pretend he wasn't intentionally dropping the innuendo

Her justification ("it's free!") was baffling.

@@nahadoth2087 Yeah, it's a weird comment to make. I'm not a fan of WhatsApp either, but it's the only end-to-end encryption service you can easily convince people to use. It may still track some user data, so services like Signal are a far better option, but it's better than people defaulting to something like Facebook Messenger.

@@nahadoth2087 What does Tik Tok have to do with China?

@@fkklkomvocl1234gv Tik Tok is owned and run by the Chinese government.

​@@fkklkomvocl1234gv It's owned by China. They are well documented to use it in their surveillance efforts of US citizens. The state government of Texas even passed a law prohibiting any use of TikTok in or on official grounds.

What ad break? This is a BBC programme. There are no ad breaks.

Let's be honest, David Mitchell has always been a grumpy old man deep down lmao and we love him for it.

You should go back at that moment and watch his eyes at 1:56

It's so in character for him I wouldn't have been surprised if someone had reverse psychologied themselves into thinking it was a lie.

Back to walking.

I would never. I also will not scan a QR code to get a menu at a restaurant...they are not entitled to my information just so I can eat a burger. Ridiculous!

She actually says 'never thought about it like that'

​@@MrCooll971 Yes, the look of horrified realisation on her face in the second before the camera cuts away to Lee is just awesome to behold.

This is my favourite bit 💎

Already there mate

@@RedBatRacing Same here! Lockdown? Piece of cake!

Glorious

@The Lord of Entropy My country actually didn't have one, but I wasn't gonna let that stop me from not going out!😄

@The Lord of Entropy Sweden. Everyone called us crazy at the time, but once the dust had settled it turned out we did better than most.

Similarly to the most obviously untrue card Lee ever read where he said he has perfect pitch :D

That you are the only person to mention it gives me hope for humanity.

They are the perfect combination for WILTY. Obviously, it's not real life, it's a TV show, and parts of it are probably scripted/rehearsed/edited, and all that. That's just TV. And I'm sure that what we see onscreen are exaggerated comic personas of who DM and LM actually are. But I think in the case of WILTY, a lot of their actual personalities do come through, and it's always very funny to watch. Great show.

And Rob has been a wonderful support and addition to them from the second he became host!

It's really more of texting service than social media

Come to the bright side

@@magnusgranskau7487 Are we the goodies?

@@HashimAziz1it’s possible that the group is important but the responses are too numerous. Say you’ve planned a dinner with friends and you’re communicating plans on WhatsApp. The first message of “dinner @ location @7PM” Is important, and it’s the reason you started a group chat. 15 responses follow of “okay thanks” “cool” “see you then” “I’m excited” “can’t wait” etc etc.

@@HashimAziz1 Or he knows how to communicate perfectly fine, just not through WhatsApp. It might be shocking to you but there are other ways to communicate, including conversations in person.

​@@HashimAziz1I strongly prefer textual communication over verbal. Any yet I have found that any form of group message will still always be awful. It is important for me to know that we are meeting in a different pub, or that we are not putting out Stock B until the last of Stock A has sold out. I don't need to know how your husband is recovering from his accident and I don't need to see pictures of your cat, however cute. And that is setting a high bar in comparison to what I have had to wade through before.

@@jaylamont2870 I’m not setting up a WhatsApp group just for one event. I have WhatsApp groups for different friend groups and we organise in there if we’re going to do something.

The trouble is a mismatch between expectations of people about what these groups are for and different taste/feelings about what is worth reading & posting. Some people genuinely care about others news and probably expect that others will care when they post their news about their cat / family. People have different senses of humour too. Some groups have a genuine flow between chit chat and heart to heart conversation, information, commentary & humour - similar to what you'd get in holiday of friends sharing accommodation. In too many other groups eg. Someone is there to hear necessary information but finds themselves trapped in traffic of memes, or they are there for friendship and find themselves only hearing advice & 'tips'. Also people need to up the quality of their messages and decrease the length & volume when it is going to higher numbers of people.

I think spell check is as vital as the green cross code, but with you on the other two.

Seems like u can't adapt to basic shit.

I still don't understand why I have to type a whole paragraph with my friggin' thumbs, instead of just calling someone with the phone. WE've gone backwards, we're back to using telegrams instead of speaking to each other.

1000% when anybody tries to add me to a group text, I usually end up ignoring them for several days out of spite. Can’t stand that shit

But how on earth are you going to know what peoples food looked like when they go out for a meal!?

Yup me too. They add me on my birthday, every year, and I leave the group immediately after I thank em all for all the nice messages.... Which they could have just sent directly to me. Why does everyone need to see how nice you're being to me????

I hate it when my brother adds me to a group for each celebration (e.g. birthday & Christmas) just to ask what presents... never speaks to me other than that, has no interest in my daughter, but continuously adds us to stupid pointless WhatsApp groups that we leave as soon as we've written our response. I think groups are just a way to be lazy for some people because they can't be arsed to copy & paste a message to someone else.

I have a friend who's got social anxiety but is still using WhatsApp very actively as an effective way of communication. Her anxiety makes her not want to bother anyone who doesn't want to be bothered, so she's created 5 different groups with different constellations of the same 6 or 7 people and uses a different group depending on who she doesn't want to bother with a group text. It's so confusing to keep track of those groups, I'd much rather get the occasional message that's not meant for me.

They are in other countries like France and Portugal... I really don't understand why people here allow this kind of intrusion into their lives 🤔

@@molimolinana I live in Spain! Siesta time should be preserved!

That only solves some of the issues for that particular user and doesn't address many of the other problems with the app (or the usage of phones in general)

@@nicolaim4275 I know, that's why I am with David on this despite knowing how to switch off notifications.

Should have taken the F.

@@heroclix0rz unfortunately we're traveling to another country together and they want to be able to ~*"contact us"*~ or something 🙄

I was in a similar situation, got it after refusing to for 5 years a couple of months after I turned 16 - I jumped before I was pushed. Luckily not having had for that length of time means that I haven't been pulled into any large and pointless chats.

Or, better, "What's Whatsapp?"

Otherwise its non stop spamming of memes and emojis

Can't fault you for doing that, honestly

there's way more people not on social media these days. Anyone with any sense comes off it.

Whatsapp is not social media ffs, it's a DIRECT TEXTING SERVICE

@littleman787 yes, and it's handy for talking to my friends in other countries for free. On the other hand, I have seen adults form little clique-y exclusive off shoots of larger groups, like in high school, just to Billy others

@@littleman787 - So you think a proprietary application and network designed to make people communicate in groups and stay permanently engaged with the platform "is not social media"...? 😆

Exactly!

You could use different apps that do the same but do not consider your phonebook and all the pictures ect. you send their data and have fewer security leaks. (I know of companies for whom installig whatsapp on a company phone is considered a valid reason to lay you off.)

Right, the issue is about receiving pointless notifications all the time and I totally agree it sucks, but you can fix it very easily. You can even individually mute notifications on the chats you don't want to be notified about and still receive notifications from others. Even outside of Whatsapp I think people should be way more strict about what they allow their devices to notify them about.

It's also a direct line to China for all your personal information.