jack brearley "I saw you in here last week. I saw you idly leafing through the Classics section and not putting books back on the shelf. I saw you pretending to understand Tolstoy and feigning an interest in Shakespeare, before picking the book with the glossiest cover. We all saw you. And we all thought you were a snooze."
YKW2 why are you saying these things about me? because im trying to help you im trying to show you that you arent enlightened or intelligent with profound ideas you dont have any worthwhile contributions you are meek uninteresting foolish and a bore now lets try something simple i recommend the fifth elephant
I hate those kind of people... but they are also arogant as sht... because on one hand I don't wanna date them or anything but if it was in school or elswhere my people pleasing insticts kicked in because ... basicly from birth I know I alone against group of poeple can't do shit... welp up until one asshole now I don"t care ... oh there will b group of people bullying me because you want me? I mean grow up byllying girls to get date is mentality of 5 year old ... also why do you think I told you about that my family don't have luck with people... for you to feel sorry for me? nah mate that is just "lightly teliing you I will not date you how, ever you are digging deep in my past wound, so I basicly will giving gifts to you and shit (and be somehow incrisingly offputing) to leave me alone because I don't want to hurt you)
Funny how in one episode of Would i lie to you, David Mitchell has to lie about writing columns for a womans magasine so he picks Top sante as the one and everyone was shocked that he actually knew a woman magasine. Must have remembered it from this sketch
@@krazed0451 Kinda funny... 'magasin' (without the e) in French means shop. And I think those paper magazines are called 'hebdo', short for hebdomadaire, which means 'weekly'.
+atklm1 We've seen you in here, rifling through the DVD section, reading the comics in the newspapers. We were watching you from the staff lounge. And we all thought you were a turd.
Tiwaking Tiwaking It's 2015. Nowadays people ask naked picture online and agree upon time and a place and it's a one time meeting in a place with dimm lights. New one every other week. And they usually come twice as fat and ugly and ten times more annoying as in the pictures. Anything including date and flowers and asking IRL is a fairytale lovestory these days.
I once asked a librarian: "May I please use one of the computers?" And he replied: "I've been waiting ten years for someone to ask that question correctly."
@@jimreily7538 I would assume that it would be the lack of please, but also the fact that most people say "can" instead of "may", of which "may" is technically correct (the best kind of correct).
My local library allows me to request books online, and the hold shelf is self-service, so I can just walk over and get it. Then I use a self-checkout kiosk to check the book out. This enables me to completely avoid all contact with librarians. However, this strategy falls apart when I get home, because a librarian is waiting there for me. And I can't ask her to leave; she'll just point out that she has every right to be there, since we ARE married.
Are you willing to devote the time necessary to make sure that it is indeed all right for her? Or do you just want to spend the minimum of time and energy necessary to spew vacuous remarks that make you feel better without a whole lot of regard for her?
So this sketch must be why David Mitchell was able to recall "Top Sante" as a women's magazine for "Would I Lie to You". In fact the only one he could recall and yet couldn't explain how or why.
01:08 It's the attention to detail I appreciate. Refusing to split an infinitive is exactly the sort of thing someone like him would do (even though the rest of us are happy to carelessly split infinitives all the time because it makes the sentence flow better and doesn't actually affect the meaning anyway so who gives a shit?).
Feck the snobs here (they're just as bad!), I'm answering literally. There's nothing like a printed book, the atmosphere in a library or bookstore.... even if the clerks can see what you're checking out. It's well illustrated, at least, you should buy or borrow whatever YOU want & the hell with abusive control freaks.
Shaqstheman000 I've been lucky, I mostly lurk looking for book recommends and the few times I've asked a question, it hasn't been flooded with assholes. :D
I worked in a copyright library in Edinburgh for 7 years. This kind of person, while a minority in the library, were also the people with lots of power and shouted the loudest. There is a disproportionate amount of absolute bawbags that worked in my library and they are encouraged by a culture of similar thinking people or those that are easily intimidated and just want to work without hassle. Librarians are often extremely sheltered and the library is their safe space.
I did as well, but many patrons were much better educated than me! This is a "I resent that I work at a public library instead of an academic library" person...😄
When I was at university I knew a librarian that was somewhat like this. She would sometimes scoff and laugh at me and actually told me that a book I was getting out would be too complicated for me whilst giving me a patronising smile. I told her that I was coming back after graduation to do a Masters and she laughed and said "You? A Masters? I hardly think that would be suitable for someone like you!" A couple of years later I got a job creating a digital archive and this library owned all of the original material that was to be digitised and this lady made it as hard for me to access the library as she possibly could. She wrote a long string of emails about my conduct because I had suggested that as an alumni of the university it seemed excessive to have me bring two forms of ID and fill out a form every single day. My friend who was supervising the project asked if I couldn't just be a bit more agreeable with the staff at the library. A few days later he had to come to the library with another member of the project team and when he finally got through the access gate he said "I'm sorry, I see what you mean about them now! She seems to really enjoy all of this!"
Okay, two questions: 1) How on Earth could she possibly think that a book in a university library would be too hard for a student from that university? What was she basing that on? That precisely who the library is there for. 2) Did she ask you out on a little date?
I remember this being one of the first youtube videos I ever watched, so around 2008/2009. I'm back now at 23, and felt called out when she said she went to Warwick..
@@DeathnoteBB you are right it isn't a medical term, it is a psychiatric term for someone at the extreme end of anti social personality disorder. You know what else isn't a medical term? Virtue signalling nincompoop.
how romantic... They have been together ever since. You could tell that he had been observing her for so very very long, and that everything that he was saying about her, was also kind of true for him. Because he knew all his foibles were hers, too, he knew theirs was a match made in heaven. I mean, he works in a library and has no life.
I'm 68 and have only encountered one mean librarian and she wasn't intellectually condescending (didn't seem bright). Have you really found so many? Nine years later, your comment gets a question.
@@owlowl1884 lyadmilo was not talking about actual librarians - they were referring to a series of connected sketches [vicars, mainly but also things like travel agents, etc.] where David Mitchell played the rude, insulting person, and Webb and a female cast member - sometimes this one??? - played the victims. But I think the connection's only peripheral. There's a lot going on here. The humour is FAR darker, and there's a heavy overtone of American pickup-artist book culture. What he starts doing out of sadism he ends up leveraging into what the American PUAs call "negging." It's the opposite of "simping" or "being a nice guy." You not only show indifference to make yourself look valuable, you erode their ego and self-worth to make it seem like you're the best they can do. Webb wasn't a bad-looking guy, but his character is clearly super bitter, atop his narcissism and sadism. Shane Ritchie is a signifier of sorts - the very sort of person the Librarian would hate with every fibre of his being while envying him.
@@owlowl1884 I worked in a copyright Library in Scotland for 7 years. This type of person is extremely common in such a setting. The best people were the visitors, much of the staff had absolutely zero grace or other notable skillset.
The men of South England are the smoothest, most charismatic, passionate conversation artists in the world. Hate to break it to you, but the stereotype that we're cold, pale, boring weaklings was created by American men to turn your women off us, but it really, really didn't work. I'm hitting the states for a few months this summer, and i'm going to show them exactly what they're missing..
Hmmm...British people get free or heavily subsidized dental care so are likely to have decent teeth probaly better than the 85 million Americans without any dental care at all. Secondly alot of Americans live in similar climatic conditions to the UK so unless tanning saloons are rife the skin may well be of a similar hue.
Easy there brother, Americans have better teeth because the gene pool is more diverse. Also, if you look at any map of the earth you will find that the people living in the southernmost portion of Britain would be considered northerners in the US. As a Californian living in the midwest, I can assure you that there is a big difference between people from the south/west and midwesterners/northerners, at least in terms of skin tone.
Clever people can't work in libraries now? Using intellect for the betterment of man-kind is not an obligation as comic-book philosophies would have you convinced. Some people are highly intelligent and well acquainted with the nature of their "fellow kin" and maybe it is for that reason that they are well in their rights, I'd go as far to say justified, not to give a flying f**k about people do. That being said; his attitude was all part of the sketch and did subtly address certain issues. But what you said carried implications about the "cleverness-aptitude" of Librarians; and that is generalizing a little too much. =)
Actually. My point was more that someone that narcisstic is probably going to dislike being asked that question. I never said librarians are not clever people. I said he wouldn't like the implication that he wasn't, or anyone pointing out that he's doing a low-status job he almost certainly believes is beneath him. And not doing it particularly well.
The Library of Alexandria was home to some of the smartest people of all time. It is not really stupidity he is complaining about, it is intelligent people that read/view/watch/listen below their level, particularly women.
...This is just human behavior. people have been doing this since the dawn of man, lowering others self-esteem to then get something from them (including them)
Stewart Damien I was thinking it the whole time he was talking, but him yelling "Bored!" really drove it home. I've only just found these videos, I've been missing out.
PUAs basically just scattershot until they find a woman who's, unfortunately, been subjected to a sufficient degree of this common type of psychological damage in which she's been convinced by a misogynistic society that the only source of personal worth for a woman must come from without, a vulnerability the sexual predator then ruthlessly and dishonestly exploits for personal gain. And for some reason they think that's clever, rather than just immensely unethical and disgusting. It's like the way Cult45 thinks theft is sophisticated, rather than a short-sighted trading of short-term gain for greater long-term pain by clawing at the very social fabric that keeps twits like them, who would last about 30 seconds on their own, no matter what their overinflated egos tell them, alive.
Yep, I had that experience at an interview... for an internship or something I think. Very upsetting. Most of it had nothing to do with the actual role, which I didn't know the details of. Luckily ones since then have been better.
I miss buying CDs in music stores. It was always a delight, buying a Weird Al Yankovic CD from a music PhD who disdainfully blows his bangs off his forehead at my selection: "I may be making minimum wage, but at least I don't listen to this drek." Sigh... god how I miss music stores.
Southern California, down by San Diego. We still have Lou's Records, but all the Tower Records, Warehouse Records, Ameoba Records, etc. are gone. I don't really miss them, was just having fun. :)
+Calamari Chris I don't know anyone who genuinely likes music who doesn't think Weird Al is a genius. Regardless of what you feel about his music, he's an amazingly talented guy. It's quite hard to think of any other musician that has the skills he does. Even other musicians respect him. it's a mark of honour to have Weird Al do a parody of your song: It's a sign that you've 'made it'
What's so funny is that it's totally unexpected. I started in a library putting books away when I knew the alphabet and numbers. My father was a schoolteacher and he and the librarian/English teacher carpooled, so I got a ride to school early (if I was ready to leave when the vehicle was ready to go). Ever since, I've had an affinity for libraries and knew the people that worked in them. I don't think I could've imagined anyone so brazenly rude.
@@mokisan There's this Japanese saying, "Tade kuu mushi mo sukizuki". 'mushi' means bugs, and 'sukizuki' means 'sense of taste' and the saying is translated, "Even some bugs find knotwood tasty," or 'There's no accounting for taste'. I don't find that sort of comedy tasteful, nor even 'funny' but maybe some folks do.
I keep thinking up scenarios where you could use this sketch format. 1) Rough looking couple shown into office, her heavily pregnant, to discover why their benefits have been stopped. 2) Middle class young couple (like in the sketches), waiting for their therapy session with that nice Australian girl they had last week.
He reminds me of Melvin Udall, when he is asked, "How do you understand women so well?" Melvin: "I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability."
Evi1M4chine - bingo, nearly everybody is always trying to pass the buck, extremely resistant to owning their mistakes/weaknesses etc. - this isn't gender specific.
Cornflakes - so you're telling me there are no women's prisons, and no woman has ever been tried and convicted for murdering her husband/children etc.?
I love these kind of sketches - the sadistic and everinsulting shopkeeper endlessly harassing the pitiful customer. Ah, they're so blissful and the comedy is simply genius. ^^
I thought this was just going to be another version of the "Bad" sketches... but this is really scary! It walks that fine line between comedy and a drama about psychological abuse.... so so creepy and horrible at the end when he asks her out....
This is alarmingly accurate going by many libraries I've visited recently. I put it down to them being so pissed off with their jobs being at threat all the time they no longer give a toss about the job or the customers.
Funny how life turns out. Highpoint of that actor's career playing the librarian. Ended up doing TV ads as a character sitting on top of a TV. Then recently had to pull out of TV reality show.
I've had a few guys try this technique on me and I don't enable them. They don't deserve to be taken seriously because they've obviously made their peace with being nothing better than an unfortunate fact of life.
She's so cute though. I'd love to grow old with a woman like her, both of us sitting in armchairs in the front room reading together as the snow falls softly outside the window. And she can read whatever. she. wants.
Michael D Jude Law was Watson in the newer Sherlock Holmes film series. This librarian sounds like Benedict Cumberbatch, aka. Sherlock in the TV series. Mitchell and Webb are the Illuminati.
@@hekatoncheiros208 Nah this relationship is doomed to fail. Toxic as fuck but also began on a horrendous manipulation and lowering of esteem. Meanwhile people don't have sympathy for nice guys because what they feel like they are "owed" for not being total dicks aint so nice.
