David Mitchell ends his look at modern manners in a golf club bar. Has it all gone wrong? Copyright BBC and David Mitchell
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@bigbenhebdomadarius62527 жыл бұрын
What a pleasure! You never hear this kind of thoughtful musing on American radio. This series is like an audio version of one of Montaigne's essays.
@unconvincingrebel7 жыл бұрын
If i ever join a golf club i'll know ive failed as a human
@svgamevidsmk27 жыл бұрын
Now now, golf clubs are perfectly sensible tools for striking golf balls
@knifeyonline7 жыл бұрын
but to say, I want to strike this ball so often, and be here with other people striking balls so often, I'd like to buy a piece of this place to assure my place here. I think that's kind of what Kcuf was talking about. ^_^
@azurephoenix95466 жыл бұрын
Or figured out that the drinks are 2-3 times stronger than at a pub, at roughly half the price in a place where no chancers can wander in and rob you blind because you've spent your regular boozing budget and are now twice as drunk as you would otherwise be.
@grannyphoenix65204 жыл бұрын
Goodness David, button your shirt please. LOL
@zbleubleuokeydokey65478 жыл бұрын
My 74 year old dad still wears a jacket and tie when he goes out at night in a restaurant. I like that.
@zetetick3957 жыл бұрын
Nothing wrong with a jacket : It's when they start turning up for dinner in their pyjamas that you need to start worrying!
@scienceyo50644 ай бұрын
Can be nice, his choice but it’s just eating food man
@thescowlingschnauzer7 жыл бұрын
I agree with David Mitchell that the bad kind of manners hit the middle class the hardest. However I would further posit that the reason those bad kinds of manners exist is because they are middle class people's way of earning their way up. They looked at upper class people and said "They do that, so if I do that I will have earned my place as one of them, superior to these slobs around me." In short, we do it to ourselves.
@parsnipguy29863 жыл бұрын
I like how the series ends with admitting how the "manners" of old were at the price of some damn upsetting prejudice
@RUBBER_BULLET Жыл бұрын
One always takes two pairs of trousers to the golf club in case one gets a hole in one.
@aderek797 жыл бұрын
It is strange how many people in the golf club were very concerned with wearing the correct clothing. I don't recall hearing any of them saying much about how people should treat others, other than the bit about yelling fore.
@mr_guy6617 жыл бұрын
aderek79 This is what rich old people worry about lmao
@tinnedtuna82427 жыл бұрын
David really tried to find common ground with that guy with that great insight over dress code being a means of avoiding social awkwardness. And then the guy responds with a comment about how disgusted he was when he saw someone wearing a baseball cap. He showed that for him at least it was nothing more than snobbery.
@thomascarroll95567 жыл бұрын
McFro95 FWP
@mr_guy6617 жыл бұрын
Thomas Carroll ?
@Ogaitnas9003 жыл бұрын
Thx for the upload, really enjoyed it.
@Maffoo7 жыл бұрын
The people in that golf club really are the worst.
@tinnedtuna82427 жыл бұрын
Just snobs. There was nothing behind their policy beyond people who wear ties being a better class of people.
@BemusedExpression7 жыл бұрын
Really? People who wear ties and agree that ties are proper for their communal dining room, they're the worst? The worst?
@jobbz91077 жыл бұрын
Has it ever occurred to these people that golf is a bit rubbish?
@musikSkool3 жыл бұрын
Golf is going for a relaxing stroll, while still getting to occasionally hit something.
@user-wz5sl2vl6c3 ай бұрын
😮 boooo
@ghosted16448 жыл бұрын
Why is his shirt so open?
@leahlayada56548 жыл бұрын
He lost weight and is going for "sexy nerd" now.
@AymanB8 жыл бұрын
Or it was quite hot that day and he doesn't have his genitals on his chest.
@adorabell42538 жыл бұрын
Guessing it was a director decision. Can't imagine David doing that of his own accord.
@zetetick3957 жыл бұрын
All need be done now is photo-shop in a string vest and send it off to the Daily Mail. :o
@IamRobotMonkey7 жыл бұрын
+Ayman B. How do you know him that well?
@stahppls22933 жыл бұрын
The posh golf club ladies embracing old tradition while being conveniently forgetting women aren't originally admitted into country clubs
@ReySkywalker29 ай бұрын
13:41 “Everyone got a grip on 2023” That didn’t age well.
@BemusedExpression7 жыл бұрын
I suggest that the Lord and Lady Buchanan, who served dinner on paper plates and served tea in silver mugs, were implying that the vicar's family would break their dishes. Bless her, the vicar doesn't know when she's being insulted.
@Tina060197 жыл бұрын
Hahahaha Well, Chinet paper plates are pretty nice. But I hate plastic cutlery so much.
@christopherpardell441810 ай бұрын
I think the notion of proper dress is not just tradition, or manners. Its Appearances. The plain fact is that what used to be called ‘proper attire’ is clothing tailored to flatter our bodies. To make us human beings look more stylish, well formed, and attractive. And that, today, everyone feels its fine to walk about in knit shorts, flip flops and a t-shirt, which, sorry, but make human beings generally look their worst, most slovenly, and lazy selves if they don’t happen to be a youthful and learn Adonis or Diana to start with. Once, while waiting in line to tour the Duomo in Milan, the group of 4 ahead of me, who were obviously Americans based upon their weight and knit tshirts and shorts and sandals, got to the door and the Italian guide at the door looked them up and down and told them they could Not go in the Cathedral dressed like that! He told them to go to their hotels and put on some respectful clothing. They looked to me to complain and I told them I agreed with the Italian. That the Milanese had spent 400 years building the most beautiful cathedral they could imagine, and here these tourists had traveled halfway around the world to be the most unsightly things in the building. The greatest compliment I got traveling in Europe was that None of the locals ever took me for an American. When I asked them why they wouldn’t assume I was American, they simply said that my wearing a simple collared shirt and long pants and closed toe shoes was far too well dressed to look like an American.
@TesterAnimal16 ай бұрын
Nope! We didn’t get a grip in 2023!
@coreyhighbeam32697 жыл бұрын
When I used to play rugby, after the match we had to wear a shirt and tie after the game for when we had food with the other team
@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human7 жыл бұрын
That's because rugby is a brutal game played by gentleman, in comparison to football which is a gentlemanly game played by brutes.
@thomascarroll95567 жыл бұрын
James Bennett gentlemen who didn't like working class playing their game.
@munch15a7 жыл бұрын
so was this a tv s how at first or always rdio ?
@vesnamcmaster82408 жыл бұрын
If it weren't a crime to snoop into other people's houses, everyone would stop by? REALLY?
@zetetick3957 жыл бұрын
MMmm... Mind if I have a coupla spoons of those Kellogs? Thanks. (om nom)
@TimTindall7 жыл бұрын
Have you played any RPG?
@zetetick3957 жыл бұрын
Kim Bheazley Well, at least let me take some milk for my coffee first! Oi! Come back! Bugger.......Not sure this new law is gonna work out for the best imho :/
@Icetrucker19567 жыл бұрын
As a somewhat fan of David Mitchell, I thought this a bit too dry for my taste.
@NeseveseN8 жыл бұрын
Interesting points about rudeness being shown on the television. I tend to agree that it would be more acceptable if the program was a deliberate parody or comedy show which is meant to exaggerate aspects of our human conditions and living. But I don't like it when television programs make it all too blatant and standout-ish, to the point where it is absurdly obvious to anyone watching that the form of embarrassments or rudeness being shown are unrealistic, and worse- contrived. Certain shows like "the office" specialize in having their characters do ridiculously outlandish acts of embarrassment or rudeness that no one in the real world would probably ever think to do. I even feel that about Peep Show, certain things the characters do look contrived, as if to do a poo on the camera and then make a wide eyed expression as if to get the 'omg' reaction from the audience.. I could be wrong of course, and it is just my opinion but I hate it when shows do that. I hate it when the characters in the show are shown to do tricks and stunts just to put the audience in gasp mode, and then the characters look at the camera as if they want a biscuit for their trick. I don't like because it stands out and is blatantly obvious. However, parody and comedy allow for these types of things to be acceptable even if a bit obvious, because part of our human condition is to be able to laugh at all of our horrible truths or embarrassments.. Cheers.
@tonytidbury6569 Жыл бұрын
It is probably not your duty to comment on poor scone making, but somebody may be in the position/relationship that should do so. Best friends should find a way to broach the subject of B.O. despite the marketing use of a supposed taboo.
@adamsbja8 жыл бұрын
I had to pause at the Great British Bake-Off comment because I tend to watch it out of empathy, not joy in rudeness. Comments of "you really botched that bit" and such are made out of commiseration rather than cruelty. Is this biting British rudeness that has simply gone over my American head the same way "bless her heart" from a Southerner means nothing of the sort?
@butterflyreflections8 жыл бұрын
+adamsbja I would have to say yes, sadly. The British can be quite sneaky with their put-downs... but I've only been here ~5 years.
@adorabell42538 жыл бұрын
Yes, but I'd say the in GBBO you can tell when people are commiserating and when they're being rude. There is a lot of kindness and understanding on that show. I would suggest that it's because so much of the judging on that show is objective vs subjective. If your bread is underbaked, no matter how pretty it is it won;t score well.
@danikahyssong56527 жыл бұрын
I had to pause there too. I always loved the GBBO because the contestants seemed so supportive of each other. I also paused at all the comments across the 4 episodes about how much ruder Americans are. I don't know if it's because I live by DC (politicians and diplomats) or if my family is just stuffy but all the standards of British manners David discussed are the same standards expected in my family.