We Live In The Age Of Idiocy | Recalibrate
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- čas přidán 28. 09. 2023
- From Recalibrate, Russell chats about how social media trends are making way for morons...
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"Stop making stupid people famous" a brilliant piece of graffiti I spotted .
Needs to be a shirt design.😂
@@guildmastersstory2169 I think it may already be on T Shirts , it made me giggle , I hate these so called reality shows and will not watch them , I'm happy with a good documentary , I know that sounds boring , maybe I'm boring!!
@@StickyBud9395 I should probably Google before commenting, turns out it’s also a song. I’d prefer a documentary over reality T.V as well .
@@guildmastersstory2169 Is it really a song? It's still an interesting title for a song, anyway it was still a piece of graffiti , even if it is a song , I hope it isn't a crap song .
@@StickyBud9395 Yeah it’s a song by ‘Our Lady Peace’ there’s a couple of Vids on CZcams.
My favourites : 'remove baby before folding' on a pushchair and 'may contain nuts' on a packet of.... nuts.
To be fair, the nuts one isn’t a warning, it’s protection from a lawsuit for the company lmao
Caution, may contain fish, on a can of tuna.
Peanuts aren't nuts(they're legumes, the same family as peas), but are often packaged in factories that handle actual nuts.
The warning is there because that's the law. They're not listing nuts on the ingredients but run a risk of being contaminated so they must include the warning to ensure people are aware of the risk if they have a nut allergy(but aren't allergic to peanuts).
A small rubber baby doll I had as a kid had “ WARNING: NOT A FLOATATION DEVICE” written on it…. Well fucking thanks Einstein the whole reason I bought the dolly was to take it to the pool, now I’m totally fucked.
My favourite is the use by date on salt.
It's literally a preservative, FFS.
A couple years ago my friend gave me a Christmas card that had glitter on it. On the back of the card there was a warning, stating do not touch your eyes after touching the glitter. My friend wrote on the card "because some idiot clearly did that."
KP peanuts "may contain nuts", I assume because someone's family member sued them for not making it obvious..
@@alfsmith4936 On the back of a microwave meal - WARNING: Handle with care. This food will be hot once heated.
In fairness that shit gets everywhere. One glittery sticker you'll be finding sparkles for the next two weeks.
While the sentiment of your point is there, peanuts are in fact not nuts lol @@alfsmith4936
Buys friend a card covered in microplastics because they care about the friend's future
Idiocracy needs to be reclassified as a documentary.
Ignoring the fact it’s a not so subtle argument for Eugenics.
Lol that's exactly what an idiot would suggest! Way to out yourself. 😆
@@Saje3Dhow is it an srgument for eugenics? Was a while since i saw it but never once entered my mind lol
@@andreaskarlsson5251 Because the basic premise is that dumb people should not be allowed to procreate if you want society to succeed. That's pretty messed up, even though I do believe there are people that are basically doing 3 things: fucking, drinking and fighting, and these people should not have kids.
@@Saje3D i see you got a shout out
''Never underestimate the power of stupidly in large groups''. I can't remember who said it, but it is a good quote
George Carylin?
People are stupid. Individuals are intelligent. Also a quote from somewhere.
@@Thurgosh_OG "A person is smart, people are dumb panicky idiots and you know it" - Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black recruiting J
3/4 people took an experimental substance with no safety data available for it, simply because the news told them to 😅
Haha
Porn is so unrealistic because the plumber always turns up on time.
To be fair, it was a German plumber.
@@kellydalstok8900 🤣🤣🤣
And the pizza guy is always handsome and hunky...
i like that you carefully said "turns up"
The plumber trope died out in the 1980s.
Many years ago, I realized how doomed we are when I found the words "remove before driving" on an auto windscreen sun shade.
While riding in a car at 40 mph down a dirt road in az in the late 80:s a big grasshopper landed on the windscreen.
The american girls in the front seats started to scream bloody murder and the one in the passager seat used the news paper she was reading to cover the entire windscreen.
I guess this warning text was designed for such as her.
And a lot of other things. Your point?
There is a legend, about one windscreen sun shade company which lost all the money to moron riding car with it on windscreen, because they forgot to wrote "remove before driving".
@yassir325 We've created our ,most assured ,complete destruction. How is that ,not funny ?
We need to remove all warning labels! Let the problem solve itself!
The movie Idiocracy is now getting the credit it deserves, but I suspect when they made it they did not expect it to be so accurate.
the fact that they made fun of crocs as shoes only for them to actually become popular is by far the funniest factoid in this century
@@sovietunion7643 it's what the foot crave
@@sovietunion7643 I had a friend who wore them. I'd never seen them up close before, she showed me hers, but they're really light.
@@sovietunion7643 I have two pairs of crocs, but where I am it's hot and humid and we get 7 feet of rainfall a year. Crocs are comfortable, breathable and waterproof - and when you get mud on them you just kick a puddle and they're clean again, I love wearing them and I don't care what people think.
This comment thread killed the last surviving bits of hope in me. I'm ready to elect President Kimachio... I mean it couldn't pan out worse than my other choices I figure.
Russell's ability to impersonate other British People is unparalleled. It's amazing.
Some mother's do 'ave 'em 😂
Oh so this was just the British, imagine if he touched upon 'muricans 🤣🤣🤣
@@8Smoker8he probably doesn't want to risk getting shot
I knew we were doomed when they added a new meaning to the word ‘literally’ in the dictionary because so many people use the word wrong. I literally died when I read it.
😂
Languages evolve with use. Nothing new under the sun. Same way we got both inflammable and flammable. Dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive.
@@CartwAalbiel yes I agree, language and meaning evolve over time. But not always for the better in my opinion.
@@CartwAalbielmutate not evolve. Good mutations should lead to evolution, mistakes to extinction.
@CartwAalbiel I totally agree with you. But I'd assume that these language changes used to happen naturally and slowly. The internet speeds up natural progressions to warp speed and leaves people clinging to the desire to standardize what is, out of a desire for more stability in a world that feels crazier by the day.
"We were defeated by bendy bread"
Australians who were defeated by Emus: 😄
The fact that humanity exists....proves to me that there is no ALL powerful, all knowing and all wise being. I cannot fathom such a being who knew what we would become actually creating us to be who we are and to do the things we do to each other.
Psychopath enjoying the s***t show?😂
“Like she's got the flu on a trampoline!” What an image! 😂💀
That absolutely killed! That was a "pause the video so I can finish laughing" joke 😆
Because we prioritized entertainment at the cost of education, both literally and metaphorically.
That 1st step: television networks making their news divisions to turn a profit...
Humanity has always been like this. It's just more visible now with social media.
Precisely!
Nah, we're definitely slightly more retarded than we were several or so decades ago.
And unfortunately, we have the charts to prove it.
Filthy Frank really was ahead of his time. Stupidity has always been around, it's just the internet that allowed it to be expressed and paraded for everyone to see
@@revolverjesus98 Nay brother, the data shows that we've grown more retarded over the past several decades...truth be told, we were always stupid, but our stupidity had a fine line, now....now we have crossed that line by a couple inches.
There's actually a lot more protection for the stupid than there used to be so you know there's that
0:33 that "who the fuck?" has me dying. I've been replaying it over and over and over again 😂😂😂😂
Brings the following quote to mind "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." by Albert Einstein.
First time seeing this guy but I had a laugh doing so.
I really can't forget this so-called comedian laugh at people not wanting the injections..... This same guy mocking the stupid? Irony.
Do you remember MTG laughing at kids dying from cvd19? And she isn't even a comedian! @@MHLivestreams
@@MHLivestreams Yes, I think I’m on the verge of spotting the reason you don’t find Russel funny. It has to do with you and idiocy.
@@jayipayi3884 don't forget to get your booster, got to be safe, right?
We actually call silica gel packets "do not eats". I onced asked a medical person what would happen if you ate one. They said "not much".
this is hilarious, because I had one once where the middle bit of the 'e' was missing, so it read "do not cat" 😆 and I always think that to myself every time I see one now!
One guy ended up at hospital with horrible pains after he heat eaten a lot of silica gel packs trying to commit suicide... His pains suddenly vanished when he at hospital told them he had tried to commit suicide by eating silica gel and they just laughed and told him he will be fine as they are harmless. His pain was just in his mind because he believed he would die.
@@a64738 It's a dessicant so it could have given him bad stomach cramps and make him a bit ill. but it's essentially sand that soaks up water
It's SO nice to see a comedian getting back to just making fun of life, without worrying about the overly sensitive
"...getting back to just making fun, without worrying about (yada yada).."
1. You do know this is nearly 7 years old, don't you. A few little things have happened since then.
2. Comedians have always made fun of life. That's a pretty big part of _comedy._
😐
You should get your head out of the sand more often then
And it's becoming illegal in more and more western countries.
IIt's so nice nice to see see people who have obviously no idea of who Jerry Sadawitz or Mave Higgins, or Jossie Long, or Ross Noble, or anyone is piping up with their make commedy great again nonsense: Bring back Jim Davidson! The richest comedian in the UK is probably Jimmy Carr, or possibly the little britain duo, but you can't say anything these days, am I right?
Stop reading the garbage your boomer fb groups are telling you.
I mean.. apart from the comedy this guy is just spitting pure facts. Humanity is doomed.
@@OliverGBarker Yeah? Well stupidity gave us Donald Trump and Boris Johnson so I think intelligence is necessary.
@@martinputt6421Biden.
The most stupid yet most dangerous species to walk this planet.
Thats what most comedians do , but in a funny way
Yes he's spitting pure idiotic moronic facts
Man, this guy is good.
I love these vintage uploads from the 00s, jokes about stupid ppl and label warnings, ah takes me back.
@@armondtanzI think we got one here.
I haven't laughed out loud to a comedian in so long. Thank you.
I'm dying laughing! I love Russell's comedy!
You and me both
Two words - MISTER DILDO
Not me
@claudius I'll use your me.
@@claudio0691then go somewhere else
We are living in the dark age of social media
This man is a treasure.
Yes, and he needs to be buried
@@claudio0691Dear Sir, what on earth is the point of typing something so cynical and unpleasant ? Until it is proved otherwise, can we not assume that Mr Howard is sincere in his somewhat idealistic humour ? Oh, perhaps you know something that I do not...
Dear Mr Rabbit, your brief comment, with which I agree wholeheartedly, prompted me to thank you. For what? For not using that damned word "legend". I have been objecting to it for some time now, given that it means something invented and untrue, so thanks very much for using such a nice word to describe such a nice man.
You probably think I'm a pompous twat, and you may well be right. But I mean it.
Cheers.
The first two cooking instructions on my corned beef were "removed corned beef from fridge" and "remove corned beef from packaging".
"We were defeated by Bendy Bread!" LOL Every day I see examples of the Dunning Kruger effect. It's far reaching.
Bendy Bread is a conspiracy by the french to make the great british people look bad! Let's declare war on the frenchies! We've left the EU, let's make the most of it!
Well it has nothing to do with said effect. It's just stupidity.
Dunning kruger effect suggest you read more about it, it works from both sides.
I did once fall down "the gap". In 1994. I was on my way to a university exam, having taken very strong pain killers for toothache. I got stuck between the platform and the train. My notes on the exam subject went flying all down the tracks. The train could have started with me halfway down "the gap". A fellow commuter went nuts screaming for the conductor to halt the train and ran over and pulled me out. I feel sure he saved my life. And I never even got his name.
Wow. That was a shocking experience 🍀🍀🍀
Thanks Russ I really needed that asthma attack😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Right?
Excellent comment about Love Island contestants. Those dimwits eventually turn up on gameshows etc and prove again that the ' dumming down ' of tv is a real thing. Nice job Russell .
"Who the eff watches porn for the story?" 😂😂
Can you imagine the reviews, the action was good, but the story was bloody terrible, kept expecting the husband to walk in on the wife fucking the German plumber, instead he just finishes up, fixes her sink and leaves. Which is why I've given it 3 out of 5 both here and on Rotten Tomatoes. 😁
Funny you say that; there are actually porn equivalent to the Grammys. Like best actor, best actress and the other categories. This is real. Have a look sometime.
LOL, what did we do in the 90s? We sat in parking lots and.... chilled.
I took a sip of water when he talked about his brother listening in on the other line and almost chocked...learn from my mistake, do not drink and watch Russel Howard
Two scariest movies for what humans will become: Idiocracy and Wall-E
Add a third: Terry Gilliam's "Brazil", yet another dystopian film that's rapidly becoming a documentary!
Add „don‘t look up“
I legit started crying laughing 🤣🤣 You're a treasure Russell ❤
A treasure that should have stayed buried. 😂🤣😂
What?@@margaretjbuckley
@@jnewgot Pirates, treasure, buried!
Are you a Yank?
How would either of be related? @@margaretjbuckley
@@jnewgot Oh, you are a Yank, you never read the book Treasure Island?
I have always said this about hot water taps. Our at work say "Caution hot water" ... ofc its bloody hot, its the hot water tap!
I have met two adults in my life who didn’t know the Sun was a star. They both said “well, you know about things like that!” What did they think it was - a huge UFO?”
A massive desk lamp lol
according to timon, it is just a firefly that got stuck up there.
You misspelled "adolts"
@@rakeshmalik5385 - No, you did!
Education is all about learning what to call things to accurately communicate ideas based on that subject matter with similarly educated peers. Having something important enough to communicate is where we separate intelligence from education. The vast majority of educated people have nothing important to say, but can say it like it is important.
So your two adults aren't necessarily stupid and are just not educated in astronomy. Something to think about?
This needs to blow up. This is so true, it is so sad.
LMBO. I love to hear about how it was for kids growing up in diff, ages. Both my parents are Vietnam vets, (both Navy) and I grew up in the 70-80's by the 90's I was out causing trouble lol. Served on the USS-Nimitz
My brain read that as "Why do we bend over for Mormons?" and yet the title We Live in the Age of Idiocy still seemed to fit.
I actually want to hear stories from family car journeys home now 😂😂
😂YEEES! 😂
Please Russel, please play idiots in movies and shows, you do it so well! 😂
I had to tell the kids who were trying to imitate blockwatch that adults can and WILL kill kids. They all turned into Russell, "That's right." And later quietly reported a gunman. I was so proud. And fucking terrified.
"I've been hanging around schools a lot lately" 🤨 "No wait I mean I've been filming them" 😲 "Interviewing them" 🤣
This showed up in my feed today. Never heard of this guy before, but he's hilarious.
Brilliant! Thanks so much for the laughs!
Funny, and also I agree with the underlined tone of anger. I miss the old world. Too bad it's dead.
Never lose your edge Russel.
Goodness - that was a trip down memory lane (NZ)
I love British humor, it has that English language way of bashing on things without the American nastiness.
If you think it isn't just as nasty, you don't understand it.
Humour*
Learn to spell my language correctly.
@@dcmastermindfirst9418It’s not yours. It’s ours, as in both countries. Learn to be well-spoken, uncultured swine.
America’s English doesn’t use “u” in words like ‘neighborhood’ and ‘humor’.
Remember, throwing a fit over owning a language only shows your ignorance. Have a better education and a better day.
lol British humOUR in the comments . ‘Nough said 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@bluestrife28 That's just correct English mate
Thank you 👍🏽🤣😹🙀🤪😂, Russell Howard a national treasure and deep well of common sense.
Excellent. Thanks for the laughs
I miss the Russel Howard Show and Hour, they're not on in Australia anymore. Not even allowed to watch whole episodes of his online.
Get a VPN, you'll get everything
@@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558 Oh, yeah, I know, but that comes with its own annoyances. Primarily because my internet is rubbish. Makes everything perpetually buffer.
@@R0bobb1efellow Aussie here. I feel your pain. A: We can't get but snippets of Russell anymore. B: Internet in this country SUCKS
@@grannym2880 Yeah, and to think, they were were going to lay fibre to every home in the country, but then decided not to. It's ridiculous. We're falling so far behind the rest of the first world countries. :( I know it's not the be all and end all, but I can't even play with my friends any more.
You aren't just falling behind first world countries. I'm back home in the UK now, and appalled at how bad our internet is here. After living in Thailand and Cambodia for the last 8 years, the internet here is far WORSE than either of those 2 countries. @@R0bobb1e
I'd forgotten about Russell Howard, and how hilarious he is!
Brilliant. Really needed this. 😂😂😂😂
So much of what he says is so true. Back when i was a kid, we had what was called common sense - we more often than not somehow knew that doing something stupid was not wise. And when we got it wrong, we generally learned our lesson.
common sense is not that common anymore
Sad, but so true.
The truth is that kids still have common sense, its the parents that dont.
Bollocks. There were more idiots back in the 70s.
I learned common sense, by being told 'hey, this is stupid, don't do that' by my parents... or by doing something stupid and my dad going 'well, that'll learn ya'
Russell Howard discussing idiocy without irony. Now that's funny
I'm glad someone else sees it. Surprised he could forget about Trump or Brexit long enough to form a sentence that didn't include them.
Appalled at RH outing 90s kids like this. A heads up would have been nice! :)
😂
I must be one of those idiots because I'm laughing so hard my stomach hurts yet I'm continuing to watch/listen and rewind what I miss 🤣 ‼️
That was pure gold.
Thank you for making me truly laugh out loud a couple of times.
I love Russell's sense of humour 😂
Have to say Russell Howard has improved alot. I havent paid attention to him for years but this was epic 😂
Lovely and genius.
My friend did actually fall back off his chair, he wasn't spastimacated but he did have a massive cut from where he hit his head on the radiator, I never swang on my chair again after that.
So what you are saying is that he would have been spastimacated if it wasn't for that radiator - THAT RADIATOR IS A HERO!!!!
@@bradevans7935I guess we'll never know.
I knew a girl that went to sit on a chair, a boy pulled it away she instinctively put her hands out behind her to stop her fall, and the bone went right through her wrist.
Hot take: maybe we aren't living in an age of idiocy. Maybe instead we are so much more aware of how stupid we always were but we assume it had to be better before...right?....right? Maybe it's just that we are all exposed to the dumb shit that used to happen but not everyone saw everything about everyone
I'd like to think that was the case, it would be more nuanced than just 'we're all doomed, doomed I say!'
@@dragontear1638 I tend to view the world with the mindset that people are the same (for better or worse) as they have been for the past 2 3 and 4 thousand years. The difference is A) we have societies to protect and elevate us, B) values change with technology (and therefore every generation will have a different value system) and C) with technology being so infused into our daily lives...social media specifically...we are hyper aware of everything happening that probably already has happened but wasn't put on blast.
@@einrazer Pretty much how I feel, though you've put it much more eloquently than I could, good post, makes a lot of sense.
The internet has been termed as a 'loudspeaker' for the eccentric and deranged, among other things, so that can skewer perception of issues.
Research shows that IQ has been dropping since around 2000. Allowing defects to live is a two edged sword.
Pretty much it. I've always disliked being around very young children because they are a reminder of everything humans are by default. At birth we are selfish, exclusionary, vindictive, and narcissistic. All positive social qualities we have are picked up in social training mostly during youth, some of which the more precocious among us can perform on their own. We are vile, primitive beasts that must be taught to be otherwise.
russell is a king
It’s shocking how accurate idiocracy was
I love these vintage uploads from the 00s, jokes about stupid ppl and label warnings, ah takes me back.
I thought it was recent.
It's from 2017.
@@bricktasticanimations4834 If your old like me, you heard these jokes 20-30 yrs ago
@@armondtanz I am seventeen years old and it didn't sound like any form of humour that I am familiar with. Perhaps the joke was that the world hasn't moved on as it claims to have?
Here he is mister WOKE himself talking his shit
And it's great
Saw him live in Oxford. Absolute class act.
I love Russell. My favourite british comedian is Lee Evans and Russell reminds me so much of him. Only with less sweat.
So thankful for british humour, it's the best.
That was good shit.
The silica bags inside your new trainers that he mentioned at the start with the warning label saying do not eat. There was a drug call meow and the biggest part of it's make up was silica balls crushed up to turn the chemicals into something that could be crushed and snorted
It was actually a legal high for ages before the government could classify it as a illegal substance.
I just found this. I love it. Subbed.
I have another one for you : on the exhaust of my bike is a sign on the heat shield saying : WARNING HOT . 🤦♂🤦♂😂😂🤣🤣🙄🙄
The terrorist negotiations warning reminded me of doing my jungle survival/ DofE Awards Scheme I did when I was 13/15, when living in Singapore. my father was in the RAF, he was stationed at Changi. Anyway, we used to go out and do our DofE expeditions from my school, to the jungle in Malaya. This was at a time when Japanese soldiers were being located in the jungles of Malaya (As well as the Philippines). My mates and I thought it would be brilliant to actually find a Japanese soldier, and bring him in, we’d be famous (for 15 mins). We never thought it might be dangerous, and we’d all end up dead, in all likelihood.
I misread the title as 'bend over for mormons'😂😂😂
Yeah ,I noticed how they miss-spelled Scientologists
Brilliant!😂
He's absolutely hilarious, i love him
Hilarious 😂 and sadly true
Was it just me or when Russel did the isis man voice he sounded like the frog villain from the recently animated danger mouse 🤣
Twix in half 😂 perfection!!!
Russell Howard is my favorite British Russell.
Do you have a favourite non British Russell?
@@Reindeer_jay Russell Crowe
Good comeback 😂@@LvndrHppE2
@@LvndrHppE2 ah yes good choice.
I fucking LOVE Russell Howard!! 😂🤣😂🤣💀💀💀💀
Actually I grew up a decade earlier and we were afraid of IRA attacks, a reality for us.
You are too funny, thank you for the belly laughs!
I watch this every time I feel the need to keep myself sane 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 which has been way too often lately 😅
Your pronunciation of Pukerua Bay is better than most New Zealanders'. How easy did you find Te Reo Māori to pronounce?
when I was a kid a lot of boys my age were afraid that if they drank too much mtn. dew their willies wouldn't grow
Nah, that one's true
I like the warnings on tea and coffee cups you buy in McDonalds and such "this is hot" - I should bloody well hope so !
Unlike the food which is usually cold. I think McDonalds got sued after some woman put a cup of hot coffee between her legs in her car and the coffee spilled and burnt her legs.
@@coffeeguy6673 Yup - you see it on all cups now
Best video ever! What has this world come to?!
The Stupidity Disease is much worse than I thought and learnt, I understood every word you said Russell, shocking.
I laughed so hard some pee came out. 🤣 I also laughed out of awkwardness because, well, its all too true. Ya gotta laugh, you'd cry (then pee) otherwise.
Hope you don’t have a label with your name sewn into your knickers.
MTMI, dude.
I could watch this guy all day.
"Take the labels off and let it sort itself out."
I've complained about bend bread too...but to my defense I was still hung over.
Alcohol- a deficit in itself
But if you want to butter a baguette in one smooth motion, a curve is your friend.
trouble finding your pie hole, then?
Where you spasimicated?
No, sorry. That’s no excuse! 😂
Yes, there are people who eat those silica gel packets. The same idiots who ate tide pods for a tik tok challenge...
where has this man been my whole life :D
The subtext in so many of his jokes are just pure daggers, shame idiots are immune to those. For bad or worse the funniest comedy is always completely rooted in reality.