I guess our grandparents had one thing that this generation won't ever buy: a house. So I get my sense of accomplishment buy buying something my grandfather will never have: A face-mattress.
Just had a search for the cheapest freehold house with garden and parking within 40 miles of me; £130k. If you've been paying rent of £810 for the past 12 months then you could buy this property now with no deposit. That doesn't sound completely out of reach to me?
@@TearTheRoof0ff If you're single and on full time minimum wage then after tax and that mortgage you'd have about £170 a week left to live on. Not a life of luxury, but doable.
An Audible ad just pops up after "the big brother isnot watching you, he got better things to do", and the title of the book that Audible was trying to sell was 1984 by Orwell. I'm not joking but I find it hilarious.
Remember, when you die your stuff becomes a disposal headache for your survivors. Charity shops, Ebay, house clearance companies or straight to landfill can be options.
*I LOVE PREDICTIVE ADVERTS* cos I never buy anything online and I never use social media so they know NOTHING about me - its just a stream of exceptionally random desperate attempts. small frying pan, face mattress, yeti cup, mobile phone in Chinese, dog basket, Audo A8, Bird feeder - they have NO IDEA what to show me
@@EcoSailor I JUST BOUGHT A 1969 TYPEWRITER It is one of the best things I have ever bought, Ive had it a week and have been working on it each day instead of the computer. My thinking and work is of a higher quality but the big noticeable thing is how EXHAUSTING the internet is now. I can only watch youtube for about 10 minutes at a time. My brain is slowing down - in a good way. And I have been sleeping better.
I get one, maybe two adverts a week, they are from gambling companies, I have never and will never gamble, I already don't have any money, so the joke is firmly in their court. It's like having RUclips premium, but I don't pay anything. I acquired this state of bliss using the exact same method, it is one of the few positive things I've been able to achieve as an adult, along with being highly competent around potatoes and orgasming, which I have essentially mastered
Says the guy who could sell his hair to a wig-maker to buy food. Have some respect for the balding among us for God's sake, we don't have the luxury of 'the Bank of the wig-makers' to rely on.
I only saw a little bit of your reply because it got deleted, but good on you for shaving your hair for charity. I was only having a bit of fun with you, and I hope things get better for us all. 👍
I cut my own hair, with practice and a bit of knowledge jt can be done. I dont remember the last time a hairdresser cut it. The beauty about it is it grows back so feel bold hack away xD . Takes balls though Im also broke skint and usually hungry yay :D
*I JUST BOUGHT A 1969 TYPEWRITER* It is one of the best things I have ever bought, the other things are my 1955 Singer sewing machine, my 1929 Tailors iron, are we seeing a pattern here? The things that give me the greatest pleasure in life ar the things that were well made decades ago, the things that annoy the hell out of me and make me miserable are the modern consumer items. My halogen hob stopped working yesterday after 2y3m - yeah 3 months after the warranty ran out... My 1990 S Class merc was astonishing. My 2012 was that bad I GAVE it away.
LED is the biggest scam in history - they all advertize 15-25.000 hours lifetime - yet they only work slightly longer than Halogen / Incandecent bulbs.. but cost 3-5-8x more than Halogen/Incandecent bulbs/fixtures. Regarding cars - SOME cars like Audi (galvanized) which are also expensive, last a long time - but if you get a korean or japanese car, it'l work for 20years easily.
Same, my favourite gadget was a 19th century Singer sewing machine with a shuttle bobbin. I loved threading and winding it probably more than actually making all the things I used it for! My Kenwood stand mixer bought secondhand in 1985 is still going strong (I had to take apart, clean and re-oil once in that time but it was easily done). I’ve a basic washing machine donated by a neighbour over 10 years ago who said she’d had it for 15 years at that point. Can’t get the filter cap off because it’s welded on by limescale (very very hard water area) but I treat it to a clean once in a while and it’s still operating. My parents and siblings have fancy schmancy shiny-computer-aided-science-fiction-looking marvels of technology and have between them gone through >5 in the same time. Quality is the enemy of consumerism and shareholders’ dividends so, as with the original light bulbs, they had to engineer in the crappiness. Every time my spin cycle starts up I feel I’m part of the Revolution…😉😇💪🏼
@@clarewillison9379 AH I HAVE A BRILLIANT OLD WASHING MACHINE - Its a German 1970's thing, front loader but it has big paddles on the inside of the drum and it beats the sh!t out of the washing. Its an OKO brand. Has a big clickky dial for the program. It uses about 1 tablespoon of washing powder for a full load and it is FANTASTIC at washing. Its electro mechanical so it should be endlessly repairable AND I have a spare set of rubber seals and hoses for it. as you say - quality and profit are diametrically opposed competing interests. Im not a "Luddite" [although they were lied about - not against technology, against unemployment] I dont object to new technology - I object to plastic crap that breaks after 3 minutes of use or you use it once and it goes in the under sink cupboard never to be used again. I just want a few things in my life - and for them ALL to work.
I note what I've come to term the 'University drawl'. This is because I'm just about old enough to remember the time when those older then myself were drawn from a wide variety of backgrounds, and on a grant, into University life. I didn't start at University until I was a mature student: that was about 13 years ago, and from that time to this, all I ever seem to hear in my city (it's described as a university city) are the drawling sounds of what I can only describe as "yaaah, yaaah" voices in the shops. It's quite striking really, in a rather sad kind of way. Been longing to say that for a long time. Feel safe saying it here... 😮 I realise that what I'm offering this comments section may be deemed irrelevant 😃
I just buy used old stuff. PS5 is out and I started buying PS3. And old Blu-Rays and DVDs. It is cheap and I like the dopamine rush when finding new junk for my collection
I’ve got an amazing sound system by getting a couple of Bose sound docks (early ones, cheap) off eBay and a couple of Bluetooth adapters. Can blast audio from iPad and the quality is awesome (lovely bass). Even my 2001 iPod and iPhone 4 can still be used with them. I hate waste, love gadgets, bargains and finding solutions. Win win win win. 😂
My parents, grandparents, and beyond, had far less. But they had family, friends, and community. Tougher times, but they were happy. People often buy things now to comfort their isolation and loneliness, not necessarily for identity, although I expect that might play a part. But many people's lives are so empty, they fill it up with possessions to plug the void.
Our grandparents owned waaaay more than we did. It was just massive pieces of furniture no one ever used and also each family member had their own vehicle. Plus an RV and a boat, and a cabin in the woods, and a boathouse and they still owned their parents vacation property. They also claimed they never had money for your dental work, while retiring in Fiji.
True. Our upstairs neighbours have tons of antiques and other stuff, I get scared thinking the floor might fall through, it'll be worth loads as well...
Lol, the times I've dozed off and been rudely awakened by the phone falling on my face is no joke. It pairs perfectly with my insomnia, which means that when I have been soothed to sleep by RUclips and I put my phone down, I'm instantly awake and alert. I'm still looking for the tool that addresses my situation so am a sucker for gadgets 😂😂😂
Through a series of shrewd decisions/ unfortunate events, I've nearly always kept my wages at a level where I've enough to eat, can pay the bills and have just enough left over to maintain my drug habit that makes my continued existence in this reality, bearable.
Whilst watching this, it was interrupted by a “£10k diesel claims” advert and honestly it took me about 30 seconds to realise it wasn’t part of the actual video 😂
I just bought a 1963 Japanese camera online for £20. It cost $189 in 1963. Had the buyer bought Coke stock instead of this camera it would now be worth $568,000.
The opposition to this view though is that if you'd bought shares in a random choice of any of the top 500 biggest companies at that time that the vast majority of those purchases would now be completely worthless.
@@treesoul00 I remember during an interview Guy Ritchie said he had just finished filming his new movie and was waiting for it to be collected from Boots the chemist. Not everybody understood that at the time and even less now !
Regarding listening in ... Me and my GF was talking about a childrens bookseries from the 1980'ies while our phones was nearby ... and later that evening an add for buying the whole book series popped up on Facebook ... we DID NOT search for the books on the internet. Ever since that day i've had microphone and camera disabled for Messenger and Facebook.
@@TheMusicalElitist I am usually the first one to make fun of tinfoil hat wearers but this isn't very far fetched. For example if you use Siri, wouldn't it have to always somehow "listen" to you in order to recognize when you're saying "Hey Siri"?
@@90sHONEY well yeah it would ive always thought this. thats why in never ever ever in my life getting or using an Alexa or a Siri. Just no. What normal person lets a robot run their errands for them
They ARE listening! Mention a random item when chatting to a friend, and an ad for it pops up a day later. We need to test it out by mentioning weird, random things, then see what happens. Eg bridles for donkeys, special tools, strange foods from distant lands. If we all decide on what it will be, then we'll have proof and drive Google algorithms into a frenzy.
Amazon tout ‘we started selling books from a garage’ image but that is carefully curated. They had an office within weeks and they sold books, not to distribute knowledge but because the return rate on them is next to zero giving them a better profit margin. When was the last time you returned a book?
I think fashion these days is a great example of consumerism being intimately tied to self-identity. There's all these different "aesthetics" and it's like playing dress up with different personalities. The person behind the aesthetic is a mere imitator without a solid underlying enduring identity of their own. You're not a geek who spends their time alone working on a project in their room, and as a result dresses a certain way. You dress like them for a week because you want to feel smart that week, indulge yourself in delusions about who you are, and then bounce to whatever new identity you feel like next week. Why choose one identity - one person - when you can "be" them all?
Our economic system is predicated on the requirement for people to buy "stuff". If SOME people stop buying stuff then it's possible that they might be able to prosper. If EVERYONE stops buying stuff then businesses have no need to employ people and then it prevents people from paying for their more important stuff (tenancies, mortgages) in which case people have to apply for tenancies from their government (in which case they are basically forced to buy stuff)...
I once had a conversation with a work colleague about printer paper, when I turned around my laptop showed Amazon web page ads for ... printer paper. Coincidence? It happened 6 years ago
This is true. I was trying to get hold of a certain product in a ‘bricks & mortar’ store (Argos, I think) and the shop assistant looked at me bemused and said “why don’t you just get it off Amazon?”
Haven't finished the video, but my grandparents owned a ton of tat and gubbins. Little trinkets you put on shelves, weird sewing tools that went unused, memorabilia and crap... They just had less choice in the crap they bought.
Toaster isn't a great example of an unnecessary product, because while you don't need more than 2 slots, most toasters are too small for standard uk bread. Even toastie bread. You have to turn the bread around so both the top and bottom half are done evenly. Apparently it is because toasters are based on a US design and they have different sized bread to us.
After I divorced my husband I vowed never to have a toaster, I had to clean and it took up space. Don’t miss it. You can use the grill or a frying pan if you want toast.
Agreed, there is no more optimal toasting device than the fkn TOASTER. Some people gotta be special in every little thing lol. TELL ME a more satisfying kitchen sound than the KACHUNK of your finished toast?
The problem isn't that companies have persuaded us we need to consume, it's that the act of consumption has come to define modern lifestyles - we do it because we want to feel wealthy. Companies are simply satisfying the desire we have to consume, by giving us opportunities to do it. Just look at how people approach shopping centres. You aren't going to the Trafford Centre because there's something you need, you're going to browse, you're going because you're in the mood to consume and you want to find something you can convince yourself to buy. If we want to alleviate this problem, the only way we're going to be able to do it is by redefining "middle class". By creating a form of status symbol for the people who need it that isn't so wasteful, but is still expensive to do and therefore shows off wealth.
Ha ha. So true. It’s one of my most used pans. Use it always for my perfectly rounded eggs. I’ll remember this video and laugh next time am making them.
if they start advertising free money that we need to replace the money we dont have in order to buy the things we "desperatley NEED" then I might be interested
Most realistic thing about this video: The size of the Amazon box relative to the size of the product. Most unrealistic thing about this video: The Amazon driver actually rang the door bell.
The depressing thing is, that this actually does happen to me. The doorbell rings, I know it's some kind of delivery and while I answer the door I frantically try to remember what I ordered. It's a real disease.
I regard it as a huge personal victory to have persuaded my gf against buying an airfryer... the wave of ads and marketing infomercials was almost unbearable - and now the phenomenon is almost over. Jamie Oliver's new airfyer show almost seems quaint now - it was clearly greenlit and filmed about 6 months too late.
I got rid of just about literally everything about 10 years ago, to go travelling and never bought it all back again. Keeps me able to be flexible and mobile, suits my life and my needs perfectly well. HOWEVER, I wasn't always immune to the buy everything in sight habit. When married we both were guilty and ended up with a ton of stuff we didn't want or need
Oh my goodness Michael, this is perfect. I’m looking round my kitchen at so much stuff that I never use and I’m obviously one of those guys. (At least I was until a couple of years ago when I’m now definitely thinking about whether I need stuff.)
Tbf if you're never going to own the things that never matter it's much easier to believe that these inconsequential things are some sort of consolation.
Even the corporations themselves are duped by this, it'll spend millions for marketing and PR to sell a product specifically to men. When all you need to do is make said product Black or Green and put "Tactical" in front of the product name.
I have spent last week not purchasing something I believed I wanted. It was reduced by £600 and I had wanted it in 2021 before I got my iPad but the marketing so good it lingered my belief it was an object of desire anyway I managed it. Solution every time I went online to see how many left of said expensive product I would go to my online bank account 😂 like a bucket of ice cold water lol metaphorically speaking. So if anyone has similar issue and just must have an that object of desire think again go and get yourself a cup of tea or coffee and calm down
Honestly think that food that's going out of date and always in stock but no one seems buy is being bought? No. Food waste is unbelievable in our part of the world.
Most elderly people I know have a lot more worthless junk than people my age do. We have more technological devices of course, but they had way more furniture and decorative items.
It's more an issue of buying stuff that is going to have a lifespan of more than 1 year. So many items are made cheaply and designed to break after a certain point, or either virtually impossible to fix or cheaper to just replace. Our grandparents also had less because things used to be built to last. They'd buy a lamp made of iron, and it would last 60 years. We buy a walmart mainstays lamp made of some sort of plastic only pretending to be real plastic and it lasts 3 months.
Brilliant i really like the one egg cooking pan though, if it's cast iron you can use them easely on the bbq to create different tiny meals :) while the slaps of meat are around it. For the rest you are totally right. People should buy more stuf second hand (saves money , lowers your c02 footprint so the industry can raise it) etc.
Superb - I don't have to go back to my grandparents - my parents never had a phone (until mum was in her eighties and housebound), never had a car, never owned a house and apart from a Post Office savings account, no bank account or credit cards. They did have a TV and radio and a basic washing machine and a separate spin dryer and that was about it!! My grandparents had even less!
I think this is the best of your new format. Great messages; great sketches. Had to wonder if the "Cleaning product you never knew you needed" advert that popped up in the middle was another sketch but I skipped it anyway.
Just went to the hardware store to get a faucet spare part and saw a skillet on sale. I needed it as nonstick ones are dangerous they say. Decided to walk around a bit and saw small accessories such as hair trapper for bathroom drains. Told myself I'd be back for it. Walked around and saw kitchen cabinet that I could organize my kitchen with. Walked around more and got tired. Came home with nothing. Tapped my shoulder for not not buying anything. Now realize the only thing that is relatable is the phone- drop -on -face pad that I really need. ☝🏼
Too real 😁 Got to 7:17 mins and nearly popped a rib doing constrained laughing. Cos I was into the whole thing, and couldn't stop to laugh. P.S. Would love to see you consumer test 'the highly inflammable Pirate Costume'.
Most of us suffer with some level of Shiny Object Syndrome, a phenomenon brilliantly described by the RUclipsr Daniel Thrasher in a wonderfully funny song of the same name, which I recommend checking out. This video is the perfect sequel to that, explaining how marketers exploit shiny object syndrome to their benefit and our further detriment.
Got an advert midvid, not about a trinket but spewing out airplane fuel. Stop shopping stuff, buy experiences and travel instead, spewing out kerosene.
I actually picked up a small one egg sized cast iron frying an at a traction engine rally. Five quid. Some smoothing work with a flap disc on an angle grinder to get rid of the shit sandcast finish and then season it with a lot of heat and some olive oil and it’s the bollox. But I like cast iron, and it’s very cute. But I take your point Michael.
I wonder if things will go full retro and we will demand a simpler life. For example, a car which just takes us from "A" to "B" without telling us how to drive it. Is all that electronic rubbish really necessary? It has absolutely nothing to do with getting us from a to b! Oh, and knowing how to get there? it's called a map! What a concept!!
If you removed colours and flavourings (or scents) from every product in a supermarket, then removed all of the branding and put everything in generic containers, you could suddenly put everything into a corner shop. The thing that continues to surprise me is that there's a whole column of Ibuprofen brands in my local Tesco, yet Ibuprofen is a single drug and the cheapest box is the one to buy. And it's the same story for every other product.
The only difference is that we own technology. They still owned everything else. They just didn't replace it as often. Things, like furniture, household items and clothes were designed to last longer years sgo. They had solid wooden furniture, nowadays it's all flat packed. They had cast iron pans, nowadays it's non stick aluminium. They had linen, cotton and wool, nowadays polyester has cheapened cotton and acrylic is cheap. They had cars that lasted a lifetime. Shoes lasted decades and made from tough leather. Nowadays it's all plastic and nylon.
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I guess our grandparents had one thing that this generation won't ever buy: a house. So I get my sense of accomplishment buy buying something my grandfather will never have: A face-mattress.
i mean ya could still have a house, it just sucks way more to get now
Oh diddums.
Just had a search for the cheapest freehold house with garden and parking within 40 miles of me; £130k. If you've been paying rent of £810 for the past 12 months then you could buy this property now with no deposit.
That doesn't sound completely out of reach to me?
@@PhillipParr Sounds bloody easy, then.
@@TearTheRoof0ff If you're single and on full time minimum wage then after tax and that mortgage you'd have about £170 a week left to live on. Not a life of luxury, but doable.
An Audible ad just pops up after "the big brother isnot watching you, he got better things to do", and the title of the book that Audible was trying to sell was 1984 by Orwell. I'm not joking but I find it hilarious.
I got the same one after the video 😳
Me too!
I love the ad algorithm on RUclips, it really does seem to have a sense of humour 😂😂😂
Same!
And you know who owns Audible…
I like how the Amazon box was massive for a very small item, 100% accurate.
But they somehow painstakingly squeezed it through the letterbox rather than casually throwing into his neighbour's wheelie bin.
Apparently that's so they don't get lost
The noise you emitted after saying, “…a Stanley cup is a lifestyle”, was hilarious!
Yeuuuuuuh….
He mimicked those influencers talking brilliantly. That is how they talk.
"what is it Jeff Bazos, what did I do to make you richer this time?" made me choke on my drink, haha
What he does not sell and thus does not make him richer: a hair growth product that actually works.
I’d love to watch this video but I’m temporarily blinded after my phone fell on my face. If only there was something that could have prevented that….
the only inaccuracy here is that amazon delivery guys would never ring your doorbell that many times, if at all
Remember, when you die your stuff becomes a disposal headache for your survivors. Charity shops, Ebay, house clearance companies or straight to landfill can be options.
We are now just the conduits between the factory and the landfill. It is honestly, sickeningly dreadful
house clearance companies is what drives Ebay these days.
I'm just going to do an open house when I die, people can walk in off the street and take whatever they want.
I was rather hoping to have a funeral 😮
Good thing I won't have any survivors
Nobody will notice I'm gone until the smell gets too much 😂
It's all about filling the void in our souls.
it's about lifestyle, yoahhhhh
And ironically, the ONLY one who can really do that is the Lord Jesus Christ, yet nobody wants Him 🤷♂️
@@BrotherTris Isn't he dead?
Get a hobby, get obsessed about learning a musical instrument, reach for your dreams.
@@Nickelodeon81 No, quite the opposite!
*I LOVE PREDICTIVE ADVERTS* cos I never buy anything online and I never use social media so they know NOTHING about me - its just a stream of exceptionally random desperate attempts.
small frying pan, face mattress, yeti cup, mobile phone in Chinese, dog basket, Audo A8, Bird feeder - they have NO IDEA what to show me
keywords: "never use social media"
I've also removed all the social media apps from my mobile devices. It's liberating.
@@EcoSailor I JUST BOUGHT A 1969 TYPEWRITER It is one of the best things I have ever bought, Ive had it a week and have been working on it each day instead of the computer. My thinking and work is of a higher quality but the big noticeable thing is how EXHAUSTING the internet is now.
I can only watch youtube for about 10 minutes at a time. My brain is slowing down - in a good way.
And I have been sleeping better.
I get one, maybe two adverts a week, they are from gambling companies, I have never and will never gamble, I already don't have any money, so the joke is firmly in their court. It's like having RUclips premium, but I don't pay anything. I acquired this state of bliss using the exact same method, it is one of the few positive things I've been able to achieve as an adult, along with being highly competent around potatoes and orgasming, which I have essentially mastered
@@barnaclefelching4079 Are the... Are the potatoes and orgasms linked or...?
They can market their asses off. I can barely afford food at the moment, never mind a haircut.
Says the guy who could sell his hair to a wig-maker to buy food. Have some respect for the balding among us for God's sake, we don't have the luxury of 'the Bank of the wig-makers' to rely on.
I only saw a little bit of your reply because it got deleted, but good on you for shaving your hair for charity.
I was only having a bit of fun with you, and I hope things get better for us all. 👍
I cut my own hair, with practice and a bit of knowledge jt can be done. I dont remember the last time a hairdresser cut it. The beauty about it is it grows back so feel bold hack away xD . Takes balls though
Im also broke skint and usually hungry yay :D
@@vvelvettearss Balls??, 🤔I usually use electric clippers myself.
Nothing like a 100% return on a 20€ hair trimmer 😂
I am here for Michael's characters being distinguished primarily through the application of a bobble hat.
That was Michael too!! Wow
*I JUST BOUGHT A 1969 TYPEWRITER* It is one of the best things I have ever bought, the other things are my 1955 Singer sewing machine, my 1929 Tailors iron, are we seeing a pattern here?
The things that give me the greatest pleasure in life ar the things that were well made decades ago, the things that annoy the hell out of me and make me miserable are the modern consumer items. My halogen hob stopped working yesterday after 2y3m - yeah 3 months after the warranty ran out... My 1990 S Class merc was astonishing. My 2012 was that bad I GAVE it away.
LED is the biggest scam in history - they all advertize 15-25.000 hours lifetime - yet they only work slightly longer than Halogen / Incandecent bulbs.. but cost 3-5-8x more than Halogen/Incandecent bulbs/fixtures.
Regarding cars - SOME cars like Audi (galvanized) which are also expensive, last a long time - but if you get a korean or japanese car, it'l work for 20years easily.
Same, my favourite gadget was a 19th century Singer sewing machine with a shuttle bobbin. I loved threading and winding it probably more than actually making all the things I used it for! My Kenwood stand mixer bought secondhand in 1985 is still going strong (I had to take apart, clean and re-oil once in that time but it was easily done). I’ve a basic washing machine donated by a neighbour over 10 years ago who said she’d had it for 15 years at that point. Can’t get the filter cap off because it’s welded on by limescale (very very hard water area) but I treat it to a clean once in a while and it’s still operating. My parents and siblings have fancy schmancy shiny-computer-aided-science-fiction-looking marvels of technology and have between them gone through >5 in the same time.
Quality is the enemy of consumerism and shareholders’ dividends so, as with the original light bulbs, they had to engineer in the crappiness. Every time my spin cycle starts up I feel I’m part of the Revolution…😉😇💪🏼
@@clarewillison9379 AH I HAVE A BRILLIANT OLD WASHING MACHINE - Its a German 1970's thing, front loader but it has big paddles on the inside of the drum and it beats the sh!t out of the washing. Its an OKO brand. Has a big clickky dial for the program. It uses about 1 tablespoon of washing powder for a full load and it is FANTASTIC at washing.
Its electro mechanical so it should be endlessly repairable AND I have a spare set of rubber seals and hoses for it.
as you say - quality and profit are diametrically opposed competing interests.
Im not a "Luddite" [although they were lied about - not against technology, against unemployment] I dont object to new technology - I object to plastic crap that breaks after 3 minutes of use or you use it once and it goes in the under sink cupboard never to be used again.
I just want a few things in my life - and for them ALL to work.
"The things you own, start to own you." - Tyler Durden, Fight Club
Tyler Durden, Fight Club...
@@ogpandamonium Clubber Durfight
"Kim Yong Un and Jennifer Lopez" - lol!! - absolutely brilliant!
how those two were in the same short sentance omg my sides 😂😂😂😂
Just to clarify, it would be:
Kim Yong Un > Embarrassing
Jennifer Lopez > Dead
I note what I've come to term the 'University drawl'. This is because I'm just about old enough to remember the time when those older then myself were drawn from a wide variety of backgrounds, and on a grant, into University life.
I didn't start at University until I was a mature student: that was about 13 years ago, and from that time to this, all I ever seem to hear in my city (it's described as a university city) are the drawling sounds of what I can only describe as "yaaah, yaaah" voices in the shops. It's quite striking really, in a rather sad kind of way.
Been longing to say that for a long time. Feel safe saying it here... 😮
I realise that what I'm offering this comments section may be deemed irrelevant 😃
no I know EXACTLY the kind of "yaaah! yaaah!" voice you mean. It *is* aggravating!
From the UK, currently on holiday in Florida. Getting a glimpse at American TV ads is…well…it explains a lot of things
I just buy used old stuff. PS5 is out and I started buying PS3. And old Blu-Rays and DVDs. It is cheap and I like the dopamine rush when finding new junk for my collection
Ps5 is a jumped up PS3. Not even PS4 which was just a PS3 with teeth but all of them were false.
I still use an Amiga and Atari STFM
I’ve got an amazing sound system by getting a couple of Bose sound docks (early ones, cheap) off eBay and a couple of Bluetooth adapters. Can blast audio from iPad and the quality is awesome (lovely bass). Even my 2001 iPod and iPhone 4 can still be used with them. I hate waste, love gadgets, bargains and finding solutions. Win win win win. 😂
My parents, grandparents, and beyond, had far less. But they had family, friends, and community. Tougher times, but they were happy. People often buy things now to comfort their isolation and loneliness, not necessarily for identity, although I expect that might play a part. But many people's lives are so empty, they fill it up with possessions to plug the void.
That's reductive and the sort of generalisation that is typical. 🙄
Our grandparents owned waaaay more than we did. It was just massive pieces of furniture no one ever used and also each family member had their own vehicle. Plus an RV and a boat, and a cabin in the woods, and a boathouse and they still owned their parents vacation property. They also claimed they never had money for your dental work, while retiring in Fiji.
True. Our upstairs neighbours have tons of antiques and other stuff, I get scared thinking the floor might fall through, it'll be worth loads as well...
RV? Boat? Cabin in the woods?Brit grandparents could only dream of such things
and so many porcelain animals...
You must be very young or not from the UK. Either way, I envy you ;-)
Lol, the times I've dozed off and been rudely awakened by the phone falling on my face is no joke. It pairs perfectly with my insomnia, which means that when I have been soothed to sleep by RUclips and I put my phone down, I'm instantly awake and alert. I'm still looking for the tool that addresses my situation so am a sucker for gadgets 😂😂😂
Through a series of shrewd decisions/ unfortunate events, I've nearly always kept my wages at a level where I've enough to eat, can pay the bills and have just enough left over to maintain my drug habit that makes my continued existence in this reality, bearable.
Truly an inspiration to us all ;-)
I salute you. May you live a long, healthy, satisfying and not-too-prosperous life :)
Whilst watching this, it was interrupted by a “£10k diesel claims” advert and honestly it took me about 30 seconds to realise it wasn’t part of the actual video 😂
Those ads existed before social media, they were infomercials
People bought loads of crap years ago.
I just bought a 1963 Japanese camera online for £20. It cost $189 in 1963. Had the buyer bought Coke stock instead of this camera it would now be worth $568,000.
HAHAHAH
And if he bought cocaine in large quantities and flipped that for cash… he could have gone places
The opposition to this view though is that if you'd bought shares in a random choice of any of the top 500 biggest companies at that time that the vast majority of those purchases would now be completely worthless.
If he'd bought slaves who wanted to be slaves he could have revolutionised capitalism improving it for all!
@@treesoul00 I remember during an interview Guy Ritchie said he had just finished filming his new movie and was waiting for it to be collected from Boots the chemist. Not everybody understood that at the time and even less now !
Regarding listening in ... Me and my GF was talking about a childrens bookseries from the 1980'ies while our phones was nearby ... and later that evening an add for buying the whole book series popped up on Facebook ...
we DID NOT search for the books on the internet.
Ever since that day i've had microphone and camera disabled for Messenger and Facebook.
@@treesoul00similar. The amount of times I've thought of buying a boxset but never mentioned it it seems to appear on my adverts.
Adjust your tinfoil hat
@@TheMusicalElitist I am usually the first one to make fun of tinfoil hat wearers but this isn't very far fetched. For example if you use Siri, wouldn't it have to always somehow "listen" to you in order to recognize when you're saying "Hey Siri"?
@@90sHONEY well yeah it would ive always thought this. thats why in never ever ever in my life getting or using an Alexa or a Siri. Just no. What normal person lets a robot run their errands for them
I'm experimenting by mentoring random things I would never want within Alexa s hearing. ....
Dog biscuits.
Hilariously, the ad that rudely interrupted the video was for a useless kitchen thing!!
They ARE listening! Mention a random item when chatting to a friend, and an ad for it pops up a day later. We need to test it out by mentioning weird, random things, then see what happens. Eg bridles for donkeys, special tools, strange foods from distant lands. If we all decide on what it will be, then we'll have proof and drive Google algorithms into a frenzy.
They are DEFINITELY listening.... Ads that pop up on my sister's phone prove it. (Mine's a 19yo vintage mob so internet free).
Amazon tout ‘we started selling books from a garage’ image but that is carefully curated. They had an office within weeks and they sold books, not to distribute knowledge but because the return rate on them is next to zero giving them a better profit margin. When was the last time you returned a book?
I think fashion these days is a great example of consumerism being intimately tied to self-identity. There's all these different "aesthetics" and it's like playing dress up with different personalities. The person behind the aesthetic is a mere imitator without a solid underlying enduring identity of their own. You're not a geek who spends their time alone working on a project in their room, and as a result dresses a certain way. You dress like them for a week because you want to feel smart that week, indulge yourself in delusions about who you are, and then bounce to whatever new identity you feel like next week. Why choose one identity - one person - when you can "be" them all?
Our economic system is predicated on the requirement for people to buy "stuff". If SOME people stop buying stuff then it's possible that they might be able to prosper. If EVERYONE stops buying stuff then businesses have no need to employ people and then it prevents people from paying for their more important stuff (tenancies, mortgages) in which case people have to apply for tenancies from their government (in which case they are basically forced to buy stuff)...
I once had a conversation with a work colleague about printer paper, when I turned around my laptop showed Amazon web page ads for ... printer paper.
Coincidence?
It happened 6 years ago
They were listening then.... and they're listening even more now.
To be fair they have to compete with the ‘anti growth alliance’ ;-)
‘Hack Stacking’ is being added to my workplace repertoire from Monday morning 😂
This is true. I was trying to get hold of a certain product in a ‘bricks & mortar’ store (Argos, I think) and the shop assistant looked at me bemused and said “why don’t you just get it off Amazon?”
Haven't finished the video, but my grandparents owned a ton of tat and gubbins. Little trinkets you put on shelves, weird sewing tools that went unused, memorabilia and crap... They just had less choice in the crap they bought.
Toaster isn't a great example of an unnecessary product, because while you don't need more than 2 slots, most toasters are too small for standard uk bread. Even toastie bread. You have to turn the bread around so both the top and bottom half are done evenly. Apparently it is because toasters are based on a US design and they have different sized bread to us.
After I divorced my husband I vowed never to have a toaster, I had to clean and it took up space. Don’t miss it. You can use the grill or a frying pan if you want toast.
@@gingerfellah5665 second this. in the oven gets it done in just a few minutes. They are unnecessary realy
Who the hell are these people talking about frying and roasting toast! You’ve gone wrong ;-)
Agreed, there is no more optimal toasting device than the fkn TOASTER. Some people gotta be special in every little thing lol.
TELL ME a more satisfying kitchen sound than the KACHUNK of your finished toast?
OMG! Laughing out loud at the stanley cup part 😂 So true but sad...
The problem isn't that companies have persuaded us we need to consume, it's that the act of consumption has come to define modern lifestyles - we do it because we want to feel wealthy. Companies are simply satisfying the desire we have to consume, by giving us opportunities to do it.
Just look at how people approach shopping centres. You aren't going to the Trafford Centre because there's something you need, you're going to browse, you're going because you're in the mood to consume and you want to find something you can convince yourself to buy.
If we want to alleviate this problem, the only way we're going to be able to do it is by redefining "middle class". By creating a form of status symbol for the people who need it that isn't so wasteful, but is still expensive to do and therefore shows off wealth.
Mini frying pans are great though. Heat up faster, use less oil, easier washing up, etc.
Ha ha. So true. It’s one of my most used pans. Use it always for my perfectly rounded eggs. I’ll remember this video and laugh next time am making them.
Dont forget, if you want to be an individual and live your way... Buy buy BUY!!!!!
if they start advertising free money that we need to replace the money we dont have in order to buy the things we "desperatley NEED" then I might be interested
Most realistic thing about this video: The size of the Amazon box relative to the size of the product. Most unrealistic thing about this video: The Amazon driver actually rang the door bell.
7:59 - that product title is so real!
The depressing thing is, that this actually does happen to me. The doorbell rings, I know it's some kind of delivery and while I answer the door I frantically try to remember what I ordered. It's a real disease.
You could have put a link in the description for the Face Mattress i can't find it anywhere.
I’m waiting on the second gen. Comes with eye holes pre-installed and a good 10% cheaper.
How did you know that I need a framed picture of Amy Schumacher😂 as always comedy genius.
Not Mr. Salt, Mrs. Pepper and Baby Paprika!🤣🤣🤣
Wolf Hall! A great book!
Haven’t read, but loved the tv adaptation. Claire Foy is brilliant
@@patchsoah thx for the tip, i didnt even think about looking up if there was an adaption.
I regard it as a huge personal victory to have persuaded my gf against buying an airfryer... the wave of ads and marketing infomercials was almost unbearable - and now the phenomenon is almost over. Jamie Oliver's new airfyer show almost seems quaint now - it was clearly greenlit and filmed about 6 months too late.
I got rid of just about literally everything about 10 years ago, to go travelling and never bought it all back again. Keeps me able to be flexible and mobile, suits my life and my needs perfectly well. HOWEVER, I wasn't always immune to the buy everything in sight habit. When married we both were guilty and ended up with a ton of stuff we didn't want or need
Your skits are so funny. That "yaaahhhh" broke me 🤣
It's a good job this video hasn't been monetised to flog us more unneccessary tat that we don't need😀. Spot on as usual Mr. Spicer, thanks!
Oh my goodness Michael, this is perfect. I’m looking round my kitchen at so much stuff that I never use and I’m obviously one of those guys. (At least I was until a couple of years ago when I’m now definitely thinking about whether I need stuff.)
Tbf if you're never going to own the things that never matter it's much easier to believe that these inconsequential things are some sort of consolation.
Even the corporations themselves are duped by this, it'll spend millions for marketing and PR to sell a product specifically to men. When all you need to do is make said product Black or Green and put "Tactical" in front of the product name.
Cheers. Trying to buy less unuseful stuff and declutter a bit so this is handy.
You genuinely reminded me I needed to buy toothbrush heads 😂. Off to Amazon now, my mate Jeff can deliver them tomorrow 👍
I have spent last week not purchasing something I believed I wanted. It was reduced by £600 and I had wanted it in 2021 before I got my iPad but the marketing so good it lingered my belief it was an object of desire anyway I managed it. Solution every time I went online to see how many left of said expensive product I would go to my online bank account 😂 like a bucket of ice cold water lol metaphorically speaking. So if anyone has similar issue and just must have an that object of desire think again go and get yourself a cup of tea or coffee and calm down
Honestly think that food that's going out of date and always in stock but no one seems buy is being bought? No. Food waste is unbelievable in our part of the world.
Most elderly people I know have a lot more worthless junk than people my age do. We have more technological devices of course, but they had way more furniture and decorative items.
“TOMORROWs WORLD”, told that a Compact Disk could take a tin of Baked Beans . Wipe clean and play, mid 1980s. Xxxx
7:58 - that was an eerily accurate Amazon product title and I'm impressed you manage to get it in one take without pausing...
I think this is a slightly new 'format' - and I love it! Warm compliments - going from strength to strength!
Great video Michael - so true and delivered in a very humourous way - many thanks!
It's more an issue of buying stuff that is going to have a lifespan of more than 1 year. So many items are made cheaply and designed to break after a certain point, or either virtually impossible to fix or cheaper to just replace.
Our grandparents also had less because things used to be built to last. They'd buy a lamp made of iron, and it would last 60 years. We buy a walmart mainstays lamp made of some sort of plastic only pretending to be real plastic and it lasts 3 months.
Wolf Hall is worth the purchase.
Now I want that teapot!
Temu already have a cheap copy.
I got an advert for a new frying pan whilst watching this video lmao
true on so many levels..
You had me at mini frying pan... 😂
Once upon a time it was easier to get appliances repaired. Now it’s just thrown away and replaced.
Brilliant i really like the one egg cooking pan though, if it's cast iron you can use them easely on the bbq to create different tiny meals :) while the slaps of meat are around it. For the rest you are totally right. People should buy more stuf second hand (saves money , lowers your c02 footprint so the industry can raise it) etc.
This sums up the iPhone perfectly
Superb - I don't have to go back to my grandparents - my parents never had a phone (until mum was in her eighties and housebound), never had a car, never owned a house and apart from a Post Office savings account, no bank account or credit cards. They did have a TV and radio and a basic washing machine and a separate spin dryer and that was about it!! My grandparents had even less!
the amazon box makes a noice when it gets dropped haha
I think this is the best of your new format. Great messages; great sketches. Had to wonder if the "Cleaning product you never knew you needed" advert that popped up in the middle was another sketch but I skipped it anyway.
The ad for me was ‘the first non stick titanium pan’. Ha
I'm grateful for this video and have just ordered a 17 slice toaster.
Just went to the hardware store to get a faucet spare part and saw a skillet on sale. I needed it as nonstick ones are dangerous they say. Decided to walk around a bit and saw small accessories such as hair trapper for bathroom drains. Told myself I'd be back for it. Walked around and saw kitchen cabinet that I could organize my kitchen with. Walked around more and got tired. Came home with nothing. Tapped my shoulder for not not buying anything.
Now realize the only thing that is relatable is the phone- drop -on -face pad that I really need. ☝🏼
Excellent & so true 😆
You’re my new favourite RUclipsr ⭐️😂 brilliant🙏 ❤️🔥
Too real 😁 Got to 7:17 mins and nearly popped a rib doing constrained laughing. Cos I was into the whole thing, and couldn't stop to laugh. P.S. Would love to see you consumer test 'the highly inflammable Pirate Costume'.
I just found your channel and think it's entertaining and hilarious while also being meaningful and informing.
Comment for the algo
Thumbnail reminded me i need to order my Stanley cup. Thanx!
Hack-stacking is tight!
I want to give this a triple thumbs up, so shared it on fb - though they will algorithm kill it, I guess.
Next book of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy starts with this video?! Very good. Very Now!
Most of us suffer with some level of Shiny Object Syndrome, a phenomenon brilliantly described by the RUclipsr Daniel Thrasher in a wonderfully funny song of the same name, which I recommend checking out. This video is the perfect sequel to that, explaining how marketers exploit shiny object syndrome to their benefit and our further detriment.
Now realise why our neighbour gets so many amazon packages. They're ordering face mattresses and fidget cubes.
I love the white line on your lips when you portray stressed out 😂😂😂
This is too real.
Got an advert midvid, not about a trinket but spewing out airplane fuel. Stop shopping stuff, buy experiences and travel instead, spewing out kerosene.
I actually picked up a small one egg sized cast iron frying an at a traction engine rally. Five quid. Some smoothing work with a flap disc on an angle grinder to get rid of the shit sandcast finish and then season it with a lot of heat and some olive oil and it’s the bollox. But I like cast iron, and it’s very cute.
But I take your point Michael.
Ah, gin by the bedside? That's the prescription for a gin-uinely good time! 😂😂
All of a sudden half the country needs an air fryer.
I wonder if things will go full retro and we will demand a simpler life. For example, a car which just takes us from "A" to "B" without telling us how to drive it. Is all that electronic rubbish really necessary? It has absolutely nothing to do with getting us from a to b! Oh, and knowing how to get there? it's called a map! What a concept!!
Outstandingly good! And the material is just what the planet needs.
Yes they ARE LISTENING !
If you removed colours and flavourings (or scents) from every product in a supermarket, then removed all of the branding and put everything in generic containers, you could suddenly put everything into a corner shop. The thing that continues to surprise me is that there's a whole column of Ibuprofen brands in my local Tesco, yet Ibuprofen is a single drug and the cheapest box is the one to buy. And it's the same story for every other product.
The only difference is that we own technology. They still owned everything else. They just didn't replace it as often. Things, like furniture, household items and clothes were designed to last longer years sgo.
They had solid wooden furniture, nowadays it's all flat packed. They had cast iron pans, nowadays it's non stick aluminium. They had linen, cotton and wool, nowadays polyester has cheapened cotton and acrylic is cheap.
They had cars that lasted a lifetime.
Shoes lasted decades and made from tough leather. Nowadays it's all plastic and nylon.
Ironically an ad played after this for a military grade snorkel. I ordered two. One for my matchel and one for my glove box