Friends | David Mitchell's Soapbox

David Mitchell talks about friends.

David discusses the trials and tribulations of keeping up with old friends from which there is no etiquette of release. Shouldn't there be a system for rotating them every ten years?

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David Mitchell, star of UK TV favourites Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look, brings us his unique perspective on the issues facing men of the world today.

[Sam-zzgs]

David flexing on us with his many friends for 4 minutes straight

[LimeGreenTeknii]

I wish I had enough friends to worry about having too many of them...

[mc_kristie]

I think I'm just going to send this to a few people without context and then never talk to them again.

[AlastairCarr]

I propose the use of ~~~ to symbolise "handshake, handshake, handshake".
If you protest that this looks nothing like what an actual handshake looks like, I propose further that you add extra wobblyness to your handshakes. Handshakes which look like sine waves must be awesome.

[Microtonal_Cats]

I usually say "I have enough friends, but give me your number. If someone dies, I'll give you a call."

[thethDoctor]

"Yeah bro, hit me up, we'll cancel some plans sometime."

[OhhBiscuits]

This is so true. There's a friend that I use to be really close to only 2 years ago who I never speak to anymore, and it's in fact very awkward when I -do- see him, because he's... gone a bit weird.

[pedrocorrea]

I like to watch David Michell to feel unparanoid, relaxed and definetly not an overthinker by comparison.

[dansaunders]

"i know it sounds cold-blooded..."
*barrage of long words*
-David Mitchell, Always

[looseSpark]

"... and, of course, you've gone a bit weird."

How many times we wished we could be that honest...

[pudgywudgy]

Lol David is Mr. Popular.. he has too many friends. I'm pretty young (24) but what I've noticed from the people around that are older (30+) is that they lose friends slowly, as David describes, BUT they never really gain as many back. A net loss in friendship. I asked my friends if their parents have any friends, and I was shocked to find that lots of them have literally 0 friends.
Personally, my experience is similar to what David is describing. People go through this kind of thing all the time when they go to college. All your friends end up getting scattered across the world.

[LyricalWax]

"We must meet up in the New Year! or must we..?"
Haha hilarious. I feel like using that now.

[dkg_gdk]

I did break up with a friend once when we were 12, we talked on the phone for hours about how we could no longer be friends. We both cried. It was horrible.

[Celeste-in-Oz]

That was cathartic for me - I've been living with such 'dumped friend' guilt for some time now - thank you, thank you!

[Gavinisso]

Now we can show this video to our "old friends" in hopes that they get the message that the friendship is over without us feeling any remorse.

Thank you David.

[booklver]

I wish I'd seen this a couple of weeks back and saved myself some heartache. As usual, Mitchell is right on the money.

[letsgoBrandon]

Yes it's all very well thought out and all, but my friend pool dried up when I was about 25 😐

[SnoopPixel]

I know this is a comedy sketch but he actually makes some very good points...

[samizdat]

Mr. Mitchell, I think it would be well agreed upon by all those who love your work that a collection of each of these Soapbox rants, and any other rants you wish to add, in book format is exactly what your next project should be. I consider them better than essay collections currently available, and certainly more entertaining than the trite fiction written nowadays.

[Bungadin]

Lol I love David Mitchell - he is the epitome of a man uncomfortable in his own skin