One time when I was in Donegal, I asked for directions to the beach and I was told to "Go by Patrick's house, where the barn used to be. You'll know it used to be there because its not there now."
"Slightly wetter than the land." In Ireland that is an almost entirely accurate description of much of the place. I'm staring out at a water-logged field in Kerry right now.
I was once given similar directions but the house used to be pink, found it, I looked at this now white house and thought, you know that house could have been pink once. Decided to chance it. Yep the correct house.
Back when I was working as a hospice nurse, directions like that were common. "Turn left at the Salter's barn, not the new one but the one with 3 trees behind it. Go a little ways until you see a bush that looks like Santa Claus if you squeeze your eyes half-shut, then . . . "
My mother’s the same, “get off at the stop that used to be Greene’s Bookshop” that shop has been at least three different things since it was a book shop
I'll never forget the time I asked an old man in kerry which of two roads led up a mountain, and which to a farm. It took five minutes and a mixture of English, Irish, and sign language, but in the end I managed to take the wrong road
I am from Wexford and one day I was walking to the shop I took a wrong turn and had to ask directions and I can tell you this the man went on talking talking talking and the last thing he said was "you will be passing a field" and I said "what one" and he said " it has grass "
@@christinesilvio3275 You're lucky you were given directions that way. I mean, you at least knew what you were looking for. When I give directions I tend to forget that the people asking for directions are not from here. So I say things like: "After Michaels barn you want to go left" or something similar. It takes me a while to realize that they have no idea who Michael is, or which barn belongs to him... Of course they can't say that, because I tell them how to reach their destination (I'm living way in the country). Except when they're really rude and Interrupt me. But then I won't give them directions at all. Or at least slightly off ones.
Actually it does not rain that much at all In Ireland these last number of years. I cannot remember when we last had a really wet day on the East coast anyway.
@@aaronoriain229 not too many heatwaves either. When I was born in the 50s there was a cycle of very cold winters and hot summers. I rember 76 where it was very dry and very warm for months. If we get a warm spell now for 2 weeks people have a fit. It's a very long time ago when I saw a TV programme where scientists put a probe in a bog and you could see the different colours of soil which they say showed different cycles of weather. Not enough being said about the cycles of the sun affecting the earth. When the climate change bullies have everyone going around on bikes and freezing with the cold because we are unable to light a fire there will still be hot summers, cold summers wet summers and similar with the winters. People build houses beside rivers and whinge when a large flood comes every 30 years. I wonder has cloud seeding got anything to do with flash floods coming suddenly, more likely the cause than me burning some timber or a bit of coal to keep warm.
It actually makes sense though. 刁 ^ Imagine you come there and then there are two lefts, one is 90°, the other one 45°. Make sure to take the one on the right means the 90°
I love when he drifts into a football match commentary out of nowhere. And also his description of the parsnips means you’d have to pull up at least a couple to compare the root length and see which one has the slightly bitter taste.
Hilarious and accurate! I remember the time my Ma asked a farmer for directions to the nearest church (can't be missing mass just because you're on holiday!) when we were in Killarney. He spoke for about 5 minutes and all we understood was 'big mossy stone'.
@@lukahutinski9075in Canada, we call that "taking the scenic route" bc no matter where you are or where you're going, you're gonna end up seeing different things. (well, unless you're in southern Saskatchwan, then the local joke is you stand on the Alberta border and look straight east, on a clear day, you can see all the way to Manitoba. 😁 This only works in the south of the province. The north is slightly hilly.)
My husband hates this sketch. He’s from Kerry though and I’m from ook so I think it’s hilarious. I’ve been to Kerry and I’ve been lost there, it’s scary.
@Elaine Elaine: I was often in Kerry once but I've never been to ook. Would that be a left or a right after the field with the black dog sitting at the gate?
He was wearing an Umbro shirt and holding an iPhone, but the most scenic forty-five minutes of my life happened when a man in County Kerry gave me directions that sounded almost exactly like this.
this sketch is so true. i drove around Ireland a few years ago. and it is exactly the kind of directions I received every time I asked. such as: drive until you see a red house right after a yellow one, then turn right then continue until you see a barn to your right, then turn left, then when you see a little bridge don't take it but continue until you see a blue house with a green fence, then turn left.... I had to write everything down on a piece of paper... then I had to find the bed and breakfast where I booked a room but the streets of that town had no name and the houses had no number. I had to stop at a petrol station and the employee asked the name of the owner and he told me: 3rd street left, 5th house on the right, it is the house with a white fence and pink flowers.... unforgettable experience!
I am answering myself. Just came back from Ireland driving this time with a GPS. GPS was right 98% of the time but I got one day the following experience in a town. GPS says: at the next stop, turn right. When I arrive at the stop, the GPS says: turn right. Which I did in a very narrow street. 500 m later, arrive in front of bright walls in front and of both sides. GPS still says: continue driving. I can't turn. it is too narrow. so I decide to go backward up to the previous corner. then the GPS keeps repeating: warning you are going backward.... and me screaming at the GPS: SHUT UP!
+Foil Arms and Hog "there will be two lefts in exactly the same place, make sure you take the one on the right" Whichever one of you came up with that, pure genius.
absolutely brilliant - never fails to crack me up - especially the part where he seamlessly segues into the all-ireland football commentary bit == paddy came out tops there all right - he ran rings around the brit . . .
"When you reach the white house at the top of the hill you're half a mile past my house". The last sentence of a complex set of directions I got to a friends house near Moroe, Limerick 15 years ago :)
In my opinion this is still the best video ye have put out so far. It's absolute gold from beginning to end. People could watch this in fifty years time and it'll still be funny!
I once got lost in an area my grandpa knows quite well so I called him to describe my surroundings and ask for directions. He told me to look at the stars. I interrupted to cut it short and told him the sun was still up high. So he went on telling me how to use the sun in relation to the time instead. I found other tourists,... Way more helpful.
This reminds me of a Swiss sketch about a farmer and two German tourists, that goes a lot like this. Different kind of answer heard from Dutch elders being asked for the way by Germans like "you found it fine without help in 45".
Having visited Ireland many times I've been given direction just like this. The only things missing are the mention of a stone wall(s) and the local pub.
Being from Connecticut with family from Massachusetts, two of the New England states, this all makes perfect sense. I often give directions using landmarks that are no longer there. With a bit of a story to explain what replaced it.
I was heading to a wedding in the south of ireland and took a wrong turn and ended up driving around lost. I spotted an old man leaning against a wall and I asked him for directions. He said well now and then proceeded to pick his nose for about 5 minutes and then said I think your lost.
It's like the directions Google gives you: stay left to go right. Or stay right, then turn left. (omgwtf I seriously hate it. And what's worse is he knows how to get there. He just turns it on to annoy tf out of me 😑)
My new girlfriend has just recently moved here ( The U.S ) from Ireland and has turned me on to all things Irish. I've watched this video a hundred times and LOVE IT. Every part of it. Keep up the great work!
@@SamFAHntha now now Sam ..I was lurking in the rabbit hole of FAH and I find you 😅 this made me smile .. now I need to find you elsewhere hahaha 🤣🙈 great craic tho
This remind me of back when I live way out in the country and I would have to give the infamous line “Once you hit the place where your phone cuts out, you’re gonna want to continue past the ravine” and hope they make it.
As a kid we had a new school bus driver that made the mistake of asking us kids if he should turn left or right. A voice from the back of the bus pipes up “turn left and that’ll be right”. We ended up going totally the wrong way because the back seat kids (you know the types)!had decided that they wanted to take the bus to the beach. Eventually the driver stopped to ask an adult for directions and we finally arrived at school about an hour late. 🙂🐿
I did get on a bus once and the driver asked me the way. I got on at the station and the driver looked really pleased to see me. He said 'Do you know the way to Jurby?' 'Yes' 'Good, cos I don't' The new drivers weren't given a map but a typed set of instructions. (This was pre sat nav) Like 'take the Bernahara until you get to the back coast road. Which is OK if you know the names of all the little country roads. Of course I did send him up a wrong road by accident and we had to retrace.
If you're ever in the Southern Appalachians, you're likely to hear directions like these: You'll go about a mile and then turn left at a big tree next to a field where the Smith's house used to be. Then you'll come to the First Baptist Church and turn left. Go another mile and take the third right where the McMasters once killed a man for smiling, then you go another five hunnerd feet and turn right (or is it a left, no it's a right) at the Fourth Third Baptist Church on a hill acrosst from the Piggly Wiggly (it might be a Winn Dixie) near the gas station caddy corner to the Jones' Fruit Stand, but it's only there on Fridays. And then it's right there on your left. Easy!
Haha that's so funny!😆 Thanks for the subtitles, without them it would be a challenge to understand anything. Once I was given the following directions at a market (not Irish): find the two stalls with brooms, there are many of them actually, but the choice isn't so good there, these two are the biggest and the best at the market, then in front of them there will be a stall with sugar and yeast (there was an A4 sheet with tiny letters saying "sugar, yeast →"), go past it and there'll be the stall with embroidery floss (the one I was looking for). I found it immediately, I swear!
This made me laugh so hard: my great grandad came from Kerry & I have a tendency to always give extremely long winded directions, no matter what! Love your channel
I like how they've got a horse and all those props for filming and they're just like come on let's do a sketch about a kerryman giving directions (which to be honest probably would've worked without a horse as well) :D
Is no one else seeing how adorable this horse is, it’s so funny the way it kept moving during the vid, realistically in bloopers it probably went for the grass and moss on the wall 😂 cause that’s what horse do when I’m up I’m the mountains
The only thing I got from this was that "she died too, wouldn't you know it" and the "sea is slighly wetter than the land"...but I'm guessing that's all I need to know.
I did a trip to Ireland, mainly staying in small towns, and while asking for directions we mainly got "Oh, it's just down the road and around the corner." when it was actually a 30 minute drive away.
I live near a forest through which you can easily get to three towns, that's why I oftenly get asked. The thing is, there are so many small paths and I never know which I should count because they might not even notice. That why "take a turn to the right after three crossings" won't work. But it's a forest too, while the trees look unique to me to others they're just trees. I often feel like people don't understand my description but I don't know what to do
There's a big park here. You can go through it and go to another town. An 8 y o girl, walking, asked me for directions and her grandpa didn't speak the language, nor English and he just went walking and was lost. There was no way to explain it and that she'd understand and remember. Follow me. I walked with them until he knew where he was.
So I'm looking at a map of ireland, and it seems that if you're going from Kerry to Mayo, then you do in fact pass through the sea, so these directions are correct.
Had to watch it twice just to understand the dialogue...wait, that's brilliant! Getting twice the views in one go. (Also had a good laugh when I got it)
I had a Gallego try to give me directions and finally he just got in a car and tapped me on the shoulder when he wanted me to turn. Then there was this other time...
Fantastic English accent there from foil: his best. Watched several times, laughed out loud each time. Please please make an Irish Blackadder series 2 with Hog as a Kerry Baldrick, Foil as Blackadder and Arms as Melchie, Nursie and Queen Bess (Arms does women and English accents so so well he can handle 3 parts). But yeah Foil you have to be sarcastic Edmond Blackadder, youd have it down to a t, and Hog can be all the downtrodden parts that he does so well.
Huge fan of you guys. Have become addicted to 'thesis write up youtube breaks' consisting of at least ten of your sketches in a row- always guaranteed a great laugh. Thanks boys!
I once asked for directions to someone's house in rural Southern Utah, and was told to go past so-and-so's house who I'd never heard of before, and another time was told to go past the donkey. I never saw the donkey until I was a month or two from leaving, and it turned out to live in a fenced area right by a road just outside town
The country still lacks named roads or house numbers. My new house's address is literally [Irish words for "house of the stream], [name of area of fields to the north of my house], [village next to my house], [village that's three miles away], Co. Cork. Thank God for the newfangled Eircode system...
I laughed out loud several times. I know these aren't cheap, but if you ever find 50 cents under the couch, please do another one. I think this is my favourite of all your videos.
One time when I was in Donegal, I asked for directions to the beach and I was told to "Go by Patrick's house, where the barn used to be. You'll know it used to be there because its not there now."
Odd how that makes perfect sense, yet isn't helpful in the least...
So funny 😂
@@arekpetrosian4965 Ara to an Irishman you'll just understand what he means
Omg!°!!!!!
Lolollolo
I love how there was absolutely no reason to make this sketch a period piece, but they went for it anyway.
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@@OstapVasilevschi yes
Foil really rocks the English oppressor vibe! And I expect Hog to shmile and then crawl back in amongst the shtones.
Yeah like nothing has really changed there lol btw 600th like
By the way, if they were accurate in the language from that time, I believe 99,9968% of us wouldn't understand him.
"and you'll know it's the sea 'cause it'll be shlightly wetter than the land"
+Nathan Feely lost my shit at that line...
"Slightly wetter than the land."
In Ireland that is an almost entirely accurate description of much of the place. I'm staring out at a water-logged field in Kerry right now.
best line ahahaha
MARK FELEY THAT YOU
And the air
My housemate’s brother directed us to his place:
“then turn left at the house that used to be purple.”
😂😂😂
I was once given similar directions but the house used to be pink, found it, I looked at this now white house and thought, you know that house could have been pink once. Decided to chance it. Yep the correct house.
🤣🤣- superb!
Back when I was working as a hospice nurse, directions like that were common. "Turn left at the Salter's barn, not the new one but the one with 3 trees behind it. Go a little ways until you see a bush that looks like Santa Claus if you squeeze your eyes half-shut, then . . . "
My mother’s the same, “get off at the stop that used to be Greene’s Bookshop” that shop has been at least three different things since it was a book shop
I'll never forget the time I asked an old man in kerry which of two roads led up a mountain, and which to a farm. It took five minutes and a mixture of English, Irish, and sign language, but in the end I managed to take the wrong road
IM SO LATE TO THIS BUT THAT LAST BIT CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD OMG AHSHSHAHAHH hope you managed to find your way in the end!!
I am from Wexford and one day I was walking to the shop I took a wrong turn and had to ask directions and I can tell you this the man went on talking talking talking and the last thing he said was "you will be passing a field" and I said "what one" and he said " it has grass "
+bling blang HAHA brilliant,
We once got lost in Bavaria during a thunderstorm trying to find the "pointy tree" where we were to turn left. 🌲😒
@@christinesilvio3275 You're lucky you were given directions that way. I mean, you at least knew what you were looking for.
When I give directions I tend to forget that the people asking for directions are not from here. So I say things like: "After Michaels barn you want to go left" or something similar. It takes me a while to realize that they have no idea who Michael is, or which barn belongs to him... Of course they can't say that, because I tell them how to reach their destination (I'm living way in the country).
Except when they're really rude and Interrupt me. But then I won't give them directions at all. Or at least slightly off ones.
Two English tourists asked a young lad in Mayo 'How do you get to Ballina'?.... Me cousin takes me!
Beautiful
"Slightly wetter than the land" is a hilarious commentary on how much it rains in Ireland!
Thanks, now I get it!
Actually it does not rain that much at all In Ireland these last number of years. I cannot remember when we last had a really wet day on the East coast anyway.
@@wideawake914 oh damn up north, is a whole nother story
@@wideawake914 today was lashing so i mean, it does rain but yeah no not as much anymore with the heatwaves the last few years
@@aaronoriain229 not too many heatwaves either. When I was born in the 50s there was a cycle of very cold winters and hot summers. I rember 76 where it was very dry and very warm for months. If we get a warm spell now for 2 weeks people have a fit. It's a very long time ago when I saw a TV programme where scientists put a probe in a bog and you could see the different colours of soil which they say showed different cycles of weather. Not enough being said about the cycles of the sun affecting the earth. When the climate change bullies have everyone going around on bikes and freezing with the cold because we are unable to light a fire there will still be hot summers, cold summers wet summers and similar with the winters. People build houses beside rivers and whinge when a large flood comes every 30 years. I wonder has cloud seeding got anything to do with flash floods coming suddenly, more likely the cause than me burning some timber or a bit of coal to keep warm.
"there'll be two lefts in exactly the same place, be sure you take the one on the right."
me giving directions to the government so they don't find me
The directions for the tv licence inspector😃
+Sean Keane HAHAHA! right?
It actually makes sense though.
刁
^ Imagine you come there and then there are two lefts, one is 90°, the other one 45°. Make sure to take the one on the right means the 90°
I lost it at that point and had to watch the whole video again...and again...and again.
No, your *other* left. So many travel memories with my family...
I love when he drifts into a football match commentary out of nowhere.
And also his description of the parsnips means you’d have to pull up at least a couple to compare the root length and see which one has the slightly bitter taste.
That. is UNBELIEVABLE! The GAA commentary in the middle! Genius!
Pure genius
Tribute to micheal o muircheartaigh
Hilarious and accurate! I remember the time my Ma asked a farmer for directions to the nearest church (can't be missing mass just because you're on holiday!) when we were in Killarney. He spoke for about 5 minutes and all we understood was 'big mossy stone'.
I remember having to go on holidays too, think we'd get a break... mine was as gaeilge!
I like getting lost. Not knowing where you are and which way to go to know where you will be is what adventure is all aboot
A poor old Fr Mossy Stone. The best priest that ever served in Kerry. He could tell some good yarns, so he could.
@@lukahutinski9075in Canada, we call that "taking the scenic route" bc no matter where you are or where you're going, you're gonna end up seeing different things. (well, unless you're in southern Saskatchwan, then the local joke is you stand on the Alberta border and look straight east, on a clear day, you can see all the way to Manitoba. 😁 This only works in the south of the province. The north is slightly hilly.)
My husband hates this sketch. He’s from Kerry though and I’m from ook so I think it’s hilarious. I’ve been to Kerry and I’ve been lost there, it’s scary.
I'm from the ook too!!
I've bin to kerry several times and never got lost.
But i also never asked somone for direction... ;D
@Elaine Elaine: I was often in Kerry once but I've never been to ook. Would that be a left or a right after the field with the black dog sitting at the gate?
Keep going until you think this can't be the right way, you're nearly there then.
Best time to sell a kerryman some land? When the tides out!!
a good lady I know was coming to our house from Cavan. she phoned up and said, "I'm next to some trees. where am I?"
I kid you not
You should have replied “next to the trees.”
He was wearing an Umbro shirt and holding an iPhone, but the most scenic forty-five minutes of my life happened when a man in County Kerry gave me directions that sounded almost exactly like this.
"You go straight on and take a left three miles before you get to the Church."
When I visited Ireland in the 1990s I came across a sign on a junction which read ‘This is the wrong way, take the other road’ :D
It's probably still there, too. 😅
Petition for a version set in the future 😂
Kerryman waze / google maps
A postapocaliptic future without much technology
"and you know it's a black hole cause it's slightly blacker than the rest of space."
They'd still use the same directions as in medieval times...
this sketch is so true. i drove around Ireland a few years ago. and it is exactly the kind of directions I received every time I asked. such as: drive until you see a red house right after a yellow one, then turn right then continue until you see a barn to your right, then turn left, then when you see a little bridge don't take it but continue until you see a blue house with a green fence, then turn left.... I had to write everything down on a piece of paper... then I had to find the bed and breakfast where I booked a room but the streets of that town had no name and the houses had no number. I had to stop at a petrol station and the employee asked the name of the owner and he told me: 3rd street left, 5th house on the right, it is the house with a white fence and pink flowers.... unforgettable experience!
I am answering myself. Just came back from Ireland driving this time with a GPS. GPS was right 98% of the time but I got one day the following experience in a town. GPS says: at the next stop, turn right. When I arrive at the stop, the GPS says: turn right. Which I did in a very narrow street. 500 m later, arrive in front of bright walls in front and of both sides. GPS still says: continue driving. I can't turn. it is too narrow. so I decide to go backward up to the previous corner. then the GPS keeps repeating: warning you are going backward.... and me screaming at the GPS: SHUT UP!
Where the streets have no name .............
That would be a good name for a song
Just fantastic. This one is hysterical and historical. Got to share it :D
Thanks a mil, we like to educate through our comedy alright
+Foil Arms and Hog "there will be two lefts in exactly the same place, make sure you take the one on the right"
Whichever one of you came up with that, pure genius.
@@niallyshere haha agreed! 😂🌟
absolutely brilliant - never fails to crack me up - especially the part where he seamlessly segues into the all-ireland football commentary bit == paddy came out tops there all right - he ran rings around the brit . . .
"When you reach the white house at the top of the hill you're half a mile past my house". The last sentence of a complex set of directions I got to a friends house near Moroe, Limerick 15 years ago :)
In my opinion this is still the best video ye have put out so far. It's absolute gold from beginning to end. People could watch this in fifty years time and it'll still be funny!
+PepperBlood hah thanks!
Sure, it made my day 1st March 2020 😆😆😆
@@tehczmych and mine,9th February 2021,Australia. Subtitles would have been great..lol.
04.02.2024 still funny.
Note to self: Never get lost in Kerry.
"You'll know it's the sea because it will be slightly wetter than the land" - this is my favourite line in any TH-cam video ever! So funny guys.
Thanks Millie!!
I once got lost in an area my grandpa knows quite well so I called him to describe my surroundings and ask for directions.
He told me to look at the stars.
I interrupted to cut it short and told him the sun was still up high.
So he went on telling me how to use the sun in relation to the time instead.
I found other tourists,...
Way more helpful.
I once navigated out of Birmingham using the sun cos the roads were confusing.
This reminds me of a Swiss sketch about a farmer and two German tourists, that goes a lot like this. Different kind of answer heard from Dutch elders being asked for the way by Germans like "you found it fine without help in 45".
Ha ha
What way to Mayo?
Kerryman: Well I wouldn't start here...
Still love this video lads, you should make a wee series with these two in it even with period costume, kind of like a wesht coasht Blackadder bai
We'd love to, the budget would be blown WIDE OPEN
Directions from a Corkman next? lol
"What you'll want to do it head to Cork and that'll do ya boy, you'll never want to leave."
Kickstarter
"You're off to Cork? Well now I wouldn't start from here..."
You guys are so talented when it comes to this craic. Someone should throw a bucket of money at you and see what comes out.
I'm in XD
Possibly the funniest thing I've ever seen, "slightly wetter than the land"
Great stuff, lads! Nice to see Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh's Irish family tree goes all the way back to the 16th Century. A fine moustache on Foil too.
haha yes! The O Muircheartaigh's have good genes
Having visited Ireland many times I've been given direction just like this. The only things missing are the mention of a stone wall(s) and the local pub.
Ahhh balls yeah, should defo have thrown them in!
5 years later and this sketch still makes me laugh. Unreal.
Same. 😂
"This bloody country..." LMAO
Being from Connecticut with family from Massachusetts, two of the New England states, this all makes perfect sense. I often give directions using landmarks that are no longer there. With a bit of a story to explain what replaced it.
I love how he started commentating a football match for no reason
I was heading to a wedding in the south of ireland and took a wrong turn and ended up driving around lost. I spotted an old man leaning against a wall and I asked him for directions. He said well now and then proceeded to pick his nose for about 5 minutes and then said I think your lost.
Sterling 👏👏😅😅👏👏!!
"there will be 2 lefts at exactly the same place"
"take the one on the right"
It's like the directions Google gives you: stay left to go right. Or stay right, then turn left. (omgwtf I seriously hate it. And what's worse is he knows how to get there. He just turns it on to annoy tf out of me 😑)
My new girlfriend has just recently moved here ( The U.S ) from Ireland and has turned me on to all things Irish. I've watched this video a hundred times and LOVE IT. Every part of it. Keep up the great work!
+Wornout Dad you sir have a great youtube name
@@foilarmsandhog Random... But ok! 😂👍
(I do agree, sending love to Dad! Not my Dad, that Dad...Well now I'm just digging myself a hole aren't I?)
@@SamFAHntha now now Sam ..I was lurking in the rabbit hole of FAH and I find you 😅 this made me smile .. now I need to find you elsewhere hahaha 🤣🙈 great craic tho
@@stacy9538 Haha! Now I'm deeply ashamed of how little I comment 😆
@@SamFAHntha 😅😅 nah don't be
I've lived in Ireland for a while now, and I can confirm. The sea is slightly wetter than the land.
ah sure you know how the old saying goes, "You'll know it's the sea cos' it'll be slightly wetter than the land."
If you play it at 1.25 speed it starts approaching accurate
Tried it haha do funny
Watched it 4 times already, now I gotta watch it a 5th lol
Meehal O'Hare Abu.
😁😁😁
It's a tribute to my Irishness that I was able to understand him
I come back and rewatch this on a regular basis and I never cease to cry with laughter. Or maybe cry at being lost. But mostly with laughter.
This remind me of back when I live way out in the country and I would have to give the infamous line “Once you hit the place where your phone cuts out, you’re gonna want to continue past the ravine” and hope they make it.
now there will be a turn off to your left going up a hill, whatever you do, don't go that way
As a kid we had a new school bus driver that made the mistake of asking us kids if he should turn left or right. A voice from the back of the bus pipes up “turn left and that’ll be right”.
We ended up going totally the wrong way because the back seat kids (you know the types)!had decided that they wanted to take the bus to the beach. Eventually the driver stopped to ask an adult for directions and we finally arrived at school about an hour late. 🙂🐿
I did get on a bus once and the driver asked me the way. I got on at the station and the driver looked really pleased to see me. He said
'Do you know the way to Jurby?'
'Yes'
'Good, cos I don't'
The new drivers weren't given a map but a typed set of instructions. (This was pre sat nav)
Like 'take the Bernahara until you get to the back coast road. Which is OK if you know the names of all the little country roads.
Of course I did send him up a wrong road by accident and we had to retrace.
@@alicequayle4625 🤣❤️
A true Kerryman, he breaks into a GAA football commentry midway through his directions. ha ha ha
TH-cam just offered this up again and it is one of my all-time favourites. ❤
Keep in mind that a lot of Irish people do this deliberately for the craic and your reaction will supply them with a fresh anecdote in the pub
Theres the trick where you tell someone ' take three left turns ". By the time they arrive back where you met them, you're long gone
I'm in total awe of the endless talent these guys have. keep up the good work lads
If you're ever in the Southern Appalachians, you're likely to hear directions like these: You'll go about a mile and then turn left at a big tree next to a field where the Smith's house used to be. Then you'll come to the First Baptist Church and turn left. Go another mile and take the third right where the McMasters once killed a man for smiling, then you go another five hunnerd feet and turn right (or is it a left, no it's a right) at the Fourth Third Baptist Church on a hill acrosst from the Piggly Wiggly (it might be a Winn Dixie) near the gas station caddy corner to the Jones' Fruit Stand, but it's only there on Fridays. And then it's right there on your left. Easy!
Haha that's so funny!😆 Thanks for the subtitles, without them it would be a challenge to understand anything.
Once I was given the following directions at a market (not Irish): find the two stalls with brooms, there are many of them actually, but the choice isn't so good there, these two are the biggest and the best at the market, then in front of them there will be a stall with sugar and yeast (there was an A4 sheet with tiny letters saying "sugar, yeast →"), go past it and there'll be the stall with embroidery floss (the one I was looking for). I found it immediately, I swear!
"you'll know it's the sea because it'll be slightly wetter than the land" 😂😂😂 I died
"there'll be two lefts at exactly the same place,you take the one on the right" ,ten seconds in and this is already amazing
I love the dedication to the costumes and everything in this
This made me laugh so hard: my great grandad came from Kerry & I have a tendency to always give extremely long winded directions, no matter what!
Love your channel
I like how they've got a horse and all those props for filming and they're just like come on let's do a sketch about a kerryman giving directions (which to be honest probably would've worked without a horse as well) :D
The horse only adds to the story.
Nika: To cut costs the horse was CGI.... 😂🤣😜
Is no one else seeing how adorable this horse is, it’s so funny the way it kept moving during the vid, realistically in bloopers it probably went for the grass and moss on the wall 😂 cause that’s what horse do when I’m up I’m the mountains
The only thing I got from this was that "she died too, wouldn't you know it" and the "sea is slighly wetter than the land"...but I'm guessing that's all I need to know.
I did a trip to Ireland, mainly staying in small towns, and while asking for directions we mainly got "Oh, it's just down the road and around the corner." when it was actually a 30 minute drive away.
I live near a forest through which you can easily get to three towns, that's why I oftenly get asked. The thing is, there are so many small paths and I never know which I should count because they might not even notice. That why "take a turn to the right after three crossings" won't work. But it's a forest too, while the trees look unique to me to others they're just trees. I often feel like people don't understand my description but I don't know what to do
Townies vs country. In this case it's also a political thing due to Irish history.
There's a big park here. You can go through it and go to another town. An 8 y o girl, walking, asked me for directions and her grandpa didn't speak the language, nor English and he just went walking and was lost. There was no way to explain it and that she'd understand and remember. Follow me. I walked with them until he knew where he was.
Ok, not only is this hilarious its production level is surprisingly good. It could be a scene in a historical comedy.
I vote for more hilarious period sketches like this one. So good guys! 😆
Aye!
That is a work of art. Brilliant lads!
TOO KIND!
Why aren't BBC, Channel 4 or RTE throwing money at them to make this a show.
As a kerryman myself i can aprove this as correct
"And you'll know it's the sea because it'll be slightly wetter than the land" XDD
So I'm looking at a map of ireland, and it seems that if you're going from Kerry to Mayo, then you do in fact pass through the sea, so these directions are correct.
I have caught myself giving directions saying "do you see that left there, you don't take that". I've nearly died laughing
Can I have an entire series of this, please?
+Sanna G okay but it would be very expensive!!
Take all my money!
Foil Arms and Hog id pay 😂
One of my all time favourite sketches of yours 😂😂😂
Had to watch it twice just to understand the dialogue...wait, that's brilliant! Getting twice the views in one go. (Also had a good laugh when I got it)
yes, there's a LOT going on in that rant! thanks for watching, twice
My teacher last year was from Kerry and this was quite literally her whilst giving us homework
My favourite answer received when asking for directions in Clare “If I was you I wouldn’t start from here “
I've watched this about a hundred times but only now did i realise that you've got an actual horse there. that is some commitment right there
This looks like an expensive production. Very well done. Hog seems to have enjoyed writing subs for this one.
Probably watched this 20 times, but it’s 11th Jan 2021, London, Lockdown
I needed it! 😂
Tommy Tiernan did a joke about how an Irish sat nav would give you all the instructions at the start of a journey, and then refuse to repeat them.
I had a Gallego try to give me directions and finally he just got in a car and tapped me on the shoulder when he wanted me to turn. Then there was this other time...
legend has it that one of the ancestors of this man has designed Google maps.
That's how accurate Google maps predicts courses.
@@DeirdreMcNamara btw didn't get joke 🤣😂🤣
Fantastic English accent there from foil: his best. Watched several times, laughed out loud each time. Please please make an Irish Blackadder series 2 with Hog as a Kerry Baldrick, Foil as Blackadder and Arms as Melchie, Nursie and Queen Bess (Arms does women and English accents so so well he can handle 3 parts). But yeah Foil you have to be sarcastic Edmond Blackadder, youd have it down to a t, and Hog can be all the downtrodden parts that he does so well.
Huge fan of you guys. Have become addicted to 'thesis write up youtube breaks' consisting of at least ten of your sketches in a row- always guaranteed a great laugh. Thanks boys!
Haha awesome! You're very welcome. Sounds like they would be a big step down in seriousness forma thesis alright. Good luck putting it together!
Is it just me or does the videos from 5 years ago have higher production value then the ones from recently?
We asked a policeman in Dublin for the name of a good pub, his answer was that an open pub was a good pub 🥴
No joke (because this is one of my favorite sketches), but I have always wondered where you got the horse.
Stay safe,
Win Xx
I once asked for directions to someone's house in rural Southern Utah, and was told to go past so-and-so's house who I'd never heard of before, and another time was told to go past the donkey. I never saw the donkey until I was a month or two from leaving, and it turned out to live in a fenced area right by a road just outside town
😂😂😂😂that sounded like a 1970's cassette tape rewinding and tangling around the spools 🤭😂😂😂😂💕
The country still lacks named roads or house numbers. My new house's address is literally [Irish words for "house of the stream], [name of area of fields to the north of my house], [village next to my house], [village that's three miles away], Co. Cork. Thank God for the newfangled Eircode system...
Absolutely brilliant lads. Keep it going.
Thanks Patrick!
I just binge watch these videos. They are brilliant 🇮🇪
I laughed out loud several times. I know these aren't cheap, but if you ever find 50 cents under the couch, please do another one. I think this is my favourite of all your videos.
Now I can't ever again buy parsnips without reminding myself of this clip. Absolutely brilliant!
Please, more of this!
These directions are good once he gets to the sea he can follow the coast to mayo
Love it! Could you add more outdoor sketches to your repertoire, please? Nice to have the variation of setting :)
I would laugh, but this is what i sound like when I am rembering how to get places.
_"You'll be knowin' it's the sea, because it'll be slightly wetter than the land."_ LOL!
Been waiting to re watch this since I first saw it on RTE. Got a grand auld laugh, fair play lads.
Deadly, cheers Tadhg
Here I am, 3 years later and still watching this