Directions (Short Comedy Sketch)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มี.ค. 2015
- A funny phone conversation illustrating how hard it can sometimes be to follow 'simple' directions. Subscribe for more short comedy sketches & films: bit.ly/laurisb
Starring Orion Lee, Tom Greaves and Deirdre Mullins.
Producers: Connor Snedecor & Lauris Beinerts
Writer & Director: Lauris Beinerts
Director of Photography: Oliver Cross
Sound Recordists: Janis Sokolovskis & Connor Snedecor
Art Director: Karina Beinerte
Editor: Creda Wilson
Sound Designer: James Bryant
Colourist: Rory Leighton
This is what friends are for!
Which one do you prefer: apple maps or google maps?
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Was that you coming out of the station before the protagonist at the beginning of the video?
But wait... I thought he was an expert!
Not the same guy.
@@aayushrivastava the same one...
He is an expert on another city.
But the guy that made the navigation system wasnt...
He should have made a right angle once he left the station.
That's why I say, never take directions from a local. You're better off with someone that is relatively new to the city. Once you're lived in a place too long (myself included) you stop remembering vital information like signs and street names and your brain converts to landmarks noone else seriously considers.
Always Learnin' In the language of machine learning I believe this is called over fitting.
beg to differ i with you on that *+Always Learnin' *
at-least to my own place or wherever i've lived or even to an eatery near workplace, say meeting a friend for lunch
i'd always be fairly good at giving piecemeal directions with sometimes even foot/steps count and specific land,arks (easily visible/ identifiable)
so has been with my Paa and few others. Maa not so much.
Footsteps... Do you often give directions to find hidden treasures?? :) [just kidding ;)]
In the U.S., you're better just taking down the address and trusting your GPS. In some countries, you're better off abandoning all hope.
*+EebstertheGreat* haha ha.. that last part cracked me up. for it can be true sometimes (and thus, really frustrating)
although here in Bharat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhārat_Gaṇarājya (and few other places that i've been)
it usually works out fine to just roll down the window (if in a vehicle) and ask local people or my favourite: walk up to any mom 'nd pop grocery store or pharmacy or milk distribution/ laundry shops centre guys and take door specific or at-least building location.. to the T.
[in Bharat, often small or even medium sized grocery shops, medicines shops or ironing (laundry) guys often provide home delivery.]
works best for congested areas. and even otherwise, GPS doesn't work that well for towns or areas that aren't mapped well.
The '..abandoning all hope..' part made me guffaw because 8/10 times, if (ever) there are 4-5 people standing/sitting around and someone asks for directions, the groups give almost as many (often conflicting) answers!
Thats the worst friend ever!!
+David Martin which one? lol
+Lauris Beinerts The guy sitting at home and not sticking to his word lol.
+David Martin nah, the worst friend ever is the woman on the phone in the end. I hate when google do that... ._.
Markus Forsberg yeah you cannot rely on technology to tell you where you are going. Always plan your journey with a backup plan.
+David Martin always bring a map with you!
As a teenager, I worked harvesting crops. I had to ask for directions to a farm - “go to the end of the road, turn right, and you’ll know his place when the grass looks better”.
What’s worse is that I tried to look for ‘better’ grass.
They took ' grass is always greener on the other side' way too seriously
It's just on the other side man. Everybody knows that.
Never ask directions in the country.
Me: "How do I get to Highway 30 from here?"
Man cutting grass: "Well... (scratches head), "I don't rightly know. Where you from? "
(I tell him)
Him: "Highway 30 won't take you there."
Me: "I'm not trying to get home."
Him: "Well you won't get there on Highway 30."
Me: "I'm trying to find Johnson's farm, he said it was before you get to Highway 30."
Him: "I don't know any Johnson 'round here"
Me: "I met him at the cattle auction, and I'm going to buy some calves from him."
Him: " Johnson ain't got no calves."
Me: "I thought you said he didn't live around here?"
Him: " He lives across the county line."
Me: "Which way is the county line?"
Him: "Bout a half a mile down from the turnoff on Highway 30."
Me: "And where's the turnoff?"
Him: "Down at the end of this here road."
This really happened, about thirty years ago.
Yea, me and my dad had the same thing. Someone was looking for a local petting farm to take his kids to. Now, while we both knew where this petting farm was, we didn't know how to explain it to him in a way he would understand. I turned to my dad and said: 'You know the place too. It's right next to where the old tennis center used to be. Just a bit off by the creek, right before you get to where they pulled that car out of the creek 2 years ago.' From the look on my dad's face, I could see that he immediately knew what I was talking about, but obviously none of that information is useful to a tourist. We ended up directing the poor guy downtown, so he could pick up a map at the town hall.
@@Xylarxcode What I never understand is people giving "country" directions to a place which has an address I could just look up. Like, we're both sitting here with a phone in hand, just tell me how to look it up and GPS will take it from there!
Standard solution for when this situation happens: "I'd like to mail you a package, please tell me your address."
Genius!
P.S. Please, post it to that big house on the other side of the hill, I live on the middle floor, it is the old door that makes the funny noise when you open it.
Tom Mabe?
I was overseas and sending a letter to my uncle in the rural country in the U.S. I did not know his address, but I did know what city delivered his mail. I addressed it to him and put "across from the old Stern's Meat Locker that burned up 10 years ago."
He got the letter.
That's from xkcd, right?
@@LaurisB Well the owls from Hogwarts could get the letter there... ;)
Lol Anderson's life is rough man 😂
Dang, even his phone managed to lose IQ... xD Poor guy.
i'm glad he didn't encounter any left angles, that would have been disasterous.
It's when locals say it's the roundabout before the turnoff to... that really gets me. How do you know it's the one before until you go right past it and have to double back on yourself.
TFW he's referring to the "Abbit" junction on the Main Rd. where "Thaet st." crosses, which changes into the "Keindoff-Leftische st." at the local bus depot, "Olewaysgle".
This is a good comment haha
'Y'ello'. Says it all.
I feel like if I was this guy, I'd have given up with life and moved into the mountains already.
Oh the beauty of “share my location”
You want directions ask the pizza delivery driver. They not only know where everything is, but the fastest way to get there.
You should do "The Expert" part 2 or something. That sketch was pretty clever and fun
in pre-production :)
@@LaurisB What about now? :-)
@@Yocairo I think its in post production and they are making sure they have no left angles drawn with transparent blue inks....
@@cyberIndia212 They're getting their innovative 100 degree right angles approved by the Home Office.
@@cyberIndia212 🤣🤣
He must figure it out. Afterall he's an expert!
The viewer gets to share in the pain of the delay - thank you.
Clever idea! Almost painful to watch! Haha really funny.
I love all your comedy sketches man, these are comedy gold XD
I love this series.
LMAO! Perfectly clear directions! 😃
This is how my wife gives directions.
Damn, me too....
Perhaps you too have something in common.
Hey, don't shoot the messenger.
J/k.
My mom one time told my dad to pick up some takeout from "that restaurant that's on the way to Philadelphia on the right"
This is gold man. I am going to binge watch all your videos.
The ending was perfect!
awesome! Huge thanks for this series of sketches! Very useful for learning the language!
HE HAS MORE THAN JUST EXPERT? Subbed.
Glad you liked it! There's not much, but there's a few :)
Last part was gold
it gets even worse when you ask for the exact address to put into google maps, and he goes like "naah, its really simple, i will explain..." and goes on giving you abstruct directions that make zero sense unless you lived in the city for your whole life
It's literally easier to just figure it out by cross-referencing Google maps with the abstract BS than it is to get someone to just tell you the address.
That's epically hilarious. I was just watching this...funny
Why no more short films? These are gold/
+Eric Ali glad you like them :) A new one is in final stages of post-production, so should hopefully come out before the end of January. Stay tuned!
@@LaurisB Any more to come?
This is what happens in london where my phone points me round in circles for half an hour for meetups. That's how I get much of my involuntary exercise.
One Word or you watch the uber drive circle you and never find you :)
The what? I don't use uber.
@@tardiskeeper6 You mean you've never been to oovoo-java?
watching any of the videos these people create makes my brain want to explode
Follow the main road and turn left a mile before tescos. I have genuinely experienced this.
You didn't get a laugh-out-loud from me, but you did elicit a hearty chuckle. The ending caught me completely by surprise.
Good job!
Oh god no! This is too real 😂😂😂
Brilliant script and characterisations!
This is so Hilarious!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's hilarious! Ohhhhh the days before GPS on our phones!
the end of the video used GPS
Brilliant! Very clever. I enjoy your work a lot - keep on!
Check out my latest short comedy sketch ‘Directions’ - a funny phone conversation illustrating how hard it can be to follow ‘simple’ directions.
What are the least useful directions you’ve ever been given? Can you come up with something even ‘better’? And most importantly - do you prefer #applemaps or #googlemaps ? :)
#directions
#phone
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#funny
#comedy
So i was waiting for ur next short & i like it though i kind of dont understand why the guy misled his friend& why he was folding the suit ! Thanks :)
that was funny - reminds me of my son. I just use a map.
That was funny because it is exactly how my mom gives direction. It's kind of 'leftish'
Dominic Maas "now go left at a 32.5 degree angle and you will be at your destination in exactly 725.5 minutes"
Hahahah I really liked this
I'm so thankful for navigation, mapquest, etc... Most people cannot give directions!
I like to see the map myself. I don't like GPS.
"Turn around when possible". I was on a one-way road, with no turn offs in sight.
Now that's a good laugh! Nicely done!
You guys are brilliant, subscribed!
klancy kennedy can u Check out mine then? I would love to hear feedback
Anyone else watching ping-pong?
That is exactly the directions I always get. Talking to my son who is playing online games is like talking to the roommate.
Awesome love it
This is what friends are for! :)
LOL, this direction giving is kinda like something I know IRL :)
use, the map, man, THE MAP!)))
Great punchline!
This guy is way too patient for his own good
Love your videos, well done
😄😄😄 loved it. I too experienced it.
Excellent!
My head aches just from listening to the directions
Nice sketch!
not gonna lie, was looking for direction videos for EFL Class to teach but found this gem. I guess I'll tell to the students, "and this is why you ask people on the street for directions"
Kind of Left-Ish. Hahaha. got me rollin'
Really good work
Haa haa ...Loved it and it made us laugh .
Glad you enjoyed it!
That was terribly frustrating
It'll be tough but you can do it.
Love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Haha very funny stuff man
Fantastic
Go up the hill, I was standing in a valley.
Its like listening to my mother giving directions.. lol
hahah I feel so sorry for Anderson :-D
thank god for google maps!
I used to live in the rural countryside of the U.S. You often heard directions such as, "Go to where the old church used to be, turn right. Then just past where farmer Bob's cow was struck by lightning make a left. " My grandmother called the highway the "hard road." She once told me to "go out yonder and do that thing." So I went to my brothers house and built a really nice set of horseshoe pits.
Smart woman your grandmother was.
That guy is an amateur on evil directions. In Saint Louis, we normally give directions like
"Head west down Watson to the road just before where Red Bird Lanes used to be and turn right, go up to where the gas station was and turn left, you can't miss it."
Near as I can figure, we don't like outsiders around here, so we give directions based on where things used to be.
I'd say you are very welcoming! When outsiders come to Saint Louis, they never find their way out. (Like in Simak's "Neighbor")
And that's how I ended up cycling on the freeway.
Yep, happened to me more than I'd like to. And I was driving at the time. The other person alwasy think like our mind telephatically linked together or something.
God these videos are soo true.
All he had to do was to draw *Seven Perpendicular Lines in the form of a kitten with Transparent ink* and then follow the path to reach his destination..Easy af 😂😂
(The Expert reference)
I'd get back on that train.
good job
"Walk down the main road for a bit, then up the street that goes high and leftish, it's where the bus is always go, then turn up the roundabout and you'll soon be at my place."
I love this line due to how it's almost made as vague as possible.
Which one is the main road? Do I turn left or right? How do I know if the road is high -leftish enough? Are there really going to be enough buses for me to know? I assume that road must be crowded with buses if you were to give it as part of the instructions.
Then where do I turn it around about? It's a roundabout, so it's not off the tables that I might even want to go straight on it. But do I turn left or right? Or do I go straight?
And then I'll soon be at your place? What does your house look like?
not almost, but definitely!
I was tempted to make a smart-ass comment about using google maps, but lately I’ve noticed it says stuff like “turn right just past McDonalds and your destination will be around the corner”... so, not much better that what you had here.
Keep up the good work.
Directions consist of;
Street name
House number.
Then call a cab.
This guy is a good actor
This comment is a good comment
Many Directione.
He's an expert... He should be able to figure out simple directions
Once, when I was in a petrol station, showing someone how to fill up (yes, some inexperienced people genuinely find this helpful) and was slightly taken aback when somone pulled in and asked me for directions.
Now, I know the area like the back of my hand and immediately thought of the quickest way there, _however_ I cannot explain *why,* but I dismissed the simple route and told the guy to turn around, go waaaay down the road, right at the second roundabout, left at the 2nd exit, left at the roundabout, straight ahead at the next, right at the lights and then he couldn't miss it.
Basically, I told this poor bloke to go round 4 sides of a pentangle! He must have thought that I was taking the piss.
The route I foolishly dismissed was, "take the next left, at the end of the road turn left, and it'll be on the left after about 700 metres."
If he ever reads this comment, please believe me, I am sorry and I was not taking the piss, I was just a bit flustered as I wanted to keep an eye on my pupil (I've had them spill petrol before, when I've taken my attention off them for a few seconds, never underestimate people's stupidity).
What are the odds of him reading your comment? Hmm...
Lauris Beinerts
Very, very low, but the odds gradually improve as time goes by.
I have friends who give directions almost exactly like this. It's not even a hyperbole! xD
that poor guy
Haha very clever
This is my boss explaining where I'm supposed to deliver stuff. I've started interrupting him and just telling him to give me the address instead.
This guy cannot catch a break
funny stuff, great!
Glad you liked it :)
Ohhhhh Nostalgic
really funny)
Hahaha, YASSSS
That looks like former UFC fighter Tim Kennedy, bearded, on the couch. Funny.
I'm going that way! Just follow me and turn right a half mile before I go in my driveway.
Turn right at the Old Otis Cafe. The bear left where the old mill used to stand.
These sound like customer instructions when I'm doing Doordash.
Cool