Perhaps the "you have not selected a floor" message set em off. It's like your mum accusing you of not brushing your teeth infront of your friends. Doesn't matter if you did or not. Don't tell me what I haven't done! Lol fantastic
His "American" accent really does sound Irish. Posh Dublin, to be specific. Like he's got a docklands apartment, owns a hotel, and divorced one of The Corrs.
That's because lots of Irish people, especially posh Dublin people, do speak like Americans now (in the past this class talked like posh British people, that's why their accents ended up so weird even before they started taking on the US influence). Example. "Oh. My. Gaawd. Caroline, that was, like, so, like omg." I've asked young Irish girls what part of America they were from, and my American friend in the US has done the same with some J1 students. It's confusing. I've even heard girls speaking Irish with that retroflex American r, it's crazy. Shows how weak and assimilated to global (Anglo-American) consumer culture the young Irish are.
One really hard thing is that if I set my voice recognition in Finnish (my mothers tongue) I have to pronounce english names in finnish accent which is just stupid. And if I set it to english I have have to pronounce finnish names in english accent :D That is just stupid
There is a fine line between "a push-button will do" and "why wasn't this invented before". For instance, touch screen in mobile phones. Have you tried it in 2004-2005? Or Google Translate... Do you remember it in e.g. 2008? It is just a transition phase. Some of such things will die out, but some will evolve to be so obvious that the transition phase will be forgotten...
@@TheseBombsOnly I believe it’s a joke m8. Also everytime I’ve been to America i have a lot of trouble getting them to understand me, and my accent isn’t even that thick.
@@yuukig7479 Well, I had a teacher in middle school from South Africa. Nice guy, but his accent was 3X stronger than this. After you spend a month learning to understand that, your listening skills go up by 10. These Scottish guys are easy compared to him.
Yep, this is a classic. I'm an American married to a Geordie and she has fits here trying to be understood in Virginia in stores. She tones it way down too.
I had a teacher from South Africa in middle school. His accent was the strongest I've ever heard in my life, these Scottish guys are easy to understand compared to his speaking. Amazingly though I understood him almost perfectly within a month. I guess it takes time to train your ear.
Maybe for you they're easier to understand. But the Scottish accent is considered one of the hardest to understand for people not from here. Some people just have a good ear for accents too.
My Geordie grandparents raised me in the states. Go magpies. I'm not the best code switcher but I can at least understand the thickest accents. I've heard a few times that my Scottish accent sounds more natural for my voice than my American accent which is funny.
After seeing this the first time I made an effort to find Burnistoun on BBC Scotland on Freesat... and was thoroughly disappointed that none of it was nearly as good as this!
Alexa doesn't like Canadian accents either. I don't know why; it's not like we're that different from American. I do not need St. Pauli Gringo water and bee compounder on my shopping list.
This is bloody brilliant. The whole thing is marvelous. For an extra laugh, rewatch it with the automatically generated subtitles, eleven is about the only word it gets right most of the time.
In the comments, I've seen people say they didn't understand because of their accents because they were American or whatever, but imagine for a second how disturbing it is for people who don't even speak English at all, or very little and are trying to learn, like me for example, who is French. Well, even with my low level of English, I understood almost everything. Almost.
I watched this show so many times..... never got tired of this skit...all of them were so good.... Netflix had it for awhile... not sure where to see it now ......ELEVEN you cow !!!!
This is the best thing I've seen in decades. I'm a cockney, but was married to a weegie for twenty years so I'm bi lingual. Love Glasgow. Pure dead brilliant!!!! 👅
“Where in America is that, Dublin?” Gets me every time 😂🤣 And also that one time when he screams “eleven” and his voice cracks. 😂🤣 My teacher from NZ got her blind husband the new IPhone4 with SIRI (which was THE novelty back then). they almost shattered the damn thing into pieces because he kept saying:”Siri, call Miriam” And Siri would reply:”why, thank you, Colin, I think you’re cool too”. I happened to call them on the landline and have sounded in genuine distress, I asked if they were alright and she told me. I couldn’t stop laughing 😂🤣😂
I'm Canadian...when my husband asked me out I had no idea what he said...so I laughed because everything he said was pretty funny. He replied....does that mean you don't want to go out wi' me?? We did a lot of laughing ❤
Maybe you won't believe 😅 I watched this video maybe more than ten times and everytime I laughed in a loud voice 😂 they are really very good ❤ thanks very much ❤
What I want to say is I watched the the actual show that this sketch came from several times. I still lmaso everytime. Because I am Scottish and believe me I would react the same way.
Had made one GIF before from this superb sketch & now I've made another few that will be available through twitter & FB in a few hours. Best Scottish comedy sketch ever!
Loved this sketch, best laugh I've had all year. They deserve to be on National UK tellie. Some very, very clever ideas, the only thing is sometimes the sketches just end a bit flat. I think they missed an opportunity with the lift one. Rather than just looking embarrassed at the end, it would have been better to keep on with the full rant. Still hyped up, but realising there might be a chance that of one of those waiting would be able to work the lift, one of them shouts 'Are any of you English!" To which they look terrified and run away thinking they are going to be attacked. The pair are left looking puzzled at the reaction.
Hello to everyone, thank you sooooo very much for this idea of adding funny videos! Wow, laughing for these few minutes felt like breathing in the most uplifting mountain air - a therapy to recommend, which will get us therapists out of business ;-) ! Thank you Tanmaya, Love from Corinna, UK
@makadeni123 oh please lmao. you don't 'know' a teacher who got suspended for that. you read some unsubstantiated bs on a forum or got told a story and you ran with it without fact checking bc it triggered you so much
@makadeni123 well I'm calling them monkey bars forever. The only people who have a problem with that name are those who think "monkey" and then think "black person", and that's only left wing loonies (the most racist people alive). Haha!! Omg 😂 they will try anything! No one tanning is trying to look another race!! Are the Twitter psychos saying the same thing about skin bleaching? Because that's the #1 "beauty" product sold world wide.
What they said: "I'm going to come to America, I'm gonna find whatever desperate actress gave you a voice, and I'm going to the electric chair for you" What auto-generated caption understood: "I'm buddy Tommy I'm Anika I'm gonna faint what about this right just give your voice and I'm gonna go in a lightening gel free" ... Yeah, for sure they definitely have issues with the voice recognition technology
"Open the doors Pleease"
"Pleease.. *pathetic* "
I died 😂😂😂😂
Please remain calm
Please please Sock ma wulleh
@@Jack-ny4vu 🤣🤣🤣🤣
same
the worst thing to say to an angry person "please stay calm"
IM CALM
*I'M DEFINITELY CALM*
*I'M VERY CALM*
Especially when it’s a voice recognition technology lift and it made the person angry in the first place 😂
Perhaps the "you have not selected a floor" message set em off. It's like your mum accusing you of not brushing your teeth infront of your friends. Doesn't matter if you did or not. Don't tell me what I haven't done! Lol fantastic
His "American" accent really does sound Irish. Posh Dublin, to be specific. Like he's got a docklands apartment, owns a hotel, and divorced one of The Corrs.
You might be right, but I hear a bit of a "New York" accent in it. I've heard some New Yorkers say it the same way he does.
To me it sounded German
Fuck, why would you divorce one of the Corrs? Unless it was the brother, of course ;0)
Hahaha 😅
That's because lots of Irish people, especially posh Dublin people, do speak like Americans now (in the past this class talked like posh British people, that's why their accents ended up so weird even before they started taking on the US influence).
Example.
"Oh. My. Gaawd. Caroline, that was, like, so, like omg."
I've asked young Irish girls what part of America they were from, and my American friend in the US has done the same with some J1 students. It's confusing.
I've even heard girls speaking Irish with that retroflex American r, it's crazy. Shows how weak and assimilated to global (Anglo-American) consumer culture the young Irish are.
I turned subtitles on. Sometimes it showed "eleven", but also "I love Ben" and other nonsense :-D .-D :-D
Ben’s sound as fuck but.
That's voice recognition for you :P
I love Ben. 😂
ME TO AND "I LOVE THEN" KFKSJDOAIDU
Bruh that's hilarious lmao 🤣😂🤣😂
and then someone comes in with the ultimate punchline and said: you do know this building has only 10 floors right.
🤣
That would have been awesome😆
oh my god... could you imagine their reactions
They still couldn't exit the elevator 😂
I can totally see this happening
Honestly this goes beyond just accents. Technology is needlessly complicated sometimes when often a simple push-button will do.
Ok boomer
One really hard thing is that if I set my voice recognition in Finnish (my mothers tongue) I have to pronounce english names in finnish accent which is just stupid. And if I set it to english I have have to pronounce finnish names in english accent :D That is just stupid
I read this in a Scottish accent
There is a fine line between "a push-button will do" and "why wasn't this invented before". For instance, touch screen in mobile phones. Have you tried it in 2004-2005? Or Google Translate... Do you remember it in e.g. 2008? It is just a transition phase. Some of such things will die out, but some will evolve to be so obvious that the transition phase will be forgotten...
Max Baker a man of culture I see
i think the best part about this is that, of all the numbers, "eleven" with a scottish accent sounds pretty clear
It does!
The twist is there is no 11.
The elevator knows what they're saying, it just hates Scottish people
This is one of the funniest skits I have ever seen.
I read it (skirts) the first time!
@@kamelaly995 hahaha
Cheers!
"Wot America is that?"
"Dublin"
There’s actually several cities and towns in America called Dublin. 😂 Obviously named after the original because of the Irish diaspora. 🇮🇪🇺🇸
Ireland is simply East America. They just don't know it yet :p
Plot twist: It actually processes the voice but they keep saying eleven so it cancels and tries again.
thats what i thought
E
Why would it cancel?
I think they had to say floor 11
2:03 This is a voice activated alligator
I heard that
Same
She meant to say elevator
Alligator chomp
AHHH FUCK MY LEG
AHH FUCK MY HEA-
To be fair, the only things that can understand Scottish people are Scottish people.
And the Irish.
I have American friends who understand everything I say, what do you mean?
@@TheseBombsOnly I believe it’s a joke m8. Also everytime I’ve been to America i have a lot of trouble getting them to understand me, and my accent isn’t even that thick.
@@MatthewBaxter88 I know it's a joke, I followed it up with another. And you are pretty trigger happy on the menu screen.
@@TheseBombsOnly apologies, it’s hard to tell sarcasm purely through text. Also trigger happy?
I like to imagine that more and more Scottish people walked in the elevator and got stuck inside too. A trap for the Scottish.
the ultimate predator
The real plan
just take us anywhere ya cow 😂🤣😂
That made me pee hahahaha
LOL 😂
YAH FOOKING KAUW
Thats me to my causin
I like the part where they say "eleven".
Where? I cant hear anything
Wait when did they say that?
"111 likes"
I like the part where they're in the lift.
@@AndrewSpencer69 they were in a lift?
Whenever I feel down I play this video: never fails to lift my mood! LOVE it to bits. Cheers from Poland :)
As an American I had a hard time decoding what these two had said. They were so passionate Hahaha
Imagine being a non-native English speaker like me 🤣
FREEEEDOMMMMM
That's funny, because as an American myself I could perfectly understand almost every word they said.
@@thunderbird1921 you must live in an area where the accents are similar to theirs then...😌
@@yuukig7479 Well, I had a teacher in middle school from South Africa. Nice guy, but his accent was 3X stronger than this. After you spend a month learning to understand that, your listening skills go up by 10. These Scottish guys are easy compared to him.
it's especially painful that the close captions don't understand most of it, but understand every word they say in the bad versions of other accents
You can always say ten and go one floor up, there is no way this lift will not understand "ten"
😂
@@mynameis1261 here's some wood.
🪵
Touch it. You've jinxed it.
The end is what Scotland will be like after lockdown 😂😂
"Will be?" every day hen.
tom osman true 😂
The end is scotland on the run up to indyref2 😂
Still iconic in 2019
still iconic in 2020
And in 2021.
I miss 2019 ಥ‿ಥ
Always iconic
2022
Watch this video with closed captions ON, it's even more funny to see voice recognition technology failing in real-time
true true “I love Ben” PLEASE😭😭😭😭
“I we have I LOVE BEN” 😭
Aye, that fer sure is funne
Came here from the Genshin Impact version and honestly my stomach pains from watching this twice.
Me too
Same
The Zhongli Venti one cracks me
same here buster
yes! HAHHAHAHA still can't stop smiling/laughing.
Meanwhile auto-generated English subs:
"I love then"
"I love ben"
Me being Scottish cannot wait for the day I step into a voice activated elevator
In wales, right? Cheers!
This was her last comment. She got it!
Lol
Yep, this is a classic. I'm an American married to a Geordie and she has fits here trying to be understood in Virginia in stores. She tones it way down too.
I had a teacher from South Africa in middle school. His accent was the strongest I've ever heard in my life, these Scottish guys are easy to understand compared to his speaking. Amazingly though I understood him almost perfectly within a month. I guess it takes time to train your ear.
Maybe for you they're easier to understand. But the Scottish accent is considered one of the hardest to understand for people not from here. Some people just have a good ear for accents too.
@@thunderbird1921 I would just love to hear a "conversation" between a South African and a Scotish.
Geordies are just Scots with their heeds kicked in.
My Geordie grandparents raised me in the states. Go magpies. I'm not the best code switcher but I can at least understand the thickest accents. I've heard a few times that my Scottish accent sounds more natural for my voice than my American accent which is funny.
Best sketch they've ever done.
After seeing this the first time I made an effort to find Burnistoun on BBC Scotland on Freesat... and was thoroughly disappointed that none of it was nearly as good as this!
I can’t count how many times I’ve watched this over the past few years, and just now I thought “just say ‘ten,’ then get off and walk up one floor.”
That's actually bloody genius
I nearly pit Alexa OOT the fkn windae.😂feel the pain..
Alexa doesn't like Canadian accents either. I don't know why; it's not like we're that different from American.
I do not need St. Pauli Gringo water and bee compounder on my shopping list.
@@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co we have accents? wack
Aye she’s a nippy cow eh!? I ended up unplugging mine!! She’s been sat collecting dust now for about 3 years 😂😂😂
I live on the 11th floor, every time somebody asks which floor I am going to and I say 11, I think of this sketch 😂
Uleven
you should say its awright am no scottish
This is bloody brilliant. The whole thing is marvelous.
For an extra laugh, rewatch it with the automatically generated subtitles, eleven is about the only word it gets right most of the time.
It's the best of what you have done. I saw this at least 10 times. And it's still funny. Great job. 👍
Scottish people never fail to make me happy. Even when I’m at my very lowest. They will always make me laugh.
Jack lad, that is just braw fantastico knowing we make you smile. Bless you 🏴👍🏻
The best quality version of Eleven I have seen on the Internet.
Hilarious thanks so much. I actually have trouble with phones, and get just as frustrated as thesr guys.
Oh my God!! These guys made my day!! Congrats guys!! Great job. I hope you'll make more videos as funny as this!! 😅😅😅😅😁
For six months after this hit youtube in 2010, if you walked into an elevator in NYC and said "Eleven" people would start laughing
😂😂😂👍🏴😎
In the comments, I've seen people say they didn't understand because of their accents because they were American or whatever, but imagine for a second how disturbing it is for people who don't even speak English at all, or very little and are trying to learn, like me for example, who is French. Well, even with my low level of English, I understood almost everything. Almost.
I watched this show so many times..... never got tired of this skit...all of them were so good.... Netflix had it for awhile... not sure where to see it now ......ELEVEN you cow !!!!
I saw this video years ago, and I've never heard or said "eleven" the same way since... :)
Just love it!!! I have accent and run into those issues every time with aoutomated systems on the phone...drives me crazy
Funniest thing I've seen in years well done lads we want more 🍀
Why haven't this video amass millions of views yet? This is hilarious!
It took me multiple views to understand the whole skit. Totally worth
way easier than taking 2 seconds to press a button
There are no buttons
One of the most brilliant parodies I've seen in my 7+ decades of life. Alba gu bràth!
"I'm not beggin that for nothin" lol
“You have not selected a floor”
“AYE WE HAVE!!!!! ELEVEN!!!!”
😂🤣
“It’s Scotland, ya bastard!”
“SCOTLAND!”
“SCOTLOND!”
*”SCOOOOOOOOTLAND!”*
*”FREEDOOOOM!”*
*”FREEDOM!”*
This will NEVER get old!
My favorite sketch in all internet)) the best!!! 🇷🇺
Окончание великолепное!!! Ржал долго! Свободу Шотландии!!!! :))))))
@James Mills Freeeeeeddddoooooooom!
@James Mills Scoooootland FREEEEEEEEDOOOOM!!!!
@James Mills Нет препятствий патриотам!
I just adore "Burnistoun" and with another clip understand more from their speak :)) It's so unique and funny 😊. Good job Iain and Robert ❤.
This is the best thing I've seen in decades. I'm a cockney, but was married to a weegie for twenty years so I'm bi lingual. Love Glasgow. Pure dead brilliant!!!! 👅
.....and your kids are mixed race.
Ah, golden classic, laughing like it's the first time.
“Where in America is that, Dublin?”
Gets me every time 😂🤣
And also that one time when he screams “eleven” and his voice cracks. 😂🤣
My teacher from NZ got her blind husband the new IPhone4 with SIRI (which was THE novelty back then). they almost shattered the damn thing into pieces because he kept saying:”Siri, call Miriam”
And Siri would reply:”why, thank you, Colin, I think you’re cool too”.
I happened to call them on the landline and have sounded in genuine distress, I asked if they were alright and she told me.
I couldn’t stop laughing 😂🤣😂
I'm Canadian...when my husband asked me out I had no idea what he said...so I laughed because everything he said was pretty funny. He replied....does that mean you don't want to go out wi' me?? We did a lot of laughing ❤
was he a scot or just had a mad accent
I come back and watch this way.too often. It is just sooooo good :-)
This was my first ever Burnistoun sketch, and it's been an incredible ride ever since. SCOTLAND FOREVER!!
One of my all time favourite comedy sketches.
I'm Italian, I'd seen this video dozen of times and everytime I laugh to tears.
Maybe you won't believe 😅 I watched this video maybe more than ten times and everytime I laughed in a loud voice 😂 they are really very good ❤ thanks very much ❤
What I want to say is I watched the the actual show that this sketch came from several times. I still lmaso everytime. Because I am Scottish and believe me I would react the same way.
I saw so many parodies of this. Nice to find the original. Cheers brah 🍻
This is the most Hillarious video worldwide of all time…PLEASE bring us more like this you two!
their last ep was in 2012
Had made one GIF before from this superb sketch & now I've made another few that will be available through twitter & FB in a few hours. Best Scottish comedy sketch ever!
My favorite part’s when they call the Elevator a freaking Cow.😂🤣
" *I'm sorry could you please repeat that* "
Oh just take us anywhere u cow
_Sorry, I'm not sure_
uh-LEFF-ehn
Loved this sketch, best laugh I've had all year. They deserve to be on National UK tellie. Some very, very clever ideas, the only thing is sometimes the sketches just end a bit flat. I think they missed an opportunity with the lift one. Rather than just looking embarrassed at the end, it would have been better to keep on with the full rant. Still hyped up, but realising there might be a chance that of one of those waiting would be able to work the lift, one of them shouts 'Are any of you English!" To which they look terrified and run away thinking they are going to be attacked. The pair are left looking puzzled at the reaction.
I have to watch this weekly, honestly 🥰😂🙈
3:24 us after the coronavirus lockdown ends!!!!!
Not me, I’m fine
Bloody brilliant
This is hilarious: I just can't stop watching it and laughing 🤣😂!
This is one of the best skits ever I swear!
This is one of funniest one and shoes love them all nice job
Love this show!!!!!
Simply brilliant.
Hands down one of the best skits ever. Love from Ireland
Check out their sketch '2 litre bottle of ginger' :)
Freeedddddoooommmm 🔥🔥🔥😂😂 i remember watching that movie as a kid 🙌
Absolutely brilliant!
this is amazing.
i have watched this a million times.
what makes this even more ironic is how the English auto generated subtitles can't understand them either
Hello to everyone, thank you sooooo very much for this idea of adding funny videos! Wow, laughing for these few minutes felt like breathing in the most uplifting mountain air - a therapy to recommend, which will get us therapists out of business ;-) !
Thank you Tanmaya, Love from Corinna, UK
Aw just take us anywhere ya cow 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I Remember my old english teacher showing me this back in 2015 in primary school.
"And im gonna go to thee electric chair for ye"
according the captions is "Im going to go in a lightning gel free"
i think the YT auto generated subtitles add to the comedy of this. there isnt a single line captioned correctly.
I'm Scottish and live and teach in Spain...... Sometimes when I say, 'eleven' my Spanish students shout out, 'Eleven, eleven, eleven!'
"I love' im'/ "I love him" " Is what I hear when they keep repeating xD
This video never fails to lift me up.
Get it?
Oh i remember 5 years ago our english teacher played this scene in our english class
Dude seriously I hear --- I love him!❤🔥(1:55)
"How can you be racist to a lift?" Well, if milk and maths can be racist then I am sure some ejit will have said it.
@makadeni123 isnt that what theyre called?
@makadeni123 oh please lmao. you don't 'know' a teacher who got suspended for that. you read some unsubstantiated bs on a forum or got told a story and you ran with it without fact checking bc it triggered you so much
@makadeni123 what are they called now?
@makadeni123 well I'm calling them monkey bars forever. The only people who have a problem with that name are those who think "monkey" and then think "black person", and that's only left wing loonies (the most racist people alive).
Haha!! Omg 😂 they will try anything! No one tanning is trying to look another race!! Are the Twitter psychos saying the same thing about skin bleaching? Because that's the #1 "beauty" product sold world wide.
I thought the elevator would go to the 11th floor when they said "Open the doors please" 😂
I just saw the video with captions and it understood 11 as 'I love Ben'...and it just cracked me up.
I want this to be played in my funeral
I am fond of the Scottish accent because it reminds me of Trainspotting ❤️❤️
Love from Saudi Arabia
LOVE this!
What they said: "I'm going to come to America, I'm gonna find whatever desperate actress gave you a voice, and I'm going to the electric chair for you"
What auto-generated caption understood: "I'm buddy Tommy I'm Anika I'm gonna faint what about this right just give your voice and I'm gonna go in a lightening gel free"
...
Yeah, for sure they definitely have issues with the voice recognition technology
Me and my dad have “eleven” as an inside joke because of this skit 😼