Comments on: Apple Scotland - iPhone commercial for Siri

By: geth

geth — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:16:00 +0000

David Tennant, for example. You know, since we’re on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbg4MlHQ8Ds&feature=related

By: Jim Smith

Jim Smith — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:50:00 +0000

As in the old song ‘Ye canny throw a jeely piece fae 20 storey flat’.
In the old 2-3 storey glasgow tenements with an enclosed central courtyard[*], kids would play in the courtyard and mothers could throw sandwiches to them.

The song dates from the post war period, when they were building high rise flats to move people from the old tenements.

* Courtyard seems too grand for what it actually was.

By: robuluz

robuluz — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:16:00 +0000

Fine then. We will!

By: mguffin

mguffin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:11:00 +0000

Isnae funny, ken?

By: Palomino

Palomino — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:08:00 +0000

Did I hear ”Joanie Loves Chachi”? If I didn’t, I still had a rollicking good time.

By: Andrew Wood

Andrew Wood — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:14:00 +0000

Good idea for a skit, but I was really expecting this to be funnier.

By: Benjamin Pask

Benjamin Pask — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:01:00 +0000

I’ve no problem with chip butty, but Jammie Dodger is unforgiveable – they’re biscuits: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammie_Dodger
Bread and jam = jeely piece

By: benher

benher — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:56:00 +0000

Well, all of you non-American English speaking countries are perfectly welcome to invent your own mono-buttoned brushed aluminum devices driven by a cult of personality that have a semi-literate robo-voice purchased by a third party developer and then prevented from running on previous models in order to sell a newer version of the previous model with only slightly better specs…

By: AKWintermute

AKWintermute — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:53:00 +0000

I couldn’t understand him, how’s a computer!

By: Anon_Mahna

Anon_Mahna — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:52:00 +0000

I thought he sounded off kilter, but I wrote it off as possibly being regional dialect/slang different from what I’m familiar with.

By: Teto85

Teto85 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:30:00 +0000

Don’t the Brits have David rather than Siri?

By: KanedaJones

KanedaJones — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:07:00 +0000

Is it possible? A valid “no true scotsman” argument?

By: robuluz

robuluz — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:44:00 +0000

We have similar issues in Australia. I often adopt an American accent to get my Android phone listening to me.

By: toyg

toyg — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:47:00 +0000

I actually find Kristy Young’s accent quite annoying, the few times it actually emerges, probably because it really strides with her otherwise very posh dictation, like it happens with many Scottish people who “went to Oxbridge”.

By: Jim Smith

Jim Smith — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:39:00 +0000

It’s not very Scottish. We[*] don’t say “butty” for sandwich. A jammy dodger is not bread and jam (See Victory of the Daleks for an illustration) . And the beer references are clunky – as if someone was throwing in random scottish names to make it sound more scottish.

[*] We – as in no true Scotsman.

By: ranomatic

ranomatic — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:18:00 +0000

I am gullible – I thought this really was an Apple commercial. Even after watching it.

By: Chicago_SC

Chicago_SC — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:34:00 +0000

westawant

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:24:00 +0000

One of Gavin McInnes’s once-daily funny moments. The rest of the time, he’s talking about his kids or whining about perceived injustices against whites.

By: Bryan Davis

Bryan Davis — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:23:00 +0000

I’m tear-filled. My wife is concerned, thinks somethings wrong. She says she hasn’t seen me laugh like that in over a year.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:59:00 +0000

John Barrowman, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHYMG4VKbw0

By: Jennifer Torkkola

Jennifer Torkkola — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:57:00 +0000

Not that it probably would’ve helped much, but at least put Siri into UK mode if you’re from that side of the pond. British Siri totally can’t understand my weird Texan/midwestern hybrid accent :(

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:50:00 +0000

Siri is not Scottish, thus, Siri is crap.

By: realityhater

realityhater — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:50:00 +0000

Fu#$ing Brilliant ! now get me ma jammie dodger , ma chip butty , and ma McEwans straight away ! I’m Starvin ya cow……..hey while your at it throw in a couple of penguin biscuits and I will be set—-

By: drublin

drublin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:49:00 +0000

Wasn’t this in last weeks episode of “The Big Bang Theory?”

By: Mike Norman

Mike Norman — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:43:00 +0000

As someone who stutters, I can empathize.

Though, my speech-impediment doesn’t seem as severe as this gentleman’s.

By: Paul Renault

Paul Renault — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:43:00 +0000

I don’t know why ‘eleven’ didn’t work in that elevator. It’s using one half of the available Scottish vowels.

I’d live there if I could, just so I could watch “Taysiders in Space” on the telly.

That, and the whisky.

By: Graeme McGregor

Graeme McGregor — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:38:00 +0000

Nobody said they do, but there’s a hell of a lot more people who speak with a strong Glasgow accent than there is people who sound like Kirsty Young. And there’s nothing wrong with speaking in a strong Glaswegian accent, either.

By: Chicago_SC

Chicago_SC — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:35:00 +0000

too funny.

By: pizzicato

pizzicato — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:33:00 +0000

Not all Scottish people peaks like Glaswegian ‘fat bastard’, I love Kristy Young on radio, she has a fabulous voice.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr

By: Joe McNally

Joe McNally — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:14:00 +0000

Previously executed with rather more brio by Scottish BBC sketch show Burnistoun - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFcZIY-t1bc