Siri’s notorious inability to understand a thick Scottish brogue is pretty notorious at this point, but perhaps no video makes the point more humorlessly than this mock advertisement for Siri from Apple Scotland. It’s more than a little foul-mouthed, so if you’re at work, put some headphones on.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
10 responses to “Video: Rejected Siri Ad From Apple Scotland [Humor]”
Love it lol
The Scottish comedy show “Burnistoun” with the American lift (elevator) which can’t understand Scottish accents sketch was even funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
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Im scottish and I find this 100% hysterical!! its so true!! I need to put on an american accent all the time to get Siri to understand me
i dont understand what that guy on video said.. ha..ha..
haha this is really funny… i love how he throws the phone..
Don’t you mean humorously and not “humorlessly”
He’s holding just a case, you can see the camera hole. But it’s still funny
git me a deep fried Mars Bar and for a swally, I wan’t a bottle of Buckfast
“Siri’s notorious inability to understand a thick Scottish brogue is pretty notorious at this point,”
Well, if it’s notorious, it would be notorious, wouldn’t it? ???????