Video Description: A scottish man stands in a supermarket, and says to the camera, "psst, c'mere." He points at a shelf full of bottled water, saying "Bottles o' water. Right, water. Fifty-five pence. Seventy-nine pence. Couple o' quid. I mean, it's no much, but all adds up, dint it? Right, now come here," before leading the camera person to his home.
Walking up to his kitchen sink, saying "c'mere, are you watching this?" where he turns on the tap, stares directly at the camera dramatically, filled a glass of water, turns off the tap, stares at the camera again, before saying "Water. Pure water. Any time I want it, day or night, free of charge, and it tastes, just like any other kind of water out there. It tastes..." he drinks from the glass, sighs, and says "like fuck-all" [meaning nothing]. "Cheers." he says.
Someone behind the camera calls "cut!" , the camera crew all come forward, saying "it's not real, is it?" to which the first man says "aye," and take drink. A woman asks "Whats that cost you?" and the man responds "nothing", and the woman continues "Well, where'd you get it from?" and the man replies "It was here when I moved in, they just left it."
The second man finishes tasting the water and waves his hand to the rest of the camera crew, saying "yous have got to try this! Is it okay if he...?" , and another man push into the camera view, drinking tap water out of various bowls, cups, etc, exclaiming in wonder :
"Tastes of absolutely nothing." "That one tastes the same as that." "No, he had the other one. Give him a shot of that one." "That is absolutely beautiful". "Try that. Because it's…" "Try it out o' the bowl" "Wow." The second man finally exclaims.
"Yeah" agrees the first man. He turns to the camera again, and says again with finality, "Cheers"
in the background, another man asks "Is it alright if I bring my mates around?"
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So, the other post from 2017 that contains this comedy skit is full of absolute xenophobia and classism in the notes, of people exclaiming incredulously "oh, I can't understand a word he's saying, it's like he's speaking a different language!!" because of the man's accent... so, here's a new post, with the skit, with subtitles, and a transcript, for all of the people who's first instict is to scream and cry laughing about how it's so unintelligible--
There's a reason you find scottish accents to be innately "hilarious" sounding, "low-brow", "unintelligent" and "unintelligible", and it's because of xenophobia, classism, and colonization.
https://www.tumblr.com/novella-november/816234536187953152?source=share
Before you stoop to mocking someone's accent, and say "they're not even speaking Proper English", stop, and actually consider why you find this somehow funny, and who, exactly, decides what "Proper English" is and *who is the target of it and why*
(and yes, it is classism in its own right, to expect everyone to be able to drink from their own tap water, but this is a video over a decade old that was aimed at a scottish audience who have some of the best tap water in the world; I personally cannot drink out of my own tap without multiple rounds of boiling and extremely strong tea, otherwise it tastes like metal or salt, some kind of acrid aftertaste that ruins anything that is not served hot and lingers long after you've finished drinking it, on the poor side of a large Southern USA city)
