Limmy explains why he's no longer chatty in taxis with the driver

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  • Опубліковано 26 лис 2024

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  • @Shenanigan5
    @Shenanigan5 3 місяці тому +191

    Taxi driver - ‘can I just drop you off here?’
    Pulls up next to the Clyde.

  • @spiritofnegation
    @spiritofnegation 3 місяці тому +198

    Tbh I find it very endearing that he confides in us like it's a confessional booth. We get ye Limmy. Yer our wee lad.

  • @RookAdmirer
    @RookAdmirer 3 місяці тому +67

    Taxi drivers don't want to talk to you, taxi drivers want to hear themselves talk. Best to just go "Aye?" every few seconds.

  • @brianmmacu
    @brianmmacu 3 місяці тому +146

    Note to any taxi drivers, if you want him to talk to you, just ask him about Surprise Surprise
    He will not leave the car

    • @kraftypk7283
      @kraftypk7283 3 місяці тому +17

      "do you remember cilla black pal, blind date was a hoot wasn't it?"

    • @alan-sk7ky
      @alan-sk7ky 3 місяці тому +13

      Sooh, that james corden eh?

    • @user-eq5ub5rs3g
      @user-eq5ub5rs3g 3 місяці тому

      Or the underlying racist narrative of 321

    • @chinny_reckon
      @chinny_reckon 3 місяці тому +4

      Pro-palestinian and made the best comment. 👌🏻

    • @browngaymethodistjesuschri1361
      @browngaymethodistjesuschri1361 24 дні тому

      @@chinny_reckonthe most generic?

  • @johng94x
    @johng94x 3 місяці тому +147

    Limmy is the absolute epitomy of overthinking and awkward social interactions 🤣🤣🤣

    • @Mark-jr6ld
      @Mark-jr6ld 3 місяці тому +7

      It's like if Larry David was nicer

    • @Game4ALaugh
      @Game4ALaugh 3 місяці тому +3

      He should take the bus, least if he starts talking aloud to the driver about what road would be the quickest to his stop everybody will move away at which point he'll have nobody to converse with, and he'll be happier for it. 😅

    • @vodkaboy
      @vodkaboy 3 місяці тому +1

      that skit with his character running because others run, it's great because of this

    • @thegrimyeaper
      @thegrimyeaper 3 місяці тому +3

      He's exactly like me, I find nothing funny about this.

    • @rat6893
      @rat6893 3 місяці тому

      @@Game4ALaugh THANK YOU DRIVER BYE

  • @eoghan.5003
    @eoghan.5003 3 місяці тому +43

    For those interested, *that* Dumbarton Road only goes to Yoker. There it becomes Glasgow Road, but after a mile in Clydebank it becomes Dumbarton Road again! It continues until it the Dunglass Roundabout past Bowling, where it joins Great Western Road and so picks up the A82 - but it's still called Dumbarton Road until just before Dumbarton, where it splits into Stirling Road which takes the A82, and Glasgow Road going into the town centre. So does Dumbarton Road go to Dumbarton? Yes and no.

  • @paulmac4084
    @paulmac4084 3 місяці тому +63

    20 years - fair play Limmy

    • @Toshibaq
      @Toshibaq 2 місяці тому

      That is more
      Of an achievement than man on the fucking moon

  • @markcopeland3011
    @markcopeland3011 3 місяці тому +24

    If you are ever struggling for Glasgow taxi driver banter, just say "it's no the same intit no? no the same anymare, Worlds gone mad". Then just sit back and enjoy the show.

    • @updown5238
      @updown5238 2 місяці тому +19

      Ye used to be able to say that and sit back and enjoy the show; these days it's no the same anymore.

  • @DustyRagu
    @DustyRagu 3 місяці тому +30

    Cause im autistic as fuck, i always give them a minute to try to converse, if they dont i ask them if they mind that im putting on headphones. Most of the time they just said go right ahead, but every once in awhile you'll get somebody that scoffs at me or makes a joke about me not needing permission. This is my current best strategy lol

    • @lanewalp8727
      @lanewalp8727 3 місяці тому +7

      Limmtistics unite

    • @Ash-lz5kg
      @Ash-lz5kg 3 місяці тому +7

      put the headphones on before the taxi pulls up, have one slightly off so you can greet them and they are much less likely to talk to you

    • @gary-f2m
      @gary-f2m Місяць тому +2

      Type of person (like me) to put the phone to the ear with a pretendy call, just to avoid the street guys trying to persuade you to change your broadband provider

  • @commanderpanda9356
    @commanderpanda9356 3 місяці тому +30

    I had an uber driver, old guy, confide in me that his son was a loser and was wasting his time doing nothing, but he was so proud that I was in uni studying something. Sounded like he wanted to adopt me at one point.
    Little did he know I was getting a ride out of the city because I was dropping out.

  • @kevinbyrne3012
    @kevinbyrne3012 3 місяці тому +23

    Former comedian Limmy from the Limmy show shuns hardworking taxi driver

  • @David-cm4ok
    @David-cm4ok 3 місяці тому +32

    Cathcart Road is another long road, for enthusiasts out there.

  • @noviceytp5005
    @noviceytp5005 3 місяці тому +28

    Poor taxi driver. They say never to meet your idols 😂

  • @KaraokeDave
    @KaraokeDave 3 місяці тому +3

    I never knew this about you Limmy. Respect. This is the best clip yet. And the bar is high.

  • @Mrdede1998
    @Mrdede1998 3 місяці тому +22

    I have never gotten in to a taxi by myself in my 26 years because I don’t want to have to deal with the issue of conversation. This justifies my fears.

    • @thegrimyeaper
      @thegrimyeaper 3 місяці тому +22

      I once had a taxi driver that was completely silent for half an hour until he said "I don't even take a shower in the morning. I just take a big glass of milk and I'm refreshed!"

  • @MrJonyish
    @MrJonyish 3 місяці тому +8

    Limmy describes patter I’ve had with about 50 taxi drivers in my life “oh mind them road works”
    “Oh aye bet they’re just using up the budget makes it pure hell to get down that street and awl” but for some reason he went mute

  • @Game4ALaugh
    @Game4ALaugh 3 місяці тому +5

    All roads lead back to you Limmy

  • @vlnow
    @vlnow 19 днів тому

    I used to be a delivery driver and the local council are famous for constantly monumentaly fking up the road system in my city, so i always have loads of well informed road related banter to enjoy with taxi drivers.

  • @micheleaherne2729
    @micheleaherne2729 2 місяці тому

    When you said Falling Down and the fast food scene...it made my day. Thank you.

  • @falconhoof3421
    @falconhoof3421 3 місяці тому +4

    Limmy"s good Lady >>> "tf happened to party chat Limmy. where"d that guy go Brian?" 🤣🤣

  • @BallJuiceOfZeus
    @BallJuiceOfZeus 3 місяці тому +8

    Fuck i love Limmy ❤
    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @Dw4rnold
    @Dw4rnold 3 місяці тому +2

    limmy in my cab would be the best day ever. not kidding

  • @iamthekingof1omillionsunsets
    @iamthekingof1omillionsunsets 3 місяці тому +8

    no shit you don't talk to taxi drivers, have you seen that movie? dude was mental!

  • @ChorltonOutlaw
    @ChorltonOutlaw 3 місяці тому +1

    We are therapy for Limmy and I love it

  • @jamesmcgeachie
    @jamesmcgeachie 3 місяці тому +1

    I’ve had exactly the same experience. Some drivers only learned how to monologue, conversation takes them off guard.

  • @lewangillard9701
    @lewangillard9701 3 місяці тому +13

    At the end of the day you're there to get from A to B using a taxi, not to make a new friend. I don't always talk to them I just stay silent can't be arsed chatting most of the time

    • @martingarricks6209
      @martingarricks6209 3 місяці тому +5

      preachhhhhhh. I get they're on a 10hr shift and they're trying to pass the time but I just wanna get on my way other than talk about shit I don't really wanna talk about. One time, I asked the driver that I was going for a nap and If it was fine if he would wake me up when I get there, he said "ye ofc" so I shut my eyes and then about 5s later, the guy started having a random convo with me like he didn't hear anything I just said, I was so bamboozled 😭

    • @Superstar_tradesman1
      @Superstar_tradesman1 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@@martingarricks6209🤣

  • @zedooncadhz
    @zedooncadhz 13 днів тому

    The art of conversation isn't talking about yourself or them it's talking about a common theme

  • @magiliangaming
    @magiliangaming 3 місяці тому +6

    omg limmy that is #relatable

  • @rat6893
    @rat6893 3 місяці тому +5

    a woulda just screamed at him I DONT FUCKIN DRIVE

  • @frankiefugazi
    @frankiefugazi 3 місяці тому +3

    Great Western Road...all day long. Fantastic road that.

  • @garyrigby21
    @garyrigby21 3 місяці тому +7

    All mice are gay and from space I've got a friend who's face is made out of electricity and ham

  • @zhu05107
    @zhu05107 3 місяці тому

    It does start at St George’s Cross, butI like continuing east along New City Road which used to be GW rd and looking back West and going “ aw this used to be the same street “

  • @JeromeBeckett
    @JeromeBeckett 3 місяці тому +1

    I wonder what he'd hate more, the taxi driver having boring chat or them going "Oh my god! Limmy! Ah go on do Deedee for us!"

  • @spongythecake
    @spongythecake 3 місяці тому +1

    YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH

  • @grantmcinnes1176
    @grantmcinnes1176 3 місяці тому +2

    I want to talk about what you want to talk about Limmy. And its not the roads.

  • @NagasakiBladers
    @NagasakiBladers Місяць тому

    Brian 'King of Small Talk' Limond

  • @TheStevenWhiting
    @TheStevenWhiting 3 місяці тому

    Great Western Road, Brentford? Where People Just Do Nothing was filmed. When the HQ of Sega used to be. Where head office of Sky used to be. Quite famous officers down that road, the "Golden Mile". The DoItAll from the 80s adverts was down that road, we always used to go in it.

  • @justinalobley9826
    @justinalobley9826 3 місяці тому

    Very good point about Argyle Street.

  • @Hrossey
    @Hrossey 3 місяці тому +2

    It’s when ye mentioned knightswood, b&q then I got the shivers. You’re approaching Yoker now, and you’ve nae business being in Yoker.
    😉

  • @waitaminute8216
    @waitaminute8216 3 місяці тому +4

    Preach. How we alienate ourselves from 98% of Scottish males - not like fitba!

  • @markscott3158
    @markscott3158 3 місяці тому

    King Street is acknowledged to be the longest street in Britain since it is 0.2 miles longer than Duke Street, Glasgow - generally accepted as being the longest street.

  • @chinny_reckon
    @chinny_reckon 3 місяці тому +1

    Tell me i'm not the only person who cried watching this? Limmy, look after yourself please - you're the only person who can make me laugh like a drain while I'm doing the dishes. 🌺

    • @EnergyChat
      @EnergyChat Місяць тому

      Sorry to go all youtube on you haha but does he look like hes not looking after himself? Hes the most looking after yourself person in the whole of glasgow lol. Self aware and self determined. I think what hes describing is the impossible situation that other people put you in by attempting to control you. Stuck between the pressure of upsetting a stranger and the pressure of embarrassing his wife, he is forced to do work to please everyone instead of being honest and genuine and being allowed to express himself. 'Look after yourself' is one of these phrases that cause anxiety instead of easing it. its so loaded with judgement and when people say it to you, they become a burden to you, because theyve gave you a chore to do. You want to scream I AM LOOKING AFTER MYSELF. If i werent then you wouldnt have had this insight into my mental state. When everyone around you is like this, you have no abilty to express and you learn not to. Ironically i think taxi drivers like weird responses as its entertaining and a good story.

    • @chinny_reckon
      @chinny_reckon Місяць тому

      @@EnergyChat that's interesting I hadn't thought of it like that. I suppose the implication could be read as 'it's partially your fault'. It wasn't meant like that though.

  • @dalekelly1037
    @dalekelly1037 2 місяці тому

    Brilliant man

  • @Ash-lz5kg
    @Ash-lz5kg 3 місяці тому

    this was like a written joke in a stand up act, was so funny

  • @JackPowellD
    @JackPowellD 26 днів тому

    This is a man slowly falling apart.

  • @cartoonhead9222
    @cartoonhead9222 2 місяці тому

    Was half expecting his Yoony Englishman to be the taxi driver.

  • @neiluk1470
    @neiluk1470 3 місяці тому +4

    Hella big road

  • @Taperack123
    @Taperack123 3 місяці тому +1

    I feel bad at laughing at him describing his suicide plans but that would be so fucking awkward for the driver 😅

  • @RMcL328
    @RMcL328 3 місяці тому +5

    “not being into football” currently translates in Glasgow to “i support rangers”. 😂

  • @Wildrover82
    @Wildrover82 2 місяці тому +1

    I stopped grtting taxis years ago because of this awkwardness. I'd rather walk or bus it...

  • @louisl7788
    @louisl7788 3 місяці тому

    'I'm just trying to mimic you' 🤔😅... Aaah yeah I see - then the driver stops talking ....

  • @smokeybear69
    @smokeybear69 3 місяці тому

    Love Limmy. 😂

  • @TheStevenWhiting
    @TheStevenWhiting 3 місяці тому

    If the drivers read/listened to your book, they'd get it.

  • @DGman123
    @DGman123 2 місяці тому

    Comical genius

  • @KIager
    @KIager 3 місяці тому

    No wonder I like Limmy. He's literally me.

  • @dermotheaney
    @dermotheaney 3 місяці тому

    Imagine having a famous guy like Limmy in your car and you’re like .. “yeah let’s give the fella the silent treatment, he doesn’t like football”

  • @lightningtree5432
    @lightningtree5432 3 місяці тому +1

    The taxi driver now regrets trying to be pleasant. Hope never to meet you.

  • @sundarworldTV
    @sundarworldTV 3 місяці тому +3

    Aw mate, I'm an Uber driver these days and see the pure deep tangents I end up on with my customers? I love it mate. Sometimes it's like a counselling session, sometimes a spontaneous connection, sometimes we're creasing ourselves. It's so good, I'd love to have him in the car.
    That said, aye, you can do something on the app to set a preference for a quiet ride and it'll let the driver know before he can confirm the pick up.

  • @Kazza_8240
    @Kazza_8240 3 місяці тому +3

    Again, Limmy being relatable as fuck 😅

  • @vwb9695
    @vwb9695 3 місяці тому

    i feel you. Most people are too surface-level for me. Same things have happened to me and I just stay silent in cabs now.

  • @KaraokeDave
    @KaraokeDave 3 місяці тому +1

    Where can i find that T-shirt

  • @TheVicar
    @TheVicar 2 місяці тому

    You're now banned from my taxi

  • @georgegabriel5808
    @georgegabriel5808 3 місяці тому

    I'm exactly the same. Small talk seems pointless, I just want to say the actual truth.

  • @mr.a8315
    @mr.a8315 3 місяці тому

    6:51 No, no... this was Dum-burton Road.

  • @SteveHamiltonMusic
    @SteveHamiltonMusic 2 місяці тому

    Maybe someone can develop an app that responds to taxi drivers with random affirmations.

  • @eyeshandy
    @eyeshandy 2 місяці тому

    lol i always ask cabbies if that budget thing's a myth

  • @ej5677
    @ej5677 17 днів тому

    I have this a lot. Generally a chatty fella, but hate football. Chat griiiiinnnndddddsss to a halt 90% of the time cause i have nothing to talk about there.
    Though once I had a taxi driver go off on some mad conspiracies rant; we’ve never been to space, and the moon and stars are all just projections, they couldn’t be real. As if that explanation could even begin to make sense 🤦‍♂️

  • @bilo84-qc6ux
    @bilo84-qc6ux 3 місяці тому

    Limmy def on the spectrum 😂😂🙌🏻

  • @sheareracuna896
    @sheareracuna896 3 місяці тому

    Nightmare

  • @kuroistuc
    @kuroistuc 3 місяці тому

    Taxi drivers DEFEATED by Limmy's ADHD brain

  • @andysun73
    @andysun73 3 місяці тому

    If you say you’re English these days they throw you in jail.

    • @Sideburna
      @Sideburna 2 місяці тому

      Anglophobia is a real problem in Scotland

  • @Tattieboggle
    @Tattieboggle 3 місяці тому +1

    Get the bus

  • @dudekazoo
    @dudekazoo 3 місяці тому

    Does anybody know what his shirt says?

    • @HALFSQUASHED
      @HALFSQUASHED 2 місяці тому +1

      Scotland's for me!
      It is a Belle and Sebastian T-shirt from 2006

    • @dudekazoo
      @dudekazoo 2 місяці тому +1

      @@HALFSQUASHED Thank you!

  • @Aririririoeod
    @Aririririoeod 3 місяці тому

    What is he saying?

  • @callumcoates-keddypsychesy5954
    @callumcoates-keddypsychesy5954 3 місяці тому

    Taxi drivers are hit and miss these days.

  • @57mykz
    @57mykz 2 місяці тому

    Fitbaw

  • @Nuclear_Winter_Fun
    @Nuclear_Winter_Fun 2 місяці тому

    😂😂😂

  • @scribble3478
    @scribble3478 3 місяці тому

    I honestly thought Limmy was straight.😁

  • @ejeca5932
    @ejeca5932 3 місяці тому

    hahaha

  • @Mynestrone
    @Mynestrone 3 місяці тому +1

    God bless Lynn

  • @Elzzaw
    @Elzzaw 3 місяці тому +32

    Small talk with strangers is disingenuous as fuck. Two people with nothing in common trying to force themselves to pretend like they care for 20 minutes.

    • @Kazza_8240
      @Kazza_8240 3 місяці тому +3

      Exactly how I see it 👌🏻

    • @Cryin98
      @Cryin98 3 місяці тому

      Agreed. I also feel that way about customers and service people being fake nice to each other.

    • @fredrickzoller5643
      @fredrickzoller5643 3 місяці тому +20

      There is nothing wrong with common courtesy

    • @Cryin98
      @Cryin98 3 місяці тому +6

      @@fredrickzoller5643 courtesy to me is shutting up and not talking to me lol

    • @grantmcinnes1176
      @grantmcinnes1176 3 місяці тому

      We live in a SOCIETY here :)

  • @MegaGreatpretender
    @MegaGreatpretender 3 місяці тому

    😂

  • @TheStevenWhiting
    @TheStevenWhiting 3 місяці тому

    I'm not into football, no interest in it, yet like playing it on the PC for some reason.

  • @Nuclear_Winter_Fun
    @Nuclear_Winter_Fun 2 місяці тому

    😂😂😂😂😂

  • @KRSEVEN
    @KRSEVEN 3 місяці тому

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @ElvenSpellmaker
    @ElvenSpellmaker 4 дні тому

    Torimmy.

  • @Ligerpride
    @Ligerpride 3 місяці тому +3

    Looking thin.

    • @BallJuiceOfZeus
      @BallJuiceOfZeus 3 місяці тому +3

      But the lads biceps 💪 still looking thicc af

    • @Kazza_8240
      @Kazza_8240 3 місяці тому

      Till he stands up and you see the 'nappy arse' 😂

  • @mollycuddle9990
    @mollycuddle9990 3 місяці тому

    i'm the same, even the taxi driver who is extremely religious and forever tries to convert me has to now get stern and ask me to leave pronto upon arriving, due to myself yapping away. about anything else but his preaching. I see that as a win ( for me )..

  • @LightningBoltzTV
    @LightningBoltzTV 3 місяці тому

    So self inflated

  • @slimthickens3981
    @slimthickens3981 3 місяці тому +1

    Shut up, Limmy, golly. guy talks too much am I right. Cant even understond him

    • @torm0
      @torm0 3 місяці тому

      Gee, now I remember, you that guy from Overwatch. Blow it out yer ass.

  • @Nuclear_Winter_Fun
    @Nuclear_Winter_Fun 2 місяці тому

    😂😂😂😂