DAVE ALLEN - Driving - REACTION! 

Excellent choice, Dave Allen was a superb comedian. I give him 4.5 out of 5 fingers. Cheers Mandy🤗

I remember back then all comedians had their own intro music… Just hearing his takes me right back.😊

Best storyteller ever.

For me I get furious at people who overtake me when I give a safety distance between me and the car ahead, they slide in into that space and force me to slow down and give a new safety distance only for another one to come and do the same thing, it's like cutting in a queue let a lone dangerous

Thank you for that. Dave Allen the best. Never seen that before. Luv Yer. ❤

London, NOT easy. Thought I'd be there forever once. The London taxi drivers know EVERY road place etc. The Knowledge.

London can be a total nightmare to drive in if you don’t know your way. Are used to work in central London a lot all in different buildings so I’ve got to know it very well. Once you know the area, it’s easy to get round because you’re always in the right lane. parking is a nightmare though

Speaking as a fellow American who has been to London a couple of times, I want to say that it is a driving disaster. First, it is a city that has grown haphazardly since at least when the Romans invaded in the first century AD (or CE, if you prefer), and so streets go in every which way until you reach the roundabouts, which are their own special version of hell. And I say this as someone who has never driven a foot in London, just as an impartial observer who has only participated as a pedestrian or passenger. The cabbies, however, are legendary and can take you anywhere-oftentimes in incredibly circuitous but ingenious ways. They have special test for cabbies that takes something like three years to pass during which they have to memorize the entire huge conurbation. And I say this while living in Atlanta, Georgia, which is eclipsing Los Angeles as the worst place to drive in the USA.

Had my car now since 2017 and it has memory functions for average speed, miles per gallon, distance travelled, time taken etc. Looked just the other day and my average speed over the 7 years is 23mph, which reflects just how much time you waste just sitting in traffic, in a queue, at lights and so on.

I am totally with you on personal space. I don't mind being close in a lift or something, when it's nobody's fault, just the situation, but when there's just one other person, they can keep back.

People who don't use their blinkers! There's so many that don't nowadays

I love Dave's voices and impressions of inanimate objects.

Driving in London is a total nightmare

I married an Irish girl and we now live in Ireland and some do pronounce safety as safe-ity including my wife and most of the little town we live in. I still find it hilarious after all these years although tbf I'm Scottish so I'm the one with the mad accent apparently.😂 We once were driving back North from Galway up towards the Connemara coast and somehow we took a wrong turn and ended up on a wee chain of islands called the Gomurna islands, all of which are linked now with little narrow roads. After 20mins trying to find out where the feck we were and how to get back to the road we should've been on we sees a young boy approx 10 or 11yrs old, red hair & face, wearing a vest top. It's bloody freezing on Ireland's Atlantic coast too, and I put my window down and asked the kid where we were. He delivered his reply like an old, old man. He says "Sure you're lost"😂

Many years ago a friend and I were driving somewhere we hadn't been before in the UK. We got lost on a little country lane miles from anywhere. We were desperately looking for someone to give us directions, when we saw a picturesque country cottage with an old guy leaning on the garden gate. My friend pulled over and called out to the old guy, who came across to the car. He stuck his head through the passenger window so that it was inches from mine. The poor old fellow didn't have many teeth and genuinely was chewing on a piece of straw that was sticking out of the side of his mouth. As he spoke to my friend giving him directions, some saliva drooled out of his mouth and very slowly started stretching its way down. My friend and I could not look away as it stretched longer and longer, until finally snapping and dropping to the floor. My friend thanked the guy and we drove off. It was only then my friend admitted that he hadn't heard a word the guy said, as he was hypnotised by the drool! If I ask for directions now, I always make sure the window isn't open wide enough for someone to get their head through! 😂

Taxi drivers spend years learning how to get around London before they're allowed to drive.its ridiculously complicated and huge!

The city of London dates back to the Roman empire. The streets were designed for horse and carts and yes, we too have monuments in the middle of the road. I know almost all the main routes through London, but it's a complete maze of tiny alleyways and back streets. I'm not a great fan of cities, I like to see the horizon and not have to look straight up in order to see the sky.. ✌️❤️🇬🇧

Great clip Mandy ,London is that congested that a lot of the time its quicker to use a bus , tube/subway or walk

Because London has grown more or less organically over near enough 2,000 years the street layout is a nightmare unless you do it all the time. There are First, Second, Third and Fourth Avenues but they're not Avenues as most folk would understand them. They are usually small narrow roads off a High Street. Google Street View of london is worth a look as long as you stop before the headache sets in 🙂

that was lovely mandy, to spend so much time with you in the company of dave allen. Yes, i remember recommending him to you a long time ago and you watched teaching your kid time and hated it. I was so very disappointed, but so glad you gave him another chance. i mean, would i give you a bum steer? not on your nelly. London is a pig to drive through. Years ago before sat navigation there ued to be a comprehensive map called the A to Z london street atlas. It was great except that in a car there was nowhere to stop, no parking places and loads of traffic so you could not stop to look at it.

I used to hate everyone driving in a contrary direction.😂

London is notoriously tough to navigate (before Google). It's so old and grew without central planning or logic.

Mandy, you are probably the most beautiful woman on the planet, and I adore the way you laugh. Whoever is the special person in your life, and who gets to snuggle up with you is the luckiest person in the world. Sending lots of wishes for wonderful days for you in far away Argentina.

Very funny, it is a long while since I watched this one, very funny reaction. I no longer drive but I think once someone goes behind the wheel of a car IQ drops the higher the performance of the engine. young male drivers cannot cannot afford that kind of drop even in a small car seeing how most (not all) drive.

I don't understand overtaking either. I'll go past someone on a dual-carriageway/motorway if I'm already going faster than them, but there is no possible situation that means you can't drive behind someone until one of you turns off. If people want to overtake me and drive too fast, that's their choice.

London is an ancient city with narrow streets not really fit for purposes for driving it is all over the place and chaotic as you said but better since they limited traffic by adding tolls and fees to drive there.

My bike never told me that the door was not closed or I ran out of petrol

Hey Mandy ❤❤❤

I will drive so far inside the M25, but I will never drive into the centre of London. It is too busy and the public transport is too good for that. Smaller cities, that are more local to me, are much easier.

Alot of the technology his talking about was the top of the line, they were marketed as the future of cars. We have retained much of this tech but it has been refined, so instead of voices telling us doors are open we get little beeps for example. Even the opening of doors using voice (while was only available for a short time because of the trouble with that system as Allen points out) ended up becoming the no key ignition tech. This was an era when innovations like car phones were really talking off and becoming common and the mobile phone era was just about to kick off. Computing power was rising (arguably at a higher rate than it is even now, moors law being the discussion point here) and chips were getting smaller and more efficient. The possibility of putting 'computers' in cars opened up the possibilities of what they could do and different companies tried different things and we got a bit of a hot mess of different standards. This was mostly from about 85 to 95, and once the teething problems of 'smart' cars were sorted out they became the norm and we even stopped calling then smart cars. Although the term has come back more recently to define things like self driving cars etc. Can never go wrong with Allen, remember what I said on the school kids video, you needed to give this guy more of a chance to understand his style, glad you did.

Watching a documentary about The Knowledge would be interesting to see you react to. It's the crazy test to get you London cab drivers license.

About personal space ,look up QI : Sandi and Alan get to Close , worth a reaction

I don't have sense of personal space so yes I give people like a metre but fine if whoever goes shoulder to shoulder with me or so

5:25 "Mandy.exe has stopped responding" 😅

Ello im British heheeh i like acting silly Mandy heehge

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London's a very old city - it's grown organically. So it's not a grid. Finding where you're going can be very confusing.

Never ask a pedestrian directions, they will give pedestrian directions, because they can walk down a 1 way street the wrong way that's the way they give you to go.

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The travel guide walter ? Recommends you dont hire a car to drive in london the public transport is second to none so dont need one its a hinderance and waste of money.

We went to a party a while ago, did not know the area, so husband put the Sat Nav on, we got so lost as the directions were rubbish, I swear in the end the womans automatic voice was screaming turn left at roundabout.

Just in case you're not aware mcl,there is a karl pilkington video game.The wonderful world of karl pilkington.Its on youtube.Apologies if you've already covered it.

I love an American woman saying bugger off! 😊

Prettiest girl in the world😘🤗

Hola ❤

Hi Mandy you keep mentioning how small you are I was wondering just how tall you are as my wife is 4' 11'' (1.5m) so I'm intrigued 😊

In the north of Sweden we have no problem parking our dog sleds: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9ExOUl-qRd4.html

Nobody else seems to have picked up on your subtle hints that you've just turned 30, so I would like to wish you a very happy birthday 🍻🥂

Try watching Disneys Motor Mania

You look really pretty

Firstly happy 30th birthday whenever it is or was. I think when it comes to driving I think the monkey nuts dna in us takes over, I miss Dave Allen. His comedy was the best. Ps don't know about London but driving in Cardiff and Swansea is a nightmare

BRILLIANT mandy you said bugger off.......it's such an english expression, do you not realise you are turning british😁😁😁. driving in the uk you have to be able to drive, so many americans initially have a problem.

How tall are you, if we may ask ?

Just curious, do you reverse all the time when driving? 🤔 Just wondering if the front is behind you 🤫🤣

That is pretty strange of you, Mandy. Getting in your car whilst leaving your hair outside.

You got in the car, but your hair was still outside?

From my limited experience, no London isn't easy to navigate. But nowhere in Britain is. The roads are designed by complete imbeciles whose only intention is to cause as much anger and road rage as possible.

That is a Bad Hair & Car related Day! That is also a Double Whammy

I do watch and like your videos, subscribed etc but OMG you do have to “air” every single thought that comes into your head…and I mean EVERY thought !!! …keep doing the vids but in the nicest possible way calm down with the interruptions

i had a friend who would freak out when the dash board voice would keep repeating "Your fuel is low" so I got a tape recorder and recorded other messages like "your self esteem is low" Or "Annie, you need to calm down." It sort of backfired. She got even more freaked and started screaming back at it and pounding on the steering wheel with both fists at which point i was too afraid of her to fess up. I did go visit her in the psych ward. Oops.

He tells a great ghost story too..

Thanks for more Dave Allen. Mandy: "He's someone I've learned to enjoy." Great attitude for a reaction channel! Dave's always brilliant, Dave's always angry.

Asked hotel receptionist in Ireland how to get to the Post Office. From her look of concentration I could see she was running through the journey in her mind: You turn left out of here, then you go straight, then you see straight, then you go straight, then you turn right where the little supermarket used to be...

in London black cab drivers have to take a test called The Knowledge, it's a hell of a thing

Great clip Mandy😊😊😊😊 , traffic in London is so congested it's quicker to walk ,catch bus ,tube than to drive a car ,the average speed of traffic in London is around 16 mph ❤

We have a lot of roads that are named after the town they eventually lead to, and somewhere along the route they'll turn into a road name of the town you just left. So for example, Leeds Road could be any number of roads all leading to Leeds from any direction. So it can be very confusing which road someone means unless you are near that particular road. Same is true for pretty much every town/city/area around the UK. This may be why they ended up naming roads an A or B road with a unique number for each one.

You NEED TO watch the HARRY ENFIELD - CHEMIST Compilation. He plays a South African Chemist and it is so Funny.

Great reaction. Dave Allen's humour can be so relatable. And the subject is apt for me today as I finally received my new sim-racing wheel after waiting 18 days for it, so I'll be streaming that later. So, that along with this video... two highlights of the day already. Can't ask for more than this. Loved your reference to George Carlin too. :) Well remembered. And no London is a mess. A nightmare to drive in.

I won’t be watching you again as I don’t want to hear your experiences as you keep interrupting Dave Allen!

Hello 👋🏾💗

Of all the reaction channels on RU-vid this must be the only one where the eyebrows do a lot of the reacting!

How are you

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Seems like he liked the background used on stage. Multiple times in your videos, he had that background. 5:22 He must have someone doing the sound effects for him. "Being walked passed by a pedestrian" ... As that pedestrian, I find it just as intimidating (cause you don't know if the driver will roll their eyes at you), and in high school, just as interesting (cause it's like "oh wow. I passed a car so many times"), as he as the driver found it annoying. There were times I found it annoying as well, cause I didn't like the awkwardness of seeing the same driver / group of drivers repeatedly. Thank goodness, in my experience, all of the drivers ignored me every time. "We haven't changed" "except for physical newspapers" ... So they still use cash at most places in Argentina, Mandy? It's debit at most places in America. America is like "what's cash?" In fact, America is like "get rid of cash." (drunk trying to start car) Yes, that exists. They have it where you have to blow into a breathalyzer, which detects the level of alcohol in your system, before you can turn the key. If the alcohol is above a certain point, the car won't start. But if you're good. the car will start. ........... And even for people who came from that era, 30 years ago, knowing what life was like back then, even they are so used to today's technology that they can forget that they had stuff back then, too. He had me cracking up on the petrol part. I legit could not stop laughing. I cracked up so hard I was shaking. That's the only part that really had me going. I think it's the first joke of his, at all, in any of your videos with him, that got me going like that. I'm glad he was respectful enough to say "if you have a God, I hope he's with you," and leave it at that. I remember he believed what he believed (which most of the planet, past, present, and future, agrees with him), and I remember he had such jokes about God in your previous videos. I'm surprised he ended how he ended, but I'm glad he acknowledged that some people DO believe, and that he left it at the well wish, this time.

London is one of the worst places to navigate. Its 100s of years old in places so not designed for cars.

Curious--how tall are you Mandy? Can't tell with you sitting...you don't seem short.

20:57 I don't have that problem... However taxi drivers and takeaway drivers have the problem of not understanding the difference between a *road* and a *lane,* which both have the same forename... Even though they all live in the same neighbourhood, and have been driving here for years. I can't understand it. My *road* is a major A-road, which is part of the main city's ring road, and is roughly 600 metres long. The *lane* connected to my A-road, is also part of the main city's ring road, and is roughly 900 metres long. Yet whenever I order something to my *road* they always reply with *lane,* so I'll say *"no, road,"* and they'll say *"yes, lane"* and repeat until they understand.

Isn't it always hot in Argentina where a car doesn't ever need to warm up?! Very different to England in Winter where it might take 30mins to warm up a car slightly, and you're scraping all of the ice off the windows while it does! As for London, if you ever visit there then don't hire a car. Just get a taxi or use the Tube/underground/subway to get around.

Courts can make an ignition interlock device (breathalyzer connected to a vehicle immobilizer) installation a condition of release for DUI. Those have been around since the 80s. I believe the original idea back in the 60s was to actually test a blood sample but that wasn't practical. There have been a number of experimental systems that try to do it without you having to blow but I don't think any are reliable enough to be commercially successful. They are getting close now, though, and you can probably expect commercial drivers to soon have to put up with an on-board AI nanny that makes them pull over if they aren't fit to drive due to impairment, distraction or exhaustion.

I'm off on one now. If you drive from the south of England to Scotland the petrol warning is great because you are focusing on getting there.

I find it amusing when drivers here complain about a broken road and then, by some miracle, they decide to fix it, people complain that the road is closed and they have to drive a detour.

Hilarious Irish man .....and the funniest Irish atheist to date ! LEGEND !!!

In London black cab drivers need to learn the knowledge (the road maps) . You need to pass the test.

London's streets used to make sense when they were laid out about 700 years ago. Nowadays much better to stick to the Tube.

I remember my uncle had a volvo which had spoken indications like that and it was from the eighties, I don't remember any other car models which had it.

As someone just said check the taxi driver. The knowledge .

Great video 👍 Mandy you should get a higher platform when doing your job😊

Never driven. Never felt the desire to get a car. I've managed pretty well. 🤣

Methinks, the lady talks too much.

You've got a super laugh 😊

Hello mandy are you Dandy my Love .

They don't say "flat battery" over there? For a battery with no charge left? Interesting. Also, those alcohol detecting devices are fairly commonly used in the US (from watching Cop Body cam channels), called an ignition interlock device. A breathalyser in your car that won't allow you to start the car if above the legal limit.

The Wicklow comment reminded me of being on holiday in Wales many, many years ago with my parents. We had visited Harlech and were leaving. We came to a 3 way junction. Each direction was marked Harlech and nothing else.

I have a mate Albert who's caring nice to be with but when he gets into a car he loses it big time swearing at other drivers waving his arms it's frightening

I never considered myself weird for cleaning my windows and mirrors before driving, well I learn something new every day.

“Is London easy to navigate?”. Oh! You Sweet Summer Child….

Hair deffo more floofy..

Mandy, your laugh when he was talking about running the old woman over, was it because you've thought about doing that yourself? 😆

Think most cities are hard to navigate. Sat Nav changed all that.

I do not understand what you choose to react to! No one under 50 knows these people. It’s so niche.