He's mellowed in his late teenage years

He does have more of an A level student vibe in this one (don't know what that'd be in Ireland?). Still, he's always been a good kid - I love their relationship.

@@katiesmith9482 in Ireland it would be "15 and not yet alcoholic" since they don't have schools, only pubs. God bless them!

He just knows theres no point in fighting the sheer force of Anne's will anymore. It's just easier to do as hes told

@@katiesmith9482 Leaving Cert

Yes yes yes!! That was all that was missing from my experience of helping with "the new phone"

I think it’s because old touchscreens were SUPER insensitive. I’m only 27 but I’ve experienced a few touchscreens on machines that require actual force. It’s just muscle memory for some people, I assume. Also, for older folk smartphones DO have trouble responding to their fingers. Something about less blood circulation making it more difficult to register.

Lol

I feel ashamed now. Think I call mum and ask if she needs any help with her phone…

Yeah they do have a point 👉👈

That's me lol My Son goes berserk lol 😂

-Yeah but you did kind of hit me with a rolled-up newspaper, every time I got it wrong.

She's so good at it that sometimes I genuinely believe she's an Irish man in his 30s. Then we get one of these sketches and I remember "No, she's definitely always been an Irish mom."

😆

Oh no, no no no that sounds awful. How's your sanity doing?

I'm just stretching them

@@SamFAHntha Blip wibble wibble boop boop baddabing wallop ting. I'm great thanks :)

@@interneteditor5258 Haha, great to hear!.... I think 😂

lucky you that you are young enough to have evolved with tech. Studies have shown that eyes and brains are evolving for tech. The old horrors that raised you are not as equipped for tech. DONT WORRY WE WILL ALL DIE OFF SOON ENOUGH. AND WILL NOT TRAUMATIZE YOU WITH OUR OLD FASHIONED WAYS.

And they gave you years to bring you up and teach you from the time you were born!

Your parents must know my parents. My blood pressure rises just seeing "Mom" calling on my screen😅

We appreciate it

I prefer 10 minutes, so they aren't always complaining about poor battery life 😂

I'm not old but I also find the screen time out and sleep modes utterly enraging (in all of electronics) hahah It's one of the first tweaks I do.

Oh blimey. I didn't know you could tweak it. Although I've just got used to moving the screen a tad with my finger to keep it on.

Did not know that could be a vocation.

Disabling automatic removal of permissions is also important. Otherwise everything stops working since the scared user declines all requests for "accessing your data" "accessing your camera" etc.

bwahahah 😂😂😂

😅😅😅

🤣

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Still wondering where she got the iPhone, I mean non Apple specific product, from?

Barry has me whole heart!

Thanks Annie!

Can't have a sketch without Barry!!!

I watched that part like 10 times, all three of them breaking at almost the same time 😂

I love that Arms dressed up as Barry just for the outro..... Or were there deleted scenes!? 😯

Yeah, we were only saying!

I've long given up on them and just collect their passwords onto my lastpass.

Absolutely

I've found a pint of Kilbeggan helps as well.

I forgot the password of my Lastpass. 😅

I remember years ago, when I tried to introduce my parents to "modern" emails. Dad got it on the first try. Mum made my computer crash by pressing one. Single. Button. ever since, I let my sibling handle teaching them current tech.

My mum likes to make and send me FAH memes. I gotta say, I totally agree 😂😂😂

This is what makes me think about giving them a hand granade...

@@silentwater79 good point 👍👍

I guess it is Flanegan-Flanegan, O'Neil - O'Neil, Doherty-Doyerty.... 😅

no way!!!

Only once met a Jamaican, was a nice guy :)

@@foilarmsandhog Yes, a-true!! 😄😊 My Mum's a born-and-bred Kingstonian, "Born under the clock" as they say...and my Dad is, too! But anyway, thanks for the reply -- It's so cool. 😃💯 Bless up.

lol yess and I am from Trinidad

Good luck!

Best of luck Rebecca!

You got this Rebecca!

Good luck!!

You'll nail it, especially with this warmup! 🙌🤞

Asked Foil about that in London, he said they thought they were already pushing it with the teenage characters 😅

And Barry of course!!

@@Heleendje I’m sure they can handle the challenge 😜

I had the same thought haha!

Would be a great pass-time in their elderly home though? 🤣

Video games was really the gateway drug of the digital revolution 😉

Exactly. They think that you play a few video games that your parents can now obligate you to go over to everyone's house to virus scan, fix/setup their modem or internet or new computer, whatever, because you are somehow magically bestowed this master programmer/hacker/tech guru ability. It's not fair.

Haha!!! 😂

For real! I don’t have a problem setting stuff up because I had consoles growing up. I still don’t get the difficulty, plug that shape into this shape! Only issue I’ve ever had was accidentally mixing up the out/in ports

You got there in the end though? 😃

@@SamFAHntha unfortunately not- she did an Anne Flanagan and left her phone at home when I supposed to meet up with her and was phoning her non stop trying to find our where she was 🙈

Ah, i also helped set up my grandma’s phone. I luckily don’t live far away (15 min). I also installed teamviewer and made a paper on how to connect it. If something is wrong with her phone a simple call via her landline to me and connecting remotely is super easy to fix issues without having to actually go there. Especially with covid when visits weren’t really possible. Stuff like turning up the volume of notifications… 3 minutes of work instead of half an hour of travel time to and back and the obligatory tea-and-chat time. Its always nice there of course, but i got stuff to do too you know.

When I was early in IT before I said that yes I can do it but then you have to pay me, mhm they almost never asked again. Wonder why? Or try working in IT support and you can't use remote connection tool or even helping your ma and da with that kind of stuff over the phone without seeing what and where its clicked

@@dyrepoliti well, my grandparents have done a lot for me when i was younger. I could stay there when my other grandpa fell ill and died. He lived an hour away and my parents needed to be there. If my parents needed to be somewhere, they would always be there to make sure that i wasnt alone. Even now if i have any kind of problem all i have to do is go there and they'll help me to their fullest extend. Even at their age. I'll happily do whatever i can for them too. Helping with technical problems, getting some stuff from the supermarket if im in the area. Just going there for some tea once in a while, just before covid was a thing, my grandma had meningitis, a very severe case. She still cant stand noisy situations. Even driving along in the car is very strenuous for her. If i can help with some little things so she doesnt have to do those things herself, i do. Im not a saint or anything close to that, and yes, i have grumbled a little bit when she didnt always get what i was trying to say, yet i just took it and didnt show it. I do think that i can say if that more people do what i do, the world would be a little bit better.

Thank you. Us daughters rely on you when we’ve given up.

I hope the pay enough compensation for the physical and psychological abuse / pain.

Loved Anne rolling her eyes at the “doom-dah” 😂😂

Anne is such a convincing character that I usually forget it's actually a young man I'm looking at, instead of an older woman xD

Well that's not very nice 😂

Oisin's turning into a fine gentleman it seems 😊

Same, sometimes they play it in restaurants or on aeroplanes and I start laughing

So true!

Hehe, both this and the Snobs tune live quite happily in my brain rent free

Same!!

You better do it Arms! I don't care if he called you a lanky tall idiot in the subtitles one time! You better do it!

I will!

@@foilarmsandhog Thank you :D!

Thanks Hilde! Glad you enjoy them

My mother-in-law was a schoolteacher, so she keeps all her passwords written in an old exercise booklet from her school-days. When you ask her for one, she scrolls through the pages trying to figure out which password it may be. Hilarious! But at least they’re all in one place. (She’s 84, and just got a new iPhone a few weeks ago. And she always asks me the questions, since my husband rolls his eyes AND uses a “tone” she doesn’t like!) 😂😂😂

@@mykijiji1958 it’s always a struggle, but hey better on a piece of paper than forgotten forever 😅

I am definitely reading that in Anne's voice. "Stan as you go."

Thank goodness they added Anne in then... Wait a minute.... How many complaints did she put in to get them to do that??? 😱😂

@@SamFAHntha "It has to be said, you should have played the role of Anne in the latest sketch..." "OH NO, MUM!!"

I would love to be able to show my mum these videos, because she is very much like Anne. But sadly, her English is way to bad to understand them, so it wouldn't make much sense :/

I do love me a bit of Barry. Remember when Barry used to be more like a guest star?

Thanks Imke, we couldn't believe it took us so long to do this one

Fair play to you!! keeps you on your toes

I want her to replace Oisin's room with her own photo gallery when he moves out.

That made me laugh out loud 😂

@@SamFAHntha Me too!

She didn't even get his sarcasm

@@foilarmsandhog - to be fair to Anne Flanagan Foil did deliver it very deadpan

I think her missing it was even funnier than if she'd given him a clip round the ear or something 😂

My fave bit for sure

Have patience with us because we are great at other stuff.

Oh my goodness, he's growing up! Or at least, for this sketch he is. Next time he'll be way younger 😆

i get "you're a genius"

No wonder why he acts like he does sometimes 😂

oh that's good

And then whilst Anne is trying to watch something an advert comes in really loud (coz they always are) about something embarrassing (😆) and Anne is screaming at Oisin to get rid of it, but it is an advert and you can't lol, he is trying to explain that you have to let it play for 30 seconds. So she keeps trying to press play and gets a new advert everytime 🤣😭 he he

Anne trying to My Fair Lady Barry into an Fine Young Man(TM). I'm jotting that one down.

@@EmmaLiza(to read in Anne's voice) come on, now. He's already a fine young man. He just needs to learn to enunciate a bit better. But he is a good lad, really. 😋

Anne does her best to deny the fact that Barry is basically her unofficial son at this point, but we all know it's true.

@@ahumanmerelybeing yup'

That could be a fun sketch, Anne trying to get Barry ready for a job interview or something

AHhh sorry Pauline haha x

DENTS? how sharp are those nails

@@foilarmsandhog she’s a strong woman😅

@@leahakathewordynerdy3025 I heard that in the voice of Hog's character from "An Irish Intervention." 😂

But you don’t even need paper records of passwords anymore these days, there’s password manager apps and the like!

@@Rainbowgrrl The fact that you're right doesn't make the likelihood of them using one any greater. I have basically given up trying to get anyone to use password managers if they're not already because they always prove unable to handle them. I really don't understand why. There easier for me, but really freak out some people.

He's a good kid alright