Dutch directness and British politeness

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bush

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around the bush

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and you know if if

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if somebody bumps into you they say

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sorry that's oh terribly sorry sort of

8:50

you know i'm not sure about whether i

8:52

should say tory or not

8:54

it's very sort of straightforward from

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your experience as a 17 18 year old

8:58

smoking weed in amsterdam

9:00

is there like a cultural thing or

9:02

character trait which you could take

9:04

from the netherlands and put into

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britain and make it kind of better that

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would improve british people culture

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just just by being a bit more laid back

9:12

and chilled out what would you then take

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as sony's been to the netherlands quite

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a lot what would you take from culture

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character anything from the netherlands

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that would improve like british life oh

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um well i don't know about these days

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because politically it's changed a great

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deal um i'd say it's

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not the same place it used to be 20

9:29

years ago to be honest but

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what i

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largely enjoyed about it is it's very

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very friendly

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very open very welcoming

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um

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we are quite

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uh conservative in our thinking here

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tradition traditionally unless you're in

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brighton but

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um

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and over there i would say

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you know i've made friends with fruit

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farmers who run festivals as i've made

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friends with wild

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people that