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who is this person do you know i i don't

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know who that gentleman is now

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no

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uh it's dutch he's a member of the royal

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family in

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holland

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the king of the netherlands he's got

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like orange on yeah

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no

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stick larson

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oh that's chappie that's uh the prime

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minister of uh

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denmark

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no sweden no norway somewhere in

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scandinavia what's up what's south oh uh

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netherlands

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duchess something

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no uh i'm five minutes there

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not not far off

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that's like royalty

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i don't actually know

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it's

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exactly

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exactly but i don't know which king

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though

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i don't recognize this trap either looks

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like a king of england of some kind i

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don't know yeah you're on top james or

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i never know any of them i could

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completely guess that james somebody

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no i'm not quite getting who that is no

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wow you're the first person to get that

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no idea

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is that a really young best

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possible oh gohan cruyff did you like

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football you like football that's your

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i'm crying oh i was a disaster what do

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you think carleton because you've got

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two

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so and there is a correlation of all

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these people

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they're they're all royalties

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not all royalties but they're all from

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one country

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oh they're all from england no

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dutch connection dutch yes this is all

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done

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are they all dutch oh they're all dutch

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so there we go so they all dutch they're

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now

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these people all dutch hello welcome to

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easy english so today we're making a

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video with our friends easy dutch i want

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to know what the people of britain think

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of the dutch if they've ever been to the

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netherlands if they've ever met dutch

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people

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any stereotypes they had about dutch

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people

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and what about dutch culture or dutch

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character trait would improve british

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life

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now our friends either dutch are making

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the counter question to our episode

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they're asking the dutch what they think

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of the brits but back to our episode

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this is what british people think of the

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dutch before we start don't forget to

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here we go i feel like brits don't

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really have much of a dutch connection

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really no

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no well amsterdam

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cafe shops in terms of dutch dutch

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people or the

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nation of the netherlands or even

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holland

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what do you know about nothing about

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that country i've never not even been

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there to visit never been there at all

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in your life no would you like to go at

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some point no

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whereabouts in the netherlands have you

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been

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pretty much everywhere i'd say really

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yeah i've toured

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netherlands heavily yeah have you ever

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been to the netherlands before i've been

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to amsterdam i've taught in amsterdam

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which is quite exciting what about your

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experience have you been you went to the

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netherlands right yeah i've been to the

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netherlands um

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was it

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so embarrassing

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is that is that amsterdam is that yeah

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yeah

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was it for a hen park no it wasn't okay

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no i went a lot when i was young um when

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i was a student and

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like when i went intervaling i ended up

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in

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amsterdam right and obviously there was

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all the things that students that age

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and joy

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and so that was part of the attraction

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was to go there and meet our friends

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party

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going stoned

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but have you been to the netherlands

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yeah i've been to amsterdam a couple of

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times okay that's where most people end

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up going though which is really cliche

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yeah okay

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and when did you go are you 18 17 18

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yeah

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and uh more recently a stag do

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so it couldn't be any more cliche

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visiting to be honest uh amsterdam for

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uh the usual kind of uh business

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fact-finding trips

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and

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got her down for the european cup

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winners cup final 1991

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he's been mostly everywhere

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following manchester united

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managed by johan cruyff at the time have

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you been to the netherlands yeah yeah

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many times

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she she dated a dutch man i dated it

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yeah i didn't educate you very well on

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dutch people

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character trait that you'd recognize in

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dutch people yeah they're very tall

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they're pretty chilled out

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um and yeah they're quite i don't know

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they're just they're quite nice i like

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the dutch i think they're very i think

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they're very um

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progressive and yet quite old-fashioned

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right interesting yeah why did you say

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old-fashioned because they sort of have

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their traditions and their ways of doing

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things uh which are quite traditional

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uh you know

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because they also have a royal family oh

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no i'm not bothered about that but yeah

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that could be part of it yeah so i would

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say that uh in my experience

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usually quite outgoing friendly generous

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yeah

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uh

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some

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people might say they're kind of uh

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a confident

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bunch of people okay uh

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willing to kind of share their thoughts

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and opinions what do you think of the

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dutch people that you met their english

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is incredible yeah i once had a very

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amusing episode where i uh

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i went into the street and i was trying

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to find how to get from a to b because i

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was working there and i went up to this

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guy who was sort of smartly suited i

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said you'd speak english and he said yes

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as in of course i speak english

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are there any stereotypes that you had

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about dutch people before you went there

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and how did they kind of match up oh

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yeah so stereotypes cycling flat

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surfaces and the people uh i heard you

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for a different

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pronunciation the

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people being

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a weird combination between quite staid

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and

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uh

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standoffish and then incredibly free and

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open and mostly naked and sexual

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or before you went there did you have a

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stereotype

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of what dutch people would be like and

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how did that kind of compare i think the

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only stereotype before i went was the

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austin powers

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freaky dicky dutch guy i can't remember

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who his character was gold gold member

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was it goldman yeah

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i don't know if that was the uh that's

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the most uh fairest representation

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well there's that thing about

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you know going dutch and all that so

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they could be quite mean in a sense

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you'd go out for it to a restaurant or

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something and it's like well you had the

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drink

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yeah but going dutch is when you share

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the cost of a meal you know they haven't

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got that english thing about um the man

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should pay which is good it's part of

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their progressiveness really but it

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could come over slightly mean

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there were i mean there's a stereotype

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that i think the brits have that the

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that never bothers me but the brits say

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oh they're very direct and i say well

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fine i'm happy with direct um and did

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that match up oh completely yeah but i

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was completely fine with that it makes

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life a lot easier if you're asking

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directions direct if you're

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uh

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i don't know ask you a question then you

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get a direct answer i'm i'm fine with

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that yeah none of this is beating around

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the 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

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you know i'm not sure about whether i

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should say tory or not

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it's very sort of straightforward from

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your experience as a 17 18 year old

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smoking weed in amsterdam

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is there like a cultural thing or

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character trait which you could take

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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

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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

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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 run clubs and bars through

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to the early hours of the morning um

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but they will actually rock up with some

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clogs on and think it's perfectly fine

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as well it's i guess it's that

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they let go of what what we all think is

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cool here

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right they don't even consider that

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there

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so there's

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there's less less inhibitions

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and you bring that over

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i would love to that'd be great wouldn't

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it yeah

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i get there's much more of a sense of

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equality and equity whether that's a

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value i don't know but there's a concern

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for

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the underdog and more of a concern for

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being more equal and economically they

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are more equal the gap between the

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lowest bait and high speed is nowhere

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near as great as it is like a political

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thing

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rather than social thing i'm not

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answering your social question perhaps

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but as a political thing that but as a

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social thing um i don't know i didn't

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get enough

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of a sense of difference

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because there was i get a sense that

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socially maybe they're slightly closer

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to us sense of humor is certainly closer

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they do they can do sarcasm

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up in sweden sarcasm doesn't work don't

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get it

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occasionally they find it funny because

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they're oh this is an english sense of

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humor it's so amusing they quite like um

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we're dutch it's the same we've made the

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wrong decision by uh moving out of

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europe in terms of the european union we

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could be more like the netherlands by

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still being in the european union but

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that's a kind of that's a bit too

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political for this uh

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okay and then what about a character

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trait is there a character yeah so i

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think they're kind of uh again

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generalizations but uh

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you know kind of

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british are perhaps more reserved

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right a bit kind of claimed to be a bit

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shyer and that was i respect and perhaps

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be a bit more outgoing and kind of

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approachable would be one thing nice

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that's a good one

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brilliant

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