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Scottish stereotypes

deep fried Mars Bars little ginger they all play the bagpipes some of them did in real life mean me yeah [Music] and that they're a lot of drunks a lot of jokes about to avoid p...

Course: Britain and other culturesSection: Views of Scotland and Scottish peopleSubtitles: en

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deep fried Mars Bars

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little ginger

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they all play the bagpipes

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some of them did in real life mean me

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yeah

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[Music]

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and that they're a lot of drunks a lot

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of jokes about to avoid people from

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Glasgow potentially when you first meet

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them they seem a bit grumpy or you feel

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like oh no if I said something but then

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you get chatting and it's like oh no

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they're lovely and they're good

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stereotypes is quite aggressive I had

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one guy holding me by my tie trying to

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throttle me when two of my mates came on

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and got rid of him I've always wanted to

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know what's under a kilt that's another

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story

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hiya welcome to a new episode of easy

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English so today I'm on Brighton Beach

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and I'm to know what the British people

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think of the Scots out to hear their

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first-hand experiences being in Scotland

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meeting Scottish people and also what

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stereotypes true or false that they've

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heard but first I wanted to play a game

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to see if the people of Brighton could

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guess these famous Scottish celebrities

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and see if they can figure out that it's

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their Scottish nationality that connects

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them all before we get started if you're

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a fan of easy English

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