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there's a general tube misery though

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oh it's so busy and people rushing about

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all the time a little bit cold and not

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as friendly everyone who lives in London

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has been to Central London has possibly

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met the queen a lot of londoners can't

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afford to buy houses is it okay to

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approach someone on the tube

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it's just there's another little bubble

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up yeah but London can be a very lonely

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place oh you can ask people for Direct

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it's no problem in my opinion they

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aren't easily approachable it's kind of

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an open creative City I think I I my

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experience I went and worked in the West

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End after being a policeman really I

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worked in the Playboy club a security or

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something group here really you're from

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policeman to croup yet yeah from

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policeman to crook hiya welcome to easy

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English so today I want to know what

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Brits think about londoners

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here we go what's kind of one of

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biggest stereotypes that you've heard

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about londoners

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well it's Multicultural which is is the

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difference to a lot of other areas the

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first stereotype I think that I heard of

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londoners before I moved to London was

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that there isn't many English people

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living in London unfriendly

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um

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is it true

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true yeah no it's the same people it's

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just busy tend to be busier under higher

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pressure there are so many different

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cultures

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all blending together in London being

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maybe a bit unfriendly or not time no

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time to kind of talk it's a cheeky

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Cockney doesn't really apply anymore

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does it what's the cheeky Cockney I like

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this yeah well in the in the pubs

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EastEnders with their rhyming slang and

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I don't think I've ever met one a little

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bit cold and not as friendly as as some

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other some of the other countries it's a

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mix of different nationalities and this

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is true or false um yeah I believe it's

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true specially in central London so Zone

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one and

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because there's so many more people

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the friendliness is

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diluted people think that Southerners

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are very all very rich although not I

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think that

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relatively friendly actually I don't

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think there's I think London is a awful

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what you like as an excellenter are you

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approachable person are you I'd like to

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think so people often have quite a

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negative view in the sense and think

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they're going to get mugged think that

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you're quite common

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think that either you're really really

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Posh or you're really really poor people

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are really busy everyone so many people

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live in London because of work have you

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been to London uh recently no but years

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ago I was actually a policeman in London

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for five years really could you ask a

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London for directions can you stop the

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mid mid Rat Race

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I have done but I probably wouldn't so

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much now and our London is open to

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conversation

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I've done that a few times where you

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just sort of start chatting and everyone

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was like everyone's like you're chatting

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to me and you're like yeah and then

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they're like great I've always certain

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people people who are down and out on

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the street this is always a very busy

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City it's I don't know if it's

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stereotype but it's very International

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as well so it's

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just always very busy with people

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there's loads of londoners that are

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really friendly yeah yeah um you just

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have to look in the right places many

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people might be lonely because of this

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the same reason that they live there

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because of work and then outside of work

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it's uh it might be hard to meet not to

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meet new people but to to build

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relationships and friendships maybe in

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Cafe the cafe Society up there's very

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diverse and and I think you're you're

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more likely in a smaller space to

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actually start chatting to people if

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you're there on your own Brighton's more

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friendly and more kind of accepting and

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yeah just like Live and Let Live quite

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in Brighton whereas London's maybe maybe

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not as that way as Brighton would be

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it's very much a work focused City and

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if you're in work you feel like you're

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part of the

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the uh the great movement of people

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across the in and out of London the rat

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race yeah you feel you're part of that

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rat race it's difficult to find places

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to have conversation which aren't

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tourist traps because most londoners

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keep clear of tourist traps generally

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you know you worry about getting eye

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contact because people think you're

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wanting a fight

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now back to the episode I went and

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worked in the West End after being a

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police owner really I worked in the

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Playboy club as it was then was like its

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own Echoes ecosystem it was really

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fantastic what is the Playboy club I

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don't know who this is it was the

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Playboy club was Playboy bunnies oh

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really like you have to style things it

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was you

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I didn't know he had his own club in

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London it was a casino a security or

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something

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really you're from policeman to group

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Yeah Yeah from policeman to crook

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is it okay just speak to people get to

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know someone on the tube I never have

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I'm going somewhere

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somewhere and because we're I'm talking

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necessarily interested in talking to

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anybody I've never I don't think I've

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ever spoken to some unless I've dropped

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something or someone's picked it up is

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it okay to approach someone on the tube

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I think it depends who they are okay and

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what they're doing not doing the rat

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race I'm absolutely not that would be a

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big faux pas they'll just be that that

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sort of thing that would really ruin

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someone's day and then they started

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speaking to me oh I just want to do my

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own thing don't do that they've got a

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dog definitely yes

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I don't think people talk on the tube a

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lot they don't like to talk on the train

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particularly is it okay to make

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conversation on the tube on public

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transport I've never tried making

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conversation when I've been on there

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okay why is that you get the feeling you

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can't do it yeah I think everyone's just

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sitting there quietly really if you're

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in the tube yeah you can't be friendly

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to everybody because you're on it 500

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times a year and every time it's

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different people so Brits who outside

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London are there

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it's easier to talk to them it's like I

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wouldn't say that that's a stereotype to

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say that they are nicer yeah okay but

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it's like in London everyone is uh

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it has to do with the fact that everyone

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is busy and would you yourself ever

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consider becoming a Londoner

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about no I won't move back to London

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okay what and how long were you in

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London

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um

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for 21 years would you ever think about

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moving back moving back to London no

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um there's a quick response yeah there's

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there's

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um

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there's possibly when when I was in my

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20s I love London even when I worked

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there I'd never envisaged to live in

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there because of the people or the life

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or cost uh cost when you're in the

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suburbs you might as well be in Brighton

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thanks for watching this week's episode

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let us know in the comments below your

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experience of londoners and as always

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we'll see you next week

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thank you

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