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Course: Confident real-life conversationsSection: Possessions people never lendSubtitles: en

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welcome to real English with real

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teachers with Harry and

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Charlie we are here in Picadilly circus

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to ask the people of London which

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possession would they never lend to

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another person

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I'll never lend my microphone because

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it's dirty disgusting because I I beat

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box into it all the time

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like and if it happened to that if I Ed

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that that would get dirty as well so

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yeah I wouldn't lend that to anyone do

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you not clean your microphone I do I

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have to do that every day but still

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filthy I'm here with um Jim and we're

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asking Jim what he would never lend to

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anyone so hi Jim what would you never

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lend to

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anyone I think J pillow I I wouldn't

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yeah I wouldn't let my pillow to someone

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why not well you know you're sleeping on

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it all night you don't want someone

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else's you

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know all up in all up in your face up in

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your face yeah yeah I think pillow are

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you emotionally attached to your pillow

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yeah yeah okay

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down he's walking

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stick my phone

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okay

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why too many Secrets no just never give

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away your phone I think mine's my knives

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cuz I'm a chef I don't just carry random

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knives around with me I'm not no chef

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knives I never let anyone use them that

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makes sense cuz I don't want them to

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ruin them and they're expensive so I

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hate people using my knives I get very

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you wouldn't even let me use them I

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don't let anyone you wouldn't let me use

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them I would never lend as bizarre as it

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is my Buzz Light you to

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cuz my granddad gave me that before he

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passed away and my my uncle passed away

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as well but I've still got his uh old

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school kind of BB and Chelsea boots so I

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wouldn't lend them to anyone but apart

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from that I'm pretty comfortable with

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anyone borrowing anything apart from

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probably them two bits what is one

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possession or one item of yours that you

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would never lend to another person my

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makeup brushes I don't like

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I'm the

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same oh no they like they just use them

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in the wrong way and then they make all

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the bristles Go funny okay no yeah I

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feel you kimchi kimchi kimchi you would

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never lend Your Kimchi yeah okay the

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food kimchi yeah you would never give

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that someone else okay cool

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mascara your mascara and why because you

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can get stars and it's pretty gross

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sty what is a sty it's like a little

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bump that you get on your eye like an

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eye infection it's not an eye infection

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well it's like when bacteria builds up

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and then you get this little thing right

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girls know all about it and for me it's

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eyeliner because I just had a sty which

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is why she's saying that I just had a

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sty and so don't share your eye products

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with other

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females never share your eye products

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with other females okay ladies

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you're watching real English with real

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teachers yeah thank you

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