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Avoiding political disagreements

with them you're like opening up your arms but too much people well people just think that you're with them if they're like pro brexit and they start talking about how we should...

Course: Confident real-life conversationsSection: Small talk topics and complimentsSubtitles: en

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you're

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with them you're like opening up your

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arms but too much people well people

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just think that you're with them if

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they're like pro brexit and they start

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talking about how we should be you know

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inappropriately talking about stopping

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immigrants from coming in and then

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suddenly you're like well that's really

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not yeah my jam yeah it sort of

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oversteps the line but where is that

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line is it sort of going into your own

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personal

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feelings or yeah yeah i think it is well

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i think it's about in the same way that

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it would be like well who did you vote

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for and then if somebody you're talking

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to is against your beliefs then suddenly

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it goes from small talk into like a

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debate and then it just gets a bit what

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kind of small talk uh do you do when you

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approach someone if i was to approach

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someone i would ask them how their day

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was i would ask them how um what the

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weather's been like and you know things

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like that i'd say like you know what's

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the weather what do you think about the

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weather today

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um i'll just ask them yeah how their day

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was if they've had a nice day

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if they've been up to anything nice

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recently if i was an extra in a bus stop

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and i sort of we sort of made eye

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contact i said oh hello how how are you

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what would you firstly go uh what would

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you say how'd it go our conversation oh

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yeah i'd say yeah i'm very well thanks

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and how are you and uh very good thanks

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