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oh you definitely hear some thoughts and

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then someone would have the confidence

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to say something and that's you

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sometimes it depends on my mood

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yeah

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a lot of people looking funny at you

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oh in the UK it's a very simple answer

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people would just jump would fly yeah

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the other one sadly that is the case

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yeah everyone hates it when you do that

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so never never do that hiya welcome to

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easy English so a few weeks back I made

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an episode on things not to do in the UK

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and it got me wondering what do the

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people of Brighton think is the biggest

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not to do in the UK before we get

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started please don't forget to like And

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subscribe here we go as a native Brit uh

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give me one of the don'ts of British

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culture uh you must never stand on the

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left of an escalator especially when in

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the London Underground

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yeah everyone hates it when you do that

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so never never do that so the first

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thing that comes into my mind is don't

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um jump forward in the queue right okay

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cue in a nice neat order don't jump the

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queue okay

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never say pants instead of trousers

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because that's just wrong it's trials

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pants are a different thing okay so then

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what are pants pants are underwear I

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discovered here cues you know we don't

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queue elsewhere in the world so that was

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a good thing and then there was the off

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license closing at 11.

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well when you sort of you get in

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someone's way or uh you get to a door

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with about the same time then we always

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say sorry automatically when actually

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most of the time it's not your

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place to say sorry right it could be

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them but you say it automatically is a

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reflex

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response I think that's one of the

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automatic cultural ways in the UK yeah

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so would your answer sort of be don't be

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afraid to say sorry too often or

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something like this never be sorry to

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say uh sorry

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sorry

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a cultural don't

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you can wear it in another way so you

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can say do this okay so some something I

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think that we do a lot

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um in our culture is apologize

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frequently

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um probably quite meaningless sometimes

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but um sometimes it's an apology for um

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inconveniencing someone else so I'm

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really sorry I've just inconvenience you

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oh I'm so sorry oh I'm so sorry and we

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end up running around apologizing to

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everyone probably not really meaning it

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and so then what what is it your kind of

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let's say you're speaking to me and I'm

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not like a non-native Brit are you

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telling me

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don't be afraid if I apologize to you or

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don't be afraid to over apologize to us

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Brett oh yeah you kind of over apologize

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all you want towards Brits because I

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think we probably love it so if you're

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if you're standing you have to stand on

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the right and if you're walking you walk

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on the left obviously it's very busy in

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London I don't know how many people live

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there but there's a lot of people and

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there's a lot of people you don't want

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to annoying there okay so what would

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happen let's say I get up on the left

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and I just stand there what happens uh

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you're probably getting into an argument

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um

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haven't we often yeah I love having a

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lot of uh move out the way bulging this

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on the other bit of analogy biology okay

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yeah that type of stuff do you know what

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this person meant when they said the

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word rgbaji bulging there's any other

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bit of analogy

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rgbaji is British slang for a quarrel

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would be the sort of punishment if you

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were to jump the queue with Brits well

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that would be to go back to the queue

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and wait half an hour but would you be

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sort of reprimanded if you were to do it

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do you think yeah would you really yeah

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I always kind of because I do people

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jump oh really you call it out yeah

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that's quite direct because those Brits

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typically are quite passive aggressive

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right that's true yeah in my mind you'd

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hear a few tuts oh you definitely hear

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some tats and then someone would have

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the confidence to say something and

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that's you

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um sometimes it depends on my mood

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there's a term that's pants right it's

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not yeah right yeah people were not

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saying that's like trousers that's pants

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which kind of would mean like it's

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rubbish I don't quite know why no why

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pants are like equal equivalent British

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humor I think it's just like a pants

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toilet humor that's there what would you

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say that is that something that people

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could say if they came into Britain like

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if that person was rubbish yeah yeah

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yeah that's pants yeah I don't say it

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but I probably did why not

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there are no the rules can't change in

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London the sort of cultural Unwritten

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laws of British culture

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um well if you think London Paris New

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York Etc uh people walk fast speak fast

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have no time to say hello goodbye thank

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you Etc to an extent so it's it's the

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price of

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in quotes progress or

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is the sweet taste or accurate rather

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Taste of capitalism

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you've caught up a lift and you're

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waiting for someone and then you both

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the opens and you both go even though

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you've called it called it it's so maybe

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it's your turn to go in you kind of kind

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of clash and thinks that a typical one

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actually that's you're actually you call

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the lift you're waiting for it the door

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opens and someone's in front of you and

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you say sorry and really it's a real

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place to say sorry it's just and it may

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be both of you said sorry yeah right

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that's usually the kind of General

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scenario right both of you will probably

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say sorry absolutely but it's not

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generally you apologize when they're

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apologizing really no in fact it comes

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out of you without you realizing

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that you've said it yeah so would you

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would you say Don't just you don't have

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to use it as a sort of a guilt admission

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no as I said ultimately it's a reflex or

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politeness aren't people in Britain so

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insincere they know they're just

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constantly walking around saying I'm

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sorry that's a good question maybe

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British Brits are a little instance

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I think it's just um yeah

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just a I guess a cultural politeness

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thing we sometimes can be overly polite

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someone could bump into me and I would

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apologize

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it's one of those things isn't it are

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you a sorry person oh all the time yeah

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I run around apologizing for things all

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the time that probably like was not

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really my fault

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um and yeah I probably wasn't actually

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sorry but anyway it just slips out makes

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you think now that didn't Elton John

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have that song

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um sorry seems to be the hardest word

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it's kind of like maybe not here it's

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yeah not at all it's a bit of a lie

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the easiest word depends if you're

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sincere or not

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I often find a bit strange that you say

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that um if you were to draw an escalator

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people would actually speak up do you

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think oh yeah no yeah definitely because

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I was Brits are known for being a little

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bit like passive aggressive yeah but you

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would actually verbally hear someone

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kind of yeah no yeah definitely shout

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out to you or I wouldn't say shout I

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wouldn't say you know they go all out

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and start you know

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you know having a proper shout out but

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without a doubt they'd say something

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passive like oh stand on the right or

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something like that or just stay in my

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way then something sarcastic along those

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lines but you enjoy queuing

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do you think it's a good cultural rule

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yes

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and then so then what are you what is

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your thought on things like the bar and

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specifically I'm always thinking of the

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London Underground

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the London Underground well yeah queuing

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certainly come to force in London

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Underground is it because

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London people was in a rush

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and therefore don't don't have to polite

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this to decide to queue because with

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that it's just like a swarm right that's

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just a swarm and it's like get on that

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train before it goes even though

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there'll be one in two minutes

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exactly yeah and so and on on the sort

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of

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if there was like a list of cultural uh

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rules how high does curings fit uh how

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how high did you sit on the English

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scale pretty high up I mean it's the

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first thing that came to mind so it's

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right out there for me brilliant thanks

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for watching this week's episode let us

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know in the comments below the biggest

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not to do that you know in the UK and

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we'll see you next week

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