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Queue-jumping consequences

the learning extras for all of our episodes would be the sort of punishment if you were to jump the queue with Brits well that would be to go back to the queue and wait half an...

Course: Inside British cultureSection: British social rulesSubtitles: en

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of

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the learning extras for all of our

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episodes

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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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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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