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Queues and closing times

discovered here cues you know we don't queue elsewhere in the world so that was a good thing and then there was the off license closing at 11. well when you sort of you get in s...

Course: Inside British cultureSection: British social rulesSubtitles: en

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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

1:37

someone's way or uh you get to a door

1:40

with about the same time then we always

1:42

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

1:56

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

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