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Being polite

i'm polite to the end yes i feel like did you change your voice i'm actually working on my politeness i'm trying to be less polite less polite i can be polite i can be in polite...

Course: Inside British cultureSection: British stereotypesSubtitles: en

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politeness

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i'm polite to the end yes i feel like

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did you change your voice

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i'm actually working on my politeness

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i'm trying to be less polite less polite

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i can be polite i can be in polite as

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well

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really you've got to switch yeah well

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you know politeness has its place but

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sometimes it can be a little bit

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too much sometimes we i think we're

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bit too sometimes we're too polite yeah

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i'm very polite in what way you say peas

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and queues

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all the time open doors for people do

1:50

you say sorry too much

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yes yes treat those the way you want to

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be treated yeah nice yeah you got taught

1:57

as a kid yeah yeah it is yeah definitely

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yeah politeness goes a long way and we'd

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like it with our children too yeah so

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important

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nice

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yes i'm polite yeah yeah yeah

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in what way you say peas and queues yes

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i say uh please and thank you quite a

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lot apologize probably when i shouldn't

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um

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yeah i would bother me if i thought

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someone thought i was rude so yeah i

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think i'm polite

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try to be try to be yeah yes yes yeah

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definitely do you know sometimes okay so

2:27

i can't eat dairy it makes my stomach

2:29

really uncomfortable

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