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hello welcome to easy english

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wikipedia has a list of common british

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stereotypes that i want to find out if

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any brits match up to let's go

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so i'm going to read out some of these

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british stereotypes to you okay so give

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me your thoughts and if you match up to

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these okay so the first one is

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politeness

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um well i try and be polite most of the

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time

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so is that nowhere yet

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um

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well i think it's a yes but i'm not

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consistent so the first one is

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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

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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

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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

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i can't eat dairy it makes my stomach

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really uncomfortable but to be polite i

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will

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really yeah yeah i'm like why'd you do

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that wow

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and are you a sorry person

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do you know what i mean

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yeah

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sorry for every sorry there's always a

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word used for i have a guilty conscience

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brilliant okay humor i think we answered

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that one just then too oh yeah yeah

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definitely

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in this list is about dark humor oh dry

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dark yeah i'd say stereotypical well you

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see i'm from liverpool so we have a very

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stereotypical idea about humor there

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which is scouse humor i think in in

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england it depends on where you're from

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the humor can be very very different

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yeah i think

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it comes with the politeness isn't it so

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you have to have you have to like have

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like a slightly dark or dry sense of

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humor because otherwise you'd probably

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just have a nervous breakdown

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i think there's the climate and the

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island nation and i guess there's just

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the tories everywhere you have to

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maintain a sense of humor do you have

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friends that have yeah yeah a few

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friends where you just at first you sort

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of can't work them out but then you're

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like oh my god yeah once you start to

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work them out you know they're they're

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so funny sort of like the meaner they

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treat you the more they like your best

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yeah yeah pretty much you're like my

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wife

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tell me about scout streamer then so i'd

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say scout schumer is um we take the piss

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a lot so it's very very sarcastic

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um people can think we're arguing but

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we're just having a chat

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um

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and i just say it it's definitely dark

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um and it's very very sarcastic tea

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love tea yeah absolutely a daughter i do

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love it

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yeah love it

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do you drink tea yes yes yes

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uh how do you have your tea

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what was sugar

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one sugar i have mine uh

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now i have mine with uh like i might be

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an oat milk

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might be a pea milk i like to try

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different milks in them now a pea milk

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yeah pea milk is actually very nice

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i love the cup of tea i love it in the

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morning have to have one in the

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afternoon tea

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tea i hate it it's the devil's brew

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i have never drank tea in my life but

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how do you know though

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well i have tried it and i just think

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it's horrible right okay but everyone in

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my family drinks tea tea is the first

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drink of the day for everyone i know and

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all of my family um and several teas

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through the day but i can't stand this

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uh lack of emotion

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have i got a lack of emotion

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no

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no

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lack of emotion

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no okay

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[Laughter]

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um no interestingly my mum when i say i

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love you and i go to give her a hug she

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like will hold my shoulders and like

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remove me

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wow from her

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yeah i reckon i'm quite emotional yeah

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hell no

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i don't think i am particularly i think

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i am quite emotional and i kind of like

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show quite a lot wide range of emotions

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especially to children and stuff but i

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think in a public setting i think we're

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kind of conditioned to hold in so i

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think i'd feel a bit awkward if i lost

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it in front of strangers for example or

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cried at work or or whatever so yeah i

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see i think

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yeah i think there is that hesitancy

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sometimes because of society that we're

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in yeah interesting if i'm at home or

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anything like that

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it's not so bad but i think my

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stiff upper lip might come out a bit if

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i'm injured another

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johnson's words by the way

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[Laughter]

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i don't think yeah i don't think i could

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do it in public

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okay so we're ticking that box a little

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bit i'd say about emotion um

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even though we don't show it doesn't

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mean we're not feeling it

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uh weather talk

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yeah

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it's got to be done

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yeah it's windy down here

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oh great subjects of british people

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isn't it yeah talking about the weather

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yeah obsessed

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uh the next one is teeth

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teeth

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don't like dirty teeth

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what about teeth well there's this i

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think it comes from americans they sort

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of see us as kind of these like peasants

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without when it comes to our dirty teeth

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yeah yeah well then they they all buy

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teeth don't they

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um

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well as my wife said the americans have

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got fantastic teeth they spend a lot of

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money on them

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and us

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i want to spend a penny on mine and my

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national health

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socialist teeth socialist teeth

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teeth yeah yeah that's stereotypical oh

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well the american stereotype of the

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english teeth

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is um is yellow and un and unbleached

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and

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are not no veneers

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um see i would just say their teeth look

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weird and overly white and like

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tombstones marble tombstones so

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as long as your teeth are clean and

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strong

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a ceramic bathroom yeah i do not mean so

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yeah

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i like that

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teeth

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i've got some yeah i've got great teeth

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never had a feeling in my life oh yeah

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i'm proud of myself

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no it's purely genetic perfectly

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straight never had a problem wonderful

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i mean do you flush yourself

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uh

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you should do yeah i should do but i

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always get the string stuck oh yeah you

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can get the harps though which are so

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much easier you don't need to be doing

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this nonsense you just run the harps in

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and out so that's the way for you to go

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still and believe me you'll be better

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off for it probably yeah your breath

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smell better yeah your gums will be

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healthier the only thing with those

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though still they can still stick though

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can't they i do sometimes i get one the

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back there and it sticks in there i've

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got to get the scissors

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so this one is called food but it's more

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that

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our food is all very beige do you agree

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to this

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um yes

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don't you find that's changing i think

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it's changing with with all the

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chefs now the tv chefs and the cookery

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programs i mean i i love to watch the

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master chefs yeah master chef australian

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i love to watch these things yeah

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different cultures traveling

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yeah yeah so maybe it's opening up for

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people's

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views on specifically you're still kind

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of

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sticking to that

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meat and potatoes well i'm a vegetarian

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anyway my wife and i are vegetarian so

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maybe a bit different

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i i think that's that's a big thing now

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isn't it people going that way

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i can't go vegan though yeah you still

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like your cheese and yeah i do very

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productive i love my cheese so you've

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got a bit more color on your plate now

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yeah

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beige food

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it's definitely beige potatoes

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uh monolingualism monolingualism are you

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learning a language do you know a

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language

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um so

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yeah we are

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i'm i'm guilty of that i speak english

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but have you have you learned

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i've learned a little bit of spanish

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i've learned a little bit of hindi but

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i'm definitely not the way i should be

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compared to the way other people are

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from other countries

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i'm not learning i know very basic

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french because i spent a lot of time on

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holidays in france my whole life but

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very just enough to get by other than

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that no and i'm ashamed desires too i

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wish i could um

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wish i had learnt

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but

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yeah i mean i'm old now so my brain's

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not so good so um it's harder to pick

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stuff up yeah uh i'd be nice if the kids

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do but yeah

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yeah i i can get by in french and and

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spanish

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um

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but i know i'm embarrassed when i go on

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holiday and everybody wants to shout in

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english uh yeah thinking that that's you

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know

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they they need to be understood and if

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they shout it

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it'll turn into spanish or french or

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something

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uh last one anti-social behavior abroad

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yeah that horrifies me and it's i can't

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bear the way certain kinds of english

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and british people behave when they're

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abroad but have you have you yourself

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been guilty of it no never no

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i'm i'm i tend to just really believe in

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being respectful of the culture where

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you are well i'm not very anti-social

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when i'm here

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so you know even if i got one drink too

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many i don't start having a fight or

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throwing stuff or being glued and over

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the top

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um if dancing and having a laugh is

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antisocial and that's about as far as my

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antisocial goes but i think when you're

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in another culture you should be really

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respectful of that culture the way they

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should be when they're here um i don't

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like it when i see it

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but no i don't think i am at all no

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never been guilty of it no

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i did used to go and follow manchester

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united quite a lot in europe away

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and um

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we there were a lot of fans doing that

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but we used to go for like three nights

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and make the most of it and you go to

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porto you go to milan

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over to paris and then

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and you also got so drunk you injured

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yourself a lot of times fine but we did

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we did the galleries

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we did yeah we did and it's a full kit

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no not at all because we we we're like

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we're united fans but it doesn't mean

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that's our identity yeah of course yeah

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the funny thing is the amount of like

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people you'd see enjoying a bit of

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culture as well which you wouldn't

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expect you know you're like i know him

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from the street

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so that was quite you know pleasing to

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see thanks for watching this week's

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let us know in the comments below

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thoughts that you have on british

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stereotypes and we'll see you next week

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bye anti-social behavior abroad oh i

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think it's embarrassing yeah are you

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guilty no have you been guilty

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um

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no i don't think so have idea

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have i been guilty though

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no i don't think so

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no