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I don't like tea. Maybe that makes me

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unusual. Do we drink as much beer as you

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were told? Yeah, I think so. Probably.

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All English people are polite.

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Um, what can I just say? All English

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people have bad teeth.

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How do you have your tea? Personally, I

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have mine just with milk. Quite strong.

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Who do you speak to the weather about?

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Oh, anyone. That's usually the first

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easy small talk. How would you be aware

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that you've upset a Brit? Oh, you just

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get a dirty look. Yeah.

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Hi everybody. Welcome to a new street

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week I wanted to ask a simple question.

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What is an English stereotype? I wanted

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to ask the people of Brighton about the

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most popular English stereotypes and if

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they're true or false. Before we carry

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for now, this is what are English

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stereotypes. Here we go. All English

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people love queuing.

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Uh, probably true. We're good at

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queuing. Yeah. Yeah. Great British

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queue. Queuing. People say that we're

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always obsessed with queuing. I think

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so. I think you guys are like very

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organized. Most people in London are

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always in a hurry and have no time for

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people. Yeah, I I'd think it's true.

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Yes. Do we drink as much beer as you

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were told? Yeah, I think so. Probably.

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Yeah, they do enjoy a lot of drinking.

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Yeah, that is very true. Every weekend

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they like to get on it, you know. All

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English people love to get pissed.

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All English people love to get drunk.

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I think that might be changing though. I

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think probably 20 years ago when I was

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sort of younger that was a big culture

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but I think with younger people it's

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just too expensive now. So I don't think

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that's quite so true anymore. But maybe

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when they go up to Spain and the alcohol

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is a bit cheaper that's why they can let

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loose. I think so. Yeah. More or less

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than the Irish cuz that is also a huge

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stereotype. I think less. Yeah.

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Definitely here a lot less, you know.

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Um, in Ireland, yeah, there's a lot more

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drinking around, a lot more occasions

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and events. Yeah, literally any excuse

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to drink really in Ireland, you know.

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The amount of pubs and the fact that

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people drink on Thursday, uh, which is

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kind of a corporate piss up day, you

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know, then is is probably above any

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other country I would witness. All

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English people have bad teeth.

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No.

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Oh, no. nice teeth. So, Ameilia has nice

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teeth as well. Yeah. So, but I heard I

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heard of that stereotype and I've seen

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like people with bad teeth. So, it's

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true. Oh, I don't know if it's true. I

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feel like every country has like But I

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heard like that is a thing here. Bad

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dental hygiene. No, that's not true. Not

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true. That's a propaganda spread by the

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Americans. I would think so. Yes,

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they're wearing fakes and they're proud

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about it.

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that we love drinking tea. I think is

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the main one. I know they like tea. Tea.

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Okay. I know they love their cup of tea.

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Everyone drinks tea and every single

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day. Okay. I don't like tea. Maybe that

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makes me unusual. You don't like tea?

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No, not really. I found Northerners

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definitely. Yeah. My partner's from

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Manchester and he drinks tea every hour

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of every day. So that is definitely

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Yeah. Um Southerners

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maybe not so much. And how do you have

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your tea? Personally, I have mine just

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with milk. Quite strong. And I I have

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mine with milk, but I have a couple of

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sweetness in it cuz I don't have sugar,

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do I? Got to keep the calories down.

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Very good. How about uh your friends or

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your family? Are they big tea drinkers

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either? They are. Okay. And how how many

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cups of tea would you say they devour in

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a day? You think? Four or five? I think.

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Now, back to the episode. Can you give

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me any English stereotypes that are

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false?

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Uh, we eat fish and chips every day.

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That is very true. Yeah, it's fish and

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chip. They have a fish and chip supper

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every Friday. That's a tradition here

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with English people. Okay. Um, yeah,

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every English person, friends here, they

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they generally have fish and chips at

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least once a week, you know. I don't

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think there's anyone that I've ever met

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that doesn't like fish and chips, I

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think.

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So, I'd say we do like fish and chips

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style rice though. And the crumpets as

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well. Like I think we see that a lot as

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well. My friend had like a bag of

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crumpets in her kitchen when we went to

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visitors. I was like, "Okay, this is

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like a stereotype." That's true. The

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food in England, is it all beige and

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disgusting?

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No, I don't think so. I think that's

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very typical for children's food, but I

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think adults are quite I think a lot of

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English are quite foodies. Okay. Um,

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what kind of food uh what would you say

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is your favorite dish then that would

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defy this? It's probably not an English

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dish. It's probably like I do like

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Indian and Asian foods and things like

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that. How often would you two eat fish

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and chips? We're not massive fish and

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chip eaters, are we? But we like we

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enjoy one as like a delicacy or as like

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a treat. But yeah, once a year. I

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probably say more roast roast dinners

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for us, isn't it? We quite like a roast

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dinner. I love a curry. And yeah, we

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love curry as well. Yeah, that's

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interesting. And the curry one's a big

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one that no one's mentioned it that

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we're quite big curry eaters really.

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Would you be able to describe what a

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roast dinner is? Yeah. Uh either like

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roast meat like chicken or turkey or

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beef or lamb with uh roast potatoes and

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lots of veg like carrots and Brussels

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sprouts. And how does a roast dinner fit

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into our lives sort of culturally? It's

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kind of a cultural event almost. Uh most

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people have it on a Sunday um every

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Sunday and at Christmas. Do you know any

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stereotypes about the English?

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They always talk about the weather.

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That's probably one of the No one's

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mentioned that yet. I forgot all about

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that. And you think that's true or

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false? Oh, definitely. Yeah, we're

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always talking. Yeah. If it's rainy,

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it's like, oh, moaning. If it's hot,

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moaning as well, probably if it's too

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hot. And who do you speak to the weather

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about? Oh, anyone. That's usually the

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first easy small talk. Oh, pub quizzes.

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They're so popular. Every pub we've been

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into has a pub quiz or a pub quiz going

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on. Can you like go into what a pub quiz

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is? So, I think it's basically you go

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into a pub or I guess you sign up

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previously and then they give you trivia

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questions and you have to answer them

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and if you get them right, I think you

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win something at the end. All English

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people are polite.

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Um, would you like to say so? Yeah,

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sometimes. Well, we're super polite, but

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I think that's probably true. We're not

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the most outspoken of people, I guess,

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right? when it comes to No, it's like if

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you have a bad meal and they come around

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and say, "Is everything all right?" And

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we've been grumbling about it for 10

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minutes, but then we go to the person,

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the waitress, yes, yes, it's fine, thank

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you. And then carry on grumbling about

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it. So, how would you know then? Let's

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say you do jump the queue and you don't

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know you've done it because you know,

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you just got here, you're still getting

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used to the culture. How would you know

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that you've pissed off a English person?

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Do we have a telltale? You probably

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wouldn't because most of them just go

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away and moan quietly about it rather

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than make a fuss at the time. We'd

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probably do a lot of tutting.

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Yeah. And what is a tut? Oh, just uh Oh,

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just noises really. And hopefully they

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get the message. How would you be aware

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that you've upset a Brit then? They've

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not queued or they've not enjoyed the

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dinner you've made. You just get a dirty

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look. Yeah. Yeah. You might have to look

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at their face. Yes. at all. Okay. Like

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we're quite subtle people. Face and body

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language language. Yeah. We're a nation

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of dog lovers. Ah, I love that. There we

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go. We got the

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Oh, most most households have a have

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have a dog. That dog looks very loved as

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well. She is. Yeah. How well catered for

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dogs is the UK and England? Like, can

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you take your dogs into most places in

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England?

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That's that's a really fairly fairly

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good. There are some shops that don't

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allow it. Are there barber shops

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that a lot more welcoming for animals?

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I've taken Yogi to a couple of um uh

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National Trust properties recently and

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they're quite happy to have the dogs

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there. Good facilities around UK for

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dogs, you think? Yeah, I think so. Thank

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you for watching this week's episode.

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Please let us know in the comments below

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any English stereotypes that you know of

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or other things that you notice that all

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English people tend to do. Also, let us

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