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Politeness and complaints

sometimes. Well, we're super polite, but I think that's probably true. We're not the most outspoken of people, I guess, right? when it comes to No, it's like if you have a bad m...

Course: Inside British cultureSection: English stereotypes and cultureSubtitles: en

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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.

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