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Arriving too early

like for music you can just I don't know it's not necessarily rude but it's not going to be that fun too early oh everything no yeah but I always tried to be early got to be fas...

Course: Inside British cultureSection: Everyday manners in the UKSubtitles: en

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or

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like for music you can just I don't know

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it's not necessarily rude but it's not

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going to be that fun too

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early oh everything no yeah but I always

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tried to be early got to be fashionably

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late yeah weirdo yeah I know I know what

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about um greeting strangers or or like

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conversing with strangers I think it's

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very it depends where you are I think

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where you're from it's more acceptable I

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feel like it's different for me like in

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the North you walk past and you like

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smile at people but in the South like

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you can't really do that so me i' can

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are you even allowed to greet strangers

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in the up off everyone's all like hey

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how you doing like when I went back for

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Christmas you walked down the street and

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everyone's wishing you met all that

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stuff whereas down here like people I'm

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from London and it's very much not the

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same are there any rules cultural rules

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when eating in a restaurant keep your

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mouth closed don't don't talk with food

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in your mouth I suspect that's the same

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throughout Europe oh God eat with your

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mouth closed please I don't want to see

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what's going on in there I don't know if

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it's as as strict now but like when I

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was a kid I'd always be told off for

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like leaving my elbows on the table I

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think we consider it very rude if you're

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eating a meal with somebody to suddenly

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start you know taking a phone call for

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example I think maners again thank CES

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please PE

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