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you got this one that's not very nice to

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do to people okay what happens if you

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wouldn't like abide by this culture

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absolutely you get out way yeah I pushed

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them out the way and what would happen

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if you were to jump a queue in the UK

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you definitely get judged judged maybe a

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funny look yeah you know old school

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English yes yes you gentlemen there a

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little bit of that chivalry left I think

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it's not necessarily rude but it's it's

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not going to be that fun people in the

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UK like take hu and very seriously say

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one has a party a house party can you oh

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God yeah no don't come early to one of

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those Jesus everyone's going to be sober

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you stick to the basic like small talk

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topics I think if you're stranger

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weather if someone doesn't hold a door

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open tatan and ey roll that's it in the

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north you walk past and you like smile

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at people but in the South you can't

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really do that hi welcome to a new

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episode of easy English so today I'm on

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the streets of Brighton and I want to

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know what is considered rude in the UK

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could you tell me something which you

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think would be considered rude to do I

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guess like not waiting in line for the

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bus I say skipping in cu's people in the

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UK like take queue and very seriously

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the typical one of course is is curing I

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mean we're used to curing in this

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country country um abroad maybe not so

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much queuing is quite a

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English thing to do quite highly on rude

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things I think so I say I think Skip um

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keep to the keep yeah we're great CS we

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love standing in a queue we're terribly

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polite I like my pleases and thank yous

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there's a lot of hand gestures okay can

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you can you give us a you got this one

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that's not very nice to do to people

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okay

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um yeah I feel like holding doors open

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and things like that cuz English people

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are very uh traditional yeah just like

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basic manners but manners I just think

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it takes 2 seconds and it is actually

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just like okay common courtesy and

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people like you like in instantly you'll

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see like your conversations going better

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if you remember that not letting people

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off first as

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well General bus and train etiquette

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what what would be the kind of

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punishment

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then if you were to break the queuing

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system in UK definitely oh yeah tting

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yeah so off before on yeah yeah yeah

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yeah and this is what happens if you

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wouldn't like abide by this culture

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absolutely you

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get yeah I pushed them out the

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way do you guys t i do accidentally all

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the time all the time accidentally yeah

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it's just like it's just like second

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nature to T suddenly irritating could

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this might bit weird but could you give

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an example of a t I've seen the yeah

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quite yeah and the ey roll T and ey roll

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T and IR roll and then you're off yeah

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that's you've done your deed like yeah

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if someone doesn't hold a door open ttan

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an ey roll that's it people will will

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probably just like give you a dirty love

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I think it's probably working in

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customer service like that's where I get

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that from it's it's just like I do

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appreciate it when someone says thank

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you show me that one again it's like

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kind of like a off isn't it it's really

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just saying get lost okay like the

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opposite of a piece sign okay you got

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and then you got like ah it's just giv

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it the old fingers I think a big Pro

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Part in England is to ask people that

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age I wouldn't find it rude personally

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but I do know that it's a thing it's

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like um say you're at like a dinner

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party or like a party and then there's

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like food that's been put out okay but

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it's like little bits that you take and

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stuff if there's one left you just don't

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take it yeah

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like if you think that someone is more

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than 40

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then I would not ask them their age

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right but if you think they're younger

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than 40 it's okay to ask them their age

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spitting in public oh I think okay no

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it's not okay but I know people do it

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like you never know what's going on in

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their

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mouth that's true France is not that bad

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normal England yeah England they don't

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like it at all yeah no absolutely not we

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don't like that we barely like shaking

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hands in England alone watching people

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spit so no no we don't like that either

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what's the rule about spitting in

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public disgusting yeah I'd say don't do

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it but people do I think it might be

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related to things like footballers who

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do an awful lot of spitting on the on

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the football pitch very true and um they

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don't come in for criticism so perhaps

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it's becoming because of that more

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acceptable than it would have done in

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the past how about being late I'm late

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all the time I can't say anything about

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that that's one I have a massive problem

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with yeah and you as well

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actually we're that I've grown up in a

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family that's permanently late and it

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drives me mad I think it's rude I think

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it's unnecessary is it rude to be late

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yeah I'm 20 minutes early for everything

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so I don't know I mean it definitely is

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but I don't know if they more so than

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other countries though yeah you can get

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away with it you can get away with it

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here I'm late to everything though and

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and and Z wasn't that bad but here here

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I reckon

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you can be late for a solid 20 times and

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won't be fired how late it's too late if

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someone I feel bad after being like half

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an hour or more half an hour if it's

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half an hour or more then I feel really

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bad for me it's like 5 10 minutes that

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after that is rude after that's like you

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know you could be in a bit of a then

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like 15 minutes i' say is the cut off or

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before you're you can you're allowed to

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get angry uh 15 minutes if I'm going to

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be more than 15 minutes late I would

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bounce a text to them and say hey I'm

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running a late I guess it depends on

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what it is but then again like if I'm

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invited to a party and they say come at

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9:00 I don't want to come at 9:00 like

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I'll come at like probably half n yeah

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or something half hour later yeah is

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there such a thing as too early

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definitely especially if you're going to

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someone's house party or something if

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you arrive when they're still setting up

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that's if you arrive when they say

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that's pretty like you you usually got

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to like let people I think the older we

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get the more on time you should be that

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sort of thing when you're young it's

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called to be 2 hours late to a party say

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one has a a house party can you oh God

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yeah no don't come early to one of

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those Jesus everyone's going to be sober

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can you be too early in the UK yeah

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depends what it's for like for parties

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you can definitely be too early okay 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 and cues don't steal other

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people's food don't steal other people's

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food don't steal other people's food

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Okay C with your mouth closed yeah

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that's good which you don't do oh

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really yeah I'm not very good at that

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okay don't talk with your mouth open no

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don't talk your mouth open generally PR

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people are a bit more timid than like

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whereas I I I'd love to just wol food

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down I'm such a quick eer I think some

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cult is like the louder the better no no

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the louder the more you can hear what's

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going on inside someone's mouth and the

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more you can think about digestion

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that's not going on so mouth closed

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quiet yeah elbows off the table thanks

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for watching this week's episode let us

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know in the comments below what you

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consider to be rude in the UK and if

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what's rude in the UK is also considered

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rude in your respective country and as

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always we'll see you next time t

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