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How late is too late?

I reckon you can be late for a solid 20 times and won't be fired how late it's too late if someone I feel bad after being like half an hour or more half an hour if it's half an...

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

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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

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