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Unpleasant public habits

it's not okay but I know people do it like you never know what's going on in their mouth that's true France is not that bad normal England yeah England they don't like it at all...

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

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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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