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do you get angry yes probably less so

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than my husband

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they don't look around they don't try

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and make eye contact I vent it in the

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car definitely

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yeah the face the look because you have

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to either look

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you can get very very annoying and make

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you very angry everyone is annoyed about

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it but no one really talks about it that

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much when he's uh concentrate he has to

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face and when he's angry he has the

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space yeah so you've got yourself like

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more and more Angry inside you'll get

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people glaring and muttering but not

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necessarily shouting at you hiya welcome

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to easy English

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so with Brits being known for their

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politeness and keep calm and carry on

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attitude I want to know do Brits get

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angry and if so what do we get angry

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about it's time to find out here we go

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do either of you two get angry as Brits

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yeah well

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yes

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you do yes yes probably less so than my

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husband

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do you get angry as a Brit I can get

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angry yes

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do you get angry

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yes you do as a British person you do

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get angry yes not as much as some Brits

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I guess it's not necessarily

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at home we get angry with things but

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when you're out and about what makes you

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angry

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if anything

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um

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the politicians I suppose what really

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gets you angry okay uh one thing that

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really gets me angry is potholes

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in the road

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and lack and a lack of Community Care

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from councils that really grinds my

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gears really bad service yeah cyclists

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not ringing their Bells yeah

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rude people if you held a door open for

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for you and they just walk straight

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through and don't even acknowledge that

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you've done anything okay that I find

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that Maybe not maybe anger's a bit too

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strong a word but it does wind me up a

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little bit yes personally I I always

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pick me up people that speed like when

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your friends are trying to show off to

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you and they're like driving really fast

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that's just one thing that annoys me

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personally well the whole political

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situation at the moment with the the

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frauds and the all the stuff that goes

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on with the current government it just

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makes me really cross I'm not very

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happy when I see other people not being

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respected

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in like restaurants or even hospitals

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not having respect for the people who

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are looking after them makes me quite

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angry it demonstrates that there's

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something fundamentally not working in

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British Society potholes are a great

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signifier of exactly that there's a

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truth to the myth that Brits kind of

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sort of refrain from uh letting out

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their anger no I don't think that's

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that's true

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I think they go on demonstrations and

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they they go on social media what is it

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then about sort of not speaking up so

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much in public is that is that a thing

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is that is that sort of a stereotypical

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Bridge thing I think yeah I think it is

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yeah

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Brits are known for sort of keeping a

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stiff upper lip this phrase and keep

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calm carry on do you would you speak it

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out and how would you do it I I tend to

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say thank you

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oh so the sarcasm comes out that's

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sometimes worse which is very psychic

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you know which is a British trait isn't

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it do you speak it out no if you bite

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your lip but your lip getting more and

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more Angry inside that seems to be most

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people's answers they think they're

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they're like being really cool and

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you're like mate

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okay so you do speak it out then yeah

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yeah I remember the labor party

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if that's if that's doing something with

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my anger probably it's not the main

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thing is I vote if I see somebody being

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rude yeah I will very politely can I go

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oh I don't know that you need to do that

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I'll say that um

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but yeah I think you tend to hear more

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people sort of mushroom under their

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breasts

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yeah yeah or like touching and stuff

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yeah yeah

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sarcasms are British trait exactly so

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I'm very good on the uh the thank yous

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you you like to pay the irony cards

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that's right that's me people from other

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countries maybe they'd be the maybe

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quicker to to speak up when was the last

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time you were made Angry by a politician

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or by the news in general oh I mean

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what sign should you look out for that

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you've [ __ ] off a Brit

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this one quite subtle stuff isn't it

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it's very much so you'll get people

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glaring

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to ring but not necessarily

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shouting

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yeah if somebody you do something and

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the other people look like they're not

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very happy about it and make a comment

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you know then take it on board that

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perhaps you uh need to correct what you

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did I did mention something to someone

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in a queue once and she turned around

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and said we're never happier unless

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we're moaning about something and we

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both laughed about it and you were also

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curing the most stereotypical

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conversation ever what are the telltale

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signs then if we do tend to bite our lip

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well it would don't they would it would

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only be evident in body language

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wouldn't it or facial expression as a

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non-brit

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um do you have any advice for someone

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who maybe is coming to UK soon as to

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like what to look out for if maybe

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they've pissed off a Brit would are the

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telltale signs would a Brit make it

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obvious that they're off of you yeah

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the look because you have an evil look

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sometimes

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yeah but they are so friendly so it's

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really hard to make them angry I think

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okay because they're so over friendly so

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it's about someone riding the bike on

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The Pedestrian bit okay and nearly

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having a crash and we'll see what it

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should have been on it anyway and she

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said yeah we're never happy unless we're

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moaning I suppose it's kind of partly

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true so you'll never really know stuff a

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bit because I won't tell you they'll

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tell you're the guy behind you in the

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queue exactly yeah I think so but

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there'll be no audio no audio clips

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exactly excuse me so somebody's face

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will freeze over or or their features

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will go all taught and so what what do

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you think makes British people angry if

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they maybe don't have alcohol

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yeah just say that so

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yeah I say that's right yeah speeding

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speeding and lack of booze thanks for

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watching this week's episode let us know

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in the comments below what makes you

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angry and also what's your point of view

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on how you can tell that Brits are

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messed off of you and as always we'll

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see you next week

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Tara

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and your dogs are starting to get angry

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at us very well

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