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200 pounds is that our final guess that
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is yes okay it costs zero pounds what
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hey guys welcome back to the girl gone
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london channel if you're new here my
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name is caitlin i'm an american who's
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lived in the uk for almost 10 years
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except now i'm in america and this is my
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best friend emily in this video you guys
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wanted me to get my friends and family's
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reactions to certain like facts about
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the uk or things about the uk that are
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different from the us so emily has been
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to the uk a few times to visit me um and
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is pretty well up on things i've come up
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with some questions that i'm gonna ask
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and she is going to react to different
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things about the uk and we're just gonna
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have a discussion about some of the
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differences so
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so
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um okay the first question
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do you know how many different nations
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make up the uk
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now i get in trouble for this because
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i'm not even sure if you call them
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nations or country i mean it's countries
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like how many different countries make
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up the uk oh gosh
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i
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you can do it i'm gonna expose myself
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okay
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i
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okay what's like the first country that
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you've been to england okay okay what's
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the next one scotland okay okay what's
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the other one that's on the same
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landmass that we didn't go to ireland
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whales will and the fourth one is
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northern ireland northern ireland oh wow
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my geography skills are coming out there
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you go watch out
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but if any of you british people tried
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to name the american states i bet you
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could
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um okay how much do you think it costs
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for an ambulance ride in the uk
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oh wow
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in pounds in pounds okay
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part of me wants to say like
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200 pounds i don't know okay 200 pounds
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is that our final guess that is yes okay
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it costs zero pounds what
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yeah because at the nhs i you don't have
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to pay for an ambulance right i mean
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here
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we just choose to use our own cars like
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you could have your arm chopped off
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we're like no we got it i'll take the
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honda like yeah because an ambulance
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ride costs so much here yeah i think i
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couldn't even give you a ballpark
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because it's i think it's like in the
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thousands yeah
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so yeah just go free i mean you pay for
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it obviously at some point right but but
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you don't pay like per ambulance ride
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right zero pounds wow there you go first
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that's actually shocked that's we used
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to have lots of american students when i
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used to have a different job who would
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be like the same thing yeah i'm not
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going to the hospital and we're like why
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and they're like because i don't i can't
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afford it yeah like
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it's free it's free the point of the nhs
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yeah
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next question
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how
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much do you think income tax like the
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first income tax
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percentage is
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so there's a certain percentage it's
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like zero percent if you make like under
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11 000 pounds but like the first once
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you start earning
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what percentage of is income tax
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in percent numbers
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oh god
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um
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just saying guess maybe
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five percent i don't know okay the guess
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is five percent yes it's twenty percent
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okay it's totally off
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twenty percent is the first like income
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tax bracket dang but that stuff goes
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towards things like the energy right
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what is income tax here we're in florida
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do you even know florida doesn't have
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income tax does it i don't think so
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california does i think so do you pick
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what do you pay any like what do you pay
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in
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like sales tax yeah like i think seven
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five percent seven percent sales tax i
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think something around that but then do
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you keep all of the money that you're
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bought like your employee your your
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employer
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gives you
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no because some of it comes out in like
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social security social security and
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stuff okay yeah but i don't think
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florida has an income tax right i don't
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think so okay so florida zero
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uk
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20 20 as the first here i was thinking
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five starting point
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okay next question how many sick days
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do you think you get in the uk
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oh gosh and this is different how many
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sick days do you get do you know
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well ours is kind of weird because we
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kind of combine it with our holiday time
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okay so we get technically
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three weeks of
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pto that we could use when we're sick or
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if we're going to the uk so okay um
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but i'm thinking you guys would probably
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get
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maybe
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like two weeks of sick time
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okay it's basically unlimited because if
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you're sick then they're not gonna make
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you
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yeah that
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shocks me so that would never happen the
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next question is going to be about
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paid time off or what they would call
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annual leave
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but for the most part if you're ill
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what they call being sick because being
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sick do you know what being sick means
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in the uk what
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it means throwing up
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so i'm all like i'm always like i i've
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i've been sick and i think they mean a
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lot of people will use that to be like
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oh i've thrown up americans don't say we
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say like sick to mean the same thing as
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ill which is what british people say um
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but yeah like it doesn't take away from
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your vacation time if you're sick
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isn't that crazy that's crazy that i
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know very different from how we don't
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you want to move to the beach i mean
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you could get the flu and you still have
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to be pranking out those emails so
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okay the next question is how many
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vacation days do you think
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we get in the uk
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like in days and it's mandated by the
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government
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um
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maybe like
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20 days a year good guess closer so it's
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28 days
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that can include bank holidays like
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there's like eight of them or something
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so they can tell you that you have to
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like take christmas off and that counts
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towards the 28th so it basically for
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most people works out to four weeks ish
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four to five weeks wow that's as minimum
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yeah minimum that's crazy that we're
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lucky if we get maybe a week here yeah
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exactly you saying three weeks i was
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like wow that's sick
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so
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so
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yeah
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okay next question how many days or
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weeks do you think
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a pregnant woman could get of maternity
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leave in the
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uk
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um
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maybe
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i'm just gonna say maybe four weeks
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really okay um six weeks higher
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times it by like 10.
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52 weeks a whole year a whole year a
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whole year
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so it's not all paid it's like some of
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it's paid and smooth it depends on if
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you've been employed somewhere
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like there's different situations but
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it's a full year
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a full year
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how many maternity days are mandated in
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the u.s
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zero days yeah i think it's one of the
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only countries in the world that doesn't
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have like
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mandated time like your employer gets to
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decide yeah i mean yeah a full year what
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do you think about that i think that is
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shocking that is like
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we're fending for ourselves like good
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luck trying to take the baby to work
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yeah have them become the new intern
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it's crazy yeah that's crazy to me
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okay
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final two
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jaywalking
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okay
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legal do you do it
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legal or illegal in the uk
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to answer your first question i do but
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not
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i'm happy myself um
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in the uk i feel like it is legal there
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though it is
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you won't get in trouble for jaywalking
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because and they think it's weird that
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america really
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can't cross the street where they want i
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think because we we were in london doing
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something and everyone just started
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going like you know there's no time to
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waste you gotta hustle so yeah but in
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america it's very much like you're
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looked at like
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that crazy person don't cross unless
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don't do anything like you're at a
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crossing yeah and it's your turn to go
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which is weird yeah but i feel like the
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uk is more of a pedestrian place yeah so
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maybe that makes sense whereas here if
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you if you're in the suburbs like where
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we live in florida where we grew up like
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you're not walking anywhere that's weird
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that's very strange so strange yeah okay
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final question this is open-ended okay
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do you have any idea what an allotment
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is
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oh my gosh um
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allotment something to do with time
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um in your job maybe like i feel like
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that's a good guess but that has nothing
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to do with it really
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so an allotment is basically when they
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they
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okay so you know how in the uk garden
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means
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yard yes
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so an allotment is i feel like what we
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would call a garden
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but they are not in their house so think
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of like a village okay they have they
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will have a piece of land that's divided
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up into like rectangles yeah and each
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one is basically an allotment or or it's
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basically a garden that you can
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i guess you rent it
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it's i don't or you can own it but it's
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not in your backyard but it's a guard
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like so so it's like
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if you have an allotment you go to this
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place like in the village or wherever
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you live to like tend to your vegetables
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but it's not in your house it's not near
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your house i like that so oh it's like a
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little garden away from your home yeah
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that's basically it's kind of charming
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yeah i don't know if he would we i don't
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we like farm but not yeah we don't have
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allotment i mean maybe they do in cities
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but i've never actually seen one right
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we didn't grow up in the city no but
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even in the suburbs of the uk they have
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allotments i feel like it's because
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there's no space for actual gardening in
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many people's houses whereas here you
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would just have it in your backyard yeah
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but yeah an allotment is like a garden
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away from your home the more you know
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the more you know
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so guys thanks for watching this video
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some of you were interested in americans
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reactions to certain things which i feel
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like we got some good ones especially
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when it comes to vacation time and
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ambulance costs and all of that thanks
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for watching and i'll see you guys next
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time
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