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sallie YouTube I'm back with another
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video about French culture sharks about
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random things that I notice while living
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in France about those things that stand
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out to me as being super French as you
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guys know if you've been following me
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for a while I do live in Paris if you're
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new here hi I'm Rosie but I have spent a
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lot of time in the South of France I've
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traveled a lot around France I visited
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many many different regions so I may
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have a prison bias sometimes but in
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general I try and talk about things a
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little bit more generally as well when I
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can these kinds of videos honestly some
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of my favorite videos to do because
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you've constantly got that mirror
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against which you're sort of confronted
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to be like oh wow that's different
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oh that's cool oh that's weird and it's
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a whole lot of fun so without further
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ado let's get stuck into it
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you
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[Music]
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so one of the things that I have noticed
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about French people is that travelling
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long distances things being far away is
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more of a problem than what I'm used to
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I often hear you know when you're
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talking about holidays they're like no
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we're missing one silly one say one
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comment literally that means it is long
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but it's far away soon long and it seems
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to be a real disappointment of things
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only one you know or or a real bonus if
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that hard one if I'm not far away so
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like you know often hear them saying
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what I like about Italy is that it
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Sceptile one it's not far away and you
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can have a nice holiday for example for
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us in New Zealand things being far away
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as part of the attraction the further
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away the bitter the further away the
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more exciting the more different the
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more chance that you're going to
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encounter something completely
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unexpected we're also a country that
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enjoys doing road trips for example
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driving six hours to another town to
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spend the weekend that's that's cool you
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know
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it's part of the lifestyle road trips
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going away for a week going away for the
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weekend you're prepared to travel long
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distances and I don't know many French
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people that would enjoy doing that would
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do it without complaining about it and
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saying that French people travel a lot
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you'll find them everywhere you'll find
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them in New Zealand of course but I have
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noticed that this is one of the first
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questions they ask say well how long did
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it take you to get there you know and I
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feel like all four hours like well you
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know and I I have noticed that it's kind
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of a thing if a French and you know why
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can you please let me know down below
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that'd be awesome
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the second thing I want to talk about is
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that I feel like there's a slightly
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different approach to eating fruit here
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in France I feel like in general they
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peel everything you'll peel an apple and
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then cut it into slices before eating it
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for example which we obviously do for
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small children and stuff in New Zealand
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but as an adult I'll just like take an
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apple and I'll just bite straight into
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it with my teeth whereas I find in
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France they use knives they'll use the
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knives to peel it and they'll use the
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knives to chop it into pieces as well as
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the same for peers and
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and peaches and I feel like there's a
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particular approach to eating fruit in
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this way they'll also peel vegetables
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they'll peel cucumbers for example
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before chopping them up to put them into
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salads and we were always taught that
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the skin of the fruit is where 90% of
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the nutrients are held actually so for
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us in general I mean we tend to keep the
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skin on things and I don't know maybe
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it's kind of seen as rude to just be
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crunching into like a piece of fruit
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with your teeth like home you know like
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taking a big bite out of something maybe
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it's you know it's maybe he's not so
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sophisticated I don't know I don't know
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if that has anything at all to do with
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it again if you're French can you let me
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know if I'm onto something here is that
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kind of true or is it just the
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experiences that I've had make enough
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food and especially being a girl what
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I've noticed about the French and
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something that I really appreciate about
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them as well is that they don't sort of
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deconstruct their food like we do in
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more anglo-saxon cultures I feel like
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we're very much into like okay you need
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to eat 50 grams of carbohydrates and a
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hundred grams of protein and 20 grams of
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fat and it's very kind of strict around
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what kind of food you're eating and when
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so there's a lot of people going for the
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six meals a day or you know there's all
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sorts of theories around it and people
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are often talking about it like oh I ate
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way too many carbs today or I haven't
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had enough protein today or oh there's
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lots of good fats and the salad I just
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feel like sometimes it's a bit of a
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layer of complexity it's something that
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you can get quite hung up on and what
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I've noticed in France is it I never
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ever ever hear about them talking about
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grams of food about proteins about carbs
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about fats about this kind of thing um I
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just feel like there's a general
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approach to eating and balance and I
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went into a lot of this in detail in my
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video around why French people don't get
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fat which I'll link up here as well I
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feel like because they've gone through
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food education from such a young age
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they just sort of intrinsically know
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what a balanced meal looks like they'll
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have meat vegetables maybe a bit of
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a yogurt of fruit you know over the
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course of their lunch time and I mean
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they eat variety they tend to eat quite
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a few different things and so yeah I
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just kind of find them a little bit this
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obsessed my next point is something a
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little bit random but it really annoys
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me is that they're hardly ever mirrors
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in the changing rooms so when you try
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and close on you're forced to go outside
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and front of everyone and certainly in
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front of the sales assistant to see what
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it looks like and I always feel so
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uncomfortable I almost always felt
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pressure to save the sales assistant
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that it's okay or I like it even if I
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hate it or I just don't really like if
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there are people kind of waiting there's
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like the boyfriends and the husbands
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that have been dragged along and you
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kind of go out and people kind of like I
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don't know the board so they look at
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what you're wearing and I don't really
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like it I just prefer to like when I'm
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when I'm in a clothes store I just want
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to be alone I want to be able to try
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things on see how they fit and really
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like you know try a few different poses
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especially you know if you want to see
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how your bum looks in your jeans all
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that kind of thing I don't feel as
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comfortable being able to do that out in
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the open and it's very rare that I come
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across a cubicle where I've got a mirror
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and I don't have to show anyone
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are there any French women out there do
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you also find it annoying or is it just
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me the last little sort of random thing
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that I've noticed about life in France
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and I wanted to talk about is that I
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find it really hard to say no to
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receipts here so when you know when you
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whenever you buy something you go
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grocery shopping or your to store like
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just default in France they'll always
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print the receipt and so if you pay by
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card they've always print a first
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receipt tear it off then give it back to
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you with your card and then they print
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another one for them and in New Zealand
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we often have a choice they ask us would
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you like a receipt and of course you
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know in the interests of the environment
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and you know saving the trees most of
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the time people say no there's there's
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no need to have a receipt we've got our
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online banking and in France they don't
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ask you if you'd like a receipt or not
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and they just give it to you and I've
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had a few occasions where access to them
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actually no thank you I don't actually
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want my receipt or no thank you please
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don't
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the receipt whatever and they were
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really pissed off with me they were just
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like oh you know like one time I was
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like oh no they care don't want the
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receipt and they were like well what am
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I meant to do with it you know so I just
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could you please just put it in the bin
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I mean I I don't want to take it in my
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wallet and have like lots of papers in
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my wallet obviously I think asking them
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to put it in the bin for me was maybe a
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little bit derogatory for them I don't
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know like that it definitely didn't go
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down well and so what it means is that
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it's kind of like it's hard to say no to
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receipts and in my wallet I've always
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got lots of paper and lots of receipts
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that I clear out anything it's not
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really cool for the environment that you
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always get a receipt by default well
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guys that's another video done with some
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of the random things that I've noticed
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in France if you like these kinds of
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videos if you enjoy hearing about little
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cultural differences or little lifestyle
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differences in new countries please give
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this video a thumbs up or give me a
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comment down below so that I know I'll
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see you guys next time on next week's
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video a bientot
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