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There are some things that will get an English person upset, as a tourist don't do these things.
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00:00traveler faux pas that travelers do when they travel to england that might upset the locals
00:04first thing the tourists sometimes upset the locals with and it might be different in your
00:08country than here that's queue jumping you know jumping the line skipping the line look in england
00:13queue culture is a thing you follow the line you get behind the person behind you and you wait your
00:17turn whether you're getting on the tube the train at a store the shop the post office wherever it's
00:23always a nice queue waiting in line and no one complains about it so make sure you're staying in
00:28line and there's certain people certain tourists we know who you are okay make sure you're not
00:32queue jumping and the thing is when you come here to england you'll notice that people are very polite
00:35i mean not everybody you know but in general people in england are very polite they're very mannerly
00:40and if you're not mannerly and polite when you're here that does upset the locals they do expect a
00:45thank you a please and they're gonna say excuse if they bump into you and expect the same thing there
00:49that's why pushy tourists and and tourist groups just kind of shove through things those are things
00:54that people in england don't really like very much it's that kind of irks them so make sure you are
00:59mining your p's and q's and you're you're being polite when you are going around another thing
01:03that's going to really upset them is you make them a bad cup of tea okay because getting a cup
01:08of
01:08getting a cup of tea here is really really an important thing and and make sure you're making
01:12it right so if you look online you'll see like english people like pulling the hair out that they still
01:17have left in their head when they see people microwaving water for their tea look get that kettle
01:22and you'll see your hotel you're in your bed and breakfast they'll probably have a kettle in your
01:27room that you can use in order to to make tea in your own room
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