Shadowing Practice: S01E04 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I'll take the muñequera all the time.
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Thank you.
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What are you talking about then?
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I'm just saying, aren't I, it's cheaper to fly to Spain than it is to Newcastle.
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Who do you know in Newcastle?
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I don't know anybody in Newcastle, bloody hell.
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I'm only saying.
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Why Newcastle?
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Oh, Christ, on a bike.
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That woman was from Newcastle, weren't she?
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Eh? That slag.
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What slag?
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The one in the bar the other night.
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The one you've not met before but mysteriously knew your name.
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Won't you give it a rest?
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We're supposed to be relaxing, we're on holiday.
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Yeah, I know we are.
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Just don't relax too much, I've got my eye on you.
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Er, excuse me.
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El hombre and poco breakfast, por favor.
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Oh, Jim O.
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It's ridiculous, most of the people here are English.
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We'd think they'd have a go at the language.
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But if you pay peanuts, you'd get monkeys.
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I'm from Bacon Head, mate.
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Plus, this is a self-service buffet.
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So tomorrow, if you get here before half-time, when breakfast finishes, you won't have to alarm the monkeys, will you?
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Good job at his self-service.
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You wouldn't want him gobbling on your meat.
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Oh, I don't know.
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Hello, love.
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Sorry to bother you.
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Hello, then.
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Well, hello.
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How are you?
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I've been meaning to come over and apologise at some point.
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Apologise?
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Yes, I do believe I spat on you at breakfast. Did you?
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Yes, totally unintentional, you understand.
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I was at the buffet and I turned my head slightly to spit out a tiny bit of eggshell, and, well, you were just outside my peripheral vision,
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and I believe it landed in your hair.
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Oh, well, we're on holiday, aren't we?
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My philosophy, exactly.
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I'm Donald and this is Jacqueline.
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I'm Madge.
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Madge, lovely name.
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Are you enjoying your holiday, Mad?
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Oh, yes, a lovely bit of sun.
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You don't get this in Manchester.
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Is that where you're from, Manchester?
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Well, not originally, but it's where we live now.
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We used to travel down to Manchester.
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We had a couple of musician friends, Keith and Eunice Piggott.
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You might have heard of them.
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The Blue Notes.
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No. Do you mean the ink spots?
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No, no, the Blue Notes.
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Very big on the Belgian jav scene.
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They were a lovely, broad-minded couple, weren't they? weren't they?
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Oh, yes.
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We did a lot of very good home movies with them.
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Yes.
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Very versatile couple.
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That would be when late 60s?
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Oh, I was in me prime then.
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The swinging 60s.
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Oh, right.
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Bit of a swinger, were you?
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Oh, yes.
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Forty years ago.
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Mind you, I've not lost it.
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I reckon once a swinger, always a swinger, don't you?
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Oh, yes.
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Absolutely.
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Oh, aye, I could kick me legs up with the best of them.
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Don't think because I'm I'm in a chair.
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I'm past it.
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I'm sure you're not.
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We had a lovely couple from the black country staying with us before we came away.
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She was 58, had a plastic hip, but that didn't stop her going like the clappers, did it?
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Oh, no. Oh, well, you've got plenty to read.
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That's good here, isn't it?
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I bought three magazines with me, and I've gone through them like a dose of salt.
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Oh, here, take a couple.
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I've got a stack of them in the apartment.
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Oh, thanks, love.
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I don't want you to think that's all I come over for.
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Not at all.
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Plenty more where they came from.
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Nancy Friday, women on top.
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It's not one of them feminist jobs, is it?
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I can't be done with that.
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Load of hairy lesbians trying to do their own plumbing.
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No, it's more, erm...
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Well, fantasy.
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Oh, not that load of your rings rubbish.
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Someone in the pub gave us that on DVD.
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All you could see were people getting up to go to the toilet.
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What is your mother doing talking to them?
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I think she's gone to borrow a magazine.
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What's wrong with the magazines she's got?
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They're in Chinese.
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What do you think's wrong with them?
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She's read them.
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All right, eh, honey, asked.
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Here we are.
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Alan Titmatch.
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It's a gardener, isn't it?
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I like him.
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I'll have a look at this one, if that's all right.
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Yeah, go ahead.
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Oh, he's lovely, ain't he?
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I'd let him dig my garden any day.
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Perhaps you'd like to come up and have a good, well, rummage through Jacqueline's jelly coopers.
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Oh, aye.
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I might take you upon that.
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It'd be nice to have a civilised conversation for a change.
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I'm a widower, so I don't get much these days.
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Oh, we can soon put that right, can't we?
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Oh, yes.
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Howdy.
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What you playing?
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Scrabble.
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Nice one.
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Like your style.
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No, I mean, what, you playing American rules, English?
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Spanish.
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Cool, cool.
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Yeah?
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There is a role to it, but it's play-over.
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Do you fancy a game?
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I like. So, er...
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You here with your family?
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Yeah.
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I was gonna come on holiday by myself.
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Then I remembered I'm 16 and have no money.
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Do you want me a break?
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Yeah.
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I remember when I got going all day with my parents when I was 16.
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It's a bitch, innit?
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Stripes.
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Who's that woman you've been sat with the past three days?
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Oh, that woman?
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She's me PA.
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Your PA?
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No, personal assistant.
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She deals with all me day-to-day shit.
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What?
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She wipes your arse?
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No. You know, she takes care of all my day-to-day admin shit.
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Phone calls and.. whatever.
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I'm a professional pub quiz champion.
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Just breaking into television.
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You know what I mean?
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No. I'm avoiding William G.
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Stewart at the moment.
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Yeah.
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He's trying to get 15 to 1 back off the ground.
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Wants me to set the questions.
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I thought that woman was your mum.
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My mum?
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That's funny.
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I'll tell her, though.
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Make her laugh.
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Jeff, I found some of those batteries you were after for your headset.
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I left them with your mum.
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The wonderery turns.
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Well, that's something I didn't expect.
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A civilised conversation in this place.
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Very nice couple.
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What did you get, ma'am?
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It's that Titmarch fella.
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The one who does the gardening.
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It's Titchmarch.
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Yeah.
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How lovely.
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I'll have to get you strapped into your chair to read that one, Madge.
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Apparently, Alan likes to give his money's worth in the old 6-6 season.
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Oh, don't be disgusting!
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It's Alan Titmarch off the telly.
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Not everybody's like you, you know.
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Mind like a sewer.
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I'll have to look at that after you, Mum.
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They've got some Jilly Coopers in their apartment.
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I'm off up there later.
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Go have a drink with them.
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With a bit of luck, they'll give me one.
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There's no answer to that.
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There you go.
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Martin, I can't drink a cocktail.
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It's okay, it's non-alcoholic.
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I really enjoyed last night.
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I have a little too much to drink.
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You were fine.
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Well, when I say you were fine, you were pretty insatiable when we got back to the apartment.
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Yes, I know, you said, this morning.
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You really can't remember?
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No, I'm sorry, I can't.
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I'm not used to drinking that amount.
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And I'm not used to you making that kind of noise in the bedroom either.
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God.
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Must admit, the old soldier had nearly forgotten how to stand to attention.
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Martin, please.
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Hey, relax.
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We're on holiday.
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We're allowed to do things that are a little bit crazy.
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Here I come!
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You're not having a burger, ma'am?
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I've got one in my bag from yesterday.
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Waste not want not.
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Oh, mother.
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Just stir past me T-shirt, will you, Michael?
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What do you want your T-shirt for?
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It's bloody boiling.
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Sweat keeps running down the crack of me arse.
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Do you know, it's like being on a dream holiday with Hugh Grant.
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We all know what he got up to.
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Got caught in his car with his trousers down, dirty bastards.
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My dad looks not like Hugh Grant.
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Thank you, my darling.
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I'm more like Russell Grant.
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Oh she's so grand.
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It's that guy off Celebrity Fit Club that looks like a gay toad.
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Oh yeah, you're going in.
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Oh yeah, oh yeah.
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Oh, no, no, no!
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Okay, a beautiful wine for so beautiful girls.
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Hi there.
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Yeah, you're hot.
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I'd be like my mouth.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Hello.
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Hi, sorry to bother you.
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I was just wondering if I could get another cocktail.
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Now, what do you recommend?
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Hiya.
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Two tequila sunrises, please.
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Oh, right.
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Sorry, were you next?
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Moving sir.
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No problem.
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How are you enjoying your holiday?
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Yeah, it's OK.
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Sun's nice.
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Absolutely.
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It's all exactly the Ritz, but as you say, you can't fault the weather.
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Oh, yeah.
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Martin Whedon.
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Sorry?
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I'm Martin.
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Oh, hi, I'm Troy.
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Nice to meet you.
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I think I saw you the other day with your, um, friend.
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Yeah, I'm here with my friend.
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Sorry, that sounded slightly patronising.
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No, not really.
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I think it's important that someone's lover should be their friend.
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Best friend, preferably.
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Yes.
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Yes, you're right.
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Anything to eat?
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Hang on, I'll check.
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Gavin!
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The barman says, has he got anything you'd like to eat?
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Stop being vile and bring me my drink.
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Guess he's not hungry.
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See you later.
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Yep, have a good one.
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Right, can I have a virgin...
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MUSIC Your friends are going.
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I'll be up a bit later.
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You have your feet right under the table with them, haven't you?
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Very nice couple.
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Mind you, you were right about this book.
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It's absolutely filthy.
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Oh!
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Stop it!
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Why didn't you tell us you were gonna have a baby?
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This is none of your business.
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Nanny said you're too fat to have a baby.
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You know there's a monster in that pool, don't you?
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Don't be a twat.
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Well, it's not a monster.
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They call it the fish baby and it lives in the bottom of the pool.
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It's got scales and big teeth.
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See, they tried to drown him in the pool when he was born cos they didn't want him, but he learnt to live under the water.
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Shut up!
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Did you not feel him trying to pull you under when you were drowning in the pool?
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Shut up!
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Mam, tell her to shut up, mam!
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What?
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What's she doing?
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Tell her to shut up!
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Can I have the key, Emma?
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Back upstairs.
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Back upstairs.
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Well, we're all going in now.
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Come on, ma'am.
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All right, I'm coming.
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Oi, hold your horses, lady.
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Wait for us.
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Dad, are you gay?
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No, son.
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I just help them out on weekends when they're busy.
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I need you to send the fax to John and Phil.
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What?
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Cancel that conference call with the Television Centre.
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I haven't got a phone.
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Sex bomb, sex bomb, you're my sex bomb.
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I thought we were having food in our room.
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You've got a hypnotist on tonight.
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Martin, no. It's OK.
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I won't let them get you up on stage.
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I'm not just your partner, you know, I'm your best friend as well.
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Sex bomb, sex bomb, you're my sex bomb.
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You can give it to me when I need to come along.
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Sex bomb, sex bomb.
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I love that dress on you, Jan.
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Talk about sex bomb.
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Why's me not on the gun?
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She's gone to borrow a book.
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So that's what the young kids are calling it these days.
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Will you, papity?
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You know they're into all that, don't you?
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Who's into what?
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That Scotch bloke and his wife, they're a pair of swingers.
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They think your mother's gone up for a bit of a fumble with the curtains shut.
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What part of your sick brain does all this rubbish come out of?
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I feel really ill.
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Are you OK?
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Yeah.
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I've got a sneaking suspicion drinking non-stop for seven hours might have something to do with it.
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I'm just going to go up to the room for a minute.
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Do you want me to pan with you?
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No, you stay here.
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I won't be long.
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I'm gonna get something appropriate from the medicine bag.
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I didn't know we brought a stomach pump.
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Hm.
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Now, so glad you made it.
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Thought for a minute you'd have cold feet.
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Cold feet?
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No!
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One of me daughters has got flat feet.
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She's been off work a year with him.
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Now, what would you like to drink?
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Oh, whatever's going.
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Go through, go through.
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I think Jack and he'd started without us.
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Well, where do you want me to put this book?
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Go through.
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Go through?
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Oh, right.
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Mmm.
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Oh.
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Oh!
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Oh, Jesus Christ.
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Everything okay?
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How are we out?
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Let me out of here.
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Oh, dear, I think there's been a slight misunderstanding.
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Slight misunderstanding?
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I should have known when I read that mucky garden book.
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Bloody perverts!
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Oh, I'm so sorry, lad.
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Let me out!
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I think we've been talking at cross purposes.
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Oh, dear.
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So sorry, lad.
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It's been locked up the pair of you.
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I've never, never seen anything.
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You can't knock a coconut down every time.
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Tea?
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Oh, yes.
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All the way from Newcastle, an old friend of Neptune's, Susie!
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I believe in miracles Where you're from You sexy lady It's that woman What woman?
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The one from Newcastle Oh yeah?
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You sexy thing Is she taking the piss?
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What?
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No!
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She's singing at you.
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She isn't.
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She is!
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Where's the girl from?
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Angel!
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She isn't!
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Boy, you, do something useful for once and get me a drink.
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Large vodka and orange.
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What's the matter, ma'am?
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Did they give you another book?
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I've never been so disengusted.
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What's wrong?
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Perverts!
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Bloody perverts, both of them.
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Sorry, we haven't even ordered yet. But can we...
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I'm going out to get some aspirin.
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I'll come with you.
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No, you stay here.
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I'll be fine.
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Order me a baked potato.
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Okay, baked potato.
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What filling?
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Anything.
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Right.
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Anything.
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Is it the same woman?
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Yes, it friggin' well is.
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And she's singing that song to Mick.
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Well, I'd kick her ass into the middle of next week if it were me.
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Don't worry.
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I intend to.
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Madge, I just wanted to say I'm really terribly sorry about what happened.
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We must have got our wires crossed at some point.
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Wires crossed?
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I should sue.
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I'm scarred for life after what I've seen.
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Oh, we're terribly sorry.
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We misjudged the situation.
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Disgusting perverts, the pair of you.
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You should be locked up.
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We hope you won't be offended, but we've bought you these cigarettes by way of an apology.
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Would you accept them?
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Oh, well.
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Well, I suppose it's a mistake anybody could make.
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Absolutely.
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No hard feelings?
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No, no hard feelings.
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Have a lovely evening.
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What's going on?
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Well, you weren't disgusted for very long, were you?
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Very genuine people.
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Oh, aye.
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Nothing to do with the 200 Sigs, obviously.
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Thank you!
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There we go!
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Where's my dad gone?
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I thought he'd be getting some drinks.
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I knew where he's bloody well gone.
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I can talk about really love Who can say how it really feels?
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Shhh!
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I'll give you a fucking shush!
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get out here you dirty bastard
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oh I'm sorry this is
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not what it looks like you forgot the key It takes two,
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baby, to make a dream come true.
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Just takes two.
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Where's your mom?
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Oh, no. About time.
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Just takes two.
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Thank you.
Boost Your English Speaking with This Real-Life Video Dialogue
Practicing with authentic conversations is one of the best ways to improve English pronunciation and build confidence. This video clip, full of casual holiday chat, is perfect for english speaking practice—let’s break down how to learn from it!
What You'll Learn
This dialogue helps you master two key skills: casual disagreement (like "Bloody hell! I'm only saying") and polite apologies (such as "Totally unintentional, you understand"). You’ll also pick up how to naturally insert personal stories into small talk, a must for real-world interactions. These are the kinds of phrases that make you sound less like a learner and more like a fluent speaker.
Listen For These Sounds
Connected speech is everywhere in this clip! Notice how "cos my mother" becomes "cuz my mum" (reduction of "because") and "what do you" shortens to "whaddaya" (linking). Also, listen for the relaxed pronunciation of "I don't know" as "I dunno"—a common reduction in everyday speech. These sounds are tricky, but shadowing (repeating aloud right after the speakers) will help you get them down.
Say It Like a Native
To mirror the speakers’ rhythm, focus on stress. In "Cheap now, with all these low-cost airlines," the stress is on "cheap," "now," and "low-cost"—this makes the sentence flow naturally. For the playful argument ("Why Newcastle? Oh, Christ on a bike!"), copy the rising tone in the question and the exaggerated stress in the response to show emotion. Try shadowspeak—pause the video, repeat the line, and match the speed and emphasis. It might feel silly at first, but it works!
Learning English with videos like this is fun and effective. By focusing on real conversations, you’ll build skills that stick. So grab your headphones, hit play, and start practicing—you’ll be sounding more natural in no time!
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.