It's FABuary 13th / 28 days of Learning English / LIVE chat from England - Complain

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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yes we are here again oh hello there how nice to see you here today have you washed your
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hands are you wearing your mask i really really hope so here we are again yes we are all together
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at the weekend isn't it nice and this is day 13 of 28 days of february how are you today
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has the echo gone the echo has gone now don't worry
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hi everybody this is mr duncan in england how are you today are you okay i hope so are
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you happy i hope so i've had a busy 10 minutes i've been trying to solve my rubik cube and
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look i've done it aren't i clever isn't that amazing it only took me 10 minutes to do this
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incredible so here we are for those wondering what this is maybe you are flicking around
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the internet on your saturday and you are wondering what shall i do i know what i'm
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going to go onto the internet and i'm going to go to youtube and i'm going to find something
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to watch well this is something to watch whether or not it is interesting is for you to decide
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my name is duncan i talk about english i've been doing this forever such a long time how
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long have you been doing this for mr duncan oh thank you for asking i've been doing this
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for nearly 15 years so there we go now you know and we are live today in fact we are
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live every day during february until the end of the month i'm with you live every day for
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an hour and yes i am with you again today i'm not sure how many people are going to
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be here today i can already see that there are not many people watching at the moment
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so i might as well go back to bed bye everyone ta ta for now.
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no not really but this weekend yes there are a lot of celebrations taking place of course
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because yesterday it was the first day of the lunar new year so i would imagine there
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are many people still celebrating the arrival of the new lunar year so just in case you
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are watching now maybe you are watching the replay can i say a very happy new lunar year
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to you
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so maybe you weren't with me yesterday maybe you didn't see yesterday's live stream so
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for those who have joined me today maybe you are still celebrating your lunar new year
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well can i say once again happy new year to you i hope you have a super duper year of
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the ox isn't it nice so can we have no ball i don't want any bull during this year by
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the way when we say bull we we mean we don't want we don't want any lying we don't want
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any misleading we don't want to be misled don't tell lies don't make up things that
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aren't real no bull during ox year that's nice i think that's a good idea oh hello everyone
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yes we have made it to the weekend it is the weekend the first day of the weekend how are
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you spending your day yes it's true it's saturday
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yes it's saturday and we are here again and i hope you are having a good one how is your
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weekend so far i hope it's okay here it is windy i think if i had to describe the weather
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here today in england it is windy very windy incredibly cold now i know what you're going
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to say mr duncan you keep complaining about how cold it is but it is very cold today even
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the weather forecasters the people giving you the weather forecast even they are looking
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unhappy and you always know that the weather is going to be bad when the weather forecast
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is presented by someone with this expression on their face
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you know the weather is going to be bad so outside at the moment yes it's windy it's
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it's a little misty and i think later on we might be getting some snow however the temperature
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at the moment here in england it is only
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it is seven below zero here in much wenlock seven degrees below zero minus seven at the
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moment outside it really does feel cold windy everything is is quite unpleasant and can
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we say a little hello to mr steve because at the moment mr steve is walking around much
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wenlock town centre doing some shopping he's going into the shops because now of course
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we are not allowed to go in groups you are only allowed to go into the shop if you are
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on your own so i can't go with mr steve into the shop so we can only go one person at a
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time unfortunately so there it is the weather today murky freezing cold you can always tell
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when it's cold because you don't see any birds can you see any birds no that's because there
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are no birds around that's how cold it is outside at the moment you always know that
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the weather is bad when you don't see the birds and at the moment there are no birds
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outside hello live chat is there anyone there at the moment on the live chat i'm not sure
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i know many people at the moment are still celebrating the lunar new year i think so
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we might not have many people here because of course it's saturday as well and perhaps
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you have other things to do maybe some other commitments today we are talking about complaining
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oh now if there's one thing that the english are very good at doing we are very good at
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complaining we complain about everything just me if there is one characteristic of the english
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man or english lady it is their ability to complain about almost everything the weather
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the buses the trains their neighbours their pet their husband their wife
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maybe they don't have enough clothes to wear maybe you want something new and you can't
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afford to buy it perhaps you will complain about it maybe you will complain because you
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want something that you can't have and you keep complaining oh it's not fair it's not
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fair i want it i want it now we live in an age where people want things straight away
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this is the age of instant gratification oh mr duncan that is an interesting word gratification
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if you have gratification it is pleasure it is pleasure that you are receiving or you
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are feeling the pleasure from an experience that you are having self gratification you
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do something steady steady no we will have none of that can you please keep your thoughts
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pure self-gratification you gratify yourself by buying something new or maybe doing something
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that gives you pleasure no stop it i know what you're doing out there please stop those
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thoughts right now hello live chat nice to see you here yes there are people on the live
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chat thank goodness for that or else to be honest i wouldn't have a live stream i would
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i would just be standing here talking to myself
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poor mr steve is outside walking around the town buying some jaffa cakes for me some bananas
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for himself he always walks around town with a little shopping list in his hand do you
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do that when you go shopping if you go shopping in person around the supermarket do you ever
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take a little list with you do you write things down on a piece of paper and then you write
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all the things that you need all the things that you really need however when you return
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home you always find that there's something you've forgotten always whatever it is you
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can go with your shopping list to the supermarket but i can guarantee when you get back home
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there will be at least one thing that you've forgotten i think so hello vitas oh welcome
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back vitas i can see that you have been resting your finger your finger is very strong very
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powerful
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i think vitesse your finger is full of energy today because you are first on today's live
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chat
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well done vitas nice to see you here first on the live stream today racer also also oh
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i can see louis mendes thank you lewis for your message concerning next tuesday can i
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just say next tuesday it is pancake day and also next tuesday it is mr steve's birthday
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oh very nice but sadly lewis will not be here hello also sandra alfian also we have vittoria
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hello to you oh by the way tomorrow we are looking at some of your photographs on the
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live stream tomorrow myself and also mr steve will be here unless of course he he's caught
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pneumonia after walking around the freezing cold town centre also we have alex hello alex
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nice to see you here as well gigi hello gigi kane nice to see you again thank you very
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much for joining me once more on the live stream zika
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hello today i am watching you whilst riding a bike i am breathing the fresh air through
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the mountain and i really can't complain that sounds wonderful do you know people are taking
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up outdoor activities more and more and i think one activity that people are doing more
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is cycling cycling has become very popular because it is something you can do by yourself
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outside and of course you can stay away from other people so if you are cycling you are
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moving all the time and you are getting lots of fresh air cycling has become quite popular
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over the past year during all of the restrictions
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apparently roller skating i don't know how true this is but apparently roller skating
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has also become very popular over the past year mirella is here also we have oh hello
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hello i don't know what don't you know is there a particular thing is there a certain
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thing that you don't know or maybe you don't know anything i don't know because i don't
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know you only you know you i don't know you
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hello florence hello also joe carl hello to
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farrah farrar mr duncan has a very beautiful voice why thank you very much nice good morning
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everyone guadalupe hello guadalupe nice to see you back as well we have people joining
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now that's good
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marietta is complaining already
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mr duncan i can't stand having to wait yes a lot of people these days are quite impatient
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now i'm not criticizing you but i'm just saying these days a lot of people do like to have
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things quickly we don't like to wait for things one of the things that always surprises me
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is when people talk about modern technology things like mobile phones or or tablet devices
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and they always say oh my phone my phone is so slow when i want to open a picture or watch
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a video on my phone my phone is so slow it takes it takes 10 seconds to open the photograph
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as if they are having to wait forever 10 seconds is nothing and yet people complain about it
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they say oh my phone is slow oh it takes it takes nearly 10 seconds to open my photographs
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oh it's so slow 10 seconds this is not slow it's quick it's amazing it's incredible try
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and imagine what it was like being on the internet in 1999 i was using the internet
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in 1999 and can i just say it was terrible you because we only had about 56 kilobytes
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of speed and you had to dial on your phone to use the internet
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i used to do that and then you would have to wait for ages before it connected
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you couldn't play videos it used to take ages for a photograph to open on the computer screen
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do you remember that are you one of the early users of the internet it would take about
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five minutes to open a photograph and you would have to go away and then come back and
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then the photograph would still be opening very slowly who remembers the early days of
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the internet oh wasn't it fun
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before youtube before facebook before twitter before everyone started tearing each other's
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hair and eyes out arguing over everything the early days of the internet was a wonderful
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place even though everything was very slow it used to take a very long time for things
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to happen on the internet so today we are talking all about
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i've just noticed something it's starting to snow outside oh yes i think it is trying
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to snow is that snow i think it is it's either snow or it's my eyebrow dandruff because i
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have terrible eyebrow dandruff i was talking about this the other day so is that snow you
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can see or is it my dandruff falling in front of my eyes from my eyebrows i don't know yes
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i think it is it's starting to snow outside oh wonderful that almost deserves do you know
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what that deserves i think that deserves a fancy pants
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that's enough no more we can't have too much excitement it is saturday after all we are
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supposed to be resting that's what we should be doing today in a few moments we are talking
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about making complaints complaining do you know someone who complains they are always
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complaining about something they always have a complaint
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to make and there are many words many phrases many ways of describing a person and also
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the action of complaining and as i said earlier no one enjoys complaining more than the english
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we complain about everything in the winter we complain that it's too cold in the summer
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we complain that it's too hot when we go on holiday we complain that the weather is too
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dry and the food is not the same as the food that you get back home we always complain
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about things we always do especially when we go abroad english people and quite often
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i suppose british people complain all the time when they go abroad i think so so yes
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it's true we do like to complain here in england
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valentin is talking about the early days of the internet now i wasn't going to talk about
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this but it is an interesting subject the early days of the internet do you remember
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the early days of the internet when you had to connect your computer to your telephone
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line and it would take ages for anything to happen and you're right valentin says just
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opening a website locate located in australia was like a little journey yes you are right
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and it was very strange isn't it it wasn't it it was very strange doing that going onto
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the internet so i remember when people started getting computers in their houses and suddenly
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it seemed like a whole revolution was taking place suddenly we could we could just find
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things look things up get information
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i know what you're thinking i don't know what's wrong with you today your mind your brain
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it's so dirty naughty naughty
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racer says yes i remember those sounds when i used to dial up for my internet
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connection hello
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the landscape is beautiful with snow yes it is trying to snow at the moment the forecast
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today is for snow and it looks as if we might be getting some snow
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oh pedro belmont is here pedro belmont is here today hello pedro i have a wonderful
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photograph i have a wonderful picture mr duncan my cousin is a nurse who is in the photograph
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vaccinating my old grandmother well if you want to send that photograph to me i can show
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it tomorrow we will be looking at some photographs some pictures and also your creative art as
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well tomorrow so i will be with you tomorrow as well
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christina says the human being is always dissatisfied and is always complaining about something
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or everything it is true yes but i think that it would be fair to say that english people
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do complain a lot we like to complain when we go out maybe we go to a restaurant and
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maybe the food isn't very good it isn't very nice perhaps and we complain about the food
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never go out with a gay person by the way to a restaurant i can guarantee if you ever
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ever this is just a thing that i'm going to say now so please don't shout at me but if
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you ever go if you ever go to a restaurant with a with maybe a gay person or a gay couple
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you must expect some complaints about the food or the service so that's it that's all
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i'm saying just a little thing there just a little heads up
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because it will happen trust me have you had your jab yet no i haven't had anything stuck
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in me yet no needles no jabs nothing yet i had my flu vaccine a few weeks ago but i haven't
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had my corona vaccine yet no i haven't
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apparently there is news coming through at the moment that there is an earthquake okay
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does anyone know about the earthquake there is something coming through at the moment
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if anyone knows anything please let me know on the live chat so i hope it's nothing serious
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but yes one or two people are talking about an earthquake i'm not sure where it's happened
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but i'm sure someone will tell me thank you very much for joining me today nice to see
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you we are talking about making complaints making complaints there is a big complaint
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that a lot of people will be making tomorrow do you know what it is tomorrow i think a
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lot of people will be complaining that they didn't receive a valentine's card
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hmm tomorrow valentine's day are you going to get a valentine's card i'm not even sure
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if i'm going to get one to be honest i don't think anyone is going to send one to me i
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remember a few years ago when i was in china i did get some valentine's cards and i never
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found out who they were from
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i had a lot of people wanting to date me when i was in china i don't know why i mean look
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look at this would you want to date this i don't think so
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hello to the live chat tomorrow yes valentine's day and i will be here with mr steve and we
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will be talking all about valentine's day tomorrow showing your photographs as well
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and also your creative artwork coming up tomorrow can i just mention that i have today made
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a big change on my youtube channel i have changed the name of my channel so it used
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to be speak english with mr duncan but today i have changed the name of my youtube channel
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officially to english addict so that now is the name there it is there is the name of
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my youtube channel it will be known from now on as english addict so it used to be called
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speak english with mr duncan but now english addict so that has changed today for those
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who are wondering what that is all about well because my live streams are called english
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addict that is why i've done that we will be talking about complaining complaining about
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things so i thought i would show you an excerpt from one of my english lessons where i talk
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all about making complaints and then after this we will look at some phrases some words
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connected to complaining
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you know the world of english is a fun and exciting place to be i'm so glad you could
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join me for another lesson
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hi everybody this is mr duncan in england how are you today are you okay i hope so are
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you happy i hope so in this lesson we will look at a common social action that most of
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us will find ourselves doing from time to time making
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a complaint
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hmm
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the word complaint is a noun and means a statement that is made concerning something which is
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unsatisfactory or not to your liking you say that you are not happy about the quality of
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something you show your disappointment verbally there are many words connected to complaint
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or complain such as criticize gripe grumble object moan protest whimper and whinge
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excuse me a moment i'm a little thirsty
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that hit the spot when you complain to someone we say that you make a complaint you put forward
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your complaint you draw attention to a problem you have found a fault you show your dissatisfaction
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there are two ways of making a complaint you can make it in a nice way or you can make
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it in a rude way
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nice ways to make a complaint excuse me this food does not taste right could i have another
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meal sent to me instead
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i have found a fault with this shirt could i please replace it with another one
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i'm not happy with the cable tv service you are providing i would like to have it disconnected
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please
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rude ways to make a complaint
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what do you call this food it tastes disgusting get me the manager now
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look at this shirt it's rubbish how can you sell this junk this cable tv service of yours
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is awful i hate it come and take it away
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when a person complains in a rude way we can say that they create a fuss kick up a storm
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make a scene cause a commotion protest out loud blow the whole thing out of
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ooh proportion what i've just found on the floor broccoli do you like broccoli it is
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always best to make a complaint in a calm and polite way as being rude will only make
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the situation much worse and you could find yourself with a much larger and more serious
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problem to deal with
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after making the complaint you will normally receive an instant response especially if
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you are making it directly in front of the other person of course if you are making the
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complaint in writing then you may have to wait for a long time before your complaint
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is handled or resolved
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when you receive a complaint you will usually deal with it or handle it as quickly as possible
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you want to make the complaint go away you wish to resolve the complaint you would like
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to put the problem right you try to placate the person making the complaint
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for example oh i am so sorry about that please allow me to bring you another meal oh i'm
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terribly sorry i will fetch you a new shirt from our stockroom right now i'm sorry to
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hear that you are not happy with our cable tv service maybe we can offer you some different
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channels instead
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we can also make a general complaint about things around us for example the weather oh
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it's too cold today i really do not like winter we can complain about our job oh my boss makes
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me work too hard i need a holiday you can even make a complaint about yourself oh i
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really hate my nose it's far too long
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you can never find the end of this there is another definition of the word complaint that
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means you have an illness or you feel sick and unwell normally relating to a certain
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part of the body for example a stomach complaint or an ear complaint i think you should go
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and see a doctor
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making a complaint is a normal occurrence and happens very often but it is best not
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to complain too much about things or you may find yourself being called names such as old
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winger nit-picker or moaning mini sadly i have to leave you now but please do not complain
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because i will see you all again very soon i promise this is mr duncan in england saying
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tata for now
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don't panic don't worry don't complain please i'm not going just yet you will be pleased
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to hear or maybe not
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so here we are then oh hello there are you are you feeling like you want to complain
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about something today i'm just sucking on the suite by the way mr steve has just returned
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and he's he's brought some sweets to ease my poor throat because i'm speaking every
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day and i think my throat is starting to become worn so mr steve has brought some of these
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lovely sweets to help my throat i won't show you what they are no more advertising on my
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channel unless you pay me so thank you mr steve isn't that nice but sadly mr steve is
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a very busy mr steve today so that's the reason why he's not here we will not be playing spot
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the white van today because well basically that's the view outside at the moment it's
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snowing we have snow everyone the snow is falling all around and yes it is official
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we are having some snow now in england what about where you are how is the weather where
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you are weather um that's interesting because a lot of people like complaining about things
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and one thing that we like to complain about here in england is the weather we are always
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moaning and complaining but what about you do you like to complain do you like to make
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complaints do you like to moan about things so that's what we're talking about today we
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are talking about complain the subject complain you complain you protest about something something
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you find objectionable something you don't like you can describe as a complaint so today
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we are looking at making complaints you might make a complaint against someone so i might
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make a complaint against my neighbour
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you might lodge a complaint lodge that's interesting so if you put forward something if you make
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a complaint we can say that you lodge a complaint so if the complaint is lodged it means it
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is also recorded maybe someone will write the complaint down or maybe you will send
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a letter to someone lodging a complaint so you are putting your complaint forward and
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we often describe that as lodging your complaint here's another word quite often if a person
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likes to complain we say they moan
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oh it's not fair oh oh i hate going to work oh why do i have to go to my my grandparents
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house today i want to just stay in bed oh why do i have to do a live stream on youtube
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i don't want to i want to just stay in bed and relax moan so if you complain we can say
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that you moan about things moan another word we can use is whinge whinge i like that word
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if you whinge about something it means that you complain you always complain about something
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you always whinge you always go on and on complaining about something oh it's not fair
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oh i don't want to go to work today oh my boss is always mean to me why does my boss
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always pick on me oh oh i don't like my work colleagues they are so annoying oh oh my wife
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last night she kept whinging complaining and moaning about all of her friends and their
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new new outfits and their new clothes
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here's another word you complain you whinge you moan you bleat
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interesting you bleat like a sheep
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so you bleat you are constantly complaining about things i made myself laugh then that
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doesn't happen very often so if you bleat it means you moan you complain you make a
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fuss about what is going on around you or something that's happening in your life here's
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another one grumble grumble you grumble about things you complain we often think that people
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over a certain age like to grumble and i suppose so yes people will complain they will grumble
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with each other they will grumble quite often we think of elderly people always grumbling
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young children today young people oh they're so rude oh i was on the bus the other day
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and there was this young man sitting near me and he was listening to his radio he had
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his radio and it was playing very loud music very noisy you grumble about things general
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complaints we can say that you grumble here's an interesting one belly ache if you bellyache
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to bellyache is to complain moan grumble bleat whinge you bellyache about something it means
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you go on and on complaining and moaning about the same thing you bellyache oh i like this
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one so this word is very interesting because when a baby a newborn baby or a very young
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baby and let's face it i've never met an elderly baby i've only ever met young babies
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but a baby when when its teeth start to come through it will start crying a lot it will
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always cry
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we can say that that baby is griping griping so when a baby keeps crying maybe its teeth
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are starting to come through and it can be quite painful for the baby if they are teething
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they will gripe or maybe they have a bad stomach maybe they have a bad stomach maybe their
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stomach is hurting and the baby is not very happy about the situation they will gripe
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and also a person an adult can also gripe about things as well
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here's another one we're talking about complaining a person that complains they bemoan oh now
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this is a rather fancy word i must say very nice bemoan if you bemoan something it means
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you are criticizing it you are complaining about it you are making complaints or you
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are complaining about one particular thing
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you might oh i like these words nag nag
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if you nag it means you complain you always complain maybe you will nag your husband or
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perhaps your husband will nag you nag you constantly complain about something quite
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often one particular thing so perhaps perhaps your husband came home from a night out very
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late and when he gets home you say what time do you call this what time do you call this
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it's two o'clock in the morning where have you been have you been out with your friends
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again and we say that that person is nagging nag something that won't stop complaining
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something that won't stop saying things criticizing moaning whinging
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grumbling griping you nag someone we could also use the word harris as well or harass
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harris harass you nag you harass someone you complain all the time to them about something
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berate oh now this is an interesting word if you berate someone it means also that you
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complain to them you always complain about something you berate that person i suppose
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a similar word we can use is criticize you criticize someone you are always finding something
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to complain about maybe about an individual or a person you will complain you will criticize
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oh you always look so scruffy oh i don't like the way you look today your clothes they look
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old and i think you smell as well you are complaining about that person complaining
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about their behaviour or their appearance you criticize someone or something
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a person that does this might be described as a moaning mini oh please stop complaining
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you are such a moaning mini a moaning mini is a person who won't stop complaining they
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are always complaining about things of course there are two types of complaint there is
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a complaint that might be justified can you see the word there justified so when we say
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justified it means that thing is reasonable it is something that can be accepted it is
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an acceptable thing it is justified you will accept that complaint because you think it
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is reasonable that is a reasonable complaint your complaint seems fair it is justified
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so a complaint can be justified it means that you have the right to complain about that
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thing you do and then we have the opposite which is unjustified so if something is unjustified
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it means it is unfair you are complaining about something unfairly it is unjustified
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it is not acceptable it is a complaint that can't be accepted
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here's another one you might be described as a fussy person a person who is fussy you
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might be sitting in a restaurant as you saw earlier in my video clip you might be sitting
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in a restaurant and you might be very fussy about the food some people are very fussy
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about certain things they are fussy about their clothes they are fussy about the things
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they eat they are fussy about the places they stay perhaps a hotel maybe they will constantly
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complain about the hotel oh i'm sorry i have to make a complaint well when i went into
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my room i noticed that there was a hair in the bed
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that happened to me once i stayed at a hotel once and when i i pulled the sheets back on
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the bed there was a hair there was a there was a hair
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it wasn't straight
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did i complain no i didn't i just brushed it away and jumped in so no problem
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do not complain too much or else you might be described as a fussy person a person who
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is always complaining is fussy perhaps you will describe that person as picky so if a
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person is picky it means they are very fussy they will choose things very carefully they
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are very fussy about what they like the things that they like and if you give them something
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they don't like they will complain they will make a big complaint they will make a fuss
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about it a picky person is a person who complains about things they are very fussy very particular
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you might say that someone who likes to complain is not easily pleased some people are have
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you ever met someone who always complains as i mentioned earlier i have been to restaurants
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with friends
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i'm not saying who but i remember a few years ago mr steve and myself we went out with a
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couple of friends
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and they were the fussiest people i've ever known so this was the first time we actually
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went out for a meal with these friends we knew them but we'd never been for a meal with
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them and we couldn't believe how often they complained about the food they kept sending
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everything back it was so embarrassing no no no what's this oh no no i'm sorry no no
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oh oh no this is terrible oh no this this meat is awful now i'm sending it back uh waiter
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waiter please i'm sorry what's this i asked for medium rare but this steak is well done
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i don't want a well done steak i want my steak medium rare please send it back send it back
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i don't like it
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not easily pleased you might also say that that person is not easy to please it is not
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easy to please them it is very hard to make them happy it is hard to satisfy them quite
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often in relationships some people complain that their partner is very fussy and it can
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happen quite often you might say that nothing is ever good enough sometimes whatever you
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do whatever you say if you try to do the right thing if you try to to make changes that are
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better nothing is ever good enough for some people some people will always make complaints
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they will always complain whatever the situation and whatever is happening and there it was
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today's topic complaining do you like to complain have you ever complained about anything have
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you ever made a fuss maybe you've stayed at a hotel
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and you've had a similar problem to me you see or maybe you've stayed in a hotel and
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maybe the towels in the bathroom were dirty or maybe the toilet hadn't been cleaned properly
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you see
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i'm just watching some pigeons fighting
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there were some pigeons fighting in the snow just it was very embarrassing very embarrassing
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moments of time you are right yes it is possible to have all sorts of embarrassing situations
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i am not
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going to lie how is your biscuit oh yes i still have my
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chocolate biscuit for those asking i have a chocolate biscuit and this is the chocolate
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biscuit that i've been eating since the start of this month and yes i still have it i think
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it's still fresh i don't know but here we go
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this is my biscuit i've been eating this biscuit for the past 12 days and today is day 13.
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so i'm going to have a little bit of my biscuit even though the chocolate is melting because
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of all of my hot studio lights but i will have a little bit a little bite a little nibble
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of my biscuit hmm
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it's okay it's still fresh
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the only problem is the chocolate is starting to melt
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i have a feeling this is the the only hot room in the house or it might be the hottest
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room in the house at the moment tomec says if i were you i wouldn't admit to hanging
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out with such terrible people well you will be pleased to hear that we don't know those
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people anymore it was a long time ago sometimes you have to be a little bit fussy especially
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when it comes to choosing your friends sometimes you have to be careful oh look i can't believe
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it it's snowing outside at the moment on a saturday afternoon and you can see there is
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a little pigeon sitting in the tree it doesn't look very happy i think that pigeon is probably
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freezing cold because it is freezing cold outside very cold indeed thanks for watching
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today thank you also for your memories from the early days of the internet we might talk
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about that again tomorrow by the way because that's a good subject i like that sometimes
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when i'm doing these live streams i will bring up a subject that i didn't plan to actually
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talk about so the the early days of the internet who remembers the early days the olden days
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when youtube was in black and white and silent so in the early days of youtube you could
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only watch silent movies did you know that charlie chaplin he was the first youtuber
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it's true what is fussy a fussy person is a person who always complains they want everything
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to be perfect they are fussy they are very choosy they always want things in a certain
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way they want a high standard of everything and they want to have everything their way
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so a person who is fussy is a person who wants everything to be perfect for them
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guzao says i am in london but it is not snowing right now no it isn't where you are but here
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it is definitely snowing and i will show you the snow in a few moments it is really snowing
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now amazing it's also freezing cold i will be back with you tomorrow see you tomorrow
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and yes don't forget tomorrow
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tomorrow it is valentine's day so i will see you tomorrow for valentine's day love
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love is in the air everywhere i look around love is in the air in every site and every
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sound tomorrow from 2pm uk time see you tomorrow i hope you've enjoyed this we are showing
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your photographs tomorrow also your art and also we have mr steve here as well and the
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big question is will i receive a valentine's card or any gifts we will have to wait and
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see see you tomorrow i will leave you with something lovely and romantic
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2 p.m uk time is when i'm with you tomorrow this is mr duncan in the birthplace of english
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saying thanks for watching on this saturday afternoon here in the uk and of course until
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tomorrow we have two hours tomorrow by the way two hours mr steve will be here as well
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and of course until the next time we meet whenever it were maybe whenever and wherever
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you know what's coming next yes you do
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ta ta for now
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