English Addict ( Quick Fix 20 ) Thursday 28th October 2021- Live Chat from England with Mr Duncan

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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here we are again yes we are back  oh my goodness i can't believe it  
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it only seems like yesterday when i was with you  last in fact it was yesterday here we go then yes  
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we are back together it is another english addict  quick fix coming to you live from a very autumnal
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a rather seasonal england
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what what
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what
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that is what you say normally when something  happens or you hear something you can't believe
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what
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i still can't believe once again we don't have  live captions we had them for around about 10 days  
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and then suddenly they've disappeared again so i  do apologize for the lack of live captions however  
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don't worry there will be captions later on you  can watch this again in its recorded form with  
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captions but i don't know what's happening  at the moment it would appear that youtube
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gives and then takes away they  just can't make up their mind  
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hi everybody this is mr duncan in england  how are you today are you okay i hope so  
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i hope you are feeling good are you happy i  hope you're happy thursday a very strange day  
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it it it's not as exciting as wednesday because  that means you've made it halfway through the week  
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and it's definitely not as exciting as friday i  think friday is probably the most exciting day  
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of the week for most people because it means the  weekend is approaching so i hope you are having  
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a good week my name is duncan i talk about  english i am an english addict and during  
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the month of october i am doing lots of special  live streams to celebrate 15 years on youtube
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and that's it really that's all i need to  say for the rest of this week well certainly  
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tomorrow i will be with you not saturday but  on sunday i will definitely be with you live  
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on sunday with mr steve from 2pm uk time and  of course as i said i'm here tomorrow yes  
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another day of the week has arrived it's thursday
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many people are unhappy today here in the uk
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many people are feeling unhappy today  because yesterday we had the autumn budget  
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that is when the government of  this fair land this green nation
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decides to tell us the plebeians
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how much tax we have to pay for the next few  months a lot of bad news yesterday in the budget  
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we are talking about tax and taxation  today words associated with that  
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it would appear that for the next two or maybe  three generations we will be paying off the debt  
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from the past 20 months which we have  amassed i love that word if you amass  
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something it means you gather something  or something slowly builds up so you amass  
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a debt you amass some sort of deficit deficit so  you might be in profit or you might be in deficit  
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that is money you have spent that you now have  to pay back so apparently we will be paying back  
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and the national debt in this country  at the moment is just over 2 billion  
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pounds no not 2 billion i wish it  was it's more than that 2 trillion  
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i wish it was 2 billion 2 billion would  be easy we could pay that back tomorrow  
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no it's over 2 trillion which apparently is a  record but still not as bad as the united states i  
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think their national debt is something like maybe  eight maybe 10 trillion the united states they are  
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just spending and borrowing money like there is  no tomorrow and for some people there might be no  
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tomorrow so perhaps that's the reason why but here  yes we have we have our wonderful national debt  
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of just over two trillion pounds and apparently  it's going to take many years to pay it back  
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i think it's actually cost more than than paying  for for all of the weapons and everything that  
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we had to build during the second world war i  think it's more than that it's a lot of money  
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so a lot of people waking up this morning not  happy tax will be going up inflation will be  
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going up things will be costing more so when we  talk about inflation we are talking about the way  
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in which prices go up so apparently it's going  to be four percent which might not sound much  
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but when you are going to the shops to buy your  tin of beans or maybe your eggs suddenly the cost  
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will go up so not great to be honest there were a  lot of glum gloomy faces yesterday and of course  
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some of it has been caused by circumstances and  situations that we have no control over and of  
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course we are talking about coronavirus so it has  caused a lot of problems for individuals but also  
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for the government as well i'm sure it is the same  situation around the world but i'm talking about  
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what is happening here because that's where i am  but i'm sure wherever you are things are probably  
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pretty gloomy as well i don't want to talk about  too much gloom today but it was rather sobering
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i love that phrase if something is sobering  
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it means it wakes you up suddenly you realize  the reality of something you suddenly sober up  
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you are very attentive you suddenly  feel 100 percent receptive to what is  
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happening around you you sober up so a lot of  people yesterday feeling gloomy because yeah  
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we are going to be text more and more forever  and ever so i will never see a period of time
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where we are not being taxed because of what  is happening at the moment i won't forever for  
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the rest of my life isn't that lovely that's  good news oh we have the anagram hello anagram  
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i used to go to school with a girl called annie  graham she was a lovely girl today's anagram is  
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there i will give you a clue as usual it is  not one word in fact it is more than one word
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and it consists of five letters four letters  and ten letters so we have three words  
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but they are all separate from  each other in this sentence  
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five letters four letters ten letters so there  it is i will give you the answer later on  
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so get working i'm giving you something to think  about today the rain is coming can you see behind  
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me the rain is heading towards my house so in a  few moments i think it is going to rain heavily  
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we have a lot of rain coming this weekend  i think it's going to be rather soggy
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ricardo says when countries speak about the  national debt who is the owner of the debt  
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well that's very interesting because  when we borrow money in this country  
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the government is actually borrowing the money  
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from the bank of england it doesn't seem right  does it but it's true so the government has to  
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now pay back the money that it's borrowed from  the separate entity known as the bank of england  
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it is confusing because sometimes for some  reason we can just produce money out of thin air
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and then other times we have no money  whatsoever it is rather confusing and i  
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wish mr steve was here if mr steve was here  now he would give us all of the information  
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he would give us the lowdown on why all of this  is happening but basically we owe a lot of money  
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because we've been paying people not to go to work  so many people who would normally go to work have  
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been staying at home and they've been literally  paid to do nothing as if they were at work and all  
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of that money has come from the government  who borrowed it from the bank of england
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i know and guess who has to pay for it go  on can you guess who has to pay for it us
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the great unwashed the peasants must pay for it  
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hello to the live chat i'm not going to  complain too much today even though i seem  
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to be complaining a lot who was first on today's  live chat i wonder let's have a look shall we
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interesting a very interesting state of affairs  
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a very interesting situation taking  place here because it is once again vitas
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i got a little bit too excited  there slightly too excited  
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congratulations vitas yes you are here again  first on the live chat congratulations well done  
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to you we also have shirin  beatriz sandra alexander
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i believe you are watching at the moment  in vietnam nice to see you here as well  
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eagle fly hello eagle fly i think you used to  watch my live streams quite often your name seems  
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familiar eagle fly i think you used to watch  me a long time ago hello also we have marawi
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hello mayory nice to see you  here also we have louis mendes
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is here today and yusra is here we have
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christina jackson we have
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zuzika we are busy very busy at work  chatting today is almost impossible  
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greetings to you all that's okay you can always  listen to me as i mentioned yesterday you don't  
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have to watch you don't have to sit in front of  your computer or your mobile tablet or your device  
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you don't have to do that you can just  listen from far away in another room perhaps
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paulo says i am not an english  addict i am a duncan addict
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i notice there is a new movie come out called june  
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are you going to see it and apparently there  is a character in the movie called duncan
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i wonder if he's named after me i don't know  hello christina nice to see you here as well  
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i'm sorry about the captions i don't know why but  we had we had live captions last week and i have  
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activated them honestly they are working on my  computer however youtube has decided to take them  
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away or i don't know what's happening to be honest  i can't even pretend to know what is happening at  
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the moment with youtube they keep changing their  minds hello beatrice is well hello vineet vinit  
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tomar hello i like your name very interesting  nice to see you here as well hello mayuri
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hello also to shirin who says deficit yes  the deficit we have a big one we have a very  
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big deficit because we've been paying or should i  say the government has been paying lots of people  
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not to go to work because they were  unable to due to lockdown what a crazy  
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what a crazy time to live i can imagine people in  the future maybe 20 or 30 years from now they will  
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be telling their children or their grandchildren  how they lived through the early 2020s people will  
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we'll talk about this for many years to come do  you remember when we had that pandemic in 2020 wow
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we will be sharing our own stories i think ho tron  says i really appreciate what you are doing thank  
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you very much well i try to do my best that is  all i can do i can't do any more than my best  
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although i'm not sure what level my best is is it  high or low i'm not sure i haven't quite decided  
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yet after 15 years i'm still not sure hello also  to claudia claudia nice to see you back as well  
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there are some very useful things in my studio  some of the things that are in my studio  
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things that i use are quite useful there are  other things in my studio that i rarely use  
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or i might use occasionally but here is  something that i use all the time this  
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might be one of the most useful things that i  have in my studio and yet it looks so innocent
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this is something called
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gaffer tape gaffer tape some people call  it insulating tape or insulation tape but  
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this particular tape is very useful in my studio  because quite often things in here will sometimes  
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start to droop or maybe i have to attach one thing  to another so i always find that my tape my sticky  
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tape which we often refer to as gaffer tape or  insulating tape is really useful i can stick this  
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anywhere it's very useful for sticking pieces  of paper maybe i want to hang something from  
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the ceiling temporarily so this is very good for  sticking things together that i want to repair  
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for just a short time or temporarily so is there  something in your life something in your house  
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maybe something in your work that you use all  the time it doesn't have to be a big thing  
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it can be a very simple thing like this so even  though this is a really simple thing i would  
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describe this as a very useful item to have if  you are in a studio a studio environment because  
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there are lots of things that can fall or slip  and sometimes you have to stick things together  
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but you have to do it quickly so maybe you have  some unexpected problem with your equipment  
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sticky tape gaffer tape is very useful so  this is one of the most useful things i have  
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in my studio what about you do you have  something useful that you always have around you  
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what about in the kitchen i think in the kitchen  there are certain things that you use all the time  
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and maybe there are other things that you rarely  use so if i had to think of things that i use a  
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lot in the kitchen i would say my bread knife so  my large bread knife i suppose i use that every  
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day for cutting bread for slicing into the bread  so there are many things that we use all the time  
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many things we use quite often even simple  things like my sticky tape something that  
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is invaluable in my studio if something is  invaluable it means you can't live without it  
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something that you would miss if it wasn't  there so i would say that my my sticky tape  
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is invaluable quite useful hello to johnson  hello mr duncan from hong kong a long time  
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no listen i haven't listened to you for a long  time mr duncan hello johnson shum and welcome  
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back nice to see you here a lot of people on  the live chat christina says my coffee machine
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my coffee machine is often used and is very useful
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maiori says we call it cello tape and  
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scissors so maybe sticky tape general purpose  sticky tape and something i always have nearby
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scissors as well so i often  have scissors nearby sticky tape  
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and scissors two things that i always use and i  often have nearby so yes i suppose sticky tape and  
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scissors two things that i use a lot in an office  environment i would imagine that scissors are used  
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quite a lot i think so shirin this is interesting  shirin says i always clean my bed with sticky tape
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how how do you clean your bed with sticky tape i  am intrigued perhaps i think maybe perhaps you use  
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the sticky side to get dust or crumbs or small  things off the sheets so maybe if there are  
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things that are very small inside your bed or  on a surface maybe you can put some sticky tape  
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on your hand and you keep the sticky side  facing downwards and you just press like that  
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and then all of the small things will stick to the  tape is that what you mean that's a pretty good  
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tip i like that one louis said i couldn't sleep  at all last night due to the third anti-covered  
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vaccine i've got a pain in my left arm the first  two vaccines were medurna and i didn't have any  
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pain the third was pfizer i think sometimes you  can there are other reasons why an injection  
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might hurt sometimes they might strike a muscle or  maybe when they push the needle in it might just  
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be a little bit deeper than it normally is so yes  but that you can you can get a lot of sensitivity  
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i remember the first one that i had my arm was  very sensitive for three or four days afterwards  
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but yes it can happen but there are various  reasons why it can happen also hello to antonio  
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this is a very useful lesson thank you antonio  that's very kind of you to say yes we all send  
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good wishes and a speedy recovery to louis  and also i hope your wife is better as well  
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hello yi yint ung who says my useful  things that i always have nearby  
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laptop i think so i think  it's fair to say especially in
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an office environment i think so phone and also  notebook so when you say notebook do you mean  
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a thing to write your notes down so do you still  use a pen and paper to write things down that's  
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amazing hello to italy from giovanno de leo  hello to you nice to see you back as well latif
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latif says that there appears to be a list of  different types of tape from latif masking tape  
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for covering surfaces especially when you  
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are painting so you don't get paint on  the things that you don't want to paint
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there is flooring tape for covering floors  or joining floors or carpets together  
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there is duct tape duct tape is very  useful duct tape you often see duct tape  
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used in movies when people are being taken hostage  they often put duct tape over a person's mouth
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it looks quite uncomfortable  don't try it at home please  
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hello giovanni hello also to who else  is here oh we have dance hello dance  
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do you like to dance i have to be honest  with you i like to dance in my fancy pants
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i'm sorry about that
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just sometimes sometimes you just  you just need to shake your pants
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like that you see that's better christina  says it's a very strange thing i got the  
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fisa vaccine without problems each of us has  a different reaction depending on our genetics  
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i think it's also it also depends on whether the  needle goes in straight or how deep the needle  
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goes into your arm but we're all doing it and we  are doing it for a good reason so i think it's  
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worth maybe two or three days of pain i think it  is worth it it is much better than the alternative  
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when you think about it much better what is fancy  pants fancy pants can be anything you want if you  
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wear your fancy pants it means you are going out  you are going to a disco maybe you're going to  
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dance with your friends all night perhaps  you are just going into your garden to have  
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a little dance with the birds so it's up  to you really fancy pants can be anything
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see like that that's it it's  simple it's as simple as that
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fancy pants hello yusra hello also rosa celia  last night i had a class of dance and we used  
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halloween props you used  things related to halloween
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next sunday is halloween  not everyone celebrates it  
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not everyone commemorates halloween some  people say that it is just a stupid waste  
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of time some people say that's what they say  i don't say that some people do but i don't  
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but other people do that's what they think  and they are entitled to their opinion
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yesterday as i mentioned at the start of today's  live stream yesterday the nation was clenching  
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its buttocks because the chancellor  the sexy chancellor we have apparently
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the the government official who is in  charge of all the finances for this country  
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apparently a lot of women and maybe some men  like him they say he's very handsome apparently  
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isn't it strange a handsome politician they don't  come along very often but yes today we are talking  
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all about tax because yesterday we  had the budget the budget took place  
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yesterday now normally we normally we normally  normally normally normally normally normally  
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have two budgets each year at the  start of the year the spring budget  
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and the autumn budget so yesterday we had  the autumn budget and what they are doing is
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deciding how much money they have to spend  on all of the things we need but also  
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how much we will have to pay to have our lovely  lifestyle that we are so used to things like  
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running water and electricity and public  transport and also money that will be spent  
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on filling all of the holes in the roads  so all of those sorts of things the budget  
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is a thing that happens it's when the government  announces all of the spending that will take place  
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during the following year but most  people are interested to find out what  
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the government budget has in store because it  means that quite often us the general population  
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the peasants of the land will have to probably  pay more tax and that's exactly what happened  
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so in summary the budget autumn 2021 i suppose  if i had to summarize the situation at the moment  
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uk public spending is at its highest for  decades as a result of measures to support  
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the country during covert 19 the covet  19 pandemic and also brexit as well  
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with the economy in a fragile state the spring  budget in march sought to strike a balance  
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between stimulating economic activity investing  in protective measures and keeping a tight rain  
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on tax rises so that was the  start of the year unfortunately
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well we find ourselves in an interesting  situation at this point in time because things  
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have got worse since spring this year things have  actually got much worse because we've had more  
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problems with coronavirus more people becoming  infected a lot more people taking time off work  
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because of illness and the impact of brexit so  things are actually worse now than they were  
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in spring and that is the reason why it would  appear that we are going to spend a lot of money  
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a lot of tax money that we have  to spend we have to pay for that
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this little box that you see next to  me now so this is where the chancellor  
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and when we say chancellor the chancellor is  the man who is in charge of all the spending  
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in this country he is normally the second  person the second most important person  
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that people normally listen to when he's talking  because quite often when the chancellor is talking  
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it means things are going to change quite often in  a bad way and this is where the chancellor lives  
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he lives at number 11 downing street next door  to the prime minister who lives at number 10  
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i remember the days when you could walk  into downing street you could actually walk  
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down the road and go past number 10 and number  11. you could actually walk past those places  
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now of course you can't because in the 1980s there  were some terrorist attacks on downing street  
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which meant that a large gate had to be put at  the entrance so now you can't but i remember  
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when downing street was was actually open you  could walk into it there was there was some  
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security but not much but now of course because  of terrorism and all sorts of things it is now all  
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closed off christina asks what does tight rain  mean if you have a tight rain it means you keep  
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control you keep strict control over something  you keep a tight rain so it's a little bit like  
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riding a horse apparently the best way  to control a horse is to keep the reins  
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the things that you use to control the  horse with normally using your hands  
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you keep the reins tight because it's better  for controlling the horse when you are riding it  
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and in the same respect or in the same sense  
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keeping a tight rain on something means  that you are keeping control you are making  
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sure everything stays under control you keep a  tight rain so i hope that answers your question
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would you like to see our sexy  chancellor here he is apparently
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apparently our our chancellor of the exchequer the  guy in charge of all of the money the public purse
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this this is him rushi sunak is his name and a  lot of people are saying in the future he will  
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be the next prime minister so a lot of people  seem to think that this guy in the future may  
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or may not be running the country but at the  moment he is the chancellor that means he is  
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in charge of the public purse he is in charge  of public spending and also he decides how much  
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tax and how much revenue we have to pay as well  but all the ladies like him they say oh that  
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rushi sunak he's he's so sexy even though he's  not very tall he's only about five foot three  
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i used to love it when he uh when he gave  the speeches or the questions and answers  
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during the coronavirus meetings and they  used to make him stand on a little box  
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he would put a box in front of the microphone and  he would he would come come up to the microphone  
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and then he would stand on the box like that  so he is the chancellor not to be confused with  
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the leader of certain countries in europe  for example germany has a chancellor  
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but that means the person who actually runs the  country so i would say that it is the equivalent  
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of our prime minister or maybe president so the  chancellor is the person who looks after the money  
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in this country but in some countries  i think germany is a good example  
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the chancellor is the person who actually runs the  country they are in charge and i believe that is
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for maybe the next two or three months  because she is going soon angela merkel  
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she is the current chancellor but not for  much longer because she is going she is  
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going tax no one wants to talk about this  mr duncan why are you talking about tax  
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we don't we don't want to talk about  tax mr duncan everyone has to pay tax  
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but we have to pay it as well you see i wish  i wish i could put all of my money into a  
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swiss bank account and then i i wouldn't  have to pay any tax the only problem is  
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i don't have any money to put into a swiss  bank account that's the big problem hello udom  
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hello mr duncan i miss you and i'm waiting for  you every day i'm waiting for you from the old man  
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in bangkok thailand that's nice thank you  very much lovely to see you here today
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hello mr duncan nice to see you i'm  glad to see you here in india at 7 00 pm  
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the weather is starting to cool cool off good good  i'm glad to hear that a lot of people around the  
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world at the moment living in extreme temperatures  in some places 49 or 50 degrees in some countries  
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i can't imagine that hello ricardo in the past  budgets were balanced between income and expenses  
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today they are a kind of fraud in most countries  because they never fulfil that is true in a way  
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in the united states at the moment  they are currently budgeting  
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for lots of improvements to things like the roads  the railway what we normally call infrastructure  
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i think it's around 3.5 is it 3.5 trillion  they are going to borrow to do all this but  
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there is a problem with this because  quite often when you do this when you  
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give contracts out to companies quite often they  will overcharge they will overcharge for the work  
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so they can make extra profit because  they know that that money is public money  
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they know that they can charge anything and quite  often a lot of that money is taken illegally
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so even if you give money to a country to do  something maybe to repair the roads or make  
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life better you might actually find that  some of that money will be misused or even
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stolen yes and there are  ways of doing it apparently  
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ways that i don't know unfortunately  louis says the uk chancellor is the  
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economic minister he would be an  economic minister in other countries  
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yes well did you know that the prime minister his  official name or title is the first chancellor  
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so boris johnson is actually the first chancellor  and that is actually his official title even  
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though people rarely use it but it is actually if  you look at the front of number 10 downing street  
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where the prime minister often lives on  the letterbox it does actually give the old  
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title the first chancellor which is what  the prime minister would have been called  
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hello to oh hello alessandra again nice to see  you here isn't that nice a lot of people joining  
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in today on the live chat so we are talking  about tax words connected to tax such as this  
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taxation taxation is the practice of  collecting tax so taxation is the level of tax  
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how much tax you are going to take  from the public taxation can be  
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anything that relates to money being taken  to fund the country things that are needed
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another thing that we have of course is income tax  now this is the one that lots of people get very  
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worried about especially when the budget is being  announced income tax that is money that is taken  
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from your salary so when you earn money every  month you have to pay a certain amount of tax  
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people who earn a small amount of money  quite often don't have to pay any tax  
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whilst other people who earn a lot of  money do have to pay tax so it does depend  
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fortunately not everyone has to pay income tax  not everyone so if you are on a very low wage  
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you don't have to pay income tax it's quite nice
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inland revenue
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this is the name this is the word this  is the phrase that a lot of people  
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feel afraid of especially if you get one of those  brown envelopes through your door government  
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letters anything being sent to you by the  government quite often come in brown envelopes  
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the inland revenue they are responsible for  collecting tax and quite a lot of people  
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are afraid of getting letters from  the inland revenue they are the people  
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that will check to make sure that you have  paid your tax and if you haven't guess what  
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they will take you to court and prosecute  you so a lot of people are are afraid  
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or nervous about getting letters from the inland  revenue a big organization in this country
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here's another one customs and excise this is a  little bit more complicated to explain customs  
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and exercise customs and excise are responsible  for collecting tax for things that are imported  
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that are brought into the country so you have  to put a charge on everything that is imported  
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we often call it normally a tax charge or a  customs charge other words we can use of course  
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include levy or duty so this is the amount that  is added on to the price of something i suppose  
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the most common example would be petrol  gasoline so when we think of petrol  
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you pay a certain amount for the petrol but on top  of that there is also duty as well so not only do  
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you have to pay for your petrol you have to pay  tax every time you buy petrol it is always there  
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in the price so that is one of the reasons why  things like petrol will often go up in price not  
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just because of the value of oil but also because  of rising taxation which will be happening i think  
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over the next couple of years i think we are we  are in for a very rough ride with the economy
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here's another one something that is  classed as tax exempt the word exempt  
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means not involved or not included so you are  exempt you don't have to do that thing you have  
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been made exempt you have been excluded from that  thing so tax exempt means you don't have to pay  
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tax you are a lucky person who doesn't have to pay  tax maybe because you're earnings are very low or  
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certain products are also tax exempt we  think about products that are for your  
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health maybe sanitary products they are they are  not charged with tax so there is no tax on certain  
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products quite often involving a person's  health or involving a person staying healthy  
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things that you need to stay healthy are often  exempt from tax there there is no tax added  
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here's another one this is something we all have  to pay in this country we have to pay national  
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insurance and the reason why we pay  this is so when we get old like me  
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soon we can claim our pension so national  insurance is something that is taken from  
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every person it is a form of  tax that allows you to have  
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your pension when you retire from your job when  you stop working and everyone has to pay that  
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including me we all have to pay for our  national insurance and then we will get  
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our pension when we are old and great social  security we have a very good social security  
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system in this country a very good system if you  are unable to work maybe you have a disability  
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or an illness or an injury and you  are unable to work you can claim
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money from the government social security  maybe you have a child but you don't work  
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then you can get social security to help to keep  that child to feed the child and give it clothes  
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and also heat your house so social security is in  place to stop people from becoming well i suppose  
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falling into poverty so social security is  like we often describe it as a safety net  
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so imagine a safety net people falling  and the safety net is there to catch them  
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social security is a safety net for society  to prevent people from falling into poverty  
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to have no money you have no money to buy  food you have no money to heat your house  
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social security is there to help that  person perhaps also you are unemployed  
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maybe you lose your job if you lose your  job you have no income so you can claim  
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social security to help you survive until you find  a new job so i think in this country we do have  
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quite a good social security system even though  there are people who who disagree with some of the  
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rules some of the rules are quite strict and some  people see them as unfair if you are really lucky  
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can you see i'm ending on a happy note so this  is a happy note you might get a tax refund  
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it doesn't happen very often but you might you  might actually get some money back from the  
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government they might give you a tax refund it  can happen sometimes in the unlikely chance or  
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the unlikely event of you paying too much tax they  will give it back they will give you a tax refund
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it doesn't happen very often but you can  actually have a tax refund money is returned  
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to you because you've paid too much tax and i  suppose we should look at the meaning of the word  
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tax why not the word tax comes from the latin word  meaning to charge and perhaps from the greek word  
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for fix so we are sure that it comes from latin  but we're not sure whether or not it comes from  
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greek but we think it might be related to the  greek word for fix to tax to charge you charge  
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all of the people that live in a certain place  in a certain country or maybe if you are buying  
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something quite often you will have to pay tax  on top of that it is something that we can't  
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do anything about i believe there is a famous  quote two things in life that are inevitable  
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death and tax apparently you  can't avoid either of those things
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i hope you've enjoyed today's live stream  and i suppose i should mention that tomorrow  
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it's the last one the end tomorrow tomorrow is the  last english addict quick fix because it's friday  
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and i'm not with you on saturday oh  mr duncan why do you have to do this  
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why do you have to leave us in such a terrible  way but don't worry i'm with you on saturday  
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i'm sorry sunday not saturday mr duncan  get it right please you're a professional  
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sometimes sunday i'm with you on sunday 2 p.m  uk time as we celebrate 15 years on youtube
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it doesn't seem real i'm going to be honest with  
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you whenever i say that it doesn't  seem real that i've been doing this  
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for 15 years i can't believe it i really don't  believe it i can't believe it i don't believe it
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thank you alessandra thank you rakesh thank  you also beatrice oyem oim also oh adi hello  
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adi nice to see you here as well don't forget you  can watch this again later this will be available  
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later with captions apologies once again  there are no live captions i don't know why
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as i always say youtube  giveth and youtube taketh away
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that's one of the things i've had to get  used to over the past 15 years thank you  
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very much i'm going now it's coming up to three  o'clock and i'm going to get something to eat  
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and then i'm going to watch the live chat on  this live stream so i can catch up with all  
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the messages because sometimes i can't see all of  your messages so i will be looking at the messages  
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on the live chat in a moment before i go  what is the answer to the anagram mr duncan  
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there it is there it is i gave  you a clue we had three words
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the number of words five four and ten  although i didn't really see any answers today  
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i can only assume that you were really  enjoying everything i was saying you was  
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you were concentrating so much you didn't even  hear the anagram you didn't even have time  
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to solve it here it is then here is the answer  to today's anagram something you must do when  
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you are learning english a good piece of advice  i think and here it is build your vocabulary  
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build your vocabulary try to learn some new  words every day you have to build your word  
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power so when we say vocabulary we mean  your word power and there it was today's
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super duper anagram that's it it's almost  time to go thank you mr duncan for this  
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interesting lecture thank you bab nice to see  you and i will see you tomorrow yes tomorrow  
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it's friday are you excited i hope so i'm  going to leave you with something different  
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i always like to leave you with  something a little different today
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i haven't quite decided what i'm going to show  you maybe i will show you a couple of things  
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first of all we will have a look at mr steve  in the rain because it is raining today  
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you may have noticed behind me we've had a lot of  rain falling today so i will leave you with that  
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and also maybe something funny as well mr steve  and myself building sandcastles on the beach see  
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you tomorrow take care this is mr duncan in the  birthplace of english saying thanks for watching  
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it's been a busy one i hope you've enjoyed it  and i will see you again tomorrow and of course  
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until the next time we meet here you know what's  coming next yes you do tomorrow 2 p.m uk time
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to ta for now
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