It's February 22nd / 28 days of Learning English / LIVE chat from England - Old Wives' Tales

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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Look
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at that i have a good feeling about today's live stream i feel really good i have a lovely
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tingling sensation up my right leg i think everything is going to be quite nice today
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look out the window look how beautiful the weather is right now here in england at three
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minutes past two o'clock it is absolutely gorgeous outside i i nearly went outside i
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was going to do my live stream outside but it was a little bit noisy unfortunately so
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i decided to stay in the studio but there it is the sun is out the sky is almost blue
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everything is looking rather nice i must say welcome everyone here we are once again it
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is another special live stream during my 28 days of february how are you today
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here we go again oh it only seems like 24 hours ago since i was last here in fact in
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fact it was 24 hours ago since i was last here hi everybody this is mr duncan in england
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how are you today are you okay i hope so are you happy i really hope you are feeling happy
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today it's very nice outside quite mild the weather is looking lovely it is i want to
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say spring-like but the problem is as soon as i say that i know the weather will turn
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back so i'm not going to say that all i'm going to say is the weather is very nice today
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it's nice outside and that's all i'm saying i'm not going to make any reference to spring
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i'm not going to say that spring is coming because i always i always know that as soon
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as i say that the weather goes back to being really horrible so i am here my name is duncan
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i talk about the english language i've been doing this forever such a long time
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how long have you been doing it for mr duncan well thank you very much for asking i've been
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doing this for nearly 15 years oh that's a very long time do you ever get bored doing
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it not really no i enjoy doing it what about your live streams do you do very many well
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at the moment i'm doing 28 during the month of february you see or should i say fab you
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weary that's a very good title did you think of it yourself yes i did i thought of my title
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all on my own oh you are very creative i must say you're very clever really thank you very
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much that's very kind of you to say i can't do that anymore so now you know why i'm here
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we talk about english we are all fans of the english language yes we are mr duncan we love
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the english language so much yes we do
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okay i will stop that now i'm stopping it right now yes it is a brand new week a new
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week is here it is all fresh it is lovely it smells delicious like a like a freshly
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baked loaf of bread yes it's monday
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we are back together again and yes it is a new week monday is here oh fancy pants not
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yet i think it's too early to have fancy pants on a sad note we only have six more days there
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you can see six more days only six more badges to go on my hat that's all we have left of
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this month and then march will arrive and then there will be no more february what are
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we going to do what are we going to do mr duncan without february we're all going to
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be so lonely and afraid no don't worry about it don't worry you'll be fine because i will
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still be here with you live just not every day
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hello to the live chat a lot of people here today nice to see you once again oh this is
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very interesting a very interesting moment of time as i reveal the person who was first
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on today's live chat i think he might be the champion of finger clicking he has a very
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fast finger he has the fastest clicking finger in the world you have to be careful how you
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say that yes vitas guess what you are first on today's live chat
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well done very nice yesterday by the way i was showing you some old photographs i am
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fascinated and this is something i don't think i've mentioned this before but i am fascinated
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by very old photographs there is there is a guy on twitter who often posts very old
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photographs that he has restored and they look amazing they look as if they were taken
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yesterday but some of them were actually taken 100 120 years ago a very long time but they
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look as if they've just been taken and he's very clever i can't remember his name but
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apparently there is a a process where you can take old photographs and i think they
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have to be processed in a certain way i think they have to be be glass slides so in the
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early days of photography they didn't use film they used other methods including glass
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so they they were like large glass slides and that's how they produced photographs so
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this guy on twitter he posts lots of restored and well all i can say is the way he does
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it is amazing and i have this very strong fascination for old photographs i love looking
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at things on photographs especially places that i'm familiar with maybe the area in which
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i grew up or maybe the street in which i lived as a child so old photographs i don't know
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why they always bring a wonderful sense of nostalgia because you are seeing something
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that is real in front of you but maybe the thing in the photograph no longer exists so
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yesterday i did show an interesting photograph of the last steam train leaving this place
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where i live much wenlock i also showed you another photograph as well of the old square
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so i've actually found another photograph here of the same place so this believe it
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or not is actually the square the the town square in much wenlock and there it is so
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this is now i have worked out with a little bit of help from mr steve that this might
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be the early 1980s this might be 1982 or 83 but apparently it is at the early 1980s and
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the reason why we know this is because
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of the car and as you know mr steve is a big fan of cars so there it is you might not realize
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that that is actually the the town square in much wenlock before they started building
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all of the new shops and these days the town square looks amazing would you like to see
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a comparison so there there it is now the photograph of the square in which wenlock
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the main meeting place although in the 1980s the town square was just a parking space but
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new buildings were constructed and there you can see now this is actually part of the construction
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or reconstruction of the town square so you can see you might recognize some of those
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shops you might actually recognize those buildings so they were being built during the time this
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photograph was taken i will give you the old photograph again just so you have a comparison
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there it is so there it was originally and here it is being constructed so the town square
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here in much wenlock has changed quite a lot over the years here is another photograph
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this is the photograph i showed you yesterday and i'm now going to show you what it looks
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like now just to give you a an idea of the comparison so we we make a comparison we give
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a comparison we are showing two things and we are highlighting or discussing the differences
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between them so here is the comparison so there it is way back in the 1980s much wenlock
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the town square and here it is now so this is what it looks like now oh look at that
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mr duncan how did you do that it's almost as if you have a time machine i don't i just
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have some photographs nothing quite as elaborate but the thing to notice take a take a close
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look at the shop that is on the right so you can see there is a shop with a sign above
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the door but take a close look because if you go back to the 1980s the shop is still
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the same there it is so the shop hasn't changed so that shop you can see on the right has
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not changed at all since the 1980s not at all in fact it is still the same shop and
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the same owner so there you can see i find these sorts of things very fascinating i love
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looking at old photographs and i like looking at pictures of buildings perhaps buildings
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that are no longer around maybe they've been demolished to demolish something is to destroy
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something you knock something down you destroy it so i hope you enjoyed that i did get a
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lot of response yesterday quite a few replies when i showed the photograph yesterday so
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i couldn't resist showing some more today it's monday everyone it is beautiful outside
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we also have the live chat as well nice to see you all here we have mohsen hello mohsen
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nice to see you here again today beatriz we also have luis mendes is here today grace
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chin oh hello tomek it seems very strange seeing you on monday i don't know why it seems
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very weird also we have ricardo we have rosa hello rosa also unicarina nice to see you
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back as well also queen let hello queen let how are you are you feeling royal and regal
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i hope so olive green is here hello to the audience hello to you as well yes it is the
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last week of february so don't forget it isn't the end of my live streams i will still be
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with you on sunday and also wednesday so when march arrives i will still be with you but
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only twice a week not every day hello beatrice nice to see you as well joe carl says mr duncan
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i think your beret is getting very heavy yes i must say mark my neck over the past few
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days has become very tired because i have to hold up this not only the hat not only
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by my giant skull but also the the badges and i have six more six more to put on here
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during the week
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spot the white van is coming soon it is a perfect day it is a busy monday on the roads
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and there are lots of delivery vans driving around
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hello also pierre hello pierre nice to see you here as well we also have donna and also
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victoria oh so many people joining us i must admit sometimes i'm very surprised to see
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so many people joining me during the week because i know some of you are very busy i
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know some people at the moment are still in lockdown talking of which today here the government
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are going to tell us what is going to happen next concerning covid and also the lockdown
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so a lot of people have been forced to stay at home over the past four weeks so today
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we are going to be told what will happen next because of course everything they've done
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everything the government have done has been carefully planned all along all the way through
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this crisis our government has known exactly what to do
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so today we are going to be given the the latest instructions and the latest plans what
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will be happening next here in england will we be able to open our shops will we be able
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to go to the cinemas in the theatres and the restaurants and the bars will we be able to
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go and have a haircut well i don't have to worry about that fortunately we will be finding
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out today hello also belarusia nice to see you here as well hello belarusia nice to see
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you here as well i believe you won't be here tomorrow i i did get your message yesterday
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hello sauron hello also tomek
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did my lights go off then oh oh something very strange is happening here oh are we going
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to have a power cut i hope not i don't like it when that happens sometimes the lights
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will go off and then come back on very quickly please i don't want a power cut can we please
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have a power cut after three o'clock but not now not during my live stream please please
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mr powerman please don't cut the line yet so today we are going to find out what will
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happen next what are the british government going to do next as far as lockdown is concerned
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we will find out today tomek says the government of the country i live in is about to lift
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some of the restrictions tomorrow as well i think i don't think the restrictions will
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be lifted tomorrow here i think we probably have another two or three weeks before anything
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changes so it looks as if they are going to allow people to have more freedom to open
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their businesses but i think it's going to happen very slowly it is going to happen over
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a period of time i think so
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let's have a look outside and see if we can spot a white van shall we let's have a look
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this is now live looking out of the window it is a glorious day and the first thing we
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see is a large lorry and also oh my goodness look at that did you see that i can't believe
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it straight away without any hesitation did you see the white van that's amazing i think
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that might be the fastest white van that we've seen and there are two more two more white
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vans going by incredible we have a blue van a white van and we had another white van as
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well
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well that's pretty good what a brilliant way you see i had a good feeling today about this
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show and there is another white van that's a that's a big white van so we've had four
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white vans okay one blue van and three white vans well that was quick wasn't it yes it's
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not gloomy here today it is very bright and very sunny we are having the most amazing
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weather today i don't know what's happened but all of that cold weather has disappeared
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the snow has vanished the rain has stopped and it really does feel quite nice although
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i'm not going to say it feels like spring because whenever i say that the weather always
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turns bad it does so we've had our white vans i think we've spotted three white vans and
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also one blue van as well so i think yes that's it we can continue i'm feeling rather happy
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about that to be honest we have spotted the white vans for today very nice coming up today
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what else are we doing today mr duncan mr duncan what else are we doing today today
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we are looking at a very interesting thing something that always takes me back to my
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childhood we are talking about old wives tales so when we say tale we mean a story a story
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or something that is recounted so when you recount something you are retrieving the information
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or maybe you are taking a memory and you are telling the story of that time however there
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are many stories that are passed down over the years and some of these stories have become
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folklore that means a lot of people believe that they are real they believe that they
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are true people have passed them down over the generations so today we are looking at
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old wives tales that's what we're doing in a few moments
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vitas says it looks like you are already hot no it isn't hot here although it is it is
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mild but i don't want to get too excited oh i see what you mean now yes so you can see
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the heat vapor going past the camera let's have another look very quickly yes there it
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is so if you look carefully you can see there is some heat vapor that the actual image is
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shimmering oh that's a big one look at the size of that lorry that was a sainsbury's
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lorry that's full of food and there's another white van i think monday is the best day to
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spot your white vans if you want to see white fans always do it on monday because there
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are lots of vans on the roads oh there's another one
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we could do this all day maybe i will maybe one day i will do it for the whole live stream
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we can just sit and watch the vans go by i think that's rather nice to be honest yes
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the reason why there is heat vapor is because in my in my room i have one of my one of my
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radiators so the heating the central heating is on in my room so the the vapor the distortion
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on the image is actually coming from my central heating it looks like summer outside it looks
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like it but it doesn't feel like it however
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tomek likes my my extra voice oh thank you tomic i also like you as well oh very nice
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isn't that lovely mr duncan i heard that many people receive their vaccine injection in
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the uk is it true alessandra it is true i think at the moment it is around i think it's
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15 million 15 million people have been vaccinated so we still have a very long way to go before
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we vaccinate everyone but yes some people are now receiving their second injection as
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well so some people are getting the second part of their vaccine so it is all going on
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here in the uk and today we will find out what our fate will be over the next couple
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of months interesting indeed some interesting times ahead i think so old wives tales do
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you have an old wives tale maybe something you've heard maybe from your mother or maybe
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a person you know maybe an elderly person lots of elderly people an adam please i'm
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not attacking anyone but i'm just saying that quite often old wives tales are told or believed
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by people of a certain age but i'm not not attacking you i'm not attacking you so old
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wives tales there are quite a few old wives tales things that people believe but i suppose
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i should explain what an old wives tale is so i will do that now thank you mr duncan
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that's very kind of you you are a very kind man
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an old wives tale is a supposed truth which is actually spurious or a superstition it
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can be said sometimes to be a type of urban legend said to be passed down by older women
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to a younger generation such tales are considered superstition folklore or unverified claims
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with exaggerated and or inaccurate details so an old wives tale is very similar i suppose
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you could say that it is similar to a superstition or a type of folklore and sometimes quite
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often here in the uk we will describe it as an urban legend so something that is believed
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by people but it hasn't been proved an old wives tale so what about you do you know any
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old wives tales there anything that you heard as a child maybe your mother told you something
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that you shouldn't do or something that seems real but actually isn't even though lots and
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lots of people say that it is true
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i wonder
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surah surah hamasha says i love the old tales me too my grandparents used to have all sorts
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of beliefs things that their parents told them about certain superstitions what one
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thing i always remember with my grandparents i remember staying at my grandparents once
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and there were there was a thunderstorm a thunderstorm and lightning and i remember
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that they covered they covered the mirror that was above the fireplace so they put a
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sheet over the mirror which i always thought was strange and they said it you should always
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do that they didn't tell me why but they said that you should always put something over
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the mirror when there's a thunder and lightning storm victoria oh victoria has one an apple
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a day keeps the doctor away but is that true is it true or is it just an old wives tale
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would you like to look at one okay we're going to look at some old wives tales now
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here's another one i hope you enjoy these oh okay mr duncan we can see what you're doing
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now here's an old wives tale but is it true don't cut your body hair as it will grow back
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thicker a lot of people believe this if you shave your chest or maybe you shave your arms
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you shave the hair off your body so not your head but your body your body hair
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oh mr duncan oh that's that's a bit rude we can't really talk about body hair i think
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youtube might get a little bit angry it's okay we'll be fine don't cut your body hair
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as it will grow back thicker is it true or is it just an old wives tale
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it is not true it is an old wives tale it is not true at all if you cut your body hair
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it will not grow back thicker however it will feel as if it is thicker it will feel as if
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the hair is thicker because when you cut it it becomes sharp it is blunt and so when you
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rub your hand over the hair that is growing back it feels thicker but it isn't it's exactly
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the same hair so that is
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oh dear i love doing this i like having the power i have the power um if you say bad things
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on my channel i have the power i'm loving this i really am don't cut your body hair
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as it will grow back thicker is not true it is an old wives tale it is not true
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mckesh asks mr duncan can you please give us your opinion about covid for 2021 well
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first of all i'm not a scientist i'm not a virologist i have no qualifications with virology
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or viruses i'm not a doctor you may have noticed
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so don't get your body hair as it will grow back thicker is an old wives tale here's another
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one people used to tell me my mother used to tell me all the time she would say if you
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sit too close to your tv you will go blind is it true though if i sit too close to my
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television will it make me go blind the answer is no it is an old wives tale although apparently
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quite a few years ago there was a tv manufacturer and they introduced a new type of television
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and apparently the radiation that was produced from it was was very dangerous
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and they quickly realized it and then they took that particular television off the market
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sitting too close to the tv will make you go blind it is an old wives tale my mother
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used to say that i think it was her way of getting me to get away and stop watching television
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i think my mother was just trying to discourage me from watching tv i think so
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oh apparently alessandra has one here we go is there one that says oh yes there is one
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that says that you need to shave your hair or only cut your hair when the moon is glowing
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glowing or is that growing i think maybe you mean glowing glow to glow is to shine brightly
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hello sora hello also zuzika
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sitting too close to the television will make you go blind it won't i'm sure there are other
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things there was something else
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that my mother used to tell me if i did it too much i would go blind
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and as you can see i now wear glasses so i think that particular thing that my mother
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warned me about may have been true so you can see i this is why my eyesight is so bad
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i couldn't keep my hands off myself
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sitting too close to the tv will make you go blind is an old wives tale here's another
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one cracking cracking the bones in your knuckles will give you arthritis so is this true or
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is it an old wives tale so a lot of people like to crack their bones they they put their
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hands together and they
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crack their bones so a lot of people like to do that but is it true it is an old wives
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tale it is not true cracking your bones there is no evidence to prove that cracking your
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nickels your knuckles they these are your knuckles here cracking your bones or your
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knuckles will not give you arthritis but i'm sure it it might do some damage i don't recommend
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it to be honest oh here's one for me if there's one thing i've noticed over the past few years
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i have many grey hairs
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some of them on my head some of them on my chin and some of them in other places which
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i can't mention for various reasons no mr duncan don't tell us about your hair no you
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must not because youtube will come round and they will disconnect your live stream with
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a big pair of scissors that's true that's what they will do
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pulling one grey hair out will cause two more to appear but is it true or is it an old wives
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tale pulling one grey hair out will cause two more to appear is it true or is it an
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old wives tale it is an old wives tale it's not true it's a load of rubbish it is not
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true pulling one grey hair out will not cause two more to appear
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in reality it is just the aging process so when more grey hairs appear it just means
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you are almost as old as mr steve here's another one we are talking about old wives tales stories
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that have been passed down beliefs that people have held onto for many years here's an interesting
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one and this this is one of my favourites because when i was a child my mother would
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often say come on duncan eat those carrots eating carrots is good for you your eyesight
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will be really good well guess what
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it didn't work i used to eat carrots when i was a child but look my eyes my eyesight
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is bad and i used to eat carrots quite often i think i i used to eat carrots more than
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bugs bunny
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eating carrots is good for your eyesight it is an old wives tale it doesn't it doesn't
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do anything if you eat carrots again and again and again all you will do is have orange wee-wee
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it will make your wee-wee go orange
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but no it won't improve your eyesight unfortunately it's a nice idea though
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oh belarusia thank you belarusia here is another one mr duncan don't lose your needle
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or you will lose your boyfriend oh
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well my needle is in a very safe place
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donna s the old wives tales are the same in my country yes i think every country has their
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own special old wives tales however many of them are the same around the world so eating
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carrots it does not improve your eyesight even though carrots are good for your body
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here's a good one now i i think this must be true this must be true it has to be true
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that there is no way that this is an old wives tale oh mr duncan maybe it is maybe it is
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an old wives tale maybe you're wrong you silly sausage eating turkey makes you feel drowsy
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and causes you
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to fall asleep is it true or is it just an old wives tale some people believe that there
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is a special chemical in turkey that makes you feel drowsy but is it true or is it just
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a load of rubbish
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it is an old wives tale eating turkey does not necessarily make you feel drowsy and it
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does not cause you to fall asleep however quite often people will eat turkey when they
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are having a big meal and quite often they will also drink alcohol as well you see so
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eating turkey does not make you feel drowsy and it does not cause you to fall asleep quite
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often when people have a turkey meal they will also consume lots of other things as
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well such as well large amounts of food but also alcohol as well
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here's another one if you have your own please let me know
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oh now here's a good one now i remember this one this is something my grandparents used
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to say you should dab whiskey on a baby's gums as their teeth come through so as a baby's
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teeth start to come through sometimes it can be very painful for them and an old wives
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tale which it is of course please don't give whiskey to a baby it is not a good idea because
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you do not want a drunk baby if you think babies are bad when they're sober you should
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see a drunk baby drunk babies are the worst they start smashing your furniture up and
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they get quite abusive as well yes so you should dab whiskey on a baby's gums as their
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teeth come through is an old wives tale it is not true putting whiskey in a baby's mouth
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i do not recommend that anyone tries that because you might end up with an alcoholic
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baby and you will have to make lots of trips to the off license here's another one ah now
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i remember this from school there are many myths many old wives tales connected to chewing
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gum chewing gum in fact in my school they banned chewing gum do you know why because
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the kids kept sticking the chewing gum everywhere on the desks underneath the desks on the doors
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they would drop it on the floor and then of course the chewing gum would then stick to
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the bottom of your shoe there is nothing worse than getting chewing gum on the bottom of
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your shoe i hate it so is it true swallowed chewing gum will damage your health and never
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be digested some people believe that it takes many years for chewing gum to be digested
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the answer is no it's it it might be a little uncomfortable when you swallow it but it will
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pass through your system like everything else it will go through your tummy and then into
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your small intestines and then into your large intestines and then into your bowel and then
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you will poop it out so you don't have to worry about it you see i remember at school
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they used to say if you swallowed chewing gum it would stick to your heart and kill
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you i remember that one and i really did believe that as well i actually thought that was true
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i was so afraid when i when i had chewing gum in my mouth i was so scared of swallowing
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it just in case it stuck to my heart and killed me mr duncan you are very silly you know that
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isn't true you silly man
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here's another one we are looking at old wives tales
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oh dear okay okay no it's okay we will go with this it's fine i don't mind
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peeing on a jellyfish sting will help relieve the pain and help it to heal is that true
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so if you are walking along the beach one day and suddenly a giant jellyfish jumps out
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of the water i don't think they do that they just lie on the beach like this
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so that is my impression of a jellyfish would you like to see it again one more time so
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this is my impression of a jellyfish on the beach
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there we go so jellyfish can sometimes sting you if you are in the water so maybe you are
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swimming having a lovely time splashing around in the water and then suddenly a jellyfish
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will go by and it will sting you quite often on your leg or if you are really unlucky your
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bum mr duncan that sounds very painful it is i think it is very painful to be honest
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but the big question is is it true if you pee if you have a wee-wee on a jellyfish sting
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will it actually help relieve the pain will it help to heal the sting i wonder no it's
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not true it's an old wives tale however the best thing to do if you if you are stung by
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a jellyfish you can often find the sting so the sting just like well just like with a
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wasp when a wasp stings you it will stick its sting into you but when a jellyfish stings
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you you will find that the sting is left behind it stays in your skin so the best thing to
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do is actually find the the sting itself and then pull it out it is called a barb b-a-r-b
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bob so a small sting quite often attached to a to a wasp or a bee there are other animals
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that sting you as well
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peeing on a jellyfish sting will help relieve the pain no it won't all it will do is well
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it will make a very strange smell and it also might break your relationship up if you suddenly
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start having a wii over someone unless of course you're into that sort of thing oh mr
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duncan i can't believe you just said that did you just say that there are people who
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wee-wee over each other
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well i did say that yes i know but um you know it's a strange old world here's another
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one oh this is this is for all those who are enjoying your your leisure time by relaxing
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yourself with a glass of beer or maybe a bottle of wine and perhaps the next morning you wake
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up and you feel awful you fee you feel the next morning you feel awful is it an old wives
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tale drinking more alcohol will cure a hangover headache yes if you drink too much alcohol
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and then you go to bed the next morning you feel awful you might feel terrible you will
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have a headache you will feel awful some people believe that drinking more alcohol
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will cure a hangover headache is it true no you silly billy no it isn't drinking more
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alcohol will not cure your headache it will not cure your hangover it is an old wives
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tale oh we are going in we are going to go in eight minutes i can't believe it this this
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live stream has gone by so quickly don't you think here's another one i like this one this
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is this is one of my favourites i will be honest with you quite often when i'm making
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something to eat or if i'm carrying some food sometimes some of the food will fall off the
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plate and onto the floor so i believe that it is safe to eat food that has been dropped
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on the floor within five seconds so so if you pick the food up very quickly within five
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seconds the food is still safe to eat
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if you drop your food on the floor
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it is safe to eat food that has been dropped on the floor within five seconds is it true
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or is it an old wives tale i want this to be true i really want it to be true please
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be true please please i want this to be true sadly it isn't true it's a load of rubbish
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it is an old wives tale it is not safe to eat food that is being dropped on the floor
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because there might be a little bit of bacteria or a virus or anything something dirty something
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dirty on the floor oh dirty dirty i don't like dirty dirty is bad i don't like dirty
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things
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so no it is not safe if you drop food on the floor you should not put it in your mouth
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because you might catch something and of course over the past year we have all become experts
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on taking care of ourselves and protecting ourselves from germs and viruses
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it might be true yes it might be true if you drop it in a place where there is no dirt
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but you can't trust it you can't trust the floor there might be something there there
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might be a little bit of dirt that has come in from the bottom of your shoe
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yes apparently also yes there is also the three second rule yes you are right some people
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say three seconds some people say five seconds between you and me i would advise not doing
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it at all even though sometimes i have done it i have to admit i have to admit i will
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put my hand on my pancreas and i will say i have done it i have picked food up off the
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floor that i've dropped sometimes an hour later i will go back and scoop it into my
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hand and eat it disgusting
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here's another one we have we have three more here is another one is it an old wives tale
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or is it true pointing at a rainbow will bring you bad luck so this sounds like a superstition
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this doesn't sound like an old wives tale but sometimes an old wives tale and also a
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superstition can be can be very similar if not the same pointing at a rainbow oh look
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oh look up up there oh look there's a rainbow in the sky it's so pretty look look i'm pointing
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i'm pointing at the rainbow very nice pointing at a rainbow is unlucky no it is not unless
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of course you are standing at the top of a very tall ladder and you lose your balance
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in which case it will be very unlucky as you plummet to the ground
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rainbows are cool you are right i love rainbows i think rainbows are fantastic
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this is a weird one i don't believe this one this can't be true mr duncan you you silly
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nitwit we eat eight spiders per year whilst sleeping in bed so whilst we are sleeping
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in our beds at night snoozing
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is it true or is it an old wives tale there is a belief that we eat around eight spiders
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per year whilst asleep in bed
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i don't want that to be i don't want that to be true i don't want it to be true no i
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can't imagine it being true we do not eat eight spiders per year while sleeping in bed
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it is an old wives tale a lot of people believe this but it is an old wives tale first of
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all i don't know how the spider gets into your mouth unless of course you sleep with
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your mouth open then i still can't believe it's true i still can't believe that it could
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happen because spiders normally are very timid that they are very easily scared so i i don't
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think it's true i really don't have you ever woken up with something strange in your mouth
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here's the last one
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oh it's only monday it's only monday oh dear how am i going to make it through the week
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putting new shoes on a table will cause a close friend or relative to die yes this sounds
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once again like this sounds like a superstition it sounds a bit like a superstition i think
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i personally think this is a superstition and not real putting new shoes on a table
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will cause a close friend or relative to die it is an old wives tale of course it's not
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true
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although it's been a very long time since i i have owned a pair of new shoes i must
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admit i don't think i've bought a pair of new shoes since
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when was the last time i bought a new pair of shoes well i did buy some boots but what
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about new shoes maybe 11 years 11 12 years i think it's about maybe 11 years since i
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bought a new pair of shoes i think so alessandra says putting your hat on the bed is also
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i was doing so well there i almost got to the end of that sentence
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putting a hat on the bed can bring back look i've never heard of that i've never heard
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of that
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sora says my mother told me that if you don't wash your hands a spider will bite it interesting
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i think sometimes these these beliefs have been invented and created just to scare children
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i think so i'm going in a moment i hope you've enjoyed today's live stream something different
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an interesting topic i always like to share unusual things with you so i hope you have
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enjoyed this oh mr duncan is it really time to go is it nearly time to say goodbye it's
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not fair yes i'm going to have a cup of tea with mr steve and also i might have something
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to eat as well because today i haven't eaten anything i've had nothing to eat today i can't
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believe it i am back tomorrow though don't worry we have another day coming your way
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tomorrow i am back once again thank you very much for your company today
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thank you for your lovely messages thank you for your kind words thank you very much for
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your attendance as well thank you for being here i will see you tomorrow 2 p.m uk time
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we will do this again however there will be a different subject and hopefully
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it will be something interesting we will have to wait and see see you tomorrow thanks for
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your company don't forget you can watch this later so this will be viewable you can watch
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this again later and yes there will be captions later on this is mr duncan for the final time
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today saying thanks for watching see you tomorrow enjoy the rest of your monday and have a super
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duper day wherever you are in the world and you know what's coming next until tomorrow
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keep that smile upon your face as you walk amongst the human race and i will see you
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tomorrow and of course you know what's coming next yes you do
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ta ta for now
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This site will introduce you to YouTube videos that are useful for learning English. You will see English lessons taught by top-notch teachers from around the world. Double-click on the English subtitles displayed on each video page to play the video from there. The subtitles scroll in sync with the video playback. If you have any comments or requests, please contact us using this contact form.

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