583. British Comedy: The Dirty Fork / Restaurant Sketch (Monty Python)
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Luke Thompson
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🗓️ 20 March 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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583. British Comedy: The Dirty Fork / Restaurant Sketch (Monty Python)
Analysing the English in a comedy sketch by Monty Python's Flying Circus, and considering British communication style relating to apologising, making complaints and minimising language.
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| 1:01.0 | Hello listeners welcome to Luke's English podcast how you doing I hope you're doing |
| 1:07.1 | really really well out there in podcast land like I just hope you hope you're |
| 1:12.0 | having a really great day even if you are just sitting on some |
| 1:17.4 | bus on the way to work or something like that I just hope that it's just really |
| 1:21.0 | really good like oh this bus seat is so comfortable. I hope you |
| 1:26.2 | managed to get like the best seat on the bus, the seat that you prefer. I don't know which |
| 1:30.8 | seat that would be. Maybe it's the seat right at the back so you can sit there like a cool person just lounging at the back of the bus like one of the cool kids or maybe you prefer the like extra fold the seats that fold down somewhere near the |
| 1:47.7 | front because it's quite nice to be able to fold your seat down before you sit on it. |
| 1:53.0 | I don't know. I don't know if that's something that you enjoy. |
| 1:57.0 | When I was a kid, that was like one of my favorite things for some reason. |
| 2:01.0 | I don't know what this says about my childhood, but for me, one of the things I loved the most was seats that folded down on public transport. |
| 2:10.0 | So if we ever took the bus somewhere I was always interested in sitting on a seat that you had to fold down if we ever took a black taxi in London and those of you who've taken black taxis in London |
| 2:25.0 | will know that they are the greatest mode of transport. They have seats that fold |
| 2:30.8 | down as well and I used to be so excited at the prospect of |
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