3. "I'm terribly sorry, but if you don't mind, would you mind passing me the salt, please?"

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If you're a native English speaker, you might not realise just how baffling the British politeness can be to us foreigners. We've been trying to guess the best response to "You ok?" for years. Or how many times we should say "please" in a sentence. We're still not sure. It can get stressful. In this episode, we laugh at our inability to decipher the common pleasantries of English culture and expose some serious faux pas that Polish directness has lead us to.