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59. I Can Smell & I Like Money
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This week we're talking UK fast food failures, fun times at the fair, boomer complaints and werid well paid jobs.
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Introduction & Weekend Recap
00:00:14
Speaker
Hello there and welcome back to Talking Shit with the Yankin of Brit. I'm the Brit. Gemma. I'm waving. I'm Kate. Hi, I'm the Yankin. They can't see you waving, Kate. Yes, they can. They can feel it, the wave vibe. I can feel the energy. They can feel the air coming from my frantically waving hand. How's it going? Yeah, all right. All right.
00:00:39
Speaker
I think I'm still hungover from double wedding weekend, to be honest. Yeah, a busy weekend. I'm a bit worse for wear, as they say. I too might still be recovering from my vacation girls trip. ah That was five days of food, fun, booze, sleeping in various different locations in my friend's apartment, and not sleeping a lot. Yeah, it takes it out of you, doesn't it? I think we're getting a bit old. Yeah, it sure does. It sure does. But it was fun. Do you have a nice weekend? Yeah, it was really good. It was my dear mother's wedding on the Friday. Oh, mummy. Sorry, I couldn't make it, mom.
00:01:23
Speaker
But you looked beautiful, I saw a picture. She did, she looked absolutely stunning. a Lovely little ceremony and then we went back to the estate that they live on and party, reception there, my band played. And yeah, it was a good time, it was a very good time. So the next day I had another wedding with Alan's friends and so we had to get up early and drive all the way over there for that.
00:01:49
Speaker
and And did it all again. Woof. Two weddings and a weekend, I can't imagine. I mean, I thought when we came over for our friends' weddings June, a couple of years ago, that having one on one weekend, a break weekend, and then another was a lot. Yeah. Try to run it consecutively. Can't.
Horoscopes & Fast Food Frustrations
00:02:08
Speaker
Can't imagine it.
00:02:09
Speaker
We got to about sort of two o'clock in the afternoon and we were like, oh my God, I'm really flagging. Power through, power through. Get some whiskey, it'll be fine. Yes, whiskey will help. Did it actually. I'm like, you take a little nap and have a little sippy of some coffee. I did have a cup of tea. Yeah. We noticed in the tent that there was like a tea and coffee stand and I was like, oh my God, I can have a cup of tea. I'm so excited right now. Some little things. Best part of the day.
00:02:38
Speaker
Yeah, yeah ah this this makes me think of, let's see if I can find it quickly enough, but it's like, you we search it one time and then Instagram only gives you like funny horoscope shit, right? um Well, there was one that was like a spec, yeah, so it's like spectrum based horoscopes and it's cancer is a spectrum and then on one end it has a little cup of coffee.
00:03:02
Speaker
that says living for life's little treats, which is seeing a coffee and tea tent at a wedding when you're tired. And then on the other hand, it's like big black hole that says everything is meaningless. And I was like, this one is the most relevant one to me I've ever seen, yeah actually. Very accurate. Let me see if I can find yours. Okay. So for yours,
00:03:23
Speaker
On one end, it says it's a picture of a skull and a glass of wine and a bottle of wine that says the crushing weight of being human. And you're not going to understand this, so I'll maybe give you ah ah an equivalent. And then on the other end, it says finding beauty in a cheesy gordita crunch, which is a delicious little treat from Taco Bell. ah But for you, I would say finding beauty finding beauty in a cheese toasty. Yes. That's very accurate. That's what it looks like.
00:03:51
Speaker
But look at that. It's like a delicious soft taco with some cheese and then a hearty taco and some delicious. Yeah. Oh, it's so good. Next time you come over, I'll take you. Cause I know the Taco Bell in England is sad. Yes. I've only been once. I'll never go again. Yeah. It was horrible. I remember when we went specifically after the New Year's Eve party, we had drove to that mall, which was what? Like an hour away yeah to find at the one Taco Bell nearby in the food court. And I was like.
00:04:22
Speaker
You guys have like two things. There's two things on this menu. One's a taco and then the other one is like a weird burrito. This is the thing I'd like to actually raise about English. know Yeah, like English changed. So like McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell, whatever it might be. Our menus are shit compared to our European neighbor equivalents or the American equivalents. Why aren't we getting the full menu?
State Fair Adventures
00:04:50
Speaker
Well, I think the thing about the differences in menu is like, obviously they need to cater to the palates of the nation, right? So like, you guys aren't going to have, I don't know, like the triple coronary heart attack burger with cheese curds on it, but you might have. Yeah, but one of them here is like, like McDonald's, for example, I'm partial to a McDonald's. Yeah. And every few months or so, they bring the big tasty in. What's the big tasty? It's a bigger burger.
00:05:19
Speaker
who And it's got like a really nice creamy peppercorn sauce in it, and the mental cheese and like big beef tomatoes and salad and stuff. It's delicious. And I'll look it up. And it's fact most people's like favorite McDonald's burger when they bring it. So why don't they just add it to the fucking menu? I don't understand.
00:05:44
Speaker
But you guys have a Big Mac, right? You have a Big Mac. Yeah. And they keep also bringing in the special at the moment. It's McDonald's 50th birthday. I don't know whether you're aware of this. And they brought in the double Big Mac, which is just like 5 million. po Jesus. That makes my heart hurt. My heart is clenching. Um, is it, is it the 50th birthday in the UK? Cause I feel like McDonald's is older than that here. I don't know.
00:06:12
Speaker
Happy birthday, McDonald's. Happy birthday. day ah The big tasty does look good. It's yummy. It's really yummy. Just add it to the menu. It's nice. it It's no different to any of the other burgers, really. Yeah. Just a different sauce and some tomatoes. Yeah, it is 50 years of McDonald's UK with three new desserts, new birthday cake donut, milky bar raspberry ripple McFlurry, and then yeah I don't want to click on it. Oh, some munchies, cookies, something or other.
00:06:40
Speaker
yeah But I, you have a fair point. mconds I don't either, but I, well, the ice cream machines never work here. That's like an ongoing joke. Oh, good. It's everywhere. Um, but I do like going to McDonald's and other countries because I do like seeing the differences in menus, like the ones in France that are so fucking fancy. They have like a pastry section. Everything's called like a Royale. and Yeah. shit by that Lovely.
00:07:08
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Get your act together chains had enough. Yeah, I agree. Um, I would eat that big tasty though. For sure. I also like a McDonald's. I don't eat it very often, but they just recently brought back one of my favorite breakfast items, which is their bagels. And we got them one day while we were in Maine because we were hungover and it sounded good, but I was just like, yes, this is my favorite. And I was so sad that they took them away.
00:07:37
Speaker
Yeah, why take them away? I like people, a lot of people here love McDonald's breakfast. Like, you know, the sausage and egg McMuffins. Yeah, I don't care for those. I think they're disgusting. Yeah, I don't care for those either.
00:07:51
Speaker
No, I liked the bagel and I would occasionally eat a breakfast burrito as a kid, but those are actually quite gross. But I do like the hash browns. We don't get the breakfast burritos. Yeah. I'll eat a hash brown. seven Yeah. And waste potatoes are pretty easy to nail. Yeah.
00:08:10
Speaker
Um, well, I'm glad to hear you had a nice weekend. Like I said, I had a fun trip full of activities. And when I got back, I was like, I don't want to speak to anyone, see anyone do anything for a little while. I refuse to go to the state fair as originally planned. And what do you know? I ended up going to the state fair on Friday.
00:08:29
Speaker
Was it fantastic? Yeah, we went kind of late, um, in the afternoon and it's the last, like today's the last day. Okay. and so It was pretty busy because it was the last weekend. and we had The first thing we got was like a walking shepherd's pie, which was literally like a samosa, but shepherd's pie. It was actually not bad though. honest shepher Shepherd's pie is better. um and Then we waited in line to get like purple sticky rice with beef. like this was It was delicious. I really wanted to try this. um
00:09:03
Speaker
like a purple sticky rice thing, Asian thing from a union mung kitchen. And then we walked around, we had more food than we needed to have. We had cookie butter potato or butter potatoes, cookie butter donuts. The one thing I wanted to do was they have this little section kind of for, well, it's for everyone, but it's kind of geared towards kids. They have all these microphones stuck in the grass and a big screen so that everyone can do karaoke.
00:09:27
Speaker
oh And I was like, I want to go do that. It was really fun because last year I went in and yelled somewhere over the rainbow and over all these kids, right? And we couldn't find it and we got turned around and they have like regular karaoke somewhere too. We inadvertently went there. By the time we made it back to where it was, it was over. And I was like, oh I want to go home. And so we did.
00:09:52
Speaker
I want to go home. They've not got what I want. Yep. yeah right It was fun. I mean, i it's a lot. Parking is insane this year instead of like just parking in a lot because they have fairground lots too. We decided to try something new, which is people who live around the fairground because it's very residential, let people park in their yards and charge them for it, right? Yeah. Ranges from, I don't know, perhaps $5 to $50, but we found one for $10. And the guy was like, fuck that. I'm not charging more than that.
00:10:23
Speaker
It's late in the day, park here, I don't need your keys. Because another guy was like, oh, it's 30, but I need your keys. And Levi's like, no, thank you. No, I'm going to keep those. Yeah. And so that was kind of clutch. And then we walked. We walked a lot, like probably six miles within a matter of you know from six to nine, which isn't that far. But for such a small little area, it actually is. We walked quite a bit. to Well, at least you got those steps in, girl.
00:10:51
Speaker
For all the food we ate, probably necessary. Yeah, you just burnt it off as you walked and ate. That's the hope.
American Culture & Malls
00:10:59
Speaker
We saw some animals too, which is always fun. Lots of goats and horses and cows and pigs. Did Levi steal any? You know what? That would explain the noise I heard coming from the room he's staying in. Yep.
00:11:19
Speaker
But I do hope you make it over here some sometime because I do think you'll find it mad what it looks like. It's just insane. Yeah, it'll be another one of these American things that just blow my mind. Yep. Like the, was it the Mall of America? ah It is our culture. This is our culture. We do things big over here. Big and crowded and fat.
00:11:45
Speaker
Describe America in three words. Big, crowded fat. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. so and it's you know It's Labor Day, so I bet the Mall of America is insane because even though it's supposed to be a day of rust off of work, there's always those sales and stuff. I bet if we wanted to have another fair-like experience, we could just go to the Mall of America. Probably, yeah. Probably be insane.
00:12:10
Speaker
and design in the membrane. I feel like we only saw like the tiniest section of that mall as well. You know, it's hard to say because it all looks the same and there's like four of each store. So you could you feel like you're going in circles because you see the same radio shack about eight times, but really. yeah Really have done the whole thing five times. so Yep. But ah you could walk through it all within a reasonable amount of time. You just need to go through each floor, but it's just like, it's very samey, you know?
00:12:40
Speaker
Yeah. You know, a mall's a mall, really. who This one's just got a theme park inside. Yeah. Standard. Why don't they all? It's like a turducken, but for a mall. Do you know what a turducken is? No. So it's like a, I suppose it's kind of like a thing people started doing around Thanksgiving because we always have turkey, but this is a chicken inside of a duck inside of a turkey. Ah, yes. We have that at Christmas.
00:13:08
Speaker
Yeah. Oh yeah. I forgot that's like your, that's your national dish. Stuffed birds. Yeah. Inside of a bird, inside of a bird, inside of a bird. Yep. Inside of me. And then inside of me. What do you want to talk about today? Well, I found this article.
00:13:32
Speaker
which yeah basically it was someone on X asking, what's the most boomer complaint that you have? Oh boy, I got some.
00:13:47
Speaker
I gotta
Nostalgia & Physical Media
00:13:48
Speaker
say, I agree with a lot of them. I just thought we should share them and discuss them. Okay. So this person, Chris, Chris. Chris Al-Al-Alsecun. Alsecun? Oh yeah, yeah. Oh, Chris. what's What's bothering Chris today? What's making Chris clench today? So he says, I want a physical disc with the movie on it. A DVD in 4K with extras and director's commentary and in the correct aspect ratio and original colour grading. Enough of this streaming content bullshit.
00:14:24
Speaker
Is it just me or did it feel like DVDs came and went far faster than and like VHS's and whatever it was before VHS, anyway yeah the reels? I don't know. it just like I remember when they kind of started becoming popular and then all of a sudden I was like, oh, you don't actually even have a device anymore that you can play that on. No.
00:14:48
Speaker
like who the fuck has I mean I have a DVD player and a VHS player just so that if I did want to feeling nostalgic and want to watch Fern Gully yeah ah um but yeah like you can't you don't even get like CD rom draws in your laptop anymore. When I bought this laptop, I tried so hard to find one with one because I was just convinced I'd need it. I haven't so far. How are you going to play the sim mother right sims otherwise? Exactly. I was like, how the fuck am I going to play the sims? That's all on fucking line now as well. Yeah.
00:15:20
Speaker
um What about CD players and cars though? Oh, sorry, go ahead. I've actually got one in my car. I don't, it's so annoying. And Ryan's a 2017, so. Wow. But don't have any CDs. Yeah, I actually got rid of all my CDs, but I still have DVDs somewhere. See, we all have a pile of VHSs or DVDs. One day they might be worth millions, so yeah hold on to them. Also, do you remember when like you'd fall asleep during a film?
00:15:50
Speaker
and then it would go back to like the menu page and it would play some really loud shit and you'd be like, oh my gosh. Yep. Just over and over and over again on the loop. Yeah. Do you wake up at four in the morning like, what is this shit? But you know what? It never stopped to be like, hey, are you still watching? Are you still alive? Are you OK? Do we need to call 911? Which maybe that's a good thing. I don't know.
00:16:18
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. ella It's kind of calling me out on my obsessive watching of friends, which I don't appreciate. Yeah. It's like, we're concerned about you. It's just background noise, Netflix. Leave me alone. Yep. Yep. But I feel that, Chris. I'm with you, Chris. Right. Drew Rich said, bring back physical tickets for like shows. Oh, yeah. I mean, I guess sometimes you can get Like, so you can choose to have the mobile delivery or have the mail to you or pick up. And I think they, at least some of the ones I've seen and like you do that if you want maybe for nostalgia purpose, maybe you collect those things. I don't know. Yeah. Um, like my parents and stuff still have like tickets from like the Bowie shows they run into and stuff like, yeah like it well, like festivals where it's got all the lineup on it and stuff. It's cool to look back at that shit. And now all I've got is a poxy email.
00:17:16
Speaker
Yeah, that goes into your wallet. Sean has like a poster frame thing that he put a bunch of tickets in. That's cute. Yeah, I get it. I get it. But I also feel like I would lose mine, so maybe I don't feel as strongly about this one. No, to be fair, I did used to keep them more than I think last time I moved. I was like, ah, I'm never going to need these again. I threw them all out. Yeah. Swings and roundabouts.
00:17:46
Speaker
Um, pastor Kyle, I don't know if he is a real pastor. ask him Kyle, Kyle, if you're listening, yeah you but um, this one, I highly agree with having to download an app for every little thing is ruining my life, bro. Like, let me just pay for parking like a normal fucking person. Yeah, it is annoying.
00:18:11
Speaker
I've got about, I don't know, six different apps just so I can park in places all in the same county. One, use the same fucking company or just give me a ticket machine. Amen, Kyle. Amen. Amen, Mr. Kyle.
00:18:30
Speaker
I think not even that, like everything has an app, a clothing store that I shop at a lot. It's like, download our app and you get 40, McDonald's even has an app now. I know. Fuck. The next one is actually restaurants and other business need websites, not an Instagram account, not a Facebook page, a proper website. What if they're a small business and they're boomers who don't know how to make that?
00:18:56
Speaker
Well, you can just go on, you know, like fucking. I can't think of any right now.
00:19:05
Speaker
um Yeah, there's lots of ways to make a shitty little website. um Yeah, there's fucking loads of angel fire. Yeah. When I see, when I go to a website of a restaurant and it takes me to Facebook, I immediately stop looking at it though. I'm not like, this isn't going to give me what I need, even if it could. I want a menu. Yeah. I'm not, I will just look up someone who took a picture of the menu and put it on the Google website.
00:19:34
Speaker
Um, talking of menus, Jenny wants a physical fucking menu at a restaurant and none of this QR code bullshit. That is something that my friends and I have discussed when we've gone and it's like scan here for the menu, which is I think a residual effect of COVID. Yep. And I get that. And I think it's probably ultimately cheaper because if you change your menu a lot and you don't have to continue to print stuff, but I feel it and I miss the days of when you didn't also have to order on your phone and then pay on your phone and all of that. even though it's convenient and you can do it in a way so you don't have to worry about splitting the bill in a weird way. right But yeah, i I get it. We've talked about it and we're like, oh man, I remember when they used to hand us a beer list and I have to fucking scan and blue. Yeah. I think most places here do still have menus. Um, but I do like it when you're like at a bar and you can just order drinks on your phone and they bring them to you. You don't have to talk to anyone. That's fun. Yeah. I don't have to queue. That's quite nice. Yeah.
Tech Frustrations & Preferences
00:20:42
Speaker
Um, it
00:20:47
Speaker
this lady abstract biscuit cute name says canceling subscriptions shouldn't have to take two weeks of blood sacrifice, a 401k and half my liver. ah Are you sure you want to cancel? What if we gave you a discount? What if we gave you more of a discount? What if we paid you?
00:21:08
Speaker
Okay, is there anything we could do to make you change your mind? No, please comment here and send it via pigeon carrier and you will receive your cancellation notice in four to seven business weeks. That's very much what it's like. It's also annoying when they're like, you can't cancel unless you ring this number. Yeah, that is like, one and they're like you've bested me because I will not be called. yeah i Just keep going. I'm just going to cancel my card.
00:21:40
Speaker
Right. Stuart R. Kelly. I hope he's in a relation to R. Kelly. I was just going to say, oh, who gave him a computer in prison? Seems weird.
00:21:55
Speaker
He said, stop getting rid of physical switches and buttons on cars and tethering everything to the fucking radio. When it dies, everything dies. I want a knob for my radio volume, knobs for my AC that click, and a physical key. If I want a fancy ass radio, I'll fucking buy one. Okay, Stuart, deep breath.
00:22:20
Speaker
Let's talk about your need for sensory feelings. because that is what I'm hearing from you, Stuart, is that you need the noise, the texture, the vibrations, and that is okay. I agree, though. like i want I want a key for my door in my car. Interesting. I don't think I've stuck a key in a car door in a long time. Really? I mean, it's the clicker, right?
00:22:46
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I've got one. If the clicker dies, I also have a clicker. Yes, then you have a backup, right? Yeah. And also, having worked in fraud, I know that it's very easy to steal a keyless car. You can literally just buy a device off eBay, stand near the house, copy the sensor, steal the fucking car. Easy.
00:23:08
Speaker
think people can do that with garage doors too, which is why we had this like rash of garage break-ins because there's only like so many different signals that exist. It's going to work on probably a third of the garages, you know so we don't keep anything valuable in our garage except for our cars, but there's nothing valuable in our cars. It kind of makes the garage fucking useless then, doesn't it?
00:23:29
Speaker
Yeah. Nothing too terrible has happened. We just had some people get in and like go through them. But they left my Ray-Bans. They actually left a lot of cash. that was I was like, what were you looking for? Exactly. like The things that normal people would take, you left. Weird. Yeah. What were they doing? Maybe they're trying to gain access to the house as well. Yeah. Well, good luck because it's detached it and on a hill. Sort of. Yeah. Good luck.
00:23:58
Speaker
This person's Sage Club says, I don't want your chat bots. I want an actual contact number that I can call for support.
00:24:07
Speaker
So, yeah you know, it's catch me too. I don't want to call someone to cancel my subscription, but if I've got a problem that I need fixing, I do want to speak to an actual person. Yeah. So when you're doing your chat and it's like, Oh, you know, I'm,
00:24:24
Speaker
robot 440 who's here to help you. And then it's like, gives you three options. One's other and it's like other. And then it's like, try to tell me what the problem is. And you do. And it's like, I don't know if I can help you with this, but do you mean this? No, FAQs. No, I've done that already. It's not in there. Person. Person. Person. Person. Person. The equivalent of pressing zero a bunch.
00:24:50
Speaker
oh um This month's spot on, Tom made, everything should have a checkout as guest option. I don't want an account and an app for everything. Here's the money to pay for the thing. Here's the address to send the thing. Now leave me alone. I agree with that particularly because, um You know, it's a one-off thing, but I have run into the issue where when I do check out his guest and I then need to see where my order is at, like you get the email with the order number, but sometimes they don't always, they're not great about updating you and emailing. So then it's like, I go to the website and try to input that, but it won't work. and But I don't have an account to like go see my order history and follow up on it. And that's, yeah that sucks. So.
00:25:38
Speaker
Yeah, like, yeah, I suppose so. But I also think like it should be easy to buy something. I can't make any more. Yeah. Like you can just go to a store and buy something and you don't need to be. Yeah. But even in the store, they're like, can I take your email address for the receipt? No, just fucking give me the receipt. Or I don't need one. That's fine too. Yeah.
00:25:56
Speaker
And you try on at home and you're like, oh fuck, I should have received. In that instance, yes. But I mean, there'll be times where I'm buying like popcorn. And it's like, I'm not going to return this, so it's fine. They're pretty good here. And they ask everywhere if you want the receipt now. And I'm like, nah. Keep it. Don't waste the paper, baby. Yeah. This guy, I can't pronounce his name, so I'm not going to say it, says, put your fucking headphones on when you are
Public Audio Annoyances & Music
00:26:23
Speaker
in public. What the fuck is the matter with you?
00:26:26
Speaker
I was waiting for this one. This is a complaint of Nigel's. It's a complaint of from, I've heard from other people and I've even, and I think we've talked about this. I've found it a little bit annoying and it seems to be the younger generation just yeah fully fine with either music full bore, TikTok full bore. My friend was talking about how she was in Target once and someone was just walking around, listening to an audio book with sharing it with everyone, I guess. She just couldn't stop listening. She was in.
00:26:53
Speaker
And she's like, I don't have my ear pods, oh well. um And it's, it's, I hate, I hate so much that I sound like a boomer when I talk about this, but I, cause I know I do, but it is, it's not super respectful no and that's fine. Cause, but it's also like one instance, Sean was at the gym in the sauna, which is he's like, just, trying but like there were a couple young kids in there playing tick tock music, whatever. And it was like, I, this is like a, co Yeah, first of all that but it was also like this is kind of a quiet space. It's a quiet space like read the room we're all in here just trying to decompress after work out whatever. um And I that that to me is like there's
00:27:37
Speaker
times and places for things you know yeah for sure like if you're on the subway that's annoying but it's not like it's a quiet space people are talking whatever it's loud i think that is a quiet space i need to think about my dread about where i'm going where you're going fair enough i mean do i think it should happen no but i'm not i'm probably less likely to be Staring at that person, glaring at them, or even would say anything on a subway, I probably wouldn't ever. But like in a sauna in a really small room where it's like you and three other people and this person's playing smack my bitch up really loudly, I might be like, could you just turn that down just a bit? That's really hard when someone's going, smack my bitch up.
00:28:19
Speaker
oops Yeah, very annoying. I once went in the sauna at the gym and this guy was in there who just proceeded to just... He was very lovely, but he would not shut up. You shouldn't talk about Alan like that.
00:28:34
Speaker
and That's how we met. That's how we met. And that's on air. Yeah. No, but he was... Yeah, he was a lovely guy. Just wanted... Clearly very lonely and wanted to talk. And, you know, he was asking me where I'm from and, you know, what I do for work and... And I was just like... I couldn't be rude. Because he was being nice. Yeah, because he was being really nice. But I was like, I just want to sit here in silence and sweat, please. So that's what I'm here for.
00:29:01
Speaker
Yep. That's what I mean. It's, it's, it's, that is just as bad to me, particularly if you're, cause I'm sure you're putting out signals. And also because it was like mid conversation, I couldn't leave. So I was in there for like double the amount of time I should have been in there. And like me, like it was touch and go. I had to down about three liters of water when I came out and I was very lightheaded and it's, but it's actually very dangerous.
00:29:30
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, there's comes to a point where it's like, I'm just going to be rude and probably feel bad about it afterwards. But like, I got to go. Bye. Yeah. I think I was in the end. I was like, I'm really sorry, but I've got to leave because I'm about to faint. So yeah thank you and goodbye.
00:29:48
Speaker
Okay, last one. Restaurants have absolutely no reason to be paying car club music at brunch. Turn the damn volume down so I can hear the person sitting next to me. But what if it is drag show brunch? Is that okay? Yeah, I suppose that's acceptable. Do you expect it? Yeah.
00:30:07
Speaker
Yeah. I haven't been to brunch where there's house music just booming out of the speakers. No, I haven't. But what does annoy me is when you go into like a closed stop. I can't speak today, closed shop. And the music is so fucking loud. Like it's unnecessary.
00:30:27
Speaker
They want you to feel like you're at a party. I don't want to be at a party. I just want to find a t-shirt. Yeah, they're not really in the room. They're really not. Stupid dry. Maybe it's to get people in and out quick. Really? Well, yeah, I was going to say there's got to be specific brands that are worse at that. It's like the edgy brands that think they're trying to be really cool and down with the kids. So it's like we're going to blast out fucking club music and drum and bass and it's just...
00:30:54
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There's a story, you guys probably have it too, Abercrombie and Fitch. yep yeah So in our malls, dark, pumping cologne music. And it's like, I can't breathe. I can't see what I'm looking at. the clothes And I also i can't hear anybody when they're helping me find the clothes that I'm looking for.
00:31:17
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ah I've got a real thing with the noise thing in restaurants, though, because like even if it's not music and it's just a really loud restaurant. Like I've lost a lot of my lower frequencies in my ears. So I really struggle to hear people talking if there's and any other kind of higher volume of background noise. Um, and especially men because they've got lower voices. I can't hear them. I have to literally lip read them. Yeah. um So if a restaurant's got music on that's too loud, which is then making everyone talk at a higher volume, I can't hear fucking anything.
00:31:55
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Yeah. And it drives me insane because you don't go to dinner just to sit there and stare at people. That'd be weird. No. And I do find that's like bars, whether you're going to eat or drink and stuff. Like I've been, there are times that I'm just like, I didn't hear that, but I'm going to pretend that I did because it's just easier. Oh, so many times. That's my life. Yeah. Yep.
00:32:16
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Yep. Well, if anyone else has got any complaints, um, that would, you know, age us and make people realize how old we are, you can send them to talk shit to us at gmail dot.com or get in touch at T S Y B pod. I think it just goes to show like we should on boomers. Well, we should on all the generations for different things, but we should on boomers for having like all these like Well, you know, you should be able to buy a house and work and, you know, like, oh, and I did it and blah, blah, blah, even though things were vastly different. But there are things that we associate with boomer behavior beliefs that are true for, you know, just people across generations. But also we the other thing is we truly do turn into our parents. Yes, it does happen, unfortunately. Not unfortunately, my parents are cool, but
00:33:08
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There's things I do and I'm like, Oh my God, am I about? Yep. No offense. But it's just those things where it's like, Oh, I'll, you know, I'll never be like that. And then it's like, Oh, I get it now. I've also reached the age where, um,
00:33:20
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like you know we have the radio here is bb like the main radio station is like bbc so we have bbc1 bbc2 bbc3 bbc4 bbc1 is like the cool hip current music yeah yeah bbc2 always thought that was you know for the older folk um i think bbc3 is classical music possibly and then radio 4 is like For really old people, it's like the dramas and you know weird stuff like that. For the people who didn't have TVs growing up, they listened to the radio for their stories and they wanted to continue that. That's it. But I have now moved to Radio 2 because I can't stand the shit that they play on Radio 1 and I'm like, oh no, it's happened.
00:34:07
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yeah I don't listen to, i if I'm in my car, my phone's plugged in and it's music, podcast, audio book. I don't listen to the radio. I don't even really know what radio stations are like ones I'd listen to here in Minnesota. um As a result, I don't have to listen to some of the shit that plays that is current and new, but I also miss out on some of the good stuff too. Yeah. True. I just get my songs off Instagram now.
00:34:32
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Yeah. I eventually come across it, and or someone will play it for me and be like, this is really good. And I'll be like, I haven't heard this. And I'll be like, what do you mean? So I'm behind. But I get it eventually. Yeah. Yes.
00:34:44
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Well, I feel those things. Speaking of getting older and news, because like for me, I always thought the news, NPR, NPR, I said NPR just for people at home, Minnesota Public Radio or National Public Radio, where they did news and they did like kind of the human interest pieces.
Odd News & Unusual Jobs
00:35:07
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So boring, and whenever my parents would listen to it in the car, I'm pretty sure that contributed to my car sickness.
00:35:16
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But now that I'm older, I'm enjoying those things a little bit more. and That's why I like podcasts, because I yeah you know get the things that are kind of more interesting, newsy stuff. And so I thought I'd share some interesting news pieces with you that are just kind of funny or fucked up.
00:35:28
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Okay. One I'm sharing because, uh, the picture is hilarious, but also kind of a weird story. I'm going to drop it in the chat so you can see it. But the news story is, um, methamphetamine disguised as shipment of watermelon seized at us, Mexico border in San Diego.
00:35:51
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It's so bad. They didn't even try. yeah We'll just put some watermelon wallpaper or wrapping paper over it. They won't notice. is Yeah. It's like they colored some plastic cling film, kind of like a watermelon, but then they also wrapped duct tape ah around it. Yeah. And it's just like, um,
00:36:17
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Yeah, so that watermelon doesn't look like the actual watermelon sitting next to it. Can we take a look at that one?
00:36:25
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ah I think I saw a picture where there's just like fucking hundreds of them. Among real hot watermelons, officers found 1,220 packages wrapped in paper colored to look like watermelon skins. There's over 1,000. Just hoping amongst sprinkled amongst some real ones hoping they wouldn't notice. and It's like this is when you might want to reconsider your life of crime because you're bad at it. That was not a good choice, guys.
00:36:56
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And another funny one's also drug related. It's always the drug ones that are funny. I know. New Zealand charity accidentally gives out meth instead of candy. Oh. Did you hear about that? That's not good. No. I haven't heard about that. So a New Zealand food bank unwittedly unwittingly distributed candies filled with methamphetamine after someone donated the sweets. They received what they thought was a donation of candies. They only accept sealed items and the pineapple candies and wrappers from Malaysia brand Rinda appeared as such when they were donated. And so they started giving them out, but they were just they weren't even laced. Just straight up method.
00:37:35
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Yep. Yep. And I wonder how many people consumed that before they figured out where it came from. Yeah. Oh my God. Jamie's a very hyper on those sweets compared to normal.
00:37:49
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So for those who consumed the candies, one of them reported the funny tasting candy while others were taken to the hospital, including one food bank staff member, one child and one young person. ah imagine i'm ki take Who now suddenly has a meth addiction and you have to like get them help because all they want is meth.
00:38:09
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Give me some of that pineapple meth. No, Timmy, you're going to treatment now.
00:38:19
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Oh, fucking hell. This one's less funny, just more weird and interesting. I'll send you the link for this one too so you can see the picture. But ah this one is, I thought was interesting, mostly relevant to my my day job. But a Kentucky man jailed for nine years after faking death to avoid child support.
00:38:38
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Wow. Yep. That's an effort. So he used the login details of a doctor to register himself as deceased in Hawaii, which is kind of clever. Yeah, it's kind of clever to be fair. But he really just didn't want to pay for the kids that he had. He didn't want that responsibility. Oh, he's going to have to pay it now. Yeah. While in jail, I mean, you earn like pennies on the dollar.
00:39:07
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Yeah, and he just looks like a tool. Just a douchey douchey tool. wow So don't do drugs, kids, and pay for your kids ah kids. Don't do drugs, kids, and don't have kids if you don't want to pay for your kiss kids. And it if you're going to hide drugs in watermelon, like maybe use a real watermelon.
00:39:27
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Yeah, just like make a hole, poke it in, fill the hole. Plug the hole back in with the penisly beep. They probably wouldn't have noticed that. No, see, we just problem solved for them. Once again, can ask us before you do stuff like this if you need to transport a shit ton of methamphetamine, come to us first. We'll judge your your efforts and let you know if we think it'll be successful. We'll give you an audit.
00:39:56
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on your packaging efforts. The other thing I thought it'd be topical to talk about, um and amusing for me anyways, maybe you, ah is as it's Labor Day, which I think we've already kind of discussed what Labor Day is on a previous Labor Day episode, even though this will come out after Labor Day, is ah weird, interesting jobs that pay quite well.
00:40:19
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Hmm. Okay. Hit me. and hear I'm interested. Yeah, I need some. Well, first you could consider, okay. So we'll consider the segment, ah jobs for Gemma to consider. Yay. Yep. I'm in. Legal bank robber. Oh, I'm interested. You want to hear more? Yep. Okay.
00:40:38
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So imagine robbing a bank without a potential for punishment and the unpleasantness of the shower, which I think after you get arrested. Okay. Yeah. The prison shower. or the prison like a show You may work as a penetration tester, which I like legal bank robber better, but okay. The official title is penetration tester. Fine.
00:40:56
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fine um yeah Or as they're called in the industry, a licensed bank robber, the role's objective is to evaluate security measures in place. And in the past, the job simply involved breaking into the bank. So kind of an adjacent to your job where like you're detecting things. like I could do that. Absolutely. And I'm happy to help. Yeah, I could be up for that. Basically to try and get past their security. Yep.
00:41:23
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Um, number two is kind of appealing, I think. I don't think I'd be very good at it. I'd probably get fired right away, but a professional sleeper. Oh, okay. Yeah. I could do that. I thought you might. So basically you evaluate the comfort of beds in Finland. This is where this is. Yep. I mean, we want to move to Finland. So they have, there's a hotel there that has staff people who basically sleep in their beds and review them to determine. Oh my God. Level of comfort, if there's anything that needs to be changed. I didn't know this sort of thing, but I want to do it. Yeah. Okay. All right. We're definitely moving to Finland. Top of the list then. Okay. That's going round up top. This one's a little sad and kind of weird, but also I suppose kind of nice if it's needed. Okay. Professional mourner. Right. Say more.
00:42:12
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So family engaged a family will engage professional mourners to attend a funeral service when a significant other passes away without friends. So basically like a extra at a funeral because they're like they don't want it to look sad. Aww, that's kind of sad. Objective isn't to improve the deceased's reputation, which I like i kind of argued doesn't really fucking matter. No, he did. Yeah.
00:42:38
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If people can earn 40 to a hundred dollars or 30 to 75 pounds every session and take part in the meal that follows the bur burial. So a little bit of money and some free food and some free food. Yeah, I can do that. Okay. I'll consider it. This one I could do. I don't think it pays as well, but it certainly is easy money. Um, movie watcher.
00:43:00
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Yeah. a lot I think a lot of people like that. Alan would like that. Yeah, basically you view and evaluate movies and TV and then, you know, basically the companies that produce them just use that to decide whether they want to actually release it. um And the income ranges from $12 to $15 or nine pounds to 11 pounds per hour. And yeah, I mean, easy. Yeah, cushy. Entertainment.
00:43:25
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I get bored. Well, you know, I mean, I think this is like a side hustle thing, right? Like you just get to go see a free movie once in a while. Yeah. I get free cinema tickets with my bank account randomly. Oh. And the last couple of films we've gone to see have just been crap. Okay, pause. Which ones? We went to see, I can't remember what it was called. It was the movie with Henry Cavill in it and like Dua Lipa. And it was like,
00:43:55
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Oh, are Argyle? Yes. Argyle. It was all right. It was... I liked the cat. Yeah, it was meh. That was my review. I was like, yeah fine. Probably wouldn't have paid to see it. Thank God these tickets were free. The other week we went to see the new Deadpool and Wolverine movie. Which I heard people liked because you you shouldn't have high expectations for it.
00:44:25
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Well, yeah, maybe that's that was the problem because I like the other two Deadpool movies a lot. I really like laie yeah you like them. But you also know that they're trash. I suppose so. Yeah. It's like this just felt like endler film more trash squished together. Let's try and fit two superhero movies. It didn't really have a plot.
00:44:47
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I just I didn't really like it but then I've you know I've got friends that have seen it and I've seen it twice in the cinema because they loved it and I'm like why are you wasting your life? Yeah I'm quite hard to please with films like I i have high expectations if I'm going to the cinema especially because it's so fucking expensive I expect a good bloody time and I want to be enthralled from start to finish. Or at least the ending needs to wow me and have a big twist or something. But if it's just like, me me man me me this is a movie, me me me ma I'm like, I have wasted my life. I'm never getting those three hours back.
00:45:29
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I, Gemma did a little hand bop with that, just so everyone, it was very amusing. It kind of makes me wish that we recorded video sometimes. That's my movie dance. um Yeah. And this is where you and I think are complete opposites because I could go to a movie and there's very few that I've been like, that was so horrible that I actually wish that I didn't pay for it. And I could have that time back and that I've never seen this movie just because I'm like, I'm here to get some, use something to enter, like entertain or otherwise have my attention for awhile. And for the most part, I'm like, it successfully did that. Even if I was like, this is stupid. Um, this is where you and Alan will bond.
00:46:05
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Yeah, because he can watch like he just watches terrible films so like the shitter the better and he likes them because they're shit you know i mean and I just I have no patience for that. I don't want to waste my life doing that and Also, I get super fidgety in the cinema because you're stuck in one place And I like I want to be able to pause it and go to the toilet or go and get some sweets and i can't do that means why i haven't gno movie in a long time to be honest just watch it home yeah
00:46:38
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um Didn't the new Deadpool movie though basically introduce ah the younger generation to NSYNC though? Yeah, to be fair. And the darts, which I have known since I was like 11.
00:46:54
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I haven't seen it, but I heard that. Okay, a few more jobs. This one is interesting. I don't think I could do this. Maybe I could. Online dating ghostwriter? Right, for like profiles? Yeah, so basically someone who writes your online dating profile for you. Probably gets some information from you and then does it for you. I found it very hard to do my online dating profile. So you would need it. I would need it, yes.
00:47:25
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Um, you can expect to make an average of $900 or 670 pounds a month. Wow. That's pretty good. Yeah. To be honest, nice I'll just get AI to do it. I think that's the other option these days, but you know, sometimes it sounds like it's written by a robot. True. Um, okay. Number six, zombie. And this is actually in London. It's for the London dungeons exhibit and it's an average income of 30,000 pounds a year. You're just going to play a zombie. Let's try our zombie faces.
00:48:00
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Maybe I could have one of my eyes falling out.
00:48:05
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Yours is great. Thank you. Yeah, clear. Mine is one of the... like They're too two alive still. Yours was straight up a dead person. Nailed it. I've watched a lot of zombie films. I think you should apply for this job. Maybe I should. I don't want to go to London, though. I don't like London. If you're good, you can get promoted to become a tormentor or jack the ripper. Oh, shit.
00:48:26
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Female Jack the Ripper. Break that glass ceiling. I know he does. I've been to London Dungeons. He just runs through the end of the exhibit. You watch a little movie about it. It probably makes the most money. And then the guy runs through going, and everyone's like, oh my God, he's alive. That's it. And he probably makes like 70K. Fuck, I could do that. Maybe this is the career path for me. Why do they have zombies at London Dungeon? I've never been, you tell me. I didn't see any.
00:48:56
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Fucking zombies. Because you're visiting a dungeon. Do you know what's really horrible about London Dungeon? What? It's like the smell. It smells like a dungeon? Yeah, but it like smells of like musky death. Ew, I suppose that's pretty intentional.
00:49:18
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Yeah, i don' i I think it's just the smell of like hundreds of years of people being tortured and dying down there, to be honest. Right. it's That's what it smells like. Yeah, I don't like it. Well, so maybe that's why they pay people so well, because it's like... Maybe, yeah. You smell this all day. Okay, two more. Professional apologizer. Oh, I could do that. I'm British. Mm-hmm.
00:49:44
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huh ah huh It's just, you just apologize on behalf of someone. Yeah, I could do that. So sorry. Oh, this one's good. Professional cuddler. No, thanks. Oh, wait. It's a picture of a dog. So I was thinking animal, but actually I think it's where you have someone come and cuddly in your bed. So nevermind. Okay. Paper towel sniffer.
00:50:10
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um and I need more information on that one. Why are we sniffing the paper towels? Is there stuff on the paper towels? Okay. Let's face it. When you buy six rolls of paper towels, the aroma is what you care about most. The paper oh or the towel sniffer is a new kind of hero to make sure that producers make high quality goods devoid of an offensive order. So, you know, sometimes you get things and it's like, I don't actually like the smells. Yeah. Okay. I guess that. I can't say I've ever smelled paper towels.
00:50:40
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No, me neither. I do like the smell of a new book though. Yum. I think it's more the glue they used to hold the book together that smells good. And like the paper process has that kind of yeah bit of smell too. $52,000 a year or £38,000. Oh, fuck. I'll do it for that. Yeah. Yeah, me too. All right.
00:51:01
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um Okay, one more. Hangover helpers party cleaners. I for one can say probably would have benefited from someone coming and helping me clean up but after a party sometimes. Yeah. I tend to try and clean them the night off. Your future self, thank you for that. I was once at a party as a teenager and someone spilled crisps all over the floor, chips over the floor, and I got the hoover out and hoovered it up because I was like, this is going to be terrible in the morning. If everyone walks this into the carpet, it's going to be a nightmare.
00:51:31
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Yeah, to be fair, I do that too. I try to like either not create mess or clean up after myself, but also will find myself like, oh, I'm just going to pick up all these cans and glasses and go move them to the kitchen at least. and Then in the morning you're like, oh, thank God I did that because I can't be bothered. Yep. Panda fluffer though.
00:51:49
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Ooh, this is where they you try to make a panda. Get frisky, hey? Yep. So you're basically... Yep. Jacking off the panda. It's feather dusters and other things, I guess. Oh, okay. They utilize feather dusters in considerable caution to help them perform in order to get reserved animals in the mood.
00:52:12
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I mean, they do need help because they're not doing a great job. They're so lazy. They are, but they're so cute. They just want to move around. Yeah, that's why like when I originally red panned a fluffer, I was like, oh, you just go and like spruce up their fur. Brush their hair. Yeah, just clean them up a little bit for the audience. Can't they just artificially inseminate them though? Yeah, I think they do. I think they have. Oh, and that's not working either.
00:52:39
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Well, I think that's perhaps not preferred, right? We want them to be able to do it on their own. yeah I yeah. They don't want to. They're lazy. No, and that's OK. So that's some weird jobs for you to consider. Let us know what you think Gemma should do. Yeah. Send in your suggestions. I'm going to write them down, and I'm going to look into them. Especially the tissue sniffer, because. Yeah. I mean, easy money. Jesus. Easy money. I can smell. And I like money. I can smell too. Yeah. Me too.
00:53:12
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Like, would you like an, am I the asshole?
00:53:19
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You know I would, baby.
Complicated Relationships
00:53:21
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Okay. So we've got, uh, and I might get ourselves a story here. We've also got an update on this one, which is where I wanted to do it because perfect we all have an update. I love some closure.
00:53:35
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Am I the asshole for leaving my partner and refusing to be involved in any way, shape or form after they stop taking the pill and pierced our condoms to have a child?
00:53:48
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no Okay, original post. My partner has been on the pill throughout our relationship and we've been in a bit of a battle these past few weeks over having children. I categorically said that I do not want them and started using condoms for double protection.
00:54:06
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This morning, she told me that she's pregnant and I asked how. Sorry, I asked how this could happen when we've been so careful. She admitted to coming off the pill and piercing through the condoms that we have stored.
00:54:23
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I've said that I don't want this and I'm not up for marrying into relationship based on lies. so She says she's keeping it and has already told her friends as according to her, she's done the test eight weeks ago and was keeping it quiet in the hopes that I'd changed my mind. I have no idea what to do here. Help. I'm in England and I'm 29.
00:54:44
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Tell me if this seems a bit too much of a stretch, but we talk about consent a lot and consent also is based on how you're addressing the consequences, safety. It's kind of like when a man is like, I don't want to use a condom. Well, you have to. And then they take it off halfway through and continue. Like that is that sexual assault. I actually feel like, like the misleading nature of saying you're on the pill and then stopping and then piercing the condoms, like tampering with the contraception is an equivalent to that. And I, agree I feel very strongly and like, not only that manipulating someone into having a child is not a way to have a child.
00:55:28
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It's not. And then, oh, I didn't say anything cause I was hoping you'd change your mind as the literal dumbest thing I ever heard. And also probably not true because the longer she waits, then the harder it'll be for her to terminate. Also someone in the comments pointed out that reproductive coercion has been illegal in the UK since 2015. So they should seek out legal counsel as soon as you can. Yep.
00:55:55
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Oh, that's fucked up. Oh my God. Isn't that fucked? Yeah. No, not the asshole for that because that you that happened to you. Yeah.
00:56:08
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um
00:56:12
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Other people were saying like, you should get a dignitator. She's crazy. She may very well have cheated on you and just lied about the condoms. It's possible.
00:56:23
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um that or she says she's pregnant but isn't hoping that he lets down his guard and has unprotected sex less resulting in a pregnancy seen it happen to a few friends this person says i mean those things are based on if what she said she did wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility hmm and like if you want kids just go and find a partner that does because most people not most people I don't know I don't know the statistics but when I was
00:56:56
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online dating and stuff, the majority of men wanted kids, which was a deal breaker for me, obviously. There's someone out there for you, gal. Made my pool very small, but like so many men want kids because they want to carry on their lineage. Just get someone that fucking wants kids instead of forcing some poor guy into having kids that he's going to have to fucking pay for.
00:57:26
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He's gonna want nothing to do. You're gonna be a single mom. If you're just gonna be a single mom anyways, then go get knocked up and be a single mom by someone else, you know? Or go to the sperm bank. Adopt. Yeah. Dick. So dumb. Yeah. Now that is upsetting. What's the update? Yeah, where's the update? Hold on.
00:57:47
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Okay.
00:57:49
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um she said Firstly, thanks for all your comments. I didn't expect this to blow up quite as much as it did. Secondly, I want to get a few things straight as people seem to be struggling with timelines. so um My partner and I were due to get married in a few short weeks. We have had many long and involved conversations during our relationship about us both wanting to remain child free over the years that we've been together. Around two to three months ago, they started to appear to change their mind, which I feel insecure and unhappy about because it's not something I want from my life which is why I'd booked a vasectomy through the NHS. um She admitted to tampering with the condoms and said that she'd come off the pill several weeks ago at that point prior to her saying that kids might be an option for her.
00:58:35
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um We were still having sex and I was under the impression that we were protected as she was on the pill. I've made no secret about how I do not want kids and she is fully aware of my reason behind it, which I don't have to share with strangers on the internet. Fair play.
00:58:49
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um She showed me a test and it confirmed that she is pregnant. I've asked that she get an abortion. She has refused and I feel the trust has gone completely from our relationship. We are now in the process of canceling the engagement, which she isn't happy with at all and says that I'm ruining her life. ah Oh, Paul's ruining your life, man? Yeah.
00:59:10
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yeah to um Now for the people telling me to go to therapy, man up or that I'm lying, It's great that you disagree with me, but I'll never tell you to attend therapy if your worldview differed to mine.
00:59:25
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um
00:59:28
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and that I should be at fault after my my partner has lied to me, apparently for months. um Here are a few other things for you. No, I do not like kids. I don't like, and I don't like entitled parents. I see it the same as disliking dogs, cats, or birds. That's my opinion. Not for everyone, and not all people have to tolerate your madness. It's my dislike and lack of care towards them that is one of the many reasons why it should be idiotic for me to be a father.
01:00:00
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Update 2. I spoke to a lawyer earlier today who has advised that as we are not married that I won't be automatically added to the birth certificate. Woohoo! My ex-partner can still claim that I'm the biological father but without my consent to a DNA test is unlikely to be able to prove it unless it's ordered by the court.
01:00:20
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But as I've been coerced into this, my lawyer thinks my ex-partner and family will back down as I have evidence. The lawyer advised that I don't waive my parental rights yet, as it would indicate that I still believe the foetus could be mine. So I have to abide my time and and leave the country till this all blows over.
01:00:39
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um wow he I don't understand why I would need to leave the country, but okay, maybe to avoid a service for a DNA test, maybe, I don't know. Yeah, maybe, I don't know. The lawyer also suggested that I go self-employed, but didn't divulge the specifics. My partner has admitted to coming off birth control and piercing the condoms, which she said she'd done around three months ago, exclamation mark, as she knew I was due a vasectomy early next week and thought I'd changed my mind. She has refused to have an abortion, which is her right, and I've refused any involvement
01:01:11
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um Has anyone been through this before and managed not to pay out? I think I've got a pretty good case. Damn!
01:01:21
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Drama, drama, drama, drama, drama, drama. This is something I think about a lot when, not the circumstance, but when someone gets pregnant and we have circumstances where the father doesn't want the kid, asks the female to give the mother to get an abortion, she doesn't, she keeps it. And having to be on the hook for this kid in some capacity for your entire life, whether you're involved or not, courts will make you pay child support if the mom needs it, makes, you know, pursues it. If she gets benefits, the county will pursue it and stuff. And I, and it part of me feels a little bit, but it's also like, that's kind of the consequence of having sex, I guess. But this person like did all the things right, you know, to like avoid that consequence and was getting a vasectomy to make it even, you know, safer in that way. And she really did
01:02:12
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manipulate and course him into having this kid and now he's tied to her until he can prove that he shouldn't have to be. Yeah. That's so hard. I feel so bad for that kid. Yeah, man. I mean, it's, it's rape really, isn't it?
01:02:27
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i I didn't know want, cause I know it's, that is for rape victims. Like to i compare it, I can understand how that would feel flippant or minimizing it. But like to me, there is, there's an assault development there. Yeah. For sure, man. yeah Not the asshole. Wow. And it sucks that his whole life has to like change too, because of this, like you have to leave the country for a while. I know. Like it's completely.
01:03:00
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fucked his life potentially. And she's like, you're ruining my life. You're ruining your own life, love, let me tell you. Yeah, so not only am I not marrying you, but good luck with this kid. And have fun explaining to the kid why their fathers aren't in the picture when they're older. Yeah. Or lie to them. shit Yeah, lie to them. space shit Yeah, that's messed up, man. Yeah, what the fuck.
01:03:28
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Wow. What the fuck indeed? Well, I hope he gets like some evidence. A lot of people in the comments were saying like he should text her and bring it up in the text and get her to admit to it so that he's got the evidence because she could just turn around and say, yeah no, the pill didn't work. We weren't using condoms. Well, or condoms fail, right? Yeah, exactly.
01:03:56
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Yeah, I think that like there's ways a judge can determine credibility there too, you know? And if he told people what happened afterwards and she admitted it to them afterwards too, then those could people could be, yeah, but yes, if there was a recording or she admitted it in writing or or whatever, then that would be a lot better. and Damn. Wow. Yeah. Here we go this week. We've spoken about fairs.
01:04:27
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famous boobers and unwanted babies. Yeah. Yeah. You know, sometimes we, uh, we can get really singularly focused on something that is quite a bummer. Sometimes we can be funny and lighthearted and sometimes we can just run the gamut and that is just what makes our show so great. So share us with your friends.
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01:05:16
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Absolutely. Because without them, we wouldn't be, what was it? Number 12 of all time? Yes. In oh general chat and number 10, all female of all time. That's right. We made some charts. We have charted people.
01:05:40
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Next stop, the moon. Next stop, the moon indeed. Well, it was good to talk to you. And to you, my dear. Until next time. Over and out. Bye, Cheerio.