Life Uncut - The Best Of The Pick Up - We've Dug Up Laura's Old Instagram Quote Posts

Episode Date: July 11, 2025

It's our weekly round up! The best of the week from our National radio show THE PICKUP. What's on the show: Laura reveals the baby names she loves but isn’t using for baby no 3 Celebs are being more open about the cosmetic work they’ve had done - but is it a good thing? Robert Irwin had to apologise for accidentally dining and dashing Orlando Bloom posts cryptic message amid break up with Katy Perry - turns out Laura used to do this too Britt unpacks the new AI laws in Denmark that allow you to own your own face A couple accidentally went to a destination wedding they weren't actually invited to Britt shares the GROSSEST thing she's ever found in a work fridge You can watch us on Youtube Find us on Instagram Join us on tiktokSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode was recorded on Camaragal land. Hi guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life Uncut. I'm Laura. I'm Brittany. And this is The Pick Up, our radio show where we package up all the best bits of the week and we put them here for you to listen to. It is, no, I know what you're going to say. Britt has been, we've been sitting here for, stop.

No, you've been perving on me. You have been making me feel uncomfortable and making inappropriate advances towards my feet this whole time. Guys, Britt has been sitting here for the last 10 minutes stroking the camera tripod with her toes, fondling the camera tripod, like wedging her big toe and her second toe, wrapping it around the leg. And I don't know what's been going on. It's really soft.

You know, Izzy has to touch that. My husband leaves the way. It's phallic shaped. Yeah, it just makes, it's comforting actually. Izzy, our video producer of The Pickup is looking at that like. But you just spoke about how nice my feet are. You said I have beautifully soft, clean feet. So what is the problem?

Well, I mean, not everyone's a foot person, are they? Well, they will be after they see mine. Guys, okay, we did have a great show this week, actually, and then we're taking a week off holidays, which is fucking amazing. But this week, okay, you all know Orlando Bloom, Katy Perry, Splitsies, Dunzo. Splitsville. And it's very sad because, you know,

as much as poor Katy Perry has been getting a lot of flack lately, I really like them as a couple. I thought they were so lit. They've been together nine years, which shocked me. I never understood it as a couple. You know when like, and when I say that, I don't know them, but Hollywood couples, when people get together, sometimes you're like, yes, and sometimes you're like,

I don't get it. I never got them. I never thought it would last. I thought it was a bit of a PR thing. Interesting. I really did think it would last. I thought they were an unusual couple, but I really liked them as a couple. I think he really liked her until she went to space.

I think she went to space and it changed things. Well, look, it turns out that not even celebrities are immune to the sad breakup posts that often follow after you've split with someone. and you guys know if you've listened to life if you're an OG lifer you will absolutely know this when I was back in my 20s I used to love what I thought was a cryptic post to put like a quote something that felt deep and meaningful we unpacked it on the show but what I haven't actually shared before on the podcast and is deeply humiliating because we spoke about it live on national radio is that I actually used to have an Instagram where I used to post things

that I personally wrote not just not just quotes I found but I thought related to my life it was quotes page. I would go through a bad breakup and I would write musings and dear God, I shared some of them with you all and it's truly embarrassing. I do wonder how much regret you're going to have. Do I have regret? No, not yet. Will I have regret? Possibly. Let's just see how this pans out. To be fair, it was of its time. It was the time when people were doing quotes. I did it. I wanted to be a writer. I wrote some stuff. I had a fake name. I did. Do you know what it felt like? It felt like reading back through like a diary that you had when you're in your early 20s or when you're like 15, 16.

And when you, at the time. But you also were frequent. You also were like, you were doing these quotes like once a week. And the thing is, is like at the time you feel like it's poignant. You feel like you're never going to feel this much hurt or pain or suffering or like depth to your emotions again. And then when you read it back, you're almost embarrassed about the person that you once were.

So Laura reads them out and they're so bad that Izzy, our video producer over here, after it, like off record, She goes, oh, how old were you, cute? Laurie goes, 27. She was like, what? She goes, I'm that age. I would never. I think I was 25.

Anyway, everyone go fuck off. No, we did the math. You were not. You were not. Well, what did you do this week, Britt? Not a lot. No, I did think this was interesting. The TikTok sensation, the trad wife sensation, Naira Smith,

she's married to Lucky. She's got a few kids with unusual names like Honey Bee or something like that. twinkle. The names that she has chosen for her children are diabolical. Well, they're interesting. Like we're not here to yuck anyone's yum, but they are in the interesting category. But she's going viral at the moment for what she's potentially going to call her fourth baby. She is pregnant and she has released a list of names that are like on the list. Some of them have made the cut. Some of them have been cut. And I just think they are so funny. And I want

to get your opinion, Laura, because you are also about to have a baby. We've gone too far. That's my opinion. She's gone too far. We'll play them all for you. Love your thoughts. They're truly objectively terrible names. Can I tell you one? Butter. Butter. Like butter. Yeah. Anyway. Butter like butter, in case you guys were confused. B-U-T-T-E-R. Anyway, guys, let's get into it. Laura, I really thought this is going to tickle your fancy. Okay. You are in the throes of your pregnancy. You are so deep. You are almost about to pop that thing out. Number three. No, I've got a few more weeks 12 weeks if it pops out now that's a bit of a problem well i wanted to help you out with baby names just in case you were like on the edge of maybe thinking of a new name

there's an influencer online nara smith now yes trad wife queen she's the face of trad wives she has upwards of 12 million followers on tiktok like she's a very big character online i don't know if you haven't seen her she does these cooking videos she does lots of different types videos but she's the most unrelatable trad wife content creator I've ever seen she's like and then I picked the butter from the freshly milled goat milk you're like what are you even saying you don't pick butter I don't know she whipped it like anyway it's confusing real good I love listening to her I love her voice I want to say that like we can pay her out as much as we want but that is also her thing like her thing is to be really over the top dressed while she's

soothingly speaking and creating things from scratch. I would say that her market and her thing is being unrelatable. That is, she leans hard into unrelatability, which is a territory most people would try and lean away from. She's leaned as far into it as she can. She does it brilliantly, to be fair. Now, she's married to her husband, whose name is Lucky, and she already has kids.

Now, her kids' names, she has three children. Her kids' names are Rumble, Honey, Slim, Easy. It's not. Sorry, Rumble, Honey is four. Slim Easy is three. Slim Easy is actually the full name of that child. And Whimsy Lou is the third one. I think it's a girl.

He's 14. Yeah, Lou. Whimsy Lou. It could be either. 14 months. So she is trying to decide on her fourth baby name. And she's come out on TikTok and listed the names that haven't quite made the cut that her and her husband couldn't agree with.

But she tried. Now have a listen to these. Starting off with some boy names. I love the name Moss, Goody, Sunday, but spell like the actual Sunday. Girl names, I love the name Twinkle, Velvet. Button is so cute to me. I love the name Apple, won't be using because it's been used before. Another name that I love that Lucky does not like at all,

so it didn't even make it into our list, is Butter. But it's getting harder to name children for me. Sorry, sorry, you can't name your child Butter. I was joking about the goat's butter earlier, but you can't name your kid that. Because butter's also her thing. She needs a lot of butter and makes it and whips it all from scratch. So that's her thing. But I can't tell, there's part of me that's hoping that this is satirical, but I don't think it is. No, that's the problem. Twinkle? Hi, I'm Twinkle. What? I just think that you're really putting your kids into a category of what they

can do when they're older. You're never going to meet a lawyer whose name is Twinkle, are you? No one's taking that seriously. And actually there's been research study on that. Don't quote me where it came from. But the names that you give your kids have a determining factor on how they're treated by other people and it influences what they end up doing in their careers. So if you're going to name your kids Sparkle Cupcake, they're probably not going to be set up in life to be the type of person that's going to be able to move into a career that's particularly ambitious. I mean, look, it's probably a bit subjective. I hate the terrible names, objectively terrible names. There were some others, Shimmer.

Stop it. Berry, Dare. The only one that I'm going to let slide is Merit because that's a real name. Sounds like ferret. Sorry. Different letter. But it got me thinking, what names have you,

like are there names that you and Matt or one of you loved but the other one couldn't get around? I think I have chosen all of our kids' names so far. I think I even chose, I mean, we're calling this baby Poppy. It's no secret. My husband added that on a podcast recently. And I have this app, right? It's kind of like baby name Tinder.

So the way it works is like you download the app, your partner downloads the app, and then you swipe like thousands of baby names and it populates a list where you've both agreed on names that you've swiped right to or left to. Very clever. I've tried to get Matt to do this for the last two children and also for this one, and I do the swiping and he has never downloaded it.

So I'm just playing Tinder on my own with baby names. But I've got a few. I'll read out the ones that didn't make the cut. Yeah. Matt poo-pooed a lot of these. Milo was one. I love Milo. That was on my list.

actually. Milo, Bennett, Theodore, Hudson, Finn, Charlie, Remy, Chase, Cash, Teddy Parker. Cash? Cash is the person who goes out and shoots pigs. Rory, Logan. Sorry to any Cashers out there listening. It's very American. Cash is very American. Logan, but Matt grew up near Logan in Queensland. So he was like, it's too, it's a place. Logan's my little cousin, yeah. Weston, Grayson. Weston. Emery. Grayson, I dated. I couldn't do that. I did bang a Grayson. He was hot, though. He was a very good looking guy. I had the theory.

What was the last one, sorry? Emery. No, I like Emery. Yeah, except it's a bit too much like memory, isn't it? And also like a, what's it called? The board, Emery board. Yeah. A nail file.

My. It's very so cool. We also chose Pumice, but it didn't make it in there. Pumice? Wasn't it Pumice Stone? I thought you were serious. I was like, no. No.

All right. Well, let's be glad you said it on puppy. I also really think that regardless of what name you go with, if you choose a name, I have learnt the hard way as of this baby, don't tell people because we've chosen the middle name for this for our little girl that we're about to have and her middle name also starts with P, so it's PP. Poppy promise.

Poppy promise. Some people have told us what they really think about it. What if she's going to be just called PP? She's going to get bullied at school. Character building. Hey, do you PP? Like that's what they're going to do. It's good.

It's good for her. Now, there's a new trend that's been happening online. We've been seeing it popping up with celebrities and we're talking about cosmetic surgery. Now, it's not to do with actually getting the cosmetic surgery because we all know celebrities have been doing that for a very long time. It is around transparency when it comes to cosmetic procedures or cosmetic surgery.

You guys might remember recently Kris Jenner, she had a facelift and she came out and said, I mean, she couldn't deny it. It was pretty damn obvious. She looks younger than her daughters now. Yes. So she came out and said, well, I've been drinking lots of lemon tea. She's like, yeah, I've been getting Botox and doing some really great glycolic pills. No, she was honest about it and said that she'd had a facelift.

This kind of sparked a bit of a movement among celebrities because more recently we've been seeing Khloe Kardashian. She came out and she opened up about getting rhinoplasty, Botox and fillers. Megan Fox has come out and said that she had procedures done on her boobs. Kylie Jenner. Kylie Jenner. I think the reason why these celebrities are coming out is because the response to Kris Jenner's transparency was so overwhelmingly positive that I think other celebrities are now jumping on that bandwagon and kind of trying to be like, well, I'm going to have to admit to it at some point. So I might as well start this, you know, and get on the front foot of this anyway.

Well, I think it's also because, for example, the leaders in this conversation at the moment are the Jenners. Like Khloe Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Kylie Jenner, they're all coming out and talking about it. And I think the first reason is Kim and Khloe and all the girls are getting into their 40s. You can't lie about the way you look forever because it's obvious that we are going to age. But two, I think a lot of them, it's quite selective with what they're talking about. I think it's to distract from other things. Like they're not going to say everything, but if you give just a little bit, people might lay off you a little bit and not expect you to have had the other things

that you don't want to talk about. Totally. Well, also, I mean, if you've seen recently in Stella, Bec Judd came out and was talking about different procedures she has had. Now famously Bec Judd has kind of always sort of said no I'm fully natural everything this is just how I wake up in the morning and the reality is it's like cosmetic procedures surgical procedures they're becoming more and more common they're becoming like far less stigmatized people are talking about them a lot more but this I think is where it does become a little bit problematic because it is so

evident that there is only about 50% transparency. It's like, oh, I'll tell you about the surgeries that we're okay with. I'll tell you I got a nose job. I'll tell you I got my boobs done, but I'm not going to tell you about the BBL and this and this and this. And I think that they, exactly what you said, Britt, you think you nailed it. The selectiveness around the surgeries is firstly a real issue. And secondly, I kind of think it's a problem when someone just goes, everyone, I got a nose job. Look how great it looks. I want to see the process. I want to know like how gory and gross and awful it was because I don't want to just see positive, happy outcomes.

We all know that like to get and to have major surgery, it's incredibly painful. There's a huge process. There's a massive cost debt and these celebrities are able to afford the best surgeons whereas the rest of us are flying to Turkey, goddammit. You know who does it in Australia, has always been really honest, is Skye Wheatley.

She's an influencer. We saw her years and years and years ago on Big Brother. She's got the cat eyes done. She was on Celeb With You, yeah. Yeah. She talks about everything and she posts it when she's there and she posts it when she's getting it. She's really honest with the feedback and she's always been really, really honest with it, which I think is really, really great. But it's funny because I don't know if you saw the recent interview. Everyone's been talking about Lindsay Lohan recently. Give me a Lindsay Lohan

surgeon. Tell me what she's had done because all of a sudden she's sort of like disappeared for a while, came back looking incredible. It's obvious she's had something done. No one cares. They just want to know. And she did an interview like just a couple of weeks ago where she said it was just down to, like she said, I have lemon water in the morning and I've been doing some lasers and everyone's like, that's not lemon water. Like I could drown my face in lemon water every day and it's not going to do that. It's the same as Paris Hilton saying that she's never had Botox or never done any procedures while staying in her face is completely paralyzed. The thing is we don't have a tolerance for that anymore. We do call bullshit when people say, oh, I haven't done anything. This

is just me naturally. So I do think there's been pressure for celebrities to be a little bit more honest I want to see the process I want way more transparency around how like just awful it is to go and have these procedures done because I think that that might be a bit of the antidote to deter especially young girls from wanting to go and get major cosmetic surgery where it's just incredibly painful and stuff can go wrong and we know it does yeah I reckon just spit it out just tell us what you've had done and tell us where you got it and tell us the surgeon tell us who the Look, Australia's sweetheart, Robert Irwin. I don't think he's got a bad bone in his body.

I don't think there's anyone that can dislike him. He's an absolute superstar. He's gone over to America recently. He's on Dancing with the Stars over there. Somehow he has gone up astronomically to 8 million followers on Instagram. Like for Australia, that is huge. Are we building a shrine for Robert Irwin? What are we doing here?

Well, I'm setting him up before I throw him under a bus. But, no, he recently did a dine and dash, like where you eat and then run away and don't pay. Smoke bomb. Yeah, he smoke bombed. have a listen to what he said found a great restaurant ordered a takeaway salad and uh there was a lot of people who um you know saw me and and said g'day and wanted to have a photo and and all that which is which is all good but it turned into a bit of a bit of a frenzy it was a

little bit of a flurry there for a minute they got the salad super fast cheers thanks so much have a good night see you later and then the next morning i wake up and realize i never paid for my salad. I just did the old dine and dash and I didn't even realise I'd done it. I felt terrible. Poor Robert Irwin, he's getting mobbed for a salad and then he has to do a public apology. Sorry, this is brilliant on behalf of this Coffs Harbour restaurant. He's in Coffs. This is brilliant because he's just advertised them one salad, probably what, 17 bucks, 8 million followers. That probably costs $40,000 of advertising if someone was to pay Robert Irwin. Yeah, you would want to go to the place that Robert gets his salads from, wouldn't you?

If he's recommending it, you're going to go visit. Have you ever dined and dashed? I feel like everyone's kind of accidentally walked away and then realised and like, you know, or either someone's chased them out of the restaurant. You're like, oh, sorry. Never dine and dashed though that I can remember. But I have definitely been in the shops when my kids have picked up something

and put it either in their pocket, in the trolley, in the pram. That's called theft, not dine and dash. And they have shoplifted. Yeah, so my kids are shoplifters. Not the same conversation. No one call the police. So they've definitely done that before. Like we've accidentally stolen a pack of tiny teddies.

It actually happened to me two weeks ago. You dined a dash. I say happened to me, dined a dash. No. Well, let me just tell you. Very similar to Robert Irwin. I was being mobbed. No, I wasn't.

I wasn't. I wasn't. I was at a restaurant up on the Gold Coast and there were six of us in total. They sat us right out the front on the thoroughfare. And I know I'm joking. There were a few people that recognised us and said hello, but I was definitely not being mobbed. anyway we paid went to leave had to walk past everyone out the front it was a packed restaurant

it was on a weekend and we said our goodbyes when walking up the street and then the waitress comes running up the street in front of everyone like yelling out to stop us like we hadn't paid and was literally saying that out loud like you haven't paid excuse me and I was mortified because I thought I know I've paid I literally just paid but she's yelled this out everyone in the restaurant thinks I'm doing a dine and dash. Anyway, she caught up to us up the street and I went onto my bank and I was like, we just paid. I went onto my bank and showed her and she was like, oh my God, my mistake. And I was like, well, too late. I was like, cause now everyone thinks I've dined and dashed. I would have thought it would have been a situation

where your car was declined. That's always awkward. No, it's just, I don't know what happened. I was like, look, it's gone through. And she's like, oh, I'm so sorry. My mistake. That means you're done. I have a funny one for you. You know, Justin Hems, obviously very wealthy, very, very, the man's got a lot of money. We all know and it's in every newspaper. I was standing in an acai place and he was in front of me and he was paying for an acai bowl, $8.50. Card declined.

And I was like, God, that's awkward, poor guy. But then I realised it was because he was paying with Black Amex and they just didn't accept it. So I'm sure the guy was fine. You guys might know Orlando Bloom, Katy Perry. Done and dusted. Space dust. Some might say.

Some might not. I reckon he got the ick from the whole space thing. Well, that's what people are saying. So, okay, if you haven't heard, they do have a little baby together or a kid together. They've recently split. Daisy. Now, they've broken up and since the breakup, I mean,

lots of people have been speculating around the reasons why, but one thing we don't need to speculate about is the fact that Orlando Bloom has been using his social media in a little bit of an interesting way. And I don't know if anyone else can relate to this, but when you go through a bad breakup, often your social media will reflect what's happening in your personal lives. like maybe you start posting inspirational quotes or thirsty pics yeah i do have i've got a bit of

skin in the game but i wanted to read out some of the things that he has been posting thus far on his instagram loneliness does not come from having no people about one but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself now okay question yeah i've read it a few times i don't understand if he's trying to say that he's lonely because she was making him lonely or if he was trying to say it the other way around. Or if he's now lonely. Yeah, I don't know. It's so like into oneself, thy, loneliness, thy,

that I don't understand. Well, this is the thing about cryptic posts, right? Everyone else never knows the true meaning. Only the person that it's been written for actually knows the true meaning around the, you know, weird cryptic Instagram messaging. Here's another one. Each day is a new beginning.

What we do today is what matters most. Do you know what? I think it's okay. I think it's okay. He's just showing that he's expressing himself, his feelings. It doesn't matter that he's a superstar. He feels loneliness as well. Absolutely.

I used to do this, right? I'd go through a bad breakup in my 20s and I thought that it was like just like really obscure and deep to post quotes that I thought that either related to what I was going through or I posted them knowing that the person I was dating was going to see them and they would get like an inside little knowledge into what it was that I was experiencing. Yeah, like I'm talking directly to you and it's a language that we can only hear. We did make Laura go back through and find some of these posts. Yeah, so the problem is, is that I actually went one step further than that. I created an Instagram page when I was in my 20s. Not only

did I used to like screenshot random quotes that I'd found on the internet, when I was really in the depths of despair of a breakup, I would write little musings, I would call them, and I would post them on the internet where people can actually see them. And there is still a paper trail of this today. And I will never, you could torture me to death and I will never tell you the name of that Instagram page. So it wasn't under your name. It was a fake name. It was a fake name. Okay. I know you feel uncomfortable. I also, by default, feel viscerally uncomfortable for you. You have to read one out. Okay. Here's one. Dated the 20th of the 10th, 14th. Okay. 2014, sorry 11 years never overlook the beauty bravery and simplicity of the word no right simple

please make it stop already simple and to the point here's another one this was October 2014 it was a bad year bad breakup in every situation in life hang on this is only a couple months after what oh it's the same breakup oh damn it in every situation in life, if you ever have to ask yourself the question, am I settling? The answer is yes. I want to curl into a ball. This one? Wait, hold on. October, it was a bad month. There are millions of things in life that you will have absolutely no control over. Your own happiness is not one of them. God, she's deep. She's deep. No, I'm going to let that one apply. Okay. Give me another one though. Oh, I can't. Can I read one? Can I read one? Give me

the page. All right. God, this one really just put a knife in me and put me to sleep. Give me the green dream. Maybe one day. Oh, stop. No, no. I still remember the boy. He was not worth all of this torment. Maybe one day the two of you will collide and for the first time you'll understand what it is to be fully and wholly known. You will be known from your darkest corners to the brightest light and moments in their presence, no matter how fleeting, will be calm, full of laughter and rambling conversations. What?

And isn't that what we spend our lives searching for, to be known wholly right down to our very soul? I feel sick. I feel sick. I feel unwell. Orlando Bloom, don't worry. You don't even touch the sides. Laura Byrne was there first.

I see you. I feel you. I hear you, Orlando. Love, Laura. Then I met my husband on a reality TV show. And you've never been more known. He knew you along with 30 other women. All right.

Change of pace. Can we revisit this? Can we make this like a weekly diary read or something? Guys, there's so many of them. Perfect. That's perfect for us. They're the palatable ones. They get worse.

Okay, hang around. Next week I'm going to be reading whatever one I choose of yours. You're going to give me your phone and I'm going to read whatever I feel tickles my fancy. The more I scroll, September was definitely worse than October. So we can deep dive September next time. Everyone knows Fast and the Furious, right? Paul Walker and Vin Diesel. Now, the reason we're talking about it today is because Laura and I have been discussing it in the past week or two.

They want to do the 12th and final film in the franchise. I think it's the 11th, but like who's counting by now? There's so many. But they want to do it by bringing back Paul Walker. So Paul Walker died in 2013, which was tragic, but they want to put him in the entire movie like he's a living actor. Yeah, we talked about this last week. There was a lot of moral conundrums around this

because Paul Walker's daughter and his brothers and that are okay with it. But the question that we were talking about is, well, who owns someone's image? Who owns someone's face, their mannerisms, the way they speak, the sound of their voice? So Denmark is at the forefront of some new legislation and what they're saying is basically AI-generated deepfakes are now under a copyright law and every single person

should be in charge of the way they look and the way they are presented and their voice. And no one else has really done this before. Yeah, I guess it's all around every single person has the right to own their own face. In Australia, though, there are laws if someone's making explicit material through deepfakes, that is against the law completely.

but I do think that there is a bit of a grey area with other types of deep fakes. The reason why I think that this is crazy genuinely is because obviously I think when you talk about things like deep fakes or AI, we often talk about celebrities. I mean, we've got a very funny photo of the Pope wearing a puffer jacket, which we all thought was the Pope, but, you know, apparently it's not.

He actually looks good in it though. He looks lit. I was like, that is a cool Pope. Turns out even producer Grace was fooled and thought it was, but no, it's an AI image. I kind of question it when it comes to celebrities because I think we're all starting to become a little bit more aware that obviously celebrities are victims of deep fakes and AI but literally last night at dinner one of my good friends Falcon came over and he was showing me a photo

he was like speaking of AI look at how cool this is and it was a photo of him and his really good girlfriend obviously she was she was consenting to this but they were like mucking around with how to make AI work and some app that they have, basically he'd uploaded a photo of himself and her standing next to each other. They just had their arm around each other and the AI app that he'd used had made them go from standing next to each other. It had turned the photo into a video and they'd made

out with each other. It was so convincing that I honestly I had to see the app to believe that it actually wasn't created from a photo. I thought genuinely he'd just kissed his friend. I wonder if celebrities might use this to their advantage He's like, I know we're saying it's really detrimental, but I wonder if a celeb gets done like doing drugs or something that now it's so real you can just say that's not me.

Someone has AI'd that. Like surely you can use it in the reverse. But I also think about it more from like, you know, if someone can create a picture of them making out with their friends so easily, turn it into a video, imagine like a jilted ex, what they could do with a photo. Or imagine someone who has like a real vendetta against someone at work and turning AI against them in the workplace, this is such a new area. And I do think in the

next few years, we are going to see some real creative and also potentially really venomous or vindictive ways that AI is used. People could lose their jobs. They could potentially be seen as though they're cheating in relationships when they're never, ever, ever cheated. I just think like the advances have moved forward so quickly in AI, but the legislation and policy never catches up to technology as quickly. And so there's a little bit of a gray area at the moment, the whole thing, but it's so fascinating. There's a couple, Laura, online at the moment going viral for the funniest story. So this couple's friend, like his college friend, they were catching up and he'd just gotten engaged and he was talking about his wedding

to them. He said, I'm getting married next year. It's going to be like so small and intimate and special. And that was the conversation, just like a really private conversation. the couple then received a save the date for the following year and it was international it was like over in Argentina so they do what most people would do for an international wedding and they lock in the flights and the accommodation and you know it was $1,500 flights $3,000 of accommodation also yeah when it's an international wedding those save the dates are way more important because you've got to actually block out time for work and you've got to book the flights on a decent amount of money and blah blah yeah you have to be so organized so they organized the whole thing

because they've been friends forever and they've got to save the date. And he told them to their face, you know, small intimate wedding. So they booked the same hotel as the groom and bride and the bridal party because they thought that will be easier. So all the family and everyone at this one hotel. So they booked that. Time goes past and they haven't received any updates. And it's like a couple of days before they're flying out and they're still looking for updates. Then that's when it clicks to them. They're like, hang on, we actually never got an invite. They turned up to the wedding uninvited. No. Well, okay. This is where it gets funny. Did they actually go to the wedding or did they just go on holiday? So they turn up to the hotel. They can't change it.

They're locked in. They don't want to waste their money and not go, but they're too embarrassed to tell them what happened. So they go to the wedding and then just find out their schedule and just do everything around their schedule. So they're like spies hiding at the wedding. Like, so when they see them go to the pool, they would go and book a spa. When they see them going to get massages, they would go out for the day and get whatever it is. And they avoided the whole bridal party. So they never knew that they were there. Imagine finding out that two of your best friends were at the same hotel

where your wedding was being held. Surely. Because you sent them a save the date and then uninvited. But I, you know what, I can see how that happens. I think if you've sent a save the date, that is as good as an invitation. If you're uninviting someone, you need to uninvite them. You can't just not follow through with an invitation and think that that's good enough, right?

Right? Laura, did you do this? Not to this note, because we didn't have a destination wedding. Also... But did you un-invite someone? Yes, technically, but on a technicality slightly different. So my husband and I, we were originally going to get married towards the start of COVID and then COVID hit

and everything kind of went a bit screw loose. So we sent out Save the Dates to our family and friends and then the date changed because, you know, COVID hit and we decided to postpone it. So we actually didn't get married for two and a half years after our original wedding date that was set or two years or something like that. That's a long time.

A long time. A long time. So we'd sent out Save the Dates. Then our second wedding day, we also then sent out saying, oh, that date's been changed. Like hold tight, we'll have more details for you. Two years later,

there were some people who we sent Save the Dates to on that original mailing list. And let me tell you, we had not heard from them. I had not heard from them. neither had Matt. We'd barely spoken to them in that time. And so I kind of just assumed if we haven't spoken in two years, surely they don't expect to get another save the day. So you didn't uninvite them. You just didn't send another save the day. I just didn't tell them when the new wedding was.

But did they contact you in any capacity? One person did. One of them said, hey, honey, I haven't received the invitation yet. And what did you say? Do you fake it or say because you're not invited? I then invited them under duress. you get panicked what else are you going to do that's so bad they actually didn't come

they didn't come because they probably heard you say I'm panicking mum no no no I think it was because by then like the wedding was actually just a couple of weeks away like it was very evident

it was just so awkward looking back now it was so awkward I didn't know what to do I didn't want to write to them and say oh hey I have not heard from you for two years and I've had a baby

and you just kind of vanished from my life so I didn't think you'd want to come to my wedding I didn't want to send that there was a bit of passive aggressiveness loaded into that

So instead, I just sent them an invite and said, so sorry, honey, if you haven't received it. You can read between the lines. If you're getting an invitation three weeks out of a wedding, you're like the last person on the list. Something's gone wrong. Don't get me wrong, though. I don't think it's a smart move.

If you've sent out save the dates, don't be a coward like I am. At least tell people if they're not invited to the real wedding, especially if they're trying to go to an overseas wedding. I would love to know, do you share an office or a communal kitchen space where you've got to put your lunch in a shared fridge? And if so, is there some fridge politics that goes on in your workplace? There'd be no workplace without fridge politics. And I know what happens, right?

You put your little yoghurt in there, your little yoghurt satchel, someone comes up and takes it and then it's lunchtime and you're looking around, you can't find your yoghurt. We used to have a kitchen thief here. We used to have someone who would always go in and steal things from the fridge. We haven't seen him in a while though. Things could be perfectly labelled with a name.

It could be your lunch. That you brought in, that your mum had made you in the mornings, packed you perfectly in a brown paper bag. You'd go there to go and get it and half it would be eaten. I think most officers have one of these people who feel like it's okay to help themselves to other people's lunches. And there is a man who has been speaking about this online. Now, he had his lunch stolen five times at his work.

Imagine bringing a packed lunch. It's actually so shitty. It's absolutely bizarre, okay? Because also, if it's a good lunch, you think about it all day. Yeah, like chicken pesto pasta and you open it up and some... Gone. Yeah, some colleague has helped himself to half a serve. So five times he had his lunch stolen and then he decided

that instead of like, you know, enacting revenge, instead of having like, you know, making a big deal about it, he just brought in a little tiny mini fridge that he put under his desk and he started putting his lunch into his own mini fridge where no one could access. And unfortunately that had him labelled as the office weirdo because he was so protective over his own lunch. But this is the drastic measures that he had to take.

It's not that drastic. I'm definitely team him. I thought you were going to say he got stolen out of his mini fridge. You might have to lock that. Well, since then he's had no more stolen lunches. Do you know, this is so disgusting. I haven't thought about this in years. I was working at a hospital, won't say where,

and there was somebody that worked there that was convinced people were taking his lunch. But I don't know why because no one, for all accounts that we can remember, no one took his lunch, right? He was so paranoid that someone would take his lunch that he would bring in a dead rat. No, that's not real. I saw it.

It was my work. He put a dead rat on top of his lunchbox to deter people from wanting to open it. And let me tell you, not only did it deter people, he got fired. It's like that's an OH&S thing. You can't put a dead animal in the fridge. Was he working in like a lab or something,

like a science lab, so he had access to dead rats? No. Where's someone who works in a hospital finding a dead rat to put on their lunch? He brought it from home. I'm not kidding. I wish I was kidding. I'm actually not.

And he was obviously not well. We did get made redundant. We've heard some talk. From safety, I wish. It's just such a tall tale that I feel like that person's gone too far. Here we are talking about a minibar and you're like, I can one-up that story. I did tell you it was bad.

This guy I work with brought a dead rat in. Yeah, I did tell you it was bad and I wish I was lying but I wasn't. I reckon there's a lot of stories, probably not to that level, but there's a lot of crazy lunch stories for sure. When I used to work as a graphic designer many, many moons ago, we had the same thing, communal fridge. And one of the girls I worked with always brought in boiled eggs. Like she would bring boiled eggs in and put them in the top of the fridge compartment.

Like no one's bringing in raw eggs to an office fridge, right? And so someone kept on stealing and helping themselves to her boiled eggs. So she'd go there, there'd be three, the next day there'd be one. Anyway, she decided to bring in a couple non-boiled eggs, just like fresh eggs and put them in the boiled egg little compartment. And she soon found out who the person was that was stealing the eggs because they were taking them to their desk, cracking them and then doing it in their bin. So, like, anyway, they took a fresh egg to their desk

and cracked it on the table and everyone knew who the culprit was. Well, please let us know if you have a story that can one-up either the rat or the egg. Well, I feel like the rat one, no-one's going to be able to one-up it because that's just psychotic. I also hope no-one can one-up that.