Should I Delete That? - Is It Just Me: Puppies and pickles

Episode Date: February 29, 2024

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Hello and welcome back to Should I Delete That? This is an Is It Just Me episode and it's a special one because I have a guest. The best guest. We've got Georgie back. I was going to sit back in the house. And then I give us off in there. Back in their hizzy hizzle. Oh no.

Oh no. So guys, full full transparency. as you know girl out is currently on maternity leave which she will be wrapping up relatively shortly but it obviously is the most important thing that she has this time at home and doesn't feel rushed to come back so we were kind of thinking she might be back by now so basically i'm talking around the point we've run out of this it just means okay the batch recording process and they also run out of other fun people to ask which is why i'm here again when i tell you i had a spatula the bottom of the barrel.

I'm a kidding. I'm like, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Bye. I'm no going to just sit down. So, yeah, look, Al's just taking a couple more weeks at home with her little Bob, as she should. And we are just planning a couple of other fun, is it just me's? We have an inbox that is literally bursting at the seams of your guys' questions, is it just me's problems, which Al and I will get back to when she returns. But for right now, we're going to be. to do things a little differently.

Dun, done, done, done. As many of you will know, Georgie Swallow is, at least on the internet, one of the most positive people that's ever graced this earth. But I, personally, in our friendship, have seen some sides, some irateness, some anger, some frustration.

You? And I feel like, I want to show the people what they're missing. do they need to see that though is that something they need in their lives I really think it might be so actually you know what there's a lesson in it

it's like you just don't compare yourself to everything that you see on the internet because it's all a lie everything you see online is a construction of what that person wants and it's not a case that I don't want people to know that I am a miserable person I just find it more fun to pretend I'm great and happy

I love it you are you are you are but there's like certain things George's life like we've been really really good friends for like years and years and there's still certain things when you come out with them I'm like what whoa I want you drive I'm like holy shit like so quick and aggressive I'm like I channel my anger in different ways and that's one okay good I'm hoping that we'll get somewhere today so please play along at home I've gone to the place that you've got to go for all things serious and that's BuzzFeed oh of course we're going to talk about unpopular opinion unpopular opinions in general we're going to talk them through, and I just want to see if we can make, see if I'd make you angry.

I'm going to try my hardest. In fact, I don't even think I have to try hard. I don't think these will make me angry. Okay, so the first article that I found, these are some of the most controversial pet opinions. Which of them do you agree with? Oh, see, I feel like we're cheating. She's not going to get angry. No. You shouldn't have a big dog if you live in a city. Why not? You can have the dog. But big dog.

Like, you wouldn't have, like, a Great Dane in the city. I think they're saying it's unfair. They're not going to get properly walk. Because, actually, Georgie, let's just talk about this for a second. Have you seen people on the internet that don't think you should let your dog off a lead? See, this is the, like, okay. I'm no pro, but I am a dog lover, so therefore, naturally all my opinions are the right ones. And I think you should let the dogs do whatever the heck they want.

Do I just say Georgie's in and out of the hospital this week, having bi-weekly rabies chabs because she got bitten by a stray dog in Sri Lanka? So I'm not necessarily sure that they should do everything they want. So... Didn't know we were going to mention that. No, big dogs, I get it. They need the leg room.

They've got long legs. I mean, they are the Naomi Campbell's of dogs. But let us, like, sleep in your bed. Therefore, it has a giant-sized bed. And you just obviously have to, like, take it out for more walks. Or it can just become, like, a little couch potato like you. Like... You can't just have a big, fat, aggressive.

And also, if you don't walk it enough, then it's going to be aggressive. True. But... I'm really trying to rile you up, but that's just one. The second question. But I'm like, what happens? Okay, hold on. What happens?

Really big dog. Like, great day and dog. It's in a shelter and it needs a home. And the only home that's accepting it is a one-bed flat in London. But you work from home and you will love it and you'll give it treats and you will walk it. And fine, if it has to be on a lead, it'll be on a lead. But you know what I mean? Yeah, okay, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, it's better than the alternative. Oh, yeah. Yeah, 100%. 100%. Okay. If you say, breed doesn't matter when you are looking for a little. dog you are not ready for a dog do you agree or disagree I don't think you

should discriminate against dog flavors I think you can have whatever flavor you want and it'd be fine I agree with this thing though I mean all these things okay I get it they make sense but you do have to think things through do you yeah like okay I'm not like okay I at this time in my life don't think a Rottweiler's a good idea but they are actually really nice, friendly dogs. No, I know that, but I couldn't take a full-size

Rottweiler into my house that we've outgrown with a baby and a Labyrinth. Just think the baby could ride it to daycare. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Saddle up.

Literally. Okay, I agree with this one. People should be allowed to take off work after the death of their pet. Oh, 100%. Agree. Oh, 100% agree. I really agree.

I think they should get grieving leave of at least a week. Agree. At least a week. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, 100%. When Dodger died, I literally couldn't. It breaks you.

I couldn't function. They're your best friends. I've never been, I genuinely, and this is like, I didn't know if I should even say it because like I've had a lot, like, I've lost so many people. Like, all my family really are dead, all my grandparents, all my aunts and uncles. But when Dodger died, it was like, even just this conversation and thinking of Dodger who I never actually knew. He didn't say, Dodger?

No, I never met him. You got me a sketch of him after he died. I did. Yeah, because you're the best person in the world But I'd never met him You would have loved him He was a king Arlo could have written him

Come on Arlo could have written him Should I mean? Yeah, I know exactly what you mean Okay, people who don't let their dogs sit on the sofa shouldn't get dogs I agree I agree with that too

I'm sorry, the couch is this big for a reason and you by yourself aren't going to fill a couch What takes up the space? A dog A dog, yeah we should let certain dog breeds with health issues die out

I actually agree with this so I am the proud pug mother of two pugs and I wouldn't change them for the world but knowing what I know now about the way people breed these dogs I don't think it's fair and whether they could be bred differently I don't know I don't know genetics

but there are certain breeds that have a lot of problems and it's unfair on the doggies. And unless you're in a position that you can help that doggy, don't take it on board. Yeah, because you can still individually love the dog and the ones that you've got,

but by not furthering their existence, you're saving future of dogs. 100%. I mean, I, like, so I bought the pugs. They weren't rescued, but this was, you know, 12 years ago. And knowing what I know now, I would rescue a pug if one needed a home,

but I would not pay to keep these dogs in breed because pugs are literally the best dogs with the best personalities but a lot of them have serious health issues Yeah, they're just suffering Same with French bulldogs, isn't it? Oh, little French, well, why is it always the cute ones?

And that's the problem, they're the cute ones. They're the design, they've been bred. They've been bred, like, to break really. Needy little broken dogs. God damn. Okay, all places that serve humans' food should lose their license to serve food if they allow dogs. What?

What? Hold the phone, so dogs aren't allowed in restaurants. Yeah. No, I call bullshit. Who wrote that? Give me their email. That doesn't seem... The dog isn't cooking the food.

I need to view the... Oh my God, 11% of people agree with that. They are sad little people. They are sad little people, Jane. Isn't that wild? I can't agree with that because their dogs aren't making the food and also the dogs aren't like sitting at the table. I mean, my dogs would be, but like they're usually on the floor. Yeah, they're not in your floor.

No, ew. Ew, that one rolled me up. If you are, yeah, I'm going to have a feeling. If you take a cat home from outdoors without checking if it's microchipped, you were a thief. Of course you're a thief. You've got to just take a cat home. Do people take cats? Do you just take cats off the street?

Georgie, have you taken a cat off the street? I mean, it wasn't on the street. have you taken to me? Have you taken a cat? Okay, I was at uni. How do you have to leave? I literally, no, but you'll know what... Have you stolen a cat? Oh, you stole the cat?

How long? For a year? And then I left. Where did the cat go? What did you do? Do you know what I mean? And like, this has been something... No, no, no, no, I don't know what you mean.

What did you do? This has plagued me for the last 10 years. So, I was at uni and a cat just sort of was like, yo, what's up? At my house. So I was like, come on in. pal, let's be friends. But did you keep it in the house? It chose to be there. Yeah, but was, like, could it leave the house? Oh, of course. Okay. Oh, I didn't, like,

trap him. Um, because also we were at union stuff, so I wouldn't like keep a cat in the house. He just sort of came and went as he pleased. Oh, that's fine. And he had a cat flap, like, from whoever built the house, built a cat flap. So I guess that's why he was like, oh, cat flap. This is, and, I mean, never nice. So you had a bit of a choice then when you left Union. It's like, well, you can't take him because he's not yours to take, but then what he was just reliant on you feeling that's what I was worried about and then also now I think about it I'm like that poor family that had a cat and it suddenly disappeared but there were never any well it lived with you all the nights and everything most of the nights that stayed in my bed

and I'm not a cat person so that's saying something I did go around all my neighbours and ask whose cat it was oh my god how did you say goodbye I felt really sick about this it wasn't there and I just left you just left and it oh my god I actually feel sick no I know don't it was dirty but my flatmates were still living there because I dropped out so I left before the end of the year. Oh, thank God. So my flatmates were still there, so I couldn't physically say goodbye to the cat,

so it was their responsibility, even though they didn't necessarily want the cat. Okay. Oh, my God, what did you do during the holidays? Well, the girls were there. I'm really stressed out about this cat. Yeah, no, don't. It's been something that has plagued me for a very long time.

Sorry, I shouldn't have brought it up. Oh, fuck, I feel a bit sick about that. I know. a really bad person, which I know I am. No, I don't think you are. You're in a very difficult position. I was, because you couldn't take it with you, because... I was 19, the cat wanted to be my friend,

and I led it, but I did go around all my neighbours and say, whose cat is this? And no one... No one claimed the cat, but he wasn't with me every day. He'd like, come for a couple days and then leave for a couple days, and then leave for a couple days, and then leave for a couple days. He was probably fine. He'd probably have loads of people on the go. I think he had different houses, and he just sort of, like, had a little drop-by.

Yeah, he probably didn't care about you. That's, yeah, that's just, yeah, he didn't care about me, he didn't care about you, just didn't get, that's what we need, this is how I need to get through this. I'm gonna throw up. He didn't, no, he didn't care about you. He just, he doesn't give a fuck. No, he was happy when he left. Also, when he, when I left, he then went to his other house, and then just hand more houses to them. You just made that up to me, so I feel that. Yeah, 100% and I'll stick with that. Yeah, please still love me everyone. People who get, people who get working dog breeds as house pets don't get to complain that their dog is misbehaving. I think people can complain about whatever they want to be honest

I love a moan I love a moe yeah but I kind of get that I'm like if you have a dog that you know is like super high energy like you gotta give him the energy and give him the stimulation and train him and make him all happy whereas if if he's just like a little terror at home because you're not walking him and giving him the mental stimulation he's like imagine if I got like a sheep dog

yeah in my little flat and I was like hey it'd be a lap dog he'd probably be like are you crazy So it's literally the advice that you gave to the first question was, yes, big dogs can come to the flats and become couch potatoes. How are done that? You're all over the place. I've got reasoning already. Big dog.

Maybe, because they're so big, they don't need all the energy. You know how slowly a great day in front of them? We've seen a great day and run. Well, there you go, couch potato. They move on tectonic plates. They're so slow. Couch potato. Okay, okay, I'll revise.

Depends on the breed. Depends on the breed. Okay, this is a really controversial one. if you bring your kid to a dog park and they get hurt, it's your fault and you should leave. Oh, 100%. I realise people with children are probably going to not agree with that. I don't have kids, so I can't see it from a mother's point of view.

But if it's a specific dog... Wait, what's the kid doing? Is the kid just like sitting chilling? If you bring a kid to a dog park and they get hurt, it's your fault and you should... I mean, yes, it's your fault and you should leave. Like, it is your fault. It's not the... It's not the dog's fault.

But like, I've so many, like, things. I'm like, well, if the, if the kid's, like, chasing the dog and, like, pulling its tail, then it's on the kid. It's on the parent. Yeah. But then if the kid's just, like, sitting there twiddling its thumbs and a dog comes out and over it and goes, you're a bitch, you're in my park. Yeah, but also, why would you take a kid to twiddle their thumbs in the dog park? Exactly. Yeah, I think it's off.

But then it's difficult because in the UK. What if the parent has a dog? Yeah, well, this is it. We don't have dog parks either. We just have parks. So before I had a dog. baby like I would always really struggle because Bua goes out to the park night like rain or shine we're walking that's her park that's her park it's where she shifts it's where she plays it's

where she brought you know like it's all her fun stuff territory and the confusing thing for her is in the middle of the summer all these loads of people with snacks and sit on what she in her head is her 100% so it is really confusing so I do think if you're going to bring your kid to a park in London, you can't have got to be aware that there will be dogs there? I see, I, yeah, I obviously would never want this to happen, but I do think it's on the parent because if you're taking your kid somewhere with dogs, they are your responsibility. But then again, what if someone has a really aggressive dog and they're like, I don't care what my dog does, and it just goes running.

Yeah. It's very stressful. Now, I'm coming into my first year, my first summer with a toddler and a dog. So what am I going to do? no parks ever again because we love the park Bua loves the park

Arlo loves the park but you just I think you just have to be really realistic about the fact that dogs are dogs dogs are animals you are the ones yeah

in charge of the situation you can't rationalise with a kid or a dog no this is actually they're probably on the same like mental wavelength let's be honest or do we think

boo is more intelligent I mean Yes, in months gone by Yeah, God love us She did nothing for a year Arlo can do jazz hands Canboa Just saying

Who knows which one's smarter You raised a very good point Okay Demanding a ban on fireworks Because your dog is scared of them Makes you a Karen And fireworks should still happen Agree or disagree

Disagree All right Karen I hate I hate fireworks. I used to love fireworks and now I don't get the point in them. I watch my dogs cower in the corner and I just think, say they had, you know we've got fireworks night. Night, night, night, there's no s's. Agree. One night a year. And they, boom, firework, fun. That should be enough. But it's fireworks like two weeks and New Year fireworks and Birthday fireworks and Christmas fireworks. We had them all last week.

So many fireworks and I understand people want to celebrate we could just do it with less noisy things Because it's not just the dogs It's like one of the horses in the fields We went to the moon like a casual 60 years ago Why the fuck haven't they made quiet fireworks yet? Surely it's possible

Because like all the like the New Year's show The drones and stuff It's amazing and it's silent Everyone should be given A pack of like 10 firework drones From the government And when it's firework nights They just pre-programmed them

George Foley, the Prime Minister I would run the country so well Fireworks are illegal in Ireland Are they? I love that I got really excited when we moved here I mean I still saw them there They'd be allowed in like It'd be illegal for

An individual person That's what I think should be here I also think that's a really good idea I also know of two people that have lost their hands Like their whole hat I know of two That's not one for you get to I grew up with my parents

saying, don't do that with firework, you lose your hand and you always go, oh yeah, go on. No, I literally know two people who rest their hands. Well, this is a thing. No, I didn't know the person in any of them. Even as an adult, I've had friends that have

held the firework by the stick. Fools. And I just don't think you don't deserve hands then. You look, fine. You want to play for fasterly to your fingers. I thought you were going to say you don't deserve to play with fireworks. All hands, apparently. I don't make the rules.

Okay, this is controversial. I think the adopt don't shop. movement is toxic and increases the prevalence of reactive dogs. Okay, I don't get that because how... I think they're saying more adopted, like, I think often dogs that are adopted in the shelters, for example, are more likely to be aggressive, so it just ends up there just, there's more aggressive dogs around because more aggressive dogs exist because they haven't been put down.

I don't think I believe that. Like, I, like, obviously now I've spent, like, a lot of days in shelters and, yeah, there are dogs with, like, really... activity issues and aggression and all that jazz but they're on the smaller end of the scale than the other scale and those dogs have all been out there at some point anyway which is why they are now in shelters so I kind of feel like that's nonsense I don't believe that I think we should adopt not shop families and friends dogs should not be bought to visit the homes of other big dogs or cats I mean that's between them and men.

Yeah, surely you just ask your friends you go, hi friend, I know you've got a dog, can I bring mine? They go, yes or no, you go, alright mate. You and you. I hate when people make social media accounts for their pets. Agree or disagree. Disagree. I think the majority of the accounts

I follow are dog accounts. Fair enough. Your pets don't belong in every facet of your life and taking them everywhere is inconsiderate and annoying. To him! Sounds like the saddest person I've ever had. Do you. Honestly, have too much time. Ew. That sounds like a very sad. person who doesn't want their dog to be involved in every aspect of their life. I would take

the Pugs to like my smear test if I could. Okay this is the last one I'm going to do on pets. Fair enough. Stop publicly calling your pets your son or daughter. It's weird and off-putting. Who cares if it's off-putting? Oh my God. I actually... I don't think it's off-putting. In fact no but I call the Pugs my babies. But I don't see them as my children. I see them as like my best friends. They're like my little babies. We call Arlo and Buwer. sisters. Oh, see, but I agree with that. But I don't

walk around being like, I birthed, I have two kids, like I don't know, it's like if she's my second. Do you want to know what I always said and this is, I don't know if this is going to be the weirdest thing in the world. I always wish that when you got pregnant, you could like select a preference to have a human or a puppy. So there is another option available

and that's that you don't get pregnant and you just go and get a puppy. No, because then you've birthed your child and it's your own little puppy dog. Imagine pushing a poppy but on they're like small and floppy and they just like imagine pushing a puppy it's so small

I imagine it's not the size that I'm worried about is a puppy coming out of your vagina but like say it makes it no it's no buts no puppies no no I refuse to believe this at one day I will birth a puppy Georgie said the lady who

you can take that to a doctor and be like look no they'd put me away it's not what you think it's not what you think but I just want to have a puppy I'm gonna get no no it's like people that put gerbils up their bombs for sexual no it no ew bobby it's your baby I feel really sorry for the jirbles that go up bombs I don't get it it actually makes me feel physically sick

that people do that. I'm like, put whatever the fuck you want up your ass. I don't care. Not a living creature. Do you think your spinter would be so tight that it would crush the animal to death?

Well, it suffocates, it doesn't it? Because there's no oxygen. Oh, does that what happen? Yeah. So I think they like, they literally like shove it up with like a tube. Yeah.

And I also heard somewhere, probably in like an M&M song, that they like declaw them. So it's all soft. Should I think they've made a sex toy for that? They've, just buy a cat toy. Cat's little, like, fluffy mice, don't they?

Stick one of those, I mean. Buy a fucking butt plug. I know. Don't stick a live animal. If people are listening, look, we accept all sexual preferences and fun times. You do you. If any of you stick things up your bum that are still living... It's suspicious.

We got problems. Yeah. Do they die up there? I can't Google it because my Wi-Fi's age restricted. me I don't know but no one needs they yeah they most of the time they die because they suffocate apparently what a nasty way to go

sure I mean like so undignified and then sorry you must have to have a look at yourself in the mirror after you shut out a dead gerbil and be like you know what I should have just put a butt plug up there who am I should have sat on a wine bottle imagine your mother

knowing what you do next time you shit out a dead gerbil you think of your mom yeah next okay right we're moving on two unpopular opinions in a wedding. Ooh, fun. I don't believe in soulmates, agree or disagree.

I'm like, I'm like the worst of this one because I'm super split. I think Disney has made me believe that there is my soulmate out there and I think that's true. What you should say is Kyle has made me believe. No, but then my split side is I don't think there is one right person

for your entire life. I think, I think you have your right person who is right for you and you spend your whole life with them. But I don't think, say, God forbid, they, like Kyle goes, peace out, I'm out. I don't think I then won't find someone else that I'm, like, deeply in love with. Yeah.

So I'm really split. Like, half me thinks there is this beautiful soulmate out there and you're with that person and it's wonderful. But then I think if something happens to them, I don't think you won't get another one. But I also massively even, like, platonic soulmates. Like, I think me and you're not getting rid of me, but, like, from the minute you met, we met, it's like, we're so, like, aligned. You're my human. Yeah.

And I, yeah, well, that's it. Like, I don't think it has to be a romantic thing. Exactly. So on that level, I'm like, I think I've got lots of soulmates. And it's the most romantic. Like, like you and your husband, who? Yeah, it's one thing. Johnny.

We've got matching tats. Different level. Different level. Um, yeah. So platonic soulmates, I think you can have all the one. Okay, every couple should live together for at least one year before getting married. I mean, I think that makes a lot of, I mean, I haven't done this, but I think that makes sense

because when me and Carl lived together for the year in COVID, the first... Yeah, we don't live together anymore. No, but like, the first few months, I want, like, I was like, this is it, this is the end, I hate you. Like, we, but like, he hated me. And it took that year for us to

actually be like, oh no, this is lovely and this is great. What happens if you get married and then do that? And then you're like, oh, quick, I'm out. Sensive divorce. What do you think? Yeah. Oh my God, these are so contradictory, contrary. You shouldn't

take your spouse's last name, agree or disagree. Between you and you, yeah, I think it's whatever you want. I think if you don't want to take it, fine, and if you do, you do. Okay, this is an interesting one, and I'm just obviously not, I just need to not be triggered. Okay, so I'm just, watch me, just not be triggered. Yeah, yeah. We're like Zen through this one.

Yeah. Marrying your high school, oh, God. Marrying, marrying, marrying, oh no. Oh, no. Marrying your high school sweetheart stunts to your emotional growth. Well, seen as I know someone who did that who's sitting on this couch, I can really agree. No, I disagree.

Why would that stand your emotional growth? Actually, not from a triggered perspective, hard disagree on this. I actually think you have to really actually grow emotional. I think it's the opposite because you have to grow up with a person. And you have to go through all those changes with that person. with each other and you have to maintain your friendship and your interests and your love, which is work over, like me and Alex have been together 11 years and we are different people.

Like, I was 18 when we got together. Like, and now I'm nearly 30. I've got a baby with him. Like, it's completely different with people. Yeah, and I actually think, like, I massively agree with that. I obviously haven't done that. but if I look at who I was 10 years ago to I was now I like at first signs of change and growth

and these things I've gone oh I can't do this so I think to be able to be like mentally strong enough to do that with another person is a lot more impressive yeah I think it's interesting but then I do know people that married married people that they've been with I mean for even longer than me and Alex and actually I can kind of see it from the other side in that like like there's, you can form quite a codependent dynamic where you don't really need to like evolve your other friendships

or necessarily other interests because you've got your built-in person. Oh, but that's no fun. You need to have friends. Well, no, I know, but that's, I think to this question's point, like maybe there is, it can go the other way. But I think for the most part, like if you want to live a full life with somebody that you've been with for a long time,

you have to work really hard to maintain that. of effort, especially through those, like, formative years. So just, oh, okay, sorry, I got distracted by the next one. A woman should not have her father walk her down the aisle. Agree or disagree. Between her and her. Yeah, I mean, personally, I get it because it's the whole, like, oh, they're giving you. It's like their permission.

I just think it's so cute. Like, if you, or whoever walks you down the aisle, I'm like, they're just supporting you on your big day and being a part of it and it being lovely. Like, you're not being sold for it. Gamal. Yeah. I think it's obviously rooted in very toxic things but I think something that I realized when I got married was that

everybody in your life from the minute that you are born has an expectation about the life that you are going to live particularly your parents and like when you're born whether they like mean to or not your parents project their dreams and hopes onto you and their imagination for your life and I think

a really big part of I've been talking to my best friend a lot about this now like she's getting married and it's so common for us with like maybe parents that weren't fully like in our lives or parents that have been divorced or whatever and it's like you have to manage everyone's expectations and kind of maintain a traditional day

in very untraditional circumstances a lot of the time and it's a really difficult thing to do but I was talking to my friend about this the other day and I think that's one of the most important things to remember for saying this to her about her wedding but for everyone it's like you are it's not just your dream

for this day that's not right necessarily that you are having to priority as to everybody else, but you do have to remember that your dad may have dreamt of this for the day you were born. So yes, you're denouncing a tradition, but on balance you need to work out like his disappointment

versus that, you know, your affinity with that. So it's a little bit more complicated than like Instagram feminism that would have you believe. I feel like it so much with a lot of this stuff, it's either like you either just have to not do it or you're giving into that pressure.

And I'm like, no, sometimes things are just a nicety. yeah yeah sometimes it's just cute not that deep are you a pickle person fucking love a pickle oh I love a pickle that's bizarre I like I eat pickles out of a jar that's fucking bizarre I like raw dog a pickle I don't know what raw dog means but I'm pretty sure that means like I like raw dog I was like oh my fucking god no as I said raw dog I was like I should probably just say I don't actually know what it means but I'm just like when it's not in a bun you're raw dog it He's just straight out that jar. That sounds like gerble up the arse talk.

Pickle up a bum. How much did you be paid to put a pickle up your bum? I mean like, probs do it for like 10 grand. Are you kidding? I'd literally, I'd do it for like, I'd do it for a night in the hotel. Like if somebody said to me like, oh,

like if you put this pickle up your bum, you can have a night at this hotel. Honey, you put a pickle up your bum. I'll take it. you to a hotel. I mean it. I'll do it right now. I want to go to a hotel. I haven't had a night away from my kids. Maybe you can get Alex to be the person that tells you if it's...

No, but I need to know if it's true, but I'm not, I don't want to see that. You don't trust me to put a pickle on my own in the house. No, I don't. So I want your husband. Solates, is it? I want your husband to watch you put a pickle up your bum. Do you think it'll, like, maintain its integrity, though? Is it strong enough to get there? Oh, wait, what size pick are we talking?

Also, you could just do it with a tube? A little cornish on tickle Like the little baby pickles I don't care I'll put anything up there Anything dead obviously Or not dead Like I don't put dead animals on that

It's been like things that weren't a lot In eight objects I'll put But I just want my note Okay look You're also a people pleaser Moving away from this This is the last one I'll make you do

This is okay I feel so uncomfortable in myself Right now just Not nearly as uncomfortable If I'm about to do Okay, a lot of people think these behaviours are rude, but I want to know how you feel about them. Okay. Is not saying hi to a stranger passing you rude?

Yes. Are you kidding? I say hi to everyone. Every stranger that passes me. Not everyone. You should have a dog. Yeah, fine. Okay, no.

It's not rude. No, it's not rude. In London, you would literally never get anywhere and you'd probably get the face smashed in. Hi, hi, hello, hey. Imagine doing that's on the tube. Everyone would be like, oh, get out. Get out. No, on the, so I want to say how to like everyone.

It's why I love going up north. Everyone says hi to everyone. But on the tube, I literally never leave under. See, but on the tube, I'm like, if someone even like looks at me for a second, I'm like, what's your problem? Someone's happened me on the shoulder at South Kent, she was and I screamed. Why? Why did they touch you? She wanted directions.

Oh, I don't care. It's like, I know. I know. I know. Not in a tube station. It's like, what? It's pointing at someone, right? I was, I was always told that it was. Yeah, me too.

And I think it's quite aggressive. You. Yeah, don't you... Oh, no, that's made my tummy go a bit. I don't like it. You put a pickle up your bum. See, it's aggressive. Yeah, it's made me look nervous.

Is being really late, rude? Yes. Yeah. I mean, unless there's an extenuating circumstance, the, like... You know, but yeah, yeah, I think it is. I actually think being really late is less rude than being chronically a little bit late every time. Oh, I mean, if it's like a one-off... Yeah, because if someone's like an hour late,

It's like, okay, look, things happen. But if you're, like, consistently, like, oh, she's always like. Then, absolutely. I think, yeah, rude. Yeah, my dad always taught me that it just shows that you don't respect the other person's time. And every time, like, he told me that as a kid. He was like, Lateness just signifies that you don't respect someone else's time. And I was like, oh, what a concept.

That now is stuck with me for life. Yeah. Part of my people pleasing makeup is not looking someone in the eyes you have a conversation, rude. So I was brought up like you have to look in someone's eyes But I always find that I either look too much in people's eyes Or something in my brain tells me like It's weird Tell me like don't look in the eyes

And I flip between the two But then if I think I'm looking too much in your eyes I then panic and then I have to look away So no I don't think it's rude I think if you're a grown up you can probably handle it But my brain can't Yeah also like I don't know That's not very like accepting of like neurodivergence

Because it's not right People get uncomfortable so no I think that's rude is checking your phone during dinner rude how we do this all the time I know I'm like is this like between our dinner or it depends on you weird because if you're like at a birthday party

then yeah then yeah but like you're out if you're on a date with your other half and you sit on your phone then fine yeah it depends is it rude to tell people

to just be happy or just don't think about it when you're upset that gives me like the biggest ick I just so invalidating and rude and insensitive I'm like let that person have their feels. It's putting earbuds when someone sits next to you rude. I mean

depends. Do you know what? If you sat next to me and I did it might be a bit. If I was sitting and someone sat next to me and put them in, I'd be like, oh, sores. Yeah, like if someone sat next to me and they're making noise, I'd put my earplugs in. Yeah. I love an earplog. Is telling your friends that your clothing looks, their clothing looks really ugly, rude. Yes. Yes. Abso fucking loomily. What's the rule? If you can't change it in 30 seconds, don't tell them. Like, label's sticking out.

Change it, something in your teeth. Tell them. Yeah, you don't, ew, no. Never ever be mean about someone's dressing. Just no fucking point. No. What's, I actually, I shared it on my Instagram this morning. Someone sent me a message that said,

honesty without kindness is cruelty. Honesty without, yeah, 100%. It's randomly stopping by it at someone's house for a chat or a coffee rude. No, I would love that. I would love that. I literally feel like I come and do that all the time here. Yeah, no, I love.

Genuinely nothing makes me happier than people dropping by. Oh, I'd love, like... I love it. And actually, people drop by here a lot. I love that energy. I love that. It's my favourite thing about the life that Alex and I have built together is that people drop by. It's because people firstly feel comfortable that they can.

It's because you're nice enough that they want to see you. Or that your babies is like super-due. I know, I know. I know. How lucky is that? Do you know what I mean? Yeah, every time someone drops by, I get a bit giddy. I'm like, oh, yay.

Friend, friend! They chose me. I didn't have to bet them to come. they just did it. I know that. Of all the houses on the street, they could have knocked on anyone's door. Anyone, there they are.

They may not have been late in, but they can't. Is it rude to avoid a friend or colleague when you've run into them, but they haven't seen you? Can I just say, I know, so I... I've done that so many times. I know a guy. I know a guy. It's like, you know, like family friends, like,

where everybody talks, like your mum's friends and everybody's, like, chatting and blah, blah, blah, blah. and apparently one guy that we know saw another guy that we know at the chief station hide from him like run, saw him plant him and he ran and it and I think about it like all the time I'm like don't run I pretend I don't see people

me too I have a I like doing that but this bit me on the ass not that long ago because somebody was waving at me being like and I was like just gonna pretend not to see and then I pretended not to see and then I had em and what did you put those earplugs in and then I ran no I was slow I just had argo they caught up oh that's embarrassing for you really embarrassing for me but I think I was

oh I was so sorry I didn't hear you I had my whole wait nothing in my ear so I'm I'm deaf now I was pregnant and something happened it's back now um so yeah is it rude no because I do it a lot so I don't want to be rude so no it really depends because sometimes you just can't handle it honestly just a lot of energy it's not answering the phone because you don't feel like it rude no they don't know they don't know that you're not picking up because you don't feel like it yeah also we have to have some boundaries and I think we are way too like reliant on other people just doing

exactly what we want all the time 100% and that's fair it's telling some of the music taste is bad rude yes yeah because other people's music taste is not your business but I just don't sound like why you'd be like ew about something like how does that implement your life in any way. Literally. It's putting back an empty bottle or can in the fridge, rude. It's fucking annoying, is what it is, Alexandra. Why would it? Only psychopaths

do that. Only men do that. I would. Do you know how many empty fucking cartons are in my fridge? He does it all the time. Oh my God, what a weirdo. I know. You married a weirdo. And I'm like, oh, I go and I go to pick it up and I'm like, well, that's suspiciously light. How fun is it you married your high school sweetheart now? Yeah, I know. You married a psychopath. I'm not emotionally stunted at all.

He is. Ooh, this is such a good one to finish on. Is it rude to ask someone what percentage their phone is on when they ask to use your charger? This grinds my gears. From what side? From like if I am charging my phone and someone goes,

what percentage are you as if not enough? I'm like, if you were like, oh my phone's about to die, I'd be like, yeah, of course you can, babe. But like if you're like, what percentage is it? I'd be like, no. yeah i'd be like oh i would cut my cable in half and go so as it broke oh that's delightful that's what i mean guys that's why that's that's what we're starting

that's that's that's that's what that's what that's what that's what that's what i was waiting for this whole episode i had to let them see you damn it you nearly did it i've been wrongful no just out of spite i'd want to be like fucker yeah it's such and then because then i always lie because my this is a classic my brother he would do this every time Can I use the charge? Yeah, what percent are you on? I'll be like, four. Four percent.

I'm on 40. What would you do if they said, let me see? Oh my God, the panic. I know. That would instill in my chest. I'd gaslight and I'd be like, you haven't got an eye, you haven't got an iPhone, you've got a Google, you wouldn't know. You don't understand. The zero's always there.

Yeah, the zero's just like, you would, it's so much. Energy levels. I don't know. There's just a lot. I think it's really rude. But it's like, I also get so tempted to do it because I have my charging block and everybody knows I carry my charging block around. Like I've always got a charging block.

Give me a bit of charge. Yeah, yeah. Can I use a charging block? And I'm like, do you really need it though? Because do you need it? Because it takes a whole day for me to charge it. I think you should say. And like, I charge it for me to use.

You're using your electricity. Have I ever said they're essentially stealing from you if they use it. So what I'm saying. No, they've been gifted it by me because I always say, yeah, sure. Even if I really didn't want them to tell me, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you go. Sure. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. I'll just stand to and rob my house together and general. make some electricity for you. Who's got like a potato? Don't they do something? I got time. I could, I've got nowhere else to be. I can be this for hours. But that's it as well. Like if someone said, can I use your charger and my phone was still dying, I'd go, yeah, sure. Yeah. You wouldn't cut it in half. You'd just hate them for the fact that they'd hate them and then moan about it later. Because my phone died, but I'd have no one to moan too

because I couldn't talk to anyone. Oh. Well, this has been fun. I feel... Therapized. No. I feel the opposite. I need to track these people down with their opinions and have conversations with them.

Not to take it back to arsoles, but opinions are, like assholes, everyone has one and everyone stinks. On that note, that... Groundbroken. I'm a poet. I didn't even make it up. I think we read it on a fridge mic,

so philosophical. All right guys, thank you so much for listening and for bearing with us as we cobble together these slightly different is it just me's. I hope you enjoy them. don't tell us if you haven't because I don't think Georgie could handle it. It would be an unpopular opinion.

It would go down like a lead balloon actually, so please keep that one to yourself. We'll be back on Monday and next Thursday with another slightly different, is it just me? But I think from beyond then, we probably will be back with normal service, but we'll keep you posted. Love you guys loads. Thanks for much for listening. Thank you so much for listening. Should I delete that as part of the ACAS for creative network?