Should I Delete That? - Is It Just Me: Skellingtons and queefing

Episode Date: September 14, 2022

In this week’s Is It Just Me? The girls discuss prescription goggles, queefing and how signatures are embarrassing...Follow us on Instagram @shouldideletethatEmail us at shouldideletethatpod@gmail.c...omProduced & edited by Daisy GrantMusic by Alex Andrew Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Ready, steady. Go. Hello. I haven't just me off the bat. It's my own. It hasn't come from anyone else. It's come from me. You know in Deverewe's Prada in that iconic scene,
Starting point is 00:00:18 when don't look at me like that because you know. It's amazing. I mean like New York fashion, Katie Tunstall's playing and they're just fucking thriving. They're sliving. They're sliving. They're just so fashionable. And it's that montage of like,
Starting point is 00:00:33 there's two montages in Devaluerre's Prada. Yeah. One of them is at the beginning when all the girls are like just looking so beautiful and amazing and being fashionable. Yeah. And then there's the one later
Starting point is 00:00:43 when Andy has her makeover. Okay. And then it's like, are you wearing the Chanel boots? Yeah, I am. You know that scene. Okay. Anyway, pivotal for me.
Starting point is 00:00:52 Like, I just, it's huge. I love DeVosst Prada. Okay. This morning, well, as we talked about on my, last Monday, this Monday, episode we have to completely burn everything we own and start again because we're terrible
Starting point is 00:01:04 at getting dressed and like our fashion is abysmal yeah that process has started for me okay I've decided to be more fashionable okay bought these like chunky boots that look quite cool thank you love them love them wearing a blazer I'm wearing a dress it's gone okay I look pretty good like I objectively I can look at this outfit and be like yeah fashion unfortunately it has been stress from start to finish wearing this outfit and I just need to know is it just me that finds being fashionable incredibly stressful this is the thing and for me a function will always win over fashion because there is nothing worse than being uncomfortable in your outfit or something not quite fitting right or like you've got blisters or like something's digging into you and you know what there are some concessions
Starting point is 00:01:50 I'm willing to make but actually I think function over fashion and I think it is hard to be fashionable It is. I've got blisters. These boots are so cool and I swear to God I'm going to break them but they're breaking me right now like I've got terrible blisters I've put shorts on underneath my dress
Starting point is 00:02:05 but even still it's still embarrassing to flash your shorts because you just know full well nobody in Devil wears Prada is wearing shorts under their dress because they just wouldn't have the need do you know what I mean they'd like flash like a perfectly toned
Starting point is 00:02:18 bum cheek if they had to and only in the sight of like a good looking man for whom it would be like a meat cute do you know what I mean they would never just be like getting off the tube and it would just be like, oh God, like, fanny to the wind.
Starting point is 00:02:30 Like, it's just stupid. And then I got my hair, the boss went by, and all my hair got stuck in my lip gloss. Embarrassing. Yeah, that's why I never wear my lip gloss. Can't stand that. But then, like, some people do it really well. Like, some people I look at and think,
Starting point is 00:02:45 you're so fashionable, and I can tell that you have an effortless time doing it. Like, I don't know if you follow this girl called Coco Beauty on Instagram. She's absolutely stunning, but the outfit she wears are, like, so simple. but so chic. Literally she just wears like a pair of jeans, a great pair of trainers, like a nice jumper and a nice over layer. And she looks so good.
Starting point is 00:03:08 I don't know. I know. I'm just really struggling. I'll keep going. It's fine. I'll make it work. We'll tell you an embarrassing thing about being a human. Yesterday I went to go,
Starting point is 00:03:17 Alex asked me to get on a pizza from the co-op. So I got him a pizza from the co-op and I didn't know how to carry it home. So I ended up carrying it home like I was holding like a book like I was at school. You know when you walk like holding a folder. but I was just like holding a pizza like like I was holding a book and yeah because you can't like either that or you hold it like you're about to hand it to someone like deliver it to someone yeah it's a really hard thing to carry home it's just really stupid it's just really stupid I thought about like that yeah it's like that time yeah like it's like that time I dropped the cucumber
Starting point is 00:03:42 and then it's like it's just there are some things that just embarrassing yeah like something else is just embarrassing I've had an email go on I've had a message um which has actually touched a nerve like a big nerve in me okay no preample nothing it just says no signatures are the most embarrassing thing ever I came up with mine when I was 10 and it's so embarrassing
Starting point is 00:04:07 but I feel like I can't change it now but does anyone check a sign of but does anyone ever check a signature mortifying stuff no but this is the thing whenever I get asked to do signatures whenever I get asked that sounds like I'm a
Starting point is 00:04:21 I'm a very important person I mean like whenever you have to write your signature. It could be anything. Who the hell's going to like cross-reference it against what I wrote five years ago? But people do. Who? Why do I don't know? Like, I don't think they do though. This is the thing. A signature is a stupid thing. But I think people will check it against like. Maybe it's not. I don't know. Maybe I'll take that back. But, but, okay, here's something. Perhaps if you were frauded, I don't know if that's, and I don't know if that's a word, but if you were the victim of fraud and somebody faked to be you,
Starting point is 00:04:55 to steal your shit and then you call the police and then the police were like okay but you sign for it and then let's see the signature and then we get the signature and then they see you didn't sign for it
Starting point is 00:05:05 that's not you because you see the signature and it's somebody else do you know what I mean? Yeah so maybe they are incredibly useful how can you argue against it though
Starting point is 00:05:14 how can you say no that signature wasn't mine but that one was there is just no way to tell well that's the point of a signature it's your signature it's your signature it's one that's like
Starting point is 00:05:22 signifies you What are they going to check it with? The other ones that you've done? Which are the ones? All of them, you have a signature. Are you telling me that you just have loads of signatures? I just write my name. I don't have a signature.
Starting point is 00:05:35 I just write my name. Oh, because you don't have a sign. I write a sign. Maybe I should admit this on the podcast, because I'm just going to get frauded, left, right and centre. We're making that into a verb. You deserve it. You know what?
Starting point is 00:05:46 Fraudder. Yeah, I just write my name. I just write a light. You don't have a signature. No. That's actually insane. No. Because it's just always.
Starting point is 00:05:54 seemed like a very stupid concept of me. Oh my God. So what have you written like? I mean, what do I know fucking nothing? Does it look different on like your driving license? Well, no, it looks the same because it's just my handwriting. I just write my name. I write a light.
Starting point is 00:06:09 A light. A light, yeah. So you write a light here for Buckingham Palace, which is all I can ever think when I'm on the, um, do you pick a dilly line? Yeah, yeah. And you stop at Green Park. Or a light. bulb, a light fixture, a light in the sky.
Starting point is 00:06:30 Yes, I have been through these things. I can't believe you don't have a signature. Well, what do you do? Like some crazy thing? Well, this takes us back to the listener's point. My signature is so embarrassing. Is it squiggly? I'm going to so... Okay, fine, I'll tell you all about it.
Starting point is 00:06:49 So, right, Emily. Yeah. Your full name? I had nothing but time as a child, okay, to practice this. So, yeah, as I've got older and I've got busier, I haven't had this sort of free time. So it's kind of, it's taken some hits. But it used to be, and I've actually got it on my driving license,
Starting point is 00:07:07 Emily, and then I go down, and then it goes, oh, and it makes a figure eight to get up to the sea. Oh, my God. Also, I have a different sign there now. So I need to start, I need to go back to the drawing board. But do you really just write A-Light exactly the same all the time? Literally, I just write A light, like, as I'm writing it in a normal. Pardon?
Starting point is 00:07:27 Big A or little A? Big A. Nice. Because, obviously, I'm not an animal, but I'm to do a little A. It's clearly an initial, so it's a big A. I don't like capitals. And then, yeah, just a dot light. Do I do a dot?
Starting point is 00:07:39 Yeah, do I do a dot. Yeah, I do a dot. Yeah, I do a dot light, yeah. Of course I do a dot. A dot, dot, L-I-G-H-D, yeah. Yeah, I suppose I need to make a new signature now because I have a new name, I just hate it. I've really kind of cut back now.
Starting point is 00:07:55 I just, I go like, emily, and then I do a big C, and then I just kind of do a line. So it's like Emily C line. So you don't actually write Clarkson? No, I used to. I thought you had to write your first initial and your last name. I wrote my last name had to written. And then my last name is completely illegible.
Starting point is 00:08:14 Okay, but you kind of, it's kind of there. It's not like, you don't write Emily C. I pretty much write Emily C and then the little, blah, blah, and it disappears. By the time I've got to see, like, I can't spell my middle name with any confidence. I'm really pleased I'm very rarely asked to write that. Harriet. Harriet, I knew that.
Starting point is 00:08:29 I've got no idea how to spell it. You definitely do. Give it go. I just don't know if it's two R's or two T's. I'm going to sound stupid if I try. Try. But I can't spell things that loud. Okay, we'll try.
Starting point is 00:08:42 H. I just don't, yeah, no, I know it's H-A-R-R-R, or is it? Is it 2-R-S or two T's? Is it H-A-R-I-E-T, or is it H-A-R-R-I-E-T? Don't we tell you? Yes, second one. What was that? What was that?
Starting point is 00:08:56 What was that? Harriet. Yes, I don't have to write that down a lot, which is a relief, and you don't have to put it in the signature, which is even better. That's funny. Yeah, but you can't laugh at me. Your middle name is the same as your sister's name. I know, I know, it's very weird.
Starting point is 00:09:09 Really weird, no offence. And I just got, they were just like, this is too many girls. We got too many fucking girl names. Yeah, but they thought that by the third one. They had two more girls. I know. And they'd already use your name twice. Very odd.
Starting point is 00:09:20 Yeah. Yeah, because then they had the twins. Yeah. And they had to come up with like all new names for them. And they went with all traditional names apart from Genevieve, which is like, which is basically like Doris in French. But why do they love Catherine so much? Betty or Barbara in French. Why have they had to have Catherine featured twice?
Starting point is 00:09:37 I don't know. Has anyone else got to double up on names? I think they've actually ever brought it up. No, no one else doubles up. No. Interesting. Yeah, I do find signatures really embarrassing. I'm so embarrassed by my previous signature
Starting point is 00:09:48 because I just look like I care too much I think there's a real you've just got to look like you don't give a shit that's the trick but I remember can I just say I remember I used to
Starting point is 00:09:58 I could probably get done for fraud so I'm going to whisper it I used to that's really gonna stop you from going to what whispering it no I used to copy my mum's signature did you at school I can't remember what for
Starting point is 00:10:13 I'm assuming that I must have wanted to get like off games or like not have to go to PE or swimming or something but I don't know why I just remember copying her signature yeah which can I just say for someone with such terrible handwriting is a very precise thing is elaborate yeah I can picture the whole thing and it's long and there's a lot of loops and I used to genuinely I think I thought like the FBI came every time you did a signature to cross-reference like even just giving it to your PE teacher you do shit yourself They look at it and they're like, I imagine that they're going to like compare it to a note that she's given to be like,
Starting point is 00:10:51 this is not the legitimate document, you're a fraud. Get out. You know, that's what I thought would happen. I guess now it makes much more sense, like docu sign. It's so easy now. And then you can literally trace it back to be like, this person signed it, sent it from their email address. But back in the day, it was just the Wild West. Yeah, you just had your word for it and you quit.
Starting point is 00:11:10 That's why you had to have such a good signature. But yes, I agree. I agree. which are so embarrassing. It's also embarrassing when like DPD or whoever deliver the parcel and they want a photo of it but they've already given it to you
Starting point is 00:11:21 and they're like, can we take a photo? I'm like, for fuck's sake, fine. Do you know how many of those I've smiled for? Or my new thing, I've just started like shoving my arm out the door because I don't want to be in it so I'm just like, here you go. And then like, is that weird?
Starting point is 00:11:39 Like, yeah, all of it, everything. Yeah, proving your identity is a horrifying thing to do. Okay, so I have an embarrassing story. Hi, All, goes without saying, love a podcast, and you make me actually burst out laughing on the reg, often inappropriate places, sorry. I thought you've been said on the rag. On the rag? Well, stay with that. Stay with that, okay? A horrendous story for you to go with, is it just me? Bear with me, it's a long gun. For context, I am the only female in my office with five men, and everyone is incredibly quiet. You can hear a pin drop. I have come off the pillow.
Starting point is 00:12:14 few weeks ago having been on it for at least a decade and having not had a period in that time and I have just had my first period since stopping the pill. Hooray my body seems to function even if I can't see below. I am at work in the office and wearing my wonderful workers who have sponsored the podcast previously. I stand up to go to the toilet for some unknown and ungodly reason my body decides to sabotage me and I quiff completely out of the blue and uncontrollably. A hundred percent blaming this with being on my period and there being liquid and air down there and the movement from sitting to standing and it's loud really loud it almost sounds like a fart i then keep creeping with every step i take in my desperation
Starting point is 00:12:51 every creeper make i then keep creeping with every step i take in this desperation to just evacuate the room at this point i have to walk past all of my colleagues to get out of this goddamn room as well i make it to the toilet and by this point i don't know how i'm able to head back into the office but clearly I have to. No one has mentioned this, so I am praying that the quiff wasn't as loud as I think it was, but it was. I was there, they all heard me. I don't make eye contact with any of them and I think they're being polite and don't want to mention anything. I am, however, totally mortified and might as well hand in my notice. I feel like the best way for me to process this is to deal with it, head on an email you guys, 100% also
Starting point is 00:13:30 raising this in my therapy session this week. Please tell me this isn't and is it just me and this has happened to someone else, please. Okay, so not for me. It hasn't happened to me personally but I'm I'm sorry she doesn't want to hear that that hasn't happened to me has it happened to you have you have you ever queve oh but like I mean sorry I mean like out and about oh I don't I don't think so no but I I'm always scared of used to be scared of doing that because I find it quite uncontrollable whereas a fart you can control it but I find a quiff way more uncontrollable because as you walk with every steps you take a quiep it does make you make that needs a rewrite um that's i really feel for you it's like my friend i mean it's not
Starting point is 00:14:17 the same but my friend's got really farty flirty shoes and everywhere she walks she's like oh it's because it's a farty flaps as opposed to you and your farty flaps um oh god no that's rough you know that that is one of the real reasons we need to end inequality in the workplace like we can't have this sort of we can't have this sort of imbalance she needed women there going don't worry about it singing a song over the top to every step you just to distract from the you know yeah no woman would have let that happen in silence i think the best way to approach things like that is just to pretend it never happened a hundred keep walking with confidence like is it in their heads let them think it's let them start to question themselves doubt themselves you gaslight them into
Starting point is 00:14:57 believing you gaslight them yeah into believing that you would never creep in the workplace bless you also she said that she doesn't have to be anonymous because she's got no no dignity left anyway but we will spare her hi helen love it honestly god love you okay so i also have a voice which has become my new favorite favorite favorite thing agree okay here we go ready okay hit me ladies oh my god i've got to tell you this talk about should i delete this well i did have to delete it so i listened to your podcast today loved it put it on my story saying highly recommended, but what I didn't realize was I went on your guest's Instagram, posted hers saying that I should watch you, but on her clip, it says about when she looks,
Starting point is 00:15:51 you know, in her reflection saying I shouldn't go on top. My daughter, who's 24, then messages me saying, mother, why are you sharing that? I'm 45. Oh my God, talk about should I delete this? well I did delete it and I nearly died and then she's texting me saying you need to be careful what you're doing we don't need to know about your sex life oh my god and then I'm trying to say it was um about makeup and positivity about ageist and things oh god so the only clip that shows up is Nadine saying I can never get on top again oh my god imagine finding out your mom's listening to apologies my mum's So that Nadine episode, like I told her afterwards, because my mum has gotten a lot of skincare advice from Nadine via me.
Starting point is 00:16:42 Like, I've been like, Nadine, what should my mum do with this, this and this? So she loves Nadine. My mom loves Nadine. And I told her that she'd been on and that we talked about her and stuff. So she rang me the day and she was like, I'm just trying to find your podcast. She's not very tech literate. I'm trying to find your podcast. Like, how do I do it?
Starting point is 00:16:59 And I was like, no, please, please. You can't. You can't go on that. because not too far away from Nadine's episode is sex parties and squirting. And I cannot, I cannot have my mum see that. Absolutely not. And ask, if she happens to listen to that episode, me asking a shit ton of questions that are just, absolutely,
Starting point is 00:17:19 she would never forgive me. This is killing me that this information is out there in the world and you just hope that your mum's never going to, did she not use Instagram? No, she doesn't have Instagram. Wow. I know. Jesus, I can't wait to sit down with her and tell her what we do for a job.
Starting point is 00:17:34 she's got to blow her mind um she has no idea what i do anyway she's no idea she'll be like oh my god wow um so just okay so that hearing that voice note there about like that misunderstanding reminded me of this story that i know and it's honestly become folklore at my school about parents who had a party they had like a house full of people yeah and then they went to bed yeah and i think the TV in their room was connected to the speaker in the main room where the party was still going on and then some sorted tapes no oh my god were played oh my god but only the audio came through to the party well thank god the video didn't come through well get but I mean also still not good I actually have reason to believe it might have been a home tape but that
Starting point is 00:18:26 might just be me adding an embellishment for flare so bad oh my god done I know, but it does make me laugh and people think about, like, about, like, parents sexing. It's like, how did, how do you think you got here? I know. And there's five of us, like, it happened at least four times. I know. What, your parents? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:52 And they're still married. And they've been together for ages. What do you think they do? Do you know what I mean? I just, just think ignorance is blessed, really. For both of you? Yeah, and denial is good as well. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:19:03 Put that on a fridge magnet. Denial is good. Ignorance is bliss and denial is great. A.L. You're all welcome. Okay. I have something more serious. Someone is asking us for some advice. Okay. Gear change. Okay. Can you do that? Yeah, go. No, no, I mean physically.
Starting point is 00:19:22 Physically. Can you do that in a car? Can you drive a manual car? That's a more difficult question. Yes, I only drive a manual car, but that's a whole, a whole different thing in itself. I need to have a manual car once a year. I, okay, I won't go on too much of tangent, but I drive a manual car and I cannot, for the life of me, work out which gear I'm in at what time.
Starting point is 00:19:43 I have to count down one, two, three, four, five to work out where the gear stick is, and to work out which one I'm in. Oh my God, what? I know, because I can't. The fact that you exist makes me scared to drive. I know, literally.
Starting point is 00:19:57 I mean, I have an idea. I'm in three, but I'm just like, on one, two, three. Yeah, I must be. But you don't sit in three for ages anyway. You know, most of the time you're just working your way up. Um, the speed I go, I sit in, I sit in three. No, you don't. No, I obviously don't because that's dangerous. But like, I don't go much above three. I'm not to get on the motorway. You are going to have to get into five if you're going on the motorway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, that really, really, really worries me. Because you know, they say you don't have to worry, like you don't worry about yourself. You just
Starting point is 00:20:30 worry about other drivers. Like, I'm just going to have to worry about you. Not hurting you, but hurt, like, yeah, shit. No, I'm very, very careful. I mean, touchbird and whistle. No, I believe that you're very careful. I am, I think that might be to your detriment, how careful you are. I'm assessing danger at every, literally every second. Yeah, I actually, when I was a passenger in the car, it is one of the most stressful things in the world. Like a car comes, she's like, whoa, car. I know. Worst, we're on the road. Passenger. Like full, like, way well, like, imagine like your mum in the passenger seat and then times it by like 50. Higher synth bouquet.
Starting point is 00:21:04 I've been compared to on many occasions. A higher synth bouquet? Yeah. What does that mean? You're probably, I think you're too young for that, which is quite sad. It was a TV show and she was... I'm going to show you a clip on YouTube later. It's brilliant.
Starting point is 00:21:18 Anyway. Give it on VCR. Yeah, literally. Okay. Hey, I love the podcast. Please can I send in and is it just me? My friend's boyfriend broke up with her a few months ago and has done some awful things to her over the 12 years they've been together, including a lot of manipulation,
Starting point is 00:21:34 borderline abuse and gaslighting. He's since slept with one of her friends and has been even more revolting since they broke up. She's now agreed to see him again for a few days and the rest of our friendship group and me are so worried that they're going to get back together. What should we say and do? We can't pretend he hasn't done all these awful things and treat him normally, but obviously we want to be there for her and to be her friend. We've already aired our concerns about her relationship with her, but is there something more we can do to prevent them getting back together
Starting point is 00:22:04 without being interfering help? Fuck, that's so hard. So fucking hard. It's so hard, because ultimately at the end of the day, it's her decision and her life, but that doesn't stop you being very concerned and wanting to...
Starting point is 00:22:17 But also, like, I don't think you need to worry about interfering. Like you said, is there any way we can do it without interfering? Fucking interfere. Yeah, definitely. Like, if you're worried for your friend's safety, exactly. Then button, you know, like now's a good time. because he isn't you know it's obviously very difficult for people when they're in that relationship and in that situation but before she gets back into it you have this opportunity well she's not totally under his thumb to have a conversation with her and like do it like an intervention yeah I mean if you can face it like and not in a way that's like we're angry with you but in a way that if all of the friends that are worried can show up and and and
Starting point is 00:22:59 be show your concern together and it's not like we're going to be so mad at you if you do this it's going to be like we are deeply concerned out of love and concern and we are all here for you and if this is what you're going to do we're here for you anyway but we just implore you not to do this you know this is what we know and this is what you know this relationship's going to be and this is what you're worth and this is this this and lay everything out put it all together because that's when it looks most shocking when everything is, you know, when it's all a huge, like, cumulative effect
Starting point is 00:23:36 to lay everything out and, like, even list it all out, like write it all down. So she's got all the information because when you're in something, it's really hard to have any oversight and any perspective. So try and give her that perspective. And I guess from there, that's all you can do, really,
Starting point is 00:23:54 and just hope that. And it's frustrating because you feel, I think I've definitely been in this, position and not too dissimilar situation with someone I love and you really want to be there and you have to be there that's the thing right you can't force her to do anything and you can sit there and you can know you can drive you at the fucking wall because you know what's best and you know she's in pain or you know that she will be and you know that this just isn't her happiness and her happy ending and isn't what she deserves and whatever but ultimately
Starting point is 00:24:29 you can't control her life and you can't be the one, you know, if she's been with him for, I think it's a 12 years, you know, you're fully indoctrinated. And in the same way that an addict can only get help when they are ready, it's going to be the same for her. And yes, you can help by being around her. Like Al said, you can write it all down. And you can really try and make sure she hears you,
Starting point is 00:24:55 but hearing you and believing you are two separate. separate things and I don't know if there are people in her life that can help like her mom or whatever like to be involved in this conversation because obviously if you're like worried for her welfare then that's what you have to do and even if it doesn't work this time you can't give up like even if you know you do this and she goes back to him anyway you can't just wash your hands with it and go oh well fuck her we try to help yeah because she's obviously in a horrible situation with this person and I think you just have to keep being there and I just think you can't you have to interfere and hopefully if she does get back with him it's not just black and white like well now she's back with him forever and that's that like you might have sewn
Starting point is 00:25:41 even if she does get back with them you might have sown a seed of doubt and that doubt can you know then hopefully grow legs and I mean I think it would be it would be difficult for her to overlook that if you sit down with her with all your mates
Starting point is 00:25:57 sit down with her and even like literally show and thinking like make a fucking make a fucking folder like put everything in that yeah and just yeah make a powerpoint and be like we are putting everything in front of you like that has to at least so a seed of doubt yeah and then remember and this is something that I really struggle with in my life it's that people not everybody's like you and people are going to do things differently to you and sometimes it's so fucking annoying because you can be looking at a situation with 2020 vision was going to say 40-40, it's not a thing, was looking, you can look at a situation
Starting point is 00:26:32 and just see it crystal clear for what it is and you can sit like as I have done on so many occasions and you can like completely like psychoanalyze the situation and explain all the behaviours and make complete sense of it in your head and all the jigsaw pieces
Starting point is 00:26:48 make perfect sense to you but that is any other angle and it's a completely different picture and so you have to have a lot of empathy for the fact that not everybody's going to see it like you see it and instinctively I know it's really easy to get kind of angry with your friends when you give them all the evidence
Starting point is 00:27:06 and they still can't believe it or see it but that might well be what's happening it might tie into issues with her self-esteem as well and her self-worth which might have taken a beating through being with him for 12 years yeah so you just have to keep showing her support and love it's like yeah carrots all the way baby keep us updated
Starting point is 00:27:27 I hope it goes okay. Lots of love. Lots of love. Okay, and I have something embarrassing to Enderson. Yep. I have actually, this makes me die. Okay. I digress.
Starting point is 00:27:40 Hello to everyone. Love the podcast, of course. Got me through a good chunk of my long run in marathon training. Fucking love that. I have a very mildly embarrassing story. So I'm doing the, I like that it's like categorized as like a mildly embarrassing story. I actually, I think, but anyway, you'll just see for yourself. You can rate it at the end and see if you agree with her diagnosis of mild.
Starting point is 00:28:05 Okay. Mildly embarrassing story. So I'm doing the two mile. Serpentile swim this. This woman does not stop. Wow. And not a big swimmer. I would beg to differ if you're about to swim for two miles.
Starting point is 00:28:16 I'm not a big swimmer until recently, had only swam a handful of times since lessons as a child. So I didn't have all the gear. I was complaining to my friend and the problem with open water swimming is I can't see where I'm going, I wear reasonably strong glasses. She was just like, you're an idiot, buy some prescription goggles, which in hindsight is not sure why I hadn't thought of. Actually, genius, I need some prescription goggles, but I really feel like that's admitting.
Starting point is 00:28:39 I feel like it's a waste of money. I'm not going to swim. I hate swimming. Anyway, I ordered some under £20 and next day delivery. Fuck it, I will order some. Wow. They arrived and obviously I put them on straight away, showed my boyfriend, took some picks, etc.
Starting point is 00:28:52 They are amazing, super comfy, 10 out 10 vision, honestly, could have been wearing contacts. This woman is selling me. I haven't been in a pool in like five years and I'm like sold. I want some too. So as you do, I kind of just left them on. Why not? About an hour later, I went into a team's meeting,
Starting point is 00:29:09 fairly big meeting of around 40 people. No. So I went in with my camera turned off, meaning I didn't get the little preview of my face. 15 minutes in, someone asked me a question I knew the answer to, so I put my hand up, I get brought into the meeting, turn my camera on and start speaking.
Starting point is 00:29:29 Ten seconds later I realized I'm still wearing the fucking goggles. But instead of turning my camera off quickly like a normal person, I carried on talking and proceeded to take them off while still on camera. Oh, no. The most embarrassing bit is that no one acknowledged it. No, ha, ha, why are you in goggles so I could explain myself? Just some awkward message from my friend going, what are you doing? Oh, that is...
Starting point is 00:29:55 It's way worse than miles. Yeah, that is very embarrassing. But that is like three chili peppers on the menu. But like they're quite uncomfortable things to wear goggles. Do you know what I mean? They're not like glasses which sit quite lightly on the bridge of your nose. Like they go all the way around your head. They dig into your hair.
Starting point is 00:30:12 Agree. It's a very disruptive thing to wear. I'm just, how? It's so good. Oh, that's so bad. It's so bad. And taking them off as well, it's like, it's almost worse to. take them off, like just commit to them being on.
Starting point is 00:30:27 It's like that scene in Notting Hill at the end where, in the middle, when Hugh Grant goes on the date with Julia Roberts and he couldn't find his glasses to go to the cinema. So he put his prescription snorkeling mask on to go to the cinema to go and watch the film. Except that's Hugh Grant in the
Starting point is 00:30:43 90s, so it's charming. But in a team's meeting, it's brutal. And taking them off somehow is like more embarrassing than, is it? Is it more embarrassing to keep them on or take them off? Because I think taking off goggles anyway is embarrassing because then you've got the stupid red marks around your eyes. And you're blind.
Starting point is 00:30:58 To this girl, please can you email us a picture? I need a visual. Please can you email us a picture of you in the goggles so we can just, we can just visualize this? And if we're allowed to share it on Instagram, please can we share it on Instagram? I'm just really like dying. I'm just imagining, like, imagine this like sharing up on a Zoom call in goggles. It's so embarrassing.
Starting point is 00:31:19 It's something out of context. It's like wearing goggles out like not near a pool is so embarrassing. well they're just not on the most attractive things ever are they because they really go right into your face it weren't built for vanity and I've got really big eye sockets just a fun fact about me as a person yeah like I think when you look at me as a skeleton
Starting point is 00:31:38 like when I die when you look at my skull yeah it's just going to be massive holes but like look how big go with it guys look how big that is yeah it's big yeah my eyes so there's a lot of space for goggles to get lost in there Like I put goggles and they look really stupid They look like
Starting point is 00:31:56 They're like stuck like halfway down Do you know what I mean? Yeah It's like something's got wedged Like halfway into a cave Basically I just I just can't believe She just forgot she was wearing them
Starting point is 00:32:07 I want those got I mean I don't even need glasses But I want those goggles They sound well comfortable and fun And actually make so much more sense They're not going to blow off your face Like glasses Also whenever it rains
Starting point is 00:32:19 You're a glasses wear a daisy You'll hear me When it rains and you're in glass You're absolutely fucked, smearing as shit. I'd say goggles are the way forwards for that. Yeah, because suction, nothing could get in. No, and also, just like, they're easier just to sort of give a wipe. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:32 Yeah. I, for a long time, thought about, like, could we invent, like, windscreen wipers for glasses in the rain? And then I thought, as I do with most things, if that were possible, someone would have done it by now. We're just looking, and I just found a picture of windscreen wipers for glasses. Oh, they do exist. So fun. Okay. Love that.
Starting point is 00:32:53 Okay. This has been great. Yeah. Has it? Are we over? Is it over? We've done it. Yeah.
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