Should I Delete That? - Is It Just Me: Whale fart bubbles

Episode Date: October 18, 2023

On this week's IIJM, the girls discuss more TikTok wisdom, friendship breakups and the human body...Follow us on Instagram @shouldideletethatEmail us at [e-mail] by Daisy GrantMusic by Alex Andrew Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello and welcome back to should I delete that. I'm trying to enunciate properly because people don't think I have saying shudder. Oh fine, should I? Should I? Delete that. I have a question. Oh, you beat me to it. Go on.

Okay, no, you go with yours. No. Mine's not a question. Okay. It's just something that I want to talk about. Hit me. You sure? Yep.

Okay, remember your question. I've been thinking about it for days. I don't want to keep on about it. popping on about this, okay, but more TikTok mind-blowing facts that can save your life. Yeah. Just let me read you a few. Okay. If you tell me to breathe, I'm out.

If you ever buried in an avalanche, spit. I knew that. Your saliva will follow gravity. Yeah, don't worry. I've already thought that one through. And you can just dig in the opposite direction. So I spent about five minutes last night in bed being like, I don't get it. If I spit, which way do I dig, which way, if it falls on me, which way do I dig, still

not quite sure, but anyway, I'd work it out, I'm sure. If it falls on you, it just means you're lying on the ground, so you don't. just need to dig up. Oh, right, yeah. Yeah. Okay, fine. If it falls on you, though, you wouldn't be able to spit. Because why would there be a hole in front of your face?

Do you know what I mean? Yeah. In fairness, actually, there's wherever you're facing, there's going to be a lot of snow squished up to your face. Yeah, you're famously, you can't breathe. Oh, my God, is that how you're dying in Avalanche? Yeah. Well, but hell, where the fuck are you going to spit?

Yeah, where are you going to spit? I mean, unless you just... If I'm going to go right this and I spit now, you're just going to spit all over your hand. Yeah, it doesn't... Just be spitting. all over the snow. Obviously, it's just going to go there. They want you to dig behind you? Also, how are you going to get your arms out to dig behind you?

Also, how do you dig behind you? Pick up your arms right now and then what? Like a little, what are you going to do with those? Like you've got a little wings. Stupid. Stupid. So stupid. All right. Boo. If your house smells like fish for absolutely no reason, don't say it, don't say it. Nine times out of ten, it means that there is an electrical fire. This one freaked me out Because my house last week

Smelt like fish It was in the walls I was running around like Dave I smell fish But it's in the walls That's fucking disgusting I know And then it went again

And he couldn't smell it So I was like I don't know if it's me But like I don't believe That all electrical fire smell of fish I feel like that would have come up before Also

I feel like you might notice That your house is on fire Before you notice It smells of fish Walking into the whole kitchen's like, so I'm cooking fish. Okay, I've got the, I've got the ultimate one. In the video's words, now for the crucial life-saving fact,

make sure you save this video and write this down so you don't forget it. Are you ready? Because this one's really, really important and actually could be really helpful in saving a life. A whale's fart to create such a big bubble, you can fit a horse in it. So if you ever start drowning, simply find whale fart bubbles to get in side of. Well, that is good advice. Tangible, practical, and probable. Sorry. And there's me. I'm like, you're more irrational in the middle of the eye, aren't you? But I'm like, okay, I must remember that one. I'd hate to drown. I really hope there's a whale nearby so I can enter its fart bubble

and sit in there with the horse until we float to land. How ridiculous. How ridiculous. I think someone wants to confiscate TikTok for a bit. But I have a question about evolution. We're going to my earlier question. Okay. There are some things that don't make sense about like the human body. Like for example,

why do we have an appendix? Because all that it is there to do is pop basically and then potentially kill you if there's no one there to catch it before it pops, right? Yeah. Seems stupid.

Yeah. I've been thinking about my toenails quite a lot. So my right toenails really sore on my big foot. Yeah. And I think my toenails trying to be ingrown.

Like I have to keep fighting it. Like I have to keep like cutting it out. No, no, no, not pulling it out. out, but just I just have to keep an eye on the shape because I think it's trying. Yeah. I think maybe it's modern shoes, you know, just like crushing my toes altogether. But like, just the skin on the side is getting a little tender, you know?

So I'm really having to like keep up top of my pedicure situation. Yeah. But why is my body doing this to me? Why would my toenow want to be ingrown? You see, I, my mentality, it kind of goes in the opposite direction, right? So I think, how is it that we only have one organ and appendix that does nothing? Like, how is the rest of our body? so well designed

that everything has its use, its purpose. Like, that's crazy. Why would you want to cut on something that didn't work? But it's just like, there's got to be more mistakes, you know? There will be, inevitably. Soon, you're a hip or pop or something and you'll be like, ah.

No, no, yeah, no. I mean, I just feel like... You have the most horrific reflux of anyone I've ever known. If that's not a mistake, then I don't know what is. No, that is definitely a mistake. There's mistakes all over the place. But I just can't believe it's like, not more mistakes. I can't get over the huge.

human body it fascinates me it's very streamlined I agree it's it's ridiculous yeah there's like there's aerodynamic they are not there's no wasted space everything has a purpose to function as it should be apart from the appendix and my stupid toenails I just don't understand why they're trying to do this like why it doesn't make sense like every other part of the body makes perfect sense yeah like you have eyebrows to stop things going in your eyes yeah and eyelashes to double up where the eyebrows didn't do it yeah which is super useful and then you've got the little hairs in your nostrils so that you can not get germs

and then you know you have teeth so that you can chew stuff and the gougly thing so that you can swallow and you're going back to the toenails it's really really annoying me it's a bane up like I'm like why why? Go to a charipidist

I don't want to do you is not the word is it is it podiatrist charopidist I don't want to it's embarrassing no it's not wait a bit am I here I've got in oh god

I see all sorts I think celebrations for it's in growing toenels I don't know it's like the chance on that front Yeah, though your preparation is about wrongness Why his feet is so ugly And I said it was so much love You see that all the time and I'm terrified For the day he turns up in sandals

No you just have to hope that he never gets that comfortable with you It was a very sad day in our relationship When he got that comfortable with me I was like wait what He wore socks for like two years And then one day they came off And I was like oh we're there No I'm kidding

Because I love it so much He's so perfect But gross Everyone's got their floor They too It's his little trotters Oh All right, email

email time Dear M and Alex Hello It's funny because you call me Al Only now I think So And I can tell who's a podcast listener in my DMs Because they say Al

Yeah And I'm used to people saying Al now Which is weird So it's anyway Shut up I love listening to the podcast on my evening walks and I haven't is it just me um oh is it just me who has been ghosted by her best friend a bit of context I've been very close friends with another woman in her mid to late

third in her mid to late 20s for years and she has recently stopped responding to my messages for no apparent reason I reached out to ask her if I had done anything to upset or offend her and still no answer I've racked my brain trying to figure out what I could have done and it's made me so anxious that I've ultimately had to block my ex-friend on all social media messaging apps just to stop wondering if she will ever decide to message me after all. Oh, that woman's so mean. This whole process has been incredibly anxiety-inducing and detrimental to my self-esteem, understandably.

It's also made me realise how little friendship breakups and friend ghosting are talked about compared to their romantic equivalents. Even though I assume they must be pretty common, I would really love to hear your thoughts. can I just say it has absolutely nothing to do with you? No. And I mean that and like so recently, I'm not gone full ghost mode, but recently I, I, well, I mean, I've had my own shit going on recently, but I have found that it's been really hard for me to reply to things. And then sometimes I get this like level of anxiety when I haven't replied something for a little bit of time where you think, oh my God, I've left it too long now, so I can't go back and like, do you know what I mean? It's like, if you didn't reply something last week and then they sent a fine.

up and then you didn't reply to that you can't then go back well you can but then you get in your head about going back and like oh my god and I actually had this with a friend of mine recently and like in my head like I'm just I'm so tired and I'm so like over so overwhelmed yeah and I and I and I had this like horrendous guilt and then I kept thinking I was like because then she said if I done anything and I was like oh my god no like this is all me and I think that's like what I really want you to know as someone who and I haven't I haven't gone full ghost or whatever but for someone on the other side of it I really don't think it's you

I don't think you've done anything I think sometimes people just get fucking caught up in themselves in whatever it is maybe she's got something she'll definitely have something going on because you don't just do this for no reason but I would say that like 100%

like it won't be you because historically I mean normally if you've done something you tell the person right I know and I do feel like that's really that's not fair to leave her without any kind of closure or any kind of reason for never speaking to her again.

Well, I suppose she can't now say anything because she's been blocked. Well, she has been blocked, yeah. I wonder how much time had lapsed before blocking. I think the thing is, now you've blocked her. You have to move on because she can't now. She may well be trying to contact you. And that's probably going to be killing you even more, thinking... And I do always think, if you're having to rack your brain for something that you've done wrong,

you probably haven't done anything wrong. when you've done something wrong you're fairly aware you've done something wrong do you know what I mean definitely and it's not it's not like oh yeah forgot forgot your dog's birthday you know it's not like a little thing that's gonna warrant this it's like your best friend yeah so there is but it I am sure it's her thing yeah and it doesn't make it right and it doesn't make it okay but I also think there's like something to be said because she said at the end of the message that like you know we don't talk a lot about this and I actually think it's a really weird thing the reason we don't talk about it's because it's so new in the olden days.

Like, our mum never would have had this. Because they wouldn't have had this access to their friends. And I think, like, it's something I struggle with so much is the access that we all have to each other. Because I think now, because I'm working and because I've got Arlo and because I don't quite have childcast ordered yet, and I'm, like, just not okay. I think the fact that all these people,

and I'm so lucky to have all my lovely friends and family, but I do just feel like I'm just letting them all down all the time because I'm not applying to people enough or quick enough or whatever and then I think oh my God in the olden days you'd have had a bit of peace and you'd be so much lonely and I don't want that I don't want anyone to go away because it's not how we operate like I'm just not functioning in the current society where you have to apply immediately you can't have a spare day and then I do that thing where you have a day and then you think I shouldn't have left it a day

and now I've left it a day so I'm going to leave it another day and then before you know it you've left it like 50 days and you're like the worst person ever and you hate yourself but I do think it stems from this access that we have to each other we can see when you read my message when you were last online well not you but like

anyone who's on WhatsApp you can see when people are online in the minute I turned that off on my phone did you yeah I turned off that people can't see when I'm online they can't see if I've read it I don't think I don't know actually

but I just tried to turn it off because I was trying to protect myself because I was thinking because you do have and I oh God I heard this lyric of a song the other day and I shared it it's like an amazing song there's just a girl like I don't think she's English I think she's in England

anyway she was singing this song that she's written and it was amazing and she's like will you still need me if I don't reply straight away or something and I was like oh yeah like reminding yourself that like it's okay not to not to reply straight away and I was like oh god that's hit me like because you get guilt don't you for not replying you particularly you're like you reply like this I do I do yeah I do No, a lot of pressure. I know, I know. I know. I probably don't have a very healthy relationship with it.

But it's mad, isn't it? In this like modern... Yeah. Like, you can't really just disappear for a day. No. I think as well, I don't find it that difficult. Yeah. To just...

Yeah, yeah. I just... I always do it on the go. Do you know what I mean? I'm like, I don't have to set aside a time for it. I just quite good at that. I just quite good at that. I said you didn't find that difficult.

I said, oh my God, why do I find it so difficult? It's so weird, isn't it? different people's like strengths and stuff yeah like I find it I could cry for how difficult I find it so difficult yeah I find it's so difficult and I find things coming in all the time because it's like maybe it's because I'm so shit at making decisions so as it like what do you find difficult when I get when my phone starts going I get like like panic my friend my my best friend Ellie was trying to set me up with a thing the other day she was because WhatsApp have apparently released this new thing where you can have dual things you can have

business in one side and just friends in the other oh wow I know so I think it's like quite in its infancy. I don't know if it's really working it. So I was a bit scared to try it because I was like if it goes wrong I'll lose all the messages and everything. And fuck knows there are enough unopened ones.

So I don't want to lose all those. But yeah, because I was getting really like, I was trying to, I mean, can you just tell? I'm just getting like steadably, steadably, steadily, steadily less like okay as the weeks go on. But yeah, I feel like that would be a really good option for me.

Yeah, that's a good idea. Because it all just comes into one place and it all just all... Yeah. And it's all a lot. I know what you mean. Like, I find when I'm away and I get work stuff, like, I do find that a bit anxiety-inducing because then I'm like, I have to apply to that because it's work.

And everything happens so quick. Yeah, it does. And if you miss one thing. And that's the same with whether it's our job or like, you know, watching Alex do is like normal job and like a team's thing. And you miss one thing and then you've got to scroll back and then there's other things and you've got to pick a little more. And it's like, it's crazy the access that we have to each other.

I know. It really is. It really is. And our friends take it really personally if we don't reply straight away because oh, you replied to them or you posted something on Instagram or you did whatever and it's like,

ugh, yeah. Like, it is crazy. So this girl's hard. Yeah, because this girl might just be going through something and like scrambling to just be okay in herself. Yeah, and I'm putting my like Jacqueline Hurst head on here

and while this doesn't necessarily take away the hurt that like you might feel that you do clearly feel from your friend ghosting you, Like, I think what Jacqueline would say is, like, this is actually a really good thing. Like, someone who doesn't want to be in your life has taken herself out. Yeah. She's, she's closed a door so that you can open another one.

You can allow more people, better suited people for you into your life. Yeah, you shouldn't, you know, you don't want anyone in your life to meet you feel like this. No. You know, you want to feel wanted and you want to feel loved and you deserve that as well. You know, you deserve something more than this. And it's really disappointing that you didn't get it. But another thing Jacqueline taught us in that episode a few weeks ago is that there are no justified resentment so you will be hurting yourself holding onto this particularly now that she's blocked

because she can't make it right even if she wanted to so you are just going to sit there harboring a resentment towards her and actually not knowing if she's changed her mind or if whatever or she's forthcoming and I completely get that you're in self-preservation that's why you've blocked her but with the blocking you have to let her go or you have to unblock her and keep an open mind I think you can't have an open mind and the blocking because the two can't exist. If you keep her blocked, I think you have to presume

that there was never going to be any closure. She was never going to contact you and give you a reason. And just make peace with that. Yeah. And, yeah, allow other people

and other things into your life. It's an opportunity. You've been so Jacqueline. Fuck, I really have, haven't I? Do you have a lot? I just feel like we're just like touching one of my breakdowns throughout the episode.

Just like the undercurrent, the constant undercurrent and then it's just like whatever worsening mental health. I'm fine. Let's go to an embarrassing story quick. I am the embarrassing story. Alam falling apart. I'm fine.

Okay, we'll finish off on something cheerier. Oh, acid reflux. Told you, told you, it's not an efficient system. Wow. She's proof. Her body's like, ha-ha, we aren't streamlined. We don't work like we should. Here's a shitload of acid to come out your mouth.

Exactly. Gorgeous. Why do you have acid in your body? That's actually coconuts. You know, if you put a 2P coin in your stomach acid, it would just either be very clean or disappear. I can't remember which one. it would disappear instantly

oh no I think if you put your finger in if you put your finger into your own stomach acid it would corrode all the skin away oh gorgeous and that's what's coming the bag it's in I don't know it's just super strong bag bag for life that

it does corrode your life that's the ultimate bag for life because when you're sick with acid reflux it corrods all your like you you're burned for days anyway hi Alex I doesn't have a bag for life

I've got a bag for now you've got your co-op You paid 5P for that, didn't you? One of those green... Yeah. So don't freak me out. I'm getting... Yeah, I've got holes in the bottom

like one of those old orange tapes, please bags. Stop it. How long have we got that? Oh, I'm leaking like a sprinkler. Not me and Daisy. Me and Daisy, I got those. Fuck off.

I've got the ones that you can take yourself, you know, like the canvas ones. Fuck off. My mum's got the Ania Highmarch Times Morrison's one. Yes, I do. It's very cool. But can I just say my mum's got these ones,

trolley dividing bags. So you go, fill your trot. So there's four of them. That speaks to my entire soul. It's so good. So you put them in the trolley. They're the bags. So you can do like frozen bits in one,

refrigerated in one, dairy. I've never had anything like it. And then you get to the checkout, you obviously put them all on the do, do, do, do. And then you just recategorize them and then they're in the bags. Like, I, Dave hates me when I shop. During COVID, when it was like we were allowed our one trip out of day and we'd go big Tescos. Oh my God.

That was the fucking, like, oh. Honestly, if we'd forgotten them, she's like, well, we've got to go back. That speaks to my soul. We have to go back for the back. Well, I know. I'm ordering you on Amazon immediately. Oh my God, that is so good. Yeah, I haven't got your present yet for having a baby, but...

No, I go. There you go. Right. Hi, Alex, M. Betty, Bua and Arlo. Cute. Obviously, I have to start with saying, I love the podcast. I have been listening since the start, and it's an important part of my week. You've given many of my own embarrassing moments, laughing out loud in public while listening.

I just wanted to say, thank you. As the episode you did with Benita Norris. Oh, my God, that was a long time ago. Yeah. You did that as a surprise for me. I loved that. I think it's time for another surprise I know I was thinking about that the other day

the episode you did with Benita Norris inspired me to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and on the 1st of August after six days and a night of climbing I made it to the summit Oh my God Good done! Look at us changing lives It wasn't us, that was Benita

We facilitated it We facilitated it, thank you I've never been a sporty person and would not have thought I could do it but that adventure made me want to have an adventure of my own and in true hag fashion I thought it would be worth giving it a shot. It was the most amazing experience

and truly something I will remember for life. Thank you again and keep doing what you do. It means more than you know. You've both changed so much for how I feel about my body and exercising, which has opened up a whole new side of my life, which I love. All the love for Amanda. I'm crying.

I don't think I am. Okay. Guys, I'm the pregnant one. I should be crying, you tits. Oh, I'm like fully solving. It's the hag spirit. It's if anybody ever tells me that they've had. a go at something and it's like even credits the hags a time a bit i'm like oh she had a go she didn't just have a go and it doesn't matter if she made it to the top but she did yeah i mean yeah

i'd say it matters a bit if you got all the way up and then didn't get it you'd be cursing you'd be yeah okay yeah not ideal but yeah but she did it so it's all good i know yeah so there you proud of you well done miranda well done i love the clap i wish you guys could see her she is You've pushed her into the class. I know. I know. Look how happy she wasn't she was when she was. That's what we were doing.

It's my favourite thing. Like when I go to heaven, hopefully it's just going to be a montage. Like, there's have a bit of you. Just be Alex clapping for eternity. You did a good job, sweetie. I love it so much. Okay, well, that was nice. We're going to leave you alone, guys.

All right. We're going to see you on Monday. Thank you for listening. Love you. Bye. Thank you so much for listening. Should I delete that? part of the ACAST creator network.