Talking Shit with a Yank & a Brit - 34. The One Where Kate Loves Opopop

Episode Date: January 11, 2024

This week we're talking crackers, an Opopop obsession, New Years resolutions, some terrible date tales and an AITA to judge!Like, follow, rate and review - you can also get involved by sending your stories to [e-mail] or @TSYBPOD

hello and welcome this is talking shit with the yank and a brit and we're back again for like the millionth time after a break and And now we are in a new year. Happy New Year to everybody. How many times have you accidentally wrote 2023 for the date? Actually, I haven't done it. You haven't messed up or you haven't had to write the date? I haven't messed up at work. Nice.

Usually I've got about two weeks of doing it. Fuck's sake. 2022, 2023. No, I haven't messed up at work. Nice. I have. Usually I've got about two weeks of doing it. Fuck's sake. 2022, 2023. No, haven't done it. I fucked up like immediately at the first instance and I had to like go back and change a document and like resend it and blah, blah, blah. Because it was like January 2nd, 2023. Just kidding.

It's 2024. Here you go. Fuck's sake. 2024. Yeah. I hate it. Well, you'll get used to it in probably like three days no never no okay have you been all right yeah it's been a little while hasn't it i haven't seen your face in seven long years. Two years. We took a little break, as you all might have noticed.

We had the best of intentions to try to get at least one episode out kind of over the holidays, but life got in the way. Yeah, it didn't happen, did it? No, but I think the break was helpful. That way Gemma could enjoy her time off and I could continue to exist in this world. Just work, work, work, work, work, work. Yep. Yep. That's been basically it for me, though.

You know, I also had holidays as well and they were fine. How were yours? It was nice. It's very nice. I had a lovely Christmas day. And then it was just sort of surrounded by eating, drinking, watching films. Generally doing what we do during the Christmas holidays. Well, if I recall correctly, from my time in England over Christmas, it is Christmas

crackers and you wear the little hats. Yep. For six days. Yep. Got the weird little fish. Yep. Can you explain the weird little fish for those who won't know what i mean what the ones you have to pick up like it's like the fish that curls oh it's just like a

paper bit of paper isn't it yeah yeah yeah i don't know really it's just like a like a see-through bit of colored paper that is in the shape of a fish and it's meant to be a magic trick but all it does is curl up in your hand. That's pretty shit. Do you know what I always really want though is do you guys have, I guess you have crackers out there, yeah?

I have seen them and bought them, yeah. You often get over here teeny tiny little screwdrivers. Oh, yeah. And they're really handy, especially for tightening your glasses. Mm-hmm. And I've been after a couple of them for fucking ages. I haven't seen them in crackers for a few years. And I'd like

them funny you mentioned that because we just got like a little piece of furniture like just before we started the recording today i had to put together and it came with a tiny little screwdriver it's like this big oh man yep so i'll save that for you and bring it thank you if you could yeah i could just buy one off amazon and it'd be here tomorrow but i'm just waiting for that christmas cracker i know there's one in there it it makes it like more fulfilling worthwhile when you just wait each year and open crackers until you finally get one and you'll get one when you're like yeah 64 one day it'll happen and it'll be a christmas miracle and then you'll die the next day isn't it ironic i've achieved everything oh now i've seen everything oh yeah okay well and i suspect they stopped doing it because people were probably like this

is the fucking lamest thing in my christmas it's like they might as well just put a toothbrush in kids around england it's useful though it's more useful than a fucking plastic fish we often get like little they're like I don't know what you call it like a mind fuck puzzle where it's like

loops and you have to try and yeah you have to like untangle them shit like that teeny tiny little playing cards pointless you can't use them yeah i would be super excited about that they are exciting and then you try and do anything with them and you're like i cannot hold it like i can't even read what that says yeah it seems like the manufacturers of christmas cracker yeah they they were like what would people enjoy if we just make them really small

or maybe they used to be like human sized crackers and we used to just get you know actual handy tools in there but then one day they were like this is too much we're spending too much time and money on and materials making these goddamn crackers we're gonna have to make them smaller i'm just thinking in my head about human size crackers and how like every family gets one and they have to drop it off like with the crane and then everyone stands on each end and pulls like a type of war but yeah and then they actually explode with fireworks like the bang in the middle is like lots of people died which is another reason why they stopped doing it yeah but that's the only way to celebrate the birth of j. Yeah. Death. Death, yeah.

Yeah, you know, my first encounter with them was when I came over for Christmas, but I have seen them here and I've gotten them and I'm sad that they didn't take off the same way because it is kind of a fun tradition, even if it is very stupid. Yeah, it wouldn't be the same without a christmas cracker so you had them this year and what did you get do you know i can't remember we went out for lunch oh excuse me not boring boring you um yeah we went out for christ Christmas lunch at a pub this year, which is the first time I've done that. And it was pretty nice, actually.

You'd go there. Everyone was very friendly and welcoming. Literally about 20 people, like all the staff, were like, Merry Christmas as we walked in. We were like, holy fuck. We love that we're working right now. Yeah. It was like over the top.

I hate my life. Make it till you make it, as they say. Yeah, exactly. Had a lovely three-course meal. Had some, you know, you can have cocktails and things, and they bring everything to you. Did the crackers. Opened some presents.

And then went home, and there was no washing up yeah that is nice it was great I had a nap what did you get for presents I got um Alan actually got me a really cool handmade

tarot box oh cool it's really cool I'll show you it. So that was probably the best present. Also, he got me, do you know Quality Streets? Mm-hmm. Big fan. Yep.

So for American, do you have them out there? For American listeners, they're like. I bring them back because we don't have them. Ah. It's just basically a selection of different chocolates. Tastelings. flavors caramel and orange and hazelnut hazelnut and i love the strawberry creams they're my favorite you would you old ass lady i just love a little bit of a strawberry cream before i go to bed with my tea there's some butterscotch children

well they're delicious and you never get many in a thing because they suck fruit based chocolate for the most part I'm not a fan of I can get down with a little orange but that's about it I love orange I love mint chocolate, I love strawberry chocolate yum yum yum yum, yum.

But anyway, I got a whole bag of them. Just strawberry? Just strawberry. Just strawberry creams, baby. Mm, mm, mm. Yummy. Yeah. I was very excited about that.

So did Alan make the Terra box? No, he got it commissioned, I guess. I don't know. I don't actually know where he got it. I look forward to seeing it. Great little prezzy. And it was good because I had no idea what it was. I knew that it was coming and I knew that it was handmade,

but I had no idea. And usually I'm very good at guessing presents because in general people buy shit presents and you can kind of guess what they're going to get you yeah well buying presents is hard it is yeah to be fair what did you get him though nothing my presence is my present your presence is presence enough you're welcome i'm dating you exactly i got him a i got him a handmade bath tray like a little rustic one cool and um oh my god he's got like a thing with Jeff Goldblum and Louis Theroux and has pictures of them in his house so does he have the shower curtain my friend Aaron has the shower curtain no I was gonna get that though oh my gosh it's startling when I go into her bathroom but i found this image basically of jeff goldblum just dressed as jesus holding a little t-rex

framed that nice nice what about you and nige um so buying gifts is hard, like I said, and I think Sean always gets frustrated because it's like, well, we just buy the things that we want throughout the year. So yeah, it's very hard to get gifts. But he had been saying he wanted a new bathrobe for a while. So you know, the very romantic, sexy gift of terrycloth bathroberobe and i got him an apple air tag one no it's the terrycloth one yep it's very short too um nope just a regular one from parachute because my brother is a big fan of them and their robes so and i got him an appleag because he... You want to know where he is all the time. Well, it's for his keys because it's a push to start. And once he lost a set of keys because he set it on the roof of the car, it started, drove away. They flew off, got to where he's going, couldn't start his car again. So we were down to one set and he almost lost them again or couldn't find them. And so it's like, hey, we're going to get this. So this was like a, you better not fucking lose the

keys kind of gift yes yep and you know so that was basically what i got him and he gave me a nice little chic double-walled coffee mug because you know i love my coffee and a pretty scarf and a little pin of a cat with a cowboy hat on it that kind of looks like Lucy, which is kind of funny. But I think my favorite gift, no offense to those gifts, Nige, is one I bought myself and ended up proceeding to buy for one, two, three, four, five, six, six other people. Do tell me more. So, this is not a sponsored, paid advertisement for this company, but I'm going to act like it is. Gemma, do you like popcorn?

Yeah, I like popcorn. Who doesn't? And I bet you just will buy those bags of popcorn, pop them, you know, and it's fine, full of kernels usually. And, you know, whatever. It's popcorn. It's fine. Well, let me tell you about Oh Pop Pop. Oh Pop Pop is a revolutionary new product that gives you flavor-infused kernels and a proprietary bowl where you pop your popcorn and you have virtually no kernels.

They have flavors like Maui Heat, Super Butter, Birthday Cake, Grandma's Stuffing, Cinelicious. Cinelicious? Yes. All jokes aside, though, this is legitimately an amazing thing. And I love popcorn so much. And I dream about this popcorn I was gonna say because I mean yeah I like popcorn but I probably eat it like once a year if that if I go to the cinema so is popcorn like a regular staple in your diet that this has improved your life? Actually, it's not. But I do love popcorn. I just never think about it. It's like if I have some bags and it occurs to me that I have them, I'll pop a bag and eat it. But I do enjoy it.

And I don't know how I came across it, but I have a friend of mine who really, truly loves popcorn and it is a staple in her diet. And I saw it and I was like, I'm going to get her that because I think she might like it. And I got one for myself too. And when it came and I tried to just like, this is the best thing that's ever happened to me. I've had popcorn every day, sometimes twice a day since I've gotten it. And when I had to go out of town kind of last minute, it was a day or two after I got the kit that I was in Sioux City telling my friends about it. And I was like, I wish I was at home eating popcorn right now. Oh, it's the little things, isn't it?

Yeah. Yeah. So I right now my favorite flavors are the Maui Heat, which is like a kind of a sweet, spicy one. And the Cinelicious is really good. And even Nigel's into it, even though he prefers like the sweet popcorn, which is what you guys serve at your cinema. It's the sweeter kettle corn-like popcorn, which I thought was bizarre the first time I went to a movie theater. Sweet or salty. Oh, you can get both.

Well, he prefers getting like the sweet kind. And so the fact that they have like we have gingerbread right now we haven't tried we have um birthday cake we have salty caramel we have um there's just a lot and so this company has nailed it and i love them so much and if they want to sponsor a podcast i would probably die a happy woman. I have two kits over here that I got just as like reserve gifts for people because they were on sale. I bought four for me to keep another. So now I have two bowls because it's like this bowl. Hold on. Let me show you. Oh, pop, pop. oh pop pop you just got like 20 of these yep i i'm not i like i'm not joking i love this so much but it comes in like it gives you this bowl yeah that expands and it's got a little lid

and then you get these like bags here's a salty caramel and you just and this is so this is kind of like a normal sized bag of popcorn or bowl of popcorn. But then they also have little cups that are just kind of like a little individual portion if you don't want a full bag. And then they have big ass bags that you can scoop the kernels out and put in this bowl. So is that actually popcorn in that little bag or is that just the flavoring? No, it's popcorn because what they do is they like take each kernel and infuse it with whatever flavor it is so yeah it's just I love it I did I honestly I had no idea that you'd be so enthusiastic about popcorn I well honestly I don't think I've talked about popcorn this much in my life even as someone who's like, yeah, I like popcorn.

It's a good snack. It's a good lunch. When I was a kid, I think probably one summer, I ate popcorn every day for lunch. It was weird. I don't think I realized how much I loved popcorn until after I got this Oh Pop Pop kit. And now I talk about it with my friends who I've gotten gifts for. I was like, do you like it?

Please tell me you like it. If you're not as obsessed with it as i am then give it back wow okay well um this is new information i like it it's fine a little shocked i'm taking it back but oh yeah when i'm getting you for your birthday. I swear to God, if I just get popcorn from Oh Pop Pop from now on, I would be fine with that. Because it's kind of, it's a luxury item, I would say, but I can't stop. I can't stop. I want some right now, actually.

So, Oh Pop Pop, if you're listening you're a big big fan enough for me to talk about it probably for an entire pop podcast episode if need be kate won't fucking shut up about this stuff she will just give you free advertising for the day she dies. Yep. And I'd like a free one. I mean, I wonder about whether they do international shipping because I will happily purchase one for you and send it to you.

I will take one of these and go to the post office and mail it to you if that's what it takes. Oh god. If that's what it fucking takes If that's what it fucking takes. That's what it fucking takes. For you to try and don't pop up. Are you sure there's just not like some seriously addictive substances?

Oh, I mean, if you told, if it came out later that there was actually like crack, I would be like, that tracks because I cannot stop. tracks because I cannot stop. You're reminding me of the Friends episode where Ross and Chandler go away and Ross gets like seriously addicted to like maple candy. He's like hyper and like switched on about it. Oh, he gets some maple candy. I don't know if I remember that episode, but I also am not as obsessed with friends as I think some of the British folks are. So yes, that tracks. Like you have it one time.

I'll send you a little clip of it. Perfect. Yeah. Yep. Oh, that's good. I'm glad that's fulfilling your life. Well, I just want to like, I think it's important that you give gifts to

yourself yeah 100 you said earlier people give shit gifts so you know if you had a crappy christmas a friend a gift buy yourself a friend if that's what you need yeah that's what you need i bought this dressing gown for myself oh you, you look soft. It's really warm and really soft. I'm using it as a blanket right now. Good for you. I have a very soft, fluffy one with a hood and fur on it that I'm pretty partial to. Yeah, this is the hood. Oh, it's got a little hood.

I mean, that is a... Robes need to have hoods. i don't know why there's ones that they make without them yeah my other one didn't have a hood uh and then i bought this one i was like what have i been doing yeah what have you been doing your entire life yeah jesus stupid can't cocoon myself properly yeah i just like if you want to not have anybody see you when you're out in your bathrobe like a crazy person exactly hit the hood remember the shops so in addition to christmas though we also had new year's new year's eve and if i recall correctly uh you you celebrated so did we yeah we said hi to each other at your midnight

yes i vaguely remember that yeah oh well it was midnight there i guess it was only 6 p.m for me so i was still kind of like yep just getting started yeah did you have fun, you think? I think so, yeah. It was a good night. I just got very inebriated. Well, we had planned on maybe trying to record on New Year's Day, and I think we just chose not to speak to each other that day to avoid it. That did not happen. If I don't say anything to her and she doesn't say anything to me, we don't have to do this. That's never happening yeah

we went to a concert and where i was up way too late so i was really fine with you know not doing a great deal on your day i played video games my cousin levi was in town you remember levi i think right yeah i remember yeah i vaguely remember him vaguely yeah uh we played video games we got home from the concert basically went downstairs and played video games until 3 30 so it wasn't exactly a wild night in terms of like getting crazy but uh you know we got a little crazy oh you got crazy in your own way one of my friends noted that i apparently am a secret gamer and that was a surprising thing she learned about me and i was like yeah i i do i do get down with video games i'm not gonna lie what video games do you like i'm learning so much about you today well you've seen me play mario

kart on my phone i think i love that um but i you know, I grew up in the era of Nintendo. We got a PlayStation, like the first one that came out. We also had a Commodore 360, which, if you don't know, is like a very old gaming station growing up. But I liked Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy as a kid. And nowadays

I've been playing a game called Death's Door, which you're a little crow and you reap souls and you have to fight bad guys. It's pretty fun. Yeah, it is cute. It's a cute, dark little edgy game that I've been sessioning

quite a bit and I'm at a really hard I'm near the end of the game and I'm at a part that I don't think I'm going to be able to beat and so I might have to give up but we'll see. I recently re-downloaded The Sims. Nice. That's the only game that I love and get obsessed with.

I'll go through phases. I can not play it for a year and then I'm like, I need to play Sims. Yeah. So I re-downloaded it. Sims is fun. Yeah. And I'd get lost for like 10 hours playing that shit

do you what do you play it on i don't i don't really play it to be honest i build houses that's what i do oh right and then i'll play the game for a little bit i'm like bored gonna build another house yeah that's what i do um but i did one the other night spent I think about four or five hours building a new house. Time goes so fast playing video games. It's crazy. I know. But then I dropped my laptop and the game froze and I hadn't saved it. And I was like, no.

And I mean, luckily, it could have been worse because I thought my laptop had frozen. I was like, fuck, my laptop's broken. But luckily I did a hard reset and yeah laptop's fine but I had lost all my game process I used to play The Sims a lot too remember when you could get

the expansion packs and the CDs and stuff like that because I had a computer just for myself and that is what I played a lot on yeah I played played a lot on. Yeah, I played it a lot when I was younger. It's just never kind of gone. Yeah.

I kind of get in stages too. Like I'm in the stage of wanting to play video games right now but I haven't before this, I haven't probably played a video game on our Xbox in two years. So I have to be careful because I could sit downstairs and do it for a while. And I'm like, oh, shit. Five hours has gone by. I should probably do something else.

Just when you're sitting in a basement. But I will note, my New Year's resolutions are neither give up video games or popcorn. So crushing it. All good then. Yeah, we're good in fact you could sit there and just play video games and eat popcorn all day that's what i've been doing girl you know it brilliant well i've given up smoking for new years um hard one good job yeah that's why i'm full of rage and hate i don't know if you can probably all hear it in my voice um yeah today's been a tricky day it's hard it's been it's not been too bad but i've just been like uh super quick-tempered i've got a really short fuse and like little things are

irritating me basically Jess is cowering in a corner right now yeah she's hating life yeah it'd be fine once I get over the initial shit it sucks yeah it is rough I understand well last time I quit I found it really easy that's the

thing is like i have two um and this time it's it's really hard because we are also you know trying to quit and it's it's just difficult and particularly when you live with people who also do it and are not also trying to quit at the same time so yeah it's fine it's all good it's for a new healthy me and i do feel better already like i've got more breath i don't smell like cigarettes yeah i can feel my taste and my smell coming back which is nice uh so i've already i'm the benefits. I just need to remember those. There's literally no downside to doing it. Only upsides. Just save for the craving that you, I guess, satisfy.

That's like the one thing you get, right? But everything else is a con. And I, yeah, it's a bitch. It's a little bitch. Who invented that stupid cunt? Next episode, we're going to roast the inventor of tobacco. Yeah, big tobacco. We're coming for you, motherfucker.

I think big tobacco is appropriate because I do think tobacco probably has a lot of cultural and non-white roots that I don't want to be shaming of, but big tobacco that targets populations and okay I'm rant over any other resolutions I think I wrote some down actually

for those at home Gemma pulled out a weathered scroll that appears to be about three feet long that she unfurled it's parchment yeah there we go um business stuff i won't divulge oh i thought it just said business business stuff check check done um lose 10k uh 10 10k Check. Check. Done. Lose 10K.

10K. 10,000. Oh, okay. That was $10,000. 10,000 pounds. 10,000 pounds. Again. Done.

Got a loan, baby. Holiday abroad. Actually booked one. So that's happening. What? Without me? I'm going to a Greek island. What? That's like the only thing I've ever wanted to do in my life. Apart from eat popcorn.

Well, I'll bring it. We can eat popcorn on the beach. Why wouldn't you? Well, that's exciting. i do want to come though so i'm actually seething with jealousy right now like seething it's coming out of my pores it's coming out of my eyeballs uh and the other one is fix my teeth i should probably tell the story about my teeth shouldn't i do you reckon i Do you think it's time? Yeah, if you're ready. If you're ready to be vulnerable, go for it. It's probably about a year ago that it occurred, so maybe it's a good time to close that chapter.

Okay. So this is a warning to you single people out there. Could say a public service announcement, really. I could say a public service announcement, really. So about a year ago, I went on a date from, you know, an app. And it went well. We hit it off and we kissed at the end of the night. Just like that.

Just like that. It sounded exactly like that, Catherine. Now, you're warned about sexually transmitted infections, you know, herpes, chlamydia, gonorrhea is on the rise, pregnancy. Can we consider pregnancy a sexually transmitted infection? Yeah. 100%. It is. For the rest of your life.

You can't get rid of that one. You can, but only after a certain point, before a certain point. Anyway, go on. Or by other means. Anyway, go on. Or by other means. What they don't warn you about is gum infections. This guy had a clearly quite severe gum infection.

Did he have like an abscessed tooth as well? I think so. To be honest, I didn't really look inside the mouth that much because you don't right no one tells you you need to just open your mouth please say uh i'm just gonna get my torch out and just a little long story short the night ended because he had such a bad toothache that he needed to go to an emergency dentist and get it looked at. Then a few days later, I also started experiencing severe mouth pain and got one of the worst gum infections ever experienced.

It was so painful. Couldn't eat, couldn't drink, like, cocodamol and codeine wasn't touching the sides as well as all the other painkillers that I was on. It was horrendous, fucking horrible. as well as all the other painkillers that I was on. It was horrendous, fucking horrible. It also made, it ate away at part of one of my gums. So in between one of my teeth, the gum just disappeared within like two days. Really quickly, right?

Yeah. Yeah. And since then, basically, I've had to spend about two grand on laser surgery and getting my teeth sorted and loads of horrendous treatments. So I want to see the end of that this year. So, yeah, ladies, gentlemen, be aware of your date's oral hygiene before you go sticking anything in there. I mean, this was the first I've ever heard of anything like this, too. So it's not like I was over here being like, yeah, Gemma, why aren't you asking about someone's dental history? too so it's not like I was over here being like yeah Gemma why aren't you asking about someone's dental history because I just it and it kind of makes sense because you can cold people like

people yeah whatever and so I guess if you have an infection in your mouth and I think we know that STIs can be passed that way but it just didn't you would think about that do you yeah someone who's like oh I got a you know I got a cavity or an abscess tooth but it's fine and just i remember feeling so bad because you were in so much pain and then going to get it addressed and i think being given kind of like the worst case scenario of what could happen if you don't you know nip it in the bud and do you know spend money on these treatments is was like oh my god like all my teeth are just gonna fall out of my fucking head yep and you know that is why we're suing this person for one million dollars one billion dollars sorry one billion but you know it's about 10 grand for just like the medical care but then the rest is emotional distress i'll throw the 10k away that's yeah that's my reservation check check yeah so that's the end of that

well i hope you achieve all of your resolutions this year thank you have you got any i didn't really intentionally like make any because and i haven't for some time because i do think like there is a psychological thing that happens when you put that pressure on yourself i think approaching it and like things i hope to accomplish this year yeah is a better way i call mine intentions yeah yeah but like for example quitting smoking january 1 like rather than just like take efforts to quit smoking and you know maybe give yourself to like by the time 2025 rolls around you know like it you you give yourself a little bit more wiggle room there um but you know you always hear about people people who go and sign up for the gym and by

February, those people aren't going anymore. So I didn't really make any, just generally hoping that this year will be a better year in ways that I can control. Last year sucked for me in many ways. It was also like an okay year in other ways, but I lost my dad, which I haven't really talked about on this podcast. That was rough. I lost my cat Momo, which was also really rough. I've had lots of family and friends who've had hard times, their own individual loss, which is always hard too. And I just think it, you know, it seems like since 2020 each year has been really, really shitty. And I don't know if like the world, the things, the horrible things going on in the world impact people the way it makes me feel sometimes. But like there are certain things that I just can't control. So my hope is, is to just like kind of

do what I can to make life bearable in my sphere of control anyway. The world's burning. Yay! Yeah. Yep. Yep. Otherwise, I just don't know if I would be a functioning human if I constantly, like, dwelled on those things, which I do sometimes, and you gotta sometimes, we've talked about this, like, check out of the news

and all of that, just to give yourself a little bit of mental capacity. Yeah, it's just depressing. Yep, it is. But on a lighter note, would you like to hear some funny tweets about New Year's resolutions? Yeah, that'd be great. So this one is by SidHearth3, who posted, Startup idea.

A gym named Resolution that runs for the first month of the year, collects subscription fee, then converts to a bar named Regret. Good idea. I like it. Yep. This one is by someone named Charlotte Renee 8. I don't need a New Year's Resolution. It's the year. It's the year's turn to be better.

Yeah. You know what? Yeah. Why is the pressure on us? On you. This is your job now. Right. This one is one of my favorite accounts that I follow called Very British Problems.

Oh, yeah. I think I've read a few. Realistic New Year's resolutions. Get slightly older each day. Eat more cheese. Yeah you know discard old socks drink the same amount of tea never run out of biscuits say getting there a lot and muddle through yeah so if anything that's kind of where my new year's resolutions are like um continue to live yes continue to breathe have you seen that meme or not a meme it's like an

insta reel where it's someone looking back at their old resolutions and it's like uh oh i can't fucking remember oh, they just erase it and put 2024 on it. I think one of them was lose 10 kilograms or 10 pounds. It just crosses out the O. Lose a pound. Tick. Done that one. Make loads more money.

It just gets rid of the loads more. Make money. Tick. Done that one loads more, make money, tick, done that one. It's really good. Awesome. Yeah, and I think if you just give yourself really, even if you have big ones too, give yourself just a lot of very attainable

ones, like put on pants at least one day a week. Wake up in the morning. Yep. Check. Nailing that one. Every day.

Every fucking day. Try to go to sleep and lay there for two hours worrying about the world. Check every night, baby. Yep. Oh, man. I'm really crushing it, actually. Oh, here's one that's interesting. This year, my New Year's resolution is to learn the difference between being bored and being hungry.

That's a good one to explore. My New Year's resolution is for my body to make less sound when I stand up. Might be a hard one. Okay, one more. My New Year's resolution is to procrastinate. I'll start tomorrow. Ha-ha. Yeah. So, I mean, I feel like this is, you know,uary 1st is going to be the start of the new year and then put this like sentiment on it and i get it people like kind of milestones and

things to either begin or cap something but i'm also just like it is literally just a day that we decided would be a thing yeah and there's also some science behind it. There's a reason why people never stick to them. It's because you feel all G'd up and ready to do whatever it is, like quit smoking, stop drinking, or go to the gym every day, whatever it is. But the problem is, it is just another day and you're expecting to make such a huge life change in that one day that is you know quite often unattainable and it takes time to build new habits and to build a change of lifestyle it's not something you can just do in a day so that's why the majority of people don't well because when they fuck up too it it's kind of like, well, I fucked up now. So I guess I'll just revert back to all my old habits, you know, rather than like, I wanted to go to the gym every day. I missed a day.

So I guess I won't go to the gym ever again. Which is the attitude you should have. Yep. It is. Like, just quit. Try. And then when you fail, stop yeah give up quit but for those at home listening to this conversation and you're like jemma kate my new year's resolution i'm pretty stoked about and i think i'm going to achieve let us know because we want to support you we We want to celebrate victories. We want

to validate. And we're here to... Maybe. Unless you fail, then I'll be like, you know what? Fuck that resolution because I will validate anything. You'll just miss validation. Yep.

Well done. Want me to enable you sure will unless it's something like really horrible then i won't but obviously if you're like oh i wanted to go to the gym every day but i failed i'll be like that's okay going to the gym every day is actually bad for you you should go maybe once or twice a week yeah you're going too much actually you're getting too hot give us give the rest of us a chance okay you're looking too toned my friend we want to see a little bit of cellulite a little bit of blubber on those bones okay yep yep so go and eat some popcorn i've got just the thing for you i have some opop pop it's actually you know pretty low calorie snack that's very tasty anyway i think you just like things with catchy names maybe you see more about that yep the little thing that you were doing the other day my shrinky dinks yep haven't done any sense i also don't stick with anything

you just like a catchy name for a while and then you move on to your next catchy name you're like a magpie but for catchy names yeah oh shiny thing i feel called out but also i accept this because I don't think you're wrong so thank you for pointing out this to me so I can improve this year on it you know at least well I'm not gonna stop loving things with catchy names but I'll just continue to stick with them as my point like i will not just drop it immediately um so i feel like you mentioned that you maybe got some funny reddit gossip discussion for us today i have yeah well i came across a post that was somebody asking the question, or it was asking women,

what made you cancel a date with someone you were initially interested in? How did it go? And there were just some quite funny answers on here, so I thought I'd share some with you. Please do. So, from the user stuff and things three three two good name so she says yeah so i was really into this guy in high school like i thought he was the coolest guy on the planet tall good looking great head of hair dripping with personality just an all-round hottie. One day, completely out of nowhere, he asked me out, and I was over the moon.

Obviously I said yes, how could I not? The night came and he picked me up in his sweet-looking car. I can't remember what the model was, but it looked sexy. He told me that he needed to drop by his house real quick, which I didn't mind. Didn't you just

come from there, though? I assumed he forgot his wallet or something. house real quick, which I didn't mind. Didn't you just come from there though? Yeah, that's it. I assumed he forgot his wallet or something. I expected him to just walk inside and get whatever he needed, but he invited me into his house. Now, as much as I'd like to tell you, I don't have a dirty mind. My mind went straight to sex. Now, at that time, I was very much still a virgin and I didn't feel ready yet. So I planned to go inside and gently tell him that I couldn't do it. When I went inside, however, there was a little girl, obviously his sister, playing with her dolls. I suddenly became concerned and I assumed that if his sister was there, then his parents must be there too. And I was not ready to meet them yet.

must be there too. And I was not ready to meet them yet. But then I realised something. There wasn't another car in the driveway and so his parents weren't home. So I asked him where the sitter was, which I thought was a pretty simple question, but he looked at me like I was speaking another language. He then asked me if I could watch her for a couple of hours i asked him uh what about our date then he responded with this exact quote uh we can't go out tonight i already made plans with another girl i was hoping you could babysit tonight and we could go out tomorrow oh my god i was livid i wanted to curse him out on the spot but his sister who couldn't have been more than seven by the way was literally just a few feet away from me so i just stormed out and walked four and a half blocks home fuck that guy four and a half blocks is not that much but yeah fuck that

guy i thought he was gonna say hours and i was like oh yeah that's what i was anticipating too but what um i wonder if he did that like it was like fuck and so i'm just gonna ask her out and then bring her over to my house to babysit my sister and act like yes like just very manipulative but also high school boys are dumb and yeah could see it being like, oh fuck. Well, I, well,

I'll see if I can make this work. I can just take her out tomorrow. Yeah. Hmm. So, I mean, that really was like canceled, sort of canceled during the date,

but also not really. Cause technically the date was the next, I don't know. That sucks though. Yeah. I guess they never actually got to the date though. She would have been like, Dripping with personality.

Sounds like he had very little personality, to be honest. Maybe a little bit of a narcissist. Honestly, he probably was just really hot. And you might recall the story I told you about the very hot guy that I had a, like, a date with in high school. And I was like, you are very hot, but so stupid. And I just can't do this. There's, you know, quite a few about because I canceled the date because the guy got creepy and obsessive before even meeting. I would freak out if I didn't respond fast enough.

A lot of people are like, yep, I had that. Dib, dib, dib, dib. Nuh-uh. Okay. All right. Phew, do I have a story for you. This takes place around 2001, 2002. So keep in mind, no smartphones, and we aren't as careful about meeting people.

Yeah, because the internet's still kind of in its infancy in a way, and you can't double. So it's just like meeting people in the wild and hoping you're not going to get murdered. Yeah, exactly. So anyway, I was 19 19 and i had met a guy online and we texted for a while because she was online because she got online but you know what i mean yeah oh yeah i mean it was like if i remember correctly so i would have been maybe junior high or high school freshman in high school and it was like aol i still feel like myspace yeah a little bit of that um okay so he came clean that the pictures

he had used weren't actually his um but getting pictures on a profile was difficult back then so it wasn't that unusual he said that if i gave him my address he would send me some pictures like old school developed pictures he did he looked okay i wasn't deterred he then started carpet bombing me with flowers and little gifts i was 19 i fell for it we decided to meet and he would be coming to my city on the train and i would meet him to see where it went from there but with the expectation that i would probably spend the weekend with him at his hotel. He looked nothing like the pictures. Yes, it was him, but maybe 70 pounds and 15 years ago.

We left the station while I tried to figure out what to do. When we got to a more secluded area, I told him that I couldn't do this, that he hadn't been truthful and that it felt like everything he'd said had been a lie. He freaked out, started bawling through gifts that he'd brought me in the trash and stormed off. I picked up the gifts and went home. I sent him a message that I could send him the gifts back

if he wanted to return them, but got no answer. Maybe a week later, I get a text in the middle of the night saying that he wants to off himself and that it will be all my fault. Again, remember I was 19. I kind of panicked but he's not answering the phone or text. So I looked up some people in his area with his last name. Luckily it's a rare name so odds were that they were related and I texted one of them and said that she... Sorry, I texted one of them and she said that, yeah, she knew him. She was his cousin and she would check in on him. Next day, I woke up to 50 missed calls and like 100 texts telling me how embarrassing that was

and that his parents got involved and the whole family. Well, they should probably know how you're behaving sir yeah yet women are so emotional so wait he must have been a little bit older than her because if it was like 15 years ago when he wasn't five years old yeah yeah maybe oh dear oh i'm glad that at that time frame i was like far too young for such things because i'm surprised more people didn't get like murdered during during that period i mean i'm sure they did i'm i bet we could probably find thousands of stories of really horrible encounters like that but yeah i just remember men being like like i'm not just like just you know slagging off men in general here but like i just oh we are like they were yeah i kind of run they were just a lot more creepy back then

like and maybe because people weren't as aware of it but i remember going to like a theme park and like with my friends and a guy gave us he wrote down his number on the receipt like the the ride and when we got home that night we're having a sleepover and we sent him a message and he just sent back like a load of dick pics yeah yeah i mean really and it's like at the time we found it funny do you know what i mean we were like oh willie like oh you're funny i'm sorry willie will never not be funny to me. Yeah. And then I remember, you remember when like, I think it was AOL,

but you used to be able to like video chat with random people. Oh, like chat roulette? Yeah, maybe that's what it was. Where you just kind of like join and then just someone pops up and then you can go next. Yeah. And we were doing that and there was just some guy fucking wanking on screen like it was always men wanking and it was always just a bunch of girls together like yeah just like oh my god so i never really did i'm i was

aware of it but i never did it but i saw a lot of like clips of like funny or horrible chat roulettes and i'm just like men ruin you they ruin everything how about we do a little am i the asshole yes ma'am except you know, baby, and it's my turn. Oop, oop. Me, me, me, me. I just sit back and relax during this one. Yeah, you just rest your pretty little face and open up your ear holes for this. Okay. Am I the asshole for calling my friend fat?

Ooh. For context, one of my close friends who struggles with being overweight has recently started to go to the gym and has really been trying to become a healthier version of herself. However, ever since she started to see results, she's become more outspoken and confident, always speaking her mind no matter what she's thinking. She often calls people fat, unprovoked, and just generally seems like a more judgmental person than she was pre-workout. Anyways, I recently started to date a guy for a month now. I really like him and I was telling my friend about him, so she asked to see

a picture. I showed her his picture, continuing to talk him up and telling her how happy I am. She then proceeded to say, yeah, he's got a hot face, but he's just too twiggy. I asked her what she meant, which followed her saying, I mean, he's just too skinny. I'm used to dating gym guys, but I guess that's just your type. I then said, at least he's not fat, obviously referring to her, which she became upset about. I feel awful about it. it she's my friend and i'm not a fat phobic person nor have i ever commented on her weight like that my other friend told me she deserved it but i'm just currently juggling between whether i should whether i should apologize to her or not um well yeah i kind of think you are the arsehole a little bit because you've called your mate fat.

I mean, it sounds like she has got a bit big headed and a bit cocky since going to the gym. Mm hmm. But still, I don't think it's I mean mean did she do you think this person realized that she was referring to her i mean she must have done she's not really it said obviously referring to her and she became upset so i think however it was said the the implication was noted yeah i mean it's yeah it's just you can't really do that but I can see how annoying it would be and especially when like you're just trying to get some praise off a mate for your new fella that you're seeing and they can only be negative about it my guess is there's probably a little bit of an undertone of jealousy there, but I think we all had those friends who rather than be like, that's great.

I'm so happy. Or he's really cute. You know, well, even if they do say things like that, we'll still kind of like slip in something like not my type. I prefer guys that are Potter or something, you know, like that. And it's just kind of like, well, fuck you. But I also so I think the reaction is understandable but i also think there could have been some other things that this person could have said that wasn't straight up like well he's not fat like you you know because that is that's i think it's mean and returning kind and kind. And I, you know, so like, yes, I think probably both of them suck in this example.

Yeah. That's it. You don't know how much this person was pushed. Do you know what I mean? If her friend was being a twat for months on end, then maybe she just snapped. Happens to the worst of us, but still,

you know, that's probably going to affect your mate quite negatively. So, yeah, probably everyone's a bit of an asshole. So I think that consensus is, excuse me, generally everyone sucks here. That, you know, like you're both assholes. But there's a few where it says not the asshole. One is this is a classic case of she can dish it out, but she can't take it. If she doesn't like hearing about her weight, then she shouldn't be judging people for their weight.

I don't know if I agree with that, though. No. Because I think the response, which someone else commented above that, which is she could have said something like, I don't judge people by their body size. And I'm quite shocked to find that you obviously do. So making it about the behavior rather than sinking to her level, which would have been probably a really great response. But of course, hindsight's 20-20, right? and she's probably made that comment about the guy because it feeds back to one of you know her insecurities about her body and her way i am someone else noted kind of unrelated to who maybe is the worst person here but it's your

friend was always this way she just wasn't confident enough to yeah express herself and so now that she is like she's using that as an excuse but this person also said i've been thin overweight thin again and it's never changed my personality so this friend's probably always kind of sucked and been this way just didn't vocalize it in the same way um oh she'll be a nightmare if she gets really super hot yeah Yeah. Yeah. Someone else said, not the asshole. I don't get why everyone was saying everyone sucks here.

She body shamed people. You put her in her place by doing the same thing to her. It's not that deep. But again, I don't know if you could have done it in a way or she could have done it in a way that wouldn't have basically, again, going to her level. But also saying, I can't believe you're being that way when you're the person who's trying to lose weight going to the gym all of that it just seems really hypocritical of you yeah bringing it up rather than sinking to those depths so i'm consensus is i think between you and i at least everyone sucks here and with that gemma don't call me fat anymore all right well

stop calling me fat fat bitch you're a fat bitch p-h-a-t oh i'm fat i'm thick i think on the low low um yeah i don't know. Yeah, I get it. No, I don't get it. What I'm trying to say is it's annoying from every perspective. Like when I used to be super skinny and people would be like, oh, my God, you're so skinny. You need to eat some food. You're like, you're right. I don't do that. Thank you for telling me that because now I know.

Yeah. Like, you're right. I don't do that. Thank you for telling me that because now I know. Yeah. And it's, I think, equally as offending as people going, oh my God, you're so fat. Well, and people are, I think, less likely to do that than for whatever reason, people are more comfortable to comment on someone's weight when they're very skinny and stuff, maybe because they think it's a compliment or I don't know. i know i've there have been times when i have gained weight and you know i feel horrible about myself and i feel fat no one has ever been like you're so fat kate or maybe you should lose weight um but when i've lost weight and people are like you're so skinny like you're too skinny there's nothing for you yeah yep maybe you should eat some bread

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