Triforce! - Triforce! #305: The Least Attractive Men in the World

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

Triforce! Episode 305! We take the test to find out what hobbies are the least and most attractive to women! We're hoping and praying that gaming, Magic the Gathering and weekly podcasts are in their list... Go to http://auraframes.com/triforce to get up to $30 off Aura’s best-selling frames. Support your favourite podcast on Patreon: https://bit.ly/2SMnzk6 Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hick Axe Well hello there everyone, welcome back to the Triforce Podcast. Sips is here in Bristol. Yes. He's right next to me. I left, well, we're like a room across. We're isolated. It's like 2020 all over again.

We have strict social distancing in effect right now. Sips hasn't been to the office for four or five years. Yeah. And he's come down for a gig. And of course it's snowing. So is it actually snowing? It was snowing yesterday. In Jersey it was snow's snowing. It was snowing. It was snowing yesterday in Jersey. It was snowing yesterday and my flight was almost canceled.

And when I landed in Southampton, all of the trains were delayed because there was trees on the tracks. And I think a truck collided with a bridge some way along the way. So everything was delayed. But it actually worked out pretty good for me because the trains that I had booked, I was able to refund all of them, and then I was able to book new ones, and it was perfect. I got off the plane, walked right over the train station, walked right onto a train,

swapped over, I saw the next train that I had to get on beside the train that I was already travelling on, so I got to the station, got onto the next train, and it was all perfect. But it took like ten hours. Yeah. That's it. Yes. I mean, you did fly to the wrong city. Well, yeah. It's just as well I did, because the only flight to Bristol from Jersey yesterday was cancelled. I know. So, and the one that I did book to go to Southampton, because the time was better, was just delayed,

not cancelled. This is like, we know this, though, right? Any hint of a little white stuff coming out of the sky, and the UK is like, stop everything! Get the kids out going to school! By extension Jersey's like times a hundred that. If there's even a threat of one snowflake falling from the sky, everything just shuts down. My wife was messaging me yesterday saying that the lights were flickering and stuff,

and while I was in the airport, all of the power at the check-in desks went down, because everybody was just at home cranking the heaters, because it was so cold. Yeah. So there was, like, rolling brownouts across the whole island. Oh, that's so funny. Can I just say, brownout is such a terrible word. the whole island. Oh, that's so funny. Can I just say brownout is such a terrible word. It sounds like... Oh, it's great.

It's soiling yourself. It does sound like soiling yourself, yeah. I've had a brownout. I think people always say, it's not brownout, it's blackout. But no, it's not blackout because the power didn't cut completely. It was flickering, you know? It was in between. Mmm.

So they call it brownout. But it does sound like you're shitting yourself. You think yourself a you know, it was in between. So they call it Brown out. It does sound like you're shitting yourself. But you're okay. It does sound like, like some, like a storm of diarrhea. Yes. Well, talking of a storm of diarrhea, I went to see a play last night. It was not called storm of diarrhea, but that would be my review. Okay.

What's one of your children? Uh, I went to see Dr. Strangelove with Steve Coogan. All right. Right. Oh, god no. They're all excellent. I went to see Doctor Strangelove with Steve Coogan. Right? Oh really? That doesn't sound like it would be necessarily a storm of diarrhea. I know! Which is crazy. And Armando Iannucci, who's one of my comedy heroes.

Yeah, he wrote a lot of famous sitcoms in the 90s. Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. And the 2000s as well. Brilliant guy. He's lost it. He's lost it. This was diabolical.

I mean, the movie is a classic. Why are you remaking this film, which was set during the Cold War now? I suppose it's kind of topical, but they don't update it at all. There's like two references to current events, I guess, but they're kind of so on the nose. You're just like, okay, yeah, I get that.

And it's like they kind of remade the film, but they've missed all of the key beats on the jokes. It's like the guys are just reading the lines, but don't understand what they mean. Steve Coogan plays four characters, whereas Peter Sellers plays three. And the problem is two of the characters are in the same room quite a lot. So you have to come up with this conceit of Mr. President, there's a phone call. And while he goes and answers the phone and changes into the other costume and then comes in.

So you never get the two, the president and Dr. Strangelove talking to each other because they both played by Coogan. Just get one of them to be played by not Steve Coogan. Like, you don't have... it's much harder to do as a play. It is insane that he's playing four characters in it. Like, does he need to... No! No. So he plays Colonel Mandrake, who's like the British attaché. It's not like fucking Eddie Murphy in Meet the Flumps or whatever. Right. But as a stage show... No, it's not Meet the Flumps, it's Nutty Professor.

Hercules, Hercules, Hercules! Remember that at the dinner table? No, I never saw it. Oh my god, man. But it's just, it's just like so many of the jokes, they just either they made, they said the line the way it is in the film, then added another line that was like, did you see that joke? Let's explain it to you with another joke to say that's what that was. Like, what are you doing? Like, there's no subtlety.

And the whole scenes in the B-52 bomber are awful. I don't know what the accent he was going for was. I don't know what this character was meant to be. It was terrible. It was, honestly, it was so bad. Was it packed? Was it very busy or was it like quite intimate? Was there only like 10 people in the crowd? It was busy. It was busy. Right. And was it weird seeing Steve Coogan on stage?

Well, not really, because we were very high up. My mates were like, this probably isn't going to be great. So let's not spend a fortune on it. So we were right up in the gods, but that's fine. I mean, I've seen plenty of plays either down low or up top. It doesn't make a difference. If it's a good play, it's a good play. This was just oh, my God, it was so disappointing.

It really was bad. And I read one review saying that Steve Coogan's turn in this play absolutely wiped out PSL's turn in the original movie. I'm like, you've got to be kidding. PSL's turn in the original movie. I'm like, you've gotta be kidding. PSL's was so good in that. Way funnier. Much more subtle to his performance. It was just so good, this was just so bad.

If you enjoyed it, fair enough. I hated it. I thought all the extra jokes they added felt like Radio 4 comedy hour bullshit. Just the most obvious joke every time. It was really disappointing. Do you regularly go to theatre? Do you actually, like, is this a thing for you? Fairly regularly.

I mean, you know, not like every month or anything, but... Have you ever been to a poetry slam before? I've never been to a poetry slam. Okay. No. Just checking. Okay. I thought you were gonna give me an anecdote about a poetry slam.

No, I had never been to one and neither has hips. No, okay. Fantastic. I would say I've never been to one and I don't intend on ever... I'm pretty sure I could probably make it through this life without ever attending one. I'm not taking away anything from a poetry slam, if you like to do that. But for me, I just don't think I... I can't see myself ever going to one.

It's just, I don't... I mean, I like poetry, don't get me wrong. I've read some good poetry, but it's not something that I seek out. I like some poetry. You know what I mean? I like if. You know, I think that's a good poem. There's some classics out there, don't get me wrong.

Sure. Equally. I just don't want to sit there with a bunch of people doing that. I feel like the poetry space is probably quite saturated as well, and maybe there's a lot of bad poetry out there, you know? I think the poetry space is a little saturated for us. Yeah, I think it's a little bit. I think it's one of those things.

I think poetry, essentially. I think I think like when you're young, you know, like when you're kind of like 20, 21 and you're still figuring out like who you are and how you fit and stuff, you know, you you kind of go on you write a bit of poetry and some of it's probably not great. I'd say most of it's probably not great. Every once in a while, somebody will write some poetry and it's really good, but for the most part I think most poetry that's written is probably pretty bad. It's just a lot of people that could potentially be poets, you know?

Well, people use poetry in things, though, right? A lot of poetry doesn't have to be rhyming like it's written by Dr. Seuss, right? No. It doesn't have to be rhyming, like it's written by Dr. Seuss, right? It becomes song lyrics or it becomes scripts or monologues or speeches or other things in other things, right? A lot more people are writing plays and radio shows and books and short stories and Reddit posts and tweets, you know, than they are doing poems, right? And I think doing a poem is so- It's a form of poetry, a lot of that stuff, I think, you know, than they are doing poems, right? And I think doing a poem is so... It's a form of poetry, a lot of that stuff, I think. You know? Like, even some tweets...

It does have a bad rap. It definitely has a bad... I don't want to go to a poetry event where people are up on stage reading their poems, because I think those people are, quite frankly, sad. Unhinged. I just... I don't know. No, I mean, some of it can be really really good. They're very brave. Alright, I've written a slam poem about the Triforce podcast. Oh fuck me.

Recording a pod-cast. A pod. Cast! Cast! Cast around for a topic, bring it up like vomit. listener looks like grommet from Wallace and Gromit, poetry slam, man, like jam on a wall near a dam, holding back the tide of vomit. I think this is like the...

So good! Like the tone that you use to read your poem is kind of like that really stereotypical, you know, like I'm a poet in the 60s in New York and I'm angry. And it's that tone, right? But like, that's gotta be still a thing, but probably not as much so as back then. You know what I mean?

I don't know. I don't know if it's like what they called beatniks back in the day. Yeah, beatniks. That's right. I mean, I think more than hipsters. Like, what they called beatniks back in the day. Yeah, beatniks. The sort of alternative. That's right. I mean, I think more than hipsters. Hipsters seemed to be people who were just looking for the cool thing to go to and do. Whereas I felt beatniks were actually trying to be anti-establishment and do something.

But of course, because they were all like art school graduates and dropouts, you know, they just sort of felt like it was sort of ineffectual, I guess. What you just did there would be, you'd see that on The Simpsons. You know, like, if Lisa went to a poetry recital, that would be the recital. It would be talking about something somewhat relevant or recent, but it would be in that exact tone, like it would be, he would have a turtleneck on and he'd have, like, the John Lennon glasses and he'd be, you know, angrily pacing around on the stage doing his slam poetry and stuff.

It is like a bit of a stereotype, isn't it? It is. So were Beatniks like kind of the original hippies? I don't really understand. No, I don't think they were hippies. I think that they were more, if you can imagine people that then became like, like, do you remember back in the day, if you get a lot more, more vocal activists than hippies, hippies were always, I think they were active, more peaceful, weren't they? They would turn up and sort of sit around, but like, yeah, but they,

they weren't, I mean, they, they went on protest marches, like very famously, like the trial of the Chicago seven. If you watch that movie, there's a bunch of hippies there. Like that was a very anti war movement. Yeah. If you think about the beatniks, I think they were too cool for school. You know, like you said, the turtlenecks and all the rest of it in poetry and maybe they were more of the artsy side of things rather than the protest-y side. Because the hippies were just getting high ends, having sex and going to protests. I think the beatniks were out there making slam poetry and cool music and stuff like that. But I dunno, if you guys know more about the history of beatniks and hippies, go ahead

and email us. To the mailman. We'd love to hear how wrong we are about all this. Hey, I've got an interesting study, if you wanna hear this. Sure. Oh, crack on. This is the least and most attractive male hobbies to women. Oh wow.

Okay, I thought this was really interesting. So first of all. Wait, can we guess the the the the top? Absolutely. Let me give you the categories. This is top hobbies men think women like. OK, all right. That's the first part.

Men think women like these. OK, men think that women like when they go to the gym a lot. That's got to be the top one. Your hobbies going to the gym and that and in lot, that's gotta be the top one. Your hobby's going to the gym and in men's eyes that's the top one, women look for that in men. No, I think we're taking fitness out as a hobby. I don't think fitness is a hobby.

So, I mean, cause it's not on any of these lists, so fitness is out. And I don't think things like volunteer firefighting count either. That's not on there, no. That's not on the hobby. I think I would, I use for example woodworking. like volunteer firefighting count either. That's not on there, no. That's not on the hobby. Okay. I think I would, I use for example woodworking. So woodworking is not on the list of hobbies that men think women like. Oh no, sorry, it is.

It is one, two, three, four, five. Sixth from the bottom, 89%. Woodworking? Yeah, woodworking. Fucking hell. I didn't see it there. 89%. Is bowling on the list anywhere? Bowling is not on the list.

Are you serious? And woodworking is? What are you talking about? Well, we're talking about like the ancient art of woodworking and bowling, and somehow bowling has been removed. Like how far back are we going with this? Have you seen any TikToks? There's men chopping wood outside and it's semi-naked. It's basically porn. That's kind of like fitness related though. Lumberjacks are like fucking hot.

I can't tell if you're joking or not about bowling. I can't tell if you think bowling should actually be on there. It has to be the least sexy sport ever. Oh, come on. I'm disappointed in your voice! A little sigh of sadness. Just, I'm just seeing, all I'm seeing is Jesus from the fucking- Jesus was really good at bowling as well. From the, the, the Bowski.

That's all I'm seeing. Yeah. Well, okay. It's got to be things like, um, uh, DIY maybe? Like, like, or like building stuff. Building- I think that would probably come under woodworking in all of this. Okay. How about pottery pottery and clay and...

So, pottery is not on there. My guess for least favourite men's hobby by women is video games. It has to be. Wait, wait, wait. We'll come to that section later. We'll get to the worst ones. So I guess the best ones, hang on, okay, it's gotta be things like dancing, how about that? Grooming your dog.

No, dogs and dancing are not on there. What? I wouldn't say walking your dog is a hobby. I'll give an example so we get back on track. Astronomy. Oh. Alright. 65% of men thought the women would be into their love of astronomy.

Okay. For example, writing is listed as writing. 90% of men thought writing would be something women would be into. Okay. My experience of women, I would say that one thing that women would love for men to be into is shopping, but most men that I know are not into shopping. But so, but that's also not a hobby. I mean do you know what a hobby is? A hobby is not a hobby. I know, but I think for some women it is a hobby. Yes, exactly. I think cooking would be... Cooking is there. Men think it's at number five.

Right. Or the line not a hobby. I would say that's a necessity for life. Exactly. I agree. But you can either cook... Washing. Doing the washing. No, that's not a hobby. Exactly. See? Exactly, tidying up!

Stop my hobbies tidying up! Do you want me to explain it to you or are you going to keep getting angrier? I think this list is all wrong. We don't understand the men think women like these things. I will explain this to you very simply. If it's something that you can try to get better at, like say cooking or archery, which is on the list... Fuck, no it's not!

Or noise, that kind of stuff. Yes, these are things that men think women like. When was this list compiled? or archery which is on the list. Fuck archery! No it's not. That kind of stuff. Yes, these are things that men think women like. When was this list compiled? Very recently. This is up to date. This is up to date. Just bear in mind if you're on one of these dating apps, these are the kind of fucking

hobbies you get to pick as things I like doing. Archery. Archery is on the list, yes! How about slaying Normans? That's a big red flag for me. If I'm on a dating app and somebody's listed archery as their flag, I'm like, that's immediately I'm out. Well that's fair enough.

I will read them to you to save you guys getting angry. Sure. Looting and pillaging. We are not normal men. I don't get into the mind of a normal man. From the bottom up, astronomy, blacksmithing, archery. Blacksmithing! Who does that as a hobby? Fucking astronomy as well. I mean, come on, man.

Astronomy. Whose hobby is astronomy? Woodworking, writing, painting, and reading. Foreign languages, cooking, hiking, traveling, swimming, playing a musical instrument. That's reverse order. So playing a musical instrument, 97% of men think women fucking love that. Here are the top 15 most attractive hobbies to women as reported by them. Right. Okay. At the bottom is travelling. How many women?

87%. I don't know. Did they interview like 10 women? Hold on. Oh, fuck me. Now you're making me read the... They asked a shitload, right? A shitload. They didn't ask three people. So 87% of women think travelling is attractive. Yes. Is that what you're saying?

That's not a hobby! That's not a hobby! That's pretty high. That's pretty high. And it's not a hobby. And it's not a hobby. Archery. Blacksmithing is on there, is it?

Yes. Yes. Brilliant. That's 88. Archery. Hiking. Archery is still on there. Glass blowing. Astronomy. Astronomy is at 90%.

Photography. Swimming. Gardening. Writing. Painting. Animal husbandry. Woodworking. Woodworking is at number five, woodworking

is at number four, playing an instrument is at third, foreign languages are second, and number one is reading. Recreational irrigation. Reading is not a hobby, by the way. Reading is just something that you do in between other things, it's not actually a full hobby. It's not full hobby. No, it's like watching movies. Watching movies isn't a hobby. That's just the thing that you do in between other things, it's not actually a full hobby. It's not full hobby. No, it's like watching movies. Watching movies isn't a hobby.

That's just the thing that people do. It's a time filler. I understand that was challenging. Now let's look at hobbies that women don't like. Okay? Gaming. Now we've got hobbies that men think women don't like. Yeah.

Okay, Magic the Gathering. This is what men think women don't like. Magic the Gathering, 7% of men think women don't like Magic the Gathering. That's at number five. Fifth from the bottom. Fifth from the bottom. I'll give you the very top one as some idea. Men think women-

Pokemon. No, clubbing. Going clubbing. Alright? Going clubbing. Men think women hate men that go clubbing. Alright? Really?

I don't know why they all think that, but that's what they think. Cause they're all players, that's why. I guess so. Men think women hate a player. That's what it is. Yeah. No, they think that they hate men that go clubbing. I think they think, maybe in men's minds, women will think, I'm not serious. And Magic the Gathering is on there as well.

Magic the Gathering is there. My Little Pony. Wait, Magic the Gathering is listed as Magic the Gathering? Yeah. Oh my god, man. I would have just grouped that into just general gaming, right? So yeah, video games. Anime is there.

Anime is there. Anime is there. Oh wow, this is a fucking funny list. This is quite a modern list. On the woman's side, on the men's side, it sounds like the stupidest list from... It's like something out of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Coming back with fucking blacksmithing. Archery. I mean with fucking blacksmithing.

Aren't you? I mean, come on, man. All right, I'm going to read these to you to save you guys the time. This is from the bottom up. So this is what men think. Men think women don't like this. Women don't like Batman. One of these hobbies is Funko, which means collecting Funko Puffs, I guess.

Funko? Yeah. Collecting those. Is Lego on there as well? No, I'll just chuck it under there. Arguing online. Arguing online? That's not our hobby!

Alright, then this one, this one I don't know what this is. Manosphere. Oh my god. That's like your body, my choice. Yeah, all that kind of shit. One of those guys, it's like, men's rights activists and all those guys, alright? So, gambling? It sounds like a type of ship guys, it's like, men's rights activists and all those guys, alright? So, gambling? It sounds like a type of ship that, like, the Portuguese Navy would have used in the

1400s. Alright, gambling? Oh fuck, here comes the matter sphere! Yeah. Magic the Gathering. Porn. Only 8% of men think women would not like them if that was one of their hobbies. Hobbies? Hobbies. Comic books? Who's writing that on their fucking list of. Hobbies? Hobbies. Comic books?

Who's writing that on their fucking list of hobbies? I don't know. Comic books are 8%. Porn is a hobby. Let's go around the circle, introduce ourselves and just tell everyone what hobbies we do. I like Magic the Gathering, the Manosphere and porn. I mean to the Manosphere and porn. Hi, I really like arguing online.

Come at me. I'll argue in real life as well if you want. Debating is on there. Debating. Debating. Marijuana. Nine percent of men think women don't want to do that smokes weed as a hobby. My hobbies are marijuana and Funko.

Give me a fucking break. I think there needs to be a stricter definition for hobby as well. Anime. Crypto. Maker. Crypto! Maker. Yeah, to be a stricter definition for hobby as well. Anime, crypto, make crypto. Make. Yeah, that's a bad one. I mean, it's like saying like taking long shits is a hobby. It's not. You just have to shit regularly. It's not a perfect list of hobbies.

I can't modify that. So let's work with what we've got. Cosplay, cigars. OK. Drinking and as I said clubbing. Now these are the actual least attractive hobbies as reported by women. Listen up everyone, if you're doing any of these, stop doing them. Stop doing them straight away. These are in reverse order, so apparently 3.1% of women list Manosphere, so I still

have no fucking idea what that really is. So some women know what this is as well. Apparently. Then gambling. That's it. 6%. Porn is 10%. Arguing online is 12%.

Oh wow. Funko Pops is 12%. Weed is 15%. Clubbing, only 20% of women say that clubbing is unattractive. Cigars is 22. Crypto is 23. Makeup is 24. Anime is 27%.

Wow. Magic the Gathering are whopping 28% of women. Yikes. Drinking 29%. Debating 30%. Cosplay 32%. And comic books 33%. The least attractive hobby to women is comic books.

Comic books. Wow. Okay. We should have known that. KM Is comic books, like what, so you're talking not only reading them, but collecting them and then talking about them all the time. ALICE That's like your whole thing is comics. KM Do you mean graphic novels? ALICE Exactly. They're like, oh, this day is over.

It's not working out. So yeah, that's it. KM The thing is, one thing I don't understand is why it's such a big deal. You're a person with your own needs, wants and desires, and therefore hobbies. Why can't you not just have your own hobbies that you enjoy doing when you can do them? And then your partner also has their own hobbies that they like to enjoy when they can do them or whatever. You don't have to have the same hobbies at all. You can be completely different people and still have a functioning relationship. It shouldn't be a big deal breaker that somebody likes

collecting comics. It's not hurting anyone. I think this is more of a knee-jerk, cultural bias though, like a subconscious ick. They're talking to the average man or woman and saying, what's unattractive to you about, what hobbies do you think will... I think that everything has a stereotype attached to it, right? And I think comic books still have this stigma of gross nerdy thing to do, which is unattractive, right? And I think that's a very prevalent and persistent thing to overcome. I think, I'm not saying everyone is that way, and I think a lot of people aren't, obviously. I know plenty of women who play Magic the Gathering and love it more than their partners do. I think in a sense that is, sometimes the guys

do find women into nerdy stuff more attractive. There's definitely that gamer girl thing because it does usually mean that they are more open to the nerdier hobbies that us nerds are into. Can I think that was advocate for this list for a moment? And I understand what you're saying about how, I mean, for example, Mrs. F is into cross-stitch and she likes knitting and stuff. I have zero interest in that. Not an issue. But equally, she doesn't just talk about that all the time. So I think in a way, this is like saying, if you met a guy and all he talked about was magic the gathering, that's a massive turn off because it's so

nerdy and like awful for those women that responded that way that they just can't bear it. There's a massive turn off. Cause it's so nerdy and like awful for those women that responded that way that they just can't bear it. There's a massive turn off for that. This would explain my success on Tinder. Exactly. Like I get it. If your hobby is like, that's your primary hobby is Magic the Gathering. A lot of women might say, geez, this guy never fucking shuts up about Magic the Gathering and Mono Blackbecks. Yeah, but the thing is like, I's there's types of hobbies as well. Like like a hobby like Magic the Gathering, for example,

you're probably at home doing Magic the Gathering, right? You're not it's not like you have to go somewhere. You might have to go somewhere sometimes. But like, say your hobby is surfing. Well, you're not you're never at home, right? You're you've got to go to the beach and is surfing. Well, you're not, you're never at home, right? You're, you're, you've got to go to the beach and go surfing. So a hobby that takes you out of the home a lot is probably a hobby that you'd want potentially to share, right? Cause otherwise you just never see each other.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If your hobby is like reading or watching movies or gaming or, or, you know, cross stitch or anything at home these are things that you could do at the same time in the same room together you're not necessarily doing the same thing but you can still spend time together doing so it shouldn't be a huge deal but if your hobby is archery you've got to go out to to Shshire. You've got to hit the range. You know, you're never going to be at home.

You know, you're greasing up your arrows all the time and stuff. Oh yeah, you've got to grease your arrows up, as I understand it. Yeah, I think, and maybe, you know, if your hobby is LARPing, you have to be away a lot too, right? You go on LARPing events and stuff. So I think stuff like that, where it's out of the home, it's probably pretty good if you're both into it. Because then you can do it together. I guess I don't like the word hobby. I think I'd rather it was interests or something like

that. You know? Like, I think that is better fit. I think just hobby, I consider it to be something more committed than reading. You know? I don't know. I think just hobby, I consider it to be something more committed than reading. You know? I don't know. I just, I think, I think it's just a linguistic issue I have with the word hobby there. Maybe. Maybe it means different things in America. I guess maybe interest or, you know, so something that you're going to do in your spare time. I don't know. It's a, either way. I think I have a lot of interests though. Like I'm interested in loads of things. And I wouldn't consider many of the things I'm interested in hobbies though.. Like, I'm interested in loads of things. And I wouldn't consider

many of the things I'm interested in hobbies though. In fact, I'm pretty, I'm pretty, you know, I wouldn't say... Oh, here's a thought. Here's a thought. I suppose we could define a hobby as something that you do in your spare time, whether that be something that you can also do like cooking, right? Okay, so porn. Yeah, right. Porn, right? So, that may cost money and takes up your time. And something So, so porn. Yeah. Right. That may cost money and takes up your time and something that, you know, you're invested

in finding out more about or buying all your porn. I'm very invested in it as well. Yeah. I mean, I'm surprised gaming wasn't on there. Yeah. Well, that's normally such a, such a topic, isn't it? Like, oh, you know, my husband just plays his PlayStation all the time. Just wants to play PlayStation. I mean, obviously we,

we understand that cause we are into gaming and stuff. Um, but like that, that I would say for me, that's like my main hobby. You know, I, I, I'm sort of always wanting to get onto a game and play a game. And if I can't for a number of reasons, you reasons, you know, like having like a family, kids, everything, most of the stuff that I'll do in between when, you know, for example, cooking or reading or stuff, this is all just stuff that I, I will do like, you know, in, in small amounts throughout the day sort of thing, you know, leading up to being able to actually do my hobby, you know? Yeah.

If that makes sense. Like I'll read quite a bit during the day because I have time to do it But I'm not gearing up to get in like a good three hours session of reading You know what I mean? Like if I if I have three hours to spare I'm going to actually do my hobby You know what I mean? Like everything else is just kind of like filling time here, there and here and there where, where I can, you know, like if I'm picking somebody up and I'm sitting in the car waiting for them to get to the car, I'll read a bit. You know what I mean? I wouldn't say that's my hobby if that makes sense. I don't know if that. I agree.

Yeah. And same with cooking. Cooking, I like, I don't dislike cooking, but you have to cook a little bit. Like, I mean, I suppose maybe you don't have to, but like, I feel like it's more of a necessity rather than a hobby. And like, if you're doing it as a hobby, there is a difference. You've got like a, like a kitchen lab where you're like testing out new recipes and stuff like that. Like, yeah, I mean, I would just say like, it's quite easy to get into the habit of cooking as a functional thing. Yeah. And you just basically cook pretty much the same thing and you get the same things. What's the day? Monday? This is what you like. Yeah, exactly.

So to make it more of a hobby would be people who go out and source specific ingredients from specific places and try new recipes. And I'm trying to, I want to make this. I want to make that. You'll go to a restaurant and try something and then be like, oh, I need to try to make that at home and stuff. Right. Yeah. So that, that would, I need to try to make that at home and stuff. Right.

Yeah. So that would, I think you could definitely consider cooking a hobby. I'm baking, especially. You don't need to bake for food. But a lot of people bake for fun. Well, then again, like, I suppose if someone identifies, if someone does identify themselves as, I don't know, they love blowjobs. That's their hobby.

I find that very attractive. You know, that's what I'm saying. If a woman said to you that her hobby was giving blowjobs, you would... Yes. That's like, she's really made herself an expert at it as well. You know. Yeah, but then does she want to go practice on other penises? Oh, I see. So what, she goes to a weekly blowjob class. Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah. My blowjob instructor says I'm really doing well this week.

Does he? Does he? Is there any chance we could just stop the classes? No, I want to get really good. Yeah. Okay. You are amazing. You don't need any more training on this at all.

Well, I think you can always do better. And we got the world finals coming up soon. We've been there. A month of blowjobs. I'm going around the world. This reminds me of something from maths recently, which which I mean, I know you guys don't like it, but it does have moments where... I don't know what you're talking about.

It is quite funny. Married at first sight. Oh god, sorry. No, no, no, listen though. I wasn't up to date with the fucking acronym for married at first sight. Well, I watch it a lot, so I haven't, we use the acronym now. So this guy is paired up with this woman and they're not hitting it off. There's not like, initially, the woman is like, you know, sorta into him or willing

to make a go of it, but him, right from the start, he is just not having it. He's really like not attracted to her. There's like no spark whatsoever. He doesn't even really want to make an effort, but for some reason he just has decided that he needs to try and stay on the show or whatever. And this has been going on for weeks, you know, like lots of lack of like intimacy. Like he just, he, he's always like recoiling, like he, he doesn't like her. And basically one of the experts comes in and is like, you know, she, this expert is like the, uh, you know, like the, um,

the intimacy expert, you know, so when she turns up, everybody's, you know, like normally she brings like a bag of dildos and like handcuffs and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so she turns up and she's like, what's wrong guys? Like you will try a couple of like hugging exercises and stuff and see if we can like, you know, ignite a flame or whatever. And they're talking and talking, talking. And she's like, why do you feel like you, you can't be intimate with this beautiful woman?

And he's like, oh, you know, I don't know. I think it's like this and that and whatever. And he's like, the thing is like, I know I need to practice my my intimacy like you know for future Relationships even so like I should be more willing to like just practice intimacy in case in the future The woman's just like what the fuck

Make sense. What the fuck so what you're just gonna practice intimacy with me And then just discard me after all this is done like and you're you're very upfront about it but he's just completely it's just like this doesn't register with him at all like it's just like yeah yeah oh yeah no I definitely need to practice for the future you know like if I have a partner in the future. He's like married, his wife's like sitting there. I mean, deciding that you're going to practice your intimacy, I'm sure that's a positive thing, but it sounds like you're fucking re-specking your character class in WoW or something.

I know. Nah, I expect more into intimacy next time. I think it didn't turn into... I put 15 points into blow jobs, what a waste of time. I expected high in intimacy, but I made the fatal mistake of only putting one in charisma, so it's... It hasn't worked out. It's so hard to learn. Like if you find it hard to be intimate with someone that you're with, I think, I guess

part of it might, if you lack experience, that's fair enough. But if you've been with a bunch of people and you just like, you find it very difficult to be intimate, even in a relationship, are we saying emotionally intimate, physically intimate? That must be very, very tough. It's everything. With this guy, it's everything. Some of them are emotionally intimate, but not physically intimate.

And then, but I'd say most of them become physically intimate, but then less so emotionally intimate. You know, like a good portion of the couples will be immediately physically intimate and think that, oh, this is perfect. It's going to work and everything. But those ones crash and burn fairly quickly. The ones that last a little bit longer are the people that become emotionally intimate, but not overly physically intimate. But those normally sort of fizzle out near the end.

But then you do have these cases where they're not at all physically or emotionally intimate and you wonder why they stay on the show and then they just horribly crash and burn as well. Like, the success rate of the show, as you can imagine, is so insanely low. I don't think anyone makes it up the other side. People who've been married at first sight. Yeah. It's impossible. It's interesting though, but it's so bad at the same time.

I don't know why I watch it. He does sound like he's just not attracted to this woman. He's not. Well, the first thing he said was, she reminds me of my sister. So like... I mean, that's terrible. And his sister's at the wedding and they are very, very similar. So he's just like, it's impossible for him to get like even aroused by her, because I

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No, I mean, what happened to Lose News? It's here, Lose News. It's gaming edition this week. This one is to do with gaming. Well at least this article is. Nintendo has made an announcement, okay, and it's important, you need to stop letting your dog piss all over your Switch. This is the radical new advice coming from Nintendo Japan's customer service, explaining

that pet urine will in fact damage your electronic devices. This is number one on women's most hated hobbies by men. Letting dogs piss on their Switch console. Yes. When you take your eyes off it, your pet can turn your Nintendo Switch into a toy. By the time you notice, it's already all wet. Yeah. So, so yeah, like, I don't think...

This is a common thing, that dogs like to piss on a switch? Yeah, pet saliva and urine can cause the device to malfunction due to water exposure. I mean, I don't know why they're worried about dogs doing this, but, yeah, maybe you should stop your pets from pissing on your stuff. Yeah. Keep it off the floor, I would suggest. What if you can't stop your pet from pissing all over everything? Yeah, I mean, no shit, Sherlock, Nintendo.

I guess it says in this article, you should also avoid putting your pets in the washing machine or running them over with your car. I'd love it if they put, like, at the end of the article, like, if you find that your pet has pissed on your Switch, maybe you should have it put down. Like, just... The Switch? No, no, your pet. Maybe you should put the Switch down.

You should put the Switch down, yeah. Put down the Switch. Put down the Switch. Just old Yaro- Solar style, just out in the backyard. You pissed on my Switch, there's no going back from this. I need that for work. I'm shooting.

You could use the Nintendo light gun to put it down. You know. When you put it down that stupid dog appears from behind the bush. He's like laughing. Oh man. I was gonna say you gotta use a power glove on your dog. That's the- Oh no, the light gun is better for sure. Super Nintendo had a light bazooka.

You could use that to put your pet down. Get so stupid. Is that the blow it up? Yeah. So, next up, Minecraft have decided that they need to get into the business of theme parks. I thought you were gonna say that they wanted to get into the Manosphere. The Manosphere. The Manosphere.

How brilliant. I don't even know what the Manosphere is. I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. The Manosphere. I think it's just the anti-feminism men go in their own way. Oh, okay. That is the Manosphere.

There's a lot of toxic masculine... Right. It must be the pro-men campaigns, you know? You know, it was... Some of them are... You can sympathise with, like, you know, men having more suicides, but a lot of it is just awful shit. International Men's Day was...

I saw something... 19th. Yeah. And I saw some guy tweet, international men's day, haven't heard a peep. And a woman responded, do you need us to organize this for you? Like do you actually want to hear stuff about international men's day? Go ahead, dude. Like the internet is right there.

Go ahead and make a big hoo ha and start a post and get a YouTube channel and make it all about international men's day and celebrate men. Go for it. Go for it. There is literally no one stopping you, but you can't expect women to celebrate it for you. Like you got to come out and do it yourself. So if you want International Men's Day to be a success, lads, I can get together and do something. But we all know when it comes to who gives a shit. That's what I generally fucking care about. Whatever. But it's just it's just so funny that people get all uppity when there's no big deal about it. There's a comedian called Richard Herring and whenever it's International Women's Day,

he has his Twitter on a search for International Women's Day and it's always men saying International Women's Day? Well, when's International Men's Day? And he gives the date. He just replies with the date. So it's there. It's right there if you want it. Maybe laugh. That is so funny. What did you guys do for International Men's Day? Did you guys suffer?

Oh, let me think. Drank some cider, played Hearts of Iron and... Got a blowjob, mate. How about you? No, I had a wank instead, sorry. Jesus Christ. But I was thinking about getting a blowjob. Well, you know, it's a hobby.

One of my hobbies is getting blowjobs. Yeah, me too. I'm very bad at it. But I was thinking about getting a blowjob. Uh, well, you know, it's a hobby. Keep it, you know. As one of my hobbies is getting blowjobs. Yeah, me too. I'm very bad at it. You're an amateur. Uh, yeah.

Alright, so, Universal Studios Hollywood Super Nintendo World is actually open. Right. Um, and they did one in Japan as well, like a Super Mario Nintendo World thing. Uh huh. And obviously there's Legoland, uh, that's very popular, you know, it's only a matter of time. Have you ever been? I've never been to Legoland. I'm surprised it's at all popular.

It sucks. Which one? Well the one in Windsor I went to and it was awful. It's terrible. Holy shit. So so so bad. We thought it was gonna be a bit like Disney, you know, like we thought it would just be... It's been a bit left behind, I think.

It is so fucking bad. Like, it is really terrible. Lego has come along in leaps and bounds. Yeah, but... Yeah, but the toy, yeah. But Lego Land is awful. What got me was, the thing is, you know when you've got a theme park and it's obviously grown over time, and there's the things that they made when they didn't have a huge amount of money.

And maybe people weren't that into it. And those things were fine for those people back then. But we've we've advanced. We expect better. And Lego has made a lot of money and could do some clever shit. But they still leave that old stuff in the park. And you've got to go past all that old shit to get to the new shit. And it just feels kind of sad and depressing.

There's that bit where you're looking at like they built all stuff in Lego, like a bridge or the fucking Statue of Liberty. You're like, who gives a shit like this? Don't even look very good. It's all kind of rain soaked and sun bleached. And this is what I was going to say. I think if Lego land was in California or Florida or Spain or somewhere where the weather is generally good, it would be different. If the Isn't it like we went to we went to Thorpe Park was it was it Thorpe Park that we went to flex? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and it fucking rained all day and it was just not if we if we were going around

You know, like if you if you'd gone there for the day to actually go on rides that would have really sucked Yeah, you're going so I mean I've been there the last couple of times I've been there It's rained and there was lightning at one point they had to shut the rise down for half an hour But yeah after half an hour, they think, wow, it'll be all right. And they let you back on. But yeah, it's like the weather, anything like that where it's very outdoors oriented, you know, if it rains, you just kind of have a light on. Lego is a big enough company to pull off like a theme park, a nice theme park, like, you

know, like of the quality of like Universal Studios or Disney or whatever. Um, but to, to have one in, in the UK is just really not, not the best idea. Like I guess it must make some money because it's been open for so long, but it is not great and would be so much better if it was somewhere where the weather was just better. And they actually were able to take care of some of the stuff that was outside because it just, it's so depressing like you said Everything just looks totally weather-beaten sun-bleached like you know

They haven't they just don't they don't take good enough care of it for it to be a nice place You know like it just feels it just feels like shit It really ruins the the the illusion of Lego being good when you're there, you know? Like, you get Lego... It was sad. You get Lego in a nice box at home, you open it, you build it, it's awesome. It's great. But the theme park should reflect some of that. But I guess that's the issue, is that if you're going to have a theme park based around a toy,

a very interactive toy that is essentially-on, and then you say, now we're gonna have a theme park where you don't get to touch the LEGO, apart from in these pre-approved and very greasy areas which are covered in snot and kids' fingers have been all over it. It's just rides, like at any other theme park, but LEGO themed. So who cares? Yeah, but the thing is, they've got so many, they've made so many movies. They've had so many tie-ins and stuff They could make some really good rides out of it You know they could make like those like they could make like those immersive 3d dark rides or whatever like if they

You know if they were willing to to do something interesting with it. They could maybe have a couple of roller coasters There's a lot that they could do with with Lego, but they just haven't at Legoland Windsor specifically. I don't know about the other ones, but the one in Windsor is pretty dire. For what it costs as well, fuck me it's expensive and it's not great. I think they were ahead of the game with it though in a sense, because nowadays it's almost like the trend, the thing is like, so you have your thing that's popular, you then it gets its movie, right? Like the Minecraft movie, and then it's, you know, gets its theme park to tie in and just to really hook in all the fans.

I'm surprised there's no, you know, Fortnite movie. But then again, Fortnite kind of is like a constant movie within itself. It's kind of this swarming culture, like Katamari, where it's just soaking up, like, it just rolls along, picking up fucking Snoop Dogg and Marvel and fucking, you name it. It's like, it's wrapped up in there. If you did, like, rides themed around the MCU, that would make sense. You could have a ride themed around swinging on something like Spider-Man, or a ride where... Yeah, there's a Spider-Man ride at Disney, well, all the Disney's, but the one in

Paris has a new Spider-Man one where you, it's like this interactive thing. It's like, it's a ride that takes you to these huge screens and then it tracks your motion so that you're like slinging webs at these robots and it's like, you know, it counts like score and stuff. It's like a ride for four people and it's, it's, it's really well done. It's clever. Like the technology and everything. There's this cool waiting room and stuff. And I mean, at the one in Paris, all in French.

So it kind of wrecks the immersion a little bit if you're not French, I suppose. But otherwise it's, it's really well done. It's really good. And they've done some other Marvel stuff at the one in Paris and I'm sure at the other Disneyland's Disney world or whatever, they've got Marvel stuff, the one in Paris and I'm sure at the other Disneyland's, Disney World or whatever, they've got Marvel stuff too. But like, they could do some stuff like that at Lego for sure. Like there would be so many opportunities for them to do it, like Lego Batman, they got like, Lego movies themselves are pretty fun. Like there's loads of stuff that they could do with, you know, interactive sort of like

rides or whatever, but I don't know. You know what, they have all this motion tracking. What about emotion tracking? Emotion tracking. It could know when I'm bored, like immediately bored. Walk in and sit down. My emotion tracker would have to like, give me something interesting. The silent alarm goes off in the catacombs and they come out and they pull you under

and cut you out of the park. Get them out of here. That would be great to like find out when our listeners were bored, you know, it would They come out and they pull you under and cut you out of the park. Get him! Get him out of here! That would be great to find out when our listeners were bored, you know. It would be when we tell the same anecdote over again. You can tell, there's analytics on all of these platforms, so you can see where the drop off is, and it's usually after about ten seconds, yeah. Pfff.

Shall we move on to the next... Go! Next! ...story? Airbnb, right? They're planning to host gladiator fights in the Colosseum in Rome. Why is Airbnb involved? Well, you know they have, like, when you go to Airbnb, you have like the front page of it, and it's always like quirky things. They always have some quirky tie-in event, like they did like

someone painted their house up as like a Beetle Juice thing or whatever. Do you know what I mean? And it's a brand deal, sort of tie-in-y thing or whatever. So, yeah. I think the idea is to have some, there's a 1.5 million dollar tie-up, which I think is a brand deal, between Airbnb and the Coliseum Archaeological Park. So, apparently 16 participants and their plus ones. You can, I guess, register or sign up for it on the app, I guess, to be involved in two mock battles that are happening in 2025. Knowing Airbnb, you'll get there and some other cunts already booked it. And that's the gladiator fight. You just double book it and the two families have to go to battle and the victors get to stay in

the fucking Airbnb for a week. They do these sort of gimmicks, you know, where I think a lot of people can apply to stay in some weird place, you know. I don't know, as a kind of, I don't know, it's kind of advertising. But I think that's actually a fun idea. There has been, in America, in Los Angeles, a bear has been attacking cars, apparently, in Lake Arrowhead in the San Bernardino mountains. If you live in a place called Lake Arrowhead, you're going to expect bears, I'm going to say.

Upon further scrutiny of the video, the investigation determined the bear was actually a person in a bear costume. And it was an elaborate insurance fraud. Brilliant. So insurance companies paid out $150,000 to these various cars. And it turned out that this one guy had been sabotaging them. Like, I guess like... To order, almost. They took no... Yeah....how, but they found a bear costume. I mean, to be fair, I will say this. There hasn't been a muppet moving in a while. It

could be Fuzzy Bear. Out of work Fuzzy Bear is offering us services as an insurance fraudster. Just think about it. Ice scam? You waka waka? So there's a picture of the bear costume here, which looks like a very deflated, sad situation. After careful video analysis. I mean, come on. Why has it got a shirt on? Exactly. It's got a shirt on, which I'm not sure quite why. I don't know what that is. That's funny. But yeah. Other news, weird news.

That's not weird, obviously. There is a Swedish minister who has been going around the world on official visits, but has a severe phobia of bananas. And so has to, like, insist that rooms are free of the fruit ahead of any meeting or visit. No, no, no. What is the phobia with bananas pertained to? What is it about bananas that makes you scared though? Is it how they look, or is it part of how they smell?

No, it's just irrational. They're always irrational. Phobias are irrational. Well, in this case, she also has a strong allergy to bananas apparently. Right, okay, well that makes a lot of sense. So, no bananas are allowed anywhere in the room, on the premises, or... I think it's a serious... it's an allergy plus anxiety and nausea. However, she is having treatment. She's getting professional help to deal with it. Slow week in the news, I guess. If a woman is scared of bananas is a story.

Welcome to the Banana Republic. We are so happy that you've... Oh no! How is she gonna do business with them? We declare war! Sweden have broken their 300 years of neutrality to like fucking declare war on the Banana Republic. Kill them all! Burn this place down. From a distance I can't be near the banana republic.

It's giving me hives. That's all I got for the loose news. Great loose news that was. Really good. Really good. Yeah. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I like how I like how Lose News is like the more obscure news, you know. You don't have to talk about any of the mainstream news. Oh God. You need a break from the mainstream news. It's nice to just hear some news stories about something a little

different, you know. It's good to know. Well, that's all we got time for. Thank you everyone. Thanks so much. And we'll see you all next week. Goodbye. Bye.