You Are Being Unreasonable - 026 - In which we attend the worst dinner party in history

Episode Date: August 16, 2018

"Someone said 'I have no idea what is normal anymore after reading Mumsnet'." Should you order a takeaway in the middle of a dinner party? What should you serve as appetisers at said dinner party? Sh...ould you post on Mumsnet about your guests while the guests are still there? Should you show people the itinerary from the holiday you went on four years ago? What times are appropriate to text your wedding DJs? And, while we're on DJs, what are some good names for 13 year old DJs? And why does Cher have so many bangers? We discover answers to all these questions and many more.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, driving on drugs feels better when their prescription. All I know, the world looks beautiful, the world looks so damn beautiful. I feel fantastic, and I never felt as good as how I do right now, except for maybe when I think about I felt that day, when I felt the way that I do right now, right now. I feel fantastic, and I never felt as good as how I do right now, except for maybe when I think about I felt that day, when I felt the way that I do right now
Starting point is 00:00:28 Hello Hello Welcome to You are Being Unreasonable With Simon and Hells A podcast about Mumsnet And the Am I Being Unreasonable for And people being unreasonable on there Yeah, that's pretty much what it is
Starting point is 00:00:42 Okay, let's begin with the speed round Am I Being Unreasonable This wasn't flirting, help I need some perspective Oh no I wonder what it was instead of flirt Stabbing? Oh no The worst alternative to flirting perhaps Oh, would you get those things mixed up?
Starting point is 00:00:58 I wasn't flirting, I was just stabbing him. A gentle stab. Oh dear. Am I being unreasonable about cucumber? Yes. Am I being unreasonable to ask you a very boring but important question? Probably about tax, am I right? Taxes.
Starting point is 00:01:14 Oh, it's probably about some turfy nonsense. Am I being unreasonable? What bit me? No, probably a bear. It's usually a bear. Am I being unreasonable to say birthdays are crap once you're an adult? No, I can see that. Too much pressure.
Starting point is 00:01:33 And am I being unreasonable? Bonding with second baby. Yeah. Leave that second baby. You got one already. Very good. Let's set itself out. Let's do a full thread.
Starting point is 00:01:44 Let's go. Am I being unreasonable visitor ordering only for themselves? Invited friends round for drinks and dinner. Things were a bit delayed because I was sort of. sorting out kids, etc. Served dinner, heard a knock at the door, my male friend had ordered a takeaway for one and was incensed when we pulled him up on it.
Starting point is 00:02:04 Am I being unreasonable? So, let's go through this. They invite the friend over for, quote, drinks and dinner. Yes. And at some point in the intervening, say, hour or whatever after they arrived, this other friend orders a takeaway.
Starting point is 00:02:21 Well, yes. Things were a bit delayed because she was sorting out the kids, etc. Man, the gall of this person. Imagine, I feel like dinner and drinks are a tough social situation because you're in someone else's house. Yeah. And you've got to make chit-chat,
Starting point is 00:02:41 but you're not, there's not kind of the safety of a pub, you know, because there's not other people around. It's just you and the person doing social interaction. It's a very hardcore mode of social interaction. Okay, I can see. And to combine that with sitting there, ordering a takeaway on your phone. And not even saying, look, this is... This looks like it's pretty stressful, I can see you've got these kids to sort out.
Starting point is 00:03:06 How about we order a takeaway? What was your plan? What was your escape vector for when the takeaway arrives? Because then you have to explain yourself. And then you have to eat a takeaway with a room full of angry people. Yeah, I can see not telling them that you were doing it, because that's an awkward conversation. But it's going to be an awkward conversation anyway.
Starting point is 00:03:24 Anyway, because the takeaway's going to turn up. Yeah. This is poor planning. Oh, it's terrible. This is poor social planning. Like, oh no, I've got a headache. I need to leave. You order a takeaway on the bus home to go to your flat, not theirs.
Starting point is 00:03:39 Or you pick one up. Yeah, no. Make sure you're out of sight of where you've gone for dinner. Like, if there's a maulee's across the road from your host's house, don't go there. Yeah, you don't want them to see you there. Morleys. I've got a morley's. I've got a mock, never mind, this is a pro-mov, a pro-social move, but in my opinion, a mistake.
Starting point is 00:04:01 One thing that I enjoy about the original post is that the poster clarifies that their male friend had ordered a takeaway. Well, yeah, it's always men. Well, yeah, that went without saying, surely. Yeah. Now, do they mention it because they think I should probably clarify that this douchebag is a man? Or is it then going to turn out some drip feed later that they think, well, fair enough, men get hungry. No, can't be.
Starting point is 00:04:27 I really hope that it is just there so that we can get a full picture of how terrible this person is. Imagine having the confidence of this man, ordering a takeaway to someone else's house. Sorry, I've just looked again. Served dinner, heard a knock at the door, so dinner was on the table when the takeaway arrived, which makes it even more uncomfortable. Yeah, presumably they'd ordered it before then to turn up. Do you think they just made them a mistake? mistake. Was it just a comic misunderstanding like in Frasier, like in the show Frasier?
Starting point is 00:04:59 Would you go ahead and order a takeaway to someone else's house without clarifying what the situation was? I think it might just be a Frazier-esque misunderstanding. Like, they thought it was bring your own dinner? As a rule, that tends to be more like a potluck situation where you bring something to share. You don't just order a don'ta cab. Yeah, but maybe the gut there thought that it was a Lucky Dip. and realised they haven't brought anything, so get themselves a takeaway. Perhaps. This is off, I can't imagine.
Starting point is 00:05:31 What do you do then? What happens next? Well, somebody said, what do you mean, pulled him up on it? But you're not just too gobsmacked to say anything? Somehow implying that this person suggesting to their friend they should not have ordered a takeaway for one to their house is in some way not the right thing to have done. What happens? Do you eat the takeaway?
Starting point is 00:05:50 Do you eat dinner? Do you throw the takeaway away? What? How do you even begin to square this circle? It really depends what type of takeaway it is. Leftover curry, not a problem. Leftover pizza, not a problem. Fish and chips, problem. That's going to end up in the bin. Yeah. Chinese, I mean, I wouldn't order a Chinese in the first place. There's nothing I like less than the idea of a Chinese takeaway. Unless there's prawn crackers. But even those go soft quite quickly. But I don't know if theoretically Chinese is one that you could eat cold because what I'm saying is I wouldn't want to eat it hot.
Starting point is 00:06:21 This social situation is untenable. I think they can never see one another again. There's no way out of this. Oh, it gets much weirder. So somebody said how late was dinner had you put any snacks out? The OP has come back and said dinner was served at nine. He was given bread and oven chips in between. No, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:06:43 The OP has broken all of the rules about what you could expect from this dinner. Yeah, everyone, yeah, you're right. The OP has violated social convention And so the other person thought Oh, it's okay for me to order a takeaway Because this is anarchy, this social anika Oh, there was some bread at a half past six And then at eight a tray of oven chips came out
Starting point is 00:07:03 I'm imagining them still on the baking tray No, nonsense, nonsense, nonsense, nonsense I went to a friend yesterday and he laid on snacks for us And they were like little cocktail sausages And sausage rolls and crisps and dip There's nice A plate of oven chips. And no one ordered the takeaway for one.
Starting point is 00:07:22 Nonsense. What? Bread and oven chips. And then at nine o'clock, a meal. And then shortly after nine, a takeaway arrived. Bread. Bread and butter, surely. Maybe you could make a chip sandwich.
Starting point is 00:07:35 It sounds like they came out at different times. Oh, my God. Which is fine. If the bread came out first and you knew there'd be oven chips later, you could save some bread. This is awful. I hadn't realized how much blame is on both sides. I'm lost Maybe it's like a dipping bread
Starting point is 00:07:51 Like a nice baguette And some things for dipping Do you think someone who serves Nice bread and balsamic vinegar Then at a later point in the evening serves oven chips as a snack Maybe dinner would have been quicker If they hadn't used the oven to make these chips
Starting point is 00:08:09 Lots of people saying that if it got to 9pm And they wouldn't eat and they would be eating their own arm Yeah 9pm is too late 9pm, but if you go to someone's house at a weekend for dinner, you would expect to eat late. Yes. Unless you're a baby, you don't expect to go to someone's house at 5pm on a Saturday for a 5.30 meal of oven chips and bread. No, but I still think 9 is a little late. It is, yeah, but I don't think it's late enough to have justified calling for a takeaway.
Starting point is 00:08:35 No, absolutely. Nothing justifies that. And takeaway takes time, so what point was it where he ordered the takeaway? Yeah, this is what I'm thinking, while he was making the small talk in their living room. room. Did he do it before he even got there? No, surely not. It's all very odd. I'm reading through the other posts and it's mostly people
Starting point is 00:08:53 saying, how odd? Why did you serve oven chips? Yeah. Someone said, I have no idea what is normal anymore after reading Mum's Day. I don't know who is being unreasonable now, because everyone is. It's social situation's untenable. Someone's asked if dinner was a handful of
Starting point is 00:09:11 macaroni cheese. No, the OP doesn't understand He ate the bread and the oven chips He ordered, this is the order The OP has said what he ordered He ordered Popadums, rice Chicken Bolte and Anarn bread Open with chicken bolting, surely
Starting point is 00:09:29 Yeah, that's the main She's like, she's gone through it The order would be brought out if you were at a restaurant Yeah Right, well that's a big meal especially after the bread and oven jokes. That's a full meal. And you can't order a full meal
Starting point is 00:09:50 when you've gone around to someone's for dinner. There's no way out of this social situation. Someone suggested something. They've said it would have been less passive-aggressive if they had to take a phone call. Yeah. And then they made up something and just left so they could eat. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:04 What I would do in this situation is say, oh, I've got a headache or one of the cats is sick. have to go. One of the cats is sick would depend on someone being here to see the cat and why would you tell your friends that your cat was sick rather than for example your wife? Presumably you're there with me. Well then how do you know the cat is sick? I really want to go to this person's house for dinner. Everyone has fucked up here and so I think the two transgressions cancel one another out and they can just ignore it and carry on. The original paste to put it on Mumsnet while the guests were still there.
Starting point is 00:10:42 Oh my God. And then they've come back to say, agreed. Posting on Mumsnet when we have guests isn't good form. I was so shocked I couldn't help it. You can always help it. No one... What is this dinner party? Where everyone's on their phones and one's audio to take away.
Starting point is 00:10:57 And one's complaining about the person ordering to take away. And Mumsnet. There are things that you don't do at a dinner party that you can't help. You know, like if you really need to sneeze, that's not ideal at the table, but you need to sneeze. But, like, oh, I couldn't help it. I just had to start a new thread on, am I being unreasonable, about you? Occasionally checking Twitter is cool.
Starting point is 00:11:17 I'll check you new emails, but not posting on a forum. Someone's just posted a picture of a mint arrow saying O.P. is clearly too busy eating her after dinner, mint. Oh, God, what do you even serve after the bread and oven chips course? Is that the fish course next? They were two different courses. There was the bread course. It's very carbid.
Starting point is 00:11:39 and then the oven chips course. Maybe that's how they're doing their dinner. They have all the carbs up front, then all the protein. Perhaps they've read that thing saying that you shouldn't eat carbs late in the evenings. They thought, well, if I serve the carbs now, while I'm flapping around. Yeah, get the carbs up now. The other bits. Chips and bread are start as a weird for a dinner party.
Starting point is 00:11:58 Cheese, olives, crackers, chips, nuts, cold. You've said chips. You've said chips and bread is weird, but then later you've said that chips are a great thing. No, this is garbage. Am I being unreasonable? Is it unreasonable to send an email at 4am? The DJ at my wedding shouted at me two days before my wedding. I had emailed a list of must-play songs.
Starting point is 00:12:21 I sent it at 4 a.m. as I was awake, stressed, etc. The next day, he sent D.H. a text saying, Keep your wife under control and not disturbing me in the middle of the night. Just to clarify, it was not a text, it was an email. I can only assume you as put some sort of notification ping for messages from us because we were the next job that he was doing it really upset me to be treated like that it's not my thought he can't manage his notifications or group on all sorts of spam would keep him up day and night I remember when we were planning
Starting point is 00:12:52 our wedding and I'd wake up in the middle of the night just bolt up right ah share turn back time and then I'd send an email to the DJs that was one of the few share songs that we didn't have it's a shame it's a good one yeah yeah classic would have gone with the theme of share share Yeah, it's so weird how she turned up, like at the end of Mamma Mia 2. Let's go through what's happened here. So... Can I flag up the mention of Groupon?
Starting point is 00:13:21 Yes. Have they got this DJ through Groupon? So that's what I initially thought, but actually it's just a very poorly constructed sentence. And if you put some proper punctuation in there, what they're saying is, well, why can't I said an email at 4 o'clock in the morning? Why don't you turn your notifications off Groupon? or something of that nature would wake you up as well with inappropriately timed emails, surely. I guess, yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:46 This isn't like they're communicating with the DJ through Groupon. I assume not. Because I don't think that's how you get a wedding DJ. It might be. You get lots of good stuff on Groupon. Yeah, I wouldn't. I'd get classes or maybe a meal or a hotel. I won't get a DJ.
Starting point is 00:14:01 It doesn't seem like it would be the best DJ. I mean, if I found a Groupon for a really cheap DJ, I might just hire them to come around for like a Wednesday. Turn back time. So this DJ is only 19 pounds on Groupon because it's always £19 on Groupon they matter what it is. Fancy blowdry, meal, 10 yoga classes
Starting point is 00:14:21 £19 on Groupon. So is this DJ? Does he take requests? No, but he makes requests. He requests that you keep your wife under control. Yeah, that's not a nice text to send. Semantically, it doesn't make sense either because he's the wedding DJ.
Starting point is 00:14:38 It's before the wedding. not anyone's wife got the words wrong mate if you're going to be a wedding DJ you need to understand the words no one's wife yet you'll be there later I don't understand why you got woken up
Starting point is 00:14:52 at 4am by an email yeah I mean this is his own fault just turn off your data that's what I do when I go to bed oh if you don't want to turn off your data just mute your phone there are all sorts of ways that you could avoid this
Starting point is 00:15:03 yeah I think if you're running your own business like this DJ through Groupon then you need to turn off your notifications at night email is not an instant service yeah I get emails during the night and I check them in the morning exactly the only thing I can think of that might change this is if the tone of the email came across as aggie and panicked and maybe the DJ did see it at like 7.30 in the morning and was like I'll hold your horses of course I didn't reply to you immediately oh women maybe in
Starting point is 00:15:32 that instance that might have been why he was so annoyed keep your woman under control or maybe the DJ just hates women and doesn't care for women women sending emails doesn't think they should have access to the internet or literacy. Well, from the tone of his message, yeah. Oh, no, the O.P's back. The message was perfectly normal. Dear DJ, please would you play these songs, list for about 30. Share, turn back time. Share, give me, give me, give me. Let me know if there are any problems getting any of these songs from O.P.
Starting point is 00:16:01 All normal chart songs. What we'd done is put a message in our RSVP. We'd love to see you on the dance floor. Please pick a song that will get you moving. and they could write it down so that everyone had at least one song they liked. I only finalised the list a few days before the wedding and sent it on. There are only one or two unusual ones from older people, e.g. Frank Sinatra. It does seem completely not on to email the DJ two days before the wedding
Starting point is 00:16:26 with a list of 30 songs that you want. Our DJ said if you could get in touch a month before. Yeah. Yeah. We sent our list of shares back catalogue. With good time. We didn't send it two days. before we sent a photograph of share but to be fair that's just your email signature photograph of share and it just said thanks and we said thank you for the music in the daytime Frank Sinatra's not unusual like what are you on about yeah that's not unusual everyone has my way you know what else is not unusual
Starting point is 00:17:06 Tom Jones. Way! I thought of that joke and I restrain myself. A 4 a.m. email is extremely rude and inconsiderate and would be a disciplinary offence at my place of work.
Starting point is 00:17:20 They do have this thing in France where you're not supposed to email outside of work hours and you do have, it is a disciplinary offence over there, but it's not over here. I'm glad that you mentioned France because I see so much on mum's net where people are like, that would be an instant firing up.
Starting point is 00:17:36 my place of work. I don't stand for that. I just thought it was that sort of thing, but okay, maybe that post is in France. But even so, a DJ doesn't work 9 to 5? Like, would you want a 9 to 5 DJ for your wedding? Yeah, I can DJ your wedding, but I'll only be there until 5, and I will start
Starting point is 00:17:52 at 9. Oh, your ceremony's not until 2? Tough. Yeah, I'll respond to your group on when I get in in the morning. I'm just saying that it might be more inappropriate to email at 9am than at 4 a.m., depending on the hours the DJ works. a standard office job with set hours, that's all I'm saying. So you can't say it's a disciplinary offence. And how old did DJ do a disciplinary with someone who's hired them? That person is the
Starting point is 00:18:16 lone voice of madness though. Everyone else has just said, why doesn't he just mute his phone or turn his notifications of or not have his phone right next to his face while he's sleeping? And I think those are all good points. Good points, well made. Am I being unreasonable? If you were a 13 year old boy wanting to be a DJ, what would you call yourself? Posting for traffic, not an AIB you. My 13-year-old DS needs a DJ name. Can you help by making suggestions? I just wanted to share this because what 13-year-old boy who wants to be a DJ wants to be named by the users of Mumsnet? Sound blaster. Funk machine. Funkadelic. Share.
Starting point is 00:18:53 Let's just hear what the posters on Mumsnet have said. DJ Nova, Nova, is Galician for young slash youngster. In the same vein, DJ Bambino. Nice. Childish Bambino. DJ 1-3, Professor Sound DJ dab, DJ Fleak, DJ Floss, DJ Hashtag Dr Mum's Net
Starting point is 00:19:15 DJ penis beaker Wannaby D Teen J DJ MacDJ face DJ Talons DJ Tastic DJ Tastic DJ Rockin Tunes
Starting point is 00:19:28 DJ Cool Beats DJ Cocklogger So let's move on from that I just had to share this DJ Cocklodge, who is similar to the first one I thought of, which was DJ Soundfucker. Nice. It's a bit rivaled for a 13-year-old. I really just don't understand why this person thinks that their 13-year-old is going to take a DJ name from Mumsnet.
Starting point is 00:19:49 And I think we learned a lot very early on, didn't we? All the teens and two today. Fidget Spinning and Dab. So, DJ Fidgett dab. I love Professor Sound. Professor Sound in the house. And you sound waves. I know.
Starting point is 00:20:08 What about, like, Professor Green? Let's go for other Cludeau names. Colonel Mustard. Colonel Mustard is a better name than Teen Jay. Or DJ rocking tunes. Someone said, what's wrong with his actual name? Lots of world-class DJs use their own name. Some DJ names are so cringy, just a gimmick that can date.
Starting point is 00:20:29 All right, getting to the spirit, though. The whole point is that we need to suggest terrible names to embarrass the 13-year-old. year old boy. Yeah, what DJs use their own name? Norman Cook. Let me think. Professor Green. He's not a real professor.
Starting point is 00:20:44 Dead mouse. Unlikely to be a real name, but... Daph Punk. The boy's from Daph Punk. This is a point, actually. If your own name is the best DJ name you could have, then surely the O.P. is asking this question 13 years too late and should have considered her son's DJ career when she named him. One of the guys from Daph Punk has a banging name.
Starting point is 00:21:03 Yeah, what is it? Guy Manuel de Homom Cristo. DJ Guillemuel de Homon Cristo, Jr. Am I being unreasonable to be fed up of colleague talking about her holiday that happened four years ago? She even got me over to her computer to show me her itinerary. I can be happy for people when they come back from holiday. I of course want to hear about it, see photos, etc.
Starting point is 00:21:27 When they've been banging on about it for the last two years I've known them and it wasn't even recent then, am I being unreasonable to want to scream, Shut up already! No, what? Why do you have an itinerary from a holiday that happened four years ago? You imagine, you're just sitting at work, you're trying to get something done. Pist!
Starting point is 00:21:44 Pest! Caren, Karen, come and see this. What? It's my itinerary. For tomorrow? What? 2014. What happened? I've told you about this when I went to Mallorca in 2014. Oh yeah, New Yorker at 14.
Starting point is 00:21:59 I remember. I saw the photos. Yeah, but now you can see, because the first. photos. They're mostly chronological but not all of them because there's something to the Facebook algorithms but now you can see when things happened. Yeah it's like it's like being there only not. Oh I mean it's almost as good isn't it? Almost, almost. Why don't you go back to me Yorker? You could use the same item about it. It's weird isn't it? Four years is a long time when you know we went to New York what two three years ago? Two years ago? Two years ago and when I when New York come
Starting point is 00:22:34 comes up, I might say, yeah, we had a good time in New York, but I don't show them the itinerary. We didn't have an itinerary. It's weird in the first place to have an itinerary document, isn't it? Maybe. We sort of knew what we were doing on our honeymoon, because we needed to be at certain hotels at certain times. Yeah, but I mean, that's different, isn't it? That's knowing which hotels you're going to. It's not the same. An itinerary that you call people over suggests to me that it's like, this is when I went on the day trip. Yeah. This is when I lay by the pool with a cocktail in my hand. This is when I ate at my all-inclusive hotel, whatever. This is when I did this.
Starting point is 00:23:10 This is when I met a couple, and we decided we'd be friends forever. That wouldn't be on the itinerary. I don't know. I feel like a lot of people who go to these all-inclusive resorts and make holiday couple friends probably have planned in when they're going to meet them. It went down to the buffet for some bread and oven chips before dinner. DJ Funkmeister was playing on the boat. He was only 13.
Starting point is 00:23:34 It's only nine, sorry, because it was four years ago. DJ sound fucker, the nine-year-old. Maybe, I'm making leaps here. Where I used to work, a lot of the women all went to the same town in Turkey on their holidays, independently of one another. And so someone would mention going on a holiday. They wouldn't have to say it was this town in Turkey, but everyone would say, oh, are you going to this town in Turkey?
Starting point is 00:24:03 and then they'd start sharing itineraries and stories of things that happened there five years ago so maybe the OP at some point in passing has mentioned that she might go to this place that this person's been to and this person's like trying to encourage her like oh she said that she was going to go but she hasn't gone yet I know I'll show her the itinerary pst Karen maybe but not for two years not for the two years that this person's known maybe they've just got literally nothing to say to each other but this woman for some reason and feels like she has to fill the silence. Needs to go on another holiday.
Starting point is 00:24:36 Get yourself a wee break to centre parks. Just ask her why she keeps on about an old holiday. No, you can't do that. You need to work with this person. Ask if it's because she can't afford another one. Definitely don't do that. What a hateful thing to do. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:50 I'm really conscious of this and keep wishing people would stop asking me about my holiday a couple of weeks ago. We went on a one-off and I really feel like I'm being a holiday bore. I'm trying not to be if you see what I mean. I feel like everyone must be hearing me describing, well, we started on. Yes, it was, has she nothing else to talk about? Crikey.
Starting point is 00:25:10 Crikey. Yeah, no one wants to hear about this. Was it Orlando? I love that. Dubai? The classic holidays, the great holidays. The ones that are worthy of four years worth of chat, but it was Orlando or Dubai, otherwise anything else would be mad. The canonically great holidays. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:28 Oh, someone has said, sounds like she hasn't left the country. country since and yet still wants to brag to colleagues and compete with those that have been in the recent holiday. Oh, maybe. I feel quite sorry for her. Yeah, because it is holiday time. If you haven't been the holiday in four years, but people keep coming back and telling you about their holidays. Yeah, you might want to talk and share the experience. Yeah. Oh. Oh, I think that's very sad. We've really come round on this. Totally depends on where the holiday was. There's a huge difference between, oh my God, this one time in Ibitha for years and, oh you're going to Vietnam.
Starting point is 00:26:01 in September. I was there for one year in 2014 and got to know it really well. I can show you a really unusual itinerary. I don't want to read a year long itinerary, mate. Also, I think if someone went somewhere for a year, that's more travelling than a holiday. Yes, and I wouldn't call that holiday. Like when you lived overseas, you weren't on holiday for 12 months. No. And don't get me wrong, I never want to hear about someone's travelling experience, ever. Well, when I get back from a conference and I tell you all about it. Fine. When someone has been travelling for a year and they go to, I don't know, South America
Starting point is 00:26:36 and they come back with their white bullshit and they talk about how they found themselves and how they really grew and how, you know, the locals really opened up to them, etc. I never want to hear it, I have no interest in ever hearing it. No time's like. Don't talk to me. Totally different if someone's been somewhere for, you know, travelling
Starting point is 00:26:56 and they're like, oh, I had a great time, let me tell you about this specific thing but it's when people come back and they're like, you just wouldn't understand because I'm just so much better than you. That's what I mean. If someone comes back and they're like, let me tell you a funny story, or let me tell you about this thing that I really love that was beautiful. I won't hear that. I've also come back on the first, am I being unreasonable?
Starting point is 00:27:15 Because if I went to a dinner party and dinner wasn't served until nine and someone had been talking about how they travelled and found themselves for three hours, I would order a takeaway just so the owners would throw me out. Yeah, I realise I sound very. really, really harsh and very unreasonable myself in saying, I never want to hear about your travelling. That's not true. I love to hear the specifics of people's travel stories. I do. It's the generic travel bro shit that I've got no time for. Like, oh, what's that? You're a
Starting point is 00:27:44 white person with dreadlocks now, and you've got that weird voice that sounds like you've smoked too much weed. Oh, it's just really organic over there, you know? They all do things so naturally. It's just such a really authentic time. Like, you probably wouldn't understand. It's just great to be out of London and seeing other cultures that you don't get here. And I held hands with the elderly Nepalese lady, and she cried because she'd never met someone as pure as me. That's the sort of stuff I don't want to hear. Yeah. Maybe that's what this...
Starting point is 00:28:19 And again, now I'm turning around this. If this is what the colleague is doing, definitely tell the colleague to shut the fuck up. We don't have enough details. We just don't know. Very much like not finding out what the person had for dinner. We're not going to know what really happened here. We're not going to know the truth. Monset isn't finding the truth about human affairs.
Starting point is 00:28:36 No, no, it's not. Okay, last speed round. Let's go. Am I being unreasonable? More is D.D. being unreasonable. A flipping tote bag for school? Ridiculous. People love tote bags nowadays.
Starting point is 00:28:50 Unreasonable. I'm all about the tote bag. For school? Am I being unreasonable to ask about Airbnb in France? No. You're probably asking in French, so. Am I being unreasonable, secretly filmed by DH. Okay to want space?
Starting point is 00:29:07 Yeah. Absolutely. Not just space. Leave him. Leave him forever. Am I being unreasonable? I am moving to Cambridge. Okay.
Starting point is 00:29:17 Show off. Am I being unreasonable to go to McDonald's? Yes. Am I being unreasonable to feel nobody should watch the new Netflix show, insatiable? Oh no. That's the one about the fact. character played by a thin woman. Yeah, apparently it's horribly in all sorts of ways.
Starting point is 00:29:34 Yeah, it turns awful and problematic and just awful. Yeah, much like mums there really. Don't watch that. And last one, am I being unreasonable to have turned back? Time. If I could turn, black time. Da, da, da, da, da. If I could find.
Starting point is 00:29:49 All right, we're going to end it up. You're supposed to sing under me, as a... Oh, sorry, I didn't know I was supposed to sing you out. It's all right. It's for the best for you and all of our listeners that I stopped singing now. Yeah, we've got to pad those numbers somehow. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:04 Thanks for listening. Follow us on Twitter at YAB Unreasonable. Let us know if you've got any threads that you want us to do. And we'll be back in two weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Until then, you know, don't be unreasonable. If you're looking for something to listen to in our down week,
Starting point is 00:30:20 why not share? Okay, bye. Bye. when i felt the way that i do right now right now right now nobody does it no we're not doing that again

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