You Are Being Unreasonable - 027 - In which we ask Adidas for help with potato problems

Episode Date: August 30, 2018

"Am I being unreasonable... sex towel?" It's our 27th episode and we join the 27 Club. But instead of dying, we talk about going to Jeff Bridge's house to admire his single DVD, we storm off ineffectively, we get matched up with strangers to see the opening bit of a Seinfeld episode, we accuse Bodger & Badger of potato-related misdemeanours, and we visit the greatest service station in the world.

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Hello! Back with you're being unreasonable. We're joining the 27 Club. It's episode 27. Way, we've made it this far. But, you know, hopefully we won't join the 27 club, because that involves dying. I guess it involved the podcast dying,

and we're not killing the podcast. No, that's not the plan anyway. No, we're here every two weeks. Every two weeks. Looking through Mum's Net, Am I Being Unreasonable Boards, to find the most choicest, unreasonable cuts. Yeah.

Those bad, bad takes. And I feel that perhaps during the summer holidays, you get much worse takes. Yeah, and I don't know why that is. You mentioned this to me this week. So you get worse takes from Mumsnetters during the summer holidays. The school holidays in general. Do you think it's because they're stressed with kids running around? The theory on Mumsnet is that those posters are kids.

They seem to think that during the school holidays, all the teenagers just sit around. each other's houses, going on mum's net and trolling, but I'm convinced that that's not the case. But with that in mind, these may all be posts from teenagers, shall we begin? Let's get going. Speed round, just the titles. No details. Am I being unreasonable, penis portions? Yes. Am I being unreasonable, what do you call your car? Uh, no, everyone has a different name for it.

Am I being unreasonable to expect partner to want to love with me now I am pregnant? No. Some people like that. Some people really get into it. It doesn't say make love, just says love. Oh, yeah. Am I being unreasonable? I stormed off in effectively. I never got their phone or something.

Can't go back for it. No, unreasonable. And am I being unreasonable? What's your Dragon's Den idea? Ooh, no. What's mine? Yeah, what's yours? Muffins that are made of bacon.

Sorry, I'm out. Let's do a full thread. That's a shame. I don't eat pork. If anyone out there wants to buy my bacon muffins. Wow, this is not the forum. Am I being unreasonable to ask for your favourite service stations? Driving from Cambridge up to Edinburgh in a few weeks' time with two small ones.

Where can we stop off for milk, nappy changes, petrol? We have national trust cards and are happy to do a short detour if needed. Tea Bay, Northbound. I knew that was what you were going to say. Tea Bay. Tea Bay. Best services in the UK. So the first post on this thread says,

T-B, T-B, T-B, T-B, B. Best service station possibly in the world. Let's add some context for even people in the UK who aren't aware of the joys of T-Bey. T-Bay is a service station in Cumbria, just past sort of Kendall. Yeah, and T-Bay is the best of these service stations in the UK. It's just fantastic. When I was a boy, we used to stop there on our summer holiday to Scotland every year, and Nana would feed the ducks. So in the first ten responses, there are six votes for T-Bay on this.

And then it's really just a thread of people talking about how much they love T-Bay services. Yeah, I mean, it's what other contenders are there? Well, one thing I'd like to stop and reflect on is that she wants to know about service stations. Then she says, we have National Trust cards. and I know people use National Trust cards because the parking's handy. But she's really made a massive mistake in thinking the National Trust are service stations.

You will not get petrol there. No, the National Trust are not yet looking after service stations. Maybe in 100 years. They'll start with tea, they? Yeah, after the kind of Mad Max Apocalypse when petrol is a thing of the past. And while remembering the oil reserves we used to have, you'll have National Trust service stations.

But not now. Not now. These are the good times. Not now. How many National Trust members do you think have National Trust membership because they like the National Trust versus how many just really need somewhere they can stop and change a nappy occasionally? Yeah, probably quite a few.

That's not a service station now. No. Service stations where you get petrol, a bad Scotch egg, and go on the ground machines. Yeah, which sounds like much more fun than going to a National Trust property. A lot less, a lot fewer rules. Yeah, less stuffy. Oxford has good services, but that's not really on the route from Cambridge to Edinburgh. No, and T-Bah is...

I mean, neither's T-Bay, really. It's out of your way. Well, this is the other thing. Is T-Bay worth detouring all the way to the other side of that bit of the country? Okay, motorway is with the worst tourist stations. I'll start, the M-1. Hells? I don't know. M-25. I don't know. What I would like to say is just this post here. The M-6-T-Bay gets incredibly busy now that everyone has...

discovered it though. Oh no, it was a hipster place. We pulled in there a couple of weeks back, but it was so full. We decided not to bother stopping. It does get full. It got full when I was a boy. I just love that everyone's talking about Teabay, which is not anywhere near being on the route that they need to go. And then people have now come along to be like, oh, everyone knows about Teabay guys. I like Teabay before it was cool. And I just think this really sums up mum's at during the summer with everyone having absolutely ridiculous problems. Three pages of responses in. Oh no.

D.H has vetoed T-Bay as it's not on the route. Sad face. Well, yeah, it's not on the route. Why didn't this person just look up which services are on the route? I mean, I'm saying T-bay's great, but that's because it really stands out.

Because services are basically the same. Yeah. And it's a place to have a pee and get a bad Scotchug. And that's it. If you get lucky though, it might have an M&S and then you can get a sort of semi-nice pasta salad. Yeah, we stopped at that service station in Italy on our way to Venice, and I got those sweet, sweet Burger King Nugs. Yeah, I mean, we also stopped at a service station in Italy that just appeared to sell predominantly wine.

Yeah. You befriended that man who thought you were Australian. Yeah, people often think I'm Australian, but I'm not. and now someone's just come along and said some topographically challenged people here the OPEs said Cambridge to Edinburgh Geographically challenged Should I go back and tell them that?

They're all basically the same Apart from TBE Am I being unreasonable D.H thinks I'm being pretentious This is so ridiculous but D.H. and I have been having a jockey argument about this tonight and I think he is being unreasonable

but I'm prepared to be told different. I've recently bought a shelves for our living room and have started putting book on it. I'm an avid reader and fluentish in another language, having studied it at university and lived in the country. I've put the English versions of the books I studied on the shelf and love getting them down to read parts of them. My DH is not a reader and can't understand this.

However, a friend of his was round the other night and commented on the books. I explained I'd studied them at university in their original language and still enjoyed reading them, albeit in English. Tonight, my DH laughingly said he thought I sounded pretentious going on about university and keeping these books on display. I only answered a question about them. There are plenty of other books there.

Now I'm wondering if I should just hide my books. What's I being unreasonable to display them? So these are books that the person studied in the language of the country they were in during university. So let's say that they studied... Let's say that they studied, you know, Dostoevsky and Chekhov. That was where my mind went as well. Hey, how about that?

Yeah. We should get married. They studied Dostkowski and Chekhov in, I presume then, the Soviet Union. Yeah. Russia. Now they have the English versions of, say, you know, the idiot and crime and punishment. Yeah. And they want to display the English versions of these books.

Yes. I think this is a complete red herring. I think this is an absolutely gigantic red herring and I think this is the one thing that backs up to the notion that the O.P. is pretentious detail. This is all too much. This is completely irrelevant. Like, why did you buy the shelves if not to put books on them? And why did you say you recently bought a shelves and started putting book on it? You're trying to make yourself look super intelligent but you can't construct the basic sentences needed to make it clear what on earth. you're talking about. You get back from IKEA, you spend, what, an hour, maybe two hours, putting up the bookshelves that you've bought. Yeah. And then in the middle, you place the Pistaresistance, Russell Brand's by Bookie-Wook.

What was the original language that that was in? Junky garbage. She read it in the original Polish. Right, let's go through outwards, so you can see Russell Brown's face. A classic of the genre. Like the display shelves at... Waterstones. That would be a reason that you might think what on earth is going on with these bookshelves. Yeah, if you play some outwards, like you're selling them. Yeah. And put a little

recommendation card at the bottom. And every recommendation card said, I've read this in the original language, and I'm fluentish. Yeah, then you would think, I'm not coming back. That's a bit pretentious. That's a bit weird. A lot of this is unnecessary, but basically, you've put some books on the shelves, and then you get them down occasionally, and you read bits of the book. Yeah, None of this is surprising or unusual. Just looking at our bookshelves, I've got some, I studied philosophy, so I've got some Vittgenstein, I got a big book of Karl Marx's writings, there's Michael Sandel's Justice, I think that's yours, and yeah, so like, from time to time I'll get down some Wittgenstein and

have a flick through, I'll have a read-through of the Communist Manifesto from the big Marx book. Yeah. It's fine. I don't make a big deal of it. But I don't have anyone around to comment on it. Well, also, I don't know that we would have people around who would find it unusual to see a bookshelf with books on it. Yeah, that's what the bookshelf is for.

Yeah, this is very silly. But then goes on to say, My husband is not a reader and can't understand this. So what would the husband have on these shelves? Or does husband think the very presence of the shelves is ridiculous? I don't know. What do you have on shelves if you don't have books? Nicknacks?

Like a sign that says live, laugh, love. Yeah. Am I being a snotty cow by suggesting that if you're not into books, you've got a live laugh, laugh, laugh sign. No, I can see that. It's like the display is in some up-brand department stuff. Yeah, like a framed picture of a pineapple. Yeah, DVDs? DVDs are a dying medium.

No one has DVDs. No. However, a friend of his was round the other night and commented on the books. What if you go around to a friend's house and they just have a shelf with a DVD? on it. Just one DVD? Yeah. In what circumstances would that be acceptable? Perhaps if if it was... If they made the DVD

somehow, like if they started it or directed it. I think that's worse. Oh! I think that's worse. If I go around to Jeff Bridges' house and he just has the pig labusket on a shelf and that's it, I'm going to think he's a bit of a dick. How would you feel if the shelf

also had all the other formats? Beatamax, VHS. Blu-ray That's a bit weird Like we went We saw a show at the Edinburgh Fringe Where this guy had all the Versions

All the different mediums Of the usual suspects Like you're saying Laser Disc, Beta Max VHS But if I went around to Kevin Spacey's house God forbid Don't go to Kevin Spacey's house

It won't end well Not my own I'm going to text you I've gone though Okay So you know I go around to Kevin Spacey's house And he's got all

the things of the usual suspects. I'm going to think, a bit pretentious. Right. So, can we just see how this would play out? So the friend comes around, they're like, oh, I see you've got some books up there, all right, yeah. Oh, books. Oh, well. And then she, she explained, actually, I studied them at university in their original language, and I still enjoy reading them, albeit in English. Oh, all right, why have you given me all this extraneous information? Just wondered about your books. Why do they all face outwards? Yeah.

bit weird, not the most efficient use of space. Did you enjoy my bookie book or? You know, there's a sequel out now, actually. I just think he has a lot of interesting things to say about politics. So after we've been to this worst night in someone's house ever. Yeah, like, what is the scenario where someone's come round? And then you're just talking about these books like this, but they think the books being there is in and of itself noteworthy,

and then you make a point of talking about how actually you read them in the original language first. Oh my God, like I'm pretty sure, I don't know if we still do, but I'm pretty sure for a while we had copies of the Master of Margarita in multiple languages here. I think we still do. Yeah, we do. But if someone said, oh, so you got the Master of Margarita in multiple languages, I'd be like, oh, yeah, huh. Yeah, I spent a year abroad and really discovered things about myself.

Exactly, like, I wouldn't do that, so I do think on that basis she's in the wrong. But then why did the friend come around and comment? What do these people have in their living rooms if they find a bookshelf noteworthy? Why did you buy the shelves? I'm really confused about this. What were you going to put on it? I would far prefer it if you went around to someone's house and they'd studied... Let's stick with Russian.

They studied Russian at university. And so they just got all the trashiest shittest books available, but they got them in Russian. Yeah. So you went round and it was like my bookie work, but in Russian. Yeah. And like, all those ones that you see at airports that have got a pink cover with a cocktail glass and a big. each towel. Yeah, yeah, all the damn brown books.

Yeah, but just all in Russian. All in Russian. A copy of the Big Labasky Laserdisc in Russian. Yeah. And then the final bit of this, now I'm wondering if I should just hide my books. Well, that's like proper martyrdom. That's that thing that teenagers do and they want to look like they're really cool and really clever.

Oh, I don't know why I find this so funny. I don't think anyone else would find it. It's the same sort of thing, like maybe I should just hide my books because no one understands. me because I have books. Like, she does come across a little bit awful. Yeah, a little bit, but I think the husband worse. Really? Mm-hmm.

I think this is, to some extent, I don't want to appear to be gaslighting a woman, but I think this is all in her head to some extent. And, like, she doesn't have to be such a martyr about the books. No. But, um, I don't think it's pretentious to have books on display, so I think the husband's wrong in that respect. Why did you buy a bookshelf, Doug? Having books on display isn't pretentious

No, of course not It's not like you need to have shutters on your bookshelves Like the tobacco counters at the corner shop But we've already established There's like way too much detail in here So if this is how she's putting it in a thread Where she's trying to make sure that we say That she's not being pretentious

How is she going about her day-to-day business? But no, don't hide your books Definitely don't hide your books You don't need to hide them, that's silly I wonder which books we would display outward. Which book could we display outward to present to actively discourage people from coming in our books? I'm thinking the history of the IRA.

Yeah, I've got one somewhere called, it's called like feminist socialism. Capitalist patriarchy in the case for socialist feminism. Yeah, that's the one. Yeah, have that one pointing out. Chomsky's Understanding Power. Yeah, Chavs by Owen Jones. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. I mean, I think that might be mine. book and I'm a bit like, oh, that's deterred me from being here. And we got a copy of the WikiLeaks files signed by Julian Assange. And I have an absolute buttload of vegan cookery books. Put those on display. That's it. Everyone's leaving. Yeah, these would present the worst possible face photos. So let's... Yeah, we'll put those out and then we'll see if anyone comments or whether they just stop coming round. Yeah.

Am I being unreasonable? Friend and her DH dropped out of going to a show, pass tickets to a couple. We don't know. An old friend of mine suggested going to a comedy show with our DHS's. Tickets bought early in the year. She bought them and I transferred the cash. The show is soon, so I mentioned I was looking forward to it. She sheepishly mentioned they have since been invited to a wedding and have sold their tickets. It's okay though because they're a really great couple and we'll get on with them.

I've recently lost a parent and I'm exhausted and probably a bit depressed. I don't want to be stuck with friends of friends I don't know. Amma being unreasonable to have preferred her to actually tell us about the wedding when she was invited and given us the opportunity to sell tickets to people we already know? Ooh. I feel anxious just talking about this. This is so, like... Social anxiety are high.

Oh, I mean, firstly, O.P. I'm really sorry for your loss. Even without that, this would be awful. Because you go to a comedy show, you sit, you watch a show, you go about your business. Cool. There's no reason that you would expect that if the tickets have been sold on to someone that you'd have to hang out with them, except for the fact that it's like, they're a great couple. So she's sold these tickets on, like she's sold a whole night of socialising.

Yeah, you're going to have to meet the couple beforehand, have small talk, and then have a drink afterwards, just so you don't appear rude. What if they suggest going for dinner? What if they suggest going for dinner? Jesus, not too much. If they suggest going for dinner, that's the point where you cheekily order a takeaway. And then you're like, oh, actually, I've got to pick up my takeaway now and just run off. Oh, actually, my cats are sick.

Go-to excuse. I really worry that you've now... I worry that you've now said twice on our podcast that you would say, our cats are sick as an excuse to get out of doing stuff. When one of our cats is legitimately sick and therefore that comes up, but now people will always think you're bullshitting. Oh, no. The boy who cried cats.

Exactly. But yeah, this sounds horrible. This is a horrible social situation. Why didn't she just say, oh, we've been invited to a wedding so we can't make the show anymore, we're going to sell the tickets on? Because at that point, that's great. You're like, okay, well, cool. I once had tickets for a comedy show in University.

Pretentious, mentioned in University. It's a Russell Brand show. And the friend I was going with, the friend I was going with dropped out and suggested another friend of his that I might want to go with. And I was like, Oh. Oh, is this giving you?

flashbacks. I'd rather not go than do that. Oh, oaks. So eventually I managed to just sort of, I think I bought the ticket back off him and took my brother instead. Nice. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. Because I know my brother and we can have a good time. Whereas with a stranger, I don't want to meet a stranger. I didn't want to meet a stranger in university. I'm now 31 and I'm good for strangers, thank you. I've met enough people. It is super weird, and also, if the friend had never said they're a great couple

and you'll get on really well, if the friend had said, we can't make the show, we've sold our tickets on, whatever. You'd still be sat near them. No, but then that wouldn't be an issue, would it? Yeah, you'd have to, like, nod and say hello. And say, oh, you're the one who bought Margaret's ticket. Oh, oh.

No, you would just go and watch the show and then you would get done. deep in conversation with the person you'd gone with at the end so it was obviously you were saying don't try to join in and then you'd disappear and if you wanted to go for a drink afterwards you'd do it three or four blocks away so you didn't see them there no i'd still be uncomfortable i'd always be watching them oh no now i think that this this way of seeing things seems a little unreasonable because on that basis what are they supposed to do they could only sell the tickets back to you to pass onto your own friends yeah but there's no good solution but then that puts you under

pressure to find someone to buy them otherwise these people are out of pocket pocket and oh no I think for them being able to sell it and get their money back is concerned it's best to leave them to it so that you don't feel like you're liable for their ticket price I just think it's the bit where she's like they're a great couple why don't you hang out just never buy tickets in advance always buy on the door never see anything because you can't get tickets on the door if they booked the tickets early this year then it's probably something that's quite difficult to get tickets for mm like is it kitson are they seeing kitson

Yeah, Kitsen always sells up quickly. Although, fans of Kitsen wouldn't try to introduce other fans of Kitsen. Fans of Kitsen are people like us. They don't want to interact. They want to see Kitsen and leave. Imagine if you took a friend to see Luke McQueen. Then imagine if that friend couldn't make it and sent their friend instead. Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And they didn't get it. Oh, and then you'd have to explain it to them over drinks. Oh, it's supposed to be alienating. They'd be old Po-faced, and they'd be like, well, I'm not sure that it landed really. really. You'd be like, well, it did. It did. It was supposed to be alienating. It's not aimed at you, so... It's sort of Brechtian in that respect. Then they'd call you pretentious, and you'd get into a fight. It does sound incredibly uncomfortable all round.

I know what to do. Go on. What is your suggestion? Sit down with this couple. Yeah. And ask them what their favourite service station is. That will break the ice. They'll say T-Bay. You can say T-Bay, and just talk about T-B for a bit, how great T-B is. But what if they don't say TV? What are they going to say? What if they say, well, we're National Trust members?

Irrelevant. What's your favourite service station? Well, actually, you can use a lot of National Trust venues for stopping for bathrooms and coffees. Scotch eggs. Talking nonsense. Oh, this has created a chilly atmosphere. The energy in the room has just plummeted. So this is where you don't go around asking people's favourite service stations. I have this thing, fine. So let's hear from the thread.

I don't see what the problem is, really. Is it a comedy dinner thing and you're a table of, that in itself would be a problem never go to one of those yeah if it's in a theatre I can't see the issue I think that's someone commenting who's only seen comedy through the opening bits of Seinfeld imagine if you had to go to the opening of Seinfeld a couple you don't know but you've been told you had to hang out with them can you think of a worst night out what's the deal with their land food what's the deal with tubo services Surely it's like any other show

where you don't know the people sitting next to you No one expects you to make friends with the audience But someone has said They've explicitly said They're their friend's friends Oh my So then the OPs come back and said I'd be happy to ignore the other couple

My friend has mentioned what a great couple they are And what a great evening we're going to have with them Should I pass on the message That we don't want any social interaction No I mean that would be a nice option But that's not how society works That's going to make it even more uncomfortable.

Yeah. Like, you know, you're going to sit down and you're watching the show. And then, oh, these are the people that have explicitly asked for no social interaction. What if I accidentally catch their eye? Oh, no. Yeah, I wish society worked like that. I wish you could say no social interaction. So let's say you go to a pub quiz and you know one of the other people at the pub quiz,

but you don't know one of their friends. It'd be great if you could say, I don't want to socially interact, you know, during... Yeah. the non-quiz elements with this other person can you make that clear to them but you can't you're not allowed to say that

there are rules someone said I doubt the other couple are anticipating spending time with you either she probably just said the great couple you'll get on stuff to make it sound better to herself so she shouldn't feel guilty about dropping out

don't worry about it no you should worry about it someone said I'd probably sell my tickets and not tell her I don't know why you'd not tell her like it doesn't need to be a support That's going to be even more awkward for this other couple now. Have you sold the tickets?

Yeah, they're going to turn up expecting... Excuse me, are you Wendy and Pete? No. Oh. And then they'll go back to the friend and be like, Wendy and Pete were a bit frosty, like, oh, they can be a bit like that. Wendy's had a bereavement. And no, it won't be anything to do with that.

Yeah, no. It'll be that Wendy and Pete were actually, I don't know, like Steve and Jane. Someone's there probably fine in the circumstances to say you'll meet them at the theatre. Well, don't even meet them at the theatre. Just go to your seats. Am I being unreasoning? potato throwing mystery. Dun, dun, dun.

Are I being unreasonable to ask who is throwing potatoes at us? For around three months, my son, who lives half a mile away, has had potatoes thrown at his front window, always around 11pm. Never caught anyone at it, and the street is always empty. Now, for the first time, we have had one thrown at our front window last night. Is this a thing nowadays? Tonight we wait up. Better keep their eyes peeled.

Wee. Nice. Oh, potatoes. First post on here. Sounds like you've got a real chip on your shoulder about it, O.P. Wee. So, these potatoes... Yes.

Are they uncooked? Are we talking raw, you know, King Eggwood's potatoes? I would imagine so. Because wouldn't that smash a window? That's very true. I think if you threw a window... But then it... Through a potato at a window, it'd smash it.

But then if the potato... was cooked, the window would smash the potato, they used to just have bits of mash on your window. Yeah, which I assume must be the case, because they haven't said it's smashed. Hmm. Maybe it's mash. Someone's just like flicking mash. Yeah, you know who they never caught? Bodger and Badger. They used to fling mash all the time. Yeah, but Bodger died. Oh, is that right? Yeah.

Oh, that's a shame for Badger, all alone in the world. I don't know that Badger continues to exist independently of Bodger because of heartbreak. Oh yeah, that makes sense Co-dependency Yeah Like at the end of Star Wars episode 3 Yeah Where she loses the will to live

That's what I meant I really like the way this is phrased For around three months My son who lives half a mile away Has had potatoes thrown at his front window Always around 11pm It's structured like a maths problem Yeah

It feels like it's then going to turn into If someone throws a potato From his house at 30 miles an hour How quickly does it reach my house half a mile away? Yeah. What time does the potato hit my door? Yeah. But no, that's not what happens. She just goes on saying, never caught anyone at it and the street is always empty.

Maybe, how could they never catch anyone? If it's always around 11, and it's been happening for three months, it seems to be able to find someone. This is like a Jonathan Creek mystery in that, you know, there's no one around. There must be like a trapdoor or it's a potato tree or... Potatoes don't grow on trees. Like a potato truck drives, a McCain's truck drives past, juddering and potatoes fall out.

I've just had a thought. The OP said, is this a thing nowadays? But I've just remembered, last year it was summertime, I don't know, there was a bag of oven chips hanging out of a tree around the corner. And I was really confused about it.

Like, I really wanted to know how the oven chips got in the tree and why they were there. And then I just carried on my business. I didn't look into it any further. and then another time I was walking to work when I used to work quite near to where we live which is where I saw the first bag of oven chips

and there's just a whole unopened bag of oven chips on the pavement there I was like if you dropped your unopened bag of oven chips you'd just pick it straight up and be like okay I'll take it home I'd pick it straight up and be careful with it I'd like oh well I'll leave it here now it's gone to the soil now they're gods oven chips now

someone said it could be my ex-husband as I planted a few thousand cut up potatoes and he's front and back garden as a passing gift so he should have potatoes in abundance about now which is the most amazing way to get revenge on someone. How is that revenge? He ends up with thousands of potatoes. If he doesn't know they're going to be there, the next thing you know, they're just springing up.

Great, surprised potatoes. I'd be having a whale of a ton. We've had this before but with McDonald's French fries, so not as serious. It just seems like a waste of money. Like, you can throw mud at someone's window and that's free. Potatoes you have to buy.

Yeah. Unless they're planted in your garden by a... A vengeful X. This is just done into a lot of puns. I hope you get sauteed. And then someone's just said, that must be terrifying. Which is such a mum's at reaction.

I love when people are gratuitously honest in the face of what's clearly a ridiculous issue. Maybe there's... Maybe young people today are just more respectful of eggs than when I was a boy. because you would egg someone. Egging is the thing. We've lived in this flat for four years,

and someone in the last four years we've been egged, remember? Yeah, someone threw an egg at the window. Yeah. So, since we got egged, times have moved on. So it must be quite recent. What could you make with egg and potato? Spanish omelet? Yeah.

Sweet. If you just wait, eventually you'll have the ingredients for a Spanish omelet. No, but you can't, can you? Because they're not being delivered to you. They're being hurled at your house at different times. It depends how quickly you open the window. The crimson. criminals should stop their life of crime and start a Spanish omelette business.

And with that, they could make lots of money and do something else. It's just really weird. Like the drama, the classic mum's at level of drama, Tonight we wait up. I hope they find them. It's like, don't want a mystery. It doesn't feel much like having to wait up. It's not late enough that you'd be like, oh, I'm camped out.

It's very convenient. Yeah. It might be a little later than you'd like to go to bed if you're sleepy, but it's not like it's happening at four in the morning. No, this is all nonsense. I mean, am I being unreasonable to ask who is throwing potatoes at us? Do they think that someone's going to be on mum's net and be like, it was Brenda? You can ask all you like, but no one knows.

Should look if there's messages written in the potatoes. Or, you remember when you cut potatoes in half and then shape them into a stamp for paint? Yeah, potato printing. Yeah, what if someone threw that at your window and it stuck, And it was a shape, if it was words, or a picture of a skull, or a picture of Russell Brand's face. Or just like a tag. Yeah. That'd be an amazing way to be going around graffiti and stuff.

Like, yeah, I'm going to potato print this town. It's like that story of, you know, where the murder weapon was made out of ice, so it melted immediately. Yeah. The murder weapon was a potato, and he ate it afterwards. Ah! What a great twist. But how would you go to retrieve it? What an amazing twist.

What an amazing twist. Also, someone has come back to the thread and said, Are the potatoes cooked? And some other poster has done an annoying laughing emoji and said, Has had me in tears? I think it's a legitimate question. These people, why don't they understand that it's important to know? Someone's written out all the lyrics to the mashed potato, the song.

The potatoes and new potatoes, they are relatively soft. Why anyone want to throw them at our windows is a mystery? They're capitalised windows. so maybe they mean like their you know desktop operating system yeah I know it's not it's not the best desktop operating system there's no reason start hurling tatties at you computer I'd hill tatties at Microsoft why would you waste good tatties on Microsoft oh I'd hill tatties at Microsoft it's always around the same time i.e 1045 to 11 which is just about now ooh yeah some urban area no farming around here then there's a stakeout in progress

You want some potatoes to go with that steak. Way. Anyway, who's being unreasonable here? Someone has to be being unreasonable here, right? Mrs Richardson, it's the police. We've traced it. The potatoes are coming from inside the house. Dun, dun, duh.

Who's being unreasonable there, though? Someone. A potato throw us. Not the OPE for saying that she's got a stakeout going on and she's staying up late. No, I'd do a steak out. Okay. Am I being unreasonable? Our tax is too high.

Uh, yeah. Am I being unreasonable, for the love of God, can adults, please stop saying uni? Why? It's a perfectly fine shortening of university, which is quite a long word. Am I being unreasonable? Sex towel. Oh no. Oh no. Oh, you look really genuinely icked out. Oh, the ramifications. Do you have sex on it?

Or is it for afterwards? We're not going to open the thread to find out, Sigh. Oh, yeah, unreasonable, massively so. Am I being unreasonable? To be surprised about the amount of nepotism in journalism? No, it's all nepotism. Am I being unreasonable to think we can leave bedbugs here? Where? In the bed?

No, don't leave them in the bed. That's the worst place for them. Or best, if you want them to live. Am I being unreasonable to ask Adidas for help? No, we all should. We should put like an Adidas symbol in the sky like Batman. Isn't the Adidas just three stripes? Come for us, Adidas.

Help us. I guess I've got that other one that's more of a defined shape that it'd be obvious that it wasn't just a stripy thing. We need clothing made in sweatshops. Save us. The potatoes, they keep coming. Help us, Adidas. Help us. Help us.

Help us. Our books on our shelves. Help us Adidas. Should we leave it there? We've got a couple next to us who we don't know, Adidas. Help us. Adidas can't help you now. Thanks for listening to our comedy podcast about Munn's Net.

We'll be back every other Thursday, so two weeks after this one, you'll figure it out. Thanks for listening. Yeah. Follow us on Twitter, tell your friends, download it again, download it twice. Yeah, do whatever you like. Yeah. I'm very free and easy. Yeah, throw money at our windows, not in potatoes, don't hollow out a potato and put coins in it.

No, coins are too heavy, notes if you're going to do that. Put notes in the potato and then throw them at our windows. Or checks if you're keeping it old school. Yeah, or postal orders, even older. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, thanks. Bye.

Fantastic. And I never felt as good as how I do right now, except for maybe when I think of how I felt that I do right now, when I felt the way that I do right now, right now.