Answer Me This! Podcast

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Since AMT252, you’ve been telling us about your unpleasant food surprises. Amy in Toronto regrets this light refreshment:

In the summer when I was 8 or 9 I was super thirsty and poured a glass of what I thought was iced tea over some ice cubes. I took a huge long drink (as you do when you are super thirsty) just to realize my mother had put beef stock in the fridge in what she usually made iced tea. My stomach heaved and I gagged, didn’t throw up but felt sick for hours afterward.

To this day, some 40 years late, I feel physically ill and strong revulsion when I think about it. So gross.

Congratulations, Amy; that’s even worse than the paella I made with elderflower cordial instead of chicken stock. You may think that doesn’t sound too bad, but imagine prawns with elderflower, or chorizo with elderflower, or onion with elderflower. If your imagination is at all accurate, it will tell you that that is NOT an agreeable combo.

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AMT252’s special guest Isy Suttie is kinder in spirit than the average casting agent, as demonstrated by Ben:

After listening to last week’s podcast, the point was raised that on casting calls the casting director might not want to hurt your feelings.

However a few years ago I had an audition for the stable boy in the HBO series Game of Thrones. On the casting call it said “small very fat stable boy”.

PS I didn’t get the part… I wasn’t fat enough.

That’s what they told you. Maybe they were taking care of your feelings by not saying you were too crap at acting, or the wrong kind of fat. Or that horses bolt at the sight of you. (No offence, Ben; I’m purely speculating.)

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After last week’s podcast you probably rushed to book a Valentine’s trip to Loughborough. But Sam counsels against:

I can confirm that Loughborough is NOT sexy – see attached.

Yes, that is a cucumber in a condom, and yes it is broken.

This I saw in broad daylight, heaven knows what horrors await those who visit in the hours of darkness!

What are you objecting to, Sam? The fact that the cucumber is practicing safe sex – even though the prawn industry isn’t going to propagate the idea that you can still have sexy fun whilst using barrier contraception – or the fact that the condom is broken, and you’re worried the cucumber is risking STDs or even the pitter-patter of tiny gherkins?

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Following last week’s ‘black or blue?’ ink debate, we’ve received the following inkformation from Su:

I am a civil servant and, in the days before computers, it was mandatory to use black ink on all official documents. This was because black was the only colour that did not fade – over time other colours fade out so the text cannot be seen. Red could be used for amendments but that was only because the amendments would be included in a final documents written in black ink.

Aaron meanwhile sheds light on why green ink is the ink of madness – because it’s the ink of choice for people who are surrounded by all the drugs! He says:

I work in a hospital (in the UK) and noticed on a drug chart that the pharmacist had written over the chart in GREEN INK!!!!

Answer me this: are there any other professions or trades that feel they need to claim a colour for themselves?

Evidently the civil service – see above – but readers, if you’re in a profession which insists upon, say, violet ink, or allows only orange Rorschach tests, then let us know in the comments. Although typing in boring old black and white is probably anathema to you.

By the way, Aaron, I’m going to guess that the green ink is a sensible measure so the notes are visible against the other prevailing colours on the drug charts. Also I don’t think that ‘take with food’ and ‘mix with water’ are at all pointless, as anyone who has tried ibuprofen on an empty stomach, or attempted to ingest dry Lemsip powder, will know.

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We’re pleased to hear from Joe in Seattle from AMT244, because he’s telling us we were RIGHT. Even though us being RIGHT means his love life went a bit WRONG. He writes:

I recently asked you if I was being blown off via text after a first date, and you answered in the podcast that my chances didn’t look good.

I’m going to go read alone in a coffee shop now.

Well, at least you’re in the ideal location to do that. Wrap yourself in flannel, crank up the Mudhoney, and hope that Bridget Fonda is your waitress.

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