Sh**ged Married Annoyed - Ep 205. Pass the Shoe
Episode Date: February 17, 2023This week on the podcast Chris returns to Rosie's jotters to discuss Rosie's early creative writing ambitions. They marvel at whisking, they chat about Chris' athleticism and there's an old age beef t...hat rears it's ugly head. All of this plus some strange family habits and a brilliant case of mistaken identity. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/sma. https://plus.acast.com/s/sma. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This Friday, you must be very careful, Margaret.
It's a girl.
Witness the birth.
Bad things will start to happen.
Evil things.
Of evil.
It's all.
You know, don't.
The first omen.
I believe the girl is to be the mother.
Mother of what?
Is the most terrifying. Six, six, six. It's the mark of the girl is to be the mother. Mother of what? Is the most terrifying.
Six, six, six.
It's the mark of the devil.
Movie of the year.
It's not real.
It's not real.
It's not real.
Who said that?
The First Omen.
The Impeders Friday.
Gets it gets now.
Hello, you're listening to Shag My Annoid with me, Rosie Ramsey, and my husband, Christopher Ramsey.
Hello, hello, hello.
It's episode 205.
Yes!
They keep going up every week.
An extra one. I can't believe it.
Yes, hello. Lovely to have you here.
Thank you for coming back. Thank you for being here.
Rosie, are you okay?
I am. I'm actually really good this week.
She's better, everyone.
I'm better. I feel better. And my period has happened.
And this is the good week?
Yes.
So this is the good week?
This is the only good week we get.
This is the best my life will get.
This is, what is it?
Pinnacle?
Is that the word?
Top tier?
Peak, maybe?
Peak.
Rosie Ramsey.
Pinnacle might work as well.
The pinnacle of my personality.
This is when I'm good.
You throw so many weird words in the mix
that it makes me not know the meaning of words.
It's what clever people
do no it's what fucking idiots do it's what silly it's what silly sausages do and then you put off
me a certified genius and athlete oh god don't don't i just can't i can't i don't know i'm
finding it even harder to sort of mock mock brag these days i just can't do it what do you mean i
don't know just for Just for the joke.
Obviously,
the idea that I'm calling myself Natalie
is fucking laughable.
Well, you've been working out a lot recently.
Yes, but it's laughable.
Why does it piss me off
that you're looking after yourself?
It's weird, isn't it?
It is really odd.
You are getting annoyed.
Last night,
you had a go at us
when I was getting changed.
You were like,
Because you just keep doing that,
the gun thing to us
is a joke,
but secretly,
you're buzzing
because you do look a little bit different.
A little bit different, you heard that?
You are green with envy.
You honestly put some effort in,
get some proof.
You would hate it if I went on,
the female version of what you're doing,
you would hate.
If I was one of those women
who lie on a sun lounger
and just take selfies 300 times a day,
you would hate it.
I've done one selfie, No, that's fair enough,
but that's your version of that.
So, it's vile.
Stop it.
That's not fair.
That's not fair.
This,
so we are recording this
on Tuesday the,
no, Wednesday,
if I'm right.
What day is it?
What day is it today?
It's Wednesday the 15th,
which is exactly
four years
since the first podcast went out.
Well done.
But more so, well done but more so
well done to me
because
congratulations are in order
for myself
why
this is
the longest job
I have ever
had
wow
very well done
ever
like the same job
yeah and congratulations
to everyone listening
for sticking with it
I know
for this long
wow
and welcome if you're a first time
we've been going for four bloody years
we're bloody old hat
bloody veterans in this game mate
veterans
that was a fake cigarette
that I just took a drag off
horrendous
you probably realised
that was me
drama
what
I stabbed myself in the finger
the other day with a knife
cutting a suck boy
and it's like
I've gone deeper
than what I've realised
it doesn't look that bad
but it hurts like a motherfucker
okay
and every time I now from now on I did it three days ago every't look that bad, but it hurts like a motherfucker. Okay. And every time I,
and now,
from now on,
I did it three days ago,
every time I cut a suck boy,
it really hurts.
for new listeners.
Because it goes right through there.
And the acid,
the acid,
yeah,
the acid will go in there.
Yeah, it kills like.
Give you a good,
give you a good little zhuzh.
Yeah.
And just dip it in some hand sanitizer
just to feel alive.
I might, you know,
I might.
Fucking get the petrol over here.
Will that do petrol,
do anything?
I don't know what you're talking about.
It's episode 205.
Let's crack on.
It's episode 205.
It's our four-year birthday, anniversary,
whatever you want to call it.
Thank you very, very much.
And without further ado,
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Websites that go right back at the top
when you click back.
Very upsetting.
Clothes.
You've been buying some clothes. I've been buying some clothes. Rosie, you've been buying some clothes i've been buying
some clothes yeah rosie i've been buying some clothes and you look at them and you go you go
all the way down you go oh filter by jumpers oh there's a jumper what's a nice jumper i'll have
a closer look at that jumper oh no maybe not back back to the top dickhead well scroll back down
200 more jumpers let's take a moment of appreciation to the websites who do put the effort in yeah
probably pay an extra few quid yeah and they go back to the same bit.
Goes back to the same bit.
Well done.
Well done, because a lot of them don't.
Sometimes I don't know what bit I'm at anymore, and I forget,
and I go, what is that?
Like, if it's wardrobes or something, I go, what was that?
Which one is that?
Is that the doors behind us?
What's happened?
People like you and I, who have very short attention spans,
I won't buy anything.
Oh, yeah, I'll just click off it.
I'm gone.
Happened the other day.
I went, I'm gone.
I'm done gone I'm done
you could have had
50 quid out of me then
but instead
because your website
is hard
is it a sales technique
what's a terrible
sales technique
take it back to this one
maybe they put more
expensive ones at the top
and I'm like
can I invest in this again
no I'm looking
if you're clever
if you're clever
you would go to the filter
and you'd do low to high
or high to low
depends
depends how you're doing.
Yeah.
Depends what's going on.
Yeah.
Depends when your bills come out.
Sometimes,
if I look on the posh websites,
the designery ones,
I will go low to high.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because sometimes the sticker one in there
and you go,
who is paying that much money
for a top?
If I'm buying a telly,
if I have a telly or anything,
low to high.
Argos,
Curry's,
low to high.
Low to high.
Who's going high to low on high-end merchandise? Well, people do. People do. Curry's, low to high. Low to high. Who's going high to low
on high-end merchandise?
People have got money
to throw away.
People do.
Not us.
How are you?
I'm fine.
You didn't catch whatever I had.
I didn't.
Which is really odd,
isn't it?
Which I don't like
saying that out loud.
Someone asked us the other day,
went,
you haven't been ill,
have you?
And I just stared at him
like this.
Just silence. And he was like, and I was like, and he went, okay, you don't want to say you? And I just stared at him. Like this. Just silence.
And he was like,
and I was like,
and he went,
okay, you don't want to see it?
And I went, no.
And I was like,
it was really awkward,
but I feel like I'd have jinxed it
if I'd have said,
no, I'm fine.
I mean, that's fucking stupid.
What a stupid thing to do.
Don't know him that well either.
It's really strange.
Oh God, who was it?
Yeah, it was really good.
Who was it?
It was a corporate guy.
Oh God.
And I just stared at him.
Because you didn't want
to jinx something. I didn't want to jinx it. Seriously?
Yeah, he was really old. Seriously. He kept looking behind him.
He thought something was behind him. I just looked off into the middle distance.
You're ridiculous.
You're actually ridiculous.
Says the guy who hasn't been ill yet. I know.
I don't want to.
Oh.
Apologies to anyone who has to have an interaction with chris because
he's a he's a moron and social interaction speaking of social interactions you're looking
forward to the comedy awards no night oh yes if you're listening to some fridays tonight yeah yeah
um no okay no okay this pisses me off right this is you all over right you the last year's comedy awards
chris gets very anxious as we all know suffers from anxiety yeah yeah you do hide it well but
inside i'm screaming inside i'm screaming in the house he doesn't hide it well i might write a
book about everything call it inside i'm screaming you should yeah probably do quite well i'm
screaming i know i know so um chris loves to make out like I've said this before
it's been my beef
when you ruin every social occasion
yeah yeah yeah
I will ruin it on the day
oh
you better fucking not
because I've already said
yeah I'll go on my own
yeah
don't
okay
I'll try not to
I'm not even joking Chris
don't come
if you're gonna be like that
because this is what
fucks me off the most
well get there
like we did last year
you were awful
ruined the whole experience for me
we have an argument before we get there you get there and you're like oh hi i'm made hi and then you
you disappear and you talk to everybody like there's nothing wrong with you and i'm sat a
shell of a woman haven't to have looked after you all day see it's not fair i am a social butterfly
right not in the case not in the way everyone else claims to be a social butterfly that the front around
group to group
no no no
I'm a social occasion
butterfly
what I do is
I'm a little
little stinking
little caterpillar
in the morning
right
and I'm not sure
I want to do it
then I make
call me little cocoon
and I'm like
no
no
all day
I'm a me cocoon
yeah yeah
all day
I'm like no
I'm not coming out
I'm not coming out
then I get there
and I go
hello
darling so good to see you oh well oh we should do lunch no, I'm not coming out. I'm not coming out. Then I get there and I go, hello, darling.
So good to see you.
A moi.
A moi.
Can we?
Oh, we should do lunch.
Can we arrive separately?
Because I am different to that.
I'm the butterfly all day
and I go, I can't wait.
Oh, what am I going to wear?
Let's get ready.
Let's start getting ready
three hours earlier.
And then I get there
and I go, oh, people.
Yeah.
And I don't want to talk to anyone who I don't know
and I get,
what's the,
I get,
what,
imposter syndrome.
I'm so bad
for imposter syndrome.
Especially with comedy stuff.
I mean,
it doesn't help
that I run around going,
she's just me wife.
See these guys,
and I wear an extra long jacket
with coattails
and you hold on
to those coattails.
there's loads of them now.
I could start a club.
The coattail wives.
The coattail wives. The coattail wives.
There's fucking tons of us.
We should have our own table to be honest with you.
You're all extremely talented in your own right
and people who say the coattail things are full of shit
because we wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't for you.
It was your idea.
And that's the last time I'll say it, so there you go.
I do just get imposter syndrome.
It's really, I wish I was.
So you should.
Fern Cotton was on the Diary of a CEO
and she literally worded it perfectly.
She was like, back years ago, like 15 years ago,
she was just naive and younger
and you just take on the world and you do everything
and you're like, I don't care.
I want to make it to the top and blah, blah, blah.
The older you get, you get really jaded.
This is her words and it's so true
because you do, the older I'm getting,
I just get more self-conscious and more aware
of how people are
and you enter a world
in where you judge people
and people will judge you
and it's weird.
It's hard.
Fern Cotton can't have imposter syndrome.
She's been on the telly
since I was a kid.
She does.
She does.
She's brilliant.
No, well,
but that's us watching her
going, she's amazing
at what she does.
She's fantastic.
When people you think
are like rock solid come out and say something like that. No, she's mentioned it a lot. Everyone here amazing at what she does. She's fantastic. When people you think are like rock solid
come out and say something like that.
No, no.
She's mentioned it a lot.
Everyone here and I have got anxiety.
Top flight athlete, you know, bike guy.
I'm rolling my eyes by the way.
Yeah, I should roll them so far
they're nearly rolled into the back of my head there.
You know, and immune to all illnesses, it turns out.
And now I get anxiety.
Oh, no.
So what's every, you know.
I don't, I'm really lucky.
I don't suffer from anxiety. But some days I feel like a bag of the... I don't... I'm really lucky. I don't suffer from anxiety.
But some days,
I feel like a bag of shit
and I don't want to go anywhere
and I hate this job.
And then other days,
I have a word with myself
and go,
no, stop it.
Anyone can do it.
Why can't you do it?
Blah, blah, blah.
But I mean,
they are few and far between.
Should we play a jingle?
Let's.
Jingle!
Let's stop worrying about all this.
We'll have a lovely time.
We might even win.
You never know.
I'm not going.
Oh, fucking hell.
And if you haven't voted,
if you're listening to this
and we've given you four years of free entertainment
and you haven't voted,
shame on you.
Disgusting, despicable shame on you.
Go and look at yourself in the mirror
and think about what you've done.
No, stop.
Ignore him.
Ignore him because I very rarely vote for anything.
Dirty, lazy piece of... Stop it. Put rarely bought anything. Don't be lazy. Peace.
Stop it.
Put the jingle on.
Okay, here's the jingle.
We had a fight about the jingle.
Jingle.
We couldn't settle on a jingle.
Jingle.
So this is the jingle.
Jingle.
We hope you like the jingle.
Jingle.
Babadoo, babadoo, babadoo, the jingle Jingle Babadoo babadoo babadoo
Jingle
Hello and welcome back to this week's episode of Shagged, Married and Annoyed.
Obviously it's always just lovely to have you back, thank you.
It really is.
Hope you're alright, whatever is going on in the world.
Nice month, February.
Is it?
Yeah.
Very much the Tuesday of the year.
Listen, I quite like a Tuesday.
We had a lovely valentine's
day didn't we uh did we no no we don't do valentine's day yeah it's just another day do
you know what though it's okay because once upon a time i used to get a bit pissed off about it and
i'd be like oh god unromantic asshole but you are very very kind and you buy me flowers quite often
yeah and you sometimes come in with a lovely bottle of wine, or you buy us secret bars of dairy milk.
Yeah.
And literally, that saves me through the year.
Don't need a day, don't need one day of affection.
I always just feel like a bit of a mug.
If I go and buy the roses on Valentine's Day,
and I'm walking down the street with the roses.
Like you're buying into it.
I feel like, yeah, I just feel like an absolute mug.
I don't know, I can't describe it.
I feel like I'm trick-or-treating as an adult.
I know what you mean.
Do you ever,
when you're younger,
go out for Valentine's Day for a meal at the local Italian
and there's just loads
of couples sitting there
going,
do you buy it?
Yeah, I bought it as well.
You catch someone else's eye.
I used to feel embarrassed.
Yeah, you catch someone else's eye
and the kind of unspoken thing is,
well, you've got to, haven't you?
It's Valentine's Day.
And you're like,
I didn't really want to.
Nah.
Do it in March.
On a random Tuesday.
It's like pancake day, isn a random Tuesday it's like pancake day
it's like pancake day
we've always got
we get them ready made
oh them ready made pancakes
if we talk about them
they are unbelievable
I don't know
they're fucking godsend
I know
heat your pan up
pour it in
two minutes either
well not even two minutes
30 seconds either side
the nicer the ones I do
how easy
do chefs
make whisking stuff look
oh yeah
because they've got
mussels like
Popeye how is the technique in it let's talk about whisking stuff look oh yeah because they've got muscles like how is the technique in
it let's talk about whisking stuff okay let's why is it it's just off the top of your head
why is it so difficult to whisk things and why do you so you whisk something and i feel like you
look like you're whisking it fine and then you go chris can you whisk this and i start whisking it
and i think i'm doing a shit i think she was doing it why has she got me to do it? It is quite a skill.
I've been doing it for a long time.
Have you ever seen Jamie Oliver or someone do it?
Oh, yeah.
Have you ever seen someone making mayonnaise?
Making mayonnaise?
Because you've got...
It is mayonnaise, isn't it?
Oh, we've had this before.
No, it is.
It's eggs and olive oil.
That's mayonnaise.
Eggs and mayonnaise, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
So eggs and olive oil.
That's mayonnaise.
And the whisk it.
And they're just like...
So fast. And then it turns into Right. And they're just like.
So fast.
And then it turns into mayonnaise and you're like.
It's like magic.
When I just see a male chef.
Don't be sexist.
You're looking nice.
Do not be sexist.
Let us do the joke.
I think you're a lucky wife.
Oh, because the clitoral. Because the clitoral is jokey.
Look at you.
Feminism.
Ruining comedy again.
I will have nothing on this podcast.
Feminism.
Ruining comedy again. Unbelievable. nothing on this podcast feminism ruining comedy again
unbelievable
you can go for yourself
I got an extra joke
I got an extra joke
by you
it'll not be
I'll not stand for it
on this podcast
go on a different podcast
if you want to
wave your dick around
you dirty
I'll wave my dick around
wherever I want
it will be
it will be in me trousers
but trust me
it's waving
listen
listen
don't the bullshit
do you want some
Rosie's Jotters do you bullshit right you want some rosie's
jotters do you know what let's i let's have some rosie's jotters we have got right as we're talking
daisy's got to put me jingling that i spent a good 25 seconds that absolutely atrocious jingling i
might change the jingle to be honest with you because if we do rosie's jotters on the tour
it has to be better than that so i might do a better one and i think you should i might get
robin robin started learning the piano
and he's really good
isn't he
I might get him
to do his little
Rosie's Jotters
Jotters
Jotters
Jotters
Rosie's Jotters
I don't know if I'm going
to have any Jotters left
by the time we go on tour
I could hold some back
for the tour
we are on tour
it's not sold out yet
if you want to come
yeah there's still some
tickets for the tour
if you want to come
we had a meeting
about it the other day
and it's going to be
it's going to be so much fun
and what you've got to remember is that we did the tour last time and it was to call we had a meeting about it the other day and it's going to be it's going to be so much fun and what you've got to remember
is that we did the tour
last time
and it was very good
we had a great time
but listen
don't want to
don't want to beat around the bush
bit through it together
bit through it together
yeah
Chris was on tour
at the time
we'd just had Rafe
there was a lot going on
the Covid had just ended
well
there was times on the tour
we're on the way to gigs
we didn't know
if they were going to
shut us down again
it was horrendously stressful
so it was very stressful
this time
just a lot
we've got a lot more time
big run into it
lots planned
lots coming up
yeah
what does time equal
ideas Chris
that's what time equals
time equals ideas
just ideas
it's tough to do
yeah yeah yeah
is it good
no it's rubbish
time plus effort
equals ideas maybe
oh
time doesn't you're telling me I'm not going to be on the CEO podcast?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you got the Rams. He's in. Look at them. Oh, CEO.
They're not even fucking employee of the month.
Right.
I think you'll find this is my longest job.
Thank you very much.
Very good.
Listen.
Yes.
Daisy, play the jingle.
It's jotter time.
Rosie's jotters.
Jotting all her memories of Rosie's jotters. All the laughing sweets they'll shield
Just a Catholic girl
looking for a bit
of light relief
Oh, come and join us
in reading
Rosie's Jotters
Yeah!
Okay, so, we've got two little Jotter readings today.
This is just a little aperitif
to get ready for the main part of the Jotter.
Who is the teacher?
No one cares.
This might be Mrs. Purvis.
Oh, my God, no one cares.
Or Miss Pringle.
Oh, my God, no one cares.
Okay, this is Monday, the 27th of February.
So, you know.
Not pretty close to now.
Not pretty close to now, yeah.
My half-term holiday.
Ooh, what have I done?
This is Rosie's half-term holiday.
Where have I been?
Underwhelming is what i would say yeah
just a list of stuff could have been bullet points but you didn't know them at the time you ready
yeah on saturday i went to the leisure center park with my brother kevin nice on sunday kate
and kevin were being pests of course they were that was sunday so all of sunday was that kate
and kevin being pests that's your full day that's the diary diary. Yeah, Chris, you've got to remember, right,
when I was younger, this is what,
these kids are fucking, they don't know they're born.
There was one activity a weekend
and probably didn't cost money.
The park.
We went in the park.
That was it.
My mum was like, you've been somewhere.
Now you can play in the house all day.
Sunday, me dad used to go to the shop, though,
and buy us sweets on a Sunday.
Okay.
From Highfield News.
Okay.
You ready?
So Monday is incredible. Incredible the okay you ready so Monday Monday is
incredible incredible
the way you spent your
Monday oh this is
half term as well
so this is the Monday
you ready man I'll
be devastated you
ready yeah on Monday
I got a new habit
oh right yeah I
used to have a twitch
instead of sniffing
it's clicking my
fingers on Tuesday
so that's Monday
that's Monday's
that's Monday's activity.
Wow.
We got a new habit.
Let's go, land.
Went to the shops,
got a new habit.
I part-exchanged
sniffing
for clicking
my fingers.
It was £2 plus
sniffing for clicking
your fingers.
See, you've got
internalised anxiety.
Mine used to come out
in ticks.
And it still does to this day. On Tuesday, I just watched £2 plus sniffing for clicking your fingers. See, you've got internalised anxiety. Mine used to come out in ticks. Yeah.
And it still does to this day.
On Tuesday, I just watched TV all day because I had a sore cold.
Oh.
Sore cold.
Sore cold.
A sore cold.
Yeah.
On Wednesday, I slept with my cousins
straight after having a cold.
Oh, yeah, irresponsible.
What cousin?
Pre-COVID.
What cousin?
On a fucking Wednesday.
Wednesday, I slept with my cousins
and at 11 o'clockclock we were playing Guess Who?
That could have been at night.
Must have been Nina's.
On Thursday I went to see
Black Beauty at the Customs House.
Brilliant.
The film?
I remember that.
On Friday I went to my Nana's.
On Saturday and Sunday
I just stayed in
and helped my mum and dad.
Bollocks you didn't.
You probably just fucking
were a pain in the arse.
Right.
Oh that is...
Shit.
What an absolutely shit
half term.
So that's year four
half term, right?
We're going to jump now.
I've been looking forward
to this one immensely.
We are jumping now
to a story
that you've written.
Right.
Now, not just have you...
This is year six
draft jotter.
Not just is this a story
that you've written.
Before the story, you outline the plot.
Oh, is that right?
Very professional, like a player almost.
All right, okay.
A prologue?
No, just plot and characters in the setting.
Like you put them all out as if it's like a big thing, right?
Well, I did used to read scripts.
It must be that, right?
So plot, there are two girls and one boy
and they shrink in the bowling alley.
One goes to the toilet and doesn't come back.
So the other two go and look for them,
but she's shrunk, brackets, by a chemical.
From the lab.
Everyone, listen, this is a public service announcement.
All cleaners who work in shopping centres,
do not leave any of your chemicals
that can shrink children in the toilet
because you will shrink a child.
And the other two
will come looking for them
and they'll have been
shrunken by a chemical.
And what do you think this is?
Is this around about
the same time as
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
came out?
There's a lot of theft.
There's a lot of theft in this.
Characters.
Imelda, age 13,
bossy and hates her brother.
Yep.
Philip, age four.
Yep.
Cute and a pest
to his sister. Right. Bouncer, age three months. Philip, age four. Yep. Cute and a pest to his sister. Right.
Bouncer, age three months.
Dog, quite cute.
Zoe,
age 13. Friendly,
nice to talk to, and loves
Imelda's brother, who's four.
So, Zoe
already. Dodge. I'm
not happy with Zoe's character.
Setting. Metro Center, X-Bowl, and Marks and Spencers. Posh. Dodge. I'm not happy with Zoe's character. Setting. Metro set that X-Ball
and Marks and Spencers. Posh.
What the fuck?
Posh. Then there's an arrow
from plot all the way down the bottom of the page and you've added
a bit more into the plot now.
And when they go
in, they get shrunk as well
and they can't find their moms.
Moms? Moms. You've been watching American
films. Now, genuinely, dear listener,
this is painful, but stick with it.
Chapter one.
Mom, shouted Imelda.
When are we going?
Soon.
Well, hurry up.
Ding dong.
Hi, Mom.
It's Zoe.
So I would hurry up if I were you.
Keep an eye on Philip.
Hi, Zoe, said Philip.
Ready for bowling? Philip, how many times have i told you
you're not coming yes i am no you're not yes i am no you're not that goes on for quite some time
i'll skip a few of them hey you two put a sock in it said zoe butting into the argument yes he is
coming said mom coming down the stairs why all capitals because dad's at work added afterwards with
bouncer just had to see where the dog was there so basically bouncer is one of the main characters
but for the entire story he's at work with dad which was added in afterwards when you realize
you hadn't put the dog in the story so i've've just added it underneath. Like a little arrow.
A little arrow in pencil underneath.
Does it work with Bouncer?
That gets rid of that character.
Yeah, well done.
Clever.
Come on, Imelda, said Mom.
Mom.
It was very squashed in the car
because all of Philip's toys were in the back seat.
Well, that's four-year-olds for you.
Chapter two. Chapter two is my favourite chapter. Okay, that's four-year-olds for you. Chapter two.
Chapter two is my favourite chapter.
Okay.
Everyone out said mum now.
Said mum.
We're there.
We're there is great.
We're there.
Everyone out said mum.
We're there.
Chapter three.
That was chapter two.
Riveting.
Right.
We finally arrived at the metro centre.
It was heaven
when the air conditioning hit my face
I have probably been watching
a lot of American TV
because we live in the north east of England
and it's really cold
do you know what I love
on a cold February the 27th day?
It's February!
Not in the other story.
It's raining outside.
I love going to the metro centre and the air conditioning hitting me face.
It is heaven.
I forgot it was February.
Imelda! Imelda!
Move out of the Marks and Spencer's doorway.
You're holding it up.
But the air conditioning's hitting me face.
It's heaven, ma, ma, mum.
After a discussion, we were going to meet with
ma at Boots at Two. That's been added
after as well. Zoe and I headed straight
for Tammy Girl and mum
and Philip headed left to
the Disney shop. Oh, the Disney
shop. Zoe and I were free
at last to spend all of our money and perhaps
get a Happy Meal and a chocolate donut.
Didn't ask for much, did I? No, it was a very
simple little thing. It was
really quiet in Tammy Girl, but
there in the corner of the room, crossed out
shop, was Patricia, crossed
out, Angelica Downey, the
most popular girl in year eight,
crossed out seven.
And she was trying on...
Now, I don't know how Angelica Downey is the most popular girl in year seven or eight.
Because she was trying on a pair of yellow crocodile shoes.
You know, the ones with the crocodile skin.
Fucking Jimmy Nails daughter
Crocodile shoes
What's her name?
Angelica Downey
Anyway
Just try anything
When you're anyone
Called Angelica
Anyway
I bought a purse
Purple
Added afterwards
And a dolphin ring
And Zoe bought
The same dolphin ring
And an orange purse
Then Now that I've never heard McDonald's described Like this in my life and a dolphin ring and Zoe bought the same dolphin ring and an orange purse.
Then,
now I've never heard McDonald's described
like this in my life.
I've no idea
why you picked this
from the menu
and it would actually
repulse me from going
to McDonald's
but here we go.
Then,
the smell of filly
or fish
and the sound
of happy children
took us to McDonald's.
Why have you picked
the fish thing?
I've never had one before. Why have you picked the filly or fish? I'm trying to McDonald's. Why have you picked the fish thing? I've never had one before.
Why have you picked the fish?
I'm trying to be intellectual.
It's like the least strongest
smell from McDonald's.
Then the smell of the fish burger
took me to the place where I never eat the fish burger.
Fucking hell.
Do they still do for little fish?
I've never ever had one
I feel like I need to try it
With our stomachs full
and pockets empty
we went to meet my mum
Chapter 3
Oh no
it was 4 o'clock
we were meant to meet
at 2
so 2 extra hours
of trying on crocodile boots
with Angelica Downey
and buying dolphin rings
I mean time flies
when you're having fun
Fucking hell
It's probably because
he was the only cunts
to order a fillet or fish.
It took fucking two hours to make it.
I know exactly which McDonald's it is, though.
It's the one next to Mark's.
Yeah, I know.
What do you mean?
Oh, God.
We were supposed to meet at two at Boots,
but for some reason, we were in Superdrug.
So you went to the wrong place.
That happens a lot
you get super drug
and boots mixed up
all the time
that is possible right
so we went to boots
but no sign of my mum
now what happens here is
all of that stuff
about shrinking
has been completely abandoned
right okay
you don't even go
to the bowling alley
the writing gets
so much messier
right
loads are crossing out
you're rushing it
all of the
the entire plot
not bouncer
gone entire plot of being shrunk reader listener you might as well skip this because if you were
expecting someone to be shrunk it doesn't fucking happen chemicals are not listen to this though
right so we went to boots but no sign of mum uh zoe and i ended up going doing the most
embarrassing thing of our lives yes you guessed it We had to tell the lady we were lost.
Oh, no.
Excuse me, said Zoe.
We're lost.
Oh, really now, said the lady.
She's immediately suspicious.
We don't get many of your age.
Oldest fuck.
Oldest, yeah.
Year seven, lost.
Listen to this, right? I didn't know that this is what happened when children got lost in the metro centre
But it clearly is
In my world right
Then she took us to a small room
Full of unhappy children
Fucking old and bent
None of their parents have come from
It's like a fucking prison cell
it's just
she took us
listen to the description
I swear to god it's one of the funniest things I've ever read
right
then she took us
to a small room full of unhappy children
from the ages of 3 to 5
the room was small and cold and wet
from the children's tears
and wet from the children's tears. Come on in.
Go over here next to this crying five-year-old.
Mind the puddles of tears.
There was a sign on the door saying lost and found.
But then the most embarrassing thing,
when we heard two girls the age of 13 parents
please contact the information desk at desk 305.
But then standing outside of the window was Angelica Downey.
That bitch.
And her mate.
Now, listen to what I mean.
Oh, who's her mate?
I can only imagine.
I can only imagine.
You were recently watching some...
Your dad must have been recently watching some gangster film
with Robert De Niro and his familiar co-star because outside the window was Angelica Downey and Katie Pacino.
Al Pacino's daughter.
This is Jimmy Neal's daughter and Al Pacino's daughter knocking together.
Brackett's her best friend.
Then I heard my mom's voice.
No, Pacino, that's an Italian restaurant where he lives.
Didn't your dad work in Pacino's for a bit?
It probably went
out of his head.
Yeah, your dad worked
in Pacino's,
the Italian restaurant,
so...
Katie...
Katie Pacino.
Katie Pacino.
What's your porn star name
your dad's current job and your sister's name
Katie Pacino
yeah
your sister's name and the restaurant that your dad works in
oh god
oh god
what's your porn star name
oh Daniela Weatherspoon Oh, God. What's your porn star name?
Oh, Daniela Weatherspoon.
Then I heard my mom's voice and I was actually relieved to hear her voice.
She gave us a hug and we told her all about the day
that we had had the end.
Oh, gosh.
No one got shrunk.
Nobody's shrinking at all.
If you'd have bought that and read the thing,
you'd have thought you'd get a completely different story.
That wouldn't have got past the first meet at the studio.
I hate to tell you, but it sounds quite similar
to the book that we wrote just a few years ago
that I really struggled to write,
which you can now understand.
Guys, do you want to do a new book?
Do you want to do...
No, really, really struggled writing the first one,
if I'm honest with you.
Not the minutes.
Oh, well, there you go.
Incidentally,
if you do see any
crime fiction
or any other kind of novels
coming out,
hitting the shelves
in Waterstones or WH Smiths
in the near future
under the author
Katie Pacino,
you know that
Rosie might have had
a hand in that.
Katie Pacino, you know that Rosie might have had a hand in that. Katie Pacino.
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It's time for What's Your Beef?
What's Your Beef-F?
Beef, beef, beef.
Pacino.
Pacino.
Right, come on then.
Do you want to go first or shall I go first?
My beef with you is you did know where the bongela was the other night.
What?
You did know where the bongela was the other night.
I didn't know where the bongela was.
When we were lying in bed and I said,
have you got any bongela?
Because I usually have it in my bedside cabinet
because I'm a bit stressed at the minute.
I'm getting ulcers all the time. And you were like, I don't know where it is. And I went, have you got any bongela? Because I usually have it in my bedside cabinet because I'm a bit stressed at the minute. I'm getting ulcers all the time.
And you were like, I don't know where it is.
And I went, oh, fair enough.
Today, went in your little cabinet in the bathroom.
You had bongela in there.
I didn't know it was there though.
Oh, what does daddy know?
What does daddy know?
Daddy finds everything.
Daddy finds everything.
That's what I say, that's my catchphrase.
So daddy's a little bullshit there, isn't he?
Because daddy knew where the bongela was.
He didn't tell me.
I could have looked for and found the bongela was didn't tell me I could have looked for
and found the bongela
but one I was in bed
and two
I didn't know it was there
I had to suffer
all night
yeah
two ulcers I had
two
sorry
shocking
I felt really sad
when I found that bongela
it was right on the top
of your little basket thing
I saw it this morning
I was looking for a toothpaste
I saw it and I went
that little prick
he knew
you would have known
that was there
you know where everything is
you didn't want to
just go into the bathroom
and have a quick look
no
right
so that's my fault
why would I do that
that's my fault
that's not part of my personality
brilliant
that's not my fault
that's not my problem
I didn't know where it was
you keep telling yourself that
what do you think this is
I'm not getting into bed
and then getting out of bed
and looking around for something
that you can't be asked
to look around for
I do love you
but it's ridiculous
and it was Valentine's Day
so that's grim
anyway
a bouquet of bongiella
what's your beef with me
my beef with you is
and um
we've had dishwasher issues
throughout our whole
family life
I've not got any better
I know I've not got any better
no no no
one
yes you're still horrendous
horrendous at stacking it
I saw oh god I opened it yesterday and there was a plate diagonally across oh I want to die any better no no no no no one yes you're still horrendous horrendous at stacking it i saw i got
i got i opened it yesterday and there was a plate diagonally across oh that was because it wouldn't
fit properly so i just should have moved it would fit properly because i redid it i redid it right
the spray would have still gotten no ridiculous it was diagonal across the whole thing may as
one may as one of vomit um however your new thing which is so just ridiculous if that dishwasher has been on
and all of the dishes in there are clean you act like we don't have one
it's unbelievable like you go you don't get them clean dishes out of there you literally you close
it you go oh they're all clean you close it yeah you've never emptied that dishwasher ever i have
definitely not with it definitely not within the past four or five months you would not empty that
i've got a new system you just you go you go it's it's clean and you go oh you shut it you go that
doesn't exist and then you live your life like it doesn't exist no just wash dishes and there's a
massive pile of like buckaroo clean dishes and you've just used the sink yeah and you refuse to
use anything in the dishwasher or take anything
out of the dishwasher.
It takes longer
to empty the dishwasher
and fill it again.
I actually find them
utterly pointless.
Wow.
If we're ever sponsored
by dishwashers
it's going to be hard
for me to do that advert
because I think they're shit.
I'll lead on that advert.
Please do.
I honestly think they're shit.
I just think I would rather
wash the dishes
let them dry naturally
then put them away.
But you're doing
like three different jobs.
You're emptying the dishwasher filling it not even can't even wash that much
in them really they're not that big and then you're having to empty it again it's just it's
and then fill it i'd rather just wash stuff you just stand off of emptying the dishwasher in this
house i hate it i'd rather buy more plates that's ridiculous we need paper plates if if they weren't
as bad for the environment that that's how I would live.
That's how a lot of people live.
It's not a British thing.
I think it's very much, every time I watch
Real Housewives, right, and they're eating
dinner, not like a party or anything,
with their family, they'll sometimes have
paper plates and that, and I'm like,
that's weird, isn't it? And they'll just put them in the bin.
I know, and you kind of go,
I don't know why they're doing that I don't know whether
it's just something
homelab one
they're all on paper
plates
that's what I mean
weird but
yeah
well
lot of like
trees
lot of like
metal trees
do me tits in
pack it in
do me tits in
pack it in
no
I can't
start emptying
the dishwasher
let's live separately
no
certain things
I'm not going to
change
love you there's nothing I can do with you Start emptying the dishwasher. Let's live separately. No. Certain things I'm not going to change.
Love you.
Nothing I can do with you.
No. I'm just going to have to take it.
Oh, well.
Moving on.
It's time for questions from the public.
Questions from the public.
Public.
Public.
Guys, as always, if you want to get in touch,
shagmoudinoid at gmail.com.
Hi, Rosie and Chris.
If you do happen to read this out,
please keep me anonymous.
Always.
I've just driven home
listening to episode 204,
which was last week's.
Ooh.
When you rightfully mocked
a kid called Dave.
Yes.
Yeah, we did.
A family from my childhood, though,
could go one step further.
There was a guy who worked
at the local pit with my dad
called David.
Obviously, Dave for short.
Yeah.
His eldest son,
my age,
was David Junior
so he also got Dave
all the way through school
in the 80s.
Wow.
But that's not
the unfortunate bit.
Sorry to anyone called Dave.
His eldest daughter
was also named after him.
Want to guess
what her name was?
What?
Don't want to guess?
He's called David
and his eldest daughter
is named after him.
Davina?
Davina? Is that what you're going for? Davina?
Davina? Davina?
Davette. Go
and fuck off.
Davette. Davette.
D-A-V-E
E. Go and
piss off. Oh no, just one E.
D-A-V-E-T-T-E. Davette. Davette. Or Davette. No. E go and piss off oh no just one E D A V E oh that's alright then
T T E
Daveette
Daveette
or Davette
no
I can't have it
and he says you're welcome
that is
cruel
I know
is that true do you think
it sounds like he's fucking
backing dancers
ladies and gentlemen
please welcome to the stage
Dave and the Daveettes
the Daveettes
yes
well what was theettes
what was that called I don't. Well, what was theettes?
What was that called?
I don't know.
There was something called theettes.
Oh, my God.
Was it Diana Ross?
No, that was the Supremes.
It is a real name.
Daveette.
Yeah, a determined good worker.
Daveette is of Hebrew origin and is a girl name.
People with the name Daveette are usually Christianity by religion.
Daveette. Holy shit, it's a real name.
Davette.
Oh my gosh.
Davette.
There's images of people called Davette.
Hello, very pleased to meet you.
We're new to the town.
I'm Dave.
This is Dave Jr.
This is Davette.
This is my wife, Dave.
Davina.
Davina.
This is our dog, Davo.
This is our rabbit, Davvo. This is our rabbit, Davely.
Fucking hell, man.
How fucking arrogant do you have to be, man,
to be called Dave and be like,
well, I'm so fucking class that I'm going to call my child Dave
and my daughter, I'm going to ruin her entire life
by calling her Daveette.
Yes, she'll be bullied, but she'll be a Dave.
Arsehole.
Hi, Chris and Rosie.
Me and Amy from work, in brackets, who also loves the podcast,
want to know how you feel about this certain type of colleague.
Oh, Amy from work.
Amy from work.
I'm so glad I'm finally hearing from Amy from work.
I've always known an Amy at work of you.
Oh, Amy from work.
Do you remember colleagues?
Yeah, I remember work colleagues.
When we used to work in places with people.
Right, okay.
Every time someone from work has Do you remember colleagues? Yeah, I remember colleagues. When we used to work in places with people. Right, okay. Every time someone
from work has their birthday,
it is their duty
to bring in treats
for the whole office.
Doesn't make sense,
but fair enough.
It's happened to places
at work.
When it's your birthday,
you bring the cakes in.
I suppose then everyone
doesn't have to remember
your birthday.
Yeah.
And then whose job
would it be to get
the birthday stuff?
Yeah, fair enough.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's happened to places
at work.
I understand.
You take the stuff
in on your birthday.
I understand.
But one person in particular has earned the name Digger Hands or JCB Hands.
For fuck's sake.
I can't put into words how greedy this man is.
Someone swears they saw him putting celebrations into his coat pocket to take home.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I can see it.
He can go up more than five times
taking two handfuls of chocolates back to his desk.
You can see him dragging his knuckles on the floor.
He's weighed down so much.
Goodness me.
The worst part is,
every January he's not ever brought in treats to the office
for everyone to enjoy.
So I'm guessing it's his birthday.
How do you feel about the human JC being...
Oh, yeah, there's always a greedy fucker.
Yeah, who never does it back.
Yeah, I mean, I can talk.
I took Robin to a birthday party the other week.
Amazing party from a friend at school.
And the kids...
Bit weird that, yeah.
What?
Bit weird that it wasn't like an adult party
and you're calling it amazing.
I just mean it's perfect for kids.
Sometimes people do stuff and you go, oh God, i've had to get really involved here and this is
not my idea it's a saturday it was a community center there was a dj doing dances and stuff for
the kids perfect there was let them run there was pizza yeah which is a perfect food yeah and i just
stood in the corner great it was what i mean is it was the perfect party for kids i didn't have to
do it wasn't like high concept it was just just music on, let them run around. Yeah, they're not making stuff
and all that.
I can't be arsed with it.
I think sometimes people go too far.
Do you know what I mean?
It was mint.
Anyway, my point is,
they brought pizzas.
Nice.
And the first thing I said was,
will there be any left over for the adults?
Of course you did.
Yeah.
They were the biggest pizzas
I've ever seen in my life.
They must have been 25 inch pizzas.
I've never seen anything like it.
Wow.
The bloke coming in,
it was like a fucking, it was like he was attempting a world record. I've never seen in my life. They must have been 25 inch pizzas. I've never seen anything like it. Wow. The bloke coming in, it was like a fucking,
it was like his attempt
in a world record.
I've never seen people
carrying so many pizzas.
Pizzas were incredible.
I must have had,
most adults had one or two slices.
I counted me slices.
Oh Jesus.
I stopped at eight.
Shut up.
Yeah.
You did not go
to one of our child's friends parties
and eat eight slices of pizza.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remember looking at the dad
as he was packing up the pizzas to take home
probably for that evening
and there was a look on his face of,
I thought there'd be more left than this.
Oh, you asshole.
Yeah, but I stood,
Asshole?
Mom?
Mom?
Imogen?
Zoe?
Bouncer?
Mom?
You arsehole.
You arsehole.
Goddamn so offended I went
goddamn American on your ass.
It's because we're talking about pizza and you're being a greedy
little pig.
I remember him putting it away
thinking how has everyone done that?
Do you know what annoys me about that though?
If somebody came to Robin's party
and ate loads of pizza, all you would do for the next month is go that greedy bastard oh yeah yeah
yeah yeah why why did you do it it was really nice pizza it was really nice pizza i couldn't
stop myself they probably thought they probably thought we'll get all the pizzas like you're
saying we'll we'll air fry them later for us for the family hard lines you should have counted on
this greedy prick pia. Eight slices.
That's horrendous. I'm embarrassed.
Bloody lovely. Thanks again. Honestly,
what a party.
Babadoo babadoo babadoo bah. Hi Chris
and Rosie. Just listening to the latest episode of
Rosie's Vagina Squeezer. Yep.
And thought I would share with you the most embarrassing
moment of my life that happened last year.
Wonderful. After having four children
in seven years, I had began to worry that my vagina was getting a bit saggy seriously me poor foof uh
so anyway i was getting a bit worried that my vagina resembled a 20
doesn't say 20 i'm so sorry it is a tatty wind sock but i thought it said 20
that's the perfect fuck up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 20 windsock, yeah, it's good.
A tiny windsock,
and I felt I'd best do something about it.
So I went online and ordered myself a vaginal exerciser.
Yeah.
They arrived over the weekend.
I read the instruction,
and the type I had got,
you just pop them in and went about your day,
and they would tighten you back up.
I've never, I've personally never seen anything.
I've only ever heard of the one that we've got,
the DIY. This is, it must be something you've got that is not mine in any way the one
that we've got our our joint vaginal exercise that i chipped in you're gonna be putting it in
and making sure that i'm doing it properly i'll put it in my ass what would I do to my arse what would I do to my arse tight as fuck the one that
we've got
I meant me
our family
our family
vaginal
exercise
yeah yeah
come to our
house
come to our
house
have a look
borrow the
vaginal
exercise
it's like
we've got it
set up
it's like
when you take
a key for the
toilet from a
petrol station
it's on a big
chain and a
brick
so you can use
it in the house
but you can't
take it away
I might pass it around the girls we use it in the house but you can't take it away. What, give them a 10 minutes
while your coffee's making?
I might pass it around the girls.
We've passed all the furniture around,
you know, baby furniture.
All the kids have used it.
Why not use the vaginal exercise?
Slightly different.
Slightly different.
So, on the Monday morning,
I woke up before the school run,
late as usual,
and rushed around
getting the kids ready.
Before we left,
I snuck off into my room
and popped in the two
small weighted balls
that were attached
to a bit of string
as I was running late
I grabbed the first clothes
I could
which happened to be
a G string
vest top
and a maxi skirt
and flung on a pair
of flip flops
it was a very hot day
and walked the five minutes
up the school
why is it ridiculous
she put something up
a fanny
and all that's just
going to hold it up
with is a bit of string
a G string
I mean if they're in there
they should be in there
well it just seems a bit bit risky dangerous yeah once i got there my kids ran into school
and as i was about to walk home i stopped to admire the little flower garden on the edge of
the playground that the kids had been growing when i got there i smelled the lovely flowers
forgetting that i suffer with terrible hair fever well Are you stupid? I let out the biggest sneeze and as I did the force of the sneeze forcefully ejected my
exerciser from my vagina clattering like a pair of clackers under the playground floor.
This was witnessed by at least 40 parents all with looks of absolute horror on their faces.
all with looks of absolute horror on their faces.
Can you imagine?
Can you imagine that somebody's there and sneezed and something pops out of their vagina?
Like, what?
You do not expect that.
I'm sorry.
What the fuck?
The whole thing is just a calamity of errors.
Who forgets they've got ear fever?
Oh, these are all...
Oh, God, I forgot!
I forgot I'm allergic to these!
It's a good job she wasn't still bending over and sniffing them.
She'd have fucking took someone's eye out.
I immediately picked them up and searched for a pocket to no avail.
A pocketless outfit, oh, my God.
Couldn't even hide them in a shoe because flip-flops.
I had to carry them
clenched in my hand the whole way home with bits of playground grit stuck to them as vaginal dryness
is not something that ails me that's why they've slipped out so well you see
if you are dry as a nun's chuff that is'd have stuck right in there. Oh, God. I sign my kids in late every morning
since for the rest of the term
so I don't have to look the other parents in the eye.
That's amazing.
That's absolutely amazing.
See, the G-string, straight away,
I was like, why the G-string?
You want a big old pair of...
Solid.
You want a hammock.
Solid kegs.
You want a hammock holding them bad lads in.
Spanx would have kept them in.
Be tight. Can't breathe. Spanks would have kept them in. Get tight.
Can't breathe.
Just flew straight out.
My word.
I'm genuinely intrigued by them though.
I might get some.
I'm going to have a look at them actually.
You know that medieval fucking,
what was it,
David and Goliath
when he swings the thing around
and it's two balls on a string.
Not David and Goliath,
it's two balls on a string
and it's supposed,
you see it in like Game of Thrones and that
and they wrap around people's legs
and fall over.
It must have been like she was firing
a little mini one of them out
very funny
wowzers
love it
do you want a little
quick ick
quick ick
yep
little quick ick for you
it doesn't even say hello
it just says
people who run in the office
fuck off
nothing is that important
that requires the need
for you to run
you look like a tit
someone who runs from their desk to the printer or whatever Fuck off. Nothing is that important that requires the need for you to run. You look like a tit.
Someone who runs from their desk
to the printer or whatever.
Such a rush
running around the office.
Over a short distance
it makes no difference.
It's ridiculous isn't it?
It makes no difference whatsoever.
Unless you work
in the police force
or you're a fire person
having to run.
Yeah.
I've often thought
the fireman's pole is pointless.
I think it's really dangerous, personally.
I don't think it's dangerous.
I just think, why?
Really?
Yeah, I know.
I mean, I know every second counts in a fire,
but I'd love to hear from either someone who knows
or from an actual firefighter to go,
would a set of stairs...
Have it all on one floor.
Yeah, would it make that much difference?
What have you gone upstairs for then?
I know.
Why is that?
But them seconds might be crucial.
Well, of course, of course.
But I just, I don't know,
I just, a wide set of stairs.
But then again,
I suppose you could fall
and break your ankle.
Well, I couldn't be in the fire service.
Because you couldn't go down the pole.
I couldn't go down it.
You know when you're little in the park
and they've got the,
fuck that.
What about, I don't know,
the pole just seems,
what about a foam pit?
Just have a hole in the floor
and a foam pit.
Or a trampoline.
Just jump down on the trampoline. Or like a net. Even quicker. Yeah. What, a slide? Have Just have a hole in the floor and a foam pit. Or a trampoline. Just jump down on the trampoline.
Or like a net.
Even quicker.
Or a slide.
Have a slide.
Have a slide.
That makes so much more sense.
Yeah.
Maybe they don't even have them anymore.
Simon's pool.
Yeah, I don't know if it's just,
I don't know if they actually,
that's a good point.
I don't know if they have them.
It might just be a thing off films and that.
You don't know.
Look, get in touch if you can.
But don't, I'm not dissing you.
I'm not slagging you off.
You know, I'm just saying, don't be getting offended in touch if you can but don't I'm not dissing you I'm not slagging you off you know I'm just saying
don't be getting offended
no because
somebody might come and say
Chris
shave off 20 seconds
in which case
I've already said that
and that's fair enough
there you go
yeah
but don't you know
I'm not saying it's bollocks
or saying get rid of them
I'm saying I'm very interested
and you know
if you are
in some way shape or form
involved in our local fire service
and I could come round
and have a turn on it, that would be even better.
I think we did get invited, you know.
We've been invited to all kinds of stuff.
Air ambulances and everything.
They're always inviting us to stuff.
I'm terrified of going on a helicopter.
Yeah, me too.
Me too.
But Robin would love to go look around and sniff around a fire engine.
Imagine if we were there.
I mean, awful to think that I'd have to go to a job.
I'm sorry, I don't want to sound like I'm happy that'd be a job, but imagine the excitement of it. What if there was a fire when you were there. I mean, awful to think that I'd have to go to a job. I'm sorry, I don't want to sound like I'm happy that the day job,
but imagine the excitement of it.
What, if there was a fire when you were there?
Shut up, man.
No, just, you'd be there looking around.
Oh, yes!
Oh, yes!
Yeah!
No, because they'd be like...
Mrs. Ramsey, can you please stop cheering?
Get out of the way.
We've got our lives to save.
Look, someone's...
No, stop.
I didn't, you know, that's why I said the disclaimer.
But all I'm saying is, imagine they'd be like,
right, you've got to go.
Come on, get your stuff out.
Then they strip off and then it's slow motion.
Ah, here we go, here we go.
Right, okay, okay.
Okay, okay.
It's nothing about the excitement.
I reached up and I go, oh my God,
that didn't look like that upstairs.
That's it, okay.
That's it, that's it, that's it.
That's all you wanted.
Might as well just go with strippers.
Just get a stripper.
Always comes down to a tiddler or a vagina
always comes down
to a vagina
babadoo babadoo babadoo
bah
hi Rosie and Chris
no need to keep me anonymous
this is
oh
sorry
what
I'm very aware
that they've said
no need to keep me anonymous
but then at the end of the email
it totally says from
and I haven't
I haven't pasted the name
I think it's always better I do and I haven't pasted the name.
I think it's always better to keep them anonymous just in case someone turns around and has a go.
This is a short one,
but I want to know whether anyone else does this
or if it's just my family.
When it's someone's birthday or Christmas,
my family will hold a gathering.
Yes, we do that.
It's something called parties.
Yeah, and if someone gets a shoe as a gift,
we will individually pass the shoe round
and everyone will take a good sniff of it.
Sorry?
Sorry?
That went...
I shouldn't...
You know, alarm bells rang when they said gathering.
Yeah.
When they said gathering,
I thought, like, these are a bit strange.
Yeah.
Read that again.
So...
When?
If someone gets a shoe as a gift...
One shoe?
Well, just as a shoe,
but I hope it will be a pair just as a shoe but i'm getting i hope it
will be a pair of shoes all right um as i get we will individually pass the shoe around and
everyone will take a good sniff of it and i have to admit i quite like the smell of a fresh shoe
but yes but not on massive parties no i like this i understand i do like this my new patreon
has out the box box fresh Box Fresh is the term.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Smells lovely.
The only thing I can say to this, right, Chris,
is I think there's some really fucking boring people in this world, right?
Yeah.
Like, I'm talking,
get me out of here.
I'd rather rub my face on a cheese grater
than sit with you people any longer, right?
Wow.
Boring.
Wow.
Really boring.
All I can imagine is that this is a really,
really boring family. Wow. To them, they'll go to this gathering not even a party right they'll have a little cheat
they'll have a cheese gun they'll have a cup of tea because they'll not drink right and then
someone will get a pair of shoes and they'll go a shoe a shoe pass it round pass it round
and they'll all have a sniff and that'll be the thing i'm not being last again i was last
last christmas and that'll be no sniff left that'll be the thing. I'm not being last again. I was last Christmas and there was no sniff left.
That'll be the crack of the party.
So fucking weird.
My question is, does your family have any weird traditions
that other people might find weird?
Not that fucking weird.
I can imagine there's been ones where everyone's opened all their presents
and they've gone, oh, there's been no shoes.
And they've gone, oh, no shoes.
And then someone's went, went wait there's one more box
here
oh
hey
we didn't think
there'd be any shoes
there's more shoes
come on everyone
everybody get your
sniffing on
pass it down
one of us
yeah yeah yeah
fucking
lunatics
I do quite like
the smell of fresh shoes
yes but not en masse
at a family gathering
so much that it's
became a tradition
weird pass the shoe round.
Yeah.
Fucking hell.
We think that's weird.
Sorry.
Imagine marrying
into that family
or going there for your
and someone gets you
a pair of shoes
and you go,
I'll pass that a second.
Don't put them on yet.
Everyone's going to stick.
No, you're fucking not.
You're a pervert.
You're going to sniff me a shoe.
It would ruin that shoe.
It would ruin those shoes
for the rest of my life.
I'd probably leave there
and then.
Weirdly, if they passed the left one round and everyone had a sniff. I'd probably leave there and then. Weirdly,
if they passed the left one round
and everyone had a sniff,
I'd have to go,
right, you're all going to have to do
the right one now
because these are going to feel weird.
I'm going to walk in circles here.
There is certain things.
I mean, I remember the first time
I went to your mum and dad's house
and your mum didn't put the lamps on
until really late
and it was dark.
Honestly, I wanted to die.
The sitting pitch fucking back.
That nearly made me leave.
So, you're talking.
It's so awful. My mum and dad will sit in the dark with just the telly light in the room like a teenager until it's fucking absolute midnight
outside do you remember when they left the room and i was like can you put the lamps on i go i go
around my mom and be in the kitchen doing stuff and i turn the lights on she's like what are you
doing i'm like it's fucking you the woman who used to march into my bedroom and turn all my lights on she's like what are you doing I'm like it's fuck it you the woman who used to march into me bedroom
and turn all me lights on
and then black cola
calcutta in here
can you see your homework
lights on
fucking floodlights
now is just in darkness
constantly
and that's cost of living
and all that
but for fuck's sake
she's been doing it for years
oh god
smell the shoe
smell the shoe
pass the shoe round
and smell the shoe
do you know those parties where people pass Pass the shoe round and smell the shoe.
Do you know there's parties where people pass plates of cocaine round?
And these mad fuckers are passing shoes round.
I think I'd rather be at the shoe party.
Drugs are for mugs.
And you know my thoughts on that.
They are for mugs.
They are for mugs.
Hi, Rosie and Chris.
A small town, so please keep me anonymous.
We get it.
All right, okay.
Many years ago, after not being in the job for long, I received a phone call
from a very worried lady.
Oh, sorry.
So,
her job is,
she works in a vet.
Okay.
She's a veterinary secretary.
Yes.
We've got a friend who does that.
We do.
Alex.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Veterinary secretary.
Veterinary secretary.
Never said it to a rhyming though.
I'm going to have to next time I tell her.
Veterinary secretary.
Veterinary secretary. Veterinary secretary. Veterinary secretary. She takes next time I tell her veterinary secretary veterinary secretary
veterinary secretary
she takes her dog to work
mental
so many years after not being in the job for long
I received a phone call from a very worried lady
she explained to me
that she and her husband had gone to their son's house
to freshen it up
as he had been away for a year
and was due home that weekend
the father had
so the son's been away for a year
they've gone to freshen it up,
which is nice.
His house had been empty for a year.
He must have been travelling or something.
Right.
You'd pop round every couple of months,
wouldn't you?
Not necessarily.
I mean, you just go and say,
oh, we'll tidy it up.
I mean, who leaves a house empty for a year?
They're obviously quite well off.
Someone's needed it.
You know what I mean?
Come on.
They've had six members of my family living in that fucking house.
Oh, God, yeah.
Your entire...
All the wambles that had descended on it,
like locusts,
that had stripped that place dry.
The wallpaper would have been off.
It would have been a shell.
They'd have took the walls, floors, doors out.
It would be a box.
Right, okay.
So, the father had gone out to the garden to tidy it up
and lo and behold, he'd found a tortoise.
They had wondered if it had come from another garden.
The mum phoned us to ask for advice.
After speaking to a vet, I called her back to advise her
to get a box, put crushed newspaper in it
to help insulate and protect the tortoise
and bring it to us so we could do a health check.
She told me she would bring it in as soon as possible
not five minutes later the lady called us back her husband had gone back out of the garden with
the box to pick up the tortoise and she was the vet to bring the vet when you found a
tortoise what the fuck it's a tortoise i'll bring the vet quick ah how's the tortoise i'm so that
was a roller coaster of emotion for me and i imagine for a lot of people listening i'm not
the only one who thought he would have stood on that tortoise there all right is that what i thought
was gonna happen i got very very sad uh and then the relief garden ornament well if he's not been
there for a year there might be loads of shit over it like moss and that it's probably green so
hello please hello please i'm just there's loads of people in my son's garden there's loads of
people he's been away a year and they've just moved in. They're fishing.
One of them's got a wheelbarrow.
They're tiny.
Oh, sorry.
They're gnomes.
They're gnomes.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Bye.
Bye.
One's fishing.
One's fishing.
There's a little boy pissing into the pond.
Oh, no, he's a fan.
Well done.
Once dressed like Elvis.
Why?
Once always dressed like Elvis.
There was a normal dress.
Got sunglasses and that on.
I see them all the time.
Anyway, yeah.
Sorry.
Very good.
Well done.
Can I just tell one more little story, though,
from the veterinary net?
Yes, of course, of course.
A cat owner called in to us
to ask us to remove a tick from their cat
they'd spent about an hour
trying to remove it
to no avail
they arrived for their
appointment
they left 30 seconds later
heads down
and straight out the door
the nurse emerged
from the consultant room
with tears of laughter
pouring down her face
she explained
the couple had spent
half an hour
trying to remove
a nipple
not a tick
poor fucking cat
some people should not have animals.
A cat must have been going absolutely ballistic.
A poor cat.
A nipple.
Oh, the poor.
Oh, the poor bloody cat.
Yep.
Oh, idiots.
Yep.
Thank you so much for
listening to this week's
episode of Shagged,
Married, Annoyed.
Yeah, thank you.
Oh, it's part of the
ACAS Creative Network.
It is part of the ACAS
Creative Network, yes.
Thank you so much for
listening, for being here
with me, for joining
work.
We always do not take
you for granted at all
and genuinely, I don't
know what's going to
happen tonight at the
National Comedy Awards.
Sorry for going on
about it so much.
Thank you so much for
voting if you did and if you didn't, I get it. It's fine. It's a pain in the arse. Oh, I thought you were going to say something at the National Comedy Awards sorry for going on about it so much thank you so much for voting if you did and if you didn't
I get it
it's fine
it's a pain in the arse
oh I thought you were
going to say something
horrible there
well done
thank you
very mature of you
yeah yeah
so there we go
and hopefully we'll win
but if not
like I said on the
Instagram post
we're up against
other phenomenal
podcasts and
phenomenal TV shows
everyone's a winner
in them categories
in my opinion
it's nice of you to say that
because they'll not say that
about us but that's fine
well that's because I'm the bigger person my opinion it's nice of you to say that because they'll not say that about us but that's fine well that's because
I'm the bigger person
but that's mainly
because of the protein
oh god
thanks for listening
you all know
I'm joking
don't you
I don't really consider
myself an athlete
or big
I'm kidding
alright man
yes we know
it's a joke
I'm kidding man
I'm kidding man
I'm kidding man
I'm kidding man
I'm kidding man
I'm kidding man
I'm kidding man
I'm kidding man
I'm kidding man
I'm kidding man
I'm kidding man
I'm kidding man
I'm kidding man
I'm kidding man
biggest muscle I've got
is my comedy muscle
my comedy muscle
bye goodbye not me penis goodbye Biggest muscle I've got Comedy muscle Bye, goodbye
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