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Quaker, official sponsor of FIFA World Cup twenty six Will there be a wicked part three about the Munchkins in Cege? Why was Goldilocks so fond of tpid porridge? Huge news, huge news and not the kind of huge news that makes you think Oh, what have the government done now? oututlaw libraries? No, good news Indeed. yeah, we have a new product and this is our big launch. A product a product. You make it sound like we've got a new mop head. Oh Ollie, you've worked so hard on this. Big it up. It've taken you ages. We have two new products. Oh for bos like two Mop peds. G bigger which are here as a result of me having spent quite a few hours uploading our entire back catalogue to Patreon. Entire, you know what that includes or do you? If you're the answer mee this enthusiast slash completist, you may be thinking It's all very well having lots of episodes of answer this available for free on my podcast feed. That's fine. But what I'd really like is everything Helen Oollia Martin have ever recorded all in one place And I'd like that to go back all the way to two thousand seven and I'd like it to include all of the retro episodes that they used to release where theyd do an intro at the beginning dismissing their former selves as idiots. Yes, the parade of remorse, AK what from our past aged like a fine shit. I'd like it to include all the formererly called bits of crap on the app bonus bits. Yes, we used to have an app, you know, back when single purpose apps were a thing and every time people got a little bit of bonus material. And I'd like it to include all six albums that Answer Me This has ever put out behind a paywall. I'd like all those things to be on a special feed. but, Helen I'd like them in Apple podcasts because that's where I listen to podcasts or podcasts or downcast or oververcast and others. I'd like it there, along with the new episodes, and I'd like them all and free.a I'd like them in chronological order, please well You Liche listener, your wish is our what's the wor I book for? It's our new Patreon offering.'s what we're trying to say. It's what Ollie Man spent months pulling together because there is so much stuff. But we've all put the work in, Helen. you were there for nineteen years before and very involved in creating the files that I was uploading. Sure, but I have not had to deal with this surirface of pain. But well worth it. What do we say to people who are like, well, I already bought all the old episodes and albums and even the app before, I guess what you're purchasing is a convenience of listening to them in a system that is equipped for the modern day unlike the ones that Ollie Man had to build from scratch because this podcast predates convenience. 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Patreon d. com slash answer me this, slash gift. So for someone who used to listen to this show back in Season one two thousand seven to twenty twenty one and didn't know, the answer me this came back for season two this year. What a gift to make them shit themselves with joy. Patreon. com slash answer mee this Fill your ears with everything we've ever done Dear Heather and Ollie answer you this from Tim in Exeter. What do I do with the little knitted hats that you get on top of Innocent smoothies I just bought a meal deal a few minutes ago And it has one of those little knitted hats on it. I've got no use for it and I've got about ten of them now. sitt on top of the chest the drawers U they're quite nice, so it feels bad to just chuck them away I don't really want them. Can I aord them off in a charity shop or something Uh, thank you. For those who've not encountered a smoothie wearing a little hat, the brand Innocent Smoothies, which is widespread in Britain, sells bottles of smoothie that are wearing miniature hats. I'd say they're about What four centimeters tall, hand knitted hats I mean, I'd like to agree with you. I've never seen one IRL. reallyally? And I drink innocent smoothies. I buy them, but obviously the meal deals I'm doing are not the knitted ones. You have to choose betweena an extraneous hat or crisps I mean, I've very much digested the company line on this now because I've learnnt about it through Innocentsign own website, but it's quite nice, isn't it? The hats are knitted by volunteers, in return for which Innocent give thirty pence per bottle to Age UK. They've raised three point six million pounds since they started. But if you don't want the knit, you can return it via free post. Okay So there's no need for it to go wasted. Free post big knit What I wonder about when a company is like, if you buy something with this, we will donate a percentage It' like, well, okay, if we're going do that it anyway. Y. Like you could do it for a bottle that doesn't have a knitted hat and then you wouldn't have someone worrying about what to do with a thing they don't mean no one needs I used to agonize about this when I worked at ITV and I was partly responsible for the content around the this morning charity calendar I used to think like Yes, it's true that a pound of every sale of this calendar goes to whatever charity they're supporting, but the way they make it look on tey is like, that's the thing to do for the charity this Christmas, It's buy this calendar and it's like Now it's a calendar with pictures of Aliceon Hammond in it. you know, the pound to charity is just a nice bonus, but it's not If you want to give money to the charity, give you ten pounds to the charity instead, you know? Charity singles as well, it's such an infinitesimally small amount of money Yeah what are we? I suppose it is marketing foremost, both for the product and for the charity. This hat idea was the brainchild of a marketer called Adam Rostam came up with it in two thousand three He saw a picture of someone wearing a woolly hat and thought, wouldouldn't it be cool if the smoothie bottles were wearing wlly hats to keep them warm? It would also keep the coolant, I suppose. You know It's not going to rise to room temperature quite as quickly if it's partly insulated. So anyway, the sensible answer as I say, is if you don't want your hat, you can return it free post, big knit, and the hat will find its way back to be repurposed in another smoothie But for some silly ideas I was thinking, maybe line them and use them as a shot glass. That wouldn't work at all. How what would you line them with? A glass Maybe fill them with sand and use them for target practice. Again, the sand will leach out over a knitted fabric Oll, whereere is your mind? Or sit it on the bell end of your knob and be a little willywmer. I was dreading that this question would make one of you come up with the idea of putting a hat on a penis. I've seen people online putting them on their car gear sticks So that in winter their hands aren't cold. Yeah. I've got a much more sensible idea than any of those things. Is it egg cozy? Oh, that's a good idea. That's not bad, actually. What about Converting pair of fingerless gloves to a pair of fingery gloves. Oh, that's quite good. I've actually got a pair of gloves where the thumb hole has come off. I haven't replaced it because that's of course my texting thumb. It's actually quite useful. In fact, if anything If they were marketed differently, I'd buy these gloves now in their're ruin state. They'd be much more useful than when they were new. But you know, if it weren't the texting thumb, if it was any of the other digits, then that's quite a nice idea, y. And then you got like little finger puppets because some of the hats are in the shapes of animals, fruit, unicorns. There's a postbox 'd be cute. According to the Innocent website, quote, They've been modeled by all sorts of action figures, not to mention animals great and small, from gerbils and guinea pigs to lizards and African snails Okay, do we know if a snail enjoys wearing headgeear I think you could make them into a little garland as a Christmas decoration and then fop it off onto someone else that likes that kind of thing. Yeah. Another solution would be for Tim to buy a different brand of smoothie that doesn't land him with a hat That's true, yeah. I think that's probably not what they intended, but yes, that's right, just by the one without the hat. Yeah, and then make a donation to Age UK Some of the hats are fruit themed but not necessarily the fruit that's in the bottle, and I find that quite distracting to like a bottl of apple juice that had an aubergine hat on it. Put me off the apple juice. And when the apple juice had a unicorn hat on it, did that disturb me even more that it didn't taste of unicorn meat? Yeah, yeah, totally unicorn meets my favorite, especially at Christmasim. So tender Here's a question from Matt in Sollyhoull who says, as I'm dragged around the Birmingham Frankfurt Christmas Market for the upteenth year in a row I have noticed that the stalls are all identical year after year. They have the same decorations, locations, merch and food Ye after year All of their signs are written in the same font as each other, with the first letter of the shop name painted red. I begin to wonder, he says. After upteen years no wondering. Yeah Helen answers me this, what is the deal with the Frankfurt market in Birmingham? Is it even tied to Frankfurt at all? Frankfurt and Birmingham are twin towns. a concept we explain. In answer me there's one hundred seventy available If you sign up for a patreon. com slash, answer me this. Which tier Sound bag to get that. Sound bag to. Max Tier. Yeah, Martyier. Birmingham is quite promiscuous with the twin towns. It's got so many. you. O San in South Korea, Johannesburg, Milan, Chicago, Leipzig. It's not even the only German town that Birmingham is twinned with, Frankfurt. So I thought, well why Frankfurt's markarket, not Leipzig's I think it's because Leipzig's market is a mere infant dating back to fourteen fifty eight compared to Frankfurt's. thirteen ninety three. That's when their Christmas began. And also Leipzig is a later twin. Frankfurt got twinned Birham nineteen sixty six Leipzig not until nineteen ninety two. I wonder if there was a war connection then. You know, that's still only twenty years after the Second World War, isn't it? I wonder if maybe like Frankfurt and Birmingham experienced equivalent levels of bobbing and deprivation during the war. Hey, we bumbed each other. Why can't we be friends? First fair lads, now let's have a market exchange. Yeah We all like hot dogs and candles. Let's put our differences to one side. I was reading a little bit about the history of these Christmas markets because in the last, I'd say fifteen, twenty years German styled themed markets have become super popular. I mean, around Britain, right but they were also kind of a trend in Germany as well of sort of nationalism when the Nazis were in They said that in those markets, all the items for sale should reflect national pride. and they should all be rooted in German Christmas tradition And then after the war, They kind of carried on with that and just sort of like tried to shrug off the fact that it hadd been part of Nazi image building That's sort of interesting, but I must say Matt, I know you're bored in a Christmas market. It would hold no interest to me at all as a punter. I would not care in the least whether it was a German style market or a Frankfurt style market, whether it was sponsored by Frankfurt tourism. Forr Leipzig? orr indeed, or whether it was coordinated with partners in Frankfurt. I mean, the net result is the same. you get it, It's a German Christmas market. Like what does it matter? Fr fromr the Punter's point of view, does it really make any difference? There's nothing more authentic about this, is there? mean I guess that's what he's getting at Well, it was originally a project of the town twinning where they were like, okay, Birmingham and Frankfurt are going to do various joint initiatives. and this one happens to have stuck for many years's been going since two thousand one. It was much smaller than. But you're right that often these markets are quite disappointing if you actually want to buy things at them. they're not that exciting The point that he makes about the same stallholders year after year, I get that because there are so many events like I live in a village. and so I like to go and support my local village events. But when you go two years running You get immediately get that feeling because it' exactly it' D J here,'s Ground Hog dayay isn' it? It's not a enough market to have changed. The things that work come back again So my summer fate in the village where I live I can tell you now, like That's where the woman who sells the hanging planters is going be. That's where theyve got the candy floss stool. That's where it's splat the rats. This is the band that's coming on at three o'clock and these are the five covers they're going to play. Would it be a reasonable assumption that in the culture where this event exists, people are not going to it for a radically different event each year. They want the reassurance of the thing that happens every year. Well, I suppose that' Christas in ways, isn't it The ring of familiarity. It stops time for a bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. On the other hand, for Matt, it's just annual parade of boredom and pointlessness That's his tradition It provides an opportunity to sell stuff that they can't sell the rest of the year because roasted chestnuts be Christmas. Roasted chestnuts Panatoni. I mean, I don't mind Panatoni, but it's not great Is it you wouldn't by you wouldn' It's just not a thing. like's a thing. I mean, you're going get a lot of angry emails from Italiansanatony's not a thing But if it wasn't being geared up as a Christmas thing in a decorative tin If someone at any other time of the year was like, you've got twenty quid, I can sell you thing you can make into a summer pudd. You'd be like, I'm all right I feel like most of the Christmasy things ike German, like Christmas market, Christmas trees, all of this stuff. so much of it is.y How's Germany become the Christmas country? I think that was probably because of Victorians and like between Victoria and Prince Albert. is how? Yeahah, exactly ye. Well, for sure, but Christmas markets are much feel like a more recent transplant. It's becausecause they've got little wooden cute hearts, Martin, C could' have been the Luxembourgian Christmas market, but Luxembourg doesn't have the market budget of Germany. Al Germany's got the fonts I don't think Henry Winter is from Germany You know, you think of October F You think of Jagermmeister often It theont you want at Christasn' Oh, I see the coffee ye Gffee thing. Yeah, the Bavarian thing. They've just got the fonts I suppose I don't want it at Christmas But I want it less the rest of the year. Exactly. Your point stands by default. Y. Like hard cake, like savory Chutney, like all the shit people buy in these ples Exactly right. That's what I'm saying. It's tolerable in that circumstance. A monstrous sight on the shelves behind me, Ollie is a Christmas pudding that Martin and I made with his family a couple of weeks ago. It's just sitting there pewressing until Christmas It's developing flavour. What's the opposite of porn because that's what that is for me Something that makes me feel Pon killers, it's absolutely repellent. Yeah, no know it's hanging over your shoulder for the whole way through this recording, I'm going to be distracted and slightly sick. sm That right, even though there is basically a kink for everything, Christmas pudding is the opposite of porn. Well done. We finally found it. So right And you can listen to Ollie complaining about Christmas pudding in her bag cle. That is a deep cut early days. Notorious Christmas pudding hate it. Well, here's another question with a German connection from Cirk near formerly in Seattle. Who says When I was in high school, I had a huge crush on a German exchange student and before she moved back at the end of the year, she gave She said come with me to Birmingham. There's an amazing Christmas market there. It's just like home. Before she moved back at the end of the year, she gave me a mix CD I assumed that she gave it to me just as a friend, but two decades later, it suddenly occurred to me to ask Answer me this Did she mean it as more than just a friend? Well, we've got that exchange student with us right now and finally she. The only songs I can remember, says Suk were leaving on a jet plane Fields of Gold, Hotel California Pete Siga singing Dig Duncan Sind Frey. Well, those aren't sexy songs U I mean, that might be a sexy one in Pete Sieger's repertoire, perhaps, and at least it wasn't if I had a hammer But it's not love on top by Beyonce, isn' it? So I'm not sure that she was crushing on you, but I think it's true to say that we can't be sure that she wasn't, notot because you haven't supplied enough information although you haven't, but just generally because the medium of mixtapes Often if you are making a tape for someone, I'm going to use the word tape even though this is a CD because that's what it is. I think the genre really demands the term mixed tape here. The genre, Yes If you're making a mistake for someone, they are the object of your attention, at least, aren't they? You're trying to remind them of you at least aren't you? You never could have dreamt probably twenty years later, you'd still remember it. But that's sort of the idea. I'm gonna to leave this lingering thing with you because you're special. And I want you to think of me evenven if it's subliminal, even if it's kind of, you know, latent, I think, often There's an element of unrequited love in a mixtape donation. That's my feeling. Yeah, I'm trying to think now of mixtapes I've been given and I think most of them were by The X in the nineties, But then Martin used to do an annual exchange with his friends of mixes, which I thought was actually a very sweet idea of just what their favorite songs were that year That that wasn't romantic I assume Martin, orr was that a happy byproduct? was just the warm upp to a massive circle, Jack. As I got older I to listened to music not enough to be like, here are my top twelve songs or fifteen songs of the year. Now it's like I could probably rustle up a couple. I just the way that listening to music has changed so much. I guess when you're younger, you're just discovering things for the first time you're like, Who's this Bob Dylan guy? Yeah, yeah yeah. Well that's I think explains the presence of fields of gold and Hotel California on this particular mix. Yeah, I'd try to look out if there's a hidden message There's travel them there, right? Like leaving a jet pleasure about a jet off back to Germany, I presume. So that's ye. Also often in adolescence, like if it was the first mix tape you'd made for someone, you'd just put on your favorite hits, right? it wouldn't necessarily be a message. Whas if you'd done a few for them, maybe you'd be like, okay I want this one to make them feel these things Yes. I've heard one before with a very clear signal. was they with my mom once in Cyprus, just the two us When I was about sixteen and she was a hot forty five. Your mum is forever hot. I'm sorry to objectify her because she has many other qualities, but she is very hot And like the classic Shirley Valentine style Greek waiter had a crush on her. No wonder. Left her a mix tape at our hotel reception desk.. It opened with Jateem by transport. Well, you know, he had a deadline of her holiday being fin. had exactly A shot to shoot. Did it work out for him Well, she did see him again. We went back to the restaurant and she said, thank you for the tape Can I have some Tatziki?. refill this pitter around the house Anyway, that was a little bit on the nose, but I do think that the subtext very often nonetheless is like I'm going to paint a vision of what our weekends will be like when we're together Do know what I mean? We'll wake up on a Sunday morning, the sun will be streaming in through the window After hours of extraordinary sex, we'll wake up with a platter of crossants and we will listen to Jon Denver on Vinyl. She's creating an image. You know what I mean? of like, this is what our lives could be like. I suppose it's also like really expressing to someone, H's a bit more about me but not in the form of autobography, it's more like atmospheric Yeah, which I was always uncomfortable with actually, like even doing the platonic ones of the style that Martin was talking about because I quite like some quite dark songs, but I'm not a dark person Like at talk I'm generally quite a positive like up beat person, but like listening to songs about dark things. and I don't want people to think oh, that's what's inside his brain, because he genuinely isn't, just amuses me. Well, then would you write liner notes for this mix tape that is theoretical Igore this bit about suicide. It's just for fun. It's just because I like the beat. I don't really listen to lyrics. Although in your case, that's not true, I don't think Well it's a mode for me. Like sometimes I have like rel listened to something on like the twentieth or thirtieth time and thought, oh, that's what that's about and sometimes I really don't listen to the lyrics and sometimes I really do. It kind of depends. Yeah, I get that. What happens if you know someone makes you a mixedtpe with romantic intentions and you don't like it? doeses that kill your interest in them I think it's a good advanance notice. Don't turn down that fork in the road is a mistake. Yeah There's a lot of Jordan Peterson set to beats on this. If you have got a question. Then email your per who want to be this podcastered Google Mailod come on to be this podcasted google mailot com be this podcasted Google Mailod come on to be this podcasted Google Mail God. This summer, Prime V videoide takes you back before legally blonde, before law school, and into the world of Elle Woods in high school. 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All went well for the first two and a half years. The third year cook me a breakfast with an overcooked egg. that really started to us on a downward slope Angela says when I got my Gmail account with what was going to be my married name, I had to be invited by an existing Gmail user. That's how long I've had this email address. Well you're speaking to people who have got an email address that ends with at googlemail dot comot so we've been around almost as long. Well, I think that was a blip after this point where you had to have an invitation Yeah I think that was an early two thousands thing and os was mid two thousands where Brits couldn't get Gmail temporarily. Anyway, you know let's keep that for some exclusive content us bing on about the history of GMail. Angela says, however Because my married name is so common for years, strangers with similar or in some cases the same name have used my email. They sign me up for a lot of junk mail, which is frustrating They haveve also signed me up for stuff that provides me with their personal information. U They've used my email for their bank. They use my email to register for appointments, some of which seem important. I have at least once notified the sender that it was the wrong email. They have used my email to sign up for online cloud storage and I was able to click through all their photos. Oh that's bad. They have used my email to sign up for job boards Too bad therere in New Orleans and Florida and I'm in Dallas They use my email for returns. Not sure how they are returning when they don't have the return slip because in Angela's email, obviously. But this gets me their actual physical address. She's getting a bit crazy on the power of this, I feel. Well, I think she doesn't want this power. It's been thrust upon her. She says, this doesn't even include all the websites, gambling sites and other junk that I just have to get rid of brings me to my question. Should I just take to the Dark web and be a full time scammer? I've got loads of information on people. I have never done anything with this information But I have occasionally considered sending them an actual letter without my own return address, asking them to cease and desist It is more than one person. so even getting one to stop wouldn't stop all of it. Annoying as it is, it seems creepy to contact them But I can only assume that they think no one has this email or they wouldn't be including so much personal information Ollie answer me this. Would you send a letter in a situation like this to at least let them know how much data they are unknowingly sharing Okay. The best thing to do, says Angela, would be for me to get a new email Correct. But I don't want some random name four five hundred eighty two at blah blah, blah. I've tried other email services, Proton mail, for example But Gmail is just so ubiquitous it makes it difficult to switch. I do think that is the straightforward solution here. There are other email providers get one of those. Angela says, I could go back to using my pre marriage name because that name was beautifully unusual and I miss it a bit, so I might be able to get a Gmail with me. Why don't you get a Gmail with a double barrel? because that is much less likely to be mistaken for anyone else's name Angela Mountbat and Windsor There he go. Yes, you should get in your email address, yes There are lots of ways to combine your name with other words Although that said, I made a mistake when I set up the email address for my mum Be her name at emailprovider. com wasn't available. And so I thought a neat way around that be to put the word email in front of her name. What era was this? That's very retro Uh what er was this? fifteen years ago? Right, Okay fine So her email address was email Karen Man at Web serervice. And of course, now it's just been a nightmare. Like every time she's on the phone trying to give her em address, she has to say that's email with the word emailed as part of the email address. Oft to people in foreign call centers, and it doesn't work. So that's tedious, and even like web scraping forms think that it's not really an email address because it starts with the word email So I'm probably not the person to ask. I once decided when I was about twenty, There was a brief period I went through where I think it's because There was another Oliver Man who wrote for the Guardian, and I got a piece in the Guardian and I had to have a name that wasn't Oliver Man So I was like, can I have my middle initial And they said, yes, my middle initial is L, which reminded me of Samuel L. Jackson. So I was like, Well, that's cool. So I'll be Oliver L Man. And so I thought, well, I better have an email address that matches that because I've never used my middle initial for anything. So I actually had my full name. I was Oliver Louis Mann And I was quite proud of like I was like, yeah, I can go with that. Nice. But I got it in Netscape Oiveill Netscape. net. And then it shut down like six months later. and I was like, I'm just going with Olive. forget. Gambled and lost. Yeah. But in general, I would say to you, Angela, that you should stop being so conscientious, like the people who are putting your email address down either sloppily by accident punitively on purpose. being much less thoughtful about all of this than you. Delete them all on site like I do with BR emails. It's quite liberating. Like you see it's not for you. Don't read them. click and delete and feel good. Give yourself an endorphin release as you delete them. Yeah, but then what if it's something important? Like my name is Uncommon And particularly this spelling ofZalzman, there are many spellings of it. But even so I got some emails for someone I don't think they' even a Helen. It was like some other fairly common name, Zaltzman, maybe with an S instead of a Z. and they were like legal summons. because they'd been named in a lawsuit in New York like a medical school And I wrote back to the lawyerers being like, you should be more careful. From my interaction with solicitors, that doesn't surprise me. Maybe they're like, we get paid three hundred dollars per email, so it behooves me to send some bad ones. But I had to write back because you know for the person not receiving that it's quite consequential. I think it is the ordinary experience now in the English speaking world that you get like, I don't know. if I put a number on it, I'd say probably twenty a year like this anyway, whoever you are I get like yeah, receipts for hotels that I haven't booked travel insurance policies that aren't me auditions or interviews for jobs. Oh, you should go. ye. But they are always weirdly. They are always in Florida. She's right about that. I don't know why there's been a lot of people in Florida applying for things. Is it just spam farms then in Florida Maybe. But anyway, when I get those and I think, well, that could be important to the person who sent them, I do actually tend to reply and say, R Oliver I'm afraid, exclamation Mark But then after a while it is a fff, isn't it? I'm not completely opposed to her sending a letter if that would help her let off and steam. Hm. emmbrace being an Angela common name and meet the other Angela common names like arere you Dake Gorman? Yeah I mean, I get it, and I've got a pretty uncommon name. As far as I think there's two Martin Austrich's in the UK One of whom I'm in correspondence with and one of whom I'm not And not related to, definitely? Possibly distantly. but I've actually been having a conversation about that very thing. but certainly not closely, we're not like cousins or whatever. There's Martin Noss who lives in the south of England who I talk with and there's Martin Nos who liivves in the north of England who I've never spoken with But couple of years ago I received an email from the NHS about a preopperative screening that. And I was just like, what is happening here? Like this is clearly not spam. Yeah. Has he just put his addressing wrong? I guess I got the most common one because I've got like, you can probably guess what my em address is. Email Martin Oustrick at netscape d. net Yeah yeah But you would have thought People must know their own email addresses, right? You're lingering on the least interesting part of this story, the more interesting part of this story is when you said that you're having a continuous conversation with another Martinorsit. It's very sweet because sometimes the other Martin Aorret would be like, o, well done us Becauseuse it's a Martin Astrich triumph. It's adorable. Yeah, yeah, he comments on my Instagrams. his like display name is not as obviously Martin Auststrick as my display name is. Right. But yeah he's an interesting dude. L he'st into wrestling. He used to I don't know if he still does. He practices like medieval European martial arts. He used to have his own forge and make swords in his basacement You're basically the same guy. It's like me if I was like unfettered by self consciousness and was just like, yang and I mix swords and like wrest. Have you ever mooted the idea of an allsit meter? Oh please I mean, it's a little less practical now that I'm in Canada. but we did have a conversation because it turns out he plays a little bit of guitar and I suggest we form a band called the Martin Austrwichz, which would be great That's a great press story, isn't it How did you meet Im tryrying to build a website to bring tourist to rad lit, but when I open it up on my smartphone or tablet, something goes wrong and it just looks a bit shit unlike Hartfordshire itself. Well try building that website using squarespace on desktop and devices, it will look simply as as well designed as Hartfordshire with all that lovely green space Penty of opportunity and stevenage Thank you very much to Squarespace for sponsoring Answer me this. And for helping you design beautiful websites and run businesses because one of the things they've started doing now is including invoicing with their packages. And that includes in the Squarespace mobile app as well, by the way, so not just on desktop. 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Solar powered, which I think I got for well I dropped maths in the sixth form, so it takes you back to at least nineteen ninety six. Wow. St still going strong. My thought was, well, it's not difficult to write your own invoices and then I remembered that there's a company that I' done P probably twenty jobs for this year and haven't sent them a single invoice yet because I'm like. So some of us do need the gentle help of Squarespace to take some chores off our hands. Head to squarespace dot com slash answer for a free trial and when you're ready to launch, you can save ten percent off your first purchase of a website or domain when you use our code Answer. Hi, Helen, Ollie and Martin the Suan. This is Anna calling from Southeast London with a dymamma I am a chili fiend. I Love Chilli I eat it with basically every meal from breakfast to dinner. I have a famous chili sauce recipe that is handed down from my mum I'm Asian, I love to cook with Chile and my husband is white British man who can't take it You know, even if he gamely eats it, he will pay. Helen and Ollie answer me this Is there any way to train somebody's body to become more able to take spice? Or am I doomed to cooking curries when he's away like some sort of weird fettish And is he doomed when I take him to Malaysia to meet my family to just order the blandest thing on the menu Please help Hell. A yay, I love that these kids have made it so far this standing in their way. Yeah. There must be a lot of love there So okay Yes, you can train your body to tolerate greater intensity of chilis because that is effectively what your family have done through their Malaysian culture. There is not great evidence out there for genetic tolerance of chile. It is more likely cultural exposure. Chilies aren't supposed to be eaten by humans because chilies want to be spread by birds in their feces. Oh yeah, and birds don't feel the heat of capsaicin, do they Correct. So most animals can't bear it Rodents don't eat chilies because it makes them like shit for a week. Whereas birds eat them whole, can't detect the heat from the chilies and then spray the seeds around through their poop and more chilies are born And in humans, the reason we say it's hot, that spicy food is hot is because your body is literally giving you the same reaction as when you put your hand on a hot stove. That's the signal in your head that you get when you eat capapsaatin if you're not used to it And so all of that is nothing to do with being white and nothing to do with where you're from in the world apart from what you've been brought up with. Yeah, and I would say that some white cultures has really embraced that part of not being a bird. Exactly. So yes, if you are interested in building up your tolerance than you can. And the way to do it is slowly, slowly. Maybe add tabasco to food and then build up tolerance. I would encourage him to like it and not to think that he won't like it and that he's only eating it as an act of love to you and an act of hatred ono his bowels in the near future. So I would start with chilli content is not necessarily very hot but is very flavorsome because some chilies just taste of mouthburn. Others are like really fruity, really delicious, different complex flavours. so Start with those. Like Martin the other day we bought a jar of this local Chilli crisp by a company called Holy Duck, and Martin doesn't tend to tolerate like hot spice that well, but he loves this stuff 's delicious.. Lau Gan Ma mushroom oil, I'd recommend that because that's like very savory, and it's got like a nice texture, it's got peanuts in, but it's not like hot hot yet. So that's where Id begin. The other thing as well that's worth bearing in mind becausecause it's fat soluble You're better off keeping yogurt and milk to hand if it's all a bit much for you rather than water. It's a classic technique. Yeah. My experience as a sensitive bowel hover is that There were certain kind of foodstuffs that. are more upsetting to my body. When it's like the capsaicin is like carried in a sauce, it's like a vector for the spice basically. This isn't scientific. this is just based on personal bowel experience of like it's less irritating. Personal bowel experience, BBE.B Yeah. so actually a curry maybe isn't the way to go, but like for example, like jerk chicken, that's super spicy, but it's just kind of on the outside. so you don't actually get quantity of spice, even though the quality of that spice is quite intense and burny. So like I can usually eat jerk chicken without too much upset. But like a spicy curry, there's a lot of spices and it's well dissolved. But he's not gonna get a choice. Ultimately he's going to Malaysia and he eating what they're eating right? Yeah, but there's a range of dishes in Malaysia. It's not curry. I't remember things being super hot in Malaysia We're different people, Martin and I. They are spicy lads. But also, I mean, I don't know what kind of family Anna comes from, but some families love for a new member to have something humiliated. Be be humiliated. Yeah, yeah yeah. They can be mean to them about. What a gift you're giving them. Like epode of the Crown when Princess Diana gets introduced to Bell Morl and they're all just laughing at her. Yes, you really want Anna's marriage to be like that Aspirational stuff Here's an ingredient we can all agree on garlic in this question from Max He says garlic is the backbone of so many tasty dishes from around the world. Every cuisine seems to love it But where did it actually come from? We've got wild garlic growing in the countryside here in the UK, but that's leafy and green, notot like the bulbber stuff in the shops. Helen answers me this When and where did humans first start cooking with garlic and how did it become the global superstar ingredient it is today? I think documented in use in China, which is probably where it originated and in central and Southwest Asia From I think five to seven thousand years ago. that's when people were already using it in food and in medicine And as a preservative. Which doesn't massively surprise me because it does smell nice. You know, like some things that end up in cooking, you're like, how the hell did someone have the idea? Cut that off, heat it up, like let it cool down again, chop it up, stick it in anything. Let it ferment in a cupboard for three months. Yeah. Yeah, yeah Exactly. whereereas garlic hold it up to your nose, you're like h, that would be an interesting thing to add to my food. So I can see why that happen would happen quickly. Yeah. And then in ancient Egypt it was like found in the tomb of Tutank Karmun. So it was the kind of thing that they would put in a tomb because it was important Ancient Greek Olympians would eat it, gladiators in ancient Rome would eat it. It was often prescribed for physical eilments like insect bites and animal bites and gastrointerstinal brains and pulmonary elements But then if you are concentrating on it in Northern Europe, Max. I think it arrived there in medieval times via sort of Italian trade routes because the Romans had had it. And King Henry IV of France was baptized in a mixture of water and garlic to protect him from evil spirits and health issues. If I was going to be baptized, I would like to be baptized in a boiling vat of garlic. Boiling. And then given a stuffed crust. That's a selling point for the baptismal religions. The smell of raw garlic under my fingernails. I know this is sometimes I love it. I love garlic on my hands. Yeah. It's one of the things I think they sell gadgets to stop your fingers smelling of it when you're chopping garlic, but it's like the thing that I really like about preparing and me, I'm like, yes I'm cooking I think although garlic was very popular and in many ways lauded There were also people who were like, o no, it's uncivilised because garlic makes you feel too many feelings or o, it's not aristocratic And I recently was reading Dracula forward And in that, you know Abilities to defend against vampires are much worse than they need be because they could just put garlic and garlic flowers all over the place. Yes. All of them are like, o no, Armis. yuck. And so someone gets vamped. Yeah, you know what I'd much rather do run a stake through the heart of an undead centuries old vampire. Yeah, that seems easier. us like going and tracking him to a port and sitting around for weeks waiting for his coffins to turn up on a ship sticking some garlic on my windowsill, like some pampper scass. Yeah ust get the steaks in. yeah, it's so ludicrous. And I think maybe it became far more popular in the twentieth century because things like Italian food became like globally such a big deal. and French food is like so lauded in twentieth century cuisine and that is garlic forward as well. I've never added wild garlic to my cooking though, by the way. He mentions wild garlic. Well wild garlic You really don't want to cook it or you don't want to cook it for very long because it like sort of breaks down really quickly. you can make like a lovely pesto of it I'm smiling because you said Pesto and Toby, my five year old. He thinks that the Sabrina Carpenter'song spresso is about pesto. That's the mostid middle class thing I think I've ever heard. Alough espresso iss pretty middle classed to be with? Yeah That's that me pesto. It's not me, it's pesto. that's the version he sings. It's a thought provoking reinterpretation of the meaning of that song, which I guess does contain concepts that would be maybe a little out of reach his five year old experience. Yeah, yeah exactly. Please send us an email. We love to keep in touch. If you send us an email, we'll like you very much. It's ourest podcast at googlemail dot com That's our surest podcast at googlemail dot com So please send us an email or we won't know you're there And if we like your email, we'll read it out on a Chronic migraine is fifteen or more headache days a month, each lasting four hours or more. Botox on aacha linum tooxin A prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine before they start. It's not for those with fourteen or fewer headache days a month. 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There's nothing really sinister about it It's just when your hairline goes down like a little point in the middle of your forehead It's reminiscent of how eighteent, nineteenth century widows would wear these hoods or caps that had a little point in the middle. Also female widows. Yeah, widowers men Yeah. so actually, but it's widowers who widows peaks, isn't it? I've never thought about this before. Generally speaking, women don't have it. No, they do. It's pretty much equal across gender. Okay. fifteen to thirty percent of people have one But it's not a thing that I've ever heard applied to them before. Maybe they don't have them. Marilyn Monroe was a famous widow's peak haver As is called just Cuction and Mickey Mouse I'm just say M Mouse Just Micy Mouse. Yeah, that's good that that is a textbook one. But just I've only ever heard it with men talking it because it's men that tend to be more concerned becausecause it suggests they're losing their hair, the shape of their. Theyregeting a blding, yeah. Yes. But it's just interesting that it's actually it's a fale widow that would have worn I'm guessing widows wouldn't have worn those special hats to tell everyone they were widows. They would just be off getting a new wife. Exactly. And I think the reason that the Widows peak was popular for a bit to put on a depiction of a vampire and also the joker in the comic books is because it is suggestive of death just through association You know what was disappointing actually, was the information available about this because most of the sites O hair clinics. describing them and then telling you what you can do about them if you don't like having one. and then papers about genetics because it is a genetic thing, like being able to roll your tongue Really not that much about the culture of Widow's Pak which I was disappointed by. One of the things that I've seen on those blogs where it is kind of for men offering them hair transplants. I mean, I know that it's trying to get them to say yes, I'll come to Harley Street and give you five grands One of the options it suggests is if you don't want to do that, if you don't want to pay us money to sort out your hairline Why don't you trim your hair back to match the hairline behind it? That's so much worse than a widow's peak, isn't it? If you're worried that the widow's peak makes it look like you're accentuating your hairline receding. receding your hairline so far that it looks like your hair is a wig falling backwards off your head doesn't feel like the right option to deal with that. Hey It's a trend that could come back Christian Slater is always going to be cool. Yeah. And Leonardo DiCaprio has a widow's peak. Yeah, Leonardoi Caprio, I'm not sure is cool. He seemeds like someone who knows he is uncool and is not comfortable with that I think it's more that he was so cool when he was seventeen. that once you've been that cool, you can't be cool after that. Yeah, but then Christian Slater was cool when he was seventeen and then came back around in middle agge to cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Christian Slater I think' almost cool because he's been around so long and you've forgotten about him where SCaprios remained a list. Christian slavery wouldn't be weird if he turned up in a sitc on BBC one. Do you know what I mean Theapone be doing that? Well, it depends how many Victorious's secret models have been used as bait to get him on there Here's a question from Letty, who says, I am a Femdom and have spent a while really getting into the BDSM lifestyle. Obviously, I understand that many kinks are long standing things dating back centuries, However, If sex work is the oldest industry Then Ollie answers me this When do you think Dominataces started making an appearance on the scene? And how do you think this originated? So Femdom is female dominatrix in this context, right? Yeah. I'm just speaking as a sort of vanilla to the BDSM world. On behalf, I ass there were some vanilla listen sure Th is you were asking a question there about The history of the world and sexuality and things weren't recorded for many centuries in written form. So you know, you can't really speak for how dominatrixes may have originated all over the world. Right. There's not a properly sourced compendium of international dominatrixices of history. Right. But yet I think I can say where in Britain certainly was the peak which may have led to it becoming more of a service that people visiting sex workers were asking for And that is the publication of Fanny Hill in seventeen forty eight Have you ever read Fanny Hill? I haven't I' talked about it on the show before, I believe, in the respect of where the term fanny came from. Yeah. This comes from some sort of Latin translation that sort of suggested a mound. and therefore it was a way of saying, I've written a book that's got lady parts in it. And John Cleveland who wrote it, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is what it's actually called. He wrote it in debtors's prison. We know that this environment of punishment played a part in the novel that he wrote And that sparked a strong demand for discipline services And that was met by women who offered role play scenarios with equipment. And we know that because that sort of thing was documented. You know, you'll have heard about the moolly houses what you would now call the gay community of London of that era. You had a dominatrix community as while operating under the euphemism Dplace house. Displace house. The clients The clients were known as cullies and the term flogging was developed was flocking no Not around before for like punishing children. Yes, it was. And that actually speaks then to the other thread that comes into this, right? And again, You know, a lot of fetishes and kinks have their roots in childhood Again, particularly in Britain, where you have people who are punished at school spanked by birch rods and stuff There was another trend for birching and another book called Fashionable Lectures by Henry Thomas Buckle in seventeen eighty two which is a collection of kinky stories about being spanked with birch rods. The collection opens with the following. Qote, Philosophers who've studied nature and all our holy Fathers swear A rod's the best invigorator. a rod applied upon the rear. That's the mission statement for the stories. They're all basically stories for men who were spanked at school and now have an interest in this, which they could talk about a little bit more openly after the Marquis Dsadee and all that. sort of erotic references floating around The other reason that it's documented from that kind of era is because A lot of sex workers were actresses and vice versa which is why for a long time the profession of being a female actor was not as respected as it might be because gentlemen literally go backstage and sometimes I'm sure not consensually involve themselves with the actors who had just been on stage. And so they're famous, like we know that there are certain actresses who were involved in what you now might call Dominatrix work and so they' document like you know, there are portraits of them in the National Portrait Gallery But all of this does go back much, much further than that There's a fresco in the ruins of Pompei which shows a whip stress. We didn't get shown that on our school trip to Pompei. Eactly. Even though they kept talking about penises the whole time. It's in a private house it was obviously some sort of fetish to see A woman with a whip a woman in control, and she's whipping another woman as well So I think the kink is there to see, but nonetheless, it's a sort of quasi religious painting because she's wearing wings. and she's some sort of godly figure I also think as well A lot of it is tied in with the history of the mistress, not the sex worker This is typically what consenting adults did, but not in their marriages And so of course that wasn't documented because it's an affair. Marriages weren't necessarily for pleasure, No, but for you know land strategy bearing the right kind of air and then you get your pleasure elsewhere. Indeed, yeah. well you married me for land strate? Yeah. It's just like a real life game of Katan or marriage. Actually Alex Fox, who people may know from my other podcast, The Modern Man, she has made a whole series on this called Kink which you can find on Audible. Kink with an exclamation mark like a Lionel Bart musical And She recommended that I look at the Bishopsgate Institute's UK Fetish Archive which is this sort of directory of kink which goes from the early nineteen hundreds onwards Leather rubber Pettish material And I found this guy who was an actor, He only died about thirty years ago, I think who seemed to really feticise Harry Houdini? Oh, interesting. becauseuse he was into that sort of bondage. Tied up, shackled to things, left underwater, Chains, strait jackets. Yeah, sort of masculine heroism but in the hands of a glamorous assistant thing He had a whole underground scene based around Houdiniism. Wow. And it makes you think, well how many people liked Houdini in the first place becausecause that was going. I never really thought about that, but like That's what I mean. It's sort of there but not necessarily in plain sight, you know Comforting in a way. There's always someone to be hot for something. Exactly That brings us to the end of the show. If you have questions for us, then you can send them in the form of voice or writing. All of the contact details are on our website answerme thispodcast. comot And you may have noticed that the previous episode in your pod feeed was a new feature. Answer us backack where we address some of the feedback that you have sent us about episodes old and new. So if you have stories to add or ways in which Aw me this advice transformed or ruined your life. thenen please send that to us and we're looking forward to the next one because we got some fascinating feedback about last month's question about the sperm donor Oh yes, we're looking forward to talking about that. Yeah. And as we may have mentioned in the show Go to pickeron dot com slash answer me this to enjoy Ollie Man's Magnum opus. 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Well, I was recently a guest on a new podcast by Arnie Neekamp, who makes Hello from the Magic Tavern, which I know there' some fans of in our audience. He's making a podcast about Christmas music. It's called No skip Christmas I got to tell him about The vast difference between the British and American Christmas canon of pop music.es. And Americans have all been surprised when I tell them how differentes. It's like glam rock inflected.. The history of it is pretty interesting. I sent him some videos of some of the classic topop of the pops performances where you think, why Are they punishing people for having a Christmas number one with this ab humiliation So that is fun, that is no skip Christmas. And also if you're feeling festive, last year, Martin and I put on a performance over four days where I read the entirety of a Christmas carol by Tles Dickens and Martin did live music and it was a real hoot. That is available at YouTube. com slash a Losinginess show Ohh, that does sound fun. It is really fun. That book is a banger. We can do one this year. I think we should. I want to do the signigalent. All right, I'll do the signalan. I've not read it, but it's short. I It's important There's no the muppet signalman, unfortunately, so I would know. That is the problem. The only literature worth a beading is that which the Muppets have adapted. Muppet Christmas Carol is a very good adaptation of the book as well as a good film in its own right. It is the best adaptation of Christmas Carol and the best Muppet film and one of the best Christmas films, and I will hear nothing else said. In terms of my work, check out all my podcasts at ollieman. com. But I do feel actually I should for a third month running plug the Modern Man, my monthly magazine show in particular, because A couple of answ to me this listeners have been kind enough to get in touch recently and say That because I've been talking about it in this show, they've tried it out finally and they love it. Better late than never. One of them was like, you really should have talked about it more. I'm like, sereriously, fuck ten years, I've been telling you. Did they fall asleep before the end? Anyways. The modern MAWN, wherever you get your podcast, and in the current episode of the Modern Man, which is called Did I Kill the British sitcoms I interview a man called Jimmy Donny Cosgrove, who was the co writer of Warren on BBC One Now Warren was a big shiny family broad sitcom that was double billed with this timeime with Alan Partridge in twenty nineteen and was absolutely massacred by the critics. It was like picked apart on Twitter. he got death threats Oh that's silly. I've watched it on Amazon Prime and it's quite a good, nice family sitcom and yet it completely divided the nation. So I'm speaking to him about that. How did it feel to be on the receiving end of a lot of hatred for just trying to make people laugh in what was in fact his debut show. He'd never had anything that he'd written go to TV. This was his big break and he hasn't written anything since. That' telling. How brutal. So yes, it was a brutal experience for him, but he opens up to me and if you're interested in comedy and writing, which I know lots of you are Do check out that episode, Modern Manwos. co d. U And hopefully getting featured on the mododern Man will help heal some of those weeds. You would have made it all worthwhile being told by the teelegraph that you're the final male in the coffin of British comedy. Martin, what have you been up to? I've mostly been working on a live show I'm doing at the Vancouver Planetarium on the second of December, but You have to be in Vancouver and it's sold out. So tough tips. I've seen some good Instagram videos promoting that Yeah, yeah ye. You should follow Martin on Instagram because Martin's pivot to video is the only pivot to video from any media organization that I tolerate There you go, right, well, that's a good recommendation. Yeah. what are you on Insta Marts? I'm at Martin Oustwick. And sometimes you'll see the other Martin Oustwick commenting. And sometimes the other Martin A Oustwick will join in. Yeah. yeah see theround for that draw content.' I' got a new episode for my experimental podcast Nutrina watch My co conspirator Jeff has just made an episode called The Best of the Mosphere, which is he takes episodes of manosphere podcasts, which you can probably guess what they are and just takes the gaps between words and stitches them together into soundscapes So I've made a remix of that episode based on Yoggi Lgheti's poem syymphonyic for a hundred metronames. Wells so mainstream, Martin. Liget founds out there. Did Peter K do it first It's way too complicated to explain. but if you go to Neutrino, don't watch, you probably find it. Well if you want to do any of those things you can, if otherwise you just want to send us a question, you know what to do, you can find our old stuff at answermehthstore. com if you don't want to find it through Patreon. 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