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Lesbians will be judging you It is a rechargeable battery with a supplied USBC cable. so I'm not sure which of those two options it is really I'd say the battery powered In principle, you know, detachable from the wall I think that's what she's getting at. Yeah, but I don't know what lesbians prefer. I don't know if she's saying that you need the strength of it being wall mounted. whether you need the portability of it being battery powered. I simply lost a lesbian. Well you're going to have to wait another month for Isabell to tell you. It is made by a company called B Relax Spa It's a weird name, which makes me think it's not a company for whom English was their first language. Otherwise it would be called be relaxed, or just relax Maybe it's for relaxing bees This a stressful life? They started by creating massage products for bees and then they worked out to humans. You know, it's like All birds the shoe compomany pivoting to fucking AI. I think bee relax spa exist basically just as an airport concession. And were people practising with the massagers in there? to what extent can you Test them, sure before buying Yeah, the one where I originally bought it, There were sort of comfy, leather padded things you could put your face in and the assistant would gun you. So God can't see your shame We are now doing every month episodes called Answer us Back, where we include your feedback about recent and ancient episodes of Answering me this because there are a lot And we heard from many of you about World Bookdayay costumes and that stuff appears in the most recent episode of Answer us Back. Yes. But we also love getting your questions. so please remember to send us those. I think some of you are shy. Yes, please do send them. Answer me this podcast at Googlemail. com. This is the first question today, Helen. It is from Kelly who says On a recent trip to the supermarket, whilst I was finalizing my choices for the Great British institution that is the Mal deal, pioneered by Boots in nineteen ninety nine, fact fans. Wha, Later than I thought Boots was on that I could do it to a whole ten minutes on the meal deal another day, but that isn't the question that Kelly is asking I got to wondering about the history of the little soy sauce fish inside sushi trays. Y. Helen answers me this How did these come about? Who designed and invented them And most importantly How do they get the soy sauce in there? In my mind, I'm imagining a production line of thin needle syringes All filled with soy sauce and at the end someone's screwing all the little green caps on by hand. You know, I'd never thought about that, Helen, but I suppose there is a sort of ship in a bottle aspect of this Yeah, and actually it's surprisingly elusive information to find. I've only seen them with the little red caps on. I wonder if that is different manufacturers depending on where you are What I really wanted was to find a factory video of these being made could not find one. A lot of the information online about this is dominated by one thing, which I shall get to ple of speculations about how they get the soy sauce in there. Possibly yes, production line with very thin nozzles squirting it in. Not sure about the hand screwing of the snouts, but maybe because a lot of factory stuff that you think would be automated is humans. Oh, that's grim because most of them get I don't know if this is your experience, but not only do they get thrown away and they're never used again because they're single use I literally throw them away when I get them because I don't need it. I've got soy sauce in a bottle at home. It just goes in the bin. How depressing that someone a person might have screwed that on and spent time on it There's more depressing things about what you've just said, Oie. But again, I shall get to that. The other method that I saw only a thirteen second video about was someone demonstrating, putting thousands of these things snouts off in a kind of big container drenching them in the soy sauce and then putting that container into a vacuum chamber and like after a few seconds of bubbling, the air's forced out of the little plastic things and soy sauce fills them up. but I don't know if that is what happens in the factories So I don't know where they're hiding that from us So it suck the air inside sucks up the soy sauce around it potentially in this big box. The vacuum sucks the air out of the little plastic thingss and then when you release that, they suck release it, of course, they suck it in. yeah. Oh wow that's so cool. I want to watch that thirteen second video, please send it to me Okay But it's frustrating because it talks about it as if it's an introduct to a longer video, which I could not find. You say it's frustrating. It sounds satisfying to me in the way that popping bubbles is satisfying, you know like with bubble wrap. Yeah.' that kind of feeling Yeah Okay. I' like do that to you. Yeah Who designed and invented these? They're called Shou Tai, which means soy sauce bream, because they're shaped like a bream. They were invented in, I believe, nineteen fifty four by a Saka based culinary equipment manufacturer Teruo Watanabe, and he also made pig shapes and gourdge shapes so that you knew which food you were supposed to serve them with, like pork cutlet or fish. If it was like pork, would it have like barbecue sauce or ponzi or whatever. I don't know if it was like slightly different sauce or just the same but people were like, well, you can't have a fish with your pk cutlet, that's confusing. The reason why he came up with these was post war, they would have like little ceramic or glass containers of soy sauce for a portable soy sauce option. But these were expensive at the time getting rid of them created shards of glass and ceramics. So he thought, what would be small, light and resealable with the little and disposable And that's what he came up with. And I was so excited the first time I ever got one that I kept it for ages. Oh, that's nice. but what did you possibly do with it? J Just worshihiped it Sus Here's what may make you change your ways about throwing them away, Ollie. They're hard to recycle because the machines can't really handle them because they're so small. and it means that these are like some of the most common waste in seas like the most common plastic waste So They're actually quite controversial now. These are now banned in South Australia because they are single use plastic. In in South Australia, they have banned many different single use plastics There is a company called Holy Carp, which has made a fully compostable soy sauce fish from sugar canane waste which composts in four to six weeks, and you can fill it from a big bottle of soy sauce. But to me, it's a bit hideous and it also looks like it would leak, but it is by that company heliograph that makes those soy sauce fish lamps that I get advertised relentlessly online Wow, okay. I mean, you're in a very different information bubble to me. literally never seen Well, you'd probably like them. They're a bit kichch, quite cool. But one of the useful things for a soy sauce fish that you have used the soy sauce from Ollie. So maybe you shouldn't throw them away you should keep them and then donate them. In twenty fifteen, there was public health campaign from the British organisation Gay Men Fighting AIDS And it's because these little fish can measure a safe dose of GHB Do you have to put it in the liquid, immerse it and then suck the air in just like you did in that video? If you're doing one source fish, you can just push the air out and then It'll slur up what you feed it. How do you wash it out though? Hasn't it got a bit of soy sauce remnants still in there, then you're mixing fish with drugs? Well, you can rinse it first. It's using the same method And they were like, these are good because Small standard amount, so we know what we're dealing with if we need to know how much GHB someone has used or other liquid drugs. And if you have one in your bag, probably no one would think twice about. People would just think you got out for Sishi. Right, exactly. So they use them for this safe dosing campaign, which has been copied in other places as well So now the problem in South Australia, where these are banned is they're like, well, this was the perfect thing for the safe doses of drugs and harm reduction and therefore Maybe what you should be doing is sending all your soil source to South Australia Yeah, I'm not sure that's that environmentally friendly an idea either. Let us address this question from Alexis in Australia. who says, earlier this year, I started taking ballet classes for the first time as an adult I've been enjoying it so much and going multiple times a week I expected it to be a very stressful environment, but adult beginner ballet classes are pretty low stakes. We've all fulfilled our potentials and those potentials are not professional ballet dancers. And it seems like you need to start as a child if you actually want to be a professional ballet dancer. Ollie, answer me this Are there any professional ballet dancers who began learning as an adult? And what is the oldest known retirement age of a ballet dancer Okay, just to deal with the men first to give perhaps male listeners some hope if they want to get into ballet dancing. Sir Matthew Bourne, no less, did not dance until he was twenty two. No way. But he is basically famous as a choreographer and a director, isn't he? I suspect as a dancer he was just sort of okay, like he did cast himself in his own shows I presume cast himself in character roles where he didn't have to do the difficult technical stuff and obviously easier to get the gig when you've created the show But he did dance to a professional standard and is a really well known name in the world of ballet. So he did and he was twenty two. in terms of women I mean, Mistie Copeland began learning at thirteen and people were like, You're kidding. She's passed it. Stop embarrassing yourself, old wom. G wit grandma. What's considered the ceiling then? Basically eleven. Like he CO started eleven and that is considered old as well. Misty Copeland is pretty much the oldest you'll find that got to that kind of level of standard where people have heard of them that don't follow ballet You basically want to be getting into it pre puberty and basically when you're three or four. It's actually not about learning the moves. People think, wellah you know, what can a four year old learn that they can't learn when they're ten? It's about the spatial awareness apparently So it's just getting the air miles in of spending hours being aware of your body. training your body and being aware of spatial awareness that you can then build on that knowledge so that by the time you're ten and you're ready to learn the complex stuff, you've got seven years behind you of the groundwork. That's the issue. Well, you're already psychologically broken, which means you are adaptable for the ballet taking over your teens and early adulthood. There is, I mean this character thing that I alluded to with Matthew Bourorne, that is an option for women as well. You can potentially at the age of say thirty, say I'm going to be a character artist in a dance company And that's a bit more like acting, less technically demanding playing supporting roles But the thing with that is then you are obviously up against every retired ballet dancer who's still got twenty years of experience, you're not going to get the part basically. They want those parts. Yeah, but maybe they don't have character. G. I mean In very specific circumstances, playing the wicked Witch of the West and a tour of East Grinstead maybe, but generally speaking, there's going to be an ex professional ballet dancer who wants that part I don't know how many venues there are in Egrinstad, it might be more of a residency. Precisely. I have some inspiration though for Alexis from Australia The dancer Eileen Kramer Eileen Kramer didn't start dancing until she was twenty six. Her mother took her to a concert and the next day she got in touch with that dance company and after three years of training, so when she's in her late twenties, joined it. It was more of a kind of interpretive dance company, but then she toured with their ballet company for years and years and years and she was still dancing until the year she died, which was twenty twenty four at the age of one hundred and ten and seven months Wow. I not taking anything away from her story, very impressive But I mean At the risk of doing a challeamet, I would venture that maybe interpretive dance isn't ballet dancing, That is its own thing. No, but she toured with their ballet company. Sure sure. But it's not the same as being the Brim of Ballerina, is it that That's all I'm saying But I also wonder just whether the nature of ballet training shifted over the twentieth century like you had sort of Russian and French schools coming to influence how it was done in say UK and other places, but it doesn't mean it was always quite as like as it is or was in certain decades. Yeah of course. The thing with Dancing as well is that not only do you have to be young to get into it, but also You get this thing at the other end obviously, because you have to retire early, you're much earlier than in other professions too So on average, Dancers retire at the age of thirty five which is where you get the, I think, delightfully camped phrase dancers die twice. Our friend Ellie made an amazing radio documentary called The Dancer Dies Twice, Oh that was the BBC Radio four, seriously one, wasn't it? It's really good. Very often for women as well, it's having children, which means their bodies can never be what they once were, but also you get to all the usual stuff, your joints start to give out and that kind of thing. Although, I did learn that Saddlers Wells has its own resident company of older performers called the Company of Elders who are in their sixties, seventies and eighties. And they do a festival of work by mature dancers. Can you imagine the amount of tururic being passed around backstage there? It's a lot of that smell of deep heat. which I think is D it inspirational. And just finally to answer the question on, because your example from Australia was inspiring, but to say not a ballet dancer. I'll give you Slvie Gillem then the amazing French dancer who was at it until she was fifty. Okay, I've got one better The Cuban Prima Ballerina, Asia Alonso. was seventy four when she retired ll yeah Aain she did a Matthew Bour in that she had her own dance company, so she ced herself She's extraordinary anyway because she was partially blind. She she started losing her sight when she was seventeen So she'd always danced in an adaptive way. So as she got older, she carried on adapting the dances to suit her. So then obviously she was able to do things, but actually it was kind of because she'd always been the star who adapted the dances to suit her. But nonetheless, she's a proper famous ballerina if you're into ballet and she was seventy four, so she wins. Okay. If you've got a question Eail your questestion Do anser me this podcast at googlemail. com To answer me this podcast at googlemail. com To answer me in this podcast at googlemail. com to answer me this podcast at Gooo Mailot com. 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Ellie has been in touch, She says, I've been listing to answer me this since I was thirteen, you've provided me with decades of enjoyment and comfort. So thank you. Very welcome, than you Ellie. Answer me this What would you do with fifty two? This is very specific withith fifty two baby photos. It really depends of which baby And why I have them. You'll be pleas to know there's more information. Okay Every Monday since my son was born so they their photos of Ellie's son. I have taken a photo of him next to his orange stuffed dinosaur toy a paper note saying how many weeks old he is and the date Aw. Milestone cards, parents will be familiar with this concept Initially, I took these to send to grandparents living abroad but I continued for my own enjoyment long after I stopped sending them. That's nice. My son is now nearing his first birthday, says Ellie. And I will soon have fifty two very similar baby photos.. I fully appreciate how boring baby photos are for everyone except the parents and grandparents I think Th Being a full set that track his growth next is dok. Archaeologists of the future will wonder how a human baby developed week to week on a p part with Richard Link Later this, I'm telling you. Oh yeah. makeake them marginally more fun to show. But Helen assks me this. What can I do with them Because I took them largely for my own interest, they're not very good quality and the signs are rushed, so they wouldn't look good hung on the wall. The best bit about them is they allow for comparison.. So I want a form where I can easily see how he grows and changes over the year. Ideally, I would also like to be able to bring them out or send them around. at his first birthday. Do you have any ideas? and you think I'm deluded by parenthood into thinking anyone except me would be interested in this? I don't want to speculate about that. Very judicious. Before having kids of my own, I used to roll my eyes at parents who forced me to look at photos of their alien looking babies Heyho, I have lived long enough to see myself become the villain But's Fine Ellie. it's your turn. Do it. Come on, who could object? Listen have opinions about this and one of them is, I want you to keep this going. I want you to keep this going forever. You can change to monthly, maybe at some point, especially after he's like three and the week by week changes are less evident. And then you could do annually because I love that when you get like a thirty year old that is I love that. Rereating their birth photo every time. But alsoso I disagree with you saying they wouldn't look good hung on the wall because you already have so many of them. When you have a large amount of very similar things, it kind of raises the whole standard, I think because the human eye is attracted by similarity and patterns. So actually like those hung up in like a big grid could look really cool. Oh, could look like an Andi Who pop art, couldn't it? Basically. So was the same image just slightly altered in each frame. Or you could do a flick lookook would be cool? So no, I thought. That was my vote was flip My instinct too, likeike I read it was like flip book, like it's shouting at you. like it's a portable format. Bring it. You see the animated stages of the baby, but I've looked at the pictures she sent, it won't work. There's a slightly different background Slightly different perspective, the dinosaurs are a different place in each picture. so If you could senter to the baby's face in eachure it would be okay, then if the background changes, it matters a bit less, as long as you have a central view of the face that is consistent. Obviously, we know how AI is changing photography even now. Imagine by the time he's twenty. you know, I'm sure you're right. You could probably do all sorts of things with these photos and that's kind of the point, isn't it? about digital photography You literally don't need to decide what to do with them Just keep them for the very minimal cost of dropbox forever, and then worry about it when you need them. I know that you're getting to the end of this year and it's a big year in your life and it's tumultuous and it's been a journey. But also like in a year's time you can decide what to do with these, you might have more perspective on it. That would be my advice I know what Stacy Solomon would do. Yeah. She'd cut them all out and then she'd stick them under a sheet of perspepects to make a fucking horrendous table. A table, no. Its what she always does. Every episode of Sort Your Life out is's like, I've had an idea. I've taken this thing, you don't want. And I'm gonna put it under a sheet of Perspe, make a lovely table. And you're like, Oh Godd. Wow. Not only did I not want that, I'd be looking at it every day, putting my drinks on it Weird, what are you doing? No. N. and also perssepects get scratched up. So lots of reasons not to do that. I mean all the things in those makeover shows, you're like, yeah, that's kind of fun for the one day that you've revealed it to them come back in a years time You can get your own fabric printed by the yard, so you could arrange these sort of like a slightly varied check pattern that repeats and get some fabric printed and then I don't know makeake a cushion, make a bathrobe, whatever. I mean, in terms of actually like having hard copy printed versions of these photographs, if that is what you're doing, I do think actually But you know, I'm very ruthless about this anyway when it comes to compiling my photos. So I still have hard copy photo albums. and I'm very precise. I only have four pictures per double page spread Those four pictures represent an event Big event like someone's wedding or fiftieth birthday or something, I'll go to two sets of four page, you know, so you get eight p. Genous.. But the best bit of the process for me is that curation Gting the event of sixteen photos down to four or eight photos. That's the fun bit. And I do think if you actually laid them out side by side, you could probably just pick the three best ones. Yeah, but honestly. presumeably there's some amount of like artistic and intellectual effort involved in what you're doing because if you're being that kind of crystalline about it, you're like, okay, I really need this to say something. I really need this to represent something. With her, she's got fifty two similar photos. So how' she supposed to choose? Maybe she's like overwelmed by choice becausecause she wass like, well, it's not better or worse than this one. so how do I decide? I think it will be. I think apply you're right and a creative eye You know, add some artistry to it. Look at the photos dispassionately. It's not your son anymore. Find the best angle. Find the one that looks good. If it's not her son anymore, maybe she won't give a shit at all Well, that would be the best way to see it, wouldn't it? I suppose You you'd really have the distance to understand. Did you do anything like this for your children? Yeah, because so between the ages of zero and one, they do nothing. They don't love you. They don't know who you are. They don't time. It's just really hard to get. They're indifferent. They don't know. like they can't see. You know, they fucking scratch themselves in theace when they're born. they're that stupid this is a thing you can do is take a photo and send it to the grandparents. and it's a like it's an activity for that hour of the day is like, let's get the baby in the position right you know. So it's actually quite nice. I mentioned the milestone cards. It's a pretty classic gift for newborns. It's a pack of milets that're actually pre printed. This is one week old today, two weeks old today And it's a bit silly because you can make your own. Yeah, but lot parents are really fucking tired. It's a sort of nice gift that isn't edible, I suppose, or isn't like a teddy or, you know Yeah. And I guess you can give them to someone else afterwards as well. But yeah, we did that. So we had a packet of Milestone cards and we did every single one. But they're all digital. I mean, we haven't printed any out. They're nowhere in the house now. You have more meaningful things when they're older, don't you, that's the thing. They don't look like themselves so they're about four Did you do it for both children or just the first one? Be I've noticed a lot of people's interest sharply drifts after the first child You certainly have a lot of competition for your attention, let's put it that way. It's not that you are less interested in the second child, it's that the first child is also there and demanding your attention, but with words We we did do the second one, but just less frequently. probably once every two months. as a milestone. Well, that's nice because me being the mistake third child, you know, I'll ask my mum what my first words were and she can't remember. I wonder if there are thingsings from your babyhood that mean something to her that you just am not even aware of I think her knowing that it would be the definite last time That's meant a lot to her Becauseuse it's not the things. It's not the things that you think it's going to be. like stuff that the stuff that resonates with you is stuff that like Like for me, it's the art that they've made at school where they've applied their own artistic eye to it. You know, even if it's shit, I'm just like I've got one right here. I'm literally so I don't put it on the fridge. A brave interpretation of the assignment. Exactly. So like is this is just today'ayss and that's what I mean It's not special. What am I looking at? Exactly. What are you looking at? But kind of interesting and abstract? I mean, just guide me through, like the pluck. I don't know. I don't know Oh, it looks like a river trees, Yeah. mayaybe some animals by the river bank. Possibly a tent or building. A little forest Yeah, I thought it was people camping because that looks like a tent here. Yeah. Down by the beach, maybe here. Well that could be a beach, could be a bool green. Exactly. yeah. Well, this could be a U bend, couldn't it? It it could be anything, but I think it's a river. Thought provoking. And I said to Toby this morning, I said, Oh what is it? And he was like, what do you mean? what have you drawwn a picture of? And I said what do you mean And then I said that. I said, it looks like people camping in a river and and the beach. and he laughed and he was like, It's a meegalosaurus. Of course it is Oh, shit. It's Tglosaurus Oh that's a very minor element of the whole composition, I'd say. Not in his mind. But you know, the artist has a different priority to the viewer and in a way it's a specious exercise to ask them to explain because they've expressed what they want to say in the picture and after that. It's not their problem. Exactly. But the point is pruning is important. I have drafts of their artwork all around me as I sit here now. I'm constantly replenishing and filing, I throwing away probably fourteen, fifteenths of what they create. But the stuff that remains is the good stuff, so do that. And then do you just get rid of the old good stuff once it gets superseded by stuff that is more good or less bad. The stuff that's gold winning good stuff So it's been through a lot of curation and process and pruning. That goes in a folder marked Harvey's art or Tobbey's art. It's one lever arch size folder and it can contain perhaps thirty bits of art. So once that gets full, do I create a second folder? No, I think I repperune the first , I'm really impressed. I think maybe then what you're suggesting to Ellie tacitly is at the moment, these photos still have value. possibly in the future, they weren't. So the true answer is to just bifft this decision down the road Yeah, notot making it up. Yeah. that ss like the kind thing the Dalaiama would say, isn't it?ure Yeah Okay, cool. Well, here is another question of the souvenirs of childildhood from Sandra from Nanimo on Vancouver Island, who says, My husband and I have been quite happily acting as stand ins for the tooth fairy for our seven and a half year old for the last few years and will continue to do so for her and for our three and a half year old once it's her turn We now face the dilemma do with all the baby tappe Youate, get the best baby teeth. Yeah, just save the one true fang each. Yeah yeah. Our children think the teeth were picked up and carried away by the tooth fairy. Currently, the baby teeth of our eldest are packed inside a tiny, somewhat broken and patched up topperware container and hidden inside a drawer of our bedside table. Tossing the teeth in the garbage or the compost doesn't seem very respectful compost or to the teeth Sandra also wonders can one creommate teeth If so, is that something a local funeral home would do Getting a cremation is expensive, so you need to smuggle them into a corpse. Yeah, I know that in the UK, at least, they do have to do the whole body that's one of the things they insist on or whatever's left. Otherwise it's considered mutilation to remove any part and cremate that So they wouldn't have the ability to just accept teeth. You could throw them into a medical waste bin in a hospital because that probably gets incinerated. You can cremate teeth, but if they don't burn up a cremorum we will usually grind them up a bit. Well, that's the thing. because you could throw them in your own bunfire, couldn't you? but I don't think it'll get hot enough. It's an issue even in cremation ovens. Yeah. All right, pop them in the George forman grill Sandra says, After living in rental homes over the last two decades, we have finally managed to buy a home with a yard within the last year. So the option of burying the teeth in our garden is one possible avenue of dealing with this problem. But if some enterprising soul or two, or Inquisitive girls, for example, or some kind of hypothetical law enforcement officer were to come across these baby teeth buried in our garden beds, then my husband and I might be in hot water for some reason. Now come on they're very small. they're just like soil bits. Leaving aside the very, very narrow possibility that a law enforcement officer would give us it I think If your children found some skeleton bits, I can say from experience that's fun. Yeah. Really wind them up. We found a sheep skull once in our garden and it was like a month's worth of entertainment pretending what that was. Well, what Sandra now mentions is so incredibly eldritch that even though she says that she really doesn't want to do it I want her to do it. She says really don't want to do what my mother did with my old baby teeth. She used to be a dental technician before giving birth to me and therefore had a working knowledge of how to arrange teeth inside some kind of moould of a human mouth. So She placed my baby teeth in a plastic bottle of a human mouth and mailed them to me across the Atlantic a decade later So this is inherited trauma is what this is, isn't it? Like this whole thing about what do I do with the baby teeth? What if someone digs them up This is because you're still recovering from that appalling experience of seeing Not even knowing they were coming your way, your baby teeth remounted inside plastic. Inside a human mouth. She labeled the package as a gift from the tooth Fairy Oh my God. To my knowledge, the customs officer did not question the contents of the parcel. Are you allowed to mail bits of human, I don't know. I don't know you are, prettyretty sure you're not. Anyway, says Sandra. Ollie, please answer me this. What do we do with all the baby teeth? There are at least a total of forty looming in our future, including the eleven or more we already have squirreled away Okay. I mean, obviously, like I say, you plastic mold, plastic mold. you've been dramatically affected by what your mother did to you. but just to outline Never mind the pllastic mold bits Mailing body parts in the post is bad. It's bold. Regardless of Providence. That's not an item people typically put on display in a tasteful home So I think Don't do that, you're right. You're so boring There is someone who makes like plush animal toys with real human teeth in them for a bit of creepiness, when you could send them to that person. I am reminded, Helen of your button, Jar and do wonder about the percussive potential here Yeah. Could you make a homemade egg shaker? and only reveal its true contents in the future Honestly, I think that's worse than just disappearing the teeth. I fully support my mother disposing of our teeth and never mentioning them again. Like why would you keep them? They're not particularly good souvenir. Are they What do you do with them? When we did the first one, I had the thought I am now a collector of teeth Is this something that my children are going to want to see in twenty years time? I don't know. I'm tired put it in a leather pouch that some headphones came in once. I did that for the first, I think two or three teeth. M And then when it got to tooth number four or five I was just like, this is weird. I don't want to do this. and they go into have been. Yeah. So I threw them away. Okay But you're good at binning things evidently compared to a lot of the people that write to us about what to do with these things that could so easily be binned or not accumulated in the first place Actually We had a cat that died last year, got hit by a car and the vet said, wouldould you like to keep some of the fur from the cat? When I took the cat to the vet to have its corpse removed And I said, Yeah, I guess. like I was kind of like shocked and a bit bereaved and I was like, is that what people do? Okay. They didn't nicely, they gave me this little test tube with the name of the cat on the side And since then I've put it in a drawer and I'm like, that's just I' what am I gonna do with that? I sniff it? A I going gonna put it on the mantle piece?ike, it's just fucking od It's like what Anabibector would have? Well, you've just got to let go at some point and grief is hard, but I don't know if that kind of souvenir is really going to ease it or just create a problem for you in the present and future I mean, if you have loads of the firstur or you can recreate a software out of it, that's maybe a bit different Do a wool display like we suggested to Ellie with her photos. Here are my fifty two deead cats furs I mean, I suppose in a sense, the real question here is what does the tooth fairy do? Some traditional answers to what the tooth fairy does with the teeth she collects. Are these from horror films? No, This is actually from the Colgate website. Okay. seend them up into the night sky to become stars Right? how do you do that You're the tooth fairy.' sorry. Use as bricks for their white tooth fairy castle. I mean that is some sharp object shit. Or grind the teeth to make magical fairy dust for all the fairies No gross Gross fery dust, fairies could be gross f. These are things people tell their children. So you could try any of those ee how you go. But I mean the children seem to have no attachment to the teeth and no interest. so anything Sandra does is really for her or to play a prank on them Or I don't know if your mother is still alive, but could you send them back to her Maybe you could stick them in the plastic mold alongside yours and do double sets. Then it's the superir that you could really buzz on, isn't it? You could all ever go Oh, stunning. Pass it down from generation to generation Why are all Yaz fan sites just about one thing? The only way is up is not the only song she sings. What about abandon me? onene true woman or good thing going? Her single from ninety six. You should make your own Yaz sites to fill in the gaps since you seem to think all the current Yaz sites are crap Go to squarespace. com build your Yazz tes and put Yazz back on the m. 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Hello, it's Dan and Syidney here. dinner the other night and I used the phrase shotgun wedding My son asked me what that meant I said that it means that the father of the bride needs to get this marriage done quickly so he's got a shotgun behind the groom forcing them to get married quick My friend who was at dinner said, No, that's not what it means It actually means that the wedding is taking place really quickly, as quickly as firing a shotgun And my other friend said, no, that's not what it means It means that the bride is pregnant and that the baby is riding shotgun on the marriage So please, can you answer us this? What does a shotgun wedding actually mean The baby called shotgun, that's ridic. I'm glad that we've been asked though, because to be clear, everyone does know what it means, right? Colloquially, it does mean, as you say, the bride is pregnant, therefore, according to traditional norms, the couple should get married soon as possible so the baby isn't bn out of wedlock. That is what it means But I've actually never really thought why is it called shotgun wedding. And I suppose as far as I've thought about it I must have just thought shotguns are quick, like bullets are quick. It's quick wedding. That's what I thought like a rational racees. You know, when they start a race with the fire of a gun. Yeah a. That's what I'd imaged. Same. And yet. Oh, when I heard you say this thing about Oh, the father of the bride has a shotgun, like forcing the groom to get married to his daughter. My instinct was, Dan that sounds like the sort of shit I'd say to my son when he askks a question I don't know the answer to and I just make up something. thatounds about right Butots It does appear that there is some evidence that the first time, you know, back in about nineteen twenty nine that we see references to shotgun marriages, it did Tally with an era in which, you know, sort talking Wild West era really, tail end of that, right Conservative fathers might be intervening in such a way. There are newspaper articles from like eighteen eighty is saying that a wedding was held with a double barrel gun present. What? In newspapers of the time. I mean, why would they say that? Because presumably the family were doing it because they were like, it would be a sc. a shame if people. Yeah. So why would you hint But it does appear to be like not completely ridiculous and the examples that are given for shotgun marriage in Websters and on dictionary. com do suggest. that it is a father pointing a literal or figurative gun. the groom's head So I'm shocked. I thought that sounded like nonsense, but that does appear to be Quite likely one of the reasons it is called a shotgun marriage. Well, we don't know if it was out the groom's head. It couldould have been at pretty much any part of the groom and been an effective threat Indeed, that's right. I learnt a term today, knob stick wedding I've been to a few of those. whichich was a British erm I don't think there's a non bleak origin to any of these. Knobstick refers to like cuddzles or clubs. so it was similar to the gun where it's like the threat of a weapon, but it was actually used as well in the eighteen and nineteen hundreds. the seventeen thirty three Bastardy Act and that meant that parishes. were fiscally responsible if a child needed to be raised. So they were like, fuck this, we don't want to have to pay out for these children. therefore we are going to force Ent fathers. with violence, if necessary, or we might bribe them with money to marry women that they have got pregnant or that we can say they got pregnant. They coerce people into getting married that were already married to someone else And it wasn't even sort of moral scandal thing. It was a financial thing. And there were some legal cases where couples or at least one member of the couple had used this in order to get money Since they're paid marry, they're like, I'm got gonna fuck with this system. And think, well, you know, to be fair, the system is there to be fought with That's your line and you're not deviating from it, even going back two hundred and fifty years hence. And then like in mid eighteen hundreds, they sort of tailed off because they just sent people to workhouses instead Riding shotgun, by the way. We're not going back to that George Ezra question we had several yearsays ago song that goes up in b. I don't even remember exactly what we said or what the question was I do remember it's about the yellow and green, wasn't it? But every time I hear George Ezra on the radio, I sing the version that we had lived on that episode, which is I've been to Vanouir to, I recommend it to you Just really stuck in my head like me were. If you want to hear S musical classics, then patreon dot com slash answer me this. You can access our entire back catalogue Anyway, I don't think we've done the question. whyy was it called shhotgun? Riding shotgun also comes from sort of Wild West type era, and it's from those sort of horse drawn carriages that were transporting money across the states. know before the postal serervice, Wells Fargo and all that. And the likes of Wire Ep, like Hardman, would ride a shotgun because you sit in the front When there's precious cargo, gold or whatever, and you wave your gun out the front to make sure no one ns it. That's what riding shotgun So go into the. Wh not give away the fact that you had a cart full of gold. There's a rk there's a risk they're going get shot in the head. Helen and Narly answer me this. this is Robin Jess from Sydney We were just discussing three line wips and we know what the phrase means, but we're wondering where it comes from. And is there a one line and a two line wip I suppose we'd be better for people who don't know what a three line whip is, explain what it is before we define why it is. Yeah, I mean we'd have to explain a whip with note lines, which is basically a bully MP in parliament bullies are Mpeas into doing what the partarty wants. Party wants, rightight The expression whip has been around in politics from seventeen forties, I think is the earliest example theyve found. It's derived from hunting where a whip are in. was an assistant to the hunt who stopped the dogs from straying by threatening them with a whip so he went back to the main pack The type of background of people in British Parliament for most of its existence wouldould have got that reference, Yeah Yeah. and still will, really. Every week The WhipPs in today's Parliament send out a letter called The WhIips to the MPs with the details of upcoming parliamentary business, listing what votes are taking place, ranked in order of importance by the number of times they are underlined So one l Okay means that We would like you to be at the vote but it's not mandatory. Two lines is like You really should come. like we're not going to force you to vote a particular way, but it would be good if you came. Three lines it's like Come or your career will be absolutely fucked. Yes. So that's a three line whip The lines on the document. are the three lines of the three line whip. Fine. Whereas I had assumed it would be like a whip, like a cat and nine tails with three tails. Exactly. Just as you made allusions to the connections between the English establishment and hunting As we've discussed before, there's a long established connection between this English establishment and the BDSM community, isn't there? I just sort of assumed Someone somewhere had a paddle. Do you rem mean And you had to call him Back ros I thought it must come down to that, but no, apparently. No, that's incidental. Okay, oes It's definitely still happening. but yeah You know, sometimes coincidences just are. Sure. Okay, fine. Also, for people who don't know anything think about British Parliament,'s well worth saying that we do have votes on conscience as well. Things like equal marriage and assisted dying where people have religious objections and things like that The government can say forget the whips, vote with your heart But that's rare. Like most of these things you' being told what to do by the Whip. And also occasionally an MP has to miss a vote and the whips will be like, okay, I'll organize with another party's whip that their votes would cancel each other out. Yes, oK. So what's the point of us being there because we both disagree, so yeah. Yeah, exactly. It's like, okay, well, you can't make it and this one would have voted the opposite way to you, so we'll just make sure that you know, it's recorded as like nothing I've often thought that just in my own house Like when I live with my parents and I was like, well they're going to be voting Tory So if I just persuade them not to go out, I don't need to go and cast my vote. Yeah My mum would have voted for Brexit except my dad was voting for Brexit for reasons she thought were incorrect, so she didn't vote for Brexit to cancel him out Right. My parents had some political Vibe based habits, let's say. Here's a question from Jack from London, who says Since the answer me this hiatus. Zero percent alcohol drinks have become increasingly popular, Which is weird because you'd think people would be turning to the full strength stuff to get them through our absence Ah, Tree I remember in early Auswer me this days, you would drink non alcoholic beer and the only one available to you at the time was Be' Blue. Yeah, dark days. Whereas now, non alcoholic booze is so widely available But it hasn't made me drink less, I'll be honest. But what I often do is I'll pair I'll have a non alcoholic beer appetif before the real beer. Yeah. Two beers for the sobriety of one. Almost all of these products, says Jack, and especially zero percent beer, use the colour blue on the label as visual shortthand to show that the drink has little or no alcohol Please Ollie answer me this How did the color bllue become synonymous with zero percent alcohol drinks? and what was the first brand to use the color bllue in this way Well, it was obviously a tribute to Tinky Winkie, who was the sorybery soby. I thought it was a tribute to three cololours bllue starring Juliette Binoche. It's like, lookook, donon't have a booze have an afigatto like she does. I hadn't actually observed this that no bllue was a popular label choice for zero percent beers we checked because yeah, I mean Beck's Blue, obviously it's in the name. But in my non scientific survey of non alcoholic drinks, I have not noticed a strong colour correlation person. I hadn't either. I was ready with a riding shotgun style that sounds nonsense rant. But then I did check And not only is blue the most common color for zero percent beer Basically all the top sellers have blue on their label. The only one that doesn't is Nanny State by Brwdrog is green Or some turquoise, even that's a bit blue. How is it like the walkers salt and vinegar crisps aren't blue whereas everyone else's are, like they flipped salt and vinegar and cheese and onion just to f peoplewhere else. I think actually is that because like brew doog was trying to be aruor, wasn't it? trying to be independent looking. Where it' actually like if you look at the main brewers they are and I just had not noticed, but you're absolutely right San Miguel. Corona, Lucky Saint, Maretti, Guinness, Austra are all blue in their zero percent incarnations. And in my head I was thinking, well hold on. Fine Assahi, you can be blue My choice, Cobra I know that's not blue I know that I struggle when I'm in my fridge at home to identify which are the aarif zero alcohol copras from the real copras So therefore the label must be yellow, red and green like Cobra Cobra Zero has the word zero in blue on the label I've just never noticed before. so they are all blue. Wow. Okay. So thanks Jack for educating me. It does I think, originate with Beck's Blue because that was kind of the progenitor and Calibur which was always blue as well, the original land worst. Do they still make calibber? I haven't that name for a long time? in hell But I think why did Becks Blue and Caliber choose blue in the first place? I think the answer to that is because it's actually sort of when you think about it often the color on the supermarket shelf that is the diet version or the low sugar version. Okay Think about ibbina light or Low sugar ketchup. They often wherear it says low sugar or zero something is in blue And that is because when people are making brand choices about their full fat brand, the original brand in any family of brands, they don't choose blue and they don't choose blue because blue doesn't look warm, cozy, inviting. colourors that you want for a brand you're going to bond with like a ketchup or a Cbra are not blue. But then once you've established your brand identity by putting the blue spin on it, it does subliminally indicate to people, oh, it's the health version And that's basically why they do it. Right, Which is astonishing. Yeah, it's like I think mid twentieth century where supermarkets were like, whyy is our meat not selling when it's just in this white counter? And it's because people want to buy meat that looks red. and so if they make the background green The red pops more and looks more red and that's why you still have like artificial grass next to meat now to make it look more red. Oh good fact. Yeah, you do get green trays with steakakes at Desco Broghtest like pray to the most simple tricks to make us buy stuff. I find consumer psychology sort of for sure because it's like, however dispperate we think we are, we're all just animals. We're all trainable like little Actually, this fact of customers thinking that blue is healthier. I mean not blue WKD. That's not healthy. Well. I was on a cocktail mixing blog, you know, for mixologists. And it was saying be cautious if you're making blue lagoons, blue margaritas or blue Hawaians because a lot of restauranteurs aren't happy to stock them on the cockail menu. Be they're known to suppress appetite. Oh You have a blue cocktail and something about it makes you not want to order olives. Do you what I mean? You're just like oh, I'm done now Something weird about the blue colour. Is it because it blue Caco that is in a lot of those drinks is very sweet and that might damp down your olive paltte? 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The rest of it was called Sydonham Hill, which is still part of the area and then it was part of a general area called Upper Norwood, which derives from the Great Northwood because you see the whole of like the South East England was covered in ancient oak forest and then a lot of that was used for shipbuilding in medieval era. But there is some of it left. like our last flat in Crystal Palace looked over the tre tops. were like full of birds these ancient oaks, that was really cool But the reason why there's so many problems with the names, one of which is that The Crystal Palace was then and now, like on the edge of other places. like it is where four different boroughs meet and then a fifth is like very close. Which causes some confusion. Where is Martin Scorsesee to make a film about these five boroughs? Gangs of Sydonam. The Crystal Palace arrived there in eighteen fifty four, It was moved there from Hyde Park after the G Ehibition of eighteen fifty one I didn't know that. I didn't the whole thing, a palace size structure Yeah was moved from Hyde Park Pain by pain. Basically, yes, it was the biggest glass building I didn't know that. I thought it was I thought the exhibition was in Crystal Palace. I think they were like, well We've got this hugely expensive building now. We don't wantan to just put it in the recycling b. We should do something with it. And at the time, there was space there because this wasn't such a populous area. Until the early nineteenth century, the roads weren't very good because it was covered in forest. It's very hilly there. It's like one of London's highest points. So they were like, o, it's a bit impenetrable There was even a hermit living there till at least eighteen oh two called Matthews the Hairiry manan, living in a cave 's your ex flatate, isnt? I't know about Matthews the Harry man, That's interesting There was also a very long standing traveler encampment, hence the name Gypsy Hill forp part the area. sururprising lack of renaming campaigns for that because That is the G slur now. But that was there long enough for Samuel Peeps to have written about it in his diary in sixteen sixty eight. But I think maybe the presence of those people would have given some connections to the Georgians and the Victorans were like, Oh, it's dangerous scary. Gradual building happened there, and then it really popped off in the eighteen fifties when the Crystal palace arrived because then the area got railways so that people could go and visit this like hugely popular for a few decades tourist attraction. It was like the EpCot Center of Victorian England. And the station I think the first station was eighteen fifty four and the next one was like eighteen sixties and they were called Crystal Palace. And they're beautiful, may I say. like as a visitor, because obviously so again, especially for people not in Britain listening, you're trying to follow this. Yeah E in London, people are like, where? So Crystal Palace remains known as Crystal Palace as a suburb of London. Yeah. The station is still called Crystal Palacees The actual crystal palace to which Helen refers that it was relocated there from Hydpart burned down. burned down in nineteen thirty six. So there is no palace. So people get there and they're like with Picadilly circus, like that Wayneesworld thing, whereere's the circus? Wh circus. Where's the palace? There isn't a palace, but there is a station worthy of being called Christ Palace because's really beautiful Victoriania think. There's a lot of signs of the palace, not the palace itself, but there's dinosaur sculptures and gardens and things which need to be connected to the palace. Yes, F sculptures. stuff that is left over from the eighteen fifties. Yes, but now is surrounded by parks So I think because the stations were called Crystal Palace, that would be what people called that place because the place itself as a neighborhood didn't really grow up until after that had happened. So it's hard to get a precise date, but that's what I would attribute it to But I mean, it's far from unique obviously in London, you know, a city with so many centuries of history to have a train station named after a thing that isn't there anymore. I mean Oh yeah, elephant and castle. Right. We covered on the show years and years ago. I mean, long enough that I can't remember. I' Garden. I mean, Tuffnll Park, where's the park? Wembley Park, Wh's the park? Park Royal, No park and nowhere near a rooyal palace either. Like this is not unusual. That one apparently Park Royal comes from a showground That was opened in nineteen oh three and shut down three years later, but they never changed the name Wow, it did well for itself then. Yeah, exactly. yeah. After three years merely. Which makes me think why didn't they call North Greenwich Millennium Dome becausecause I know that that was only going to be open for a year, but that basically is what that train station' for. right. I know you now call it the O two, but it should be called it even says on the signs that North Greenwich for the two they know that no one says I live in North Greenwich. Like it's just for the Oy it should be So much cooler if that stessation was called Millennium Dome, I say? I don't know because millennium stuff isn't cool, is it? No I think that's what makes it cool in a kind of stranger thing is it come back half way. Yeah, yeah, totly. Do you remember the time when they were trying to rebrand in London, the district of Bloomsbury to midtown I do. London doesn't really have a midtown because it's not shaped like New York. It's Plycentric. But also Bloomsbury is quite a well known neighborhood name already. Why wouldn't you just keep it The reason I remember that is in my corporate event speaking life, I was hosting an event for the Midtown Big ideas Exchange, which was like a load of academics sitting around talking about city planning And I was hosting, you know, a lecture that they all did There was a hashtag on the wall behind me And I thought, is it my place to point out that it really looks like it says midtown Big idea seexchange Or should I just not say anything? So I chose not to say anything. It's a great idea. The midten's been asking for a sex change for years. Once I'd seen it, I was like, I'm sitting behind the sign said Midown B big idea exchange and none of these people seem to know So that's why I remember that. Yeah. Well like the C Oama partarty. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh God that was good I learned a couple of facts that piqued my interest. So I didn't know that the reason why they had the great exhibition of eighteen fifty one was because Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, was not popular. so they were like, ging this project that will make people like him. Interesting, because then after he died, obviously everything got named after him for about fifty years So that project never stopped did it I heard recently that the area around the Royal Albert Hall was originally going be called Alptopolis ard the arrogance. Which again, I think is cool. cooler than South Kensington for the Natural History Museum. True. We're going to Albtopolis. I also learnt that the Crystal Palace Stadium, which hasn't been in use for the football club for like over a hundred years, that has been used by us for a variety of shit videos And some of Ted Lasso filmed there. I didn't know that that stadium was almost blown up by suffragettes deliberately on the eve of the nineteen thirteen FA cup final. Yeah they everywhere But the plot was foiled Good fact Thanks. It's okay It's okay. None of it makes a case for why the place should be called anything other than the Crystal Palace. I think the Crystal Palace is the thing that area is going to be best remembered for. It's tremendous. Why would you possibly object? And also if you take that away, then you get into all the weeds again about All the other things it's called because it's so many other places jamm together. Not our problem, Oie, not our problem Well, listeners, if you have problems for future episodes of Asw Me This, then we would very much appreciate you sending them to us in the form of writing or voice notes or a voicemail. Our contact details are listed on our website. Answer me this podcast. com And remember, we also have a live streaming video series which is exclusive to people who pay for it at patreon. com slash answer me this. 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Oh yes, I like him. whoo writes about sort of architecture, but like normal architecture that people actually live in rather than just the big fancy buildings. He writes in a fun way about things that sound drab That's what I's Re really fun. There's a great new book out which is about queerness in British suburbs. And so he's talking to me about like why the word suburbia has the connotations of being like A bit flat, a bit conventional and monotonous. and there's mention of Lechworth in it, your local garden city. The world's first roundabout, does he get on to that? I mentioned it, yes, because I mean, it's an accolade that deserves celebration. So that is available at the illusionist d. orrggan in the pod places but I'm also a guest on a new episode of the science fiction sitcom pod We fix space junk, so listen to the word wrangling episode of that. Wow, Okaykay. What did you play a version of yourself or you being real and theyre being in character or what? They kind of wrote a thing for me where I'm someone who has a ranch for words, like a horse ranch, but for words. Well, you know, you've made it as a podcaster when you get to do a fictionalized cameo version of yourself. Fuck ye What about the Oimman Ranch reports? Yes. Well, yes, I do five of them. You can find out about all of them at ollimman d. comot but to flag one in particular, local elections are just around the corner in England. So I've done an episode of The Modern Man looking at how AI deep fakes can be exploited in political campaigns I spoke to a lady called Cheryl whose likeness was used to discredit the Labour Party because she was seen saying something racist while she was out door knocking for them. But guess what? She never said it She couldn't go into work for three weeks until she could prove that. She had death threats. It's still on her teaching record She's appearing on Panorama this month, but she did My show first. She's never done a podcast interview before and she did us It's a really great listen. The episode is called My Deep Fake Nightmare And yeah, the show is the mododern manan. J search for the mododern Man MAW N two ends You find it wherever you listen to stuff. Martin.