The future’s so bright…One of our speakers works in transport, and his prediction is blunt: “no wheels. That’s got to be the next step” — trains that are magnetically levitated, cars that fly, and little scooters you stand on. Another thinks we’ll stop carrying phones altogether because “it’ll all be …
Enjoy yourself…Tom ends this episode by saying he’d be “very happy to throw my television off the balcony”. Before that, we hear three people describe what they actually do with their free time — one of them “attempting to play the guitar” alone in the house, another listing eleven different …
Only joking!The episode opens with a question that tells you everything about this conversation: “Funny ha ha funny, or funny as in strange funny?” From there we get a pig, a bus in Peru, a Spanish welcome committee at the airport and a long boat trip that goes badly wrong. …
They do what?One speaker in this episode says she stood politely at the train doors saying “I was no after you, no after you” until she realised she would never get on board and had to change her own behaviour. Another came home to grey skies, drizzle and orderly queues …
Travel (Thailand)The last boat for three days had already gone, so when some fishermen offered a lift to an island instead, the sensible reaction was suspicion: “they look dodgy, they look scary”. Three hours in a small fishing boat later, “with a group of people that looked like pirates”, three …
Oh *#$* !We sat down in the park with a fairly simple question and got three hospital stories in return. “I’ve got a catalogue of stories about accidents that I could relate,” Mark says, before choosing the balcony in Sydney and the broken neck. Katie’s reaction — “So how the …
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The little angels!Tom has done the maths and doesn’t like the answer: leave it much longer and his future child will arrive at the school gates to the question, “Is that your grandpa?” Amanda, sitting opposite him, says flatly, “I’ve never had the maternal push” — and adds that she’s …
How do I look?A French Connection checked shirt, bought with saved-up pocket money and worn religiously for over a year, went into a sixty-degree wash and came out two sizes smaller. The verdict, delivered flatly: “Gutted. Absolutely gutted.” That is the kind of detail you get when you ask people …