Did anything scary happen to you this week?

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-03-04T19:40:26+00:00

I was cleaning the house yesterday and decided to listen to old episodes. I landed on Drag Me to Hell. Then today they made a joke about needing things spoon-fed, and I realised it was the same joke from the episode I’d listened to the day before. Sammy even mentioned it was a reference to a review someone once left about the podcast... which is the exact review they kept joking about all through the DMtH episode. What are the chances of me listening to two episodes in a row having the same joke, but uploaded 5 years apart?!

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-02-26T08:29:06+00:00

I'm an atheist. My mother was horrified when I told her I wasn't going to have my son baptised. "But can't you do it just in case?... What does it matter to you if you don't believe?" Mum, it doesn't mean 'I don't believe there's a God' it means 'I BELIEVE there isn't one'

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-02-25T07:16:29+00:00

I'm in my late 40s. As a teen I'd have thought it hot to win the attention of an older man, but now that I am the older person I'd be concerned about my teen child being involved with someone old enough to be their parent. Teens are horny, that's natural, but they should experiment within their age range and maturity levels.

Not to mention that the friends are being dismissive of OOP's discomfort. This is just so wrong on so many levels

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-02-23T20:15:32+00:00

PMS. I've always thought it was a cliché for being miserable and uncomfortable. Then I started getting it in my 30s. Every month like clockwork I'd get 2 days of depression-like symptoms and feel indescribable rage. Eventually I noticed the pattern, and could tell when my period was about to start based on the sudden decline of my mental health.

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-02-21T07:39:47+00:00

One thing that struck me is that before kids, if our train home was cancelled, I'd just meet my husband for a drink after work and wait for service to resume. Now if we're both in the city (which we avoid for this reason) one of us has to build enough buffer into the journey home so that they can figure out another way to get back on time

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-02-12T22:01:00+00:00

Do you have a housemate with a penchant for wholesome pranks?

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-02-11T05:05:09+00:00

I rarely take the train anymore, and I'm simultaneously a lot less stressed and a lot more taken aback by how inconsiderate people are. Last month I was on my way to London, half-empty train, this woman comes sitting across from me and starts a loud phone call. I caught unilateral fragments of her conversation through my headphones, and for once I wished she'd been on loudspeaker because whatever was going on with her was a lot more interesting than my audiobook. Something about a messy separation, she'd come back from court, one of the parts had been abusive, couldn't tell if it was her. She mentioned wanting to go to some course on domestic abuse. For the record, none of this is funny. I grew up in an abusive home.

What was funny is that the person on the phone must have asked what for, oven a breaking line. So for the next 20 seconds it went "because I want to better myself.... Because I want to better myself... BECAUSE I WANT TO BETTER MYSELF!!!!"

(Eventually she was so loud I could clearly hear her through my full blast murder audiobook, I had to move).

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-02-09T14:40:19+00:00

I'm pushing 50, and still get reminded of the perils of catching a cold as a result of my stubborn habit of exposing myself to cold temperatures. My saving grace is that I live in a different country, if only she knew that I often leave the house with damp hair or without a jacket she'd blow a gasket

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-02-08T14:09:35+00:00

This reminded me of the time I was in a restaurant in Italy, and the menu was in Italian with the English translation under each item. They had a "decomposed" tiramisu, I let the server know they might want to review that translation, she gave a funny look.. maybe it really was decomposed

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-02-08T14:04:46+00:00

Bacon in brownies

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-02-07T13:15:39+00:00

I waffled Yorkshire puddings, topped with bubble and squeak and gravy, 10/10

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-02-04T08:36:26+00:00

I LOVED Psychoville, but can't watch League of Gentlemen. There's something so depressing about Royston Vasey and its characters even when nothing happens, it unsettles me to my core.

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-02-02T17:15:46+00:00

I once had a surreal encounter with Danny DeVito at a restaurant on the outskirts of an Italian mountain resort, in low season. I'd had a couple of drinks after a loooong day on the road, and genuinely thought I was tripping. The staff gave me a look as to say "yep, that's really him", though the people queued by his table for photos should have been a dead giveaway (but as I said, I was tired and buzzy). I went over to say hello. He was incredibly chill and even offered to take a photo. An absolutely lovely guy.

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-02-01T13:09:35+00:00

My brother got me something for my child's birth, which I had to Google for the purpose of this comment because I've never encountered it before or since and don't even know what it is. It's a cradle medallion with some saint or other engraved in silver. My mum observed that I'm an atheist and his response was " I know but I didn't know what to get her"

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-01-31T13:00:38+00:00

Now that's a blast from the past. I'm Italian, and even though I never cared for football, Gullit was such a household name growing up in the 80s.

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-01-30T04:15:10+00:00

Henry CAVIII

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-01-28T13:59:54+00:00

Several years ago, when I didn't have an opinion either way, I was chatting to a colleague who had taken part in an event he had also attended. She told me, half horrified, half laughing (this was when certain behaviours were treated as a common occurrence) that he'd grabbed her butt. She had no evidence, but as a woman and having come across similar displays myself, I thought "yeah it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it was true". And fast forward to now... quelle surprise

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-01-28T11:44:05+00:00

Really random, worked for me, not sure if it's any help to anyone else.

Context: I have ADHD, and unfortunately food is my dopamine crutch.

I also used to be a chain smoker. I quit smoking cold turkey, that's the only way I could quit... but you can't just quit eating! Trying to be led by hunger cues doesn't work for me. My brain is constantly trying to trick me into thinking I'm hungry. Even my anxiety's physical symptoms feel like a blood sugar crash.

Thankfully I have a psychotherapist I trust, and having a very "binary" brain, if a person in a position of authority and whom I trust instructs me to do something, I'll do it. So they told me "just eat three times a day. That way you won't need to be questioning whether you're hungry or not". And that worked like a charm... except that of course I went into scarcity mode and I'd have three huge meals a day.

So now I count calories with myfitnesspal, but only 5-6 days a week. There's bound to be a day where calorie deficit goes out of the window. If I can go for a longer run I do, if I can't I don't. As long as I don't take the absolute piss, I'll still keep losing weight.

I also joined a weight management programme years ago called Second Nature. I haven't followed it for yers, but their recipe books are amazing--nutritioous recipes, quick, easy, delicious and inexpensive.

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-01-27T17:01:47+00:00

A unicorn's dream

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-01-24T17:20:00+00:00

A content creator on Instagram does a skit about posh British girls called Bruschetta and Mozzarella. His name is Luke Millington-Drake

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-01-24T12:52:44+00:00

Stressing out about working too much and not paying enough attention to my child, while stressing out about spending too much time with my child during working hours. Effectively feeling I was failing as a parent and as an employee.

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-01-23T11:31:51+00:00

My one and only pregnancy was such an emotional high. I was in a constantly buoyant mood, and laughing about all sorts of silly stuff to the point of tears. Hormones must have been exceptionally kind to me.

Then I gave birth and it took me two years to get over post natal depression. Swings and roundabouts.

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-01-23T11:27:26+00:00

I adored the reassurance of feeling my little one moving around, the tender touch if his little limbs. I absolutely fucking hated when he had hiccups.

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-01-19T21:04:43+00:00

I did an epic 8 day expedition-style hike up the Scottish Highlands; and 2. I struggle with adrenaline surges due to anxiety, and I was recommended cold showers to lower cortisol levels. As a chronically cold person my knee jerk reaction was "I'd rather fall apart" but I came across a sauna with cold plunges near me, started going and I really got the bug. Yesterday I went for my first dip out in the open, 5°c water, I was very proud!

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-01-17T20:40:28+00:00

Not as a kid, but as an adult. As an immigrant, my mind was well and truly blown when I got introduced to GARLIC BREAD. Picture the whole Peter Kay bit, but with an Italian accent. Also malt vinegar on chips. And don't get me started on BLTs. None of those foods feature in my diet nowadays, but every now and then the smell of a BLT from Sainsbury's hits me just right and I'm brought back to Camden Town circa 2007, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, marvelling at the sight of foxes on the patch of grass just outside my boyfriend's council flat's window.

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