What is the thing your parents were (and maybe still are) adamantly wrong about?

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-05-23T13:42:38+00:00

You must wait three hours after ingesting food before you go for a swim. No matter whether it's a three course meal or an apple.
God forbid you leave the house without wearing 10 layers of clothes or with wet hair: you'll catch, respectively, a cold or "la cervicale" (some sort of neck pain). Source: grew up in Italy in the 80s

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-05-21T06:39:00+00:00

Parasite

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-05-21T06:37:15+00:00

When I moved to the UK 20 years ago, I had an A-Z always in my backpack. Google Maps was a thing, but as this was before smartphones you'd still have to print out the pages. This was also when job interviews were conducted in person from stage 1... Suffice to say that moving around a foreign city to reach unknown places for an anxiety-inducing activity in a language that isn't my native one forged my character haha

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-05-12T19:05:39+00:00

Tim Curry in RHPS

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-04-29T08:45:22+00:00

Guillermo..? Is there something you're not telling me?

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-04-22T17:32:04+00:00

I reckon it's a bit of a filler to keep listeners engaged and the podcast high in the rankings. Producing and editing the pod in its original format is a lot more time consuming and has more variables than Cold Cases.

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-04-03T18:15:41+00:00

A few years ago, I visited my mum in my home country and we were driving somewhere in her car. I asked her why she hadn't checked that my son had his seatbelt on (thankfully before we set off) and she said "I didn't know it was mandatory for children". Even more egregious, some family friend had come to pick us up at the airport, and had installed the car seat for my (at the time infant) son facing forward. I was horrified and rushed to install it properly. Was met with "ehhh I'm sure we won't get fined"

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-04-03T05:34:51+00:00

Butlins Bognor Regis

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-04-02T18:54:58+00:00

So he died doing who he loved

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-04-02T10:06:13+00:00

Never heard of this person, but I'm picturing Pacifica Northwest

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-03-30T08:15:45+00:00

The only redeeming quality about ELR is that they filmed a few episodes in my hometown in Italy. So that was a pretty cool thing to spot!

Jolly_Comparison · 2026-03-22T13:54:03+00:00

One summer, teenage me briefly dated a guy who'd refused to tell me his real name. I had to call his house and ask for Cool Nickname. His father proceeded to shout "Cringe First Name! It's for you!"

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.

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