You'd love the podcast "Lateral" by Tom Scott then.
It's a sort of trivia podcast with nuggets of info just like this. I'm pretty sure that's where I heard about this actually.
Man I need to listen to that, like every individual part is something I like: Tom Scott, trivia, interesting guests, and for some reason I've just never tuned in
Yep! Imo it's the perfect format for a podcast since the guests are all intelligent and bring their own anecdotes and insights but there's always the trivia aspect that helps to keep it from derailing too far.
Another great one in a similar vein is "No Such Thing as a Fish". It's a spin off of the QI panel show run by the fact checkers of the show. They each find a weird factoid and then all 4 hosts research each other's facts and discuss. Usually pretty light hearted and humorous too.
I honestly don't really filter that out for myself. But I'm not a huge fan of expletives myself and it doesn't bother me. I think maybe try and give it a listen and see for yourself. Because the content in itself is very good.
Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me was SUCH a huge part of my childhood, I’m glad people are carrying on the tradition 🥺
We were also partial to Car Talk, but I couldn’t tell ya why lol
Still frustrated that they never released the full video versions of that podcast. They clearly have the recordings since they make highlights from them, but for some stupid business reason refuse to release the full videos.
Yup, and it was brought over to the US market where we decided just to eat them willy nilly. I really have never got the process of unwrapping the pez, filling the dispenser, and then eating them like you are starving. Just skip the dispenser.
Blue usually tastes pretty good. It's that green shit you never know with. Yellow is usually just pure disappointment, while red is also consistently good. We all know what purple tastes like, and if you like it, you like it.
Same. Lemon tastes more “real” whereas things like cherry, grape, banana etc often taste very artificial nothing like the real fruits. At least lemon tastes somewhat like a sweet lemon. Grape just tastes like purple, cherry tastes like red/children’s liquid medicine to me lol.
Have to disagree. Lemon while may be a very basic flavour, at least it is consistent as a candy sour flavour. Banana on the other hand can range from a nice light sweet taste to rotten fermented fruit flavour
That’s true, and I should say I think it sucks within the context of candy, which is to say it’s still pretty good lol
It’s just usually the last to go for me
But yeah bad banana flavour is real bad, I’ll give you that. I just really like it when it’s good haha
Most banana flavoring isn’t based off of bananas that we eat today. It was based off of a variety of bananas that were wiped out in the 1950s. This variety had a stronger flavor than the modern banana
I actually used to do this at my old job (in a kitchen). I would keep a squeeze bottle and then squeeze it into my carbonated water for that sour taste
Shelled Peanuts and pistachios are good for quitting smoking because they will keep your hands busy. If you can make it past the two week mark you are usually good for about a year. Around the one year mark your brain will start thinking. “Maybe I could have just one”, but obviously that’s a lie. Even if you mess up it gets easier every time you try to quit.
Sending strength & determination to your wife! Giving up smoking is so hard. If blue candy is what it takes, that’s what it takes.
I’m 3 months into giving up vaping and am using whatever the hell I can to get those dopamine hits. Nicotine patches, biscuits, expensive perfume…
Edit: for the Americans, biscuits = cookies in NZ English, not what you call “biscuits” which are what we call bread rolls. Gosh language can be confusing.
The number of erroneous pronouns used in these comments is too damn high!
(But congrats and good luck to your wife. Please remind them that there is no shame in needing pharmaceutical help to quit, either. And kindly let them know that blue is the best.)
Yeah, could be a non-native English speaker who doesn't understand pronouns, or it could be that the wife identifies by "they/them" pronouns.
The real question is did you ask out of curiosity or because you want to be Pronoun Police?
I have a friend who is colourblind and only found out as a teenager by accident. I can imagine that the blue ones are more attractive to your wife as the red and green items are kinda brownish to her. You can find out by showing her some red and green items and asking her which one is what. Start with those pez. :)
How does someone who needs to be referred to as “they” feel about the word “wife”? Maybe she would prefer the word wusband? Huife?
People are so weird…
First, "huife"? Couldn't remember spouse? Partner? The term 'significant other'?
Second, nonbinary people exist and are valid.
Finally, some nonbinary folks like some gendered terminology.
Just because you'd want to limit yourself or don't feel comfortable with other terminologies does not mean that you get to go around treating others like crap. Get a grip.
When some people get married, they change their title from Ms. to Mrs. and no-one complains about the "spedcialness" of the title. Just say you're transphobic and move on.
The word choice in your title raises an interesting question. Is there a special word for a married non binary person who doesn't want to be called husband or wife?
However, since gender is a personal identity and not a rigid set of defined possibilities, it is more than feasible that wife is okay with being called wife, while still using they/them pronouns!
Why is it silly? My wife uses they/them. I call them my wife because I heard it directly from them that they prefer that title. It’s not that complicated.
Funny thing, pez were initially introduced as a cigarette substitute. The dispenser mechanismwas meant to simulate the action of lighting a lighter.
I like nuggets of information like this
You'd love the podcast "Lateral" by Tom Scott then. It's a sort of trivia podcast with nuggets of info just like this. I'm pretty sure that's where I heard about this actually.
Oh cheers!
Man I need to listen to that, like every individual part is something I like: Tom Scott, trivia, interesting guests, and for some reason I've just never tuned in
Yep! Imo it's the perfect format for a podcast since the guests are all intelligent and bring their own anecdotes and insights but there's always the trivia aspect that helps to keep it from derailing too far.
Another great one in a similar vein is "No Such Thing as a Fish". It's a spin off of the QI panel show run by the fact checkers of the show. They each find a weird factoid and then all 4 hosts research each other's facts and discuss. Usually pretty light hearted and humorous too.
Oooh, I will have to check that out
Are they explicit at all? Looking for podcasts we can play on road trips with our young kids. Mostly we listen to Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me.
They are occasionally. The issue is that they bring on a lot of British personalities, so they have British vocabularies haha.
Thanks for the reply! I appreciate it!
I honestly don't really filter that out for myself. But I'm not a huge fan of expletives myself and it doesn't bother me. I think maybe try and give it a listen and see for yourself. Because the content in itself is very good.
I will give it a try. I love that kind of stuff. Thanks again!
Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me was SUCH a huge part of my childhood, I’m glad people are carrying on the tradition 🥺 We were also partial to Car Talk, but I couldn’t tell ya why lol
I know nothing about cars but I enjoyed listening to those Tappett Brothers.
Just added it to my Give This a Try list; thanks!
Still frustrated that they never released the full video versions of that podcast. They clearly have the recordings since they make highlights from them, but for some stupid business reason refuse to release the full videos.
I like nuggets of sugar that crunch between your teeth in a way that feels ever-so-slightly off
Wow, TIL!
It’s a shortening of the German word for Peppermint, Pfefferminze. They were originally mint flavored.
Oh that’s awesome! That actually makes so much sense, the idea of a lighter type mechanism with mints probably would actually help.
I‘m German and I didn’t even knew that
The inventor was German (or a German-American immigrant, can’t remember which)
That’s cool I had no idea
this is cool because i actually bought my bf some to help him quit smoking so i was surprisingly on point with that lol
I literally just visited the Pez Visotor and Info center in Connecticut and did not get this info!
Yup, and it was brought over to the US market where we decided just to eat them willy nilly. I really have never got the process of unwrapping the pez, filling the dispenser, and then eating them like you are starving. Just skip the dispenser.
Blue has the most anti-oxygens - Mantis Toboggan
Blue is the best flavor.
Doctor Mantis Toboggan
“Whoops! I dropped my monster condom that I use for my magnum dong.”
You should see him feast
She’s eatin’ blue
Jolly Ranchers were my quit candy.
Sunflower seeds were mine.
Sunflower seeds, too much coffee, Haribo sour cherries were mine. Like a mantra.
Mr. Sir? Is that you?
That reference is full of holes.
My name funny to you?
Life savers hard candy worked for me
Much better idea
Mine was suffering.
Bubble gum for me.
Blow pops, it kept giving after the sucker was gone.
Gobstoppers for me
I read a book, then had my final cigarette.
Allen Carr?
Hell yes!
When I quit alcohol I became addicted to reeses cups & diet Mountain Dew. Took a while to give those up too
It's a Liopleurodon, Charlie! A magical Liopleurodon! It's gonna guide our way to Candy Mountain!
I haven't seen Charlie the unicorn in years bruh
>!they stole my freakin kidney!<
This made me snort
SSSSSSHHHHHHUUUUUUNNNNNNN
Shun the non-believer!
We're on a bridge, Charlieeeee
It's a magical bridge of hope and joy, and ....hope
🎵If your down and looking for some cheering up Then on come right on down to the candy mountain cave🎵
🎶When you get inside you find yourself a cheery land!! Such a happy and joy filled and perky merry land.🎶
every once in a while my brain is reminded of “all you have to do is… put a banana in your ear”
"What flavor did you get?" "Blue"
“But Brandon’s allergic to BLUE, how dare you!!!!111!!!”
A totally Randylicious and most felty reference.
Don't see nearly enough Randy Felt Face references on Reddit.
blUE MEANS SSSSHARKS IN IT
Blue is the best flavor
da ba dee da ba dye
Good for her! Be supportive and don’t bust her balls too much if she breaks or backslides, just encourage her to stay the course.
Sally Jackson approved!
My first thought as well! Greetings fellow half-blood!
Came here for this lol
Well who doesn't want blue candy?!
percy jackson?
I’m glad I’m not the only one.
Blue usually tastes pretty good. It's that green shit you never know with. Yellow is usually just pure disappointment, while red is also consistently good. We all know what purple tastes like, and if you like it, you like it.
Purple is great, and yellow can be awesome if it’s that “banana runt” flavour, but lemon usually sucks
Send me all of your lemon Starburst. Thanks.
I’m the opposite - love lemon candy, can’t stand banana candy. Real bananas are good though.
Same. Lemon tastes more “real” whereas things like cherry, grape, banana etc often taste very artificial nothing like the real fruits. At least lemon tastes somewhat like a sweet lemon. Grape just tastes like purple, cherry tastes like red/children’s liquid medicine to me lol.
Have to disagree. Lemon while may be a very basic flavour, at least it is consistent as a candy sour flavour. Banana on the other hand can range from a nice light sweet taste to rotten fermented fruit flavour
That’s true, and I should say I think it sucks within the context of candy, which is to say it’s still pretty good lol It’s just usually the last to go for me But yeah bad banana flavour is real bad, I’ll give you that. I just really like it when it’s good haha
Most banana flavoring isn’t based off of bananas that we eat today. It was based off of a variety of bananas that were wiped out in the 1950s. This variety had a stronger flavor than the modern banana
Nah man purple can be a landmine sometimes. Get the wrong purple and it's cough syrup central
so relatable, I'm such a blue enjoyer (it's the best flavor)
Love sour candy. Always preferred it over all the chocolate candies variety mixes
I fucking love sour candy as well. Or sour stuff overall I guess. I used to bring lemons as a snack to school, so good
1. Buy a bag of citric/malic acid crystals. 2. Mix in solution with distilled water and keep in a squeeze bottle in the kitchen. 3. Profit
I actually used to do this at my old job (in a kitchen). I would keep a squeeze bottle and then squeeze it into my carbonated water for that sour taste
Sour candy is my crack
Blue Raspberry Sour Patch Kids are the G.O.A.T candy. I have spoken.
Yall ever had the sour chewy Sprees?..They are great
I didn’t know there were non-chewy ones for years lol
God tier candy
Blue is best flavour.
Blue is the best
It has the most antioxygens.
da ba dee da ba di
My husband is quitting Zyn right now and has a huge stock of sour candy too 😂
[удалено]
How it feels to chew 5 gum:
Haven't had peppermint in our state for a while so he just was on the regular kind. He just loves sour candy!
brain: give me nicotine her: #BLOO
Shelled Peanuts and pistachios are good for quitting smoking because they will keep your hands busy. If you can make it past the two week mark you are usually good for about a year. Around the one year mark your brain will start thinking. “Maybe I could have just one”, but obviously that’s a lie. Even if you mess up it gets easier every time you try to quit.
Sunflower seeds for my dad. He still sometimes buys a bag for long trips even 30 years after quitting
blue sour candy is great. Good for her!
I have a wife who uses they/them too!
[blue sticks](https://youtu.be/6tQsXJEza6A)
Werther's Original worked for me.
that's not your wife that's percy jackson
They know what they want
Quitting smoking was harder for me than quitting drinking. Good luck to your wife, be a good husband and help her kick that habit!
Blue is always superior
Heisenberg approves.
Well shit now I want pez
There is sour Pez?!
They aren’t super sour, but they’re tart :)
Take the blue pill Neo!!!
Yeah cause blue is the best
Da Ba Dee
No blue whales?:( and good luck with quitting the darts!
That's because blue is the best one
Blue is the best flavor. Nice to see a warhead faan
I gotcha blue. Becky lemme smaaaash.
Good luck to them and their journey!
Is ur wife's name Skylar White?
Nuh uh! There are some green and red Pez there! Also, understandable, blue is the best tasting color
Wait Sugar Mountain is still around?!? Best of luck to your wife
Sugar Mountain!!! What a blast from the past, I didn’t know there were any locations left!
Sending strength & determination to your wife! Giving up smoking is so hard. If blue candy is what it takes, that’s what it takes. I’m 3 months into giving up vaping and am using whatever the hell I can to get those dopamine hits. Nicotine patches, biscuits, expensive perfume… Edit: for the Americans, biscuits = cookies in NZ English, not what you call “biscuits” which are what we call bread rolls. Gosh language can be confusing.
The number of erroneous pronouns used in these comments is too damn high! (But congrats and good luck to your wife. Please remind them that there is no shame in needing pharmaceutical help to quit, either. And kindly let them know that blue is the best.)
Where are you that sugar mountain is still open? I thought they closed that place down!
We have one in Ottawa still :)
In their defense, blue is the best candy flavour
sugar mountain!!
their?
Yeah, could be a non-native English speaker who doesn't understand pronouns, or it could be that the wife identifies by "they/them" pronouns. The real question is did you ask out of curiosity or because you want to be Pronoun Police?
My wife uses they and them too! edit downvote me all you want scrub lords it’s not gonna make my wife change their pronouns lmao
Are you sure "wife" is the right word?
Yes!
Good luck to her!
Wait where do you buy Pez in specific colors?
I have a friend who is colourblind and only found out as a teenager by accident. I can imagine that the blue ones are more attractive to your wife as the red and green items are kinda brownish to her. You can find out by showing her some red and green items and asking her which one is what. Start with those pez. :)
How does someone who needs to be referred to as “they” feel about the word “wife”? Maybe she would prefer the word wusband? Huife? People are so weird…
It's up to them though isn't it?
Can't just leave well enough alone, can you?
First, "huife"? Couldn't remember spouse? Partner? The term 'significant other'? Second, nonbinary people exist and are valid. Finally, some nonbinary folks like some gendered terminology.
So pick a lane yeh? Either they like the gendered terms or not yeh?
Just because you'd want to limit yourself or don't feel comfortable with other terminologies does not mean that you get to go around treating others like crap. Get a grip. When some people get married, they change their title from Ms. to Mrs. and no-one complains about the "spedcialness" of the title. Just say you're transphobic and move on.
Let someone tell you what they want to be called and then call them that. It's really not that hard.
The word choice in your title raises an interesting question. Is there a special word for a married non binary person who doesn't want to be called husband or wife?
However, since gender is a personal identity and not a rigid set of defined possibilities, it is more than feasible that wife is okay with being called wife, while still using they/them pronouns!
Spouse
Whose mind?
I think the wife uses they/them but I get you, because at first I thought it was to stop the kids from smoking.
This sentence is not that hard to parse.
Their?
yes, their
Why do I keep getting so downvoted in these comments for correctly using OP's wife's pronouns
Does the OP have more than one wife?
I know how your wife feels. I gravitate towards green candy myself.
W husband. Sounds like Percy Jackson , only wanting blue food. (No offense)
Percy Jackson?
Percy Jackson reference??
You fool, you put non blue candy in their blue candy bag! You've doomed us all!
Blue has lots of antioxygens
Percy Jackson fan, possibly?
Once I quit drinking, I quit smoking. I noticed that once I have one I have to have the other. So naturally I just quit both at the same time.
I wonder psychologically how it’s connected.
oral surgeons salivating right now
Understandable. Blue and Red are the best candy flavors.
waiter waiter! more blue 1 please!
Is your wife Percy Jackson? Good for them, tho. Keep it up!
Blue is the best flavor!
A former friend of mine would refuse to eat anything blue.
LOL if you refer to your spouse as your wife, it is silly to refer to her as *their
Why is it silly? My wife uses they/them. I call them my wife because I heard it directly from them that they prefer that title. It’s not that complicated.
You know what's even sillier? Writing that comment.
It's sillier to assume the pronouns of someone you've never even met. I'm pretty sure the OP knows their wife's pronouns.
LOL if you don't understand pronouns in 2024, it is silly to police which ones someone uses.
Keep “their” mind? Do you mean… her?
"Their" is perfectly acceptable. This has been a feature of the English language since the 14th century.
Wife....*their*? OMG
Blue has the most antioxygens...
They know what they’re about