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You Are Being Unreasonable

You Are Being Unreasonable

A podcast about people being unreasonable on the internet. Specifically on Mumsnet.com's AIBU forum. Our theme song is 'I Feel Fantastic' by Jonathan Coulton from the album 'Our Bodies, Ours...

Episodes

20 of 116 episodes

106 - The end

An announcement about the future of the You Are Being Unreasonable podcast.

00:06:10Oct 16, 2021

105 - The Last Will and Testament of Simon Bowie

"It would be hard to patronise a bear." Diving once again into the most horrid spaces on the British internet as we explore what people are...

00:42:22Aug 12, 2021

104 - Phone-stealing cats and the net worth of Julius Pringles

"Nationalise Tebay, I say." More keen insights into Mumsnet and Reddit's /r/AskUK. This week, we discuss dramatising stories by adding 30 mi...

00:40:38Jul 29, 2021

103 - Online dating PowerPoints and dogs with smaller dogs as pets

"If you go home with someone at the end of the night and they don't do the voices when they read you The Hobbit, don't fuck them." This week...

00:35:43Jul 15, 2021

102 - Pants on a washing line and gentle reminders to use verbs

"One Mumsnet, one podcast." We're united in our love of odd web forums and back to discuss more unreasonableness. This week: appending 'Gent...

00:37:15Jun 24, 2021

101 - Jostling the car at a petrol station and a journey to The Magical Cavern

CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes discussion of eugenics, forced sterilisation, the Holocaust, and child abuse. It's all contained in t...

00:36:29Jun 10, 2021

100 - Steamed badger and piss walls

"So she's sending her kids into the woods somewhere..." 100 episodes! We're celebrating with a trip to the Mumsnet Classics board and a jour...

00:33:57May 13, 2021

099 - Thicc hobbits on the beach and opening crisp packets upside-down

"Big jeans for Tik Tok teens." As we hurtle towards our 100th episode, a moment of reflection with some corrections to previous episodes. We...

00:35:34Apr 29, 2021

098 - Stealing cakes from robots and catfishing by wearing clown make-up

"AIBU to think that maybe my husband is lost in the great abyss of his unending need to be validated?" We're back to provide our commentary...

00:36:23Apr 15, 2021

097 - Forced perspective counterfeit furniture and mentors stealing our jobs

"Pizza. Cheese on toast. Magnums." Like the mighty Ever Given, we are refloated and are making our way safely down the Suez Canal of Mumsnet...

00:36:36Apr 1, 2021

096 - Misremembering Vimto as 'Vimpto' and the strangest job application process

"Where did the Stacys go?" Enjoy this episode of You Are Being Unreasonable... or else. This week we ask if '... or else' is a fun, flirty t...

00:36:03Mar 18, 2021

095 - Hyper-capitalist predatory alphas and platonic cuddle-friends

"CAKE UP, MUMMY!" We're pleased to outline the roadmap for easing restrictions on this podcast. Soon you'll be able to listen to this podcas...

00:39:54Mar 4, 2021

094 - Zooming with a 70 year-old beagle and spotting penises in the background

"Opening a big coat and it's just full of dog collars." Everyone is mad at runners and Mumsnet is folding in on itself by discussing GETTING...

00:33:17Feb 19, 2021

093 - Very special brain geniuses and online gynecology courses

"The pedagogical approach for postgraduates is INSTANT FEEDBACK." We're still in lockdown and Mumsnet has as little good chat as we do. But...

00:34:50Feb 4, 2021

092 - Shopping basket etiquette and mysterious marital essays

"Serving poutine for six out of a shopping basket." Join us as we explore the last social media site that hasn't banned Donald J. Trump and...

00:38:01Jan 21, 2021

091 - Information-delivery musicals and bringing back the clap

"And what are you?" New year, new You Are Being Unreasonable. Mumsnet AIBU are struggling with an excess of weirdness this year and we inves...

00:31:41Jan 7, 2021

090 - Christmas Hell-dimensions and shoeboxes full of Fabergé eggs

"I agree. But not with a lot of passion." A Christmas Eve spectactular! Join us as we dive into Christmas Mumsnet and discuss the lack of re...

00:41:46Dec 24, 2020

089 - Meet the number one buyer of passata in the UK

"Why do people always start with peas?!" Our not-quite Christmas episode! Among the many non-Christmas related threads we discuss this week,...

00:35:02Dec 10, 2020

088 - A Christmas fight club, jizz on a mirror, and closely guarded secret supermarket buys

"I think the workers should seize the means of production: the office kettle." Secrets abound this week as we share our exciting and closely...

00:38:00Nov 26, 2020

087 - In which we ask you to post cash through the letterbox, no worries if not

"It's important that I keep my blood-cocaine levels up because I'm breastfeeding this '80s child." People on Mumsnet are so different to the...

00:32:09Nov 12, 2020