Delivered pancakes
Scott had ordered pancakes to his home on Shrove Tuesday after seeing the service on Twitter. Chris treated this as evidence that fame had changed him and argued that making and tossing them was the entire point of the evening.
Scott compared the delivery with ordering pizza, Chinese or Thai food. His pancakes had arrived thick, professionally made and accompanied by small cups of chocolate sauce, while Chris’s home effort had been visibly less successful.
Listeners supplied the risks of doing it yourself. One man attempted a double toss on a first date, threw the frying pan and broke a £400 glass cooker hood. Scott considered that enough evidence for delivery; Chris believed the accident was still more honourable than outsourcing Pancake Day.
Group-chat politics
Scott had been added to a Facebook group involving several couples and could already foresee problems if one relationship ended. The corresponding boyfriend would presumably be removed while the original member remained, turning a social plan into a public record of the break-up.
Listeners described university and friendship groups where former housemates were deleted immediately after moving out. Others remained trapped because leaving generated an unmistakable system message and ignoring a question was impossible once everybody could see it had been read.
Sarah’s mother showed none of that anxiety. Tired of the family conversation, she handed Sarah her phone and asked to be taken out. “Mum has left the group” appeared without explanation, causing Sarah’s brother to ask why their mother had left the family. She understood perfectly well that it looked ruthless and simply did not care.
Scott admired the decisiveness. Most people composed elaborate farewells or stayed silently in unwanted groups; Sarah’s mother treated the exit button as an ordinary practical function.
Steve Wright attempts Bamboleo Wednesday
Chris had contacted Radio 2 in the hope of making Bamboleo Wednesday a half-term event across both networks. Steve Wright mentioned it during his afternoon show but did not appear to understand the build-up, pause or final communal cry.
Scott replayed the attempt and concluded that more detailed instructions were required before Radio 2 tried again. The feature’s apparent simplicity depended on timing which regular listeners understood but could not be conveyed in a short email.
Barbara Windsor plays Real or No Real
Barbara Windsor joined the game. A Conservative fundraising auction really had offered experiences with senior politicians, including shoe shopping with Home Secretary Theresa May. The round also revisited “MDR”, which Scott had repeated as a fact without remembering whether it had ever been confirmed.
It did translate to “mort de rire”, or dead from laughing. Istanbul also genuinely had vending machines which released dog food when plastic bottles were deposited, giving strays a benefit from recycling.
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