Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this

week coming to you live from Chesterfield!

My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Adit Shinsky, Andrew Huntson Murray

and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphone so there are four favorite

facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go starting with fact number

one and that is Andy.

My fact is that one Japanese slang term for a retired husband is Sodaigomi which literally

translates as bulky waste.

It's a lot.

Do you know of his men affectionately or less affectionately?

I think tone of voice counts for a lot in these scenarios.

I don't think it's a completely affectionate term.

It's a phrase that I think maybe all the people will know more than younger people in

Japan today.

I think it first came to prominence in the 90s and it was basically, at the time in Japan

the very, very strong culture of working very hard, a lot of quite traditional gender roles

at the time so you'd have a husband might be working 16 hours a day for 40 years and

then suddenly he's retired and he's here all the time.

And this was the phrase that arose as a result of that.

Another one that they use is Nureio Chiba which means wet fallen leaves and the idea is

that if you have wet fallen leaves they just stick to your shoes all the time and the

husband is just sticking to his wife annoyingly and she can't get rid of him.

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