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No Such Thing As A Fish

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Dan, James, Anna, and Andy discuss feline ads, Egyptian irons and the Hammer of the Scots.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this episode of No Such Things of Fish.
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0:20.0	Okay, on with the podcast.
0:36.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Hoburn.
0:44.4	My name is Dan Schreiber.
0:45.6	I am sitting here with Anna Tyshinsky, Andrew Hunter Murray, and James Harkin.
0:49.8	Once again, we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days.
0:54.8	And in a particular order, here we go.
0:58.1	Starting with fact number one, and that is Anna.
1:00.8	My fact this week is that ironing in Egypt is traditionally a man's job, and they do it with their feet.
1:07.2	Yes.
1:08.3	And that's what you shouldn't let men do the ironing.
1:16.6	Do they put the shirt on the ground or do they put their foot on the board? Yeah.
1:17.6	And also do they use an iron or do they have really, really flat feet?
1:21.6	Hot flat feet.
1:22.6	Well, it's in the desert, right?
1:24.6	You just stand in the sand for 10 minutes until your feet get warm.
1:28.3	That's it. No, they use an iron, a normal iron. So these are people called the macwaggy.
1:33.7	And the macawaggy regal are specifically the foot ironers. Macquar means iron. And it's been going on for hundreds of years.
1:40.9	And on every street corner, you'd have a man who does urining you take your ironing to him
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