97: Beauty's in the eye of the beer holder

Planet Porky

Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

3.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another trip to Planet Porky with Mike Parry and Lesley-Ann Jones as your guides. Today's talking points include: Fray Bentos pies, addiction to coffee, Rod Stewart's trademarks, Shepherd's Bush Empire, laundry problems, ugly people, school nicknames, the Boomtown Rats, making the Sunday Times Rich List, the possibility of normal life returning, fancy swimming pools, the latest book about Prince Andrew and the sad passing of Millie Small. Meanwhile LAJ shares a stationery related misunderstanding and Porky gives us a life hack on how to iron a shirt without the presence of an iron. Inspirational stuff...

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, you are listening once again to Life on Planet Porky.
0:26.4	Thank you very much indeed for joining us, and we are delighted.
0:30.3	I'm sure I'm speaking on behalf of Leslie Ann, who of course is in her self-isolation studio.
0:35.8	I'm sure I'm speaking for both of us in saying,
0:37.9	what a thrill it is, Leslie Ann,
0:39.2	to be able to communicate to our audience in these difficult times.
0:43.4	Well, it changed our lives, didn't it, Mike?
0:45.4	Yeah.
0:46.0	Well, I have to admit that you're the person who got it all up and running.
0:48.7	I have no clue whatsoever on technology.
0:51.8	So yourself with your wonderful daughter, Mia, who is an expert in
0:57.0	these sort of things, getting it together, has not only changed our lives, but hopefully
1:00.9	are millions of people out there who are now aware of Planet Porky. Now, talking about Planet Porky,
1:07.9	Leslie, Anne, a little bit dismayed yesterday to get a barrage of criticism
1:12.5	because I proved once again, I am the man of the people, and I have no objection to eating
1:20.6	a fray bentos pie in a tin on a Sunday during lockdown, because I am a very vulnerable individual when it comes to the COVID-19
1:30.4	virus. I can't spend hours standing in queues at supermarkets. I have to grab what I can get. But I was
1:37.5	roundly attacked by a lot of people and say I've got no class. Unfairly so, I'd have to say, I mean,
1:42.8	what are you supposed to eat? Yeah. There's a lot of food snobbery around at the say, I mean, what are you supposed to eat?
1:44.3	Yeah.
1:46.9	There's a lot of food snobbery around at the moment.
1:52.5	I mean, what do they want you to have, artisan loaves, compost tea, heritage turkey?
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