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Welcome to this episode of Dirty Motherpucker.

I'm your host, Anna White House, the founder of Motherpucker, and I'm joined

by the one, the very only Polly Hazelwood. Sorry, I didn't realize I had to say my name then.

Say your name, say your name. So, this week has been with its highs and its lows. The low was,

I messaged my mum last week

and I was going away for a mini break with my boyfriend

and I said, yeah, mum, going away for the weekend, can't wait.

And she just responded with, have a good time, winky face.

What, like, sexual winky face? Sexual winky face.

Okay. And I was like, oh my God. This reminds me of the time that you went in on me, because I was,

I was constructing the winky face with, like, shapes and symbols. Do you remember that? No.

Yeah, you really told me off for it.

You're like, please, if you're ever going to put a winky face on a message, use the actual face.

She was basically emoticoning from, you were emojiing from 1999.

You were doing like the semicolon with a smile.

I was like, just use what's available to you with modern technology.

It was such a trauma, though, because there's just no symbol I want to receive from my mother

than the, oy,oi,oi, oh, you imagine if there's a couple of Frankfurters on there.

She'd be throwing those down the old corridor, wouldn't she?

Well, it was like, I have said this before,

but it bears repeating.

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