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Skeptics with a K

Episode #007

Skeptics with a K

Skeptic Media Limited

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Science

4.8924 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2009

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Acupuncture, pain pixies, breast enlargement by hypnosis and the fruit fly sexual tsunami. All this and more in the latest Skeptics with a K!

Transcript

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0:00.0

There was no possibility of a walk that day.

0:03.0

What's that from?

0:05.0

It's the first line of Jane,

0:07.0

I think.

0:08.0

You don't know that being you're sort of arty-farty.

0:10.0

I've read you here, but I haven't memorized the first line.

0:12.0

Victorian literature is not my thing.

0:13.6

No, fucking boring.

0:15.0

Eddie.

0:16.0

It's like, oh, and then she was feeling faint so he had to come and sit beside her

0:20.8

while she recovered her feminine. I really like what of the worlds though I think those are too very varied if I

0:26.9

think what the world doesn't really fit into what you consider in Victorian

0:29.5

literature it was literature published while Queen Victoria was the Queen.

0:32.8

Yeah, that's not the definition of Victorian.

0:34.8

Well, maybe it was a definition of Victoria literature.

0:37.8

You wouldn't consider it part of the canonical Victorian literature pieces.

0:41.8

It would be... Yeah, it was a new type of novel, I suppose.

0:44.0

It's not what I consider Victorian literature.

0:46.0

You'd be dickens.

0:47.0

It's got to be written in an apostolic reform.

0:49.0

Yeah.

0:50.0

People go for walks and have lots of money.

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