LIFE LESSONS: "Be very selective about the WhatsApp groups you join..."
The Wittering Whitehalls
Global
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🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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A cautionary tale from Mrs Whitehall about the pitfalls of partaking in your local social media groups!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:11.5 | Welcome back, DELs, to the bonus episode. |
| 0:16.0 | You like a bonus episode, don't you, Michael? |
| 0:18.0 | You like anything with the word bonus in it. |
| 0:20.6 | You're there. |
| 0:21.9 | This is our Thursday visitation to the thorny question of life lessons and life hacks. |
| 0:28.6 | This week is quite an interesting one, Mr. Whitehall. |
| 0:32.1 | One that I think you might have limited input to, but I think I'm going to go there anyway, because it's about WhatsApp. |
| 0:42.8 | To the Whittering White Talls, we've just moved into a close of about 20 houses, and I have a |
| 0:47.7 | feeling the next few months are going to be rough. There's a neighbourhood WhatsApp that we were |
| 0:53.0 | strongly encouraged to join, and it's revealed what we're |
| 0:56.2 | going to be dealing with everyone's always bitching at each other about parking or where someone |
| 1:01.7 | has put their bins and the curtain twitching is beyond a joke if there are kids outside playing |
| 1:07.7 | someone will message into the WhatsApp group to say that they're trying to concentrate |
| 1:11.5 | or rest or to keep the noise down. The other day, one of those electric scooters that you can hire |
| 1:17.3 | was propped up against a lamp post and people nearly lost their minds. I can't deal with it, |
| 1:22.9 | but I don't want to leave the group and for us to become that family. We're already the only one's renting |
| 1:28.7 | on the clothes and I just want people to be welcoming. What would Hillary and Michael do? Help, help, help, |
| 1:35.0 | Jenny, a fake name to stay safe. Two fake names in a week, Michael Whitehall. Jenny. So what do you |
| 1:42.4 | feel about that, Michael? Do you even know what I'm talking about? |
| 1:46.2 | I have absolutely no idea. And also this close and twitching your curtains. The curtain twitching |
| 1:53.9 | is figurative because this is literally digital curtain twitching because you're on a WhatsApp group. |
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