Orienting Toilet Paper Rolls, Sending Insincere Invitations, FOMOing on Venmo, and More
Were You Raised By Wolves?
Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Etiquette, manners, and beyond! In this bonus episode, Nick and Leah answer listener questions about installing toilet paper rolls, responding to insincere invitations, changing RSVPs, declining photos at tourist attractions, making inside jokes on Venmo, and much more. Please follow us! (We'd send you a handwritten thank-you note if we could.)
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QUESTIONS FROM THE WILDERNESS:
- What is the correct way to install a toilet paper roll?
- A friend invited me to an expensive destination birthday knowing I couldn't afford it...was I really invited?
- If you RSVP "no" and then later discover you can make it after all, should you ask to be re-invited?
- How do you politely decline to have your photo taken at tourist attractions?
- Is it rude to have inside jokes on Venmo?
THINGS MENTIONED DURING THE SHOW
- Toilet Paper Orientation on Wikipedia
- Toilet-paper roll patent from 1891
- Trailer for "Over the Top" with Sylvester Stallone
- The view from the outdoor observation deck at Hudson Yards
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CREDITS
Hosts: Nick Leighton & Leah Bonnema
Producer & Editor: Nick Leighton
Theme Music: Rob Paravonian
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there's Nick and it's Leah. Real quick thing before we get going, please |
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| 0:15.4 | Just a quick little and it makes such a big difference for us. |
| 0:18.4 | We would really appreciate it. |
| 0:20.1 | We really would. |
| 0:20.7 | So please do that and thank you. Thank you. And now let's start the show. |
| 0:24.7 | Yay! |
| 0:25.9 | Everybody it's Nick Leighton and I'm Leobonema and we're in New Yorkema and we had so many great questions from you guys. |
| 0:34.5 | Oh, that's a good one. |
| 0:37.5 | Thank you. And these questions are from the wilderness obviously. |
| 0:40.3 | So let's just get right down to it. The first question, oh my goodness, divisive. I am ready for some email. |
| 0:47.0 | Quote, what is the correct way to put in a roll of toilet paper? |
| 0:50.0 | I love this because I have friends who are passionate about this. Yes people who |
| 0:55.4 | care and they typically have the same answer. Oh really? I think so. I've had |
| 1:00.4 | people coming on either side. Really? Okay. By either side I mean either side of the role. |
| 1:05.6 | Oh. |
| 1:06.6 | So what does the quote-unquote correct answer? |
| 1:08.7 | Oh, I have no idea. |
| 1:09.7 | Oh, come now. |
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