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Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Quickie: Are you a phubber?

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Anna and Polly delve right into phubbing: the act of ignoring someone you are with and giving attention to your mobile phone instead. Researchers found almost half of relationships are affected by phubbing, so how bad can it get? And what can you do to help?

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a global player original podcast.

0:10.9

Welcome to this dirty motherpucker, Quickie.

0:17.9

This is your podcasting bit on the side with me, Anna White House,

0:27.5

and Polly Hazelwood, my best mate in this room in the house. Best mate currently. Let's get into this topic and we'll see what happens after that. Current status. So, I want to talk about the term

0:32.7

fubbing. It's something that only came on my radar recently. And it has been noted as one of the main reasons for couples divorcing.

0:41.7

What is it, Paul?

0:42.7

Okay, so it's a combination of phone and snubbing, and therefore you get fubbing, and it's basically the act of ignoring one of your friends or your partner in favour of using your phone.

0:55.6

Guilty?

0:56.3

Yeah.

0:57.0

Absolutely true story there.

0:58.2

I think possibly everyone's guilty of that at some point though.

1:02.3

Some more than others, I'd say.

1:04.1

Some more than others.

1:05.4

But then the thing is, is that my job is on my phone.

1:08.2

So is that phone snubbing or is that just working? Is that just

1:11.6

um, fworking? You've got a really good excuse there, aren't you? Am I just fwerking all the time?

1:17.3

I mean, I mean, look, listen, I've also got ADHD and so I... You haven't mentioned it ever.

1:22.6

No, no, I know. I know. I'll just put it out there now so everyone knows. And so I definitely have got the tendency to drift off, and I would call that drubbing.

1:30.4

Drift off?

1:31.1

Yeah.

1:31.6

No, that's you just standing vacantly in front of a lamp post.

1:34.8

I've seen it happen.

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