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Standard Issue for all women. Hello and welcome to episode 276 of The Standard Issue Podcast.

I'm Mickey Ninan and I've had a bath. No one likes a show off, Mick.

I thought you were going to say no one likes a shower, Jen. I was like no, I'm not saying.

I'm not like showers are bad, baths are good, but baths are great, right?

I've even never heard of that. No, in my own bath, which makes it better, Hannah.

In your bedroom? Yeah, the one in our bedroom. Yeah.

Because the last time I had a bath, water then poured through the ceiling of the lounge.

So, a bath has been out of order. I've got to say this first bath back wasn't massively

relaxing because of the water pouring through the lounge of the ceiling the last time.

But I've got that one out the way. When you say you've got a bath in your bedroom,

I feel like you need to specify it's actually, you know, not like a tub or anything.

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