TQ36: What's a common social etiquette rule that makes no sense?

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Every Tuesday, we grab a past question from the Facebook group, then Meredith and Scott answer it and read some of the answers given by other listeners. The question for this episode: What's a common social etiquette rule that makes no sense? Links for this episode: Meredith’s foot fetish episode: https://www.meredithforreal.com/podcast-episodes/episode/7cc267d5/ep-274-whats-up-with-foot-fetishes Euphemisms for farting: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/different-words-for-fart_b_3498191 Meredith’s podcast is Meredith For Real – the Curious Introvert: https://MeredithForReal.com To check out the new Tuesday Question and get in the discussion, join us at WhatWasThatLike.com/facebook. Sponsor deals: Head to http://Lumen.me/WWTL for 20% off your purchase. Go to bluenile.com to shop Blue Nile, the original online jeweler since 1999! Follow “MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark and Mysterious Stories” on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at BetterHelp.com/WHATWAS and get on your way to being your best self. To get 15% off your next gift, go to UNCOMMONGOODS.com/WHATWAS Sign up today at https://www.butcherbox.com/whatwas and use code whatwas to get chicken breast, salmon or ground beef FREE in every order for a year, plus $20 off your first order. Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/WHAT Go to Quince.com/whatwas for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns! Go to cookunity.com/What or enter code What before checkout for 50% off your first week. Go to Seed.com/what and use code 25WHAT to get 25% off your first month. Go to storyworth.com/what to save $10 on your first purchase! Get 15% off OneSkin with the code [WHATWAS] at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney.com/whatwas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Scott, and you're listening to What Was That Like? New episodes with guests telling their
0:05.9	amazing stories are every other Friday, but today we have the Every Other Tuesday, Tuesday question.
0:13.0	In the podcast Facebook group, we have a new thought-provoking question every Tuesday, and it
0:17.7	generates some really interesting and sometimes deep discussions. We'd love to have you join us.
0:22.6	Just go to what was that like.com slash Facebook.
0:25.6	But if you're not in that group, we bring it to you here in a short episode every other Tuesday.
0:31.6	We dig into the group archives and find one of the past Tuesday questions that we've discussed.
0:36.6	Then Meredith and I answered that question and we talk about some of the answers Tuesday questions that we've discussed. Then Meredith and I answered that
0:38.4	question and we talk about some of the answers that came in from other listeners. And in a few days,
0:43.6	I'm talking this coming Friday, a brand new What Was That Like episode? Let's do it. And we're back.
0:52.4	Here we are. Here we are.
0:55.3	I got a question for you.
1:02.8	Before we got on here, I was on Facebook and I saw that you posted that you were looking for OB, GYN recommendations.
1:05.7	And I don't want to cross any boundaries, but what's going on?
1:08.4	Really, I just need a GYN. I don't need no OB.
1:09.6	I just need the G and the Y and the N. Oh, I just need a GYN. I don't need no OB. I just need the G and the Y in the N.
1:12.0	Oh, I thought it.
1:15.2	Okay.
1:16.6	OB would be obstetrics.
1:18.1	No, I know what it is, but I thought that's what I read in your post.
1:21.3	Yeah, because I didn't realize as someone who's child-free, I did not realize that the OB was obstetric.
1:27.9	You know, I'm just used to calling it OB-G-G-Y-N.
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