Don’t Tell the Bride reaches another level
Scott and Chris were absorbed by the new series of Don’t Tell the Bride. A groom who worked at a zoo had spent money on fibreglass animals while buying a wedding dress online for £100. The episode reinforced Scott’s belief that the programme had learned to make every decision more alarming than the last.
The wedding discussion also exposed another of Chris’s packing rules. He had taken one pair of pants for two nights in Edinburgh because, in his calculation, they had not been away for two complete days. Scott insisted that every new morning required a clean pair, regardless of arrival and departure times.
A pheromone party comes to Radio 1
Scott had discovered pheromone parties, where people smelled T-shirts worn by potential dates and selected the scent they found most attractive. The show adapted the concept with three anonymous pairs of underwear supplied by Radio 1 DJs.
The pants were sealed in bags labelled A, B and C. Scott and Chris smelled each in turn, using coffee beans to reset their noses between samples. Neither knew the identities, and both had to accept that choosing a favourite would create an on-air match with a colleague.
The recorded reveal messages made the process stranger. A rejected participant expressed mock offence, while the chosen match was ready to arrange a date. Scott had wanted a simple demonstration of a new dating trend and found himself publicly judging the natural odour of people he worked with.
Everybody believes they invented something
The previous week’s argument about FOMO expanded into a full listener feature. Helen remained convinced that she and her university friends had created both “fear of missing out” and its abbreviation in 2006, despite published examples from earlier years.
Other listeners claimed pizza with salad cream, boat shoes with shorts, a symbol for love, butter on both sides of toast and a long list of phrases already in widespread use. Scott understood the feeling because he regarded “off of” and several plural constructions as his own, even when evidence suggested otherwise.
Greg James played Real or No Real. One genuine surprise was a poster billing Trevor Nelson as “Trevor ‘Mad Hatter’ Nelson”, a DJ name neither Scott nor Greg had heard before.
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