The programme marked International Women’s Day
Monday’s show included team member Helena and a focus on the women listeners and the team wanted to celebrate.
The day’s normal silliness continued, but International Women’s Day provided a thread through the programme and the team highlighted women who mattered to them.
Screen sharing had created a new generation of screenshot mistakes
Months of remote working had expanded the list of ways people could accidentally reveal something.
It was no longer only sending a screenshot to the person being discussed.
People were also sharing their screens on Zoom and Teams without checking every tab or chat window visible along the top.
One caller’s colleague sent private commentary about somebody in a meeting while the very chat containing that commentary was being shared with the room.
Scott called it the 2021 version of the classic screenshot nightmare.
Tom’s friend sent a celebrity nude to the landlord
Tom supplied the most spectacular example.
A university friend had a group chat with housemates.
He wanted to send them a naked selfie of a well-known British actor.
Earlier that day, however, he had been messaging the landlord about getting keys cut.
He selected the wrong conversation.
The nude celebrity photo went to the landlord.
The landlord did not even recognise the actor.
From his perspective, one of his student tenants had apparently sent an unsolicited naked photograph for absolutely no reason.
Scott and Chris were fascinated by the impossibility of explaining the mistake without making the whole thing sound worse.
Michelle’s boyfriend sent the photo meant for his friend
Listener Michelle had another version.
She and her boyfriend originally met on Tinder.
When they had just started talking, he had taken a screenshot of Michelle’s profile so he could show a friend who he was messaging.
Then he sent the screenshot to Michelle.
The mistake was relatively innocent compared with Tom’s story.
It still instantly revealed the private conversation happening around their new relationship.
Scott pointed out that everybody does this.
The danger is assuming technology will always keep the two chats separate.
The Who Game remembered even more disposable culture
Monday’s Who Game returned with old adverts, products and tiny habits nobody had discussed for years.
The feature was increasingly becoming a catalogue of things which had once been completely normal and then quietly vanished without anybody noticing.
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