them, are you, if they've been preparing food?

Yeah, I might have been doing Spotted Dick all afternoon.

And if you then turn up with something, it's a pudding that we have here.

Oh, right, right.

Yeah.

And you have meat pies, for God's sake.

You're in no position to judge other countries' cuisine.

What is that one all about, by the way?

What is something incredibly rude someone could do?

I think, well, I think on any sort of date, not asking questions about the other person.

You're there.

It's not an interview per se, but you want to be interested in them.

You don't just talk about yourself.

You should ask questions about them.

They should ask questions about you.

them, are you, if they've been preparing food?

[laughs]

"So the advice I'm after is what should you do when you get, uh, that really piece of chewy meat during a meal in a restaurant or at someone else's house? Should you just swallow it down or discreetly spit it out and leave it on the side of the plate? Help appreciated."

[laughs] Yes.

Um, generally if you...

Things like gristle, fish bones, bones, meat bones, you can't swallow them, so you are gonna have to remove it from your mouth.

So I would spit it into your dominant hand.

Use your non-dominant hand to shield, and then place it on the side of the plate.

Okay.

"Hi, boys.

I work in a secondary school, and one morning I'm walking into work, coffee in hand, when I pass a group of year 10 lads huddled together, looking deeply suspicious.

You know the look, the kind that screams we are absolutely making terrible choices right now.

But it was before work hours, and quite frankly, I wasn't being paid enough at 8:00 AM to investigate.

Fast-forward later that day when the gossip mill starts turning.

Turns out one of these lads had let his mate shave his head in school.

Prosecco.

[laughs]

Um, so yeah, no, she has.

He's sort of shortened the state banquets a little bit.

He's, there used to be, like, the des- what was called the dessert course.

Now that was fruit.

It's not pudding.

There was pudding, and then there was dessert, which is a, dessert, fruit de dessert, which was literally a piece of fruit that you would cut with cutlery.

And then no one really made new ones, and you're now kind of revolutionizing, modernizing.

Yeah, same with me.

Yeah, but he was...

He'd only...

He, he was basically a couple of years ahead of me, and then he, he, th- he, he graduated, then came straight back to be here 'cause he's that good.

And then I didn't see him again for years.

And then when me and Rosie first started going out, one of the first places we went together was Ashley, Rosie's...

One of b- one of Rosie's best mates when she was a kid.

I get it

Why do we have to do that?

Yeah, so sort of at the start of the Georgian period of history in Britain, so George I, it was all men down one side, all women down the other side of the table, and you didn't have the concept of dating as we have now, and courtship.

And so as life began to progress, they thought, "Well, actually, it, let's sort of alternate the genders." Obviously, it was Georgian England, and they assumed that there were just two genders, which we can unpick that another time, but just we're going with what they believed.

So it was this boy, girl, boy, girl, which I think is probably preferable to all men down one side, all women down another.

And the etiquette was that if you were married, you were actually seated apart from each other.

Not drastically far apart, just a little bit, so you can talk to other people, 'cause you, you do live with them, so you might want a bit of a, a change, as much as we love our spouses.

If you were engaged, if we look at Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, you know, they, they weren't going off to the cinema and sitting in a, in an olive garden having a nice get-to-know-you dinner.

Um, any advice there of how you can kind of be minimum about the etiquette stuff and, like, the table settings and the fanciness, but still kind of get the social connection in, and still get the hospitality into it?