Show 892: Let’s Normalise Briefcase Schoolbags For a Decade

If you're listening to this while getting a tattoo, or perhaps you're getting a piercing of some kind, or perhaps a combination of the two, tattooing involves piercing your skin with something sharp.

doesn't it? I think so.

I have two tattoos.

I've been pierced with a tattoo gun hundreds of times within the space of four hours along my arm.

Some fella came along and he said, right, it's your turn to get tattooed.

You sit down there and going to draw a cat on your forearm as you're As requested.

It's not a domestic cat.

It's a panther.

It's close enough to being a cat.

Close enough for me.

Not a pink panther, a proper panther with a snake wrapped around it.

a traditional tribal tattoo.

I'm from the tribe known as cat owners.

I know it's not officially a tribe.

It's not something where we have meetings for the whole cat owning community.

We can't.

There's billions of us.

There's literally billions of cat owners on the planet, billions of them, billions and billions and billions.

Now, of course, legally, if you were to try to define that, you'd say a lot of countries have laws where you can't own a cat.

So a lot of those people officially are not cat owners, possibly myself included.

I don't know if there's anything in the law here that says you're officially the owner of a cat, if you have a cat in your house.

If there is, I've been the owner of at least 20, 25 cats in my adult life.

I've owned them.

The only ones that you're just, I don't know, if you rescue one and then just keep it for a while and then find an owner.

Are you an owner? I suppose if you don't own a cat, you're a custodian of a cat.