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At the bottom of the post are the photos you’ll need to picture Olly’s mum’s erotic occasional table with detachable stiffy, and listener Erica’s sweary embroidery and butt planter. Oh, and beware, the pics are NSFW unless you work at the Saucy Decor Factory.

We also consider:

Cheesecake Factory’s most ordered item
Cheesecake Etc
cooking slugs
gifts that the recipient asked for then never uses
those cow sculptures that are all through town
sextons
Torajan death rituals (CW for this link: images of death)
Spotify making you gnash your teeth when you just want to play an album
too many boules
not noticing that your home is full of clowns
and
how to own a cemetery.

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Check out our other work:

Olly handily lists most of his work at ollymann.com, where you’ll find his several podcasts including his news show The Week Unwrapped.

Helen will be appearing at Nerd Nite in Vancouver on 10 September, talking about mysterious surprises in Scandi versions of Dracula – tickets are on sale here – and if you’re the kind of person who appreciates sweary embroidery in the home, check out the Allusionist’s Four Letter Word season. Some of the episodes are about swears; some are not; and a recent one featured a familiar special guest…

…Martin! Singing a new song about poisonous plants, which you can get from his Bandcamp, along with his other songs. And keep up with his Beatles covers project at instagram.com/MartinAustwick.

OK are you ready for the NSFW decor photos?

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