Strikes, outdoor drinking and finger nails

About this episode

The episode discusses various topics including Blackwall Tunnel fines, outdoor drinking, the purpose of human fingernails, and tube strikes.

This week... 🚗 Blackwall Tunnel Fines How bad can it really be? Turns out… quite bad. Admin, confusion and accusations of immorality 🍻 Outdoor Drinking A national pastime the second the sun appears. Glorious! 💅 Why Do Humans Have Fingernails? Useful tool or weird evolutionary leftover? The kind of question that probably didn’t need answering… but gets it anyway. 🚇 Tube Strikes Disruption, debate and everyone suddenly becoming a transport expert. 🎙️ Mildly Informed returns, with Absolute Radio’s Richie Firth and The Bugle’s Chris Skinner once again tackling life’s most important questions… and answering almost none of them. This week’s episode drifts from infrastructure frustration to pub garden philosophy, with a brief but committed detour into human biology. It’s another episode that goes exactly where it wants — and nowhere particularly useful. PLUS — over on Patreon, the lads get stuck into the football concept of “must win”. What does it actually mean? Is every game “must win”? And why does it always feel slightly dramatic? 👉 Support Richie & Chris here: patreon.com/mildlyinformed Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Richie Firth, Chris Skinner

Topics covered

• Blackwall Tunnel fines
• outdoor drinking
• human fingernails
• tube strikes
• transport debate
• pub garden philosophy

Keywords

• Blackwall Tunnel
• fines
• outdoor drinking
• fingernails
• tube strikes
• transport
• pub garden
• evolution

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Absolute Radio, The Bugle

Places: Blackwall Tunnel

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