u/LousingPlatypus

I have a *cough* friend who smokes cannabis regularly, often in different settings.

He’s noticed that regardless of whether he smokes it in his back garden or the forest near his house, lighting up a joint seems to pique the curiosity of different types of animals.

When at the house, the neighbour’s cat usually makes its way into his garden to investigate (the next door neighbours’ dogs HATE it though and will bark continuously)

Likewise, if he smokes in natural surroundings, he notices squirrels and other wildlife a lot more often, seemingly lingering around the smell.

Is there any truth in the theory that certain types of animals enjoy the smell of weed, or at least they are curious about it?

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I’ve lived here for a few years now and the driving in general is terrible compared to most EU countries I’ve been to (sorry but it is)

One thing I can’t understand though is why Lithuanian drivers just completely ignoring pedestrians waiting to cross at a zebra crossing. I’ve looked up the laws and it’s no different to anywhere else, so I’m just wondering why the drivers continue to fly through zebra crossings knowing there’s people standing and waiting to cross?

I’ve even had a couple of pricks beep at me because they’re not paying attention and driving really fast, having to slam their brakes because they didn’t notice me, like it’s my fault

This show has so many scenes, references and throwaway quotes that brilliantly encapsulate the weird nuances of human nature, British culture and life in general.

Peep Show captures so many oddly specific little details of life that you’d normally never even notice or think twice about, but once you see them portrayed, you can’t help thinking, ‘haha fuck, that’s bang on’

For example - when Mark meets Sophie’s parents for the first time, and Sophie comes down the stairs with this mental hat, the whole family singing some weird birthday song. Mark and Jez share a look as if to say ‘what the fuck?’

I just think that scene perfectly portrays how every family probably does some mental shit that they’ve never really considered, but to an outsider experiencing it for the first time it’s, well… absolutely fucking mental.

Or when Jez rumbles the ‘velvet spoon routine’ where Mark is silently stirring a cup of tea to avoid clinking the side of the cup and alerting Jeremy. Mark’s reaction when he realised he’s been caught is still one of the funniest parts of the show to me.

Without sounding like a wanker, I don’t know, it just perfectly encapsulates the human nature of someone getting caught red-handed, and the weird relationships we have with the people closest to us, however dysfunctional it/we may be.

I want to hear your most thought-provoking / interesting / controversial thoughts over the parts of Peep Show that seem to get lost in the shuffle or otherwise overlooked, when people talk about this wonderful gem of television.

Obviously, the World Trade Centre is infamous for what happened on 11th September 2001 - however, as someone who was born only a few years previous I wanted to ask whether the WTC had a huge cultural signifcance before 9/11?

Was it a household name when people mentioned New York and the US, or was its fame found in the aftermath or 9/11?