Midlifing
Two friends Lee and Simon have serious conversations about silly things, and silly conversations about serious things. Together they dig into the pleasures, absurdities and imperfections of being human.
Midlifing
Dry humping the walls
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Lee Miller and Simon Ellis
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Episode 19
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Lee and Simon start talking about being at school and end up at burgeoning sexuality and Bob the Drag Queen.
Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net.
Related links (and necessary corrections):
- Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull and disruption to travel (for 6 days, NOT 10 days -- come on Simon, sort it out), April 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull
- Tsunami, 24 December 2004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami
- Grange Hill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grange_Hill
- Comprehensive schools UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_school_(England_and_Wales)
- Grammar School: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school
- Eleven Plus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleven-plus
- Margaret Thatcher did indeed go to a grammar school: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/16/margaret-thatcher-grammar-school-social-mobility
- Social class in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class_in_the_United_Kingdom
- Class and supermarkets in the UK: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2004/mar/12/foodanddrink.shopping
- Sophie Pender article about reverse Bullingdon club: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/06/bullingdon-in-reverse-working-class-student-93-club-taking-on-elitism
- Chav: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav
- 93% club: https://www.93percent.club/
- Arts Emergency: https://www.arts-emergency.org/
- Wellington College: https://www.wellington-college.school.nz/
- Gavin Williamson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Williamson
- AFL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Football_League
- Gary Ablett Snr taking marks: https://youtu.be/znqklBRKXpU
- AFL screamers: https://youtu.be/Igk8sL26pCM
- Peter Schmeichel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schmeichel
- Bob the Drag Queen: https://www.bobthedr
Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net.
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