Coffee Moaning for Monday. Yes, what a way to start the week.
The title today is "Wisconsin Tragedy, Europe Unrest, Colin Pitchfork, 3 min Dementia Test & Knitting." This looks action packed.
To start off, they sing Happy Birthday to Fleur who Mark states is "too cool for school" and won't be watching this. That makes most of the UK population. "My stepdaughter, my stepdaughter." They are both wearing sweaters, Nads in a turtleneck and Mark in a hoodie thing. Nadia scrunches the wet hair a bit and asks "what do you think of Mark's jumper? I love this jumper, I bought it for him, he's had it for years." Mark gets up to, well I would say model but you know Mark, he always has to make a spectacle of himself.
Nadia asks if anyone else used to call this a "hunky jumper" as a teen. He continues to dance like the moron he is whilst Nadia yip yaps. Mark comes back and asks what that dance is called.
The dance of desperation? 
Mark calls it the moon cube. It doesn't matter what you call, it just looks SAD. Mark hasn't shaved and Nadia is not amused. "You've got a hunky jumper on and you haven't shaved, what a waste!" Mark says his hair grows faster now that he is older and Nadia trimmed his brows.
Nadia wants to talk about competitiveness and how Mark and Kaye are the most competitive people she has ever met. Talk about her FitBit and how steps don't feel real if they aren't recorded. Scratching intensifies and Nadia says when they were much thinner a couple of years ago, doing 16/8 and doing between 10 and 15,000 steps a day everyday and they were very competitive with it. One day, Nadia beat him and Mark got up at midnight and ran up and down the steps to beat her.
How mature. Zoe asks for Nadia's curly hair routine and Mark says she will show you. She proceeds with the curly girl method bs.
If you have curly hair, you were probably doing this airdrying before it was a thing. I was. Talk about loads of people having birthdays at the moment in chat. Someone asks about board games with Mark and Nadia says he wins everything. Nadia says her mum and Nanny Di are very competitive with board games. "Your mum is terrible. She stands up and everything." Talk about Mark's competitiveness and Nadia asks if it has made him unhappy. He says yes but wouldn't give it up. Nadia says when she is competitive she is not pleasant and she doesn't like it. Kerry asks about the conditioner and Nads says to leave it in. Wendy says competitiiveness takes her over, so much so that she threw a cricket bat at her nephew, so that he couldn't mark her out!
That reminds me of phys. ed class in grade 9 (14yo). We were playing netball and this chick on our team was so pissed off that her teammates (us) weren't making an effort. We were just goofing around and didn't give a tit. She was screaming at us "Oh my God, this team sucks! I'm on a team of losers!" We just laughed at her because this was gym class, not the finals of a regional championship. It didn't even contribute to our marks. Silly witch.
Who is a sore loser? Zoe says her ex-bf was so competitive he would strap his FitBit to his dog to win.
Not surprised he is an ex. Sounds like something Mark would do. Wendy says the bat did not hit her nephew, in case you want to know. Who is a cheat? Nadia says she would cheat to end a game. Mark says that is throwing the towel in. Tracey cheats at UNO.
SUV runs into Christmas parade in Wisconsin, 5 dead, 40 injured. Is it terrorist or race thing? Nadia talks about bollards along the street and how normal they are now.
We have them in front of stores because some people manage to step on the gas and go through the front window. Nadia says we should never name terrorist suspects and not give them glory.
I dunno, isn't that making a tiered system of crime perps? What happened to naming and shaming? Mark warns off ChiChi for some reason. Russ says they think it was someone escaping the scene of another crime. Colin Pitchfork back in the bin for sidling up to girls in the street. Talk about him going to an open prison. Nadia rants "How can this happen? What if someone hadn't made a complaint? Fuckin hell!" More blah, blah.
Riots in Europe all COVID related. Mark mentions Nadia and Loose company were locked in the studio for hours due to anti-vaxx protesters. Nadia talks about people being fearful of being injected by monkey spunk.
Nadia recalls being excited getting a vaccine. Mark says they have said they are not in favour of mandatory vaccines and Nadia and her homeopathy
rubbish regime. Gabrielle worries about the unrest that would happen in the UK if another lockdown happens. Mark says the irony of antivax protestors is the spread that occurs amongst them. Nadia tells us she has to go see her dad before he goes off for his op and she starts crying. "He's just oooolllld." Mark says he will be fine. They start cuddling.
Nadia mentions Lynda Bellingham and how she would say "oh don't be nice to me, I shall cry." Nadia says she was trying to control herself and rebuffed his hug initially.
Knitting boom after lockdown. Nadia says the pic of the baby with the jumper shows the mum couldn't knit. They show the pic and the baby is wearing essentially a vest, because mummy couldn't do the sleeves.
Mark has a problem with knitting, quelle surprise. He says the jumper he is wearing is starting to itch.
Check the label, bet there's a 100% acrylic. Nadia rubs her face on his hood and says "ooh, it is a bit itchy." He finds knitwear claustraphobic, the poor baby.
So 2020 was the year for baking and 2021 is the year for knitting and crafts. Nadia says that will be good for Dina, "Please follow my sister on Instagram...they are having a really difficult time."
"Who's a knitter here?"
I'm a wannabe. Someone says "Claustraphobic in Knitwear" makes a great album title. Mark thanks everyone who sent birthday cards. Mark's aunt used to a knitwear designer.
Three minute dementia test. Nadia screams she doesn't want to do it. Mark asks if he should park it till tomorrow. He plows ahead though. Question is do you have difficulty making decisions about plans, what to eat, wear.
I have had that all my life. Trouble focusing on TV, tablet, music etc.? Do you forget the names of general objects and refer to them as that thing?
When I am verbally lazy. Nadia says sometimes and screams "I'M ON MY WAY TO DEMENTIA!!" Do you get easily confused driving or using tools, lost in familar places? Do you miss social cues which lead to being misunderstood or staying on a topic that others are disinterested in? Mark says she stays on a topic and BOOM!
"How bleeping dare you? You never shut the duck up! Oh my God are you kidding? That's not a very nice thing to say." Mark says it was a gag and Nadia disagrees. He mimicks how she says ARRgument. Mark says she doesn't get the gist of what he is saying and Nadia says that is because she isn't listening to him. Do you get confused recalling the day of the week, month, year and do you repeat yourself in conversations? Mark says she still can't remember Kiki's birthday.
"If you sit here now and try to say that you do not repeat yourself in a conversation Mark, you are in trouble." Need help getting dressed, take meds or handling finances? Are all of the above getting worse? Nadia says they are getting better since her HRT. "Oooh I feel quite good." Do these difficulties reflect change in how you were years ago? Mark says yes, because she was functioning worse a few years ago. So Mark puts in the email to get the results. He also notifies us that his IQ test came out to 150
. Nadia gets up abruptly as Mark reads out the results. They are an indication that she has a mild case of symptoms common in dementia. "Oh come on!" Of course the quiz is not a subtitute for a test done by a qualified physician. Melanie says if you are worried you've got dementia, you haven't got it. Mention cold water and COFFEE are great for Alzheimer's.
Of course Mark would emphasize the coffee. Mark says based on a couple sometimes, they are playing fast and loose with the conclusion. Nadia asks if there is money involved in this. In any event, Nadia feels better after the questions.
Breaking news: Tiger King is sent to medical prison due to prostate cancer. Michelle says you have just signed up for a mailing list and they will now sell your data for money. Now Nadia is scared, because someone wrote something in the chatbox that scared her. Kerry said a friend of her's passed a dementia test in February, but by April had full blown dementia.
BLACK FRIDAY TALK TOMORROW. Happy birthday to Annette. CLICK THE THUMBS UP. Happy birthday to Katie and Jennifer. WISH ME LUCK FOLKS TODAY, MY DAD IS GOING INTO HOSPITAL AND I'M GOING TO THE DENTIST. NO WONDER I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE STARTING MONDAY TODAY. Laters!
*pretends to give a tit*
Mark will have said, "hey sweedie, love your work- making your boobs bounce in the new bathroom, it's just so amazing, YOU'RE amazing, so talented..... anyway its there any chance you could take them down, we've got to give the subs something for their money and there's no real content coming so this is the big reveal.... thanks sweedie, love your work though, you're just so talented sweedie.......etc etc"
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