THAT'S SLIGHTLY INTERESTING: where paying through the nose came from

0:00The Breakfast Club podcast. That's slightly interesting. Hey Sue, welcome. You had a good morning. Yeah, good morning Sue. Thank you. Right, go. Good morning. Oh, you're nice. We need you to be judges. Sue, with the rest of us, a speedy takes on the fact. So, OK, Sue. Hey, Sue, quick question. Do you have any Viking heritage in you that you know of? No. No. OK, fair enough. Well, today's about the origin of the saying, paying through the nose. You know, in like something real expensive and you like this new iPhone that you're all about. The new iPhone, you go, man, I've had to pay through the nose for that. Before and a half grand for it, apparently. So apparently, they're saying dates back to around the ninth century with the Vikings. When they used to have the pole tax. So every time they'd gather around in the village, everyone have to bring their sort of their coins and their their their trinkets. Their trinkets, um, to goblets, to pay the tax. When they couldn't pay the tax, the chief Viking would get out a little dagger and

1:00literally slice open the person's nose or in Simon's case, get an axe and remove it entirely. You were joking. So is this like a B-W-I-W-N-O-W-N brings a bottle of wine? Yeah. And they cut your nose open. They'd cut your nose open or off entirely. Oh, Lee. And so that then sort of just made its way from kind of the Scandinavian countries. People sort of heard about it, made its way to the UK and sort of England, where it was then more popularised to be paying through the nose. Just like, as something was really expensive, it was a cost you didn't want to pay. Wow. Did they ever survive? Yeah. Or was there like so much to do? There are a lot of nerve endings around the nose. You know, sometimes you get a sore pimple and then you do a nose. You're like, man. And then you do. Would you bleed to death from that? I think that's why if you look back at a lot of the sort of the images from that time, a lot of them look like Voldemort, you know? No, no, this is what they want. What do you guys do? What an extraordinary thing. Sue, what are you reckon? I actually think that's pretty cool. So I say yes. Good on you, Sue.

2:00So thank you for your input. We're going to put you in room 2175 for the choice hotels draw tonight. So five o'clock Sierra and Adam on the drive home could call out 2175 and you'd be off to a choice hotel in ours. Thank you. So Matt. Thanks for playing. Sue, drive safe. Why there is second soon? And that's the second to last trip today, by the way. Last one tomorrow. Oh, now. I just felt like maybe your heart wasn't in that. You okay? You're doing for long than the mid. Yeah. Do you have a flight in heritage and you lost Uncle Grant from the same thing? No, I don't. I've got Italian heritage. One eighth, Italian. French to the... Yeah, a splash of French. And then a lot of English. Alright, Sue, I'm angry. How are you? Yeah, I'm going to scrape through. I'm going to scrape through with that because it is interesting. I'm just not sure your heads in the game today. I hope you're right.

3:00I appreciate the pep talk. So yes, I consider this a school there, sweetie. And I don't want to, but I'm actually going to go yes because... Fantastic, Silent. The moment I walked through here today, you had a aura about you like you couldn't wait to knock me down. I couldn't wait to knock you down. True, then you couldn't do it. No, because I thought that's not fair. Are you interested in Simon the answer? Yes, but I want in future I want you to remember the stage speed and be kind to me next time you're fascinating. So well done, Speddy. I'm going to try and stay on that slightly interesting until the end of time just to prove you wrong. Yeah. Keep going. I'm like, I'm going to keep getting bad news. Just so silent, couldn't possibly vote me down. You've done it, though, well done. He's back tomorrow for that slightly interesting.