2022-02-18
42 分钟Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Sudolberg.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Toshinsky,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with fact number one and that is Anna.
My fact this week is that in the 19th century you could be rejected from the army for having bad breath.
Wow.
Why?
Why?
Let's...
Well, the justification is really no more complicated than you think which is that it's fucking gross for everyone else.
Right.
I can imagine like if you're in a submarine or something.
Well, what if you have to give another sort of the kiss of life but you accidentally send them into the arms of death?
I don't think the kiss of life had been invented yet even,
this is from a book written in 1840 which I don't know why I was reading it but it's called Hints on the Medical Examination of Recruits for the Army and there's some great stuff in there and the thing I read was some recruits are so offensive in their breath as to be intolerable to their messmates and from these causes are discharged from the French service and ought to be from every other.
Wow.
This book is really good.
It's great fun so I highly recommend it because it's talking about how you, you know,
examine people for the army and there are lots of reasons for rejecting people,