Lost bags? Hooray!

Added: 2026-06-04

[00:00:06]Katie sent her friends a message with a picture of two suitcases saying, "I lost both of these bags".

[00:00:13]Why was this met with congratulations?

[00:00:16]I'll say that again.

[00:00:17]Katie sent her friends a message with a picture of two suitcases saying, "I lost both of these bags".

[00:00:24]Why was this met with congratulations?

[00:00:27]My initial thought went towards bags – oh, they've had their undereye bags removed.

[00:00:34]But then you repeated it. I realised I'd forgot.

[00:00:36]I'd just not listened to the first part, where you say suitcases. (chuckles) Picture of two suitcases.

[00:00:41]No, but it did— but both of these— it was referred to as both.

[00:00:43]It was the picture of two suitcases.

[00:00:46]Lost them. So yeah, maybe— Is it— was— is it a bleph— underbleph?

[00:00:49]Is that right, Ed?

[00:00:50]Is that what it's called?

[00:00:51]Isn't it? I mean, I'm online a lot looking at a lot of celebrities and... what they've had done and not done.

[00:00:57]I think that, well, I think this is— there's a confusion here between aesthetics and anaesthetics.

[00:01:01]So that would anaesthetic medicine.

[00:01:03]Oh, but surely the broad knowledge!

[00:01:06]So I mean, you get bags under the eyes as part of your NHS contract.

[00:01:12](laughs) But I don't— I'm not sure that— I'm not sure what the procedure is actually, but that seems like a good theory.

[00:01:19]I was thinking that it was an airline mistake.

[00:01:22](cracks up) (laughs) I've lo— But you'd be crossed if both— they'd lost both of your bags at an airline.

[00:01:28]You'd be livid.

[00:01:29]Unless the insurance money.

[00:01:31]Yes. Well, exactly, yeah.

[00:01:32]I got a flight delayed once.

[00:01:35]And I didn't have to be home for anything.

[00:01:37]And under EU law, I got like 500 quid or something for it.

[00:01:41]And, they said, "Just send in your receipts, and you can claim that."

[00:01:45]And they also then paid off all of the receipts that I sent in for the hotel, for everything.

[00:01:49]So I basically got almost a grand for just going home a day later. (chuckles) Did you by any chance send a picture to Katie saying, "Lost both of these bags"?

[00:01:58](snickers) Okay, yeah.

[00:02:00]You are right, Stuart, that it is a different use of the word 'bags'.

[00:02:05]And certainly kind of... What else is there?

[00:02:07]Medical and body stuff, actually kind of the right way to go here.

[00:02:11]So have you hit it on the head already then?

[00:02:13]Oh, not on the head, no, no.

[00:02:15]But certainly like... Okay.

[00:02:17]If you're swinging the hammer around you, you've hit a nearby nail. Just not necessarily— Is she referring to her boobs as bags?

[00:02:23]'Cause I just think that's unacceptable, guys.

[00:02:24](laughs heartily) Unacceptable.

[00:02:26]And I can't believe that has even been raised— Bag for life.

[00:02:28]Bag for life. Two— A couple of bags of for life.

[00:02:30]Yeah, yeah. Or not.

[00:02:33]If of course— Closer.

[00:02:35](gasps) Bags.

[00:02:36]Just going through the old bags, bags, ball.

[00:02:40]It's a reference— no.

[00:02:42]Don't forget.

[00:02:43]She's getting congratulations here.

[00:02:45]Oh, could it— Oh, it could be... childbirth, having twins?

[00:02:50]I mean, I don't know how there are bags.

[00:02:52]You know, amniotic sacs?

[00:02:54]Is that a sac? Amniotic sac?

[00:02:56]Two sacks?

[00:02:57]"Lost a couple of amniotic sacs."

[00:02:59]"Oh, well congratulations Katie."

[00:03:01]You know what I'm like. (guys laughing) So it is body.

[00:03:05]See, it was right with it being close to the body.

[00:03:06]It's something— Guys, quick look at your bodies.

[00:03:09]What might you be congratulated for losing?

[00:03:13]Now I keep thinking of baby.

[00:03:14]Sorry. (laughs) If I tell you the picture of the two suitcases was not her with the suitcases.

[00:03:18]It was from an airline website.

[00:03:21]So it's like Ryanair, EasyJet.

[00:03:24]Yeah, that— The name is related to the body part?

[00:03:27]No, no, just, just why might there be bags on an airline website?

[00:03:31]What might be— Excess baggage. Oh, right.

[00:03:34]Is it like a liposuction sort of thing?

[00:03:36]Or the skin after losing fat?

[00:03:39]So for excess baggage?

[00:03:39]You're both thinking way more invasive.

[00:03:41]You're basically there.

[00:03:42]But you don't normally give someone congratulations for a surgery.

[00:03:46]I do.

[00:03:47]That's where you're wrong. (laughs) Okay, I stand corrected. I am the first one to say congratulations on your rhinoplasty.

[00:03:52](guys laugh in turn) So it's not a surgery.

[00:03:54]It's not a surgery.

[00:03:55]Had something removed, but it's not surgical?

[00:03:57]Lost.

[00:03:58]Oh, you've lost weight.

[00:03:59]Yes!

[00:04:00]You've just lost weight.

[00:04:01]Yes. Oh, duh.

[00:04:01]You've lost weight. Sorry.

[00:04:03]And so why those two bags?

[00:04:05]Why that picture off an airline website?

[00:04:07]She lost that amount of weight?

[00:04:08]She lost that amount of weight.

[00:04:10]Wow! She lost 31 kilos.

[00:04:12]That is 23 kilos for the checked bag, 8 kilos for the carry-on.

[00:04:17]That is the maximum weight you can take on a plane.

[00:04:19]And her whole message said: "I remember how much I complained when I once carried the heaviest allowed bags through the airport.

[00:04:26]And I have now lost both of them."

[00:04:28]Wow. That's amazing.

[00:04:29]She could argue for an extra checked bag at the next flight, surely. (laughs) That is... I remember there being a lot of controversy about that.

[00:04:37]I know there was some airline that threatened to weigh passengers on check-in.

[00:04:41]Yeah, I think there was a lot of sort of uploaded stuff around people being like, "Well, my space was constricted becaue the person next to me", it's a tricky— Can I just say that I— This has brought back memories.

[00:04:52]I did lose a bag actually, on a certain, let's just say, it's a 'peasy jet' flight.

[00:04:59](laughs) It was traumatic.

[00:05:02]Oh, yeah. 'Cause, yeah.

[00:05:03]I was going to a snow-filled area, and I was wearing like T-shirt and shorts, and all my warm stuff was in there.

[00:05:10]So, it was a tough time.

[00:05:12]But where were you coming from to get to the ski at?

[00:05:14]Why were you in summer clothes?

[00:05:17]Because I wear shorts all the time, Stuart. I mean... Ah, you're one of those.

[00:05:21]Oh, hello.

[00:05:22](laughs heartily) Look.

[00:05:23]Wow.

[00:05:24]This is just for show, but the real deal is down— Fun fact.

[00:05:27]Just Union Jack boxers on under here.

[00:05:29]I never bother wearing trousers for these calls.

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