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Hello, hello. I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. What is the most notable time you got the ick? Someone's laugh was a bit too much.
What does that mean? A bit too much in what way? It was pronounced, it was loud, and it was too long.
What did it sound like? Just for the listener to understand. It was like a... Now you're giving me the ick. It has caught like a yawn. It wasn't great. Did you hear that? It's the sound of cuffing season. The time of year where the weather cools down and folks look for a warm body to cuddle up with. But we're getting into some of the less warm and fuzzy aspects of dating.
we're kicking off cuffing season with some of the big questions and big debates about dating. This week, we're getting into one of the common reasons people stop dating someone. It's a little term first used by the 90s TV show Ally McBeal, and then it really took off a couple of years ago on the reality show Love Island. I'm talking about the ink. I say, can I eat?
I say, can I eat?
Like, ugh. Ugh.
Ick.
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