The loophole for kids to swear

Julian O'Shea, Dani Siller and Bill Sunderland discuss a wartime workaround.

GUESTS:

HOST: Tom Scott.
QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe.

EDITED BY: Julie Hassett at the Podcast Studios, Dublin.
GRAPHICS: Chris Hanel at Support Class. Assistant: Dillon Pentz.
FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott.

[BaggyTheBloke]

Tom wearing green feels like seeing a teacher out of class

[ArifRWinandar]

It's like how making up a wikipedia article about a town that didn't exist allows someone to talk about it in complete honesty

[tombstonerforever]

Am I the only one who prefers Dani’s answer?

[notthatcreativewithnames]

6:08 I was with Dani on that. It was the only foot-related pun I could think of because of Matt's pun from the Victor Lustig episode of Citation Needed that got stuck in my head.

[route]

In Sunday school, us kids came to the conclusion we could flip off the ground, since we would be flipping off the devil.

[Armadeus]

fyi: the high five thing, for those who didnt listen to the audio version, was one of the questions earlier in the show

[XandaPanda]

Cor Blimey was originally "God Blind Me"?

I've learned so much about swearing from Tom Scott

[epimorphism]

children LOVED fighting in the civil war

[cybergeek]

Immediate post-question guess:
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The number was sufficiently large that when the paper was folded it would make them tall enough to join the military (i.e. "swear" an oath of service)?

[FromTheIslandNapkins]

This might be the first time I knew this one right off the bat.

[luuketaylor]

One of the few questions that I already knew about in full!

[tomwantshelp]

I was hoping the loophole would be shouting “Scunthorpe”.

[Slikx]

That's the sort of thing I'm good at and it winds people up. 😆

[nariutimes]

I remember that peice about Deadwood, it was a Complexly production by Nick Jenkins.

[iamjeramy]

I just wanted to say, those glasses are so cool!

[GDUBgb]

My brain was going, act your age, not your shoe size.

[LilyAJPage]

This is NOT how i imagined Bill or Dani to look.

[tonypang]

They didn't technically lie, but did they technically tell the truth? I hate explaining prepositions to my ESL students 😂

[timothymclean]

Oh, I've heard about this before. There are not many reasons minors would put numbers in their shoes, especially during wartime.

[cacts_ulion]

Huh, I seem to have caught this one early! Glad the algorithm knows what I like :)