Too Much Internet, Not Enough Common Sense

In this episode, Dina and Jules chat about the internet, social media, and whether having endless information at our fingertips is actually making us think less for ourselves. From bizarre online trends to people believing absolutely everything they see on TikTok or Instagram, we talk about how common sense sometimes feels like it’s quietly disappearing.

We share some of the funniest and most confusing things we’ve seen online lately, including beauty trends, viral opinions, and the strange confidence people seem to have while being completely wrong. It’s a lighthearted, slightly chaotic conversation about growing up before the internet, living through social media, and wondering if we’ve all become just a little too online.

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:06

Hi Joel. Hello Dina. Welcome back to everyday Nothing Podcast. This is us. Here we are talking talking. We are pretty far back. We're on fire today, guys. We're on fire. We have been venting the last two hours.

SPEAKER_01 0:24

We like had a week from hell.

SPEAKER_02 0:31

It's like one of those weeks where your morning just starts. It's when the way the morning starts, it's hell, it is.

SPEAKER_01 0:35

Yes, exactly. And I keep trying to psych myself into like okay, change your mood, change your mood, change your mindset. Like change your mindset, start positive, start positive. No, everything downhill.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

My day started with the LED mask. The it was I was really pumped, and I was about to go and meditate, and then that didn't work. And I went, okay, next plane. And then I didn't leave when I was supposed to go today to Zagreb, then I couldn't find a park.

SPEAKER_01 1:06

Yeah, it's always like that.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

And you're in a rush, and both garages were full. Of course they were. Why wouldn't they be? And I parked so far away, like seven blocks away. I just went, This is the day it's gonna be.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

This is how my week has been. And it's only Wednesday. It's just one thing after another.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

It's just like I just feel like as we're getting older and as time's going, do you feel like you just things are just harder?

SPEAKER_01 1:35

Like the coat your coping mechanism is and I think I think the way that I've when I reflect on my life, it's always comes in batches. It's not like, oh, you have one issue and then after a while you have another problem. No, it's like it comes in batches. It's like someone just throws a bunch of problems my way and then I'm like trying to navigate through. And yesterday we had that's a tough day.

SPEAKER_02 2:10

Literally, literally, if we could just explain to you, because today is what 15-16 degrees, sort of around one time. So this morning it was four, and so yesterday, well, let's just say we've had some pretty good, what, 22 or so degree days, haven't we? And then yesterday all the heavens opened, but and we just had these like torrential storms. It was so bad. And do you know I'm not really I don't I'm not really afraid of thunder, but I have to admit there was a clap of thunder as I was heading into the bathroom that literally took my breath away.

SPEAKER_01 2:52

The the windows were shaking in my apartment. My you're on the bottom floor.

SPEAKER_02 2:57

Yeah. Oh my gosh, my poor dog died. No, because some dogs are okay and others aren't, but poor poochies, because they hear it from a mask it's the worst of all. And it was just crazy, like trees can't.

SPEAKER_01 3:10

So I think sunshine for a few hours and then we might get it warm again.

SPEAKER_02 3:13

But I just felt like it was so almost like it was those those, you know, erratic summer storms, you know, where the temperature drops and it was like six degrees.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

I'm wondering how the summer will be this year considering such erratic weather this year. It's crazy. Not just here in Italy, Austria, Germany, all those places are crazy.

SPEAKER_02 3:33

Winds and yeah, it's nuts. I know that in Australia they had a really whack summer. I was thinking either it came late or they had a lot of rain and yeah. And then super hot. And then super hot. Yeah. It's always and then they had heat much later, so around you know, April and then they had like a summer, the summer thing.

SPEAKER_01 3:52

Anyway, so coping mechanism.

SPEAKER_02 3:55

They were talking a little bit about what are some of our icks and red flags, and yeah, because I just think that as I'm getting older, I just there's a lot of things that are just coming up on the surface as I just can't tolerate anymore.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Like I can't I know the tolerance levels down.

SPEAKER_02 4:13

I'll tell you what's really come to light, and that's surprised me today. So, you know how I went to Zadar a couple of weeks ago, got that feelings like it was a million miles away now. I went to Zadar along the coast, Croatian coast, which is my favourite city there. And I hadn't realized just how noisy it is until I got back here because it's very quiet. We have to admit, we're pretty blessed where we live. It's just peaceful. We're in the mountains and it's great in our community. So today I went into Zagreb and I returned onto the main street onto Ilyza. I was just like screaming in from the inside. I just wait. This is so noisy. Yeah. I mean, I understand that you know, traffic trams, and you know, obviously there's construction work, but my ears were going to explode and I realized what it was doing to my body. Like I realized that the how sensitive I wanted to just get the flipping heck out of there. Like I was even going to go into a cafe and have a coffee because there's a really cool funky cafe on Iliza, sort of right up towards I think there's a pivisa, like an old pivnica across the street. I just didn't want to, I think it couldn't even risk it. I just went too much.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

This is this is what I realized.

SPEAKER_00 5:30

Once your body gets used to the quietness and uh non-hectic life that we have here, like okay, there is a bit of traffic, but there's never a lot of traffic because it's such a small place. It's very hard to go back into that crowd, the noise.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

Like I remember when I went back to Malaysia and I landed at the airport and I saw all those people. I swear, if I could have, I would have gotten the next bus back and run. I couldn't, I couldn't, like the same thing. Yeah, you're desensitized. Yeah, my nervous system just went like overdrive, and I was like, Oh my gosh, I don't know how I'm gonna do this for 10 days, you know. How interesting. And it was so difficult for me to get out of the house and like deal with the traffic, the taxis, uh, is someone gonna rob me, someone gonna cheat me. Like it was so hard. Can I imagine? Can I imagine? So I think that's the problem when you get used to yeah, you know, having that when if you're every day in Zagreb and if you're every day surrounded with that, you can notice it. You don't wouldn't notice it. Yeah, it's true.

SPEAKER_02 6:38

I mean, I did I did spend five months in Zagreb and I mean the house that I was in, thankfully, was very peaceful. Um, and it though it was in the heart of Zagreb. But yeah, when you get it in small, I just remember lying in bed in Zagreb going, oh my god, I can hear the motorcycles, I can hear sirens. Why is it so noisy? But it's not, it's just normal city noise, I suppose, even though that's not even a really large city compared to Zagreb. But today I I got so rattled that I when I went into the bread club to get my you know my buckwheat bread, I just stood there for a while trying to get my bearings going. I don't even know where my hands are. I couldn't, I was just so rattled that I thought I'm just gonna sit here just for a bit just to to have a coffee and just get my get my head straight to give me the courage to go back out again. And then and then you start cla um clasping because though I mean for us, you and I, we've got you know lived in much busier cities, you know, Melbourne and and and Kuala Lumpur uh respectively, it's just that you know like Zagreb is doesn't have a lot of you know traffic per se, but because I think the way that it's designed, it's just always hectic. Yeah, it's always hectic. It's always hectic and yeah, you have to go, you have to drive with a mask on. So I'm just yeah, becoming intolerant of like when someone asks me to drive, you know, a long way or through traffic, it's it's it's mental preparation for me.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

And I think also because people are so um rude and irresponsible, irresponsible as drivers, yeah, that makes it worse because you're constantly on high alert, of course, having to check whether someone's gonna cut in front of you, you know, you you put the signal on, they don't want to let you through. Uh all these things, and people like you know, people are just and everyone is on their phones. I know if you look it around, I know everyone not talking on they are texting or reading something. This is so dangerous.

SPEAKER_02 8:44

I've noticed many times, particularly here in our town, many times I see a truck driver with his head down. You know, as he's past the red light, he's going, Oh, I'll just send in another one more text while before I pick up into my next gear. And you can see they're texting across the truck, and it just makes me I just am so afraid of whoever has to be around people like that. And there are a lot, I can tell, but the ones that swerve, they're definitely not looking at the road.

SPEAKER_01 9:13

No, oh my gosh, the other day I was in Slovenia and at the parking lot, and this guy was trying to exit the parking lot, like trying to get to the road. Nobody was letting him through, of course not. And this is like a shopping kind of shopping uh parking, right? So I was like, okay, I'm just gonna wait and let him go because this is ridiculous. No, it's the only way it's gonna flow. Yeah, this lady from behind me comes and starts overtaking me as I'm waiting for the guy to come out, and I'm like like showing her that I'm waiting for the guy to go, and she flips me. She flips you, she flips me and she starts screaming. I can see she's screaming in her car and just drives off. And I'm thinking, how classy it's very classy. How classy is this lady who couldn't wait for two minutes for this guy to come up? This is what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_02 10:15

That's just nuts. And you just I mean, a more reactive person could have gone after her.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

You know, just but this is what I'm saying, like these kind of things, right? If you are not composed and calm and collected, can totally throw you off, right? Because it's like it's you know, it's that unfairness. Like, what are you talking about? Like, just observe, observe what's going on around you. It's not only you on the road, be observant, but it can really care for people, it really can change the mood, can't you?

SPEAKER_02 10:50

Of even for yourself, like you can either come back shaken up or whatever else have you. I just think it it also, you know, it's on your nervous system again. Like today, you know, we're going into noisy places and stuff. It is, you you tend to soak it in. I don't know how anyone can't, but it's depends how you react.

SPEAKER_01 11:10

But I I'm again becoming really intolerant of stupid people, people pushing around, inconsiderate people or cutting line, like cutting lines is just crazy. Like that drives me in. As in like at a supermarket.

SPEAKER_02 11:25

Oh my god, here they it's a thing, isn't it? They just they just step in front of you, yeah, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 11:31

They don't even see you, yeah. They don't care. And it's always like someone else is always in a bigger hurry than you are, right? That's always the case.

SPEAKER_02 11:40

I remember that lady that was screaming that time. I was I can't remember the whole story now, but I do remember it. She was just her level of self-importance was incredible. Like today, I'll give you an example. The bread club, when I went in, there was only me and another woman. And this poor guy, lovely I'll say, you know, uh elderly man who was behind the counter, was doing his best. He was making coffees for people who were taking him away and at the table, and dealing with people coming in for bread and sounder and stuff. And he just said, if you can give me a minute, oh anyway, he finishes doing his coffee and then he comes back to the counter and he's screams at the top of the book saying, And how long do you think I need to wait here? I didn't come here, you know, to have to wait five minutes to order my like oh my gosh, like made the hugest scene. And of course, mind you, she wasn't the person that was waiting the longest. But I think some people just know if they kick up a fuss long enough or hard enough, people just want to get rid of them out of the store.

SPEAKER_01 12:53

Yeah, and it's that entitlement, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 12:55

Like people feel older. She was entitled. She was an older one, she wasn't, she was my age in her 50s, and she was like, I don't I shouldn't have to come out and wait five minutes to be served.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

Oh my gosh, I just I cannot stand like that kind of rudeness.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

Entitlement is what I hate. Like, for example, I'll be honest with you, that coffee was terrible today. Like it was absolutely shit. Okay, and when I got up and I drank it very quickly, and I went to grab my bread, the guy said, Oh, yeah, that was a very quick coffee. Now I could have made a big scene. Yeah, much like her. I just thought, really? Do you want to ruin someone's do I want to do it really for fucking you know, coffee and a bit of milk? Like, really? I just went absolutely fine, thank you very much. I um I'm just I just need to get my bread and go, that's all.

SPEAKER_01 13:44

Yeah, but this is the thing, right? You can choose to be an arsehole. Yeah, and and and that also is how you choose your day will turn out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. The more you become negative and start focusing on things that a so so first goal problem is then everything starts rolling.

SPEAKER_02 14:05

Well it is, it does escalate. It has to. And I let go I let a guy in a truck in front of me. We were waiting, and today was the day. You know when you just look obviously when you're in a hurry, those days can get up your nose a little bit, but it was just one of those days where I got every single red light. That's what it is.

SPEAKER_01 14:25

Yeah, sometimes it's just like it's just how it rolls.

SPEAKER_02 14:27

Some days you don't, some day you do, and I'm not in a hurry to go back home. That's fine. Well, I was because um Dina was on my back for this podcast.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

No hours late.

SPEAKER_02 14:38

Well, she went up, I'm gonna be half an hour late, like no kidding, kidding. Had plenty of time, but I let this guy in a truck, I could see he needed to come out, and he had to obviously cross my lane and he had to get to the left lane because he was quite a big truck, and so he gave me the thumbs up, and I gave him a thumbs up, and he was so appreciative, like you know, he did the hazard light, he was just he just he was very thankful so little, like it takes so little, and he was just like tooting and saying thanks, and it's like you know, I was like, absolutely my pleasure. The person in the black out here behind me, I've got your number, would not get their fing hand off the horn. Oh my gosh, and like I'm sorry, but we've been waiting. It was near Treshnevka, sorry, it was just near the um Kazalista. So you know how sometimes that light can take a while, so you're there for three, four times.

SPEAKER_01 15:35

So I'll exactly it's not gonna though people don't understand those five, ten, even fifteen minutes of your life are not gonna be.

SPEAKER_02 15:45

Put it into perspective. So they're the things that really get up my nerves is that this woman, it's always a you know, person who was just very impatient, obviously, would not get her hand off the horn. I was very close because we're in a stationary position. I thought I might just hop out of my car and just ask her if she's okay. Wouldn't it be gold if I had that courage? I just want to know if you're okay. Like, I was just that you know you I thought you're a fan.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

Just start doing that. Put people on the spot, put people on the spot. And um, like this is what I do when people cut the line, right? I always mention something and I always comment on it. Oh, yeah. This is what another thing that ticks me. Okay. So we go on these football matches, right? For my son, who's by the way, nine years old, is not like some big football star, right? I mean, we just go there to support the kids and they're just having fun. Don't tell me you get crazy. No, we get these crazy parents who start throwing comments like ridiculous, right?

SPEAKER_02 17:03

This is David Beckham.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

So this other day, the other day, this father goes to his son, obviously, who's playing for the team against my son. He goes, Come on, you can foul. Come on, foul, foul, just foul. It's okay, just foul. And I'm like, You're trying to teach your child to hurt another child instead of trying to teach your child to just play, right? And he kept doing that the entire match. I I was losing my mind, right? And then at one point they were leading, the other team was leading, and he goes to my child's team. Uh, oh, what happened? Uh, you guys didn't have lunch today, or what happened? How come you're so bad today?

SPEAKER_02 17:53

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 17:55

Because the last time we won, like my child, my son's team won like 13 to 2, right? Like they wiped them. He's like, obviously, they didn't have lunch today. And me and the mothers, we went out and lose it. So I'm like, should I say something? Should I not say something, right? And we are the polite kind of parents, we don't yell, scream, shout, shout. We're not like them, right? So you're trying not to go down to that level, but at the same time, you're like, wait a minute, not gonna insult one child, like our children. What? And so our team, my son's team, starts scoring one goal, second goal, and I couldn't help myself. I was like, oh, lunch or no lunch, they're scoring us, and the father just kept quiet. He just and I'm thinking, didn't you realize that the other parents are there as well? It's not only your team, just because you guys are so super loud, and he just kept quiet. And after we won, not a word from him, right? Just on the label, isn't it? And the week before, I heard the mothers got into a physical fight on the stands. Oh, kidding from the two opposite teams. Like, can you imagine these are eight and nine-year-olds, and you are physically fighting because of the comments that you have to make?

SPEAKER_02 19:26

That is just oh my gosh, that's just I I I'd lose it. And but what kind of example are you using? Exactly. What kind of are you leaning by example for your eight or nine-year-old, you know, child to watch your pet? That's what they're teaching and aggressiveness.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

That's just they scream at the referee.

SPEAKER_02 19:43

Of course, that's that's annoying.

SPEAKER_01 19:45

They scream at their kids, they scream at the other kids, they like oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 19:50

We call it passionate much? Passionate much? Just ridiculous. Critics.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

This is what I'm talking about. People have no sense of what is a nice thing to do, what is a not like not a very nice thing to do, what you can say, what you can't say. Like, come on, let's have some compassion with each other.

SPEAKER_02 20:11

That is insane. No, I have like I said, I've my as I'm getting older, my limit, I have my limit of tolerance has gone through the roof because every day something new pops up. Yeah. Like I have just like with just the things that some people do that are just so off-putting, and you just think to yourself, when you got out of bed this morning, did you like did you really think about how you were going to conduct yourself? Like, this woman really got off my nose today. She just would not get the horn. I the she would not stop tooting the horn.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

But do you think this happens because people going on in their own life? People are not managing their problems, or or is it like because they're an arsehole? Yeah, but why so many people are so self-centered and so imbalanced? I feel it's like some chemical imbalance.

SPEAKER_02 21:11

I don't know how what else to call it. I think that yeah, well, you know, like we all have pressures in life, yeah, right? We all have pressures in some there is no way if you if you don't, well, kudos to you if you don't. But I just think that it comes down to the individual and not understanding how to deal with it.

SPEAKER_01 21:36

Yeah, because there are how to process that emotion that comes as you get upset about something, right?

SPEAKER_02 21:42

Like, no doubt in my 20s I was more reactive. Like, I was definitely more reactive, like to well, I don't think I ever had road rage, but I I'm sure I would have been more, you know, aggressive on the road at the age of 20, I suspect. It might come with age of. Anything but I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 22:02

I just don't know. Like even the older people here, like sometimes I'm like, oh my gosh, where have all your manners gone? Like where? Because okay, I mean, we all get upset, right? I also get upset if someone does something that is that I think is not inappropriate. Yeah, that is inappropriate. But I let that emotion just deal internally kind of deal with it and then choose how I'm gonna react to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And not allow myself to like completely lose control and like it would be scary, wouldn't it? When you think about that. Yeah, in the end of the day, you are also showing your side of yourself if you react in a certain way.

SPEAKER_02 22:42

Yeah, yeah, of course it is. It's like that woman that came into that um post office that day. She just came out of nowhere. We're all lining up. There are four of us lining up. And she just came out of another left field and said, you know, I'm in a hurry. And not only did she say she was in a hurry, but she was screaming at the top of her lungs. So you can imagine the pressure as she's whatever's going on in there. Like a pressure cooker. That's what I'm saying. Asking someone if they're okay is the first like today. I should have just got out of the car and gone, you right, babe, like you know, just something stuck with your horn.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

With your horn?

SPEAKER_02 23:17

Is your horn work overworking? Overhearing. Well, she's like, have you had your car service lately, babe?

SPEAKER_01 23:27

Yeah, but this is the thing, right? If more people put people on the spot, I think I'd love to have that knack to be able to be quick-witted enough to do that.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

Some cases I am. I just go, You alright? Like, are you okay? Because you can't be okay if you are snapping at a person that you don't know. Yeah. Like, you know, for whatever reason. Exactly. Yeah, and don't touch me, by the way, when you do do that. You know what I mean? Like, don't put your don't, like, don't. Don't transfer all the time. No, don't transfer because I'll be just going back in, I'll be shucking myself into the shower when I get home. Don't touch me when you want the vents.

SPEAKER_01 24:03

Yeah, but this is why when you come out from somewhere and there's a lot of crowd, you feel like you need a shower. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:09

Or even those people that you speak to, you know, that for two or three hours at a time that you just you're like, I need to have a nap.

SPEAKER_01 24:22

Cheers for that. So yeah, these are some of our uh troubles that we find throughout days and irritating days, yeah. Irritating days.

SPEAKER_02 24:36

Well, well, next time we'll uh talk about icks and you know how you know what starts off as a minor ick can transfer can transfer into a major ick.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

Yeah, let us know what you find helping and what you find helpful, yeah. What how you deal with difficulty hum? Tap tap taping works, tapping works, yeah. Breathe in and out. Oh that but yeah, that's all for today. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for tuning in, and we shall see you next time. New topic for sure. All right, take care all bye bye.