What co-workers say to each other in private normally stays that way, it feels like the workplace code.
That is especially the case when trading banter and barbs across the desk, and for most that is the best way of bonding.
Lauren Phillips hilariously found out the hard way that sometimes your colleagues will take any chance they get to dob you in.
Before going on air on the Jase, Lauren and Clint show, Phillips took the chance to chuck an X-rated insult at their guest Rory Lobb.
The assumption being that calling Lobb a soft c**k would never make it to air, but how wrong she was.
It took co-hosts Jason ‘Jase’ Hawkins and Clint Stanaway absolutely no time at all to tell the world exactly what she had called the AFL star.
Clint Stanaway and Jason Hawkins revealed that Lauren Phillips had called guest Rory Lobb a soft c**k prioir to going on air
Lauren was left with a smirk as her co-hosts dobbed her in it right to their guest, live on air
Lauren then explained herself to Rory as the x-rated insult was cleared up
Cue Lauren’s look of utter surprise and betrayal as she was forced to explain herself live to the guest.
‘Rory Lobb from the Doggies is about to join us and guys we’ve got an issue we need to bring up with him,’ Jase opened.
Clint followed up with, ‘well, Lauren just called him a ‘soft c**k,’ leaving Lauren firmly in the hot seat.
Jase then presed her into confirming whether Clint’s accusation was true or not.
To which Lauren replied, ‘I mean’ with a pause that drew laughter from the two boys.
‘It wasn’t targeted at him, it was a general sweeping statement,’ Lauren followed up.
A little later in the show, while talking to Rory, she said, ‘I actually brought this up a couple of weeks ago, Rory.
Lauren actually explained that she took issue with the way players enter the field now
AFL stars no longer come running through banners, instead they enter the field of play through slits in massive curtains
‘Why do football players now run through curtains instead of a banner?
‘Because I used to love watching the players run out and run and through the banners and the tape.
‘And now it’s like these little silk curtains that blow in the wind and you all just tap dance through it.’
It was all taken in good spirits as Rory responded, ‘Yeah, well, thank you for that, by the way.
‘Nah, the reason I think is because there have been a few mishaps with the banners with the wind.
‘We don’t get the choice of doing it, so whoever makes the banners, they’ve just done it so it’s more sturdy. Like you can’t rip it, it’s honestly like plastic.’
‘It’s not our choice, I would love to run through the old school banners.
‘I reckon it’s about 50/50 some clubs do still do the paper and others do a curtain.’
And those who have watched enough games have seen that there is a real variation in how teams do it now.
The West Coast Eagles, for example, have abandoned the banner, opting to run out of an inflatable eagle’s beak.
It creates a different visual experience for the fans, but nothing will beat watching the players burst onto the field through a banner.
