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Isle of Shame

Fair Isle
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About Isle of Shame

Fair Isle is the southernmost of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It is situated at the approximate midpoint between the southern tip of Mainland, Shetland; and North Ronaldsay, the northernmost of the Orkney Islands; in an area bordering the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean known as the Fair Isle Gap.

On the show โ€” 5 mentions total

The weirdest thing you found in the Isle of Shame? "I work at Aldi, so my take is a bit different than the shopper, but the weirdest thing I have found in the Isle of Shame is a turd lying on the ground."

from No Such Thing As 'What's My Spoon?', 2025-09-25 at 00:41:20 ยท read transcript

Other times Isle of Shame came up

  1. It's one that's bigger in the UK and Europe, I should say. I was going to say. Liddle's very close. Aldi is correct. So they're starting to learn about the Isle of Shame now. Oh, sorry. I thought that was Britain. For anyone who doesn't know the Isle of Shame, this is the Middle Isle of Aldi where they just put some absolutely crazy things in there. Basically, they do something called Overstock where if a company has a lot of ironing boards that they're trying to get rid of, then Aldi will buy them all for really cheap and then sell them in their shops.

    602: No Such Thing As 'What's My Spoon?', 2025-09-25 ยท listen

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Coordinates: 59.5417, -1.6225

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