The song at my nan’s funeral as she went on the conveyor to be cremated was dancing queen by Abba because she was ALWAYS dancing. If someone’s phone rang she would get up and dance to it 😂 her son’s chose it, and when it played we all just burst out laughing and had a little boogie in our seats for her. It was PERFECT
My miss understanding as a child was that a woman would decide weather to marry a man or not based on if she liked the engagement ring he was offering 🤣
My favorite misunderstanding: When I got to my biology class at my public high school I thought men had one less rib than women. I went to a really poorly funded catholic school and our teachers were hit or miss so when the Bible said “Eve was created with Adams rib”, I was like… why would people believe that if there wasn’t scientific evidence 🙃
I'm going to need the list of questions (or yes! make it as merch take my money) cause this seems like a great game to play on a date to get to know someone!
"Wouldn't it be surreal going to bed at 10pm and it's still light?" Yes, every year, surreal and wonderful, summer is such a high every time. The sun going down before 3pm in winter is surreal in a different way
My mum used to take me with her to get acupuncture and the first time she brought me I asked the woman performing the needling to “please stop stabbing my mum” with a lot of emotion which both of them found a lot more funny then I did. They never explained I just figured it out over time based on their reactions and all the wall diagrams. Also please make chaotic jenga question bonding merch
I'm 100% with Craig on the reading the right book thing. I just finished listening to La Belle Sauvage on audiobook. I read His Dark Materials in what was probably my favourite age of reading (10-14), and listening to Michael Sheen narrate a story I hadn't heard yet but which felt so familiar felt like remembering myself again.
That is SUCH a great idea. And you could have different expansion packs with personality questions, getting-to-know-you questions, trivia, truth or dare etc.
Watching from my sofa in Republic of Ireland, we moved here 3 weeks ago from London. You may both be pleased to know that because ROI is part of the Common Travel Area, no visa or fussy paperwork is required to move to Ireland :). Aside from sorting health insurance and other general bills, you basically sort out a place to live (easier said than done - there is a housing crisis) then rock up and settle down. We only hold British passports, hoping to get Irish citizenship after a few years.
Never Let Me Go is one of my favourite films. I got really excited when Craig mentioned it. There's a quote from it that I love as well all the lines of "may we all be good carers before we complete".
My misunderstanding as a child was that ATMs were for people who didn't want to work and could get 'free money' using the ATM. Then I learnt there's no such thing as free money and it was pretty disappointing. btw I am enjoying this Misery-mas so much, thanks Leena!
I know it massively depends on location but there is no way a normal sized house costs £1m, in the north west where I'm pretty sure the average house price is between £200k and £300k. I believe it is similar in the north east, Wales and Scotland too. London (and other big cities) house prices are just so distorting but actually a mil will still go a long way in my hometown! (think 8 bed mansion with acres of land...)
Ah glad I’m not the only one who thought this! Realise anecdote does not make truth, but I’m Leeds-based and my aunties just sold her 3 bed semi detached for £210k - London/South East prices are Wild 😱
@@DinosDontPlayPianos agreed there are 3 beds in my area that go for £150k!! But then tbf back in the early 90s my parents bought a house up here for like £30k 😂 So we have experienced soaring prices, they just started much lower!!
“Whilst Your Down There” as an autobiography title reminds me of the cheeky titles in the Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging books by Louise Rennison, but more adult! (Especially lAnd That’s When It Fell Off In My Hand”)! As a teenager it always sounded really mysteriously dirty to me 😂
Omg jogging making you feel like a kid made me think of phoebe in friends! She actually says the exact same thing after Rachel tells her she runs weird. Idk why but there really is just something incredibly freeing in carelessly running (up that hill) for no reason whatsoever
Definitely taking this on for new years game - or for my experience orientated mum in Christmas! My biggest childhood misunderstanding must be that I thought the Soreen (malt loaf) was called Soren Lorenson (Charlie and Lola's imaginary friend) until I was 17.
Fun fact, Jenga blocks are designed to be very slightly different sizes so that they can slide out of the tower - so if your off brand blocks are a little wonky, that's potentially on purpose!
Thanks for this video Leena. I actually wrote some of your questions down because I thought they were great & thought provoking for a date night with your long time partner 😊
Love the video Love the Jenga I can volunteer as one of the people who wants more of Craig on the channel. You two have such dynamic conversations and I just love it.
Oh my god yes the cyclist point! I agree so much! And about the funeral song one - we played Shiny, Happy People by REM at the end of my dads funeral because he loved it and he would have wanted a fun song to end on. We also started with Sit Down by James as kind of a little joke while people were entering the crematorium and sitting down 😂
Loved Craig's advice about the 2 major fuck-ups that help shape you for the better (because I too had those types of fuck-ups): Even though my theoretical driver's exam was aced with flying colours on the first try, I failed the practical driver's exam at least 4 times. Additionally, I was in a toxic relationship for a year, which kick-started my campaign to actually respect & fight for my own boundaries and value myself more on a whole.
Noooo! Missed the tower fall!! 😵 Lol appreciated the re-enactment and loved this video. Think could make a really fun Gumption club response thread, everyone answering all these Qs 🙂 /yes to as merch! Great combo party game
As a child, I thought women automatically became pregnant when they got married. Unmarried mothers BAFFLED me. (I was also, for some reason, *terrified* of dying in childbirth, so three-year-old me went around telling people I was never going to get married because I didn’t want to die.)
Leena almost takes two sequentially and both comment about it, but immediately after Craig’s next turn he’s the one to grab the next 9:29 Funniest about it, to me, was Craig saying “I don’t know if I can get away with this one.” Edit: she noticed whilst editing lol 13:43
Something everyone should experience is living in the country, to understand nature and eco systems and how much one can do themselves. Plus the culture
I want a Jenga but the blocks have questions that can secretly reveal if the person playing with you has fundamentally similar values to you. You can play it on a first date and save time not dating people who are not right for you
You know how sometimes you watch a video and just immediately know that it will now be your comfort video, that you will come back to when feeling anxious, upset or simply not yourself? No, just me? Okay. But this is definitely one of those for me. I was smiling stupidly throughout. Almost said that I smiled more that for this whole week and then realised that it's Monday. I feel like this comment has been written by Eeyore. 🤦♀️ But you made this particular Eeyore a bit merrier, so thank you both for that. ❤️
Another good question: Best thing that has ever happened to you? I’ll start! I think it was genuinely and in full seriousness the pandemic for me because it taught me how to better manage my time, how I work, and how to stay organized as well as being able to spend much more time with my family.
made me laugh so much when you said to resurrect Jesus, and then "I wouldn't want to personally hang out with him". it made me picture resurrected Jesus walking up behind you as you said that, and he hears and gets all sad 😂
Hear the people Craig, we want you on the channel! Also this made me realize maybe you play Jenga differently in the UK? I always played where the rule was you had the stack the blocks you take out back on the top of the tower. But maybe this is actually a Tumbling Towers vs Jenga distinction.
it’s probably just a different household, different rules thing (I also stack them back on tho) For this game it makes sense not to stack them, otherwise you’d get repeating questions.
Haha your comment just made me realise we DIDNT do that, I think we're just overtired, those are definitely our rules too. End of year amnesty on rules! ;)
i thought that to get a baby out of someones tummy you just pushed their belly button to activate it so was so terrified of being near pregnant peoples tummies!
lol imagine being the person who distractedly bumps into a pregnant person at the grocery store, and then you have to watch the baby squeeze out right then and there, like play-doh squeezing thru a mold
I live in zone 1/2 London and the very nice 4 bed houses on my street cost less than a million. In a lot of the country you could get 3 or 4 very nice houses for a million as well. I know house prices are bad, but they aren't that bad!
As a big MT buff I would say South Park: The Musical is a legit musical. Also have you considered Boom of Mormon? It's written by the same people and has the same humour as well as lots of musical theatre easter eggs!
speaking of iceland and (post)apocalypses, there is this webcomic called Stand Still, Stay Silent where Iceland in fact does become the new central hub of the world because they were able to successfully isolate themselves!
This was so good! Would defo work as merch, you could even bring out expansion packs so people can get more questions when they've exhausted their current bricks :D
A weird flex us swedes have is that our passport are in the top tier of passports in all of the world. We're part of the EU, can apply for visas in basically every country on earth (except probably North Korea) and never get "randomly selected" for extra passport controls when travelling, so highly recommend ;)
Yes please! Make it merch. It does look fun =] Thanks for all the Misery-mas videos, I've appreciated the company. Also, hi to Craig, whos name looks so bizarre typed out. Sorry.
Have you done Book of Mormon musical with Craig? Feels like a potential gateway into non-jukebox stuff if he liked the south park 'musical' - Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote BoM and South Park
I stole the questions off of the jenga blocks. I rolled them into little scrolls and shoved them in a jar and used them as a discussion questions with my family on Christmas lunch
I'm 28 and don't drive. I cycle on the path because I am scared of the road and don't know all the rules, but I am very nice about sharing the space! :) I wish there was a bike path that wasn't on the road or the walking path
@@camillacaloi4122 My personal one (which is much much longer and contains many eras and subgenres) is called 'God-tier pop punk' if the one in the description doesn't quench your thirst!
Petition to get Leena to make "deep questions Jenga" merch. All those in favour like this.
Yessssss pleaseeee
PLEASE and keep the dodgy working class brand jenga
You can use this comment as proof that we enjoy Craig content!! watching you together always makes me smile
YES
Who doesn't enjoy watching a pair that finish each other's sentences !
I really enjoyed the video where Leena and Craig play a jigsaw puzzle. Ever since that video I’ve wanted more Craig on the channel.
The song at my nan’s funeral as she went on the conveyor to be cremated was dancing queen by Abba because she was ALWAYS dancing. If someone’s phone rang she would get up and dance to it 😂 her son’s chose it, and when it played we all just burst out laughing and had a little boogie in our seats for her. It was PERFECT
We had the same at my great aunts funeral, dancing queen on the way out. Same effect, lovely to break the sadness 😊
@@lulu10101991 so lovely isn't it! We also have the same first name! (my nan's middle name was Louisa too!)
Late to the party here but my nana had Fernando and it was amazing ❤️
Possibly my fave Miserymas to date, and I'm definitely making Truth Jenga to play with friends when we're allowed to have friends again.
My miss understanding as a child was that a woman would decide weather to marry a man or not based on if she liked the engagement ring he was offering 🤣
Are you not supposed to do that?
@@JennaLovesPickles28 LOL 🤣😂 to the original comment as well as your reply!
Well, that's Sex and the City in a nutshell...
Hi
I don't typically buy merch, but I would buy this as merch.
Yes!
Wait if Craig’s autobiography title is a combo of sadboy music and photography, it could also be “Mr.Brightside” haha
Hahah WINNER
I really relate to budget jenga. MY life is budget jenga.
I 100% relate
Craiiiiig!! We love him! You two are an unbeatable combo!
Literally was rewatching your puzzle vid from 2019 yesterday wondering when we'd get to see Craig again! wooo! Made me smile - thanks! xx
My favorite misunderstanding: When I got to my biology class at my public high school I thought men had one less rib than women. I went to a really poorly funded catholic school and our teachers were hit or miss so when the Bible said “Eve was created with Adams rib”, I was like… why would people believe that if there wasn’t scientific evidence 🙃
Craig moves like a puppet lol the way he twists and turns to get his face right up under Leena’s is hilarious
Leena + Craig videos make me so happy! Just seeing a loving couple have fun and share some wisdom is so wholesome and cute!
I'm going to need the list of questions (or yes! make it as merch take my money) cause this seems like a great game to play on a date to get to know someone!
"Wouldn't it be surreal going to bed at 10pm and it's still light?" Yes, every year, surreal and wonderful, summer is such a high every time. The sun going down before 3pm in winter is surreal in a different way
My mum used to take me with her to get acupuncture and the first time she brought me I asked the woman performing the needling to “please stop stabbing my mum” with a lot of emotion which both of them found a lot more funny then I did. They never explained I just figured it out over time based on their reactions and all the wall diagrams.
Also please make chaotic jenga question bonding merch
I'm 100% with Craig on the reading the right book thing. I just finished listening to La Belle Sauvage on audiobook. I read His Dark Materials in what was probably my favourite age of reading (10-14), and listening to Michael Sheen narrate a story I hadn't heard yet but which felt so familiar felt like remembering myself again.
Genius idea for merch. If you numbered the bricks instead of putting a question on them, you could release new packs of questions later on as well.
That is SUCH a great idea. And you could have different expansion packs with personality questions, getting-to-know-you questions, trivia, truth or dare etc.
Watching from my sofa in Republic of Ireland, we moved here 3 weeks ago from London. You may both be pleased to know that because ROI is part of the Common Travel Area, no visa or fussy paperwork is required to move to Ireland :). Aside from sorting health insurance and other general bills, you basically sort out a place to live (easier said than done - there is a housing crisis) then rock up and settle down. We only hold British passports, hoping to get Irish citizenship after a few years.
I want to watch a new truth budget Jenga for Christmas 2023!!! Pleeeease
Never Let Me Go is one of my favourite films. I got really excited when Craig mentioned it. There's a quote from it that I love as well all the lines of "may we all be good carers before we complete".
I love every no-more misery mas vid, you never fail to put me in a good and thinking mood but this one was really fun and I really enjoyed it!
My childhood misunderstanding - I thought the TV show The Weakest Link was called The Winkest Link because of Anne Robinson's iconic wink
My misunderstanding as a child was that ATMs were for people who didn't want to work and could get 'free money' using the ATM. Then I learnt there's no such thing as free money and it was pretty disappointing.
btw I am enjoying this Misery-mas so much, thanks Leena!
I know it massively depends on location but there is no way a normal sized house costs £1m, in the north west where I'm pretty sure the average house price is between £200k and £300k. I believe it is similar in the north east, Wales and Scotland too. London (and other big cities) house prices are just so distorting but actually a mil will still go a long way in my hometown! (think 8 bed mansion with acres of land...)
Ah glad I’m not the only one who thought this! Realise anecdote does not make truth, but I’m Leeds-based and my aunties just sold her 3 bed semi detached for £210k - London/South East prices are Wild 😱
@@DinosDontPlayPianos agreed there are 3 beds in my area that go for £150k!! But then tbf back in the early 90s my parents bought a house up here for like £30k 😂 So we have experienced soaring prices, they just started much lower!!
Love Leena and Craig content!
“Whilst Your Down There” as an autobiography title reminds me of the cheeky titles in the Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging books by Louise Rennison, but more adult! (Especially lAnd That’s When It Fell Off In My Hand”)! As a teenager it always sounded really mysteriously dirty to me 😂
i love the Craig content!! he must come back more frequently! you two are so great together ❤️
Loved this one and immediatly want to play truth jenga 😛 Your questions are great; if you decided to share the other ones I would be very grateful 😏
Absolutely! They are great questions 😄
Ok this was my favourite Miserymas video so far, and now I want to play truth Jenga!
Absolutely love this game idea! I'd definitely buy it! And this was my favorite misery-as for sure
Omg jogging making you feel like a kid made me think of phoebe in friends! She actually says the exact same thing after Rachel tells her she runs weird. Idk why but there really is just something incredibly freeing in carelessly running (up that hill) for no reason whatsoever
Definitely taking this on for new years game - or for my experience orientated mum in Christmas! My biggest childhood misunderstanding must be that I thought the Soreen (malt loaf) was called Soren Lorenson (Charlie and Lola's imaginary friend) until I was 17.
Calling Alexa a simp for listening to you has me in tears
Fun fact, Jenga blocks are designed to be very slightly different sizes so that they can slide out of the tower - so if your off brand blocks are a little wonky, that's potentially on purpose!
Thanks for this video Leena. I actually wrote some of your questions down because I thought they were great & thought provoking for a date night with your long time partner 😊
Please make the Jenga merch
14:50 as someone who lives and grew up in Iceland I can confirm that the dark is very depressing
I just watched this. Catching up on the channel. It was so joyful! Loved it. Craig seemed to enjoy it more as you went along ha.
I’m so late to watching this, but yes make it as merch! Always love your content as is but love Craig appearances too
Love the video
Love the Jenga
I can volunteer as one of the people who wants more of Craig on the channel.
You two have such dynamic conversations and I just love it.
Oh my god yes the cyclist point! I agree so much! And about the funeral song one - we played Shiny, Happy People by REM at the end of my dads funeral because he loved it and he would have wanted a fun song to end on. We also started with Sit Down by James as kind of a little joke while people were entering the crematorium and sitting down 😂
I’d buy it , might make it for myself and my partner to play for our upcoming 5 year anniversary
Loved Craig's advice about the 2 major fuck-ups that help shape you for the better (because I too had those types of fuck-ups):
Even though my theoretical driver's exam was aced with flying colours on the first try, I failed the practical driver's exam at least 4 times.
Additionally, I was in a toxic relationship for a year, which kick-started my campaign to actually respect & fight for my own boundaries and value myself more on a whole.
Thanks for the heart Leena, I appreciate it 💜
I also don't think Bo's singing and struggling would count as an actual musical, it's more of a sing-a-long 'lay down' stand up routine?
Noooo! Missed the tower fall!! 😵
Lol appreciated the re-enactment and loved this video. Think could make a really fun Gumption club response thread, everyone answering all these Qs 🙂 /yes to as merch! Great combo party game
As a child, I thought women automatically became pregnant when they got married. Unmarried mothers BAFFLED me. (I was also, for some reason, *terrified* of dying in childbirth, so three-year-old me went around telling people I was never going to get married because I didn’t want to die.)
This is a mildly horrifying story
I’ve never seen a knock of Jenga and I love it
these videos have been such a treat so far!
Leena almost takes two sequentially and both comment about it, but immediately after Craig’s next turn he’s the one to grab the next 9:29
Funniest about it, to me, was Craig saying “I don’t know if I can get away with this one.”
Edit: she noticed whilst editing lol 13:43
Something everyone should experience is living in the country, to understand nature and eco systems and how much one can do themselves. Plus the culture
PLEASE PLEASE make truth jenga into merch it would make the BEST ice breaker 😍😍
love your videos!!
I want a Jenga but the blocks have questions that can secretly reveal if the person playing with you has fundamentally similar values to you. You can play it on a first date and save time not dating people who are not right for you
this is such a good idea!!
Yes yes yes!
brilliant
Yes please!
❤️
Matchmaker Jenga?!?! 😮
You know how sometimes you watch a video and just immediately know that it will now be your comfort video, that you will come back to when feeling anxious, upset or simply not yourself? No, just me? Okay. But this is definitely one of those for me. I was smiling stupidly throughout. Almost said that I smiled more that for this whole week and then realised that it's Monday. I feel like this comment has been written by Eeyore. 🤦♀️ But you made this particular Eeyore a bit merrier, so thank you both for that. ❤️
(also not a native speaker, so sorry for any mistakes made)
Another good question: Best thing that has ever happened to you? I’ll start! I think it was genuinely and in full seriousness the pandemic for me because it taught me how to better manage my time, how I work, and how to stay organized as well as being able to spend much more time with my family.
It was so much fun to see and hear from Craig! (hope I'm spelling that correctly) OH, and I really hope you open a bookshop some day!
You are! Oh me too, it would be the best fun!
More truth budget jenga pls soon
made me laugh so much when you said to resurrect Jesus, and then "I wouldn't want to personally hang out with him". it made me picture resurrected Jesus walking up behind you as you said that, and he hears and gets all sad 😂
I'm surprised Craig hasn't seen the American Idiot musical, he'd like that one! This was so fun to watch ❤️ this series has been great
Hear the people Craig, we want you on the channel! Also this made me realize maybe you play Jenga differently in the UK? I always played where the rule was you had the stack the blocks you take out back on the top of the tower. But maybe this is actually a Tumbling Towers vs Jenga distinction.
UK resident and I also stack on top. Maybe regional rules?
it’s probably just a different household, different rules thing
(I also stack them back on tho)
For this game it makes sense not to stack them, otherwise you’d get repeating questions.
Haha your comment just made me realise we DIDNT do that, I think we're just overtired, those are definitely our rules too. End of year amnesty on rules! ;)
It makes sense not to do it that way for this though so as not to risk getting the same one twice in the same game, right?
i thought that to get a baby out of someones tummy you just pushed their belly button to activate it so was so terrified of being near pregnant peoples tummies!
That'd be so cool
lol imagine being the person who distractedly bumps into a pregnant person at the grocery store, and then you have to watch the baby squeeze out right then and there, like play-doh squeezing thru a mold
This made me laugh out loud, thank you 😂
Loved this episode! I'll steal the idea and make one myself and play it with my boyfriend over the holidays!
Lovely getting to see Craig in a video again!!
I live in zone 1/2 London and the very nice 4 bed houses on my street cost less than a million. In a lot of the country you could get 3 or 4 very nice houses for a million as well. I know house prices are bad, but they aren't that bad!
Adding to the demand for a version of this as merch, would so buy it xxxxxxxxx
Yayyy Craig video. He is so much fun. I wish he vlogged n stuff.
I'd buy this merch!
This was very entertaining!
As a big MT buff I would say South Park: The Musical is a legit musical. Also have you considered Boom of Mormon? It's written by the same people and has the same humour as well as lots of musical theatre easter eggs!
Was JUST about to say this, great call.
never let me go is one of the few movies I've ever enjoyed more than the book
What an amazing concept for a video! Love the questions you came up with!
speaking of iceland and (post)apocalypses, there is this webcomic called Stand Still, Stay Silent where Iceland in fact does become the new central hub of the world because they were able to successfully isolate themselves!
Maybe Craig would enjoy Spring awakening? Or at least the music of it?
This was so good! Would defo work as merch, you could even bring out expansion packs so people can get more questions when they've exhausted their current bricks :D
A weird flex us swedes have is that our passport are in the top tier of passports in all of the world. We're part of the EU, can apply for visas in basically every country on earth (except probably North Korea) and never get "randomly selected" for extra passport controls when travelling, so highly recommend ;)
Yes please! Make it merch. It does look fun =] Thanks for all the Misery-mas videos, I've appreciated the company. Also, hi to Craig, whos name looks so bizarre typed out. Sorry.
Leena bring your bookshop to my town lol. It ticks all your boxes 😅
I'm with Craig on the musicals and am going to throw 'Rent' in the mix 🤣
Have you done Book of Mormon musical with Craig? Feels like a potential gateway into non-jukebox stuff if he liked the south park 'musical' - Trey Parker and Matt Stone wrote BoM and South Park
Love that you love Wicked, the book! 😀
Leena, I am lit rally abt to go buy some off brand jenga and sharpie them up. this is such a fun idea!!
I stole the questions off of the jenga blocks. I rolled them into little scrolls and shoved them in a jar and used them as a discussion questions with my family on Christmas lunch
this definitely should be merch
Watching this before bed to cheer me up and I absolutely loved this video!!
Got me thinking about how I would answer these questions haha
Craig's voice reminds me of boyinaband
these questions are so clever!! loved the video
YES WE WANT JENGA MERCH!!
that is a really considerate way to think about funeral songs xD
I'm 28 and don't drive. I cycle on the path because I am scared of the road and don't know all the rules, but I am very nice about sharing the space! :) I wish there was a bike path that wasn't on the road or the walking path
I would love to get some budget jenga as merch
Loved this, you should definitely make as merch :-) x
such a cute, funny, and entertaining video! thank you!
You two are just too sweet together!
Love this video! Would totally buy jenga merch!
I would buy that game as merch!
Would it be possible to have you share some of Craig's sadboi pop punk playlists? I'd loooveee it
There's one in the description!
@@miraaa19 Never not feeling surprised by my own lack of cleverness
@@camillacaloi4122 My personal one (which is much much longer and contains many eras and subgenres) is called 'God-tier pop punk' if the one in the description doesn't quench your thirst!
@@CraigSimmonds Wow thanks a lot!
Totally fantastic game. I am going to steal the idea and use it for our Christmas Day "after a few family games session".
Love that Jenga game!
I also think you should make it as merch
PLEASE MAKE THIS MERCH!!! Loved this so much :)