Something you wish did not exist

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• Steinar brings in stinging nettles. He describes the annoyance of wearing shorts at a cabin with nettles and getting stung, and then just having to either wait for the irritation to pass, or pee on the sting. He earns fourth place.
• Solveig brings in a hotel bed runner, which she says annoy her, because when going to bed you’re too tired to take it off, but when you wake in the bed sweaty, it’s too hard to remove. Atle fully supports her, and questions what they’re even for. Einar explains that it’s so you can throw yourself onto the bed with your shoes on without dirtying the bedsheets, but this doesn’t help persuade Atle of their usefulness. Solveig earns second place.
• Amir shares that he had sustained a brain injury, when cycling without a helmet, which had damaged his left optic nerve, leaving him blind in one eye. He says that he wishes that the damage didn’t exist. He represents the damage with a report from the hospital’s eye department, and a pair of sunglasses with only a left lens, which allows others to experience his sight loss. He also takes the opportunity to encourage people to wear helmets while cycling. He earns third place.
• Einar brings in what he says are his and his father’s toothbrushes - one has red bristles and a green handle, and the other has green bristles and a red handle. Einar claims that they are identical toothbrushes, and that he keeps mistaking his father’s toothbrush for his own, so he wishes his father’s toothbrush didn’t exist. It’s pretty apparent that Einar is simply making a joke about his colour-blindness, though he keeps insisting that the toothbrushes are identical, and pretends not to understand that they are different. He earns last place.
• Ida brings in a CD onto which she has saved a song and music video she’d made, called Crazy Cat Lady. The song is sung in English, and is about a woman obsessed with cats. Ida is clearly embarrassed about it, and hates that it exists, but acknowledges that when she made it, she’d thought maybe it could be the next The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) (a successful Norwegian song by Ylvis, the comedy act of Bård and Vegard Ylvisåker). Reluctantly, she allows a clip from the music video to be played in studio. She earns first place for her regretful venture into pop music.