Langcleg is vindicated

(I hope these diversions are taken in the spirit they're meant - bumping this LangCleg thread.)

Lakeland catalogue disappointing. Too Christmassy.

Is a mezzalune one of those curved knives you rock around on fresh herbs? Them look well gadgety cool (and a bit pointless).

And then it would be worth it

I comfort myself with the thought that it is an unlikely scenario that MNHQ will say "Oh alright, Lang can come back, but only if Tinsel eats the WBH"

I felt the same

I'd forgotten what my last post was to merit that remark.
(It's just a double bladed mezzalune, but with one curved handle not the traditional two.)

Question: is the banning of langcleg something that has produced an effective which amplifies her point?

I suspect that it's had this effect to some degree, especially with regard to the importance of safeguarding in general and how gladly some would like to shut down discussion on the topic, but speaking as someone who came to this forum with only the vaguest idea of what safeguarding is and how its presence or absence can play out in various real life situations, I find it to be a poor substitute for her well laid out, uncompromising, and thought provoking clarifications.

Not to mention the chilling effect on as yet unbanhammered posters, who have to navigate between sufficient naiceness and calling it as they see it.

I love Christmas catalogues. I'm such a sad act that I used to cut out pictures from them and play with them like a paper doll house.

Sounds like some of your houses, like mine, have the potential to be declared temples of major historical significance in the future.

Except Errol's which is more likely to be designated some sort of fort/arsenal for a tribe of tiny toddler warriors or similar.

That thing looks scary junk 😀

Oh the catalogue is really good tinsel

Ive folded Down loads Of pages 😀

Quick name change - I bring you my Granny's mincer.

I have too much kitchenalia to hide in drawers.

This reminds me the Lakeland catalogue came yesterday and I've not looked at it yet.

I don't know what you're all on about. My kitchen drawer is stuffed full of veryusefulthings and I place high value on my dinky little knife sharpener and silicone egg poacher. And I can't think of much more worth worshipping than magnificent saggy titted women.

DH looked rather horrified when he came across the thing that looks like a miniature Klingon weapon.

That venus figure is, I think, the one that features in the Earth's Children series by Jean Auel.

TBH I've found gadgets and weird things in my own cupboard that I've long since forgotten the purpose of.

I sometimes look at the peculiar implements I have collected in my cutlery drawer over the years and wonder what a civilisation ten thousand years hence would make of some of them.

It happens even in a couple of generations. My elderly DM has pointed out before, one of her most loved ornaments is a salt glazed hot water bottle - a jar one. Stood on a shelf, inherited from her GM. Her GM would laugh like a drain that an every day functional household item has become within a century an antique ornament. Makes me look around and wonder if my ggc will be lovingly dusting the ancient antique hoover on their mantel.

I'm reminded of recent findings that many ancient cave paintings were probably done by women. I somewhat fear this will lead to them being downgraded from important art work to mere interior design.

I'm pretty convinced that Venus figures are the Palaeolithic version of a tourist souvenir.

I often think this too! When archaeologists dig something up and speculate on its religious signficance or whatnot, I think: they might just thought it looked nice on the cave mantelpiece or wedged a door open with it.

I sometimes look at the peculiar implements I have collected in my cutlery drawer over the years and wonder what a civilisation ten thousand years hence would make of some of them. I mean I don't know what some of them are now.

I reckon there was probably a religious/mystical/augury destination somewhere in Europe (a bit like Delphi later on) where people went for the reasons people go to such places and the folk who ran the place flogged these statues to pilgrims in return for, say, a sheep or a knife with a rather nicely carved bone handle.

Venus figurines, I reckon, are the ancient version of the stuffed raffia donkey from Benidorm.