Bunburying and wassailing into winter - thread 7

A much admired poster called Lang Cleg caused no end of disputes over her, weetabix, banana and hot milk invention. Dubbed weetabix banana horror (WBH) by vomiting mumsnetters, the for and against arguments could be heard from space.

Eventually any mention of food in response to twattery was frowned upon as 'not being in the spirit'. And Lang was banned (although not for WBH).

I'm guessing weetabix has become something of a memorial to her as she is much missed, and therefore considered a loaded term.

Just bobbing in to mention that the thread about my friend becoming not a woman has been deleted too. No explanation

Yes CaraDuneRedux it was very revealing, I thought.

Midge, is there an in-joke or backstory that means a reference to weetabix is troll-bait? Maybe I'm being a bit thick, but I don't get it.

Yes people report

It's most normal that people report to try and get feminists barred

Ops who drop in to try and stir things to try and bring mn into disrepute also get stopped by hq

Not too sure what the recipe rules are , but weetabix used to be considered troll bait I think.. you are not allowed to suggest to others on the thread that the op might be trying to annoy people into posting outside the guidelines , it's poster beware.you can only report then

I tend not to report the real charmers who flout the rules with abandon as I suspect they makes lurkers raise the odd eyebrow

Been lurking on this thread for a while. Gate crashing to ask why seemingly innocuous threads like the latest epic recipe thread get deleted .. do people actually report posts ..?

Soups, marmalade cake and sausage casserole here

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4155123-Following-the-Hello-All-thread-one-for-the-hints-tips-and-recipes

The India Willoughby vs Eddie izzard one has gone, 'not in the spirit'. Disappointing.

Oh I am very disappointed...just returned for the recipes and it was gone. Gutted.

Also, considering it was only an announcement of someone joining MN (does anyone remember when Netiquette was a thing and threads saying hello I'm new were encouraged when joining a new forum/messageboard? Maybe that was never a MN thing though) it wasn't really a thread that the OP 'needed' to reply to. Obviously it would have been good manners, but on MN we know manners are subjective.

OP promised us greatness, and it truly was. Not because of the apparently non-returning OP, but because of y'know, the other MNers.

Since when has a non-returning OP been a reason to delete a thread? How long does an OP have to be absent for before the thread gets deleted? This seems very odd. Anyone remember the Victorian safe thread where the OP never returned? I guess that should have been deleted.

Unless the real reason for deletion was the blatent goadiness of the OP, in which case, why not just say that?

I had been lurking for recipes! (And also wondered if Manchester was oj - coming to make peace)

I was going to make the marmalade cake today. 😣 I really enjoyed that thread.
Why is a marmalade cake recipe bad?
Any one able to give it to me please?

Gawd forbid we should have some much needed light relief ffs!!!

Wtf? Fucking hell

Jeez all the recipes gone 🤷‍♀️

I know, Errol, I was really enjoying it. I mailed MNHQ to ask if it could be put back, it was a hoot! Even if it was intended as a drive-by goading.

You could try reporting your deleted post to put the question.

I do hope MNHQ copied the celeriac and bacon soup recipe (and others)before that thread was deleted. I'll stick it here in case anyone wants it.
Not sure why the non-return of the OP should cause a cheerful thread to be deleted.

I have no idea what my email password is, so I'm reduced to guessing the reasoning for my latest deletion.

It didn't have any references to the tip of a mountain, 3-letter acronyms, or a word used for businesses that wash, dry and cut poodles. So I'm beaten.

The Pyrex dish was superhot, Arabella, and the pud started to rise at the edgeseven as I poured it hissing in, but it still rose all uneven-like.

Luckily I have an extractor-fan which actually does get rid of the smell of hot fat before it gets into the bedrooms.

I think you need a superhot oven, Asking, and the fat smoking so that the whole house fills with filthy greasy black smoke. Your home will be awful and the puds magnificent.

One end of the Yorkshire pud rose so high it hit the roof of the oven and burnt, the other end expanded rapidly sideways, and the middle stayed flat.

Oh well, it tasted ok. I shall persevere.