Page 12 | Bunburying and wassailing into winter - thread 7

CaraDuneRedux · 2020-12-02T11:41:14+00:00

Time for a new thread. Please can someone c&p the header post? (Am on phone.)

terryleather · 02/02/2021 19:53

Incoming!

OwBist · 02/02/2021 17:33

Are we allowed to say "plopper", or is that a banned-but-not-listed term?

Winesalot · 02/02/2021 17:32

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

I am trying, yet again, to cook a Yorkshire pudding that rises properly.

I do have some trouble with those. Not having grown up with them and needing them to be gluten free.... I do love those puds.

PurpleWh1teGreen · 02/02/2021 17:26

@Collidascope

Oh, here we go again.

My my, how can I resist

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 02/02/2021 17:25

I am trying, yet again, to cook a Yorkshire pudding that rises properly.

terryleather · 02/02/2021 17:24

Narcs gonna narc...🤷🏻‍♀️

Winesalot · 02/02/2021 17:23

Quite an entrance.

ArabellaScott · 02/02/2021 17:12

Warming winter soups:

My fave is sweet potato with green curry spices and coconut milk. Very lovely.

terryleather · 02/02/2021 17:07

It's very difficult not to indulge sometimes...

FannyCann · 02/02/2021 17:06

Yes. The cake never stops. I must stop indulging.

Collidascope · 02/02/2021 16:46

Oh, here we go again.

DaisiesandButtercups · 02/02/2021 09:14

Edge I agree that it is important to be here on mumsnet.

Not only for the reasons that you give but because the strict and apparently sometimes random moderation rules combined with challenging posters such as the aforementioned do mean that we really get to refine our arguments and opinions.

I’ve had a look at Ovarit and I think they could benefit from some mumsnetters sharing over there too. Mumsnetters have been refined in the fiery furnace and tested on the field of battle imo.

ArabellaScott · 02/02/2021 08:32

Agree, Edge. I find it hard to know what is 'in the spirit' and what isn't - such a vague term. But also agree that I value MN for both the variety of visitors and a lot of the other areas of the site.

EdgeOfACoin · 02/02/2021 06:21

Mumsnet need to update the talk Guidelines to make it clear that that phrase is banned. From what I understand, a term synonymous to 'courageous and startlingly beautiful', often used in reference to mtf transitioners such as Caitlyn Jenner has also been banned.

I've said it before, but sometimes it feels like we're playing a game of Taboo on this board.

Still I think it is better to keep going on this board rather than get fed up and move to another site completely. Mumsnet has a far bigger reach than somewhere like Ovarit, which is definitely an important place but where you mainly preach to the converted.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 01/02/2021 21:22

Such a boring person.

OwBist · 01/02/2021 20:02

I was so pleased to see these threads escaping into the wild, but have stopped reading the latest one on "the question" since it became a circular echo chamber for a poster formerly of this parish.

NotFabulousDarling · 01/02/2021 15:52

@Winesalot I shall bear that in mind for future discussions.

I've found an email from MN now saying this was my first strike and it was the sentence about going over the hill that did it.
Will write it off to experience and try to walk more carefully next time so as not to break any eggshells.

Winesalot · 01/02/2021 14:23

Do you mean that something piqued your interest? That particular phrase seems to be not as problematic.

StillAFeminist2 · 01/02/2021 14:14

[quote NotFabulousDarling]@StillAFeminist2 Damn. I only learned about it as a concept here. Thought it was a really good term. I haven't had a PM so I wasn't sure. I was so proud my husband had gone to the Peak District yesterday and is now, several months after me, gently descending the mountain we had previously both been on.[/quote]
Thought it was a really good term

I assume thats why it was banned - but I wish MN would be honest about it being a banned term rather than hide behind the ‘not in the spirit’ bans.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 01/02/2021 13:43

@NotFabulousDarling

Anyone know if the talk guidelines have changed again? My perfectly innocuous comment got deleted on a thread about a rather good documentary. I've scoured the guidelines (again) but can't see why this would be the case. Is a word that sounds like "peek" no longer allowed to be juxtaposed with a word which also relates to a specific type of isomer? That's all I can think of.

I had a message in AIBU removed yesterday because that pair of words were "not especially conducive to civil debate." Well, if isomer means what I think it means in your post, I did.

In an interminably long and disputatious message on the same thread someone else used the same words as a phrase, so I have reported it asking for clarification.

theskyispink · 01/02/2021 13:22

It's really frustrating seeing threads with excellent, well-considered responses vanish into thin air.

If anyone is interested in an invite code for my other hangout spot Ovarit (the GC site by GC women for GC women) please just let me know.

MaudTheInvincible · 01/02/2021 13:13

[quote MoleSmokes]MaudTheInvincible - was it this interview?

www.whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com/oliver-thorn[/quote]
Yes, that's it Mole

NotFabulousDarling · 01/02/2021 12:59

@CaraDuneRedux thanks I was off the boards for a few months so I hadn't got the memo but last I heard was it was ok (this was my thread pre-NC as I don't want to namecheck myself; MIL got my username)
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3939785-I-dont-want-to-talk-to-any-of-my-friends-anymore

NotFabulousDarling · 01/02/2021 12:52

@StillAFeminist2 Damn. I only learned about it as a concept here. Thought it was a really good term. I haven't had a PM so I wasn't sure. I was so proud my husband had gone to the Peak District yesterday and is now, several months after me, gently descending the mountain we had previously both been on.

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CaraDuneRedux · 01/02/2021 12:51

@NotFabulousDarling

Anyone know if the talk guidelines have changed again? My perfectly innocuous comment got deleted on a thread about a rather good documentary. I've scoured the guidelines (again) but can't see why this would be the case. Is a word that sounds like "peek" no longer allowed to be juxtaposed with a word which also relates to a specific type of isomer? That's all I can think of.

That one got banned quite a long time back. "Not in the spirit." Sigh. (Actually, come to think of it I think someone once got a deletion for that too, so I shall sigh under erasure).

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