A little village between Crewe and Chester.

Eh. I'd take a Bakewell Pudding over a Banbury any day - but I'd walk it off in them their hills nearby though.

Its a bit like that Mornington Crescent game which is sometimes played on here

i never have any idea what’s happening but i so want to join in 😩

sowiwag · Yesterday 08:17

DdraigGoch

Can someone please explain the origin of the reference (the one named after a village in Cheshire which is not to be confused with a similarly-named town in Oxfordshire)?

I always assumed it was Oscar Wilde.

OED : Bxxxy "An imaginary person used as a fictitious excuse for visiting a place or avoiding obligations (see [eg] O. Wilde Importance of being Earnest i. 14). Hence used allusively in various formations."

But I may be wrong ...

RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · Yesterday 08:59

I think you are right sow

[Just wondered if that C-and-P would work.]

The little village, AvocadoAndToast , is serendipitously named for the non-existent but nevertheless-useful-as-a-distractive-excuse character in that play. Nothing specifically about women's rights.

Crickey, this is like watching an episode of Only Connect and realising just how thick you are.

If Bunbury has become too contentious, perhaps we should try Basingstoke instead? (That's a Gilbert&Sullivan reference denoting dull respectability)

Home of the Dysart arms…. I am a local

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4267555-Bunburys-Thirteenth-edition-unlucky-for-some

This was the thread that resulted in me spending £3.50 on a brew in an uncomfortable cafe. Stale cake too.

Please can someone explain, or PM me, the reference to the perfectly ordinary, albeit very beautiful and expensive little village in Cheshire and women’s rights?
I am a regular NC’er and have seen the village named before but am lost about its significance.

Reality is, unfortunately, terribly uncivil for some people, it seems.

Yep, just been a pretty tame, polite thread deleted in chat for no apparent reason.

Actually the same deletion message, about being 'uncivil'. Which was not true. I read the whole thread. Nobody was uncivil.

What’s going on with the modding? I thought things had become a little more sensible recently, but I’ve been deleted twice recently purely for stating medical facts; and earlier today I clicked on a thread in AIBU and found a deletion message claiming that “the OP was uncivil to trans people”.

Now if you deleted for incivility the whole of AIBU would be like a Swiss cheese. What’s going on with the spurious deletions that don’t actually fit in with the talk guidelines?

🎯

Of course by my saying ‘not posting in good faith’ i obviously mean fucking liar

I hadn't realised it was a place, I thought it was an ineffable state of mind.

Actually, knowing FWR probably 'effable' is more accurate.

I suppose cos saying that implies that the poster is not posting in good faith and thats not in the spirit of mumsnet

i think we should just run round yelling ITS A TRAP

still be deleted bit it’ll be a lot more dramatic

Really, why ever not? Seems like a very sensible thing to highlight that single posts can be screen shot, stuck on twitter and taken totally out of context. People will forget/not be aware. I see it as the same as the Daily Mail warnings.

Yeah, I got a week's ban for using the c word.

You’d think ben

but apparently not

screenshot warnings are not in favour

Now i am confused. I had always thought that mention of the place where little cakes are placed beneath the soil in a thread was not necessarily about T hunting, more a helpful reminder to posters that it is not always sensible to engage. I would have thought MNHQ would welcome such sage advice.

I think you are right sow

I always assumed it was Oscar Wilde.

OED : Bxxxy "An imaginary person used as a fictitious excuse for visiting a place or avoiding obligations (see [eg] O. Wilde Importance of being Earnest i. 14). Hence used allusively in various formations."

But I may be wrong ...

I got deleted the other day, apparently, according to the deletion message, because my post implied that gender dysphoria is a psychiatric condition (which it in fact is, listed right there in the DSM-5); but apparently medical fact these days is highly offensive, apparently, and grounds for being censored in case anyone is offended by factual reality.

Wondering if I post on the Health board about my asthma being a medical condition I’ll get deleted for highly offensive factmongering.

Don’t fact shame me, I can’t help it! I just can’t help those facts, baby!

Took me a couple of seconds to work out you're not referring to headlice 😄

Can someone please explain the origin of the reference (the one named after a village in Cheshire which is not to be confused with a similarly-named town in Oxfordshire)?

I mean, I also was once deleted for warning people that screenshots had been taken by a particular poster a day or so before the posted started a new thread.