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Lifeboat Muster Point for TalkExiles - Thread 2

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Kucingsparkles · 07/12/2022 08:45

Continuation of previous thread.

Gather here all ye refugees from the foundering ship of JTT, if ye be in need of "How the heck do I format my post?" "Why can't I edit my typos?" "What do those acronyms mean?" and most importantly, "Where is everybody that I used to know?"

Or just to chat randomly.

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Kucingsparkles · 09/12/2022 18:31

Oh, how adorable!

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CyanCyan · 09/12/2022 18:32

duc748 · 09/12/2022 16:57

I read the first page of shit items you never replace, waiting for someone to say, 'husband'. But nobody did thus far! 😀

Arf!

@BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn always appreciate your explanations.

@BinkerTell I don’t think anyone noticed when I stepped away either.

Re shit things you never replace… for me that’s most things. I don’t really do replacements, it feels too extravagant. I just use something until it breaks and then live without it. I have a collection of shit broken things to take to the dump that can’t be recycled but I never get round to it because I can’t bring myself to send stuff to landfill, sometimes even taking them with me when I move. My friend told me recently ‘but they’ll go to landfill anyway when you die’ which stirred a slight enthusiasm to do something about it, but it didn’t last long.

My shittest in-use thing off the top of my head is probably my stick blender that I purchased for £9.99 over a decade ago and has always been shit, but became even shitter when it warped out of shape in the dishwasher. If I want to use it I have to force it into place after jimmying it in various directions for 10 mins or so, with much angst and swearing.

My parents had a great many shit items. Notably the electric tin opener attached to the wall in the kitchen that didn’t even work when they bought the house. It remained on the wall for another 25 years.

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Kucingsparkles · 09/12/2022 18:44

This is fascinating! I notice it all the time amongst multilingual friends/colleagues. And according to my dear family (who find it hilarious) I do it too. www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4694416-to-change-my-whole-posture-etc-when-i-speak-a-different-language

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weaseleyes · 09/12/2022 18:49

I had a similar experience @BinkerTell

Tricyrtis2022 · 09/12/2022 19:00

AFAIK, the only place I was ever missed was the gardening thread, though I did post a bit on FWR. I read more than anything.

Winterborne74 · 09/12/2022 19:01

13 month pregnancy?! Poor Mother Tapir.

I’ve always been a bit peripheral so wouldn’t have expected people to notice the times I’ve been away on a personal level. But the whole affair has made me realise how disposable some of us are.

Tricyrtis2022 · 09/12/2022 19:03

As for shit items you never replace, I think the main one for us is a colander we bought in 1987. The handle was made of something similar to Bakelite and it eventually fell apart so Mr T, as an emergency measure, made a new one out of a bit of Yew branch and it's held on with a jubilee clip. That was about ten years ago, maybe more. It does what we need it to do, so we still use it.

CyanCyan · 09/12/2022 19:11

Xmas Shock Is the bark of the yew not toxic? Is it only the berries?

Winterborne74 · 09/12/2022 19:16

My bedside lamp is fundamentally unstable, and I regularly knock it over. It drives me nuts, but I neither replace it nor swap it for any other lamp around the house.

One of our kitchen cabinet doors is off one of its hinges, but has been repaired so many times that we need to replace the whole thing because the repairs never hold. It has been like this for 5 years.

Should be posting these on the thread itself rather than here though!

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 09/12/2022 20:32

Ooh. I had plans to be at a loose end in Chester next week, which have now been upgraded to plans to visit the little wuffly humbug.

MavisMcMinty · 09/12/2022 22:25

The tapir baby looks so tiny in the photograph, but apparently weighed 20lbs at birth, the same weight as my fully-grown springer spaniels.

IReallyLikeCrows · 10/12/2022 02:29

Nessa, the baby tapir made my long barren womb go all funny and beg me to make one too.

Bint you never seem overly verbose to me. I seem overly verbose to me all the bloody time. Why go for a sentence, Crow, when you can write paragraphs of piffle!

I loved the Big Brother threads. Some of my finest posts happened there. I still remember the joy of being able to be the "reporter on the ground" when it all kicked off with Nasty Nick and I was able to live stream it. I think it all worked when it was GU and a big place with far more going on and the ability to not know or be bothered that shit was going down in, for example Israel/Palestine. When we lost that ntt/jtt was just so much smaller and I don't think people grasped that. We had the idea that we were still a very big fish. There was always talk of all the new users that would turn up which just wasn't happening because why would it. I also think that JTS got a bit of a god complex or maybe he was always a total wanker and "power" just made it more obvious. He's a real poster boy for misogyny. Just to be clear I seriously dislike him and if I met him I'd f and c him to his - very probably - stupid face.

IReallyLikeCrows · 10/12/2022 02:30

@BinkerTell you and Betty should come to Worthing when it's warmer. I'll show you all the nice things there!

PoppySeedBagelRedux · 10/12/2022 07:22

I love the shit items thread. It's relatable (we have a number, too) and some posts are so witty.

PoppySeedBagelRedux · 10/12/2022 07:28

I do miss the ability to edit a post though...

Tri I miss the garden chat thread too. There used to be one here - a group of us met up as a result, years ago. I'll have a rummage, and see if it's still going, as it will have dropped down the list if there aren't any posts. Now maybe isn't the time to start a new one, if necessary, but let's bear it in mind for February.

The That Subject chat thread is going well, with not just the JTT exiles jointing in.

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Kucingsparkles · 10/12/2022 07:51

The That Subject chat thread is going well, with not just the JTT exiles jointing in.

Yes, it's a fascinating conversation and as I've often said before, I'm in awe of the brilliance of the FWR MNers!

BTW I've just ventured into one of the Christmas decoration threads for the first time, with a question about garlands. I do love the decoration threads - the ability to share photos really comes into its own.

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StephanieSuperpowers · 10/12/2022 08:14

I think the reason I'm sad about the old place is that for so long, they were generally my kind of people. I generally agreed with the prevailing views, until this. And then I guess I realised just how quick people are to turn without any interest in why you think what you think.

Winterborne74 · 10/12/2022 08:55

how quick people are to turn without any interest in why you think what you think.

I could understand that there are people who either don’t perceive the clash between women’s rights and trans rights, or people who prioritise trans peoples feelings over women’s rights. People feeling strongly. And people who are just not interested. That’s politics. What I cannot understand is that there are people who are so weak minded that they would support removing women’s right to speak about issues that impact on their lives, they would cheer on that suppression, either because they find the idea of women disagreeing with them distressing, or because they imagine a trans person being distressed by being confronted by different views on gender identity . Articulating problems for women is framed as something abhorrent and disreputable (“there are all sorts of legal opinions that I wouldn’t want expressed in my home” “women discussing their rights sounds fine in theory, but it will be transphobic in practice” as well as the repeated comparisons to excreta and the unseemly cheering on “yay can we get the lovely people back” No one drove out those posters btw, they left because they couldn’t tolerate different views. Intolerance and suppression of women’s speech won out. It must be blissful there now they’ve eliminated the bad women’s voices.

DeanVolecapeAKAelderberry · 10/12/2022 09:18

they find the idea of women disagreeing with them distressing

nail on head

And not just on that contentious issue, there are a few of them who get agitated about women sounding off on anything.

Tricyrtis2022 · 10/12/2022 09:45

CyanCyan · 09/12/2022 19:11

Xmas Shock Is the bark of the yew not toxic? Is it only the berries?

According to this, it's the foliage which contains the highest level of taxines, but the wood isn't thought to be so much of an issue. The piece we used had been sitting in a pile for a few years and was very dry, if that makes any difference. Anyway, we haven't had any problems from holding the handle.

Tricyrtis2022 · 10/12/2022 09:49

PoppySeedBagelRedux · 10/12/2022 07:28

I do miss the ability to edit a post though...

Tri I miss the garden chat thread too. There used to be one here - a group of us met up as a result, years ago. I'll have a rummage, and see if it's still going, as it will have dropped down the list if there aren't any posts. Now maybe isn't the time to start a new one, if necessary, but let's bear it in mind for February.

The That Subject chat thread is going well, with not just the JTT exiles jointing in.

A new gardening thread in early spring sounds like a good idea, I'd be up for that.

Tbh, I stopped posting there as much because Anchorman annoyed the shit out of me. He's so pompous. Just seeing his name made me want to spit on his shoes and then scuff it in.

Ginmonkeyagain · 10/12/2022 09:55

Ha ha there are a lot of pompous Stewart Lee type men agreeing the fuck out of each other.

I got to the point where I could not stand one more middle aged, middle class man posting "Aye" in agreement to some stunning insight about evil Tories like they were part of some 1920s radical workers collective, rather than a very comfortably off IT consultant in their fifties.

Tricyrtis2022 · 10/12/2022 10:11

That sums it up perfectly, Gin 😅

Ginmonkeyagain · 10/12/2022 10:23

I am feeling waspish this morning. I have a cold and the local squirrels have tried to dig up my potted bay tree, covering my balcony in soil.

Sashohoho · 10/12/2022 10:24

Well said, Winterborne.

Where is the That Subject thread. Trouble with all these different threads, is I can't recall which thread I read something on. Am currently looking for the Louise Perry (?) podcast I saw late last night.