Thread 4 - TalkExiles: "The Planet Goes On Being Round"

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of previous lifeboat threads 1 & 2 & 3.

Gather here all ye refugees from the JTT Flat Earth Society, welcome to the reassuringly oblate spheroid of MN! Ye all already know the answers to the questions "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?"

So really we're all here just to chat randomly.

Oh, and I have unhelpfully long big toes - like the bunions, they're a genetic thing from my mother's side of the family.

I bought myself a stovetop/oven tiny smoker and am going to try it out with some haddock for supper tonight. I have the haddock soaking in some brine and am about to get it out to dry off. Wish me luck... I have a Zoom class this evening so it needs to be done, cooked and ready to eat at 5pm as the class starts at 6.

I have a Zoom class this evening so it needs to be done, cooked and ready to eat at 5pm as the class starts at 6.

That threw me for a moment, as it's 8:50 pm here in the UK! Then I processed the "inme" part of your username and not only understood but also, I think, worked out who you are. J, right?

That's me :-)

I have lovely feet although if I do monkey toes they look less lovely to others. I generally only do monkey toes for myself. One of my better features along with my little hands - feet and hands are not proportionate, I have size 6 feet even though I'm vertically challenged and tiny hands - and my shoulders. Decent tits too but they get on my nerves. Or themselves.

So, on Monday I said I was going to learn sign language to be better able to communicate with my work coach despite not needing to. Tuesday I get a message that because I'm feeble I won't have to see a work coach. But I've decided to learn anyway because if I get good enough and do official courses I could do some volunteer interpretation. Last night I learned "fearless" while watching Silent Witness which is really quite poor but I love it anyway. What I love about the sign with added noise is it really feels like one imagines fearless would feel like. I'm really enjoying the whole learning thing.

Excellent - I like the randomness of signs picked up from TV. Our local lunchtime news always ends with a signed summary of the main stories.

I have an all-day meeting today, so have to be up and dressed and concentrating right from 9am. No fair.

@duc748, curious to know how it goes. I make 100% spelt bread, using half white - half wholemeal, with seeds mixed in. It isn't a brick but it's certainly dense, almost as dense as rye bread. I like it that way, it has real substance and is very different to the spongy stuff made commercially.

I was wondering if anyone would notice that!

I chortled considerably, @BezMills, and now I can't actually remember what the correct (non-secateur) word is.

Spectacular weather here in the NW. Not a cloud, pale cerulean dome above, windless and still.

Off to Liverpool for clothes exchange and frozen chapatis and parathas.

I see that David Crosby has shuffled off the M.C.

RIP etc., but I'm struggling to remember a song of his that I liked. Got banged up for possession of coke and a gun, did five months. I saw him singing with Snarky Puppy a few years ago. An old man singing about a young woman he wanted, is how I recall it. Pretty gross, frankly.

Well, that's old rock stars, I suppose.

The Grim Reaper seems to be very busy in celeb land now. I just feel that, although I can't actually recall the other recent deaths off hand...

Not sure he was rock. More folk, really - which doesn't fit as well with the coke-and-gun part of the story.

Yes, at the time, "rock" wasn't really a defined genre, in the way it came to be. CSNY were on the boundary - Steve Stills was a blues/country guitarist who mostly played elctric prior ro CSNY. Early folk-rock, I guess.

Neil Young's powerful somg about the deaths in Ohio. Crosby's vocals in harmonies.

I am surprised he was still alive! There are some funny "gone too soon" type tweets about it - not it is obviously a sad loss but too soon? He was 81, had multiple heart issues, type 2 diabetes and was a problem drug and alcohol user most of his adult life - the fact he made it to 81 is a bit of a miracle.

Sorry "NOW, it is obviously a sad loss"

He was quite well known for being "set in his ways" which I always assumed meant bit of a c*nt. Mind you CSNY's Deja-Vu is one of my favouritest albums ever, easily in my top twenty, so I guess I shouldn't be too hard on him.

It was always a surprise to me, back then, that Graham Nash - a pop artist, not a folkie, a rocker or anything remotely cred at the time - suddenly appeared in a USA supergroup.

And then wrote some superb songs, lived with Joni M in Laurel Canyon...

Spelt sourdough. I only used 50g in 250g Flour total, but unsurprisingly it had quite a drastic effect. Bread is denser (and of course sourdough is denser anyway) but not too bad. It's nice now when fresh, won't be so nice tomorrow.

That looks good. How did you get that knob on the top?

I saw Crosby on stage here in Portland maybe five years ago. His voice was still unbelievably good despite being in his mid-70s by then.

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It's not a knob! 😁
I always slash right through sourdough with a bread-knife both ways. With ordinary sourdough it just results in faint lines on the crust. Adding spelt made it act like that.

Gosh! I've used Shipton Mill spelt flour in the past and didn't notice any difference between it and ordinary wholemeal when making sourdough. What make of spelt is it?

Well, it looks like a knob from here ;-) I want to tear it off and eat it first.

Oo err!