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

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Kucinghitam · 13/01/2023 17:17

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.

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weaseleyes · 01/02/2023 12:32

Is that the actual teenager under the cover in the bedroom? It's quite spooky

BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn · 01/02/2023 13:08

No idea, but I can't think of a non-disturbing alternative.

DeanVolecapeAKAelderberry · 01/02/2023 13:17

I think the spread is over the back of the desk chair and the teenager is an illusion. Unlike the beast whose shadow is shown in pic 58 - in mid pounce just before it ate the photographer.

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Kucinghitam · 01/02/2023 13:20

weaseleyes · 01/02/2023 12:32

Is that the actual teenager under the cover in the bedroom? It's quite spooky

Gave me vibes of this Doctor Who episode (GIF near bottom of page).

www.nerdophiles.com/2014/09/14/doctor-who-listen-recap/

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Dotellhimpike · 01/02/2023 14:11

I once went out with an Italian woman, and when we went to stay for a bit at her home in the Itlalian alps, it was that set up, the family had built what was to all intents and purposes, an apartment block, with the family members each being allocated their own home/apartment within the block. I'm thinking this is a similar setup.

Britinme · 01/02/2023 14:15

I also once did a house swap holiday with a German family and that was also an apartment block they owned. They rented out the top floor and they had the two flats below it. Parents had their bedroom, bathroom and study and work room (one was an artist) on one floor, and the kids had their bedrooms, bathroom, the kitchen and living room on the other.

angelico53 · 01/02/2023 20:03

Thought some might not have seen this excellent, heartfelt piece:

4w.pub/a-message-to-those-recently-opining/

duc748 · 01/02/2023 23:36

Seen that, and fully concur.

Something that's been marinating with me for a while : back in the day of the Brexit ref, one of the arguments I used to discourage people from voting Leave was, just look at who's in favour and who's against:

Remain:
Lab Party
Lib Dems
Tories (officially)
EU
Obama
All the establishment, really.

Leave:
Farage
Trump
Putin
Nazis, generally
The Spiked nutters

Who has the nation's interests at heart?

It seemed a compelling argument then, it seems much less so now.

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Kucinghitam · 01/02/2023 23:58

It’s a shock to the system when you realise that the universe really isn’t neatly bundled up into Good and Bad categories.

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duc748 · 02/02/2023 00:28

Well, yes, but it's a bit more nuanced than that.

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Kucinghitam · 02/02/2023 03:35

Oh indeed! But it’s a bit like that first, disturbing, crack in one’s worldview…

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DeanVolecapeAKAelderberry · 02/02/2023 10:38

Gosh, I just had a dangerous adventure!

Well, not really, just a sightly unsettling dilemma for a Covid averse person. Thursday is the one weekday our local church has Mass, and even with people from the next village over there are usually only about 40 there. Today is the feast of the Presentation/Candlemas (I'll be taking the crib down; still didn't work out how to use my phone camera) but in addition there was going to be the ceremony of blessing throats, which properly belongs to tomorrow, the Feast of St Blaise.

I love getting my throat blessed and haven't had it done since 2020 for obvious reasons, so I trundled down to the church. Only to see ALL THE CHILDREN from the village school, with their teachers, and a folding electric keyboard, heading through the carpark. That quiet congregation of 40 had swelled to about 160, some of them clearly with intent to sing. The horror.

Actually, it was very nice, they seemed quite happy to be there and were good as gold as far as I could see though there were occasional teacherly admonishments and lots of wriggling among the littlest. All the readings and prayers by children who had been well rehearsed, and even with the extra crowd we were all done in about 35 minutes.

But oh the disease vectors - I'll just have to hope St Blaise can see off Covid.

angelico53 · 02/02/2023 12:05

hope you are up to date with all jabs, elderberry!

DeanVolecapeAKAelderberry · 02/02/2023 12:11

Two jabs two booster jabs and a chance of the bivalent vaccine some time in the next few weeks. Hooray for science.

weaseleyes · 02/02/2023 13:20

I've never heard of blessing throats! Is there a particular reason people have their throats blessed?

Britinme · 02/02/2023 13:24

Me neither! I had the bivalent jab back in December so I have fingers crossed that it will shield me when I go to the UK in a couple of weeks. Case rate is very low round here and hardly anyone is wearing/requiring masks except medical offices, and even my dentist is making them optional in the waiting room.

DeanVolecapeAKAelderberry · 02/02/2023 13:37

I like the way the start of (Celtic) Spring has three feasts in succession - St Bridget, patron saint of Ireland (with Patrick and Columcille), the Presentation, and St Blaise. Nice sense of moving on from the dark of winter. Why throats? Not sure, but I can understand an early medieval worldview seeing them as a portal through which illness enters the body - also, for me, the throat is very linked to emotional upset - I easily lose my voice under stress, so a spiritual prophylactic is very welcome.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessing_of_the_Throats

Britinme · 02/02/2023 13:43

I've never heard of St Blaise, not being Catholic I guess. Today has always been Candlemas to me (Groundhog Day over here.) It's also my first husband's birthday, who would have been 76 today if he hadn't died when he was 54, so I'm thinking about him. He was a lovely man and I still miss him even though my second husband is also a lovely man. How lucky am I to have found two of them in one lifetime?

DeanVolecapeAKAelderberry · 02/02/2023 13:49

54 is so young. Good to have found two.

Round here it's a hedgehog of badger that looks out to see is there a shadow; today there wouldn't have been, and the poor beast would have got wet, but I see Phil saw his in Punxsutawney. So six weeks of winter there, but we're on our way to enjoying Spring.

Which reminds that there's a film I haven't watched for a few years . . .

DeanVolecapeAKAelderberry · 02/02/2023 13:50

hedgehog OR badger. 'of' makes it look like some strange feudal title of the animal world.

DeanVolecapeAKAelderberry · 02/02/2023 14:01

! Phone call with an appointment for the bivalent vaccine at 12.30 on Saturday ! - I only got the email saying I was now eligible on Tuesday, so that's quick - I suspect the last batch of vaccine bought in may have been undersubscribed so they're using it up before it expires.

I'm not sure what the Covid infection rates are atm - they were very high a month to six weeks ago, as was flu - very unhelpful to have both going round at once.

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Kucinghitam · 02/02/2023 23:22

Britinme · 02/02/2023 13:43

I've never heard of St Blaise, not being Catholic I guess. Today has always been Candlemas to me (Groundhog Day over here.) It's also my first husband's birthday, who would have been 76 today if he hadn't died when he was 54, so I'm thinking about him. He was a lovely man and I still miss him even though my second husband is also a lovely man. How lucky am I to have found two of them in one lifetime?

Oh that’s so lovely and poignant Flowers

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Kucinghitam · 02/02/2023 23:26

Great news on your efficient jabbage appointment @DeanVolecapeAKAelderberry !

Not great news here - not only am I still coughing (had a coughing fit so severe that I pulled an intercostal muscle and now it hurts every time I breathe in) but more worryingly my dad has developed a sore throat and cough Sad This sucks.

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duc748 · 03/02/2023 01:20

That sounds shit, Kuc. Is there a known virus going around?

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Kucinghitam · 03/02/2023 01:52

duc748 · 03/02/2023 01:20

That sounds shit, Kuc. Is there a known virus going around?

Perhaps I caught it on the flight over. I didn’t even realise I had a lurgy for the first few days because I would only cough whenever I went into air-conditioned places (to be fair, there are a lot of them) and I was convinced I was having a weird reaction to air-conditioning. It wasn’t until a couple of days ago, when the coughing got worse, that I suspected a chest infection. And then now that my dad has caught it, I now know it must be an infectious agent Sad

Not a lot I can do about it now.

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