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.

Ha! Do they also hang around the house in t-shirts and shorts in December, and sleep under a single sheet with the heating turned up to 30C? To be fair, power is usually very cheap and plentiful in Canada because of being more than 50% hydro-generated. But I think even they are struggling at the moment.

We don't do the turning up the heat thing, because Central Maine Power are bastards who have just upped their prices a lot since the start of the year and our bill in late January was 20% higher than the previous month. That doesn't include any heating because our heating is oil.

I have seen people out in the streets (usually young men) in past Januaries wearing shorts though.

Gosh, it’s 24 years today since I moved from London to Devon, with my little black cat on the front seat in her cat box, looking iller and iller as the hours ticked by. The last few miles of unfamiliar rural lanes nearly did for her, it felt like a race to arrive before she carked it, poor Kitty. On my drive the odometer hit 55,555 miles, which I took as a good omen. (The odometer on that car broke at 210,000 miles and I did at least another 10K before the rest of the car died.) 24 years, how it’s flown.

I hear you @MavisMcMinty. My first husband died 23 years ago this month and I've now been remarried and in the US for 20 years and I have no idea where that time went.

I spent some time at the Old place yesterday, mostly for the Six Nations thread, but did have a general pole around. I did come across one gem, actually from rather a bete noir of mine, who proudly announced "I support the underdog ; that's why I support the Palestinians and trans people".

A well thought out and researched POV, obviously.

Oh, and another classic, from one of the most masculine, mannish men on the site, who remarked, almost wistfully, that he didn't feel able to get a log-in on MN. Tbf, I think that the poster in question is broadly sympathetic, but did find it a bit funny.

Had to go and check that. He gave himself away when he said he supported the 'little guy', because it is all about guys, never women who aren't really human so don't count.

The lickiest licks are still thanking Johnny. Just because he did a helpful thing a decade ago it doesn't make the abuser he turned into any more likable.

Gonners · Yesterday 10:24

You can get Dutch Sambal Oelek...

Ah, that's the most common one I've seen. I won't be buying it from Amazon, however. I wonder if Morrison's do it? They have stopped stocking ghee, but I managed to get some dripping, after swimming, so roast potatoes are still on later!

I keep meaning to make ghee. I got very nice dripping in Lidl last year but have nearly finished it - there's a danger I'll have to end up cooking steak on coconut oil if I can't get more.

Luckily the Polish shop has lard.

Sinner, do you have any oriental shops where you are?

Ha, how about this?
tradewindsorientalshop.co.uk/search?type=article%2Cpage%2Cproduct&q=Sambal*+Oelek*

We use Trade Winds and they're good. Run by a couple and used to have a shop in Scunthorpe that we bought from regularly when we lived up that way.

The word Midwit seems appropriate in that circumstance.

That was meant as a response to @duc748 and his tales of minds of the Other Place wrestling with this issue!

I have not gone back and have no intention of doing so.

3 post ment ...

Sainsbury's sell Yeo's Sambal Oelek in their world food aisles.

Midwit is a new one on me. I don't feel I am required to renounce posting there, but other than the snooker and rugby threads (which obviously have no equivalent here), I no longer do. But I do have a read through whilst I'm there.

Oh no please don't misunderstand, I have no judgement on anyone who does go back, It is just for me it is a closed chapter, not really because of the trans stuff per se but more how it was handled. I know others feel differently and have threads they value etc..

There is a Sports folder here: www.mumsnet.com/talk/sports

I'm still slightly active on the dinner thread and the Covid threads, but less and less. I found the incursion by the drive by-er and her copying stuff from here back to there to cause trouble really shocking, and the fact that none of them came here to apologise spoke volumes. For all I know she's still doing it - nasty person.

Anyway, we should talk about more interesting things, like spices and cooking fats.

Tricyrtis2022 · Today 13:27

Sinner, do you have any oriental shops where you are?

There's a little Thai grocery on the corner and a big Chinese supermarket in Newcastle, which sells a lot of Korean and Japanese food. We get sushi rice and seaweed sheets there.

I don't really feel any differently to you, GM. I have seen the Sports section, Bint, but it's not very busy.

Anyway, time to get out in the fresh air, first game of the year, a pre-season testimonial match. Decent weather today, I might even get the bike out! 🏍

No sambal on the shelves there? That's a drag.

I went to the relatively new local Asian & African shop, and was pleased to see that they offer three different brands of fenugreek seeds, and 5 different sorts of ghee, for example. It's not a big space but my word they cram in an impressive range of things. I got a little branch of curry leaves - such pretty things and so delicious. They also had about 5 sorts of aubergines from pretty ones the size of eggs to thin ones, about a foot long. Come the end of April they will sell Alfonso mangoes- I can't wait.