Thread 5 - TalkExiles: "The Planet Goes On Being Round"

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of previous lifeboat threads (thread 4).

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.

I'm still of the opinion that Kuc mentioned upthread, that I shan't be looking again until the heat death of the universe. Haven't been back since we were kicked out, don't see the point.

Agree, it's all water under the fridge to me.

Sorry you're feeling so rough, Binker. Was A&E for the migranes, or have you got something else on top of those?

Brit, I'm exhausted just reading about that amount of cleaning. I hope you're through the worst of it now, but if not might it be worth hiring a steam cleaner for a day?

We have someone coming to quote for solar panels this afternoon. Only emailed them this morning, so it's quite a contrast to last year's efforts to get some - which resulted in lots of messages out and not a single reply from any of the companies.

I need somewhere just to say FFS Katie Forbes - not helping.

@Britinme I hope your son is at least helping with the cleaning, and grateful for your help. It sounds pretty grim!

Sympathies, @Britinme! I loathe cleaning my own house, let alone anybody else's <slattern>

I partially agree about Kate Forbes - completely unhelpful, but at the same time, if that's her view then that's her view. At least then the membership can take that into account when making their choices.

Indeed. It is not my view but she is allowed to hold it and now she has been clear voters in Scorland can make choices based on that.

You never know... maybe some SNP members agree with Forbes!? I have gay friends who are against gay marriage. "Just makes us like straights and isn't the whole point of our lifestyle that we aren't like that!?" is what one said to me. I believe in equal rights to marriage - I don't like the term gay marriage; it's marriage. Full stop. I also think it's good that straight couples can get CP-ed if they want a formal commitment but don't want what some see as baggage goes with traditional marriage.

I see some in the wide Anglican church abroad have disowned Justin Welby just for saying the church should bless gay couples! A reminder that homophobia is still very much in evidence in many places in the world and wouldn't that have been a good place for Stonewall to continue campaigning once it achieved its two main aims - equal marriage and equal age of consent? Does it even bother with campaigning anymore around gay rights and fighting homophobia? For sure homophobia certainly hasn't gone away.

I don't think it does. Maybe it dabbles a little but most of its work in that direction seems to be calling lesbians who don't want to have relationships with trans women bigots and transphobes.

Does there need to be a comma after trans women? I can't do grammar today.

You've got a couple of missing commas there, Crows.

Another horsey Tuesday afternoon, same lane. Drove around the corner and there was a horse having a panic attack in the middle of the road, because someone had dumped a mattress on the verge and it was refusing to go past it. I suppose it says something that the horse wasn't used to seeing such things.

Hey, I fell off Mumsnet for a while - lifeboat 5 eh? Hope all is well.

@CyanCrystalViolet in a (very) belated answer to your question about virus books and it a book by Dr close (ebola) that started my fascination. Also 'The Coming Plague' by L Garret is one I read several times as a teen. More recently Spillover. I like how evolving diseases are a grand combination of logic and chaos IYKWIM. I have quite a macabre streak underneath all the pink.

Thanks for sympathies folks. Honestly his idea of cleaning isn't clean (and I really am not that fussy). Today I went out and bought an offcut of Lino as for some bizarre reason his landlord saw fit to carpet the bathroom and now you really wouldn't want to walk on it with bare feet because slime. Floor area next to bath is only 8 feet by 3 feet so offcut was enough. Renting a carpet cleaner for the bedroom and living room and stairs and landing is on the cards and he can do that though I think the carpets may be past the point where that works.

Brit, that sounds like a revolting clean up operation and I've taken part in a few! I really hope your son appreciates what you're doing for him.

bizarre reason his landlord saw fit to carpet the bathroom and now you really wouldn't want to walk on it with bare feet because slime.

<retches>

It's a British thing, carpet in bathrooms and kitchens. I just can't even.

Oh gosh - carpet in the bathroom is SUCH a bad idea.

My general view of kitchen and bathroom floors is they should be made of something that can withstand daily mopping and regular disinfecting. So tiles or stone mainly.

To combat the cold/wet feet on tiles issue we buy a lot of cheap cotton bath mats from Ikea which are changed regularly and washed at a high temperature.

He appreciates it as much as he is able. Certainly verbally appreciates it and me. Actually doing anything differently is a harder nut to crack.

Hi folks! I am now posting on shiny new laptop! What a business it is setting it all up. But mail and Google accounts successfully logged into, so that's the biggie.

@Britinme I wonder as he is autistic would be respond to seeing household cleaning as a set of regular scheduled tasks, that are completed regardless of visible "need".

This is how I amange household cleaning and how I got Mr Monkey (who is neuro typical but is lazy unable to see dirt) on board.

So in our house kitchen surfaces and the bathroom and kitchen floors are cleaned every day, the bed linen and towels are changed and washed every weekend, the fridge is scanned for anything out of date or off every other day etc.. etc..

@BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn A&E was migraine related - the pain had become so severe I was having panic attacks and was distressed. Unfortunately, A&E not the best place to be in those circumstances and acute medicine can do very little but I had some IV fluids and ant-nausea meds. Sadly, there was nothing they could do for pain relief.

I'm so sorry Binks, Have you always had them or is it a hormonal thing? I know my mother got them for about 15 years mid-life, but luckily got over them with age. All I had at that stage was weird allergies.

Only had them once previously- they went when I came off the pill. These ones are definitely due to the perimenopause, been having them for the last 18 months and I turn 50 this year.

I hope you manage to identify triggers - I know my mother had to give up red wine, strawberries, a few other things for the duration. But that helped, and afterwards she was able to eat anything she wanted.

Being a woman is hard at times.

@Ginmonkeyagain - I'm hoping to set up something like that.

@BinkerTell - I went through a migraine phase in perimenopause and menopause but haven't had one since I turned 60