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

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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.

Oh no! Bit he IS such a cute kitty.

This made me think of this thread. On a separate note, I spent too many minutes in the old place today, and it just reminded me how much more I like it here. The phrase “pious frauds” keeps coming to mind even though I think those (mostly) chaps probably genuinely believe it. But so what?

Anyway:

Looked because I'm a glutton for punishment. Stopped reading very quickly but there is one poster who was clearly trying to make things peaceful and I wanted to register and say "Just stop! Have you not yet figured out that there is no point in trying to be kind and gentle? They will never listen" And it made me sad because she's someone I've met in the past, have a lot of respect for and have no idea why she stays. The thing that really struck me was how tense I felt just reading stuff there. I've read loads of things I've disagreed with in all corners of the internet and there is something about the tone there that makes everything in my innards just twist in on themselves. It reminded me that when I left x number of years ago I was so much happier and calmer. Please resist the temptation, it will just make you feel angry or sad or stressed or ... it really isn't worth it.

And now, nicer stuff.

Cats and Baths: A True Story.

When I was in my late teens/early twenties, I had the most adorable cat, Nimrod. He slept with me, with his head on my pillow, his body under the covers and very often a paw on me. He was a loving, beautiful, best of boys and he and my dearest Georgiana tie as the best cats a woman could ever have.

So, we get the picture. Beautiful, Nimrod, a king among cats and so many stories I could tell, but we will tell the Tale of the Bath. He liked being in the bathroom with me when I was having a bath and he went from chirruping on the floor/having a lie down on the floor while I lathered myself. Soon enough, the floor wasn't enough. He started sitting on the edge of the bath. I could see this going very, very wrong. It did. He fell in. I grabbed hold of my legs and pulled them up to my chest so that he couldn't rip my legs to pieces. But. He did nothing. He just sat there, up to his neck in water, perfectly happy. He sat there with me while I bathed and after a while got out, had a bit of a shake and then started to lick himself dry.

After that first time, he would often come in and sit on the edge of the bath but for reasons known only to himself, he couldn't just get in the bath. Maybe it was against cat rules, but he would always "accidentally" fall in, sit there up to his neck for a while and then get out. It was bloody delightful.

I could only imagine the horror show that would be Kasper falling in the bath while I was bathing in it. If I ever stop posting you can assume that was my fate.

“there is something about the tone there that makes everything in my innards just twist in on themselves.”

That’s exactly how I felt today. As we all keep saying, there are plenty of good people there, and I know that I will still look over there and post a bit for old times sake but here on MN it’s like a country rather than a village and I never feel boxed in like I did at times today there. I suppose I agree with the old owner on that one point. Life’s too short to waste on X when Y is so clearly better.

@bignosebignose your post on that thread was perfect but I imagine that the poster you were addressing was the thread bannee so won't see it, unfortunately. However it may should give other people food for thought.

I see JTS has updated and extended his goodbye (link on page 23 of this thread), and given us longer to read it before redirecting to the JTT site. And half the wimmin thread is now deletions. The anti-GC posters are like attack dogs, very off-putting.

That's such a wonderful story! Lovely Nimrod 😍

I've just looked at the JtT rant. Is it going to get longer and longer as time goes on until he's written a book on his grievances? Awful illogical self pitying drivel - how can anyone imagine they can support gay rights and the genderist movement when the latter is directly and explicitly antagonistic to the former?

I love Nimrod. I doubt either R or O would join me in the bath, judging by their horror at my getting all wet in the shower.

I’m not feeling tempted to have a peek.

@MavisMcMinty I see JTS has updated and extended his goodbye (link on page 23 of this thread), and given us longer to read it before redirecting to the JTT site.

More farewells than Dame Nellie Melba. 😆

Occasionally Reese, the bold and brave one of my tabby sisters, will poke her nose around the bathroom door while I'm in the bath, but has never investigated further. She may be remembering the laundry chute incident, which of course I now have to describe to you.

In our bathroom there is a narrow cupboard. When you open it, the top half of the cupboard has shelves that hold towels. The bottom shelf is about three feet up the height of the cupboard and is almost the depth of the cupboard. The centre of that shelf hinges up to expose a laundry chute that comes down to the top half of a similar cupboard in the utility room downstairs. I chuck the contents of laundry baskets down there to save me carrying the load downstairs.

Miss Reese likes to jump into the cupboard when she can, because she likes to snuggle down among towels. Once when I had the door open and I'd just thrown a load down the chute she came into the bathroom behind me. Even as I said "don't jump up there you won't like it", she jumped of course and went sailing straight down the chute. I knew she'd be ok - it was no more than six feet or so, and there was a soft pile of laundry at the bottom.

I regret to say that I was laughing as I rushed downstairs to open the door of the downstairs cupboard to let her out, at which she glared at me, jumped down and stalked off with a "how dare you laugh at me, I meant to do that" air.

@Ereshkigalangcleg

Ah, I hadn't twigged that he'd been banned. That should mean he will be able to read my post but not respond (on that thread). Oh well, it won't have changed his thinking and his reply wouldn't have changed mine so it's all just belming into the void and no harm done.

When small close knit communities implode, the fall out is never pretty.

We can chose to walk away or get stuck in, rolling around in the mud.

I chose, and continue to choose the former option.

I have been remembering the advice about wrestling with a pig

Well, I've lobbed a post onto the New Thread of Hate. Thought I'd test the waters.

but mach, the pig enjoys it!

Heh! I think The Cyclist has been threadbanned but there are one or two more who may bite. I don't think anything I've written is bannable under the new policy but you never know.

I’m practicing acceptance and enjoying this place.

Does anyone else do the Guardian quiz on a Saturday? MrW and I have done it since we met with varying degrees of success (typically in the 7-12/15 range depending how hard it is). It definitely needs both of our complementary knowledge bases though.

www.theguardian.com/theguardian/series/the-quiz-thomas-eaton

Have also been reminded of and been enjoying the Advanced Style TikTok this morning. It couldn’t be further from my own attitude to clothes, but it’s great to see older women represented in this way full of colour and personality. Of course it’s less rare in real life, but it is unusual in the media I think. Could even have been this thread that introduced it too me originally- have lost track.

www.tiktok.com/@advancedstyleofficial/video/7200074220078943530?_t=8aMPpB9fpTC&_r=1

Winterborne74 · Today 09:46

Does anyone else do the Guardian quiz on a Saturday?

Yes, but I tend to do better with the Thursday Quiz. I got six for that: 1,2,3,4; 9; 13.

I never do TikTok, but I really loved those Advanced Style photos!

I'll probably end up as Denim Guy - 30 seconds.

Mach's up for a bit of mud wrestling I see. 😁

I am too tired and too busy to carry explaining my nuanced position on gender to people who won't hear. TBH it was often the same on there with policy. I am a centrist who strongly believes in well regulated private markets, a mixed economy, personal responsbility and well funded public services that are free at the point of use. To many there that made me somewhere to the right of Margaret Thatcher politically.