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 glad to see mach, thuc, supa, crabby, dmentor and others keeping the flame alive on jtt. I have the sense that there has been a change, with some people asking pertinent questions and not being called bigots. This is good, but they could really just read the entire previous thread.

@angelico53 - I'm in touch with Buddhapest on FB and did actually see lusmeri there the other day for the first time in a long time. Lovely people, both. Also Tethys, if you remember her.

Hello. I hear there's been some unpleasantness at the old place.

Not heard Kamakiriad. The Nightfly is very good and very clever, but it's (deliberately) cold, soul-less and anodyne. Although to some extent you could say that about SD in general. I'd seldom play it for pleasure these days.

Lusmeri's got a lot on with family at the moment and it takes most of her time.

@MrsBertBibby - your name seems oddly familiar...

I had a lovely day with my friends in Oxford today, and a long catch-up regarding our lives and offspring. We also went to see the Knossos exhibition at the Ashmolean, which was fascinating. Am currently sitting in a service area on the M40 having a coffee and about to head back to Herts.

I'm trying to decide whether we really are in danger of lots of snow in which case I should fill the bath with water for flushing the loo. Maybe I'll just fill a few watering cans and hope for the best.

This area got snowed in for a week in mid-March decades ago and I'm still not over it.

Not been here for a bit, but felt compelled to say hello and leave this here:

archive.ph/2023.03.05-113424/www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sense-prevails-we-re-giving-censors-the-boot-r6rdmgnw2

My cat has just become a lap cat, but only when I am sitting here at the keyboard.

Welcome, @MrsBertBibby !

And thanks re dear lusmeri @Tricyrtis2022 .

Picked a bad time to invade the thread, it's almost full!

Anyway, hello. Knock off the Mrs and squint and you'll recognise me.

Back in a bit

Hello delurkers!

Just as well I abandoned JTT a long while back. A rabid old terf like me would have been as welcome as a wet fart in a sauna.

The best song on that album I'd The Goodbye Look.

Ah, Bibbs, how great to see you!

And you too, Mac!

And some others I recognise (and some I know I know)

Big hugs to the poorly thread-beasts. My old lady Scrabble finally succumbed to her brain tumour in 2019, but was swiftly succeeded by these apex predators, Finn and Mully. No weasels yet. One squirrel, many slow worms, more birds than I can bear, and enough mice to sink a destroyer.

Fine looking beasts.

Just as well I abandoned JTT a long while back. A rabid old terf like me would have been as welcome as a wet fart in a sauna.

Same here

Scrabble is a most excellent name for a cat! Or, I suppose, a dog that liked digging...

Mully looks like she'd be a good companion if a fight were to occur. She'd totally have at 'em. Finn is very cute and looks like he might be a bit dim, rather like my own Francis who I adore, who is a lover night a fighter, and so very, very, adorably dim.

I think of lusmeri often. We met often in that there real life and I miss her. There's something so mischievous about her.

Loved the Hadley Freeman article.

Interesting thread here: www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4757354-things-that-are-utterly-bloody-fascinating

Wow - that’s a great thread. Lethal just before bed though.

Yes - thanks @BinturongsSmellOfPopcorn . Great thread.

MrsBertBibby · Yesterday 22:36

One squirrel, many slow worms, more birds than I can bear, and enough mice to sink a destroyer.

Slow worms? Oh no!