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 am not great with house plants, but I am very proud of taking cuttings from pelargoniums last autumn and keeping them going in my kitchen over the winter. If my husband doesn't kill them off in the next month while I am in the UK, I'll put them out in late May after the last frost (usually April here).

And how sweet are Francis and Django? I wish my two tabby sisters got on like that. They avoid each other because Reese bullies Skittles unmercifully.

When I was a child we had a Siamese cat that we'd take for walks. One time we went to the Stiperstones in Shropshire and the cat was happily following, but then we heard a terrible wailing and discovered him trying, and failing, to dig a hole in the stony ground.

Agree, Francis and Django look adorable!

Yes, they look very comfortable together.

I am well jellus of Francis and Django being such good friends. My older cat, Jellybean has pretty much hated Archie since he came to live with us, and he did try to be friends with her at the start but gave that up to tease her instead, including play fighting, which she absolutely hated but they tolerated each other, albeit grudgingly.

Now I've moved house, he has been proper beating her up to the point she walks around the house terrified he will jump out from somewhere and attack her. I saw them two days ago and he had her cornered in the garden, and I was shocked to see his tail was in full chimneysweep brush mode, he was genuinely attacking her.

Having done some research it seems the house move has meant things smell different and to him she is a different cat to the one he knew, so that's why he is so aggressive. I am going to give it a month or so but she is 14 and I hate to think she will spend what is probably her last years, terrified in her own home. l'll be devastated if I have to rehome him,he is a little character and we love him dearly but I don't know what to do?

Is there something in the air, or the water today? I've just driven to the tip and in the exit slip road from the dual carriageway, a guy came flying up on my right, went to pull in front of me, saw the chevrons, braked and then came across the chevrons about a Rizla behind me. He did that all the way to the lights, then after turning left, all the way to the next roundabout.

At the tip, as I was leaving, three different men in different cars were fly tipping, right across from the exit!

Then there's a a slip on / off road, which I needed to stay on and a woman veered in at me, right at the end of the chevrons. She then veered in and out, aggressively and sat on the horn. Eventually, she dropped in behind. And followed me in to B&Q, where she pulled up next to me and started screaming that she was indicating and it was her right of way. I just gawped at her, till she pissed off.

Reverse parking outside the house, a guy came up fast and decided that reversing lights, indicator and being part way in meant "I am blocking the road, with the sole intent of ruining your day." Eventually, he reversed a bit then pulled alongside to shout something and wave his finger at me.

That sounds horrible, Sinner. We've seen some weird driving around here but nothing like that.

I have seen a theory that post-Covid cognitive damage has led to a lot more bad driving - but that's more about inattentiveness than rage.

Re the warring cats, would brushing them with the same brush to swap smells help at all? And Feliway.

@NotDrowningJustCrowing has your Swiss cheese plant got one of those coconut stakes? Mine got quite big but it just flopped and annoyed me. I broke it up into two plants but Kasper knocked one onto the floor and broke it

I think the wish to be let sleep on my bed has been a motivator for Rosy and Oscar getting on.

Lovely for them, sometimes v uncomfortable for me - it is astounding how much space they manage to occupy, and how unerring their instinct for the finding the most comfy-for-humans spot.

Tricyrtis2022 · Today 15:07

That sounds horrible, Sinner. We've seen some weird driving around here but nothing like that.

I'm used to drivers being arses, but I can't remember so much of it in such a short time!

They're just all allowed out today.

I can't remember so much of it in such a short time!

Don't know what's going on, but it's getting worse here too. The increase in aggression and impatience is noticeable.

I am going to have to have that! cheers, poppyseed.

Advice required, if poss. I was goiing to purchase something edible today on tinternet and was asked to pay with an app called Cash App. It all seems to be kosher but I paused at that point. Has anyone had any experience with this?

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Never heard of it.

Which isn't terribly useful, I realise, but it's a data point.

I've heard of it from Americans on the internet and netflx cashapping things. I think it might be a bit like revolut? But on a different app?

Yeah they are legit - FCA authorised and stuff. They are an e payment company. There are a fair few of them about.

Mainly yank based tho

"Re the warring cats, would brushing them with the same brush to swap smells help at all? And Feliway."

Tried using the cat glove/groomer on Jellybean but as soon as she smelled Archie on it she refused to have it near her. Will persist.

My two tortie sisters don’t particularly get on, but on our walks they’re much closer. One was washing the other’s head on a fallen log today, and it didn’t descend into hissing fury like it usually does at home. I envy those whose cats curl up together, I’ve never had that. Really thought I’d achieve it with siblings though. :(

@Dotellhimpike Feliway definitely helps. Is there any way you can keep them in separate areas for a while, till the house itself feels more familiar?

Feeling rather embarrassed. I'm watching a programme on Arté, which is in French, with subtitles, about Wuthering Heights.

The book's title is translated for the programme into French as "Les Hauts de Hurlevent" and into German as "Sturmhöhe" both basically being "Windy Heights". I was unaware that Wuthering is (obscure) Yorkshire dialect for 'windy', though I've read the book a couple of times.

Feliway definitely helps. Is there any way you can keep them in separate areas for a while, till the house itself feels more familiar?

My older cat spends most of her time on the duvet in the spare room, which is what she did in the other house. My worry is that younger cat will start to see the rest of the house as his territory. I'm probably overthinking it, which is my wont, it may settle down in a week or three, it's still just a month since I moved.