Thread 6 - TalkExiles: "Yup, still round."

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of previous threads (thread 5).

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.

Glad to hear there was ceiling/floor support there, Kuc!

The custard explosion sounds fascinating. I wonder if any of it was edible and if anyone tried it. I remember becoming slightly obsessed with custard powder as a small child after my granny showed me its magic. I loved the smell and the way the mixture changed colour when milk was added, almost too good to be true. Custard, hmmmm.

I never liked custard, because of the skin. Same goes for tapioca, semolina and rice pudding, although they’re horrible even without the skin.

I hate skin! My Mum just to boil milk in a pan to put in coffee(!), so it inevitably had this horrid wrinkly skin on it, which used to stick to your teeth... Yeuch! 😕

Skinless custard is fine, though.

I love cocoa/hot chocolate before bed, and to keep it skin-free I a) don’t let the milk boil and b) keep a teaspoon in the mug to give it a stir every now and then (occasionally nearly poking my eye out with the spoon).

I used to love semolina and rice pudding, but they have to be quite runny. Ditto custard. It's the thick gloopiness that puts me off, rather than the skin.

Tapioca's an odd one which as a rule I loathe, except for a type that we used to have in Singapore when I was a child. It was very small, translucent globules, very soft, and served in a clear runny syrup rather than in milk. @Kucinghitam ... any idea what it was? I seem to remember you could even buy it pre-prepared, in tins.

@Gonners it’ll have been sago, which traditionally used to be made from the heart of the sago palm. We put it in various soupy desserts but my favourite is with gula melaka (palm sugar) syrup and coconut milk.

I think I must be weird. The skin is the bit of custard/tapioca/semolina I like best.

My mum used to consider the skin on a rice pudding the best bit and was completely baffled when I turned my nose up at it as a child.

Skin on most floppy things (custard, gravy etc) is bad but skin on rice pudding can be good.

That's the one! I'd forgotten the coconut milk. I've now googled it and bookmarked a recipe. Thank you.

I don't understand rice pudding. Thinking about it makes me want to vurp. Then again I wish I would vurp because I have a piece of meat stuck in my throat that has now been there for about forty minutes and I'm so over it. I woke myself up vurping the other week. My oesophageal problems are revving up a bit. Fucking bastards,

In good news, I got a call from Universal Credit today where all they wanted to know was "do you have a carer?" Er, no. Then the chap said "Oh, and yeah, we've been underpaying you for the last couple of months so you'll get the amount we owe you in your account on Friday. Huzzah! It's my birthday next Friday so a bit of extra money is a very good thing indeed.

@kittykarate I fell a little in love with Daniel in season one. He seemed like a genuinely decent chap. I wanted him to win but when it came to their final designs it was obvious that it had to be Minja who I also really liked.

In season two I was rooting for Deontre but I also liked Nigel and couldn't really call it between them in the final.

I thought I'd like Alexa Chung more than I did but I think Gigi is a better host than her. Tan is, of course, wonderful.

@Kucinghitam

Bathroom woes, my sympathies! At least ours is sorted now.

On the Great Molasses Flood, I remember that from t,'other place. I think it was on one of anchorman's threads.

On explosive custard, I remember and old fella telling me about a bakery in the West End of Newcastle being bombed, during the war, nowt left of it and all around it, the buildings were flattened.

All the kids thought it had snowed, come morning. In the middle of summer!

In the gippy food stakes, I find Ready Brek uneatable.

Lack of vurp update. The piece of food has now been well and truly lodged for twelve and a half hours. I'm going to leave it a while longer but might have to go to a&e if I can't dislodge it soon because I need to take meds. What an absolute palaver.

Oh no @NotDrowningJustCrowing, that sounds horrible! Best vurping wishes to you!

May the vurp be with you, @NotDrowningJustCrowing !

That sounds absolutely unbearable, @NotDrowningJustCrowing - I hope you can get sorted as soon as possible.

@NotDrowningJustCrowing - oh that sounds very unpleasant. Sympathies.

Thanks all. Still trying to dislodge and contemplating what to do next. I've been to a&e with this sort of thing twice. The first time it was 24 hours and then around 12-16 before it was removed under general anesthesia. Last time was last year. I think. That was about 18 hours and all in just over 30 hours when it dislodged itself.

If I have to go it should be easier here because I can walk to the hospital and hopefully won't have to be transferred to another - which is what happened where I used to live. I really don't want to go though and I'm praying it will dislodge itself. The biggest issue is being unable to take my meds which is what will send me there if there isn't movement soon because they can apply them intravenously.

Oh Crows, that sounds so horrible, and frightening. xxx

Oh that sounds awful @NotDrowningJustCrowing - hope it dislodges of its own free will very soon.

That sounds decidedly suboptimal, Crows. Hope it sorts itself very soon.

@NotDrowningJustCrowing, that sounds really horrible, I hope you get it shifted soon.

Not much else to say except that I'm getting tired of being rained on nearly all day, every day.

We've been mostly free of rain today and that is the one good thing about it.

Thanks all of you for being so nice. It's still stuck so I've decided I'll wait until I've watched Hollyoaks because why not, and then head to a&e. I can then do the neighbour friendly thing of putting out the bins for tomorrow while I'm about it.

Oh! There was another good thing. I watched a thing about a nice Scottish tv presenter whose face I recognise but whose name I can't think of. Anyway, it's him, in Russia, with orphan grizzly bears. I'm tired and a bit emotional so I kept crying at how beautiful it was. It was episode one so it was them from the teeniest tiniest up to four months old. Feeding them and helping them figure out how to be grown-up bears. It was delightful. He had to sleep overnight in the bear den because bears are born during hibernation and blah. So, it was like rearing adult babies. You sleep for a bit then you're woken up by bears really screaming for food. You feed them, then you wash them and then they go back to sleep until the next feed. I would volunteer to do that in a heartbeat.