Thread 8 - TalkLair: “Brewing Russell's teapot”

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of previous threads (thread 7).

The new lair of JTT escapees is all cosy and homey; we have truly settled here. Outside, the garden is blooming with spring flowers. Inside, the hearth is glowing, pictures are up on the walls, rugs are down on the floors (and assorted pets curled up on them).

We just won’t mention the gnawed bones of our prey over there in the corner of the cave…

Very good day for me today; my team was on the (BBC) telly, but I was there to see the live action, and very exciting it was too, as we managed a wonderful victory despite having a man sent off after seven minutes and having to play 12 v 13 for the remainder. And then I came home and watched the recording on the TV, and it was a great advert for the sport, which is inclusive in the very best sense for me; bred out of the community and supported equally by men, women, and children, as the crowds attest.

What sport is that, @duc748 ?

Most of the humidity has gone today and it's just warm which has been refreshing.

I find charity shops very hit and miss. There's one near me that I love. It's an Age UK one whose stock is from other charity shops who haven't sold it. You'd think that would mean it's all pretty poor but I've found some really good stuff for bargain prices. I got a monsoon top and a cotton lined halterneck maxi dress from there last week for £2 each. The volunteers are lovely too.

That sounds lovely @duc748, even though to me all sport just sounds like ...sport-sporty-sporty-sport-sport...

Street party was a great success, the sun shone all afternoon. There were food and craft stalls, plus a selection of enthusiastically amateur live music.

Also yesterday afternoon DH baked a cake (late MiL's famous chocolate-orange cake recipe) and halfway through the baking time, the oven tripped the RCD for half the house. And we didn't notice for an unknown length of time because that half of the board doesn't include any of the other obvious downstairs electrics (it covers the kitchen ceiling lights and the entire upstairs lights). So when the cake timer finished, that was when DH noticed 1. cake was raw 2. oven was off.

Oh dear.. that must have been so disappointing.

Rugby league, @MouseMinge . I hope the cake was recoverable?

Fortunately, we did get the oven back on and finish the baking. It made a weird volcano-crater in the middle, but otherwise tasted as nice as ever.

@duc748 Rugby league

I think the clue was there, in the number of players. 😉

Only for those who know how many players are in a rugby team.

I didn't know that rugby league had such big teams but I'm not really sure of team numbers outside football. I used to know American football and basketball numbers but it's years since I've watched so no longer recall. Does the other rugby have 11? I think most sports that I like aren't team sports apart from football. I played netball at school and can only remember five members but there must have been more. I was wing attack. Small but scrappy.

I know schools have First/Second XI and First/Second XV teams. I think the former is cricket and the latter some sort of rugby. Had no idea of numbers for the other sort of rugby, or which is which. Netball has 7, I think - wing attack and defence, goal attack and defence, goal keeper, goal scorer and a centre forward (why I remember any of that is a complete mystery). Hockey has, um, some ... possibly the same as football, however many that is. Lacrosse ditto. Rounders - at least as played at our school - just had whatever half the class adds up to.

Squash has 2 - that's the one I'm most confident about. And figure skating has 1 or 2.

Rugby union has 15 a side, rugby league 13. The history of the division in the sport is quite a story in itself.

I know more about the division in union and league than I do about the sport itself. Social history for the win!

Thank you for the netball numbers, Bint. I'd forgotten goal scorer and goal keeper. Yes, rounders at school was half the class on each side.

My favourite school sport might well be banned these days, British bulldog. I loved having a bunch of girls trying to lift me while I fought like a maniac. I was generally the winner or in the top three or four. I loved it!

If you like British Bulldog, Kabadi is the sport for you.

Bloody hell this is one of the creepiest threads I've read. https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4830579-is-my-mother-husband-becoming-obsessed-with-my-dd?page=1

I read a bit of that and the fact that anyone is telling her that it's sweet and he just loves her child. No! He is a creepy fuck and I hope she never leaves him alone with her daughter again.

Oh my days, if Kabadi had been around, well known about here in the UK, it was obviously around, when I was a teenager you'd now be looking at one of the finest players the world has ever seen. That sounds right up my street!

I appear to be living in some teenage fever dream at the moment. Last week I bought Miley Cyrus's latest CD and today I bought a bottle of perfume called Eilis 2 which is a Billy Eilsih perfume. What in the name of every holy fuck is going on with me. In my defence, it's a really decent perfume that smells good on me. I don't really need any defence for the Miley Cyrus CD. Flowers is a banging tune and the rest of the album is pretty fine too. I also discovered that I know a Wet Leg song yesterday while watching some Glastonbury programming on BBC2. Until last week I hadn't even known there was a band called Wet Leg because I am so out of touch with the yoot.

Million post ment. I am now watching another Glastonbury programme which is just a compilation of performances from over the years. Currently listening to Jimmy Cliff, hugely enjoyed REM. I was always disappointed that Michael Stipe was gay because I found him deeply attractive. I do hope he treated all his boyfriends well and, more importantly, that they treated him well.

Only read a bit of it, but yes, surely, creepy as fuck.

Couldn't sleep, which is not unusual, and as is usual I am listening to the world service. I have just listened to what may be the most horrific documentary I've ever heard. A large group of the vilest men who watch, make and give directions for what they want to see carried out on monkeys. They get off on watching monkeys being tortured.

My brain can't even compute that this happens. What on earth is wrong with people. Why?! One of the producers went to Indonesia after going undercover, went to the home of a man who makes the videos and then the police were informed. The two monkeys he was torturing are now safe and two men in the US have been arrested by homeland security and face up to eight years in jail. But I'm sure it's still going on. The less extreme videos have been on YouTube, the more extreme through groups on telegram. Maybe this planet would be a better place if humans met the same fate as dinosaurs.

I read some of that stuff this morning but had to stop, MM. I'm hoping it doesn't stick to my consciousness but I fear it will.

That documentary sounds awful @MouseMinge, the kind of disturbing thing that would stick in my head forever.

For a slightly lighter diversion, I give you this bizarre thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4831431-to-think-people-in-the-uk-are-very-lax-generally-about-children-being-left-alone?

I think it will stick in mine. It was important that it was made public but I sort of wish I remained ignorant of such depravity. The good thing is people are being arrested and imprisoned.

The person who started that thread is, well, interesting. I'm glad it would be impossible for me to be her child due to me being very old! I wonder at what age she thinks it's okay for a teenager to be left home alone? 18? 25? 30? Never?

Different practices for someone non British, so perhaps not that surprising. I'd tend to agree that MN is more cautious than average on this, but also I think, if anything, parents have got a little stricter nowadays than they were when I was a kid. Chimes in with "So many perverts around these days. back in the day, you could leave your front-door unlocked..." It's bollocks, but your hear it all the time.

They used to say, everyone remember what they were doing when JFK died. Well, I do, I was home alone, aged 10. My parents had gone out for a (very rare) drink, and left me to put myself to bed. it might even have been the first time they'd done that. Detailed instructions about this, that, and the other. So I wrote a long note, saying the President had been shot and left it on the table. But I think these days, MN would prob not approve.

I thought that woman was most odd, not least because she claims to live in a large town in the south west of Ireland, of which there aren't any (even Cork city has a population well below 250,000 and she excludes city children from her generalisations anyway), and in rural Ireland far too many of those precious 16 years olds are driving farm vehicles the size of a house far too fast at this time of year.

Admittedly I lived in England until I was 14. but both my parents were Irish and her views seem pretty whacky to me.