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Cheese in coffee/ mild meats (?) thread..

203 replies

Wilkolampshade · 13/04/2021 13:02

Hi all,
Could some kind soul please link to the thread, it'll be from this time last year I guess, where someone posted about using cheese in coffee as a substitute for milk and I'm sure, also suggested we only buy 'mild meats' as others weren't essential?
I'm not making this up... am I?
I've tried to explain to family members but they've all been a bit Hmm

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ChardonnaysPetDragon · 14/04/2021 11:15

On the number threads there were people betting how many new cases there will be🐨.

ChardonnaysPetDragon · 14/04/2021 11:16

Sorry about the stray koala.my phone seems very emoji inclined.

TheKeatingFive · 14/04/2021 11:16

Apologies if this has been covered but wtf are mild meats?

ChardonnaysPetDragon · 14/04/2021 11:20

Chicken and everything that tastes of chicken like crocodile and ostrich.

Beef is highly inappropriate because you might actually enjoy yourself eating a nice bloody streak. You’re not meant to be enjoying yourself, you need to be chomping on dry chicken.

Topseyt · 14/04/2021 11:22

I remember those threads almost fondly, they were so utterly batshit.

I loved sitting on a park bench on a nice day and either reading my book, just watching the world go by or, shock horror, eating a packet of crisps. I almost willed someone to call the police on me as some of the fruit loops on here would have apparently done. Nobody paid me the blindest bit of attention though! 😭

Topseyt · 14/04/2021 11:24

@psychomath

If anyone can ever be arsed to trawl through it all, I reckon it would be really interesting to read through old posts from last sprinh, and it's good that we have a kinf of 'historical record' with people's exact words recorded and timestamped. I reckon all our memories of that time are probably unreliable given how stressed/scared/sad people were, and it's useful to be able to check them against something more objective. For that reason I hope MN doesn't get rid of the board after the pandemic is over.
I agree. I think those threads should be moved to Classics!
TheKeatingFive · 14/04/2021 11:25

You’re not meant to be enjoying yourself, you need to be chomping on dry chicken.

😂 😂 😂

This site sometimes.

I’m intrigued that crocodile and ostrich are ok. Aren’t they madly exotic. Where would one even source them? I’m surprised the zealots countenanced a trip to waitrose or similar. I would have thought that tramping around a vast, soulless ASDA would be seen as more appropriate.

ChardonnaysPetDragon · 14/04/2021 11:29

Crocodile and ostrich might have been my suggestions today. I like to be helpful.

TheKeatingFive · 14/04/2021 11:37

Crocodile and ostrich might have been my suggestions today. I like to be helpful.

I love it Grin

Changechangychange · 14/04/2021 11:38

@Juliettbravo I was revising dialysis coverage to our ICU during the first wave, because we had run out of CVVH machines and fluid. I knew exactly how bad it was at the time, believe me.

I really didn’t find the “eating crisps while walking by yourself in a country park, miles from anyone, is illegal” mob to be helpful in any sense at all. Not in terms of reduction in transmission (people were catching it in workplaces, on public transport, and within their families, not from infected crisp crumbs on park benches). And certainly not in terms of mental health/resilience.

It was clear that this was going to last for months (our hospital planned for closure of clinics from March-July from the outset). I live in a city, people don’t have gardens or outdoor space. People need to have fresh air, they need to have exercise, and they need to see more than their own four walls for their own sanity - there is a reason that prolonged confinement in cells is frowned upon in the prison service. There were people on here literally hoping the army would be on the streets enforcing a curfew. We can say that those people were wrong to hope for that, without disputing we needed to lockdown.

Juliettbravo · 14/04/2021 12:36

@Changechangychange Absolutely agree that some posts were bollocks, stuff was spouted from both sides that was totally unhelpful. I do wonder if some of those posts were intended to wind people up tbh, they were that ludicrous. I didn't like the numerous nurse bashing posts, specifically the 'if it's that bad why are nurses dancing on tik tok in empty wards ?' ones when some of us were in the thick of it and literally witnessing 5 or 6 deaths a day. Just so insensitive.

TheVampiresWife · 14/04/2021 12:38

I've just re-read the whole of that bench thread from beginning to end (just skimmed it previously). Oh my GOD.

How do you nominate a thread for classics?! It sums up ALL the madness of MN in spring last year and some of it is absolutely hilarious. Eating bus shelters. Heart attacks while enjoying a sausage. And 'cam77 sounds like she eats wotsits' must be the best insult on MN ever.

@MNHQ put the bench thread in classics!

Changechangychange · 14/04/2021 12:53

@Juliettbravo oh my god, the “my friend is a nurse, and she says the opposite to Chris Whitty” comments were infuriating. And either made up, or their (imaginary) nurse friend was talking bollocks.

And the nurses doing tik tok in our trust came in and did it before their shifts started, as a bonding exercise. Not because they had no work, FFS. Our A&E nurses did one (outside the front doors). They were certainly not short of patients during their actual shifts.

TheKeatingFive · 14/04/2021 12:57

Is there a link to the bench thread? I feel a sudden need to revisit, despite remembering it quite well.

Heysiriyouknob · 14/04/2021 13:15

I've also never heard of so many people on one
Forum who are related to TOP MEDICS, people HIGH UP in things or government insiders Grin

They were just the best.

"My dbro is a TOP SCIENTIST and says we are all doomed if Margret from number 11 pops out to buy fags again."

Changechangychange · 14/04/2021 13:27

@Heysiriyouknob oh yes, “I have a job so secret that if I told you what it was I’d have to kill you, but I can exclusively reveal here on mumsnet that case numbers are going up and the government has secretly decided to lockdown until 2025” Hmm

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Wilkolampshade · 14/04/2021 13:30

@TheKeatingFive I never did find out as it looks like that thread was deleted.... Pretty sure it meant chicken or pork..nothing too tasty and extravagant ie, non "essential'....
Though without the thread I could just be making it up. Confused

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UnderHisAye · 14/04/2021 13:36

That thread is absolutely batshit!

Someone points out that she 'had someone coughing by her hedge' Grin

Hope the hedge survived that brutal experience.

And the OP took her daughter out for a walk 'to show her rainbows' but swiftly follows that by saying police should be patrolling fields and fining walkers.

MADNESS.

GalesThisMorning · 14/04/2021 13:37

I was actually properly shouted at by a farmer for not wearing gloves when I crossed "his" stile though. Even though I made a big show of sanitizing my hands before and after. He threatened to come open my garden gate with his bare hands Grin it would have been funny had he not scared my little one

Imnothereforthedrama · 14/04/2021 13:43

Yeah there was a lot of that last year , but thinking about it was probably only a handful that believed you should never leave the house but they were the most vocal . It was almost a competition of who was doing the lockdown the best . People were actually saying it wasn’t safe to go for a walk for fear that passing someone at 10 feet for 0.3 seconds would be enough to catch Covid and die.
I think I was accused of being highly irresponsible for going on my daily walks. If you dared to argue with these Covid experts various scientific links were shared and told that I was irresponsible and don’t expect a ventilator in hospital.
All very hysterical and it still is from time to time but I just leave people to it, they want to be extreme that’s fine .
I suspect those abandoned that opinion after a few weeks but I’m sure there is the odd one .

ChardonnaysPetDragon · 14/04/2021 13:47

There was poster who had an empty field by her house, but was savaged here, because someone might appear out of nowhere and might breathe in its vicinity.

Those threads were proper bonkers. Sadly deleted, a lot of social history gone.

UnderHisAye · 14/04/2021 13:48

@GalesThisMorning

I was actually properly shouted at by a farmer for not wearing gloves when I crossed "his" stile though. Even though I made a big show of sanitizing my hands before and after. He threatened to come open my garden gate with his bare hands Grin it would have been funny had he not scared my little one
The farm next to my house still has signs saying people aren't allowed to walk through. I guess they've enjoyed the peace Grin
TheVampiresWife · 14/04/2021 13:57

@TheKeatingFive

Is there a link to the bench thread? I feel a sudden need to revisit, despite remembering it quite well.
Bench thread

Enjoy Grin

justasking111 · 14/04/2021 14:06

In our village the neighbours a posh hotel and grounds bought by the national trust blocked off public footpaths and ancient tracks covid rules. The locals proved photographic and other evidence that these had been used for centuries by drovers etc and were in fact older than the mansion. They had to dig up their hastily erected fencing, barbed wire blocks. The village believed once lost would never be returned

psychomath · 14/04/2021 14:07

@BogRollBOGOF I remember - I was on the first couple of 'anti-dementor' threads quite a bit and am still quite fond of the usernames I remember from that period (yours included!) Smile I stopped participating when real life became more available again and I was spending less time on MN as a whole, because they went so fast I couldn't keep up.

Perhaps 'mild meats' was a typo for 'wild meats' and we were all supposed to hunt down our own deer, so as not to endanger the lives of fellow shoppers by breathing in their vicinity while picking up a pack of non-essential frozen chicken nuggets?