Mumsnet could do better (part trois)

[EllaDisenchanted]

Hello all, decompression thread 3️⃣

Yes!! Just with slightly less facial hair!

Sorry @79Helene , I'll try to stop 😬 It's just been keeping me entertained during a very long non-nursery day for the youngest womb fruit. Older one is home now though so no time for fun, too busy trying to keep everyone from killing each other!

Merailing is such a good word! I've never heard it before, but like the good white coloniser that I am I'll be stealing it!

And anyway, I asked so it really wasn't 'merailing' :)

Off to melt some more cheese for my kids dinner tonight! We're having the traditional Friday night dinner of Dr Oetker pizza.

I saw it on a Reddit thread ages ago and it’s something that’s stuck in my brain ever since (and often think when I see some posts on some of the threads we’ve all been on!) as it’s just such a perfect word for it!

I'm so sorry to hear that @Bowib sending you my best wishes for a speedy recovery. Look after yourself xx

Forcheddar bout it. Sorry you're having a tough time, I enjoyed your brie gif.

Thank you all 💙 going to be Gouda just very drained. Did I just pause for ten minutes while writing to frantically google to try and come up with a cheese pun and all I could do is Gouda? Yes, yes I did.

no but seriously, thank you for the lovely posts, our section of mn is always gloriously supportive, sensible and food based, so it’s my lovely little at peace place.

I love all this cheese chat and am definitely team room temp. There's a man on a cheese stall in the market near me who won't sell you brie unless you promise to leave it out for a few hours before eating it!

Is he French?

No! Just serious about cheese 🧀

I hate it when you guys dis a brie.

Two Jews, brie opinions.

I really am going to stop now.

So many dad-joke level comments 😳

Anyway, I Swiss you all a lovely weekend, Shabbat shalom!

Cheesus Christ, the jokes! 🙈

@Bowib Sending you strength and a speedy recovery.

blessed are the cheesemakers

If it's olive oil, it should be fine! 👌

Looks like I'll have to do a LOT of trial and error to find out my answers! A mountain of food to chomp my way through....🤣

laughter and friendship are therapeutic

Is this a reference to Cheeses Of Nazareth, or possibly the second coming of Cheeses?

there are stiltons of puns.....

😂 I use that saying too except the version I would use is:

"opinions are like arseholes, everyone has them and most of them stink"

Apologies because I sadly agree your opinion on melted brie stinks like Roquefort.

I wonder what Roquefort would be like melted? 🤔

I'm sorry for all of you guys with your sub-standard opinions with regards to brie. If brie was meant to be melted it wouldn't be so delicious and creamy at room temperature.

Right, I've taken the hit for the next one.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/jewish-mumsnetters/5107716-mumsnet-could-do-better-la-quatrieme-partie-cheese-wars-and-chickens

@saturnspinkhoop I need you on the part 4 thread! You recommended "Unorthodox Love" a few weeks ago and I am now very annoyed with you for doing so as I'm going to have to wait another year for the next one to be published! So I am going to need you to explain yourself on the new thread, or at the very least recommend other books that are just as good. Please!

It really was such a great and lovely book, although the person who recorded the audiobook should probably have asked for pronunciation tips for quite a few of the words 😅 Great voice actress, not so great with the Hebrew and Yiddish

File this under "Oh,no, consequences!" This is more fallout from the pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia University a few months ago. From the WSJ.

Three Columbia Deans Put on Leave for Text Messages Evoking ‘Antisemitic Tropes’ - University President Minouche Shafik described the sentiment behind the texts as ‘unacceptable and deeply upsetting’

It's not clear in the article how the House committee investigating what happened at Columbia and other universities obtained the text message. House committees do have subpoena powers, so that's one possibility.

Meta/Facebook:

"....we will now remove content that targets "Zionists" with dehumanizing comparisons, calls for harm, or denials of existence on the basis that “Zionist” in those instances often appears to be a proxy for Jewish or Israeli people."

And:

"Going forward, we will remove content attacking “Zionists” when it is not explicitly about the political movement, but instead uses antisemitic stereotypes, or threatens other types of harm through intimidation, or violence directed against Jews or Israelis under the guise of attacking Zionists, including:

Claims about running the world or controlling the media;

Dehumanizing comparisons, such as comparisons to pigs, filth, or vermin;

Calls for physical harm;

Denials of existence;

Mocking for having a disease."

https://transparency.meta.com/en-gb/hate-speech-update-july2024/

Good to see! 👏

Mumsnet should make a similar kind of announcement setting out their position in a similar manner.