Writing from Twitter prison!

[Glinner]

I've received a twelve-hour ban from Twitter so I thought I'd take the chance to say hello lovely mumsnetters! Thank you for all the support and kind words and very proud to be on your side.

I'm not deleting the tweets because I stand by them and there's nothing offensive about them. See for thyself, fellow witches!

if you’re into unorthodox banana cuisine may I recommend cheese and banana on toast?

Even I'm not that much of a banana radical!

I'm so glad someone else thinks Oreos are evil. My family all loves them, and I don't understand because the two I've eaten in my entire lifetime were like eating black gravel.

if you’re into unorthodox banana cuisine may I recommend cheese and banana on toast?

I'll bite but don't guarantee to chew. What sort of cheese are you talking about here?

I am one of those people with a lot of fruit on a cheeseboard - pressed fruit, fruit cake (I'm from t'North), fruit cheese/pastes etc.

I've eaten cauliflower and chocolate ice-cream before now (a Heston thing) and there's often some underlying chemical affiliate/complement pairing justification.

I'm failing to come up with the pairing for banana and cheese so need some guidance.

Fruit cake and creamy Lancashire for me please! (But only Dewlay or at a pinch Butler's Lancashire. And none of your dried-up 'tasty' version either.)

only Dewlay or at a pinch Butler's Lancashire.

No love for a Lancashire Bomb?

www.lancashirebombs.co.uk

How are the blue ones different to the red ones melamin

The blue are plain chocolate, and the red are milk chocolate. I find the milk chocolate combination over-sweet - I like the sharper contrast with plain chocolate. (Same with digestives)

Interesting! Do you have to be able to pronounce Goosnargh* before you're allowed to taste it?

And do they sell it at Booths?

*Yes, I can. But it'd be quite funny to get DH to try.

I just googled the name of the cheesemaker and came up with 'The Transpersonal in Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling', Andrew Shorrock.

Are you subliminally influencing me here, Arranfan?

Are you subliminally influencing me here, Arranfan?

I couldn't begin to comment on the powers that are conferred on people who go through Mumsnet radicalisation...

if you’re into unorthodox banana cuisine may I recommend cheese and banana on toast?

DH’s favourite lunch is tuna/onion mayo, in a bowl, with a banana sliced on top. But he is a sick, sick individual.

Giantkitten, have my first ever LTB.

But he is a sick, sick individual.

He hasn't even got Bowl's justification of being recently postpartum...

Just plain old cheddar arranfan - nowt fancy in our house.

I’m afraid two pregnancies with horrific hg have left me with a list of food aversions as long as not only my arm but probably everyone’s arms together. I’m gradually getting back into food that actually tastes of something, but if left to it I’d be on Nutrient Paste.

However banana and cereal and milk is something that will stay down...

Bowl you have my sympathies. HG is horrific and I imagine we could start a whole new thread on food aversions thanks to it. I came seriously close to punching anyone who asked me if I’d tried ginger!

Oh god... ‘have you tried ginger?’

Yeah. I have. And the stuff they give to you when you’re having chemo to stop nausea...

‘have you tried ginger?’

I swear that people only ask you this because you're weakened by the non-stop nausea and vomiting and they know they're safe from a righteous reprisal.

Bowl, have you tried Sea Bands? All camping shops sell them. They made all the difference to me when I was very sick expecting DS2. There was a small clinical trial on chemo patients (there was no big pharma money available) that suggested they were worth a try.

I reminded them that ginger has been used to make racehorses go faster. By shoving a peeled section of ginger up the arse of the horse.

I know people mean well but seriously, mint tea and a ginger cookie - give me a bloody drip you bastards.

if left to it I’d be on Nutrient Paste

DS has spoken feelingly of his longing for Boy Kibble (like dog kibble, but presumably not made of cow intestines), to take the uncertainty out of meals.

I'm a (GC male) follower of yours on Twitter, Graham and you post some great stuff around this issue. Sorry that you have to take a lot of flak, but you handle it beautifully.

To answer the earlier question around the peak trans/wtf moment, it happened for me after reading around the Woman's March in London in 2017. I stumbled across comments by TRAs who were outraged by the fact that women wore pussy hats and dared to have banners and placards showing drawings of wombs, fallopian tubes and vaginas. They felt excluded, apparently: how dare women have representations of female biology on a march for and about women's rights!

I'd never really thought about trans issues much, and accepted that some people would rather present as the opposite sex, but the absurdity of trans women trying to tell natal women what they were and were not allowed to show on a Woman's March was gobsmacking.

Following that I dived right in to find out more about this issue, via Peak Trans and also TerfIsASlur. Completely outrageous - the lies around the attack on Maria at Speakers Corner were particularly ridiculous if you watched the whole video. Add in the Cotton Ceiling and the erasure of lesbians and the pressure put on them to accept 'girlcock' and the process was complete. And here I am.

I'll do everything I can to support women and help to preserve their rights and spaces. I'm also planning to attend a WPUK meeting if they ever come to this area (I already asked if men could come along and they said yes).

I do know that not all Trans people are nasty misogynists, and do deserve respect and acceptance. But NOT at the expense of women.

Yeah I tried seabands - my mil bought me some. Absolutely nothing worked for me - I am one of the poor sods who starts spewing as soon as the speed hits the egg, and stops when the placenta is out. I think I tried seven different drugs this time. At my worst I was sick fifty times a day.

Needless to say, i reject the idea that women aren’t disadvantaged by their biology...

grauniad

MumKibbe. Yes, I like it.

At my worst I was sick fifty times a day.

I think this is what is difficult to grasp. That it's a victory when the water you drink stays down long enough to have actually been warmed by its exposure to your internals before you vomit it back...

Apologies! Posted on the wrong thread. Beginners luck :(

Apologies! Posted on the wrong thread. Beginners luck

Right thread, or appropriate - Welcome!