Bunbury's Ninth Public Announcement - Hill Walking Club

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The useful Bunbury Guide to Spotting Community Disruptors is constantly evolving.

The best research and advice is not to engage with community disruptors and trolls. As ever, if you suspect troll activity, report it to MNHQ.

This is a continuation of the Public Service Announcement thread:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/a4164702-Bunbury-s-Eighth-Sealion-training-for-beginners?msgid=105201850#105201850

If and when you see threads plopped into FWR, especially a curious repeat of well worn topics, maybe check for poster history before engaging. AS is your friend.

There are a number of posts/posters/threads that are reproduced on Twitter or Facebook to foment controversy using screen shots & flagging to either MNHQ to have threads or posters deleted.. Sometimes, it’s used to approach commissioning editors with ideas for articles. It’s a tiresome tactic that we always have community disruptor posters who themselves post the comments that they then highlight elsewhere as purported evidence of racism, religious intolerance, anti-men sentiments, or transphobia.

This thread will be taking a leisurely stroll through the foothills of community disruption, noting the behaviour of wildlife and interesting flora and fauna en route.

I missed that!

I once had a chap offer to pour some sugar on me, around that time period. I think he thought it was kind of seductive.

In bed?

Or as a kind of ersatz dandruff? Either way, ergh.

I've just seen a courageous comment from @YehudisFletcher that has fair stiffened my sinews and resolve and it touches on so many recent discussions:

My very existence within my community is a protest - I am not threatening to leave, I am threatening to stay.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/guest_posts/a4186416-Guest-Post-Mumsnet-was-the-first-safe-place-I-had-to-realise-my-own-agency-now-I-am-campaigning-to-end-forced-marriage?msgid=105428286#105428286

I also particularly liked her comments about having needs that made others too uncomfortable to let her talk about - and her decision that it just had to be a case of let's get uncomfortable.

I've read some of her interviews. It's made me very thoughtful about mumsnet bunfights and to what extent we assume stuff is common knowledge.

Oh gosh. That does look sweet, it looks like Bounty bar proportions. No, it needs just the right balance between cherry and coconut and dark chocolate to offset. Cherry ripe bars are very thin in comparison

I’m sad now as I really miss Cabana bars

[quote TundraDweller]@MaudTheInvincible I can’t eat cherry-flavoured things (although I love cherries) because of a disgustingly sweet and fake-cherry-flavoured worming tablet I think. Late 1970s. I was only 5 but remember the trauma of being forced / bribed to eat it![/quote]
Pripsen worming powder which was dissolved in a glass of water? It was pink fruity flavour, though maybe raspberry not cherry. Yeah, I have those memories too.

@AskingQuestionsAllTheTime

The penicillin syrup I was fed for tonsillitis for a week at a time year after year in my childhood tasted of fake cherry, and made me gag and cry and be utterly miserable. After several years the doctor managed to get me a penicillin syrup that just tasted of mould, and I preferred it!

DS2 had repeat bouts of tonsilitis and hated the fake banana amoxycillin. When he was 8 the GP suggested antibiotic capsules and we never looked back.

@ErrolTheDragon

I'm baffled why anyone would think Jaffa cakes are improved by being anything other than orange, or After Eights by alternatives to mint.

Cherry and chocolate can be excellent together , but it needs to be something like proper cherries (Black Forest gateau, chocolate with dried cherries etc) not cherry flavour'. They simply don't fit in flat items like Jaffa cakes or after eights.

Heathen!

as an aside I made a crumble at the weekend with cherries (and pears and blueberries). DP asked if I had left the pips in? I think I said quite mildly for me, I definitely pitted them dear, the word is pitted or destoned.

Knitting question. I'm currently trying to order wool online from tiny pictures on my phone, and the drawbacks are obvious.

"Bramble". Purple enough for suffragette colours? Going off the name, what shade of green do I need with that?

Question: is it suffragette or suffragist? I see it both ways and am curious why.

And I love a mossy green for knitting-I think it could work for all kinds of darker purple.

Suffragist could mean someone who campaigned for working class men to have the right to vote or someone who campaigned for women's suffrage primarily. It's sort of an over-all category.

Suffragette refers exclusively to women campaigning for women to be able to vote, and probably is mostly associated with the Pankhurst women and their movement. This might be a US English vs British English thing.

You'd have to ask a US MNer which word comes most readily to mind when they think of their women's suffrage campaigners.

Thanks @PotholeParadies

Good luck with the knitting project.

How dark purple would you say a shade called 'bramble' is? I do like mossy green, actually.

I did a quick look and it seems like bramble appears to be quite dark - with brown undertones. Nice complement to miss green

Sorted! Thank you!

Suffragists or Suffragettes www.bl.uk/votes-for-women/articles/suffragists-and-suffragettes

I think from the descriptions my childhood cherry horror was caused by penicillin.

A bit fed up tonight about the Scottish situation, but I suppose I should take heart and inspiration from the stories of Yehudis Fletcher and will go and read that thread now.

Maud, ooh, I was a bit off-base there!

Thanks @MaudTheInvincible !!

Pothole I think you were thinking of the Chartist movement, they campaigned for men's suffrage?

Bunburyists who are out for a walk and interesting discussion with fellow Bunburyists do not have to give their attention to every walker who sets snares, blocks their paths, or makes siren sealion-y attempts to divert or engage them.

Could be. My history is a lot a bit vague.

Suffragist = early campaigners. Used legal, peaceful means.
Suffragette = from 1907 ish. Pankhursts and the like. Violent, radical protests.

EmbarrassingAdmissions

I have indeed slipped with a new one.