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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

In Which Dobby Gets A Sock, And Indeed, A Cake!

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EpicChaos · 29/04/2023 00:11

Despite LEGO being regarded as being woke, there's just no stopping them as far as producing Harry Potter related sets is concerned, much to the chagrin of the blue haired, anti JKR mob, i'm sure.
Anyhoo, today, pics have been released of the latest set waiting to be released, Dobby with sock and cake. I have no idea what sort of cake it is, perhaps readers of the books, or even non readers of the books might like to put forward their guesses as to what sort of cake it is, perhaps with recipes?

Not sure if i'll buy the set, i don't know the price yet but good to see that LEGO seems to know that cutting ones nose off to spite ones face, isn't really a very good business model. Shame companies like Nike, Budlight, Mabyline, etc., couldn't see that but oh well!

Dobby Got A Sock!

LEGO Harry Potter Dobby the House Elf (76421) First Look

German retailer Thalia has given a first look at the upcoming LEGO Harry Potter Dobby the House Elf (76421).

https://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-harry-potter-dobby-the-house-elf-76421-first-look/

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Yalz · 29/04/2023 12:46

Violet lip balm.

£12 is a lot, but their lip balms regularly go down to £7 or £5 in the sales. Very occasionally £3.

Hurray for JKR!

Violet Lip Balm

Moisturising lip balm with a sweet, powdery kiss of violet. 15 g

https://www.penhaligons.com/uk/en/product/violet-lip-balm-000000000065134542

turbonerd · 29/04/2023 12:50

Maybe if they made a pavlova Butterfly that could be served directly after the Caterpillar cake?

would you need an Egg cake aswell, and act out the whole Very Hungry Caterpillar story? It would be a quite healthy party, what with all the fruit and slices of salami.

If anyone would do a Very Hungry Caterpillar Themed week instead of a yoga retreat I would join in.

Sorry about the derail, Lego and Dobby. The «cake» looks good.

Waitwhat23 · 29/04/2023 13:51

Yalz · 29/04/2023 12:46

Violet lip balm.

£12 is a lot, but their lip balms regularly go down to £7 or £5 in the sales. Very occasionally £3.

Hurray for JKR!

I use the Orange Blossom one from that range.

Boiledbeetle · 29/04/2023 14:18

turbonerd · 29/04/2023 12:50

Maybe if they made a pavlova Butterfly that could be served directly after the Caterpillar cake?

would you need an Egg cake aswell, and act out the whole Very Hungry Caterpillar story? It would be a quite healthy party, what with all the fruit and slices of salami.

If anyone would do a Very Hungry Caterpillar Themed week instead of a yoga retreat I would join in.

Sorry about the derail, Lego and Dobby. The «cake» looks good.

I'd clean out drains before you got me to go on a yoga retreat. So I'm definitely down for your version of a relaxing week.

xabia · 29/04/2023 14:24

Violet Ida perfume from Miller Harris is lovely!

MandyMotherOfBrian · 29/04/2023 14:31

SelfPortraitWithHagstone · 29/04/2023 09:21

I'm just warning you lot, if this thread gets derailed into any discussion of feminism I'm going to get your posts deleted.

😂😂😂 genius

chilling19 · 29/04/2023 15:22

Boiled - thanks for the Aldi links. I do find their Twitter feed really amusing.

TheBiologyStupid · 29/04/2023 15:42

Boiledbeetle · 29/04/2023 01:47

And as a cake bonus watch these two clips the first one you have to watch to the very very end

https://twitter.com/AldiUK/status/1651904233879359491?s=19

Then this is the follow up interview.

https://twitter.com/AldiUK/status/1651926352893755392?s=19

They are genius!

Excellent!
There's a mini M&S food place right next door to the Aldi here - DD1 and I used to fantasise about pranking them by buying a Colin and Cuthbert, swapping receipts and going back to complain that they'd sold us the wrong caterpillar etc. But probably it would be fraud and get us in trouble...

turbonerd · 29/04/2023 15:46

Boiledbeetle · 29/04/2023 14:18

I'd clean out drains before you got me to go on a yoga retreat. So I'm definitely down for your version of a relaxing week.

What if we just got wheeled in to the retreat in a plush White cocoon and just were the very hungry caterpillars all week.

I could do that.

Maybe living on just one Apple the first day would be a bit full on.
Caterpillar cake every day though.

Sorry, am trying to think of Dobby themed retreats, but they just seem a bit miserable. Sort of just sat inside a wall, maybe hounded a bit, until someone hands you a used sock. Well, I could package it as a repent-themed week? With tambourines played intermittently before the sock finally is tossed onto the participants.

Hmm. Just not the same appeal.

CremeEggQueen · 29/04/2023 17:45

good to see that LEGO seems to know that cutting ones nose off to spite ones face, isn't really a very good business model. Shame companies like Nike, Budlight, Mabyline, etc., couldn't see that but oh well!

You said in the first part that Lego is seen as "woke", 🙄 just seems to me that as a business they want products that appeal to a variety of different audiences, and if you're not interested in them, you don't have to buy them.
For your comparison with Maybelline and Nike etc to work, you'd recognise that trans people would feel represented sometimes too.
I love HP by the way, so as for what cake - it looks like a replica of the cake that Dobby makes hover and fall when he's trying to get Harry not go back to Hogwarts. Sponge, maybe?

Boiledbeetle · 29/04/2023 17:47

turbonerd · 29/04/2023 15:46

What if we just got wheeled in to the retreat in a plush White cocoon and just were the very hungry caterpillars all week.

I could do that.

Maybe living on just one Apple the first day would be a bit full on.
Caterpillar cake every day though.

Sorry, am trying to think of Dobby themed retreats, but they just seem a bit miserable. Sort of just sat inside a wall, maybe hounded a bit, until someone hands you a used sock. Well, I could package it as a repent-themed week? With tambourines played intermittently before the sock finally is tossed onto the participants.

Hmm. Just not the same appeal.

The eating an Apple stage can be confessed into part of the checking in procedure!

I've had a look and found the perfect thing to keep Dobby happy for a week

In Which Dobby Gets A Sock, And Indeed, A Cake!
Bluegingerbread · 29/04/2023 18:36

I love this, I'm definitely buying one. I don't have much HP lego as it's pricey but I've just started a new job after some years not working so I will be treating myself to this.

EpicChaos · 30/04/2023 01:41

@SelfPortraitWithHagstone
" I'm just warning you lot, if this thread gets derailed into any discussion of feminism I'm going to get your posts deleted. "

Hee hee, lolz, hee hee :-D wouldn't dream heehee

@Waitwhat23
As I suspect this is a crowd which will appreciate it, I will do a recommendation for the book 'Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer' - recipes inspired by children's literature. Very nice Cherry Cake and English muffin recipes.

Lashings of ginger beer, would that be? lol :-D

Recipes from kids lit, reminded me of a recipe i remember trying when i was a kid. Iirc, it came at the back of the schools copy of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, though saying that i get a picture of the Pink Panther in my head ( oh grrrr @ my memory! ) - maybe the end product was supposed to resemble the old Pink Panther chocolate bars? Anyhoo, either way, it was a blooming awful recipe!

@Helleofabore
Did someone say cake!!!

Several of us did, Helleofabore, do come in and grab a slice and a cuppa!

@ApocalipstickNow lol something like that, or maybe not. :-D

@Whatsnewpussyhat @niandraladesand Hope you're LEGO VIPs? it's always possible that the cost of Dobby will put you in range of picking up a small but fun freebie. You never know. Sorry I don't know the exact date of release of Dobby, there are some other new HP sets coming out too afaik.
@DobbysTeaCosy VIP points = money off coupons, always handy to remember. If you don't buy much LEGO maybe no big deal but if you collect HP LEGO, then the coupons could be a good help with large/expensive sets.
Oh criminy @NicCageisnotNickCave that doesn't sound like a good noise to have had your ears subject to :-/ hopefully a new LEGO set will help to bring a more Zen-like state to your surroundings, especially if you make your ex pay for it on account of him being clumsy and causing an upset and cos why not?!
Again, if you're not already a member, i'd recommend the LEGO VIP thing, it's free so there's nothing to lose.

@JanesLittleGirl · Yesterday 10:38
Pavlova is not cake. It is pudding and it is not acting in Pavlova's best interests to encourage this deception.

:-D lolz I'm sure there's a joke there somewhere about a Pavlovian response but it seems to have desserted me ;-)

@ArabeIIaScott What a lovely looking cake that is. Many thanks for posting the recipe. That's definitely one that people should be adding to their collections.
Cheers Arabella!

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EpicChaos · 30/04/2023 04:48

Oh grrrr! Was in the middle of replying to replies on page 2 and the whole window closed, don't you just hate it when that happens?! All the tabs i had open, gone! grrrr!

Anyhoo, we sally forth!

@Yalz It would never have crossed my mind to think about lip balm but that's an interesting though. Not sure i'd be willing to pay full price first time round but will watch for a sale and then see how it goes. Thanks though :-)

@turbonerd " It would be a quite healthy party, what with all the fruit and slices of salami. "

Healthy party?! Healthy party?! What sort of crazy talk is that?!
What is it about cake, in all it's delicious, delectable, fabulous glory, that you're not getting?!

If anyone would do a Very Hungry Caterpillar Themed week instead of a yoga retreat I would join in.

  • looks at turbo very suspiciously indeed!
the words yoga and healthy mentioned in the same post, just noooo! On a cake thread too! :-/ lol

@xabia Well I'm very interested in that, many thanks for the link. They do a sample size so i think i'll send for that and see what goes. I'd also looked for a cheap patchouli but had no luck there either, so maybe the Ida will do the trick. Thanks again. :-)

@turbonerd " Maybe living on just one Apple the first day "
you're scaring me now! you are, really!
:-/
" sat inside a wall, maybe hounded a bit, until someone hands you a used sock "

At a push, i'd pop over the wall from next door to do a bit of hounding and poke you all with a sharpen-ed stick for a while until i got bored but any late night racket from the tambourines and i'm putting a complaint in with the council!

@CremeEggQueen " You said in the first part that Lego is seen as "woke", 🙄 just seems to me that as a business they want products that appeal to a variety of different audiences, and if you're not interested in them, you don't have to buy them. "
If only the tra's could just walk on by without spending so much time dehumanising JKR in the process, eh?
" you'd recognise that trans people would feel represented sometimes too. "
No. Trans aren't my concern. I'm here about women (females ) and children.

" I love HP by the way, so as for what cake - it looks like a replica of the cake that Dobby makes hover and fall when he's trying to get Harry not go back to Hogwarts. Sponge, maybe? "
@ContentandThankful identified it early on, it's a pavlova :-) A very nice one at that.

" The eating an Apple stage can be confessed into part of the checking in procedure! "

Awww now look! @Boiledbeetle has gone widdershins on us now! Turbo and her talk of healthy stuffs has caused this. Could someone bring a large gin and a chunk of stilton for beetle as a matter of extreme urgency, please? With a bit of luck that might set her right again but best warn her sister that she may have to step in and run beetles affairs for a few weeks. :-/

@Bluegingerbread Very many congratulations on your new job! I hope all goes very well for you and that you're soon settled into your new routine.
As i've said to other posters, do check out the LEGO VIP membership if you haven't already. I don't know how much Dobby will be but it might put you in reach of a small freebie, you never know. Good luck with the new job. :-)

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turbonerd · 30/04/2023 09:03

@EpicChaos salami IS healthy, and nobody can tell me otherwise 😄 But I do love cake, and especially Caterpillar cake which I haven’t had for over 10 years now and am starting to think I should fly over to the UK purely for cake-like foods I can’t buy where I live now: simnel cake, scones with clothes cream, mince pies, Caterpillar cakes, Christmas cakes with booze, Victoria sponge, Caterpillar cakes .. 🥹🥹
It is not the same if I try to make them.

Maybe I should start a VHC thread, but then again I feel I am not the chief derailer, I blame Boiled and her videos.

Dobby Lego and in general ALL hp Lego is fantastic, I could, well - not die for, but lie unconscious in my garden for up to 5 minutes for the old Hogwarts set 😍😍🤩

Tallisker · 30/04/2023 10:51

I can never quite work out if violet flavour things are loved or loathed on here.

However, this is my favourite cocktail, the Aviation www.google.com/search?q=aviation%20cocktail&tbm=

Boiledbeetle · 30/04/2023 11:06

The eating an Apple stage can be compressed into part of the checking in procedure!

Awww now look! @Boiledbeetle has gone widdershins on us now! Turbo and her talk of healthy stuffs has caused this. Could someone bring a large gin and a chunk of stilton for beetle as a matter of extreme urgency, please? With a bit of luck that might set her right again but best warn her sister that she may have to step in and run beetles affairs for a few weeks. :-/

I don't know what came over me. I'm sorry! Bad apple that @turbonerd bringing fresh fruit into the discussion. I was momentarily lured to the healthy side.

I am about to rectify with a bacon and stilton bagel, some cake and cup of tea. I'll leave the gin until after 12. (Looks at clock!)

It's my sister's fault actually for my lack of focus this past week. She was here last weekend and I'm still recovering. We can now manage to replicate how you feel after an all night rave just by sitting watching films! Hi sis (she's on here somewhere).

Boiledbeetle · 30/04/2023 11:08

turbonerd · 30/04/2023 09:03

@EpicChaos salami IS healthy, and nobody can tell me otherwise 😄 But I do love cake, and especially Caterpillar cake which I haven’t had for over 10 years now and am starting to think I should fly over to the UK purely for cake-like foods I can’t buy where I live now: simnel cake, scones with clothes cream, mince pies, Caterpillar cakes, Christmas cakes with booze, Victoria sponge, Caterpillar cakes .. 🥹🥹
It is not the same if I try to make them.

Maybe I should start a VHC thread, but then again I feel I am not the chief derailer, I blame Boiled and her videos.

Dobby Lego and in general ALL hp Lego is fantastic, I could, well - not die for, but lie unconscious in my garden for up to 5 minutes for the old Hogwarts set 😍😍🤩

scones with clothes

Where do you live that you have to eat scones naked!

Boiledbeetle · 30/04/2023 11:09

And yes I will admit I am bloody awful for derailing a thread.

All I can say is imagine Tigger but as a 50 year old woman!

turbonerd · 30/04/2023 12:05

Scones WITH clothes. And jam, on occasion.

Those were the days.

I’m in the wild now, civilisation is but a wistful memory. That, and Caterpillar cakes.
Violet sweets are odd. That can’t be denied!

howdoesatoastermaketoast · 30/04/2023 17:05

Boiledbeetle · 30/04/2023 11:09

And yes I will admit I am bloody awful for derailing a thread.

All I can say is imagine Tigger but as a 50 year old woman!

winnie the pooh GIF

you can be tigger if I can be eeyore

eeyore quotes : "Wish I could say yes, but I can't"

howdoesatoastermaketoast · 30/04/2023 17:06

oh noes did I just post a gif aita?

Boiledbeetle · 30/04/2023 17:40

howdoesatoastermaketoast · 30/04/2023 17:05

you can be tigger if I can be eeyore

eeyore quotes : "Wish I could say yes, but I can't"

Do you have your own tail or do you need one providing? I'm not sure where you are at with your eeyore transition.

In Which Dobby Gets A Sock, And Indeed, A Cake!
TheBiologyStupid · 30/04/2023 17:41

howdoesatoastermaketoast · 30/04/2023 17:05

you can be tigger if I can be eeyore

eeyore quotes : "Wish I could say yes, but I can't"

In that case, I'm a day late wishing you happy birthday! https://www.checkiday.com/a79e80ca1cccfc95551dbaa518be0e52/eeyores-birthday

It's Eeyore's Birthday!

Eeyore's Birthday is observed next on Saturday, April 27th, 2024. It is observed the last Saturday in April.

https://www.checkiday.com/a79e80ca1cccfc95551dbaa518be0e52/eeyores-birthday

Boiledbeetle · 30/04/2023 17:46
Winnie The Pooh Animation GIF

Well if it was Eeyores birthday yesterday then we owe @howdoesatoastermaketoast two presents.

You can have this empty jar to keep things in just as soon as I've cleaned it out for you.