JKR vs Police Scotland?

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Tras are trying to get JKR arrested.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/10/trans-activists-scottish-police-arrest-jk-rowling-crime/

https://archive.ph/5TEU4 highland fling yourself over the paywall, cos Scottish!

Thought to give IW a break.

The Hate Crime...crime(?) comes into force on 1st April, according to the article. The SNP has not engaged with any of the organisations who have expressed concerns and no-one knows what, if any, training the Police have been given.

Omg, cheese that's infested with fruit! Why?

I like mango chutney. I'll also eat quince jelly with cheese so maybe not as against fruit with savoury as I thought!

The only fruit I'll tolerate in a Tagine though is preserved lemons!

I stand with VitoCorleone

Generally a wise move!

Next year, when England play Scotland in the Six Nations, it would be interesting to fill Scottish pubs with England fans. I'm sure there'd be justification for calling the rozzers. There would be standing room only in every police station in the land.

No idea.

I've never been convinced by Wensleydale with a slice of fruit cake either though at least with that you can eat it as two courses.

I don't mind a few grapes on a cheeseboard but imo they're for eating between different cheeses as a palate cleanser type of thing, not with the cheese.

Realising with horror that I had lost the trust and compromised the honour of a lady coleoptera, I took the only decent course of action open to me: pausing only to pack my well-thumbed copy of The Ladybird Book of Killing People With Your Bare Hands While Wearing an Apron and Observing All the Rules of French Grammar, and an Enya CD, I joined the Foreign Legion. The French one, I don't have the figure for the Spanish one.
The first night in the mess hall I tried to quell the feelings of shame with drink after drink, until I passed out.
My comrades carried me to see Le Toubib, the medical officer, telling him that before I slumped into unconsciousness I had been repeating nonsensical phrases, something about beetles, jars of marmite, nets of mothers, selfies, boiling, betrayal, dinosaurs... total nonsense.
I was immediately declared mentally unfit to serve, given my discharge papers, and here I am back on FWR. 😀
I think that's this thread well and truly derailed. Sorry, but big girls made me do it..

To be fair, I find it very odd - but then I'm probably a bit anti social in that way.

A surrealist feminist reworking of Catch-22. Perfect.

All the rules of French grammar. I don't think that's possible.

Chutneys, pickles and relishes are the mortal equivalent of ambrosia. <chef's kiss>

As for the Cheese That Shall Not Be Named - I don't care what Wallace and Grommit claim, it is Not Nice, even without all the fruity bits in it. The bit make it Even Less Nice.

That is my Last Word on the W-dale topic.

I joined the Foreign Legion. The French one, I don't have the figure for the Spanish one.

Or the beard, I should imagine.

All the rules of French grammar. I don't think that's possible.

You should try Hungarian.

Popping my head above the metaphorical parapet to say I make a lovely apple and ginger chutney which goes well with a decent cheddar. Hurriedly goes back to lurking before things get thrown

I just popped in to see if the thread had reverted to topic but alas, no. I do agree with fellow anti social pp that this is very odd. I'll just get my coat.

This is where I have to confess that I make macaroni cheese with ham and pineapple in it! Mind you, we in Norn Iron are notorious for fruit in weird places - carrots or beetroot in jelly, anyone?

macaroni cheese with ham and pineapple in it

It's delicious! (though my English husband does not agree!) cheese, ham and pineapple go together, so why wouldn't you? It's the way my mum made it.

Mind you, I also recall my dad making curry when we were kids in the 70s with sultanas in it - it was sort of green! Haven't continued that one as a family tradition, unsurprisingly.

😶

We have some strange food notions in these parts! The traybakes make up for it though - if you've never read the Protestant traybakes thread in classics I highly recommend it for a laugh and some excellent recipes.

I loved that thread in the early days of lockdown.

Are emigrants from NI responsible for the popularity of weird things in jelly across the US?

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/3527870-Which-is-the-tastiest-Protestant-traybake?

For anyone who hasn't had the pleasure…

Oddly, I'm feeling a bit guilty for posting this

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/snps-farcical-hate-crime-bill-is-an-insult-to-nations-intelligence-svnbzrcnw

https://archive.ph/eFirG where's paywally?

Alex Massie in the Times on the hate crime bill. Pointing out the absurdity of it is really too easy for him. This might be my favourite (if that's really the right word) bit

The bill affords protections to particular characteristics: age, disability, race, religion, sexual orientation and transgender identity.

This last is significant because it explains how the Scottish government has contrived to create a bill which affords greater status and protection to men who cross-dress than it does to actual women. Being a woman is not a “protected characteristic” and while I doubt this bill is necessary at all, it seems remarkable that those who think it is did not consider women a category worth including within its remit.

It really sums it up.

I wouldn't be at all surprised!

That was the thread that got me hooked on mums net to begin with.

<recoils in horror>

@MarieDeGournay ah yes that well known, much loved classic!