4 wide eyed innocent questions for GC women

[KielderWater]

1. Do you believe all GC women agree that northern women make the best Yorkshire pudding batter due to their aggression?
2. I know a left wing woman who thinks the milk should go in before the tea, is this abhorrent behaviour a left wing thing and will you disassociate yourself from the left because of it?
3. Brambles mostly reproduce asexually. How many subspecies do you think there are?
4. Is my husband gender nonconformist because he hung up the washing? Should I be worried he might start keeping track of the family’s birthdays next?

Happy to answer your questions too.

A Russian friend once taught me about boiling tea. Said it was used as a stimulant in the Gulag, and he and his friends had stumbled across it to use for all-nighters in their uni days. Yes, that's boiling the actual tea. Bring water to a boil, throw in tea leaves, keep at a boil for a few minutes.

I hang tops by the shoulders (man) because I find it makes my washing on the line look more aesthetically pleasing (woman) so maybe I'm non binary!

Do you believe all GC women agree that northern women make the best Yorkshire pudding batter due to their aggression?

Absolutely. I bow to the superiority of the Northern Ladies of the Yorkshire Pud and demand everyone else do too.

I know a left wing woman who thinks the milk should go in before the tea, is this abhorrent behaviour a left wing thing and will you disassociate yourself from the left because of it?

Utterly abhorrent and utterly left wing. As is putting jam on your scone first.

Brambles mostly reproduce asexually. How many subspecies do you think there are?

Dunno, but a google rabbit hole has just confirmed that my gorgeous dahlias reproduce asexually. I’m not sure how I feel about them now. Does that make them transplants?

Is my husband gender nonconformist because he hung up the washing? Should I be worried he might start keeping track of the family’s birthdays next?

OMG, my husband often does the housework. For years I thought it was a passive aggressive temper tantrum because I wasn’t womaning properly, so I usually let him get on with it and pour myself a glass of wine (or Gin Cocktail, more recently). Was he trans all along?

Or reported for relocation to the Recipe forum?

The good thing about the brambles' confusing carry-on is that different sorts have different sized berries and come in at different times so if you know your local hedgerows you'll have in idea which crop early, which late, which produce the sweetest berries for eating with cream and which have the best berries for jam. Unless you're a deranged person I mean splitter I mean serious botanist always hanging around with secateurs and hand lenses and dichotomous keys and missing the real point of Rubus fruticosus agg.

Chai is also boiled. Tea, spices and milk boiled/simmered together.

I've always been fascinated by how magnolias pollinate - they existed before bees so developed to be pollinated by beetles

https://gardens.si.edu/learn/blog/the-botany-of-magnolias/

Who was it who said that Northern women were a subset of women like trans women except more aggressive? (I might be paraphrasing a bit).

Meg-John Barker partner of Edward Lord. He wrote it in a Guide for Counsellors on Gender, Sexual and Relationship Diversity.

Meg is a "non binary" woman.

Long ago I worked on an archaeological site where the man who made the tea for the 'workers' (it was all a bit men-and-officers) used to boil the tea with the milk and sugar already added. Always in the same kettle. He was very offended when a group of his younger colleagues staged a revolution and got their own kettle. They missed out in cold weather, when he'd add a slug of whiskey to his brew.

I don't drink tea normally but do make chai sometimes. I boil the tea and spices together in water and then add the milk and double boil it. No idea if that's the proper way to do it, but it tastes lovely.

OP reminded me of something a biology teacher once told me, there was some bloke with a bramble obsession travelling the country cataloguing all the tiny variations between different plants. Which explained something I'd noticed in my copy of Fitter, Fitter and Blamey, 'Very variable scrambling shrub armed with easily detachable thorns; over 2000 microspecies have been described'. Considering my copy was printed in 1980 if he's still going there could be tens of thousands by now. Possibly nearly as many as there are genders!

I've never had Norvern Gwavy, guvnor.

I oww'a get myself Norwf this Au'umm, treacle.

I live too far south to make Yorkshire puddings. I have to buy Uncle Bessie's.
I put the rubbish out every week whilst my partner is currently cooking a roast dinner. Are we GC, trans, or just spicy straights?

Thanks for the heads up!

Do it pronto - you will have no regrets

New rule - mayo or peanut sauce will only be supplied to people holding an EU passport

I support all ways of having chips because, well, chips.

I luuurve chai but don’t often make it. I imagine it’s one of those things that there are many different nuances to making but your/your grannies way is the best way.

There may be more things, generally, that unite us than divide us but I have a feeling chip toppings isn't one of them

1. Meg John Barker! Identified northern at birth.
2. No.
3. Brambles grow so fast they are actually classed as an ambulant species iirc
4. okay.

Holy wow. This is a great rabbithole.

'Bramble has the remarkable ability to produce its seeds without being fertilised.

This happens when the plant’s pollen gets on its flower's own stigma, stimulating fruit formation without fertilisation actually occurring.[13]

This form of reproduction is neither asexual or sexual. It's called ‘apomixis.’ Dandelions do it too. The seed is genetically identical to the parent.[14]

On those occasions when a bramble reproduces sexually, a different strain of the species can sometimes establish itself, developing and multiplying rapidly through the power of apomixis.[15]

Bramble Seeds
[Source: Flickr Creative Commons © Joanna Paterson]

And here's another thing - some bramble plants are also "polyploid," meaning their chromosomes have doubled or trebled in number.[16]

Together, the phenomena of apomixis and polyploidy have caused the bramble to split into many microspecies. The bramble is therefore not actually one species, it's an ‘aggregate’ species.[17] In fact the bramble is split into 320+ microspecies scattered across the British Isles.[18]

Just concentrate on what is underneath the toppings - CHIPS, yessssss, we unite over the chips whatever is laid over them.

My last meal will involve chips and lots of them.

yes and scraps - lots of scraps

Curry sauce hasn’t been mentioned yet as a chip topper…. Is it cultural appropriation? If so who is appropriating who?

I am concerned about the change in northern men though - they are going a bit wrong - DD's BF asked her 'what do you call a round bit of bread with filling?' - she said a Bap- obviously correct but will also accept barm cake, roll, etc

This Manchester born youth said 'no ... it's a MUFFIN' a MUFFIN? Something is going on there - be warned