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.

So I have a question. Is talking about cake and swapping recipes always derailing and deletion material? Or only on FWR threads? Or only wife-eyed threads? Or only THAT thread? Will rock cakes always be penalised? Does it matter if they are GF? I am horrified at the prospect of A Mumsnet With No Cake. Are biscuits permitted? What if the thread is explicitly a cake thread?

Think I need

Tunnocks have always been acceptable.

Biscuit emoji has caused a banning in the past, iirc.

And yes, FWR gets held to a far, far higher standard than elsewhere on the site.

Ahhh so thats one of the reasons to post on AIBU

FWR is like a royal garden party compared to AIBU which rarely seems to get deletions.

They had posh portaloos at the royal garden party I attended. I think they were called ‘posh portaloos’.

In the original thread or in this thread?

I assume you mean on hot chips, as opposed to chips which are known as crisps here… we had tomato sauce :) or ketchup I suppose it’s called here!

thank you for the love!

Your bookmark will only be on the last post you bookmarked. It is a way to find that post if you leave the thread and then go back as it will zoooom to that bookmark.

Unless you meant save post. I don't think it will save a deleted one, as it's never saved a deleted thread for me. I prefer to save a thread rather than Watching as that doesn't always work (or better yet, I just post rubbish for the I'm on link).

Where is it that they ketchup Catsup? I have to say I find that a somewhat alarming moniker it conjures up strange images.

I’ve wondered about that myself.

On another forum I’m familiar with, off-topic posts that turn into a sub-discussion are explicitly against the site rules and get i) a mod warming to get back on topic or else and ii) deleted if posters ignore the mod warning. Which is fair enough as everyone knows where they stand.

But here I’ve no clue what the rules are. I used to get really fed up of finding five pages of cheese chat in a thread with a discussion I wanted to follow so, personally, I’d have sympathy with an “if you want to change this thread topic to a completely new topic, start your own thread” rule, provided it was a rule that applied to all forums not just FWR.

I understand MNHQ’s “troll hunting is for us to do, for not for you” rule. But that rule pre-dates the advent of AI and large language learning models. And I think MNHQ - like all organisations - need to review how AI / LLLMs affect how they operate and what protections they need to put in place.

They may decide that simply expanding their troll hunting rule to include “AI hunting is for us not for you” is likely to be enough / work best. .

do you not have a clothes prop, you heathen???

😅😅😅

I used to have a prop.

Getting the line high enough isn’t the problem.

It’s getting it low enough for me to reach the pegs without the towels dragging on the ground that’s the problem.

And don’t get me started on super king duvet covers! Keeping them from dragging on the grass is a lost cause.

I see
you need a taller person to do your pegging then
or stilts maybe

That's how my granny made it.

My mum always recounts with horror how in her first job she watched the lady who made the tea throw the tea leaves into a big pot with cold water and then bring it to the boil on the stove - it would then simmer all day, topping up with more water as needed!

I am in the north and use a naice Delia Smith recipe for my Yorkshires.

I brew tea in a pot. With a tea cosy. Milk always in first.

I have be seen brambles have sex, or seen anyone having sex in any brambles.

DH stores his balls in my handbag whilst he does the housework but it's always ok in the end.

I'm thinking of become transwealthy. I'm sure I'm a rich person trapped in a poor person's life

I don't know about the OP, but I learned how to make jam drops.

[Edit] someone else got there first with the explanation, so instead I'll use this post to raise awareness of the thornless blackberry.

And the cheesy beano.

This is actually a really interesting one.

India, unsurpringly, started it - not on chips.

The British navy decided curry was a great way to liven up dull/disguise spoiled food on ships.

The Japanese navy wanted to increase protein consumption, asked the British navy for ideas, and developed katsu curry.

The Japanese passed it to the Chinese.

The Chinese came to the UK and, in areas not quite ready for the exoticism of a Chinese takeaway opened chip shops. Finding chips somewhat unexciting, they added curry sauce.

They do this in Tunisia, boil it all day til it's like tea soup/paintstripper. With geranium leaves and shovels of sugar.

People get tannin poisoning from it.

My wife is from Central Asia and they boil tea, making a small volume. They often leave it stewing over a tea light, they add a little to a cup, then milk, then plenty of freshly boiled water from the kettle.

Chips: in Newcastle, gravy and curry sauce, some people have mushy peas on the chips, others in a tub. Cheesy chips are just chips with grated orange cheddar.

In Sunderland, it's "cheesey" chips, a foil tray with grated mozzarella, given a turn under the pizza oven. In Middlesbrough, the only time I had them, they ladled white cheese sauce onto the chips; savages!

My friends' mother used to do this when we were kids(they lived next door but one),my mother was scandalised.

Mash, I mash tea.

I think landscape is OK for big towels - otherwise the ends can trail on the lawn, or are at least low enough for cats to take an interest.