AidaP is scraping Mumsnet threads, and grading them

[BambooLampshade]

Honestly, this man is obsessed. He has now created a program to scrape and grade Mumsnet threads from this board.

What is this?

Oh yes, I have downloaded most of mumsnet and we will be doing embeddings of the content to try to understand how does the rot and hate builds and spreads.

I never had so much hate and delusion on my hard drive before 😅

https://bsky.app/profile/aidap.bsky.social/post/3mkklbtpgbs2s

https://culinaris.co.uk/item/reynaud-sauternes-soaked-raisins-covered-in-dark-chocolate-220g

You can soak your raisins in dessert wine and coat them in chocolate, or there is this as a treat.

You know what might sober everyone up.

chocolate covered coffee beans. I could eat a whole bag, but it would probably kill me.

Oh, now, you can't just start introducing new fruits into the conversation this late in the game! Everyone knows that apricots are vile!

I love that poem! ( and we love you, Marie)

Re chocolate bar: welcome to my world.

I'm a regular at the Bluestocking, where the Bolly is free, and on tap, didn't you know?😃

Now you're suggesting spoiling a perfectly good cakey dessert with rsns, is nothing sacred to you people?

The fruit gifs are quite eye opening.

I fled Her, down the nights and down the days x

Or put your raisins in tea, bring it to the boil, cool and sweeten the mix and proceed to make a tea brack / boiled cake.

I hope we're not getting into any newfangleness.

Someone please tell me that is not a real frog!

Raisins soaked in rum added to banana bread is nice.

Genuinely fascinating. Had never thought of the heat factor! Thank you. :)

I did not know that Bolly was on tap at the bluestocking. Fuck, that is paradise!

Thank you BPIs.. RegimentalSturgeon obvs likes it too.
Is that 'The Hound of Heaven', Mmmnotsure?

It's very admirable of you and Arabella and Deano to still give me the time of day, despite my unacceptable attitude to raisins

Not with boiled cake you're not. Totally oldfangled.

I'm much more likely to shun someone I suspect will try to steal my favourite foods than someone who'll leave them for me.

Everything is available there, and it is magically devoid of anything problematic like calories or gluten or the kind of alcohol that might get you in trouble with the rozzers while driving home. But still tastes lovely.

Managing to get Bolly on tap to still taste perfect involved a lorra lorra magic!😄
Pop in any time to test all these claims for yourself!

Aha! the old 'keep my raisin-fanciers close but my raisin-haters closer still cos that way I'll get more raisins' ploy, eh Deano?

Yes, it is. Though I can’t see you as that kind of hound. Vacillating between Irish Setter and one of the less loopy spaniels.

Ah good, I got it right. Thank you for reminding me of that extraordinary poem, I'm going to read it in full now
I'm not sure where I sit ['Sit!'] in the world of Irish doggyhood, but before my hair was grey it had a bit of a Red Setter tinge to it, so maybe that?

After I read The Hound of Heaven I really must go and do some important things, but I'm loathe to leave, you are all such good company, so funny and so erudite.

I'll draw a discreet veil over the dried fruits thing...😝
L8r, 🐊s

Haha yes, that's true.

Thank you @BambooLampshade I've really enjoyed this thread. For various reasons. Weetabix really is the most versatile of breakfast options but I've currently banned it as my four year old drips it everywhere and it has dried into my table legs like cement that I can't seem to get off, despite using scrubbers and even (gulp) a flat cake knife.

I have also yet to find a dessert wine I like. And I want to find one as I love blue cheese and apparently it goes well with that. I'm off to a wine tasting event this year (Tom Gilbey, highly recommend his very funny YouTube videos btw), and I'm going to ask him what he recommends.

And to the actual point of the thread, I hope Mumsnet delivers the same warning to that unstable Aida they did to Aston uni. At least Eden was attempting a PhD, although with a flawed, biased premise. Aida appears to just be doing this for "fun"?

Raisins soaked in tea reminds me I have nascent plans to try making bara brith. I've got a recipe bookmarked for dark chocolate and ginger bara birth but I feel I should make the original first before going all heretical. Do you think it could be made using sultanas instead of raisins. Only I've already got a bag of the former.

What was the nature of a Cadbury Stroller?

Does anyone else remember Quirks? They were like pastel smarties with a mint flavour. I bloody loved them.

Quirks were supposed to be the smallest particles, but by now we all know they'll come up with another one with an even sillier name in about five minutes.

"Turtles"

Eventually we'll hit the turtles, then it's turtles all the way down.