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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

AidaP is scraping Mumsnet threads, and grading them

758 replies

BambooLampshade · 28/04/2026 21:15

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

Aida (@aidap.bsky.social)

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

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NotAtMyAge · 30/04/2026 18:20

MassiveWordSalad · 30/04/2026 08:53

Where do we stand on fig rolls? I’m a fan, personally. Has anyone ever made them from scratch?

DH loves them. I most certainly don't. 😉

DeanElderberry · 30/04/2026 18:27

I've just had three dried figs for dessert.

Better to stop now I suppose.

DialSquare · 30/04/2026 18:38

Shedmistress · 30/04/2026 17:19

If you ever make your own wine, you can save the fruit mush afterwards and use it in cakes. I used to make a lovely plum wine, and then put the plums afterwards into baked goods. After a few weeks soaking in its own alcohol, it made some bloody lovely Christmas treats.

Please don’t give some of our visitors any ideas of putting plums in baked goods!

NotAtMyAge · 30/04/2026 18:44

lcakethereforeIam · 30/04/2026 11:15

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.

I make it with mixed dried fruit,which included candied peel.

EdithStourton · 30/04/2026 19:10

Beowulfa · 30/04/2026 10:03

I was amazed the first time I went to New Zealand that they do different Cadbury bars there. How is that fair? My favourite was Moro Gold- very good chewy consistency.

There is also a rival brand called Whittakers that do great big slabs, including coconut flavour which I haven't seen anywhere else. Presumably because all the coconut heretics, like the raisin-whingers on this thread, mess up some sales wonk's bar chart.

I'm going to be spending the day looking up NZ food stockists in the UK aren't I?

Only just seen this.
Whittaker's is wonderful, but I did not know there was a coconut version.

I want some. Now.

EdithStourton · 30/04/2026 19:11

NotAtMyAge · 30/04/2026 18:20

DH loves them. I most certainly don't. 😉

Fig rolls are disgusting.
As are squashed fly biscuits.

Figs and raisins, fine. But all sorts of wrong in biscuits.

Magpiecomplex · 30/04/2026 19:39

MassiveWordSalad · 30/04/2026 08:53

Where do we stand on fig rolls? I’m a fan, personally. Has anyone ever made them from scratch?

Ok, how am I the first person to say that I try to avoid standing on fig rolls? Too sticky.

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 30/04/2026 19:41

Magpiecomplex · 30/04/2026 19:39

Ok, how am I the first person to say that I try to avoid standing on fig rolls? Too sticky.

Better to stand on a sticky fig roll than on a Sticklebrick/bit of Lego.

BridgetPhillipsonIsACowardlyJobsworth · 30/04/2026 19:42

Magpiecomplex · 30/04/2026 19:39

Ok, how am I the first person to say that I try to avoid standing on fig rolls? Too sticky.

Because it really shouldn't need saying!

TheAutopsyOfMNCorpus · 30/04/2026 19:43

I hate you all!
I may have resisted the choccy, but I made 36 fairy cakes... and have eaten two.

Anyone want a cake?

BridgetPhillipsonIsACowardlyJobsworth · 30/04/2026 19:45

TheAutopsyOfMNCorpus · 30/04/2026 19:43

I hate you all!
I may have resisted the choccy, but I made 36 fairy cakes... and have eaten two.

Anyone want a cake?

ooh, yum, yes please!
Don't stress, fairy cakes are just made with fairy dust and pretty wishes, aren't they? So they don't "contribute" to much of anything... right ??

TheAutopsyOfMNCorpus · 30/04/2026 19:55
fairy GIF

Yep... that was definitely the whole list of ingredients! 😁

lcakethereforeIam · 30/04/2026 20:37

NotAtMyAge · 30/04/2026 18:44

I make it with mixed dried fruit,which included candied peel.

I'm going to the shop tomorrow. I'll get some mixed fruit.

Fairy cake? Thanx, don't mind if I do.

TheAutopsyOfMNCorpus · 30/04/2026 20:50

Everyone, please help yourself to one.

AidaP is scraping Mumsnet threads, and grading them
DeanElderberry · 30/04/2026 20:53

oh, pretty! Bluestocking style with no pesky wheat I hope and trust.

haXXor · 30/04/2026 21:03

HazelLemur · 30/04/2026 08:18

lborntobequiet'...

...and yet, you're not...

Of all the food posts you could criticise someone for daring to make, you chose the one that describes the uniquely-female experience of going off a food during pregnancy.

A psychologist would have a field day.

haXXor · 30/04/2026 21:10

quantumbutterfly · 30/04/2026 08:32

Surprised by a raisin? Was it identifying as a strong currant?

I'm minding my own business, eating something that has raisins in it, and I hit the tiny hard dried-out seeds that get stuck between my teeth. Or I get some dried-out stem. I'd call either of those events a surprise.

I'm a long way behind this thread because I spent today suffering from the uniquely-female experience known as the menstrual migraine.

HousePlantEmergency · 30/04/2026 21:14

Goodness me, there are some very peculiar men about.
I really can't get my head around understanding why a person would come onto a a board that they KNOW broadly disagrees with them
(Particularly on one main, reality based, factoidy, actually real type thing, namely: men cannot be women), then get uppity when the board disagrees with them.
Very, very odd.

It's creepy as fuck.
Sorry, I have nothing more articulate than that.

I'm pretty sure it's unusual for members of other forums that support/discuss protected characteristics to have to argue what it actually constitutes to be be gay/black/disabled etc.
And to argue what the qualifiers are with someone who is literally the opposite of what they are claiming to be and identify into.

It's fucking mind blowing. The audacity 😂😂

BiologicalRobot · 30/04/2026 21:22

I really can't get my head around understanding why a person would come onto a a board that they KNOW broadly disagrees with them

It's a man thing. They have this need to tell women they are wrong, even when they are not. And it just reinforces the view we have that men are really, really stupid, even the ones who think they have girly vibes (perhaps more so).

haXXor · 30/04/2026 21:27

DialSquare · 30/04/2026 08:54

My obsession with food is almost as bad as certain men’s obsession with this board. I even book holidays around restaurants.

Booking holidays around restaurants is pretty much the original purpose of the Michelin Guide.

Three stars: worth a special journey to.
Two stars: worth a detour to.
One star: an excellent meal if you are in town already.

EmpressaurusKitty · 30/04/2026 21:28

Women have more sense than to try similar on trans Reddit. We’d get threatened & told to fuck off. Or accused of genocide or something.

Igneococcus · 30/04/2026 21:35

haXXor · 30/04/2026 21:27

Booking holidays around restaurants is pretty much the original purpose of the Michelin Guide.

Three stars: worth a special journey to.
Two stars: worth a detour to.
One star: an excellent meal if you are in town already.

I knew that, I've been to the Michelin museum in Clermont-Ferrand. It was surprisingly interesting considering it is about tyres.

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 30/04/2026 21:37

Igneococcus · 30/04/2026 21:35

I knew that, I've been to the Michelin museum in Clermont-Ferrand. It was surprisingly interesting considering it is about tyres.

Did you eat any?

Igneococcus · 30/04/2026 21:39

TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne · 30/04/2026 21:37

Did you eat any?

Nope, there were none on offer sadly, but we did go to a very good restaurant afterwards.

Chickadeeinme · 30/04/2026 21:43

MarieDeGournay · 30/04/2026 17:23

An abomination soaked in rum for a couple of weeks and then coated in dark chocolate is just a rum-soaked, dark-chocolate-covered abomination😝
'Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar'
[a 👏for recognising where that quote is from]

I'll have some of your apricots soaked in rum, though, if I may, Easy, they sound delicious, without the dark chocolate though because ..

...I don't like dark chocolate

<ducks and runs for cover having alienated not just the raisinfolx but now also the notoriously zealous darkchocolatefolx>

Does nobody else get an applause emoji for recognising the immortal Joni when they read her words?