Rowling Makes a Stand

[JadeLeader]

Ok, so I know the educated classes hate us and our Dear Leader, but she's really not doing herself any favours here...

Dill and celery are indeed in the carrot family.

Anyhow I just want to add in my cucumberr jam I made last year. I loved it so much I've got 14 cucumber plants growing this year so I can make jars after jars of the stuff.

Don't compound my embarrassment with misery!

I think it might be Martin Dammann's photo collection, published in 127 pages as Soldier Studies: Cross-Dressing in der Wehrmacht. By his reckoning, there are “one or two” such photos in every “twenty to thirty” albums of amateur World War II photography that he has bought over the years. "They are a small, though very interesting, subset of his vast collection."

https://www.thedistancemag.com/p/the-nazis-who-dressed-in-drag

It is interesting that this article includes the words "As a category, Dammann conflates homosexuality, a thing that the Nazis punished, with cross dressing, which was quite acceptable to Nazis. Very different things have been swept into the discursive construction known as “gender nonconformity.” This is how the mandarins of queer theory revise history to make the Nazis into the original “transphobia.” They are committing academic fraud when they do this." and goes on from there. Worth a quick read. as is the article linked to it at the bottom, https://www.thedistancemag.com/p/how-transgender-historians-give-magnus

Sorry to drag the thread back into the mire.

Quickly I add: My mother made leek-and-potato soup quite often: a good filler on a cold day. If she'd sieved it (this was in the days before food processors), added cream, and served it cold, that's vichyssoise to all intents and purposes, but she never did. It was jolly good as a hot soup anyway.

That reads like something from chatGPT. It's word salad that is a hallmark of trans ideology.

The fact that you associate goblins with Jewish people; - is a symbol of your racism. And is incredibly telling.

The great irony of course, is that on twitter JKR is accused of being too pro Jews and anti-Palestine.

But again, that you think goblins look like Jewish people and are obsessed with money is just a symbol of anti-semitism and racism. The TRAs out themselves. Every.single.time.

Can't have grilled salmon without dill, and mashed potato is the ultimate comfort food. You're all wrong except murasaki.

AngleofRepose
Can't have grilled salmon without dill

I can. I do. You wanna make something of it?

Aarrgghh! So many wrong people in this world!

And what is it with those pickles that are made without dill?!!! That's not pickles, that's just cut up cucumber in vinegar. They taste like vinegar. And vinegar.

My mum used to do something wonderful with leftovers.... she threw them away.

Also, I have always been pretty much OK with JKR. Kristalnacht, Anschluss, Sudetenland were a bit worrying but her explanations seemed fairly reasonable. But she crossed a line for me when she invaded Poland. Now I can't believe a word she says. Oh, hang on, I might have got her confused with some Austrian geezer.

How does one eat cucumber jam? Accompaniment? Condiment? On toast?

I do know about JK Rowling's writing ability. It's not very good, honestly. She has improved with practice, but the later Potter books are bloated garbage: she suffered badly from being Too Important To Edit. Many authors have this problem, which is why there have been a fair few books published that are simply too heavy to read except at a table, and which fall apart under their own weight after a single read.

I wouldn't want to have to defend her writing on stylistic grounds, to be honest. And the content is deeply derivative in many places. But that doesn't seem to me to be a good reason to equate her with Hitler; just because he didn't write very well either... Nor does Jeffrey Archer, dammit! Nor Dan Brown.

And whoever thought it was a good idea to publish The Lord of the Rings as a single paperback volume was off his or her tiny trolley. Or maybe not: anyone who read it and wanted to keep the book would have to buy another copy. Personally I'd look for second-hand hardbacks, but not everyone would do that, and it's more expensive.

I always use decent potatoes with a bit of flavour, not the godawful ones labelled "Ideal for mash", which just turn into a floury white sludge that sticks to the roof of your mouth. 😟 Descriptions like "creamy" or "Ideal for roasting" are usually a better sign.

I reserve a little of the cooking water in case it needs extra liquid. No need for milk, which makes it kind of claggy. I just add unsalted butter (for a creamier flavour than salted), plus salt, pepper and lots of freshly grated nutmeg.

I would eat the stuff every day, but I like to pretend that I still have a waistline.

Deano, what's boiled cake? Is that like steamed pudding?

I’ve been through all the foodstuffs on this thread and I like them all. No wonder I can’t lose weight!

Like clootie dumpling? My aunt used to make that. She would fry up leftover slices for breakfast.

I do know about JK Rowling's writing ability. It's not very good, honestly. She has improved with practice, but the later Potter books are bloated garbage: she suffered badly from being Too Important To Edit.

Yeah. I loved the first four books, and by contrast I hated the fifth. The last two are such nothings I can't even be bothered to either love or hate them.

And whoever thought it was a good idea to publish The Lord of the Rings as a single paperback volume was off his or her tiny trolley.

Wait, what? Is that even possible??

I can only eat potatoes, in moderation, maybe twice a week before I start suffering the consequences. I'm afraid I just don't like mash enough for it to make the grade, no matter how much one adds to it. Sometimes a single serving is enough to make me feel really unwell (which must be varietal, but people generally look at you oddly if you ask what variety the potatoes are unless it's King Edward or Jersey Royal).

Well, actually, I suppose if you added enough cheese and butter that it was technically slightly potato-ey cheese, then I might change my mind. I'd still rather have the cheese on its own.

Oh it is. Really.
It's too large to hold properly and doesn't stand up to heavy reading, as indicated. Ditto the hardcover volume. Nice illustrations, but just a doorstop.

Re Harry Potter, I stopped at Prisoner of Azkabhan, or however you spell it. Best of the bunch that I'd read. Yes, derivative, but entertaining.

Just looked it up. Sort of fruit cake trying to look like a Christmas pudding?

Wait, what? Is that even possible?

I had one for Christmas in about 1976. It doesn't have the appendix. 😬😬😬😬 And eventually the spine cracked.

Seethlaw
Wait, what? Is that even possible??

Apparently it is.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lord-Rings-trilogy-paperback-movie/dp/0007123817/

Yes, I have the hardcover all in one edition and it's definitely a lap or table book. Although it would also double as a seated exercise routine.

Yes, pretty much. I remember it was quite nice, and tasted more like regular fruit cake than Christmas pudding. But with that same very dense texture.

It is to most sane people!!

In Sweden you can get dill flavoured crisps, sometimes Lidl has some during Scandi week. In my top three crisp flavours.

It's a tea brack, but rather than an overnight soak the fruit is boiled in the tea for one minute, then cooled (with the sugar added), then a beaten egg and the dry ingredients mixed in.

I baked one regularly during the weeks when our group and the chair yoga mob assembled for tea in the Hall while the village pub was shut, and I wanted something without regular wheat (I used spelt) and it went down very well with the assembled ladies. Sliced very thinly, spread with butter.