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...

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I’ve never had it but it sounds lovely.

She should get an Order of Merlin.

But... but... Surely she already has one 😱 !? I mean, if she doesn't, then who does??

Please how do you toast the oats? Sounds awesome.

(However I might start a small fire if I try oat-toasting)

Put foil on the grill thingy and stick them under the grill for a bit, or you can do them in the air fryer. (Also put down foil). Just watch them carefully, they don't take long and yes can catch light!

Toast in oven on parchment paper on a baking sheet for 10 minutes on 200 degrees.

On the hob, a non stick pan, no fat, stir constantly, takes about 2 minutes in a hot pan.

It's easy and they are delicious. Also good in yogurt etc. No fat or sweeteners needed.

I toast them in the oven on baking parchment and with the oats mixed with a small amount of oil. Stir them every 5 minutes or so else the ones on the outside start to burn. Jumbo oats are better, the little ones burn more easily.

You can also chuck pumpkin/sesame seeds in with the oats.

Posset is literally named after baby sick because it was thought to look the same. British names for deserts are wild...

It would certainly be the level of scientific evidence we've come to expect from WPATH.

I expect their defence will be "Because we said so, anything else is transphobic, BE KIND".

Is that really so? Possets were in the earliest recipe books, some time around 1420 I think, and the word comes from old French posce, which in turn is from the Latin posca. Posca was a drink of vinegar and water (why?) and added milk curdled and made a posset (again. why??? Who thought of this? was she a little unwell at the time?)

The internet suggests they come from a word connected to curdled milk - the baby vomit will have been milk

For what it's worth, posset as a drink-like-thing is in Shakespeare several times, including as a medicine; meanwhile, it does not appear with the baby-spew meaning in the 1933 Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Websters 1959 doesn't have that meaning, Chambers 1988 does, S.O.D. 1993 does, and attributes it to "M19", mid 19th century. (I hate them for no longer giving actual dates for first references!)

My mother gave me some cotton squares to put over my shoulder and back so that when I was walking the baby to and fro after a feed and he posseted, my clothes would be spared. She definitely called it posseting, and so had her nanny, which takes it back at least to early 20th century in the south of England.

My mother gave me some cotton squares to put over my shoulder and back so that when I was walking the baby to and fro after a feed and he posseted, my clothes would be spared.

Yeah, that! Don't people do that any more?

I still have Mothercare muslin squares over 20 years old which I now use as dusters.

Men never seemed to have done; having a bit of posset down your back was a signal about what a good father you were, or something.

I am not sure whether it happens these days though it does seem a really obvious thing; can you even get Harrington Squares now? Cloth nappies don't seem to be square any longer, so I don't suppose the liners are either, and in theory the muslin Harrington squares were nappy liners. I never knew anyone who used them for that, though, we used disposable paper ones.

Are people growing their own gooseberries, buying them from a farmers market etc? I’ve never seen them in the shops.

I've seen them in a farm shop near us.

I have some very old terry nappies, now used as a floorcloths and for general mopping up of large spillages,

My neighbour gave me her surplus.

It's clear that this is a cack-handed attempt by Rowling to paint WPATH as the Nazis in her analogy. It's extraordinarily vainglorious of her.

At least you understand what she actually meant even if the necessity to vilify her means you have to misinterpret her motives and use derogatory language about her. Previous posters who wanted to take a swipe at her were lamentably ignorant of history.

Well, that's progress, I guess. This one at least has got who she meant to represent as the Nazis right.

I have red gooseberries and green gooseberries in my garden. Both delicious.

Came back on and saw a thread that all ready had 800 comments, which was a tour de force of batshittery and lunacy. 🤪
Made me chuckle 😂😂😂😂
Every penny spent on these peoples education was wasted, as a tax payer I demand a refund. 🤯

Oy! Sharing recipes isn't batshit at all.