Notices by HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz), page 2

@Flick @thatguyoverthere Oh no, not again, poor Dog, and poor you. Cone again?

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/09/25/trans-the-new-ideology-of-the-ruling-class/

Here’s a tip for aspiring radicals. If your political beliefs can be marshalled to the illiberal cause of disciplining workers, then they aren’t radical. If your views can be embraced with glee by the HR bureaucracy, and used to rap the knuckles of the workforce, then they’re probably regressive, not revolutionary. Look at trans activism. These post-sex agitators fancy themselves as gender-bending militants who are turning dusty old society on its head. In truth, they’re the footsoldiers of the boss class, capitalism’s moral heavies, helping to keep ‘Karens’, the white working class and other lowly types in their place.

Yes, class domination has had a makeover. It wears bad wigs and stilettos now. Consider the Telegraph’s exposé of the woke training regimes that now pertain in the UK civil service. A vast dossier of internal documents was leaked to the Telegraph showing that the machinery of state has been conquered by the trans ideology, ‘white privilege’ chatter and other culture-war craziness. Civil servants who surely have better things to do are being given LGBTQ+ education and shown training videos about how sinful it is to stop a ‘transwoman’ – ie, a fella – from using the women’s loo.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66787673

Ten years ago, artist Grahame Hurd-Wood set himself a huge challenge.

He resolved to paint an individual portrait of every resident of the city he lives in.

Fortunately for him that city is St Davids in Pembrokeshire, the smallest in the UK, with about 1,800 residents.

But it is still an enormous task.

A decade on from his decision, Grahame is 1,000 portraits in, and the aptly titled City of Portraits project, rather than getting smaller, is increasing as the scope of his ambition broadens.

@thatguyoverthere @Flick @Maud_Gonner It does sound a handy way to get butter though, so I wish they did make it like that here.

@Flick @thatguyoverthere @Maud_Gonner Yes, I’m not bad at that myself either but have noticed they shrank!

@Maud_Gonner @thatguyoverthere @Flick My uncle won’t touch butter, he hates it, as in fresh, not for cooking or in anything, but spread on something. I reckon the reason he doesn’t like is because back in the day when it was all home made the stuff could be a bit wild at times, same with the milk, depending on where the cow had been pastured in summer, it affecting the flavour. Also, we had no refrigeration and not everyone was as particular in trying to at least try and keep it fresh, so sometimes could end up sour too.

@thatguyoverthere @Flick @Maud_Gonner We don’t get butter sticks here, well, not that I have ever seen anyway in our neck of the woods.

@Flick @Maud_Gonner https://www.food.com/recipe/cornmeal-scones-14835

And Flick, a sassenach, wins the day 😆 :blobcheer:

These look quite similar indeed.

Except…these American cups always make me growl, it’s the butter, how do you get a cup of butter accurately?

@Maud_Gonner @Flick I remember reading about that, re the Irish famine “flour”.

Apart from one episode on a baking prog on BBC Alba once, I have never seen a reference to it. I have to say too, hers don’t look as good as the ones made by the women I remember, they are a little stiffer than ordinary scones but they should not look like they could knock you out, and I’m afraid hers do! She doesn’t use butter either…cardinal sin as far as I’m concerned…so was looking for a recipe that seems a bit better than hers, but seems I might end up having to give it a try after all, as not getting anywhere looking for one, just put butter into it instead of the oil she uses 🤔

https://learngaelic.scot/watch/food.jsp?v=124

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain https://www.northuistdistillery.com/products/downpour-gin

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain and this gin thing is EVERYWHERE. Hate the stuff myself, apparently the one they make at home is terribly strong too.

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain Oh, I dunno, that could be a do I kill him now or later rictus 🤔

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain The girl is a daughter of one of my old primary school teachers, one of the nice ones, not sure who the husband is.

Her aunts on her father’s side are all fucking terrifying 😂 One of them was a maths teacher in secondary school; fortunately, she did not teach me, she was scary, and not a good teacher due to that, at least not for the ones lacking numerical ability.

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain 🤔

I reckon that a lot of the money must go re the fancy bottles all of it comes in too.

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain I don’t like alcohol of any kind myself, the only thing didn’t mind if mixed with something was the raspberry vodka, and it would have to be weak. Whisky, even the smell makes me retch.

@TriptychTwinsRidesAgain The prices of some of it are very high.

@Flick Thanks, have a book token as yet unspent, couldn’t find anything wanted with it, where it’s from, might use it for that. Waterstones have it. How to tell friend and not sound ungrateful that they are not a place I buy from, now a Persephone book token would be much the better option. She isn’t much of a reader herself though and doesn’t understand that Waterstones have gone to shit with what they offer, never mind being wankers!

@Flick What book is this from?

@Flick In the past have usually passed such vouchers to himself, but there’s been nothing new even he wants, so it’s still sitting there.

@sim @Flick Badly written, as in simplistic language, I’ve seen older books for children with better writing style than some of what is being published for adults now. What I call the we did this, and then we did that, and then we went over there, and then we went back again, cat sat on the mat style. Absolutely pathetic story lines, weak and infantile in the extreme, all the ghastly chick lit kind of rubbish.

Also, historical revisionism and downright lies too, no research done, poor grammar and etc, what appears to be no proof reading having been applied either. Physical quality of the book poor, looks like a print on demand disaster.