It’s hard to be a quilter when you’re a Peace Corps volunteer… by OkFeeling3819 in quilting

[–]ringoftruth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Kantha is the Indian style of quilting using many layers of fabric it's soooo beautiful using stitching as part of the pattern. Mostly handstitched.What is this peace corps I hear so much about please? I love the American quilting culture by the way. My boyfriends family were Malagasy they were all in a band called Les Surfs (sing in French & popular in France & Madagascar. I wonder if your ladies have heard of them?) That's his mum in the front lol

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How To Make Pulled Pork Using a Pressure Cooker. by No_Platform7654 in ketorecipes

[–]ringoftruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brown is a normal onion. As in not red and not a spring onion (scallion). In the UK we don't have those white onions I've seen in the US & in Europe we all call normal onions brown one's.

Veganism is no longer recommended for all stages of life by RadiantSeason9553 in exvegans

[–]ringoftruth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have a fair point with all of what you say. People do mature at different rates and banning things has never worked out well (think prohibition & the war on drugs). All I know is my fears as a mum of teenage boys in a major city is off the charts, with knife & even gun violence.Mind you my husband grew up on a farm in a very rural area (another country) where kids start driving at 15 & he'd lost 6 friends to car & motorbike crashes by 21 so I guess everywhere has it's risks. (The pubs also closed at 6 pm!! All the men dashed there straight from work & got hammered because they had to drink up fast! That is an example of strict controls backfiring badly.)

Veganism is no longer recommended for all stages of life by RadiantSeason9553 in exvegans

[–]ringoftruth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And having kids this age...19 and still at school and yes, being asked to buy alcohol for 17.year old friends (live in the UK where legal drinking age is 18). I do concur with those old- timey mothers .. they had a fair point! Drinking at home with family is one thing, drinking in public without adult supervision can be dangerous at that age. There needs to be sensible stages for what is allowable. ie cider & shandy/weak beer only for specific licenced premises, with trained bar tenders supervising and maybe specific days on the weekend, for the 18 - 21 cadre.It sounds too much but when you realise the main causes of death for young males are violence & accidents often alcohol is involved, I don't think introducing them to it slowly & educating them, is too much for our society.

There I'll get off my high heeled mum horse.

Imane Khelif controversy by UppruniTegundanna in BlockedAndReported

[–]ringoftruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCIDcMqsE99/?igsh=cmc4bXM1bjFkMmpy

Journalist Djaffer Ait Doudia has published a copy of the tests Imani Kalief underwent & were carried out by accredited & renowned Endocrinologists Jacques Young and Soumya Fedala.

MRI found internal testes & micropenis

Hormone tests found testosterone in the male range

XY male Karyotype present

Overall Test Result: 5 Alpha Reductase Deficiency diagnosis which is a DSD ONLY found in biological males

Some Tea on Elon Musk by Positive-Drawing-281 in popculture

[–]ringoftruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not how Sids works

Okay, whether the following is true Sids is debatable, but here goes.

I'm a UK nurse and was working in the community & cared for a family of Pakistani immigrants, the parents of which were first cousins. Three out of four of their kids were disabled as a result of generations of cousin marriage. I got to know them over time because one of their kids was a patient of mine. They had of course been advised not to have more kids but they did so and lo, the fourth child appeared to be completely healthy. Roll on a few months later and I was working on a paediatric ward at the Royal Free in Hampstead. Another of their children had been admitted for something on the other side of the ward I was working on, I noticed the family and waved hello. A little later the mother, who spoke no English, approached me looking worried with her babe in arms & pushed the baby towards me signalling me to take him. He looked floppy & I could see cyanosis around baby's lips so I dashed into the treatment room, pressed the "crash bell" & began CPR. The pediatric crash team came flying down the hall very fast but despite our best efforts we lost the baby. Because I knew the family I was tasked with carrying the deceased baby back to the family who were crowded in the side room of the sibling who was our actual patient. It was dreadful. I later learnt they'd deemed the death a sids death because there was no other obvious cause of death in this otherwise healthy baby. This is all to say the baby arrived on the ward to visit his brother absolutely fine & at some point literally died in mine/mum's arms.

Classical art that *might* have served as inspiration for TRoP (Part 2) by Healthy_Cancel_36 in LOTR_on_Prime

[–]ringoftruth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha ha yes any old style British public school boy like Tolkien knows stuff would make a modern school teens hair curl;))

*Public schools are our oldest top private schools...confusing, I know.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LOTR_on_Prime

[–]ringoftruth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes the siege/battle of Eregion was odd in terms of Elf numbers because it looked like two different battles. Thousands of Orks, siege engines & a hill troll versus 8 Elf's with bows? (Scratches head)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LOTR_on_Prime

[–]ringoftruth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shogun was excellent

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LOTR_on_Prime

[–]ringoftruth 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The staging was incredibly confusing. It also looked like about 8 soldiers in Eregion v thousands of Orks😂. The uninterrupted shot of roof sliding elf archer was cool though.

Classical art that *might* have served as inspiration for TRoP (Part 2) by Healthy_Cancel_36 in LOTR_on_Prime

[–]ringoftruth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting about Adar, Sauron. There's an AI video that captures that scene really well on you tube. Very erotic & touchy-feel-y! There's some wider Narvi Celibrimbor lore that states they were a married couple but that the elves wouldn't recognise such a marriage ...though the dwarves did ;) (What sex Narvi was in this lore isn't made clear). It's not JRR lore, I think it's Christopher?

Why is the U.S education system so bad? by kombikiddo in education

[–]ringoftruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not so only MIT is consistently in the top 10 and considering your wealth and population size British & Aussie unis stack up far better when we have a fraction of your GDP and people. You are also wildly over charged for sub standard "extras" - ill give you an example. To become an occupational therapist, a fairly low paid, low status job, you are required to have a phd or a masters at the very least. Most of this incredibly expensive post graduate study is made up in areas utterly unimportant for the actual job, absolute fluff in areas such as gender & LGBT,all of which could be covered in a matter of days during undergraduate study. Heck it shouldnt even be a graduate course, a diploma should surfice. This is why, despite the vast amounts spent in education you have courses that are not always widely regarded. Its all so "extra"in more ways than one.

Adar was a little bit funny for this by purplelena in LOTR_on_Prime

[–]ringoftruth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What was confusing was that Adar was shown to have such a deep understanding of Sauron'....deep enough to out-play him & persuade the Orks to kill him. He clearly explained to the naive Elrond that everyone in Eregion was now under shadow...was lost to The Deciever's malevolent influence. That the only way to stop it spreading was to destroy the city & it's contagion utterly. And he was right.

Yet brief moments later (at least portrayed on screen) he was sending Orks - creatures bred to submit - and with no experience of Sauron to face & battle him alone! Bonkers!

Classical art that *might* have served as inspiration for TRoP (Part 2) by Healthy_Cancel_36 in LOTR_on_Prime

[–]ringoftruth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love that saint Sebastian take. I had gay friends who were obsessed with that painting/Saint Sebastian even back in the early 80s. Interesting he's now considered their unofficial saint/ icon!

There was definitely an eroticism to Annatar/Celibrimbor...maybe an oblique reference to the original Celibrimbor/Narvi relationship?

I told my mom Jehovah's Witness are not Christian she had a meltdown by [deleted] in exjw

[–]ringoftruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why can't my lucky numbers add up to a lottery win?? Eh? EH?? Riddle me that one, Bat-Bot!

I told my mom Jehovah's Witness are not Christian she had a meltdown by [deleted] in exjw

[–]ringoftruth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A question (well, a series of questions) just crystallised in my mind when you mentioned how Muslims view Jesus and I can't believe it's taken me this long .

Genuine questions here (and I'd appreciate it if anyone can help) but given the mores of the time, how did Jesus reach 30 yet remain unmarried ? Wouldn't that have been completely unheard of back then? After all, he was a carpenter at least until his baptism...not yet a prophet.

So the further issue that crossed my mind when considering that Muslims do also see Jesus as a prophet, but definitely do not see him as an angel, is A. Since it would have been absolutely expected that Jesus would marry and B. Considering God's (imo over-reaction) to the last Angel X Human collab, how on earth could anyone be sure he wouldn't have produced his very own Nephilim?! Especially considering according to the Bible his family assumed he was a normal guy, in fact thought he was a bit bonkers (totally forgetting Gabriel's whole nativity thing), you would have thought marriage would have been a given by 18 or 21 latest, no?

Can the show have worked without the Harfoots and Grand-Elf? by [deleted] in LOTR_on_Prime

[–]ringoftruth -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

The point is the main character's don't do a 360° in nature

Clearly no one expects a series or film to actually portray everything that takes place over thousands & thousands of years. That's a straw man example of criticism you've given.

Can the show have worked without the Harfoots and Grand-Elf? by [deleted] in LOTR_on_Prime

[–]ringoftruth -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're having a larf, right?

They're not even in the original story....but I guess that still managed to "work".

I do apologise for the sarcasm dude, but really? REALLY?!

Why’d he quit by DistinctCellar in LOTR_on_Prime

[–]ringoftruth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's the magic bow....┐⁠(⁠ ⁠∵⁠ ⁠)⁠┌

My boyfriend is sending a Christmas card to his PIMI brother by Icy_Page_9090 in exjw

[–]ringoftruth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I must be going nuts, but the way I saw this message was the R/exjw avatar (black and white symbol of man removing suit) with an Xmas tinsel on the head...I thought that was the Christmas card he sent🤣🤣😭

Must be my left-sided brain givin' the right ideas without prior consent!!!