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Pick Your Infodump Topic

Damojo

If you were to infodump passionately right now, what would your topic be?

I tend to get fired up by whatever I've been reading lately, so mine might be ... wait for it ... the contribution of the Black Death to the end of feudalism in Europe.

Can anyone beat that with something even more fascinating? I think I've set the bar pretty high.

Parents

  • 1) Autism in women (I realised I'm autistic 3 weeks ago, so its become my new special interest)

    2) plants and soiltypes in my garden 

    3) ingredients in supermarket foods (and avoiding E numbers / preservatives) 

    4) finding high-quality first hand children's clothes for under £4-5 per piece

    5) Cromwell - and specifically Mark Rylance's portrayal in Wolf Hall

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  • 1) Autism in women (I realised I'm autistic 3 weeks ago, so its become my new special interest)

    2) plants and soiltypes in my garden 

    3) ingredients in supermarket foods (and avoiding E numbers / preservatives) 

    4) finding high-quality first hand children's clothes for under £4-5 per piece

    5) Cromwell - and specifically Mark Rylance's portrayal in Wolf Hall

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  • in reply to Asparagus

    I agree Wolf Hall was brilliant and Mark Rylance a genius, it's so much better than the books too, I really struggled with Wolf Hall, less so the others, but when reading it I was thinking how good it would be on tv if done properly. I watched Shardlake when it was on a few weeks ago, that portrayal of Cromwell was so crude in comparisson and the whole thing badly done, I never got on with the books either.

  • in reply to Asparagus

    5) I watched Wolf Hall in its entirety a few weeks ago. Thomas Cromwell was such a complicated character. Rylance is a genius.

    (If anyone hasn't seen Wolf Hall, you need to cancel all plans for your weekend and get with the programme...unless you've already committed to watching SpongeBob, of course, which is entirely understandable.)

  • in reply to Asparagus

    3) I remember having a meltdown when listening to the radio a few years ago. Two guests on a show were debating the need for "flour improvers", additives in wheat flour intended to improve the strength and structure of the dough when making bread. One person claimed that adding a nasty chemical like "ascorbic acid" (E300) to flour was tantamount to an act of mass poisoning of the general population, while the other person was stressing how not all additives are necessarily harmful and that they really did "improve" the flour. This went back and forth for about ten minutes with neither side giving in and the host playing no active part. By this point I'd fallen off the cliff and I was screaming at the radio, "You're both talking about VITAMIN C! [many expletives deleted] VITAMIN [expletive] C!"

    Happy times.