It's for chat without food involved which either is continuing something started here, or just something we want to share not relating to anything on this thread.
It's close to impossible to say when something is too much chat for this thread, but since the parallel thread has started, much less derailing to the point of moderating has taken place here.
A good example of a post which would have been better placed in the parallel thread is the second half of my previous post, right before your post.
I put it here because it all came out rather unplanned, it should have been a single sentence but it wanted out.
I've left it, because it's so big a fear, and I needed to share. Can't share with anyone else because it's still a 'nothing' and nobody knows but her and me.
Typical case of being a member first and a mod second.
(Won't object if my colleagues move half my post there though! Don't want to do it myself, feels like some superstitious bad luck
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