Dark and stormies all round! Bluestocking piss up

is everyone on holiday?

oh well, I'll chat to myself...

I was wondering, are there any "nice" workplaces left?

everything seems to be a race to minimal space and hotdesking and I was just wondering if anyone has a nice office with air con and fresh fruit and stuff. I know a couple people at mega corporates who still have this but I guess you need to be working at a FTSE 100 company or something to get that?

sorry to be depressing but...here we are again!

www.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/food/shocking-moment-male-punches-female-student-in-the-face-outside-paris-cafe/news-story/fdf808495b118265e3e298d1c1f3173c?from=htc_rss

this is why I say the law needs to outline what's an acceptable response. If anything, SHE should be permitted to punch the fucker. I am so sick of men.

I loved the first season of Unforgotten glad to hear it stays good will look out for it. I love Nicola Walker too she's the reason I watched it - she was brilliant in spooks.

LighthouseSouth, I loved "You're welcome!" tonight. Me and DP high fived at that point.

@FloralBunting

That's what got me into series 1. There's not a lot of friendship shown on tv at the mo. Also theirs seems very natural, like watching your own friends.

Valerian doesn't smell of fish though. It smells evil but it's not like sardines or anything.

Haven't posted in what seems like ages so just wanted to raise a glass to you all. Cheers m'dears.

Runs in for a swift half

Oooo, and 't'were good! I love Cassie and Sunny's friendship and working relationship.

I have been at work since stupid o'clock this morning, and I have been kept going by the thought of kids in bed by 8.45 and watching Unforgotten with no-one else around. I adore Nicola Walker.

Dude, where's my pub?

thanks Quentin, it's a mad world at the moment isn't it.

just thought, re, TV, is anyone watching Picnic at hanging Rock?

I love it so far - but I also loved the start of the book and found it petered out into...not very much. Bloody love Natalie Dormer - not least because of her portrayal of a female Moriarty "as if men had the monopoly on murder". I need a GIF of that!

oh I watched the first one, wasn't sure really.

oooh cava sounds good.

Unforgotten is on again tonight.

I'm off for a cava, there's a bottle in the fridge...

no one drinking?

friend just said to me that Sharp Objects is really worth watching/reading but it turns out to be YET MORE girls being murdered.

@FermatsTheorem

"Please can the world stop while I get off, crawl under an outer-space duvet and try to pretend it's not happening"

yy to this and yy to a quadruple!

I must admit I'm not paying a huge amount of attention to world events due to elderly parent events ....at the moment I just think heavy drinking must be the answer to everything. Including being assured I won't live too long....!

A quadruple dark and stormy (do they come in quadruples?) please.

Ugh, today's headlines. 80% of teenage girls suffer serious mental illness after sexual assault (part of me want to scream "no shit sherlock - you had to be told this?!" and the other part of me thinks "thank fuck a national newspaper is actually carrying this"). Then there's Bannon wanting to start a far right party in the UK with backing from Americans (surely this must be against the law...), far right Americans paying for that odious little shite Tommy Robinson's appeal, and polls suggesting that 24% of Britons would vote for an anti immigrant, anti Muslim far right party. And the lead article in the Telegraph is a first person account of being on the receiving end of anti-Semitism, and why she and her husband are emigrating to Israel (can't say I blame her, I think I would too.) Then there's that poor 3 year old that some evil fuckers have poured acid over.

Please can the world stop while I get off, crawl under an outer-space duvet and try to pretend it's not happening?

Yes, got it in WH Smith. It’s focus this month is Iceland so there are good articles about the women’s strike of 1975 and interviews with leading Icelandic women.

Looking at the back issues, it seems they have a different country focus each month.

I also like the New Scientist too and have been guilty of building a pile to read.

I hadn't heard of that - is it in WH Smith's etc?
Mind you, I've got a backlog of New Scientists I really ought to read before buying anything else.

Evening all!

Friday night and I’m ready for a drink. The latest shenanigans depress and galvanise me in equal measure. Not quite measured enough to post much myself. I just want to tell the GFs to fuck off.

On a positive note, I bought a copy of the Womankind magazine today. I’m really enjoying it - interesting, thoughtful articles.

(It's ok, they're miniatures)
I stay off Twitter, it seems like a medium more likely to shed heat than light. But I have much respect for the feminists and allies who manage to engage with it.

@Wrongontheinternet as far as I'm aware FNF are an MRA group.

@Redundancy1 they may have applied for an extension to their alcohol licence and a late entertainment licence in one fell swoop. There's details on how to do it here: www.gov.uk/guidance/entertainment-licensing-changes-under-the-live-music-act

I think I need a large double gin if it's not last orders yet. I just tweeted (very mild) support for WPUK and am being accused of all sorts of tinfoil-hatted nonsense. I think I need to mute it because this is mm..mmmm..mmmmmMAD, and if I say that I will no doubt be guilty of literal violence.

Looks okay so far

Wonder if pubgoers will know the answer to this

There's a pub on my street, it changed hands, refurbed and now has a licence for music till 2am on Saturday nights. Should residents on the street be consulted or is it just something that happens if you live near a pub? It used to shut at 11.30.

They have the DJ in the garden area. In fairness it has all been good music, lol, but I am surprised we weren't asked.

I expect it would be a further reason for violence, yes. Maybe it'll be bad enough that there will be a public inquiry, lessons learned, then back to normal the next day.

Hi pub goers

I was thinking, much as id like England to win....

Suppose we don't. Would that mean the third place play off match would be a high risk of things being smashed up etc? I have heard that people don't really care about the third place but I don't know....police are closing lots of roads so do have a plan in place. I'll be home on Wednesday night but had plans for Saturday.