Dark and stormies all round! Bluestocking piss up

I decided on a port & its going surprisingly well with the remainder of my Snickers bar.

If I ever said that phrase aloud I hope my friends would stage an intervention. My family would be ready to send me for deprogramming.

Happy to... making a SB&B will bring back many happy memories of sticky floors in the SU bar!

Indeed. It's a phrase I have never spoken aloud - and hopefully never will because I consider it a bit wanky.
I'm reading that thread and resisting the urge to post 'ah well, username X, God loves a trier'.

Make mine a snakebite and black in honor of my gobby working class roots.

(And then give me something that tastes better because I'm not 17 any more.)

I might have a nightcap...

That phrase normally sets my teeth on edge but it's been tempting recently! I suppose that if you have enough money to cushion yourself and your loved ones from the sharp end of changes to public spaces and services maybe it all seems a bit abstract.

Meanwhile it's goady fucker o'clock on the new guidelines thread. Bless, they tried.

YY, what the actual fucking fuck? I feel like I'm going to bump into the White Rabbit and Alice on the blue posts at some point.

I almost used the phrase 'check your privilege' to hq yesterday.

FWIW, Weezol, the "wtf is this bollocks?" response seems to be one that most people with a working class background are having to all of this (and had to the "Emma is just a very silly girl who's already been punished enough" stuff too).

I appreciate the idea of trying to cheer me up thanks
that thread isn't the kind of thing I read on here though

I looked up women serial killers instead. To quote Natalie Dormer as Moriarty "as if men had the monopoly on murder".
Now I have some cheering stuff to study!

Oh, I remember that one at the time Weezol, it is indeed a thoroughly lovely thread (and the grandad in question has long been one of my favourite male posters on MN, always comes across as a very sound bloke).

If you need a break from it all, may I recommend reading this thread by a splendid grandad.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2955799-To-clap-my-hands-and-skip-about-in-a-elephantine-manner

I keep it in 'Watching' and it never fails to cheer me up and make me smile. I read it from start to finish in the depths of despair and it's just lovely and very funny.

oh dear now I need hard liquor

mostly to stop myself posting about what I feel would be appropriate punishment for rape, upskirting etc

Thank you.... I think I may go have cup of Earl grey tea with a friend. Left to my own devices today, not sure I'd stop hard liquoring!

@R0wantrees

no, that one deserves hard liquor any time, day or night, no worries.

Weezol, I'm sure you'd get all kinds of grants....but not for a feminist pub.

I have been seriously thinking about cleaning as an extra job. I keep hearing about issues with cleaners on MN. I find it quite therapeutic and I would rather any extra work wasn't desk based.

only thing is I have a passionate hatred of dealing with burglar alarms!

Is it too early for hard liquor?

Quoted tweet by TRA (from US?) in Daily Mail re CRUK's 'everyone with cervixes' campaign has floored me... I have lost too many friends to gyny cancer in the last few years.

"Thank you for this. I’ve just had a pre-cancerous cervical lesion removed. The misgendering I received at my doctor got so bad I told my husband I’d rather die of cancer instead. But I got through it & am thankful I got checked early!"

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3277806-Cancer-Research-anyone-with-a-cervix

Light, while my own kitchen is a shocker, I find doing other people's washing up incredibly relaxing and rewarding. I have washed up for a living and it was a job I thoroughly enjoyed.

Does this mean I belong under the Stonewall Umbrella in some way? Should I be identifying as transhygenist or something? AutoLaverPhile? Maybe I could get a grant from the Arts Council to mount an installation at the pub and fund free bar snacks with proceeds. Perhaps The Guardian will sponsor me.

Weezol, I think there's probably a LOT of glasses to wash! But I also imagine we have a dishwasher?

does Whittards still exist? I don't really shop so I don't know. I thought it went bankrupt or something.

Every clarifaction confuses me further. Either the policy is as announced or it isn't. Produce a definitive version or don't produce anything.

Beta testing exists for a reason. The more that comes out, the more I think that hq is just three yummy mummies brainstorming round the kitchen table over Whittards and Duchy originals while nanny deals with the children. I know this is wrong, but I have been really feeling my working class northerness has nothing to relate to over this whole situation. Apologies to any Whittards/DO fans, nannies or people who employ nannies, I'm quite angry over all this.

Can I go in the back and wash some glasses until I've calmed down a bit?

Thanks for the sharetoken Errol.

Here's a sharetoken link to the Sunday times column mentioned. I'm not a fan of camilla long (note use of 'screeching' in this piece ) but she's probably got a point about what passes for 'feminism' nowadays.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/todays-feminists-arent-warrior-women-like-germaine-theyre-pearl-clutching-princesses-0xx9jm5bl?shareToken=e62191f0848d291fd5f8cf1ff82c3c2e

@KittyKlaws - welcome along!

can't read the GG article as I am not a Times subscriber. I also listened to the link given by woman and much as I wanted some of the things I heard to be wrong, they weren't....unless I misunderstood what GG was saying.

do you serve brunch?

re GG I listened to her talk at Hay so my comments are based on what she actually said not what was reported :)