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The Bluestocking - the one where the nights start to draw in

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Boiledbeetle · 13/09/2025 20:45

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5401672-the-autumn-bluestocking-mist-mellow-fruitfulness-and-hot-chocolate

Settles down in the comfy chair by the fire.

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Britinme · 18/09/2025 21:47

<Blinks and resurfaces> I seem to have missed a great deal of Bluestocking chat...

I am definitely on the pro-Marmite side, and also like Marmite with peanut butter. Not that anybody cares as that discussion finished six pages ago and I can't be arsed to read back and find out what's happened since. I hope nothing dreadful has happened to anybody, and now will feel completely vile for saying that if it has. I'm sorry in advance.

FuzzyPuffling · 18/09/2025 21:32

Ooer.....

AlexandraLeaving · 18/09/2025 21:30

FuzzyPuffling · 18/09/2025 20:55

I like my pants to come in pairs, or I feel very exposed.

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Speaking of exposed pufflings, this appeared in my FB feed today, clearly influenced by excess Shetland wool purchases in recent weeks. [picture to follow, several light years hence…]

The Bluestocking - the one where the nights start to draw in
FuzzyPuffling · 18/09/2025 20:55

MarieDeGournay · 18/09/2025 20:11

I'm guessing you are all MNing on your phones? I'm on my laptop, and the colours haven't changed.
I am however getting the very unnecessary caption over my posts saying MY POSTS.🙄

I know Maud has a very impressive wardrobe now, but I wonder does she have one of these bizarrely-named items? Known to normal Earthfolk as yoga pants. Who on earth thought up 'Essential pant'?
Made me laugh thought😄

I like my pants to come in pairs, or I feel very exposed.

ErrolTheDragon · 18/09/2025 20:27

Swashbuckled · 18/09/2025 20:23

Just the one?

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As in, ‘having a pant’.

Swashbuckled · 18/09/2025 20:23

ErrolTheDragon · 18/09/2025 20:22

Colin thinks that an ‘essential pant’ is what he does when he’s too hot.

Just the one?

Swashbuckled · 18/09/2025 20:22

Blow me down, Errol; that is an excellent point.

ErrolTheDragon · 18/09/2025 20:22

Colin thinks that an ‘essential pant’ is what he does when he’s too hot.

ErrolTheDragon · 18/09/2025 20:20

ifIwerenotanandroid · 18/09/2025 20:16

Do they/does it have just the one buttock & one leg, hence the singular? Great marketing idea: if you want a pair, buy two.

A trouser & a jean have been around for a while.

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Along with a singular shoe, lip and eye.
well, I suppose you could hobble along half shod, and indeed Myrtle is presumably wearing only one of a pair.
And a pirate might only use eyeshadow etc on one eye if sporting a patch. But surely to goodness no one only uses lipstick on one lip?

Swashbuckled · 18/09/2025 20:20

I tend to use the app if I’m just randomly scrolling somewhere, but always use the mobile website if I’m setting into the Blue Stocking. Mainly because I couldn’t react via the app. Although the app now seems to have the thanks option, which it didn’t used to have.

Swashbuckled · 18/09/2025 20:18

Yeah, the app seems unchanged.

ErrolTheDragon · 18/09/2025 20:16

ifIwerenotanandroid · 18/09/2025 20:13

I'm on a Chromebook & on the w/s. Was the app unaffected?

App seems ok to me.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 18/09/2025 20:16

MarieDeGournay · 18/09/2025 20:11

I'm guessing you are all MNing on your phones? I'm on my laptop, and the colours haven't changed.
I am however getting the very unnecessary caption over my posts saying MY POSTS.🙄

I know Maud has a very impressive wardrobe now, but I wonder does she have one of these bizarrely-named items? Known to normal Earthfolk as yoga pants. Who on earth thought up 'Essential pant'?
Made me laugh thought😄

Do they/does it have just the one buttock & one leg, hence the singular? Great marketing idea: if you want a pair, buy two.

A trouser & a jean have been around for a while.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 18/09/2025 20:13

I'm on a Chromebook & on the w/s. Was the app unaffected?

ifIwerenotanandroid · 18/09/2025 20:13

@Taztoy Agree. Dark mode & reporting all the bugs that show up in it & not in light mode. I hope MN listen to reason.

MarieDeGournay · 18/09/2025 20:11

I'm guessing you are all MNing on your phones? I'm on my laptop, and the colours haven't changed.
I am however getting the very unnecessary caption over my posts saying MY POSTS.🙄

I know Maud has a very impressive wardrobe now, but I wonder does she have one of these bizarrely-named items? Known to normal Earthfolk as yoga pants. Who on earth thought up 'Essential pant'?
Made me laugh thought😄

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Taztoy · 18/09/2025 20:09

I can’t cope with it it’s giving me a migraine. And I’ve turned down the brightness on the phone but everywhere else is dark but mn is horrible.

I tried dark mode and I might have to go back to it.

ifIwerenotanandroid · 18/09/2025 20:07

MarieDeGournay · 18/09/2025 15:53

Mine did too, I changed them back - 'My account'>'talk settings'.

Beautiful work, Myrtle. I've never seen a heart stitch on an Aran garment, but I think they should adopt it, it's so lovely💝

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How did you get your original colours back, Marie? There are no options for lilac/purple or real green on my settings, only cr!ppy washed-out colours.

Swashbuckled · 18/09/2025 19:03

I’ve just tried dark mode for the first time. It is easier on the eye but I don’t like it. Feels like I’m in some sort of teenage chat den.

lcakethereforeIam · 18/09/2025 18:53

Just to rub salt in the wound. I had to manually clear the message box after my last two posts on different threads. Including this one!!

AlexandraLeaving · 18/09/2025 18:50

Swashbuckled · 18/09/2025 18:45

I’ve changed mine to blue and green (although the green is barely visible) and I’ll see how I go.

But it also now INCREDIBLY slow. Is that just me?

You are not alone.

Green may never be wrong but it is a pathetic excuse for Green. And it’s all slow.

Swashbuckled · 18/09/2025 18:45

I’ve changed mine to blue and green (although the green is barely visible) and I’ll see how I go.

But it also now INCREDIBLY slow. Is that just me?

FuzzyPuffling · 18/09/2025 17:56

The brighter blue writing gives less contrast with the white background, so reading is harder. Anyone with vision issues will really find it difficult.

Magpiecomplex · 18/09/2025 17:51

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 18/09/2025 17:40

I agree - what have they done??

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Quite. Retina-searing brightness, and somehow "dark mode" is even worse! And you can't change the colours in dark mode either.
Anyone got some sunglasses they can lend me?

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 18/09/2025 17:40

Boiledbeetle · 18/09/2025 16:36

What fresh hell have a just awoken to.

God my eyes my eyes.

Fuck you MNHQ

I agree - what have they done??

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