We need to talk about eraser s

[PENISonthetable]

My stationary thread got pulled. I don t know what you lot are talking about but I am talking about PENS people pens.

What's happening in here? Any pens on the loose?

I once found myself on a colouring in thread on here and somehow spent £100+ on pencils.

Which I now have no time/inclination to use, but also won’t let the DC use. Obviously.

BesmirchingMotherhood You must have been groomed by stationery - maybe a first??

Maybe we could start an art group in the cupboard so those pencils get put to good use? What would our subject be - gotta be a nude of some sort - eraser unwrapped?

A pupil once thought they would play a trick on a colleague of mine by hiding in the stationery cupboard in her room. She noticed said pupil was missing and the giggles and writhings of the others. So she casually walked over and locked the cupboard door, remarking that it was odd that it was unlocked. Then taught the lesson. She let the chastened pupil out at the end and immediately put them in lunchtime DT for a week to “catch up”...btw this was about 30years ago when such things were not taken as seriously as they would be today.
Anyway this thread reminded me of that incident.

NB I am not comparing gender critical women to naughty children, to be clear...the similarity is simply being locked in a cupboard...

I remember a schoolfriend of mine doing similar but unnoticed, born. They sat in that cupboard for literally (by it's old usuage, fyi) three quarters of the lesson before jumping out.
That teacher left shortly after - having had a nervous breakdown... 😬

Oh btw, I'm going to copy across my artwork from the 'thread about nothing'...

Just signed up to twitter! Never done to that before as it seems a poor way to communicate - bit like using post-its instead of writing paper. Though I do like a good selection of post-its. Everyone keeps mentioning tweets. Not sure what to do now... (it is a 'throwaway' account).

I recall a couple of my class mates skiving in the cupboard - big cupboard at top of 6th form lodge - the teachers would come looking int he common room for errant pupils but never the cupboard - is this true of here I wonder?

Twitter

It's strange place - seems like many use it and other social media to manage their mental health and spew their projections out on others - I only engage now and then as I feel like I immerse myself in a dog pile of poo most of the time on there - it's good to know there are others out there of like minds but really the pitch and rules are skewed in abusive men's favour

dilbert.com/strip/1995-03-04

Classic Dilbert cartoon about staplers

Hey all I've been submerged in fem chat and came to the cupboard for a break! I have several mindful colouring books which I've used once or twice and never again...have I commited stationery crime?

@greymisty

I lol'ed when I read your post - I so relate.

I hate those fucking mindful colouring books - they remind me of all the stocks women are locked into - we can pick a colour but always stick to colouring the proscribed drawing others have decided is right for you- and never- I mean never- go outside the lines.

Those fucking colouring zombie making books are the antipathy of what I need and do when angry - I need to express myself messily with colour in whatever way I fucking want

But no if I followed their advice I swallow my rage back into my already battered body, smile, act nice and colour between the lines

Fuck that for a game of spanners

hi i was banned but I am back most likely not for long

I hate the colouring books for a different reason- I have many many more interesting and productive things to do - they say to me "keep women busy doing non-productive things".

If I'm going to do colouring in it has to have a purpose.

There is something about coloring outside of the lines that fills me with joy.

The Bic Lady Pen is not forgotten!

It featured in the programme on the Radio4 6.30pm slot, whatever it was