The Bluestocking is open for business

[PricklyBall]

I've scrolled back a few pages and I can't even find the last pub thread.

So I've taken the beer towels off the pumps, tapped a new barrel, polished the glasses, fed the goat and applied brasso to the patriarchy busting canon.

Come and join me - all tastes catered for - beer, gin, wine, cocktails, coffee and a nice cup of tea.

I am a thread killer too. Does this pub do hot drinks? I need something to warm me up.

A hot choc with a drop of something extra?

I don't normally kill threads

Ah, just me then. Yes to the something v extra please!

I just wish I could have one day where no one has an accident. Sigh.

Accidents?

Thought Sadiq Khan coped well with the, er, stable geniuses, or should that be geni, today.

You haven't killed the thread snowdrop the pub is just a bit sporadic is all.

I am hung over myself - I had a very snippy reaction to a video posted in an OP about feminist make up earlier and I read it back and shocked myself... I need something restorative like a virgin mary - they do the trick

I am hung over myself - I had a very snippy reaction to a video posted in an OP about feminist make up earlier and I read it back and shocked myself... I need something restorative like a virgin mary - they do the trick

now I'm so impatient with my computer I am posting messages twice - sorry everyone.

Oh guardian. are you on your period?

Snort! Joking obvs. Post on the makeup thread seemed fine to me!

Oh good thanks - you say in jest but I did wonder if I'm pre-menstrual ha

Guardian, you're hung over from last night still? That was a good night

I haven't had a night out since NYE. Meeting a friend on Wednesday and we were wondering if the pubs will still be really quiet or what. I work in central London and it's hard to predict but I've bussed it home from a couple of late shifts and been struck by the quiet. Dry January I suppose, I bet the pubs hate it!

Really fancy a cider of all things....

I did the stupid thing of mixing grain and grape... not a good idea..

Probably doing better than drinking low alcohol substitutes, like stupid me. Tried a locally brewed low alcohol (0.5%) beer while out last night (had taken the car). To misquote the late, great Douglas Adams, it tasted almost, but not quite, entirely unlike beer.

Oh, Prickly, that sounds irritating.

Snowdrop, by accidents, I meant that my children are still not wholly reliable so I am glad of my washing machine and tumble drier.

Did you all know that the Science Museum in London actually has an exhibit about domestic appliances? It is hidden away in the basement which I feel represents something about how housework is viewed.

Not worthy of its own thread, but one for the “oh do fuck off” files behind the bar of the Bluestocking.

I’ve had a crap week, and for a number of reasons was up at 4 am and feeling sorry for myself. I came across this hilarious video of a dog in boots on facebook and it made me howl with laughter, so I shared it on my timeline. It came from the daily mail, and i put something like “i hate to give them the clicks, but this is bloody hilarious”.

Later that day, when normal people were up, my messenger pinged. It was a message from an ex from way back- I’ve moved around a lot and made the effort for the first seven or eight years to keep in touch, but he has t bothered so i’ve let it slide. We barely interact on facebook, and i’ve not heard a peep from him in, oooh, a couple of years?

The message read; “yellow card”.

I messaged back: “??”

The response: “posting links to hateful rags”

The fuck?

I was on my way out the door so I quickly shot back “but it’s a dog in boots! ”, but the more I thought about it, the crosser I got. Who the fuck does he think he is to scold me like that?

I really want to reply again saying “did you really just tell me what I should be doing on my own social media? Please feel free to unfollow me if you can’t cope”, but the moment has passed, hasn’t it?

Wanker.

What a prick with his footie- based crap. It suggests he is has an issue with you and just waits for you to trip up. Did you always have the moral high ground in your relationship - perhaps educating him about the harms of porn or similar?

I saw this on Twitter today... was hard not to reply with a hearty laugh!

No, it was totally out of the blue, guardian. I really thought he was always one of the good guys, who genuinely like women as actual people. He always thought I was way more intelligent than I really am, and we used to have amazing debates and conversations. Why he would suddenly think I'm a DM reader is mystifying. So, so weird.

Fox Tell him to fuck off! Wanker.

I have had an infuriating time too.
I had some beers with my oldest friend yesterday. She told me that her and another (second oldest) friend are worried about me going on about 'transgenders'.

I carefully (again) tried to explain the implications of the GRA. I know she simply doesn't believe me, and it really upsets me that my best friends think I'm a bigot.

She doesn't live in the UK but is back about 4 times a year, so doesn't really keep up with news, My other friend is lovely but very right on. It's so infuriating. But I'm not giving up or in. and the way the Labour party are going, I think is is all going to reach critical mass very soon. I expect a lot of 'You were right'

I'm predicting a lot of smugness in my future

I think 'but it's a dog in boots' is a genius reply.

And I predict rather less smugness for you than you are expecting assignedpurrfect as you remind people that you peaktransed before them and they seem to remember it very differently and that, in fact, they were always GC - cos that's how it ALWAYS goes with right on people.

I suspect you are right Certain but I can wear my smugness silently and nod sagely, agreeing that they were always gender critical.

Then snigger later

I think we're all going to have some of those moments coming up, assigned. It'll be a struggle to contain the I Told You So!

You're right, certain. I think I've inadvertently taken the wind out of his sails by refusing to be ashamed enough of daring to share a daily fail link. Ha!

There's an insouciant air of 'Oh no. You haven't understood. Let me help you. It's a dog. In boots.' to it