Dark and stormies all round! Bluestocking piss up

[QuentinSummers]

A friendly place for feminist or general chit chat. Welcome all!

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

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!

@R0wantrees

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

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!

oh dear now I need hard liquor

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

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, 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).

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!

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).

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.

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.

I might have a nightcap...

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.)

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'.

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

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

If my neighbor's dog keeps howling every time she goes out I'm going to need something a lot stronger than SN&B! I love dogs, and he's cute, but I'm wondering how long separation anxiety in a new place can last for (has been a couple of months already).

Its more likely to become entreched behaviour.
Likely the only way to change it will be if the neighbour does something different. Continual howling? ... I will get a bottle of stronger stuff.

Sometimes he takes breaks to bark instead. I think he can hear us through the wall and is frustrated that there are people there but he's still not getting any attention.

I keep remembering that scene from "shakespeare in love"

• that woman is a woman!!

There's plenty that the neighbours can do & sooner they start the easier. Howling, barking dog is not a relaxed or secure one!

It's so distressing! Apparently she's tried all sorts of things and none of them seem to be working.

Distressing for all. Its one of those situations though when (most often) the owner has to go right back to basics, make a plan and stick to it. Not easy to do when busy life goes on though.

(or dog comes to visit with Angrykittens?)