Bluestocking! The Gerbical

[ifIwerenotanandroid]

Welcome to the Bluestocking, where gerbils dance & quokkas - well, no-one's quite sure what they're up to.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5169893-les-bas-bleus-the-bluestocking?page=1

I am quite fond of ninnyhammer, myself.

As a consumer of far too much bacon I could get behind fresh bacon on site.

So I vote yes to the little piggies

Moves room so I'm closer to breakfast Cake's room

Right they're in the garden outside my room, that's where they're building their little thatched...cottages🤷‍♀️ and they've got access through a pork hog flap into the paddock.

I just hope they don't cross over with the dwarf flying squirrels. Things can be strange enough round here without flying pigs. Even small ones.

That sounds lovely. No frightening them by appearing at the window with a knife and fork, drooling, OK?

God am laughing at this and am a vegetarian.

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Is that the legendary Manfred von Richthofen, the famous Red Bacon Baron?

Might be!

But I am impressed my dinner dressed for dinner!

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Please stop talking about eating the piggies. You wouldn't eat the quokkas, would you?

Would you?

This being the Bluestocking, I was expecting somebody over in Pedantry Corner to point out that it couldn't have been the Red Baron as he flew in a distinctive Fokker Dr1 Dreidecker. Looks like I got away with it

These are ideal for anyone trying to give up bacon who wants to start by cutting down.

Only just, Marie, I was just about to make that very point, then saw this!

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Any thoughts about the positioning of the gun? Were you just going to suggest that its position above the propeller height means that the Fokker engine synchroniser interrupter mechanism is absent on that biplane?

You were? Yes. I thought so

But of course! I was further going to make the point that the gun position severely restricts the pilot's field of vision, thus neatly illustrating why the interrupt was necessary!

Unfortunately, despite my fondness for bacon, I fear that confronted by an actual living pig I would succumb to animal sentimentality and that would be it, piggie would be an honoured guest forever.

My little bacon eye joint from Lidl, thoughtfully packaged to look nothing like a person, went down nicely with chicken, peas, and roast potatoes - the Sunday dinner I didn't get round to cooking on Sunday.

DH, is that you?😂😂😂

Your conversation with Marie is exactly what it's like watching any movie with DH, bless him. I do sometimes pitch in, spotting Ju52's & pointing out that Stukas are Ju87s, not Ju88s as many people think. But I often confuse myself with the latter.😜

Wasn't the the first practical synchronization gear to enter operational service fitted to the Fokker Eindecker?

So would not be present in a biplane at this juncture?

I may be wrong, of course, it's not really my period.

It's not really my period either, to be honest. I'm more of a Cold War jets girl myself.

That's funny - I'm [in]famous for getting on really well with friends' husbands, because we always find things like planes or model railways or something like that to natter about amiably
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It's usually welcome, but once or twice I've had a bit of a ' huh, looks like he should have married you not me😠' reaction. Which is of course as unlikely a scenario as a Fokker interrupter on a pre-1915 biplane..

It looks like I could, however, have married you, ifIwerenotanandroid, if the basis for a successful union was having friendly, nerdy exchanges about the accurate identification of dive bombers😆

Too late, Marie, I'm spoken for! But I've shown DH this bit of the thread & he says the Red Baron earlier flew an Albatross D7 which is a biplane. Now he's muttering about alternatives to an interrupter - oh, just speak to him yourself, would you? I've got Bake Off to watch. Just bring him back when you've finished with him. Now it's hexagon camouflage patterns - take him!

My daughter was at one time a big fan of dazzle camouflage - when she was a graphic design student.

Ships, I know, but still geometric camouflage.

I went to one of those museums it had a big wooden propeller hung on the wall. The propeller had bullet holes through it and they said before the synchronisation was invented they just fired through the propeller!

They had a print out of High Flight, which always gives me chills.