Bluestocking: Do androids dream of electric hair?

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Previously on 'The Bluestocking':
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5198256-autumn-leaves-crackling-fires-quokkas-and-puffins-at-the-bluestocking?page=40&reply=139728736

Don't fancy a hot toddy but I see the gerbils have some early mulled wine going, so I'll setlle down with a glass of that. Cheers! To absent friends.

(The AI is a bit confused today & refuses to give you all hot toddies)

I tried again, with whiskies instead, but...

Please someone tell the gerbils that if they want to bath in a warm liquid with bits of citrus in it, they should join the capybaras in their spa, and not immerse themselves in mulled wine.

Also wtf is that coming down from the ceiling in the last picture, android?

Could I have one of the ones without a gerbil in it, please?

I’d love a mulled wine, please - preferably without a gerbil in it.

We do have some snow here, but it’s raining now, so I don’t suppose it will hang around for long. Fingers crossed it doesn’t freeze tonight, otherwise my friend who is staying will have a nasty drive home.

I tell them but they don't listen.

I think they're just baubles. I'm more worried about where my trousers are in the first picture.

Are you sure that's hot toddy and not gerbil wee?

Ew. You just had to lower the tone, didn't you, FP?😂

So I told the AI no gerbils in glasses & amazingly, it did it! I still haven't got any trousers though.

Oh, d'you mean this one?

I'm sure it's just some new-fangled optic or a mixology thing. They're not dentist's drills or alien probes. Oh no.

BTW, I saw a nice cartoon the other day with some aliens talking to humans & saying, "Probe you? No, we don't do that, that was just Tony. We had to report him to HR in the end."

The only acceptable gerbils in glasses...

I love those little bespectacled gerbils.

So kind of @SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius to knit jumpers for them as well as for eleventy billion of her relatives.

Do gerbils ever wear socks?

That would be an ecumenical matter.

The gerbils must've heard me saying [didn't get around to posting it] 'I'll join you in a hot toddy', and they took it literally literally
The reading gerbils are so cute in their little jumpers!

So they might wear socks like this then:

They use them as sleeping bags, obviously. Do be careful when dressing if you use the spa.

In trying to get rid of the sexism, ageism and sizeism in the AI images, my prompts are becoming increasingly complicated and it will not follow them. Gerbils don't serve wine, indeed they are crossed with other creatures, and androids have spare legs.

"a realistic anatomical image of the heart, showing where all its cockles are" 😳

At least you didn't get a graph, Inky!

This "diagram" showing where "all the warm cockles are" is marginally more acceptable

Yes, that's not too bad. As long as you don't look at it too closely!

Reminds me of this jeweller. If I ever have a few thousand floating around spare, I intend to buy one of these rings...

https://castrosmith.com/products/heart-signet-classic

Tried a different approach and Gemini is finally rebelling!

This from the Grammarist website on the origins of the idiom.

"The term warm the cockles of one’s heart dates back to the mid-1600s, a time when scientific texts were often written in Latin. The Latin term cochleae cordis means ventricles of the heart, and most probably, the word cochleae was corrupted as cockles. This may have been a mistake made by the less learned, or a deliberate joke. Add in the fact that the bivalve mollusk known as a cockle is shaped somewhat like a heart, and the idea of the phrase cockles of one’s heart being more or less a joke gains credence."

Other sites give a similar origin.

Which all goes to show the limitations of Gemini's knowledge.