Bluestocking: the one where Boiled gets to the bar first!

[Boiledbeetle]

The things I do to get to the bar first!

Follow on thread from

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5207342-bluestocking-do-androids-dream-of-electric-hair

This is all brilliant. I shall experiment with it tomorrow. I had a rye whiskey old-fashioned that took over an hour to drink so I am late to bed.

Not sheep, they'd be Santa Hooves, whereas lions are Santa Claws. Obvs.

soaring harmony

Oooooh
Ooooooh
Ooooooh
Aaaaaaaah!
It always snows at Christmas time,
and Quokkas love a carol.
Pass the sherry and the lime,
Then we'll roll out the barrel. . .

When I was doing the captcha thingy for my OHs race progress yesterday it kept showing AI pics. Including capybaras on an office chair and squirrels and pizzas that were not pizzas, plus hedgehogs that were bigger than the cars they were next to.

I must say, your antlers are looking especially magnificent in this picture!

It's alright, Puffling, let it all out, it's not healthy to keep it bottled up inside -

'I am Puffling, hear me roar'.

You always be a puffling to us. Even if chronologically you are a Puffin of a Certain Age

Ha ha, Marie, just don't tell Gregggggg!

We hear you, Fuzzy!

Maybe you could NC to FuzzyPufflingg.

Ladies, some advice please. I went food shopping today with DH & unbeknownst to me, he had a voucher for £10 off with a high minimum spend. We got to the checkout & his voucher didn't work, so he put it away & paid. I asked him about it later & it seems he was just a few quid off the minimum spend. In those circs, surely what anyone does is nip off & pick up a bottle of wine - or anything at all - to get over the minimum spend & save money? He doesn't get it. What an amateur. Should I LTB?

Oooh no, I don't want to be associated with that oik, in any shape or form.

Absolutely LTB. You could have got a good bottle of wine for, effectively, a few quid. Totally divorce-able.

ETA think 1L of baileys is about £13 in most supermarkets atm. You could have got a tenner off that!!

Isn't the solution there that you compile a list of items you will want but don't need to consume immediately and send him back out? Leastwise, unless he'll be shopping again before it expires.

My DH errs in the other direction and usually picks up significantly more than the minimum spend. I'm not quite sure why, as he's highly numerate and usually good at estimating things.

Absolutely LTB. You could have got a good bottle of wine for, effectively, a few quid.

If the underspend was very small then a <£10 bottle could have been obtained for a net negative sum.

See, what's doubly annoying is that usually he accidentally blocks the path past the checkout till because he leaves the trolley in it instead of putting at the end like I would. So normally I'm trapped by the conveyor belt unable to help with anything, but today I outwitted him & managed to be at the end, packing. Which meant that I wasn't free (as I would normally be) to shout, "HANG ON A MINUTE!" & run off to the wine section. Aaargh!

I've lost all respect for him. LTB seems to be the only option now. When I look at him, all I see is the free bottle of wine we could've had. Or a £10 note. shakes head sadly To think I regarded that man as my equal. Thank God we never had children: what would they have been like?

PS Correct, Errol. We could've added a bottle of wine and paid less than we paid today without the wine. Headdesk.

He needs to go back to the shop and buy enough wine to claim your free bottle. Job done.

Nice idea, but the minimum spend was ridiculously high.

So what. He's paying!

Oh, Android. Thoughts and prayers for you in this difficult time. I imagine you're crying and shaking, and rightly so. Definitely LTB. That'll learn him.

You can't LTB; you've just got a huge load of food in. Wait until you've eaten it all.

But it'll last twice as long without him! Assuming it won't go out of date.

Then you must CTBO. ( Chuck the bustard out)

I think LTB is the only solution. However, to be truly effective, you must wait until AFTER you've opened your Christmas present(s) from him. Probably immediately after. Unless you're not at home and he's driving. In which case you'll have to leave him immediately you get home. This is most effective when he hasn't got a clue what he's done wrong, and you've lost some of the rage because then you can yell at him, "well you must have done something!" and you can then storm off in high dudgeon to drink a lot of Baileys. Which would have been cheaper if he'd only used the bloody voucher in the first place and then you remember why you should LTB. It will all work out in the end.

Thank you all for the excellent advice. I could LTB right now because I buy my own Christmas presents (& his) so on Christmas morning I just tell him what he's bought me. So no loss there.

I would have a mad angry cry except he's just supported me through a frustrating & annoying online admin process which I would've abandoned without him, so I think I'm going to have to put this whole day down to swings & roundabouts. And obviously I'll have to watch him like a hawk next week when food shopping, when I hope the voucher will still be current.

I haven't said a word to him about this, & he's just volunteered to make dinner tonight & tomorrow, so I think things are working out for the best.

I know - fucking frustrating to live with them, but would rather not live without them? Because more often than not they pull a blinder that makes up for the fuckwittery the rest of the time. I have one of those too.