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

Oh please please do!

Many years ago I always completed ethnic monitoring forms by claiming to be a Viking.
Might be so!

Sooooo cute 🥰

... and may I introduce you to my cousin, Marie de ... Greater bandicoot rat

I've arrived late at the Stockin', there was a power cut and - d'you when you know something intellectually, but it hasn't quite percolated into proper knowing... well, I was surprised that I couldn't get on the internet, although I know perfectly well that wifi needs electricity

It's when you try to do a search to see if there's info on how long the outage will be and... oh.

Dd had to do her uni finals from home, under stringent proctoring conditions. So we've got a few UPs power thingies, and he got a wossname to switch our internet to using 4G

I feel like I fit right in as Bunni's short-tailed bandicoot rat.
And it's nice to have a big cousin, very comforting.
According to Wiki, I live in swamps, so some of Errol's cousins might be neighbours? But only Iraqi swamps, so probably third or fourth cousins

Glad you like your new identity what are your pronouns?

Your neighbours might include some Lutrogale perspicillata maxwelli

My name doesn't include an animal, either.

I suppose I could be a sort of bas-relief on the wall.

Marie de Gourney was apparently compared by her detractors to a shrew! I can only think they thought this was an insult.

But they're such hard working little beasts and they do the conga!

I know! Like teeny tiny tigers...that do the conga.

And you've got your own cup, probably made by @AlisonDonut . Some of those Tunnocks items look well dodgy, though.

I asked the AI for a shrew wearing a female medieval costume & this is what it came up with.🙄

Dancing the conga (not)...

Gee, I wonder if there's anything else the AI would like to not make for me.

Sometimes actual photos beat the AI nonsense.
I mean, the wiki page for degus has them auditioning for the next rodent musical.

Don't be downhearted, android!

AI is a fickle and malicious tool, in both senses of the word. Also, well-dodgy versions of Tunnocks are par for the course. I still don't believe that AI ever learns anything.

I didn't know that!

Although the shrew-with-a-very-fancy-hat-and-cup is nice, I don't think I want to ID as a shrew - just not enough cute-factor there, I'm afraid - I mean, up against those four degus? Not a chance!

I think I'm going to stay MarieDeGournay outside, but inside the Bluestocking, can I be pictured as a Bunni's short-tailed bandicoot rat please? Much cuddlier than a philosopher, or a shrew

Not enough cute factor!?

Sorry, just doesn't do it for me - I'm sure they have lovely personalities BUT spindly legs that look like they belong on a collapsible table, tail too long, face trails off too quickly into a point..

Be honest: between a quokka, a gerbil, a degu, a shrew or a chinchilla, which is the odd one out when it comes to cuddles?

Gemini did try giving me a male costume first, but by specifying a dress and bonnet I bent it to my will

But the whiffly nose, the eye make up. To be honest though, it's actually an elephant shrew. Which isn't actually a shrew or or, I think, an elephant.

Those degus look like they're auditioning for a barbershop quartet.

I'll have a cup of geetle & a slice of Blugstock, toasted & buttered please, bar gerbil.

My neighbours are back for the week.

They have come back to (not even kidding) check for Loirs in their house as last time they arrived, they had got into the fridge and eaten all the food, shat everywhere and were still alive, they'd locked themselves in said fridge and then once the fridge had been opened, were running round the house, covered in shit, and they only saw 1 leave the premises.

Loirs are edible dormice. I feel they need some inclusion in the wider discussion.

Loirs are edible dormice. I feel they need some inclusion in the wider discussion.

On the roster of cute rodents, or on the menu?