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

Mine went to Waitrose with a voucher which he forgot to use but says will have no trouble using before it expires as he needs to get wine etc for Xmas sometime. I think he wanted to get home before the weather got too bad rather than browsing amarones etc, tbf.
He did do the 'three for something' offer properly with a mix of venison meatballs and sea bream.

Thanks, Errol. Mr Errol (Mr Dragon?) sounds very sensible.

Usually!

Ugh. Why is it always Fridays? Bullying today, both little darlings and colleagues. However, I'm pleased to report that I don't eat beans on toast.

Love your storytelling Woley!
If that was happening now, your mum would have whipped out the smartphone and filmed it all and your dad would have gonve viral

That's the problem with that particular shrew. The temper on her!! She definitely needs taming. Hopefully Beelzebub will be able to help, before the other gerbils quit!

Those are some very disturbing burgers @Boiledbeetle !

Cheezy beanburger?

Edible dormouse. I'm getting restaurant at the end of the universe vibes.

Aren't they!. Those gerbils have gone off sick citing work related stress, which means I've had to rope in one of the Staunch Ally patrons to babysit the goat offspring tonight as the gerbils were supposed to be doing it, but are now apparently washing their hair this evening!

https://x.com/AMAZlNGNATURE/status/1864434733947453687?t=Y6mwzPFQIzGQM6-gt57UlQ&s=19

Just dropping by to say Hi! I really did fight to keep up several threads ago after first visiting, but kept falling behind so much that I've accepted I'll have to be an infrequent especially confused part-timer in this lovely venue. As it feels like my default state right now at work and home is, honestly, deeply confused (have lost my phone 3 times in the last 12 hours - and each time, searched my handbag, gave up on it to scour a building, returned to the handbag in desperation... only to find my phone right there), this feels about right for me at the moment. And the confusion here is infinitely more enjoyable than the suspected-phone-loss variety.

My recent phone panics didn't involve shrew burgers and lambs, for example. 😊

Oh, heck. Just saw it's a goat. Sorry, Boiley.

So, yep, confusion reigns supreme at my end...

Woley's storytelling is so brilliant, the AI simply can't match it. The images are much better in the imagination than pictured on the screen. But I wanted to have a go. Good grief, what a nightmare! Feet on upside down, told that my image request was violating something or other, extra feet, boxers standing in the doorway, mice cut in half, legs welded together, stray legs, no cat, unasked for product placement with cans of soft drinks, and once, a computer mouse.

The product placement is more worrying than anything else I think.

In the first picture I like to think he's been KO'd by the boxer on the telly.

The shrew wants to make sure that we understand Shrew facts and feelings, so she has had these posters designed by the AI. They will be displayed in pedantry corner for a short time.

I know shrews. They climb up and through old stone walls and into my house, and cats enjoy playing with them but think that they taste nasty, so I get a close look more often that I'd like.

And I warn anyone who sees those images on a dating app that they misrepresent the reality. Not that there's anything wrong with the reality.

@Catiette I think we're all infrequent especially confused part-timers, even @Boiledbeetle . There may be a totally in-charge, up-to-speed, fully-organised and rules-compliant Quokka somewhere in the background, but I'm not convinced.

The phone thing sounds awfully familiar, Catiette

I think that thing of finding something in the first place you looked is because you get more and more focused as the search goes on, due to increasing panic, which makes your searching more forensic - that's my theory anyway!

I have a little trick when looking for something when in a bit of a panic - don't look for it by name 'Where's the **ing remote/phone/car keys?', but by description:
where is that rectangular black thing with coloured buttons? where is that ring with shiny bits of metal?
I think it's harder to overlook them when you have a visual prompt instead of a verbal one.

I think Emily Dickinson used the same trick to find Hope - y'know, the thing with feathers😂

PS is that Marie-as-Shrew with the ruff? Very nice - who knew a shrew could look so noble and philosophical!

There's been a shout out for some AI art on the LNER thread.

Sorry, I forgot to say that
PS is that Marie-as-Shrew with the ruff? Very nice - who knew a shrew could look so noble and philosophical!
was directed at Boily re the images upthread.

Have y'all 😁heard the joke about Alfredo and His Amazing Talking Dog?

Alfredo and His Amazing Talking Dog are pitching their act to an impresario:

Alfredo: What do you call the elaborate collar that people used to wear around
their necks?
Dog: Ruff
.....If you haven't heard it already, I'm happy to continue, but only if you want me to..😊

Those are absolutely amazing, @inkymoose!

If you aren't confused in here, you are doing it wrong.

Colin the Dachshund would like you to continue.

Ay thang kew, Colin the Discerning Daschund😁

Alfredo: That new blanket I got you for your dogbasket - you don't seem to like it, is it too..
Dog: Rrrrrruffff.

The impresario has seen enough
'Ok thank you, don't call us we'll call you'.

Alfredo and the dog walk away dejected.

Alfredo turns to the dog and says
'Well that didn't go very well, did it?