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

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Nature red in tooth and claw!

Yikes! Watch out Ms Shrew ... you pushed our BoiledBeetle a bit too far this time with your dinner plate interview.

We've put our culinary differences to one side and are now arguing over what to watch on the tele!

I'm getting a tad annoyed about the heated blanket hogging though.

So, I know I don't do Christmas, but a few years back a friend was having a shit time so came to spend Christmas at mine. My photo memories thing has just shown me my Christmas decorations from that year.

I put a tremendous amount of effort into it!

Wanna see? ...

Crocs!!?

And your point is what????

@Boiledbeetle looking on fleek...

I see i've got my left and right mixed up again!

I do actually have a white pair!

Apart from the apparent problem of keeping them clean, I love those! I can't wear crocs, they don't have enough support in the right places, but I wish I could.

Just this...

I won't hear a word spoken against shrews. Hundreds of them have given up their lives this year to ensure that our families of weasels have been able to rear their young.

I willingly accept and admit that I have a Crocs obsession.

Aaaaaah Boily ....I'm afraid I cannot like crocs. I like the idea of them. I like the stupidness of them. But I absolutely loathe the material reality of them.
Their bendiness. The way your feet can't quite feel safe in them.
The unpleasant feel of the slimy, sweaty plastic on your feet.
I have tried. But… No.

The weasels eat the shrews,
The weasels eat the shrews,
Hey Ho the Dairy O
The weasels eat the shrews.

Dilly dilly dilly dilly co-ome and be killed,
For you must be devoured and the weasel kits all filled.

Not even when they look like this?

Or maybe in bag form? @inkymoose

How about these?

I love Crocs and regret that they aren't safe of paved surfaces is wet weather. But I found them the best for washing dusty or smelly or muddy dogs in the summer - pick them up, walk out into the lake (we usually did a morning lakeside walk) until knee deep, drop dog, let it swim ashore, continue on walk, no shoe change needed (obviously short or easily hitched-up trousers are an advantage).

I've been thinking a lot about this AI reluctance to portray a shrew that looks like a shrew, insisting that a small mammal must fit a 'cute' template. How does that reflect the mindset of the disordered-by-adolescence, maybe neurodivergent young person who thinks young humans must fit a template, and that if they don't it's them that is wrong, not the template.

More exposure to AI images and words is going to make life harder for humans, isn't it.

When you wear crocs all summer you get spotted tan dots on your feet. I love them.

I have bin clogs, not crocs. I'm not sure what that says about me!

That's another thing about those artificials, is it better that spollchuck, so assiduous in advising me not to use ise instead of ize but smile happily as I write safe of paved surfaces is wet weather? I appreciate of and is do look very like on and in.

It's probably better that the machines let us mess up when our concentration lapses rather than taking control, but as more people hand over more of the way their public utterances are shaped to 'intelligent' machines and to the people who write their programmes, the more vulnerable we are going to be to a few powerful players.

Though the scrapers scraping the Bluestocking will pick up a few challenges.

I have clogs for the yard (really not a garden) and camping - plastic, no holes.

Camping clogs are worn in the tent after leaving outdoor shoes in the porch/doorway

My garden clogs don't have slippy soles, so although they are less comfortable than Crocs they get worn more.

I've not been well since hugging my neighbour goodbye on friday afternoon. Headaches, the sweats, tonsils up, the full body aching and feverish works.

But I just got up ate a bowl of Frosties honey and peanut cereal [crunchy nut cornflakes in UK], the last 2 cream crackers heavily buttered and demolished half a maxi pack of curry crisps [a new thing over here].

I must be feeling better.