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

I did wonder that.
If we ask for 'The Herbs' we might get a whole garden full.

'Parsley the Lion' just produced a lion. However, 'Parsley the Lion in a herb garden' is more promising.

Shhh... you've discovered The Secret That Cannot Be Told.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius , that’s a lovely Parsley. I trust you only knit for someone who will appreciate him.

android..excellent Parsleying.

How gorgeous is Parsley! So cute

Parsley is very cute, Woley!

One thing I have in common with AI - I'd heard of Parsley the Lion either!

So whenever you mentioned you were knitting it I put it in the 'Things I Don't Understand But Probably Don't Have To' part of my mind, and then moved it to the 'Things I Don't Understand But All Will Probably Be Revealed In The Fullness Of Time' part of my mind, and sure enough, there's a photo of the lovely little chap

Parsley says he would be honoured to join the Bluestocking gang, @FuzzyPuffling.

Ahhh ... young people today in the 16th/17th Century ... so trusting

I...I've just put The Herbs in the .gif drawer. On the off chance. I don't know why but it gives you a choice of kinky farty frogs 🐸 😨

Not The Herbs though.

😂thank you Inky I feel you have looked inside my mind and read my deepest thoughts😂

But I must protest - I have never 'microwaved vice cargloons sausages' . Which look like shoes and probably wouldn't fit in a microwave anyway. AND there's no possessive apostrophe. AND it's only the vice cargloon, so they can microwave their own sausages..

Why is there a small fire in the teacup on the left? Firestorm in a teacup?😄

I'm afraid I don't know. These are things "I don't understand but probably don't have to" 😳 although as regards the small fire in a teacup, my original prompt mentioned burned vegetarian sausages, and then when it just showed ordinary sausages that weren't burned (or vegetarian), I put "badly burnt vegan sausages", and it started to make images of things burning down, so that's where I think it came from. I was more concerned really trying to get parsley the lion not to like an ordinary lion. That took ages.

Some of the cool gang are getting together and having some fun. They may or may not want to be celebrating Christmas, but they don't mind playing a bit of cake chess.

You've got yourself a fine seasonal jumper there, inky. And if cake chess isn't a thing, it should be.

You really could do draughts with something like a couple of different types of foil wrapped bendicks mints. Eat the opponents pieces as you take them,
and then the winner gets their own remaining ones too.

Herbidaceous! I'd even forgotten the Owl's name, but the wonder of Youtube took me right back down memory lane.

I'm clearly old and boring (and far too fat already) - I think If I was going to do edible draughts I'd need something less damaging - maybe slices of carrot and mini cucumbers. Or black and green grapes.

Christmoose and Cake Draughts. Genius.

Well yes, irl chocolate draughts would make me feel ill and DH extremely ill. Grapes wouldn't stack. I think the chess set could be made of sushi though even that the sticky rice spikes blood sugar. Sashimi and vegetable chess? Front line prawns, obviously.

But within the Bluestocking we can do cake chess and chocolate draughts with impunity.

Carrot and cucumber chunks would stack okay. But the board would have to be washed before it was set up and everyone would have have either very clean hands, or gloves.

I'm overthinking this now.

No playing with your food!

Though I can see why foil-wrapped mints seemed a good option, but you'd need the option of stowing them away and only eating one or two a day.

The trouble with Bluestocking impunity is that the bit of my 'brain' that won't let me enjoy drinking from a vessel decorated with pictures of poisonous plants (I have a pretty mug with foxgloves on it - just no) doesn't switch off, not matter how often I tell it 'irrational' or indeed 'impunity'.

I think foil wrapped chocolates would be good as it would add a new level of jeopardy to the game if you absolutely had to eat whichever chocolates you took, and you could choose the chocolate centres that your opponent hated the most to try and swing the game. But you'd need a large selection to choose from.

I can sympathise with the foxglove cup. When we got our house the kitchen splash back was tiles decorated with a still life of a collection of food and utensils, presumably meant to convey homely sentiments. A warm homemade meal, crusty bread, cheese, soup served in earthenware bowls, root vegetables, leeks, fly agaric mushrooms!

The less said about the bathroom tiles, with the hot air balloon flying horizontally over the windowsill, the better 😠

@lcakethereforeIam A warm homemade meal, crusty bread, cheese, soup served in earthenware bowls, root vegetables, leeks, fly agaric mushrooms

We don't have reindeer at the Bluestocking, but do you suppose if we fed some to Inky we'd be able to find a volunteer to do the drink thing . . . .

Dogs have different standards of disgusting - Colin, you up for a scientific experiment?

Try one of the pigs, they're up for most things.

The goats, too.

Though I'm not sure I'd like to have to deal with either a pig or a goat on a magic mushroom trip.