The Bluestocking - the one with the Christmas stocking

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New thread here.

Former thread here

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5218621-bluestocking-the-one-where-boiled-gets-to-the-bar-first?page=1

The dirndl is yours but AI wasn't allowed to generate Cher's face, so this is the best it could do.

There's an awful lot of boobage in some of those pictures!

@Bannedontherun wrote had pub lunch today a bit squiffy at the locks but managed not to fall in the cut.

I’ve not heard anyone use “cut” in that sense for over 50 years, since my family moved.

There it would have been
in t cut.
int’ cut
in t’cut ?

I’m not sure how the punctuation goes for that, they didn’t teach me how to write down Yorkshire, in Yorkshire.

If you’ve got it, flaunt it.

As someone once said.

AI is incredibly keen to get men in the pictures. Even when females and women ONLY are specified, beardy men still appear, slightly off to the side, maybe at the back. It is a feature of AI, very difficult to combat, even if it's your mission in life.

I do have it and I do occasionally flaunt it! But not at work because it's bad form to do that in a classroom 🤣

Not even once a year in the staff panto, or similar?

I’m not sure if MN Towers has given me the correct emoji to react appropriately to this.

We need a grrrr 😖 one.

Fortunately we don't do that sort of thing! I teach mostly teenage boys, and every year there's a few who show signs of thinking inappropriate things about their female lecturers, so I tend to be quite circumspect. Don't need to be cast as the department MILF!

I don't have blue eyes or the face of a 12-year-old * but the hair colour is definitely in the right area. And any garment in that shade of blue is flattering.

Nor the face of a Cher, which is frankly reminiscent of an alien. No, mine is more a face that attests to history

Just went down a little googly rabbit hole investigating the origin of this phrase.

It cropped up in the 1967 film The Producers by Mel Brooks, a satirical black comedy.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-producers-1968

in the film, the Producer character is Max Bialystock. Roger Ebert reviewed the film in 2000: "Like Falstaff, Zero Mostel’s Max Bialystock is a man whose hungers are so vast they excuse his appetites. There is a scene where he scrubs his filthy office window with coffee, peers through the murk, sees a white Rolls-Royce and screams, “That’s it, baby! When you’ve got it, flaunt it! Flaunt it!” You can taste his envy and greed."

These reaction buttons are presumably not in the app... the 'thanks' thing isn't if anyone has noticed I'm apparently lacking in gratitude.

@AsWithGlad not sure of origins of “cut” , but is in common use by us boaty Mcboatface people.

gongoozeler is my favourite word referring to people who watch boaters go through locks.

winding a boat is also a good one (turning it around) usually using a winding hole (turning point)

although it can be pronounced as in a windy day

or winding up as in a clock

depending on how old one is lol

When I was a mixed infant, on sunny days we used to go for a nature walk by the cut.

No permission slips or hi-vis waistcoats, no pre-planning as far as I knew, just an impromptu outing with one teacher and a class of 30.

This is why I know it, but I see it is indeed When you got it, flaunt it.

The person who played Ulla in the first production I saw is now a teacher in my last school.

We were told it's winding as in air current because the old bargees used the wind to help them turn.

I shall have to remember 'gongoozler' , especially next year when we're hauling through Fort Augustus.

I'm pretty sure it's winding as in winding up a clock, as it's a turning movement.

Also as a river winds i.e. turns.

@Chersfrozenface well I would be inclined to agree but mostly it is win as in a bit breezy lol

The wiki page gives alternative etymologies but either way pronounced with a short I - breezy or as in 'windlass'.

Always a little bit arguable ...

Song: “Blow, blow, thou winter wind”
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.

Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
That dost not bite so nigh
As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp
As friend remembered not.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly...

Never thought of that , I have my own personal windlass that I will not share with anyone it is my prized possession sad sac as I am

for those who don’t know ‘‘tis the thing that opens the water in and out of the lock

Every day is a school day. I thought that a windlass was a sort of pulley on a yacht that was either used to wind up the anchor, tighten the sheets to take the sail closer to the wind or to tighten the ropes when tying up alongside. The windlass is activated by a crank which is a lever that fits into the windlass so you can turn it. I thought that the thing that opens the water in and out of the lock was called a sluice and that it was also activated by a crank.

Your windlass is my crank.

Norkage, please - you lot taught me that word and it makes me smile every time I think of it. The word, that is.

I think I like the new emojis, I often want to say 'that is sooo funny!' to your AI cleverness, and 'thanks' seemed a bit staid.
In future you'll get a well-deserved smiley-face

JanesLittleGirl
Your windlass is my crank.
Ah shucks... you've such a way with words..😍

@JanesLittleGirl you are correct re the meaning of windlass, found this out whilst searching for a ratchette windlass for very stiff locks.

the sluice is actually the gate paddles that you use the windlass to open and shut to let water in or out

A lot of maritime language is used in inland boating such as starboard, helm stern etc

I tend to say front or back of boat lol

I speak better sailor than you 'cos I say pointy end and blunt end. One day my bone density will be back within normal range and I can go sailing again.