The Bluestocking - the one with the Christmas stocking

[lcakethereforeIam]

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

This is the Bluestocking, Errol, surely* *I'm allowed ignore the reality that this is not actually the season of goodwill and that violence continues and leap to the defence of the poor little tribbles?
So I'll stick to my contraceptives-in-the-mince-pies suggestion, and hope that
🎶'next year, all our tribbles will be far away'🎶

This is my attempt at 'Cake as tribblebuster', or as I put it in my AI request, 'woman in a white boilersuit & cake-inspired cloak sprays fire from a flamethrower at furry balls of tribbles' which now I see it again seems oddly specific about where she's aiming that flamethrower - which is not what I intended, & aren't they all female anyway, if they're born pregnant?

Tribbles are not one of my experiments, btw.

If tribbles are born pregnant, which generation do you need to administer contraception to, and how many generations will it be before it takes effect? I'm assuming sexual reproduction for the sake of argument but they could easily be parthenogenetic, in which case I don't think contraception would work...

I would answer you, Magpie, but I never had the Science.

(Who was it who said, "I could've been a judge, but I never had the Latin"? Is it from Beachcomber?)

Anyway, I'm trying to refine my image of Cake & the tribbles & I've reached the point of shouting at the AI, "It's obvious! A human could draw it, no problem!".

I aksed it to draw me 'the trouble with tribbles' set in the Bluestocking. This was the cutest one. They are like a cat/dog/bear hybrid. I want one! Well, two actually.

Me three.

Well, this is not exactly what I wanted, but the first one is rather lovely. Cake & Errol obviously had a spat while working together, but mostly it went well.

@lcakethereforeIam so is Yorthrrs your first name or surname? I like it either way, could be the next Balonz...

Cute floofs!

We are having fun with our granddaughter. Yesterday she brought me all of her toys to hold, and we waisted I fed her her dinner, and today she has force fed dh with Quavers.

And the dogs behaved impeccably on the long drive down, and in the hotel.

I can’t wait for tomorrow - we have got a pink dinosaur dressing gown for our granddaughter so she can wear it and stomp around being a dinosaur.

It's obvious that Cake with the flamethrower is aiming to miss the tribbles, and I think she is actually flambé-ing the Christmas pudding which is just out of picture..
Errol likewise.
Or maybe it's a baked alaska?

I think Yorthrrs is either the manufacturer of the clothing or I've somehow acquired a sponsor.

I think as tribbles breed so fast they also evolve pretty rapidly. By weeding out the ones that breed like, well, weeds I think we've got them under control. The pigs have been grazing on them, I warned them to give them a really, really good chew before swallowing. The fecund ones taste the nicest, so those are the ones they've been going for. I really think tribbles are more plant than animal. They honestly don't seem to mind being eaten.

I hope the Bluestocking has put a candle in the window to guide weary travellers.

I also hope the gerbil who placed it has a better grip on the need to keep flames and flammable items well away from each other than AI has managed so far.

I have cheated and used an electric candle. I don't want to come back from Mass and find my house has burned down.

Maybe tribbles are actually neither plant nor animal, and are in fact fungal. Mobile fruiting bodies of an invisible mycelium... Although now I'm getting into Star Trek Discovery realms.

That would go with the data we have available. The pig/truffle relationship is well known. The fact that the pigs are going for the breeders, perhaps there's some sort of pheromone? Even the names tribble and truffle (note to self, remember those if you ever get two of anything; kittens, hamsters, twins) aren't too dissimilar.

I'm going to try grating one over a French omelette...

Yes Deano, I keep that tradition alive too, and observe the same safety measures, so we don't need Cake with her flamethrower or Errol with her built-in flamethrower to light the candle for us

'Mobile fruiting bodies of an invisible mycelium' - now there's a phrase that doesn't crop up often in conversation, Magpie. But it just has, in the Bluestocking, and that's what makes it such a wonderful place💖

I have made a discovery!

If I click on "Watching" at the bottom of the screen, I can pin the threads i like the most.

This means I just have to click on Watching and Bluestocking is there at the top (naturally)! Easy to catch up before checking the latest trending threads.

Sounds like Peter Cook, I think.

I do hope tribbles are fungal. I’m vegetarian and was wondering if I had to lurk in the special corner of The Bluestocking which is tribble-assassination-free.

Could we perhaps agree that they are, if only for the next few days? (Wasn’t there some dispensation in the RC church that something wasn’t animal so it could be eaten during Lent?)

Wasn’t there some dispensation in the RC church that something wasn’t animal so it could be eaten during Lent?

Aquatic animals counted as fish and could be eaten during Lent, so e.g. beavers in Europe, and muskrat, capybaras and alligators once Catholicism took root in the New World.

Capybaras! That is a scandal. I hope Vatican 2 saw an end to that.

Barnacle geese were fish.

Otters and porpoises, I heard.

Puffins were fish.
Dreadful.

😱

But tribbles are vegan. It's a Bluestocking Christmas miracle ✨️

I don’t eat (most) vegans, though.