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

I'm up, thanks to the toucan morning chorus, and suitably festively dressed in order to embarrass visiting teen who will have to go out in public with me!

Excellent work Boily, those look perfect for embarrassing a teenager! Which is, after all, their main purpose in life - being embarrassed by adult family and friends.

Special crocs. Impressive.

You know, I was under the distinct impression that AI could only deliver young, chiseled, be-pecced men who've misplaced their razors. Where did you find the normal men?!

Er, France? What a truly civilized country.
We're researching future hols in Scotland, you've got to love a place with honesty box cake sheds.

Cake man!? I think I'm in love ❤️

Or possibly in a crime fighting super duo!

With a 'will they or won't they'* sub plot!

*Spoiler - they won't

That's moi? That's a hat? That's not a blue-hair wig put on so you could all point and laugh and say 'Ha-Ha look even the blue-haired ones are coming to the Bluestocking!'
Or just point and laugh tout court because I'm the only human😢
I tried to become some kind of bandicoot a while ago but it never caught on.

I am a bandicoot attributed female at birth and trapped in a woman's body.
Can I have a flag, a week, and a prominent place in diversity training sessions, please?

This is yer actual Marie de Gournay. I don't think AI could do better - a slightly murine face combined with the neck of a frill-necked lizard!

Brilliant!

Her face is saying, "What??? Again???"

slightly murine face

Bluestocking edumacating me yet again. Yes, I did have to look it up.

Edit: I first thought it might be something to do with walls, but her nose is really not flat.

I've just had some French Jehovas Witnesses poke their head round the garage door to recruit me.

Luckily not only was I wearing a 'This witch doesn't burn' t-shirt but I had just finished glazing this and explained in bad French that I was an atheist. And as such really not interested! Not sure they were impressed.

What would that be in French? Cette sorcière ne brule pas!?

It's ages since I got JWs. I told the last lot how much I love the Bible (I really do) and engaged in polite debate (citing chapters and verses) on their interpretation of some bits, notably the stuff about blood.

More than 7 years I reckon. I wonder whether I'm on a blacklist?

I've not had them for years, since they came round the village we lived in, and I was working from home in the dining room and one of them jiggled the door handle rather than you know, knocked or rang the bell. So I called up and put a complaint in, as many of my neighbours were elderly women and would be unable to get a man in his 40s out of their front room if he just walked in. I was fuming! So I think they took me off the list.

Yes, when (after I asked) they produced ID I took it out of their hands so that I could look at it properly in good light, see what quality it was, and compare the pictures to the reality. As the cops advise.

It was actually quite bad quality so we talked on the doorstep with the door locked behind me.

I'm probably filed under 'doomed to hell. which is too good for her'.

I put the word 'very' in front of 'French very handsome man' to get the other kind. They don't come as standard. You have to beg ask specifically.

😂She reminds me of this photo (only ever seen the righthand half of it before).

What's your superhero name to go with Cake Man?

Those are lovely! Have you got them on all 6 feet?

The Caked Crusader?

My kiln is full of lovely glazed thingys. So tomorrow I shall fire her up.

My OH put his last serving of Christmas pudding in the air fryer. In the plastic bowl. All I can hear is the sound of him chipping the melted plastic off. Not sure it is recoverable. Fucks sake.

Actually I learnt 'murine' at the Bluestocking too, so it's 2nd generation edumacation

ifIwerenotanandroid - that photo is amazing, an uncanny likeness.
Only an android would have been able to retrieve it from her memory like that so quickly🤖

It's one of my favourite photos from the Korean War - this is the other. I went through a phase of wanting to understand the experience of combat, though I was mostly reading about the Vietnam War.

😂At least it saved him from eating Christmas pudding, which is the work of the devil.