Ladies and Ladies: The Bluestocking is open: again

[DeanElderberry]

Newly renovated, beautifully appointed. Food and Beverages, excellent (if sometimes unexpected service), delightful clientele, special accommodation for invalids, pedants, readers and normal people.

Ceol agus Craic

Entertainment!

! Gerbils beautiful gerbils!

❤🐀🎧🐀🎺🐁🎷🐖 ❤

all furry!

! ❤AI and Scientists❤

less furry !

All women welcome

well behaved male visitors from the Staunch Ally are welcome in the stableyard but not across the threshold of the main building

ooops. posted too soon

there ye go

Magpie or puffling might take the suspect tomato/chilli off you as birds don't detect the heat do they, which is why some people chilli the peanuts on bird tables to deter squirrels.
Mind you, in this persona I should be able to tolerate any amount of heat.

Well i did not know that Errol

I just googled to check, this link has a nice bit of nominative determinism

news.wisc.edu/curiosities-why-can-birds-eat-hot-peppers/

Excellent news! Human me can't tolerate chillies at all. I shall henceforth make sure I only eat them when fully in magpie mode.

Is that cheese melting under the pie crust?

Apparently mixing chilli with birdseed will stop squirrels from eating it. I used to wonder why it wasn't sold pre-mixed but I think it's probably a h&s thing. Imagine getting caught in a cloud of chilli powder.

I don't mind the squirrels getting a share of my bird food, they're so wonderfully acrobatic. And better that than my bulbs.

I'm not much fussed either. I'd rather let them take a portion than put ppi on everytime I refill the feeders.

I don't think that article is entirely accurate. I don't know the mechanism but chilli doesn't just affect taste buds, ask any bloke who's gone for a wee after chopping chilli peppers. The molecules bind to the skin of your fingers, even soap and water won't get rid of all of it. You're supposed to wear gloves or oil your hands first. It'll also get in your eyes and travel through your digestive system. Successfully eating a hot chilli is only winning the battle, not the war. Why I find the name of one of my favourite pelargonium, Rimfire, slightly embarrassing. Birds don't suffer any of these effects. In fact, I'd bet Puffling, Magpie and Dr Blackbird are completely baffled.

Yes, it seems like it's more like mammals have pain receptors sensitive to capsaicin and birds don't, rather than it being about taste.

That's just the Smurfs that were out (and needed a good wash hence them all being in a pile and not dotted round the house) I've got a box of them somewhere in the hoard!

The Croc men were a promotional thing many years back. They would have a massive version at the front of the shop with either crocs in and/or the little promotional guys. And I love my Crocs so much that I have many of their weird items that they've done as a one off over the years.

Too right cake, I'm very frequently baffled!

AI can't separate human @Magpiecomplex from bird form. I did ask for burning mouths for the squirrels while Magpie and @FuzzyPuffling ate birdseed gleefully, but this is what it came up with. Puffins seem to like chillis and the squirrels are mostly chomping away. 😭

I've been scraping the um ... annals?
Images by @ifIwerenotanandroid from a previous thread:

And here are some I made (pronounced "AI" made, of course)

Ooh, my mug. On my mug.

I have downloaded the image this time. Ta.

I very much like the gerbils' coming-out-the-ears smoke signals for the mouth burning potential of chillis - presumably it's one puff for too hot, two puffs for horrifically hot, three puffs for dangerously hot.

Do they do similar signals at the end of the digestive process but with smoke rings?

I once bought bras in Rigby and Peller - they had a branch in Bluewater - and the woman who measured me was amazing. She had me strip to the waist, then spanned my back with her hands and looked at the front, walked out, and came back with a bra that fitted perfectly. I usually don't wear underwired bras, because they all dig in on me, but this bra was underwired, and was the most comfortable bra I'd ever worn. And it made my norkage look amazing. I bought two of them, at £65 each (gulp) and mourned when they wore out.

I have never replaced them - couldn't afford to splash out again - so now I live in non-wired bras from Simply Be - they do the job, but are nowhere near as good as the R&P ones.

I never heard of Rigby and Peller but just googled them - they have a sale on at the mo, Woley, but £60+ seems to be sale price these days🙁
Bluestocking Norkage Crowdfunder page???😃

I love your story about the woman who was so skilled and experienced that hand and eye were enough to get the correct fit for you - I bet AI could never learn do that!

My Rigby and Peller fitter just looked at me and produced two different bras that fit! After being breathtakingly rude about the bra I went in wearing 🤣

I think you might be Lowering the Tone there, Dean. Bluestockings do not concern themselves with the gastrointestinal emissions of gerbils.

I've been marking this afternoon. Someone send over the gerbil with the hot chocolate bowser please.

Would you like me to add some brandy to that hot chocolate as the gerbil walks past me? Or gin?

Aghh, wish I hadn't stuck my head round the kitchen door now!.

Your hot chocolate is moments away.

Anything other than beetles, please!

Oh that's proper beetlejuice.

Thanks Boily. Could you make sure it's been strained thoroughly?