The Bluestocking: where conversation should supersede cards

[MyrtleLion]

The Blue Stockings Society was founded by women emphasising education and mutual cooperation. Men could attend as invited guests, but in this Women's Pub, they are only welcome to peer enviously through the windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Stockings_Society

All women welcome!

All tastes catered for.

All food containing calories will not increase waistlines.

All drink containing alcohol will not intoxicate beyond the mildy merry and slightly inhibited stage. Guaranteed no hangovers.

Don't mind the gerbils, hamster, capybaras, quokkas and other assorted rodents. They're all female, all staff and very accommodating...

I'm feeling dizzy but my heart rate is normal so it's probably low blood pressure 😔 (I suffer from POTS and thought it was that, but it isn't.

It does mean I can spend the afternoon watching Netflix guilt-free. Any suggestions?

Probably not Arachnophobia!

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I tried American Primeval and was bored. I'm now watching Godless (western with lots of women). I might be bored by this too. I know the first episodes are there to set things up, but I get confused by so many characters in the first episode. Give me people I want to watch with a story I want to know about.

I'm watching Riviera at the moment, it's fairly non taxing brain wise.

I might try that. Thank you x

I've just looked to see what American Primeval is...disappointingly not dinosaurs roaming the Appalachians rather than the Forest of Dean, it would seem.

I was disappointed for the same reason.

Stopppppiitttt Deano! That's cruel!
THERE ARE NO SP-D-RS IN THE BLUESTOCKING AND THAT'S ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY 100% TRUE................ isn't it?😦

I saw one in the bath in my private quarters here, which was a massive female, all that was left of her mate was its legs.

All by the plug hole

I knew she would hatch a zillion more so found a cat who ate it.

No guilt whatsoever.

Speaking of prehistoric creatures, I've just been reading about the Morganucodon, an early mammaliform genus. Its name comes from Morganuc, a mediaeval spelling of Morgannwg, the Welsh name of Glamorgan, that being where the first, and most, remains of it have been found.

Examination of its jaws and dentition shows that it preferred hard prey such as beetles. Sorry, Boily.

@Chersfrozenface

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You're completely safe, they are all in my shower room (see them scuttle when I put the water on), none at all here. Nary a one.

Even in the garden.

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I had to peer closely to check if that was a spider's web, or were you calling me a snowflake😄Thank you for the support hamster, third from right.

I trust you completely that there are none at all nary a one in here.
Completely<gulp>😰

The funny thing is, I don't mind them at all when I see them in the garden, maybe it's because that's Where The Wild Things Are, and that's OK.

Living on my own, I just have to be big and bwave and deal with them indoors [glass+card+relocation to garden method], but I can't help the phobic recoil reaction when I see one. Or even anything that looks like one.

A bit of a glitch in my cool-dude dyke image, but hey, nobody's perfect😎

I have no problem with spiders. If they didn't exist we'd be knee high in flies within three weeks.

I've been known to help them out of the bath by getting them onto a towel and moving them to a dark corner.

Cockroaches and maggots, though? Get them away from me.

At least one of them is in the toilets at work. It was watching me washing my hands today!

The funny thing is, I don't mind them at all when I see them in the garden, maybe it's because that's Where The Wild Things Are, and that's OK.

Likewise. I'm not fond of them but curiously I found myself much more relaxed about U.K. spiders after returning from living in the US where they have some genuinely nasty ones like black widows.

It's the thought of them in my hair at night which I can't stand. But I'm the designated person to deal with spiders, DH is quite phobic.

Checking that you were doing it properly? Did it have a stopwatch and a clipboard?

I didn't look that closely, but it definitely gave that impression!

It was making sure you washed your thumbs, it's amazing how many people don't.

even anything that looks like one

That can be worse. I don't enthuse about unexpected creepy crawlies but I can cope, and even, with warning, admit that they are beautiful living creatures, but show me a photograph of a spider, particularly a magnified photograph, and I can't even touch the page, or be comfortable it it's left open and I know it's there.

See I don't mind spiders.

I do have an irrational fear response of a particular creepy crawley when I see it in real life.

Hangs head in shame.

It's beetles.

I know! I know! Insane right!

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It's totally irrational!

I have to cover all of my mirrors!

It's cockroaches and crane flies for me. Can't stand them... I'm not a huge fan of spiders but can escort them out of the house as needed.

Now I love a cockroach. When we lived in Hong Kong I used to get out of bed (as a toddler) in the middle of the night to switch the kitchen light on to watch the hundreds of cockroaches scatter.

Such fun!

Oh my God, crane flies. I can't stay in a room with one. Even if it's just sitting there. Don't mind them outside. It's ridiculous, they're utterly harmless, can't sting, don't have functional mouthparts, couldn't bite if they wanted to. Fella just catches them in his hands. Just thinking about that has made my hands feel all tingly 🤮

Cockroaches, I've never really had to live with. Although we had them in a house we lived in when I was very young, we called them blackjacks.