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...

PMSL. Love it.

Yep. That's me!

Those poor gerbils I nearly spat the entire glass all over them!

LNITED TATY coinage would be no good for tossing

that's what you say!

Evening All. So um how do I get this statuary leave? Is there a form, or can I ask the gerbils?

I think @ErrolTheDragon will know, since she's been enjoying Statuary Leave today. I assume it's some sort of self certification.

What's on the reverse? if LNITED TATY is plagiarising US dimes (which I have just read about) there should be an oak branch as well as an olive and a torch, and Franklin Titface Roosevelt should be on the other side from the vegetation.

Oh there's a whole department!

Take your pick!

Quality. Not one form in triplicate, but three forms. It's important to apply correct bureaucratic standards.

These forms will of course need to be sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.

Oh yes. You've got to have three forms. We are rather overrun with gerbils and we need to find work for them to do.

Um...

Just think of the slagging he must have got at school.

I only asked for the other side of the coin, I didn't ask for "Franklin Titface Roosevelt" 🤣🤣🤣

Oh wow...
Go straight to.Sporner Corner, do not pass Go, do not collect £200....

Although I feel "LL BIBTY" is a marvellous slogan for any country to adopt.

Can you imagine the thread title?!
"What's this on my face, it looks like a tit! TRIGGER WARNING Graphic Picture Added by MNHQ."

Ha! Theres no trigger warnings in Sporner Corner. Nothing is too disgusting for that bit of MN!

People would be rubbing.their hands ( or thighs) with glee and demanding a video of it being popped.

Now now, Magpie , Saying my nork is a TRIGGER WARNING feels like a personal attack.

Sorry Dime! I own a pair of dreadnorks so I should know better!

Wait what! One can causally order one of the finest Côte de Nuits ever produced in the Bluestocking?

It's also got a cracking selection of Fanta.

Beers, teas, coffees, hot chocolate, Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters...you name it, we've got it.

I don't think one could ever be said to order Chambertin Grand Cru casually, ma chère..

Good morning afternoon all - the streets are well aired😄
I don't usually read any other part of MN except FWR but sometimes my eye is drawn by a 'Trending' heading. Today there's a post from some poor woman who made a mistake at her job, which is entering data manually, and she is freaking out that she'll be fired.
As usual there is lots of comfort and practical advice, and several comments that since the employer has a zero faults policy, they should have some kind of double checking, and not base it on one woman never ever making a single mistake, because she's only human.

Cue this great comment re AI:
QueenCamilla · Today 12:05
If ever there was a job for AI....
Instead it makes "art" and pretend girlfriends
😂

She's obviously never been to the Bluestocking and so has a very limited view of AI - not just "art" and pretend girlfriends, [can I have one please?] but also androids, gerbils carrying mugs of hot chocolate, hedghogs eating Tunnocks, beetles wearing crocs,etc etc.

I'd say she should pop in here sometime, but things might get a bit tense if our own Queen Lion sees her as a potential rival. Will there be an icily haughty exchange of pleasantries between the two Queens? Or will the timely intervention of a couple of gerbils with the most delicious hot chocolate with marshmallows and all the trimmings warm the atmosphere? Or will it just end up with one vicious swipe of a regal paw, and the rival Queen lying dazed on the pavement outside the Stocking, thinking to herself 'These AI-generated pavements are very realistically hard when you hit them at speed!'