The Bluestocking - where women are women, and small furry animals are gerbils, quokkas, capybaras, or a red panda called Rosy

[MarieDeGournay]

Welcome all to the Bluestocking Pub, a haven safe from harsh reality [mostly] full of good company, and excellent food and drink served by the most efficient team of gerbils in the hospitality industry.

Yum! Thanks Swashy!

No, not at all!!!

They were caught cheekily eating it straight from the oven because it was so delicious.

(I’ll work on my AI precision to prevent further trauma… sorry for any shock 😬☺️.)

I could tell that from the guilty look on the face of the in-pie gerbil

They always seem to combine the look of innocence and guilt so beautifully. Hard not to forgive.

I love pie.
I love gerbils.
I do not love gerbil pie.

Looks like she nicked a few of your erm special fags as well

what an outrage

@inkymoose , have you been watching the Swedish branch of your family on their annual migration?

I saw this on the (ITV) news, and thought of you.

I love gerbil
I love pie
I do not love
gerbil pie
gerbil pie means
gerbils die
so I do not love gerbil pie.

Possibly singable to the tune of 'I like coffee, I like tea'

Sorry but the last day or so has been a bit of a blur. I nipped down to a local hostelery yesterday lunchtime to have a swift tincture to celebrate the Supreme Court decision. Sadly for me, I fell in with a bunch of terfs and ended up as ring-bolted as a polecat in the gazebo. The downside is that I have lost about £5k in commission. The upside is that my team love me because they have that commission and I have made four or five new friends.

Apart from that, I have dragged myself through the mother and father of all hangovers. You know the one where somebody has driven a steel bolt through your skull just above your right eye and now keeps holding a tuning fork against it.

All trivial compared to the SC judgement and will be fixed with a sausage sandwich and a coffee in the morning.

Just dropping in to raise a glass to you wonderful women (and beetles and ... gerbils? Where did they come from? never mind...).

' as ring-bolted as a polecat in the gazebo.'😂

That's some post, JanesLittleGirl! makes everything else seem very...staid.
How different, how very different, from the home life of our own dear Queen, as somebody once said.
Sounds like every moment and every steel bolt was worth it😉
Welcome back to the Bluestocking, where a gerbil will bring you the hair of the dog.
[work that one out if you can, thirdfiddle😆

Not going to lie I may have left a box of ready made blunts in a drawer in the guest bedroom!

https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1912654634679677109?t=4cqmcajhcApdeXAhmqNnug&s=19

"To those celebrating the fact that I'm smoking a blunt: it's a cigar. Even if it decided to identify as a blunt for the purposes of this celebration, it would remain objectively, provably and demonstratively a cigar."

Fucking love it

The gerbils are from Grimbut's t shirt factory that came into existence during the Aston University data scrape last year. They now mainly all work full time in the pub, but occasionally have to go off and fulfill t shirt orders!

https://grimut-gerbils.teemill.com/collection/womens/

Oooh thanks! I've been busy clearing out the old moose cupboards for a few days and haven't been out into the crisp fresh Spring forest. I'll have a look now in a minute!

thirdfiddle, somebody was doing their PhD on 'transphobia on Mumsne't [involving the illegal data scraping] and a comment was made [I don't know who said it first] about people doing PhDs on various identities and phobias, calling them 'Foucault addled grievance gerbils'.
It fell on fertile ground here in the Bluestocking
I maintain that there should be a hyphen between 'Foucault' and 'addled', otherwise it reads like a statement that Foucault said something confusing to small furry rodents. I wouldn't put it past him, mind.
And I believe that Judith Butler derives a diabolical pleasure from reading choice extracts from her oeuvre to a whole cellar full of the poor addled little mites😠

😂😂
Now i really do feel sorry for our esteemed visitors, thought they were coming to lecture some little women about the judges of the supreme court not being kind enough and find themselves face to face with an army of gerbils. They have no idea what they're getting themselves into.

I've just remembered the gerbils did a song back in the day when they just worked in the t-shirt factory (apologies they were in their heavy metal phase).

You have a choice of two very bad versions!

https://suno.com/song/42c86ad7-f647-473e-ba11-e9a02affa717?sh=LFmWFpphg4ioaAxJ

https://suno.com/song/f84561d1-01ba-46c2-aab8-aaef669653be?sh=ICAfkRWsNmZ2cHHf

Gerbils and music 🎶

I'm always surprised by the deep notes our little gerbils can produce.

It must be the same sort of mechanism that allows wrens to make such a loud noise even though they're so tiny.

I'll have a look now in a minute!

Where to you from, then, @inkymoose?

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/americas/100000010114670/capybaras-argentina-neighborhood.html?smid=url-share

There's been a spot of trouble in Argentina where the capybaras come from ...

Capybaras, rodents with taste.

I'm not in the Cambrian Mountains nor in Tregaron Bog,
My vowels are Midlands-flattened but I don't go the whole hog,
My roots extend round half the world but leaves and buds are few,
My heart resides in art and song and the company of all of you.

Not to mention the sonorous hound-bark of the dachshund. Best value in decibels per kilo of dog. Though in their case they obviously have supersized lung capacity. We never get problems with doorsteppers when Colin is barking out of their sight.