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The Bluestocking Women's Pub, where brains can exist in a single state

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Magpiecomplex · 01/05/2025 21:58

Welcome all. The booze here is minimally intoxicating, the food is calorie free and the staff are warm and cuddly. And if the thread title sounds nonsensical, blame the guy Myrtle was listening to this evening!

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FuzzyPuffling · 04/05/2025 16:25

I could do with some tomato seedlings- send any.stragglers over here Hart.

( Are you related to Tony?)

lcakethereforeIam · 04/05/2025 16:38

I struggle culling excess seedlings. I've just put a thinned out squash seedling in a nursery pot because I felt sorry for it.

For slugs, nematodes (that I've not tried), picking them at night, putting down squares of damp cardboard and collecting the ones that hide underneath it. Drop them in a bucket of soapy water to kill them.

Happy Star Wars Day. Imagine the size of the bucket you'd need for Jabba?

SionnachRuadh · 04/05/2025 16:40

I think George Lucas missed a trick here. It was cool for Leia to have her badass moment killing Jabba, but how much cooler would a giant hedgehog have been?

HartSeven · 04/05/2025 16:49

Not related to Tony, but I can boast of being third cousin to the famous Harty from the Inkblack Heart. Don't share the psychopathic tendencies though.

Swashbuckled · 04/05/2025 17:04

At last; I’ve found you! Bit exhausted, but good to be back 😊.

My AI has turned a bit Dickensian. Everything seems so bleak now. I yearn for the colourful, cute and warm-heart-inducing images I could create in the last thread.

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Swashbuckled · 04/05/2025 17:20

Crikey; I look like I haven’t had a bath in weeks! The gerbils have kindly scuttled me upstairs to run a bath for me. I think they were muttering something about cleaning me up, lowering the tone and finding pegs for their noses. I’ll be down again when the Dickensian grime has been washed away (AI permitting…).

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Swashbuckled · 04/05/2025 17:38

Well, I think they’re just being rude now.

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Boiledbeetle · 04/05/2025 17:44

OK I'm going to need some assistance from staff or patrons, I'm not fussed, but I cannot get this bloody mask off!

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Swashbuckled · 04/05/2025 18:00

They say not to worry @Boiledbeetle and they’ll have it off in a jiffy 😊

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Swashbuckled · 04/05/2025 18:31

The gerbils are being a bit gormless tonight, bless them. I asked them to roast me some potatoes. I had all my sides ready to go with them and was sitting patiently, hearing the motor of the air fryer behind the bar and timing proceedings excitedly with my watch. They had only turned on the programme for the wrong drawer! So we have to start again now. I mean, I would never do anything as stupid as that. Not me, no; never. Never, never, never 🙄.

Boiledbeetle · 04/05/2025 18:38

Swashbuckled · 04/05/2025 18:31

The gerbils are being a bit gormless tonight, bless them. I asked them to roast me some potatoes. I had all my sides ready to go with them and was sitting patiently, hearing the motor of the air fryer behind the bar and timing proceedings excitedly with my watch. They had only turned on the programme for the wrong drawer! So we have to start again now. I mean, I would never do anything as stupid as that. Not me, no; never. Never, never, never 🙄.

A bad cook always blames her gerbils.

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Magpiecomplex · 04/05/2025 19:23

Swashbuckled · 04/05/2025 18:00

They say not to worry @Boiledbeetle and they’ll have it off in a jiffy 😊

And if that doesn't work...

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Boiledbeetle · 04/05/2025 19:36

Magpiecomplex · 04/05/2025 19:23

And if that doesn't work...

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It's OK the gerbils got it off.

My face feels funny though!

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FuzzyPuffling · 04/05/2025 20:02

Ah, Giant Wombat. She's the answer to pretty much anything.

Maybe she could start a political party. I'd vote for her.

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Magpiecomplex · 04/05/2025 20:44

FuzzyPuffling · 04/05/2025 20:02

Ah, Giant Wombat. She's the answer to pretty much anything.

Maybe she could start a political party. I'd vote for her.

Me too!

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Swashbuckled · 04/05/2025 21:00

Going out to the village pub now; it is the Sabbath, after all.

Hope the gerbils behave for you.

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EdithStourton · 04/05/2025 21:04

FuzzyPuffling · 04/05/2025 20:02

Ah, Giant Wombat. She's the answer to pretty much anything.

Maybe she could start a political party. I'd vote for her.

She'd be an improvement on pretty much anything currently in the H of C.

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Magpiecomplex · 04/05/2025 21:21

Swashbuckled · 04/05/2025 21:00

Going out to the village pub now; it is the Sabbath, after all.

Hope the gerbils behave for you.

Shut the door, were you born in a barn?!

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EdithStourton · 04/05/2025 22:11

I've just become aware of Lucy Powell's comments on television about grooming gangs - 'dog-whistle' topic, apparently. A 'little trumpet' for someone to blow.

I'm so bloody cross. Is Labour actively trying to get vast swathes of the population to vote for Reform? The whole fucking party is rotten from cellar to attic, Keir hasn't sacked her, it's full of twerps like Lloyd RM. I despise them, honestly I do, I despair of them, and of the LibDems. I used to be politically active and I just can't bear any of them now.

I'm going to go to bed and pull the covers up over my head and hope that tomorrow is a better day.

Bannedontherun · 04/05/2025 22:15

Birthday prezzie from my son he has no idea what it means lol

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ErrolTheDragon · 04/05/2025 22:27

That’s going to puzzle everyone, banned!Grin

we’ve been to muncaster castle, which is glorious at this time of year but today turned out to be holding a sausage festival. We resisted the sausage tasting as we’d brought sarnies, but were delighted by the ‘sausage shaped dog’ competition. Some of them were from the south lakes dachshund club, members of whom we’ve randomly encountered before.

Boiledbeetle · 04/05/2025 22:32

Bannedontherun · 04/05/2025 22:15

Birthday prezzie from my son he has no idea what it means lol

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What a lovely birthday present!

Did he not ask any questions?

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Bannedontherun · 04/05/2025 22:40

Yes he did I said someone famous did the image for me so leave it at that

which he did

Boiledbeetle · 04/05/2025 22:43

AI has only gone and corrected the spelling!!!! But it kept the extra paw!

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Bannedontherun · 04/05/2025 22:47

I like the mis spell it is all part of my new mistry

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