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The Bluestocking Women’s Pub - Where Everybody Knows Your Username

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MarieDeGournay · 02/06/2025 17:01

Welcome to the Bluestocking Arms, the home of good company, excellent drinks and delicious cakes which magically have no irksome contents like gluten or sugar or calories or the kind of alcohol that causes problems - but you wouldn't knowSmile

Food and drink are served by a keen staff of gerbils, and other animals such as capybaras, quokkas, etc., also fulfil vital roles, while looking cute AF.

New Bluestockingers always welcome.

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ErrolTheDragon · 09/06/2025 17:54

Yes, vegetarians get persecuted by carnivores and vegans nowadays. It’s the latter who have condemned you to ‘plant based burgers’ with fake cheese.

JuneShellChangeHerTune · 09/06/2025 18:03

ErrolTheDragon · 09/06/2025 17:54

Yes, vegetarians get persecuted by carnivores and vegans nowadays. It’s the latter who have condemned you to ‘plant based burgers’ with fake cheese.

Too true.

MarieDeGournay · 09/06/2025 18:04

ErrolTheDragon · 09/06/2025 17:54

Yes, vegetarians get persecuted by carnivores and vegans nowadays. It’s the latter who have condemned you to ‘plant based burgers’ with fake cheese.

YumGrin

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Bannedontherun · 09/06/2025 19:20

Yes the VRA’s get right on my tits. I have been a vegetarian all my life, not evangelised with anybody. I enjoyed none meat dishes when eating out, then bugger me the only options in some outlets are either meat or vegan.

It is like my space has been taken over by the more extreme, and i am diet provision homeless.

😁

FuzzyPuffling · 09/06/2025 19:28

Totally with you there banned.
Actually what I want is cheese.

EdithStourton · 09/06/2025 19:30

I had a vegan burger once by mistake. It was o-kay-ish. Very bland. Dubious texture. Very dubious 'cheese'. Would not recommend. 3.5/10, where 0 is school dinners and 10 proper home cooking.

I need to order some wool. It will have to wait until tomorrow as my brain is fused after two very busy days back to back and only 5 hours sleep between them. I don't want to bugger the order up.

CautiousLurker01 · 09/06/2025 19:37

JuneShellChangeHerTune · 09/06/2025 15:41

Thank you for the link, @Igneococcus . I recorded the next Classic FM news, at 3pm, and the study wasn’t mentioned. Perhaps it only applies to people living in the US or Poland, as only they were studied.

No, no, Marie. I’m not atheist but I’m sure I can think of some other protected characteristic to make me the Most Marginalised. It is a competition, isn’t it?
I’m vegetarian, and Northern, in exile. That should do it.

I think being a knitter may be a protected characteristic these days given so few of us remember/know how to do it?

Boiledbeetle · 09/06/2025 19:59

I've been usurped in the gerbils affections by a knitted beetle.

I'm off to eat my body weight in Tunnock's.

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JuneShellChangeHerTune · 09/06/2025 20:02

I think the gerbils are guarding you from BlueBeetle, Boily.

They don’t look welcoming, more wary.

Igneococcus · 09/06/2025 20:06

That reminds me that the last thing I knitted was back when the first Fantastic Beasts movie came out and there was no merchandise whatsoever (that probably has changed) I knitted a Niffler for the children based on a pattern I found on Ravelry. I must have a picture of it somewhere.

ErrolTheDragon · 09/06/2025 20:06

Boiledbeetle · 09/06/2025 19:59

I've been usurped in the gerbils affections by a knitted beetle.

I'm off to eat my body weight in Tunnock's.

I don’t think it’s a beetle, I can only see 2 body segments. No wonder the gerbils are looking a little querulous.

inkymoose · 09/06/2025 20:40

Boiledbeetle · 09/06/2025 19:59

I've been usurped in the gerbils affections by a knitted beetle.

I'm off to eat my body weight in Tunnock's.

The novelty will soon wear off ! Don't despair dear Boiled 😊

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 09/06/2025 20:50

Boiledbeetle · 09/06/2025 19:59

I've been usurped in the gerbils affections by a knitted beetle.

I'm off to eat my body weight in Tunnock's.

Don't worry, Boily. We'll always have each other. Forget about knitting for a while.

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ifIwerenotanandroid · 09/06/2025 20:51

Sloooooooooooooooow image checking................

Boiledbeetle · 09/06/2025 20:54

I'll be with you in a minute android I'm just putting something away.

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Boiledbeetle · 09/06/2025 20:54

ifIwerenotanandroid · 09/06/2025 20:51

Sloooooooooooooooow image checking................

It's my turn to wait now!

Twiddles thumbs

ifIwerenotanandroid · 09/06/2025 20:56

Boiledbeetle · 09/06/2025 20:54

I'll be with you in a minute android I'm just putting something away.

I'll bet it's half a ton of Tunnocks.

Bannedontherun · 09/06/2025 20:57

ifIwerenotanandroid · 09/06/2025 20:56

I'll bet it's half a ton of Tunnocks.

😂get a room…..

ifIwerenotanandroid · 09/06/2025 21:00

Bannedontherun · 09/06/2025 20:57

😂get a room…..

Last time someone said that to us, we got married! What a mistake THAT was. Let me tell you about it.

Hey, where are you going, Banned? Come back!

Boiledbeetle · 09/06/2025 21:00

It was nothing rude or horrifying just a picture of a beetle tidying up but it's still not appearing

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Bannedontherun · 09/06/2025 21:19

ifIwerenotanandroid · 09/06/2025 21:00

Last time someone said that to us, we got married! What a mistake THAT was. Let me tell you about it.

Hey, where are you going, Banned? Come back!

Well lucky, you i was rather hoping for a virtual love affair here but nothing happening, just swipes.

Do you think my profile is a tad prickly?

lcakethereforeIam · 09/06/2025 21:32

My Doctor's asked me to send them a picture of Neville. I've never taken a selfie in my life! So I said my camera was broken. Then I began wondering if I had sent them a picture, who would own the copyright?

So I'm glad I didn't send one. I, as the copyright holder, would have asserted my rights when sending the picture. I might also have drawn googly eyes on him.

FuzzyPuffling · 09/06/2025 21:35

lcakethereforeIam · 09/06/2025 21:32

My Doctor's asked me to send them a picture of Neville. I've never taken a selfie in my life! So I said my camera was broken. Then I began wondering if I had sent them a picture, who would own the copyright?

So I'm glad I didn't send one. I, as the copyright holder, would have asserted my rights when sending the picture. I might also have drawn googly eyes on him.

Send your Dr an AI approximation of neville.
That should do it.

FuzzyPuffling · 09/06/2025 21:36

Also, I think BlueWoollyBeetle is rather cute. Soz.

Boiledbeetle · 09/06/2025 21:42

FuzzyPuffling · 09/06/2025 21:36

Also, I think BlueWoollyBeetle is rather cute. Soz.

Shhhh. Don't tell anyone but so do I.

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