The Bluestocking - where the laugh emoji is sorely missed.

[MyrtleLion]

Welcome to the Bluestocking Arms!

The company is always sparkling, the drinks are always sublime, and the cakes are mysteriously free from gluten, sugar, calories, and troublesome booze… not that you’d ever notice. 😏

Our enthusiastic team of gerbil waitstaff is ably supported by capybaras, quokkas, and other charming creatures who excel at their jobs while looking outrageously adorable.

You will find many things to laugh at - usually out loud - so take care not to spit out your tea. We are considering a petition for the return of the laugh emoji - just as soon as the AI gerbils learn how to spell.

New Bluestockingers are always welcome. Men can pop along to The Staunch Ally nearby.

Currently also knitting a Woolly Hug blanket for Bluestockinger Swashbuckled. Details here if you can knit or crochet a square before the 18 July.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5350941-woolly-hugs-desperately-sad-news-we-are-afraid-making-a-blanket-for-lovely-swashbuckled-whose-son-has-tragically-died

Looks like the Staunch Ally doesn't want him back.

At least he looks quite good natured about it!

To be fair, he doesn't seem to belong with the general aesthetic of that group.
Warm tonight, isn't it? 😂

😂Actually, that was the least er... suggestive of the set of pix AI gave me. I only asked for some handsome men barricading the pub door, & the AI went way, way over the top. I won't put them here. I think the AI's been fed some gay fantasy since I last asked for handsome guys.

He didn't have one leg, but in an early example of celebrity endorsements, Pope Leo XIII did give his approval to Vin Mariani, a tonic wine made of Bordeaux laced with cocaine that was popular in the 1890s.

It's mostly forgotten now, but the quest for a non-alcoholic version that would satisfy American temperance enthusiasts (they were less worried about the cocaine bit) is what gave us Coca-Cola.

He says he's not Dave, he's Julie.
Thank goodness for sensible capybara and wombat.

And surely the bear has three legs, not one?

Any gerbils around I feel in need of sustenance. As you can see I'm wasting away!

Never fear, Boily!

Word of the day: timeously, from the Sandie Peggie decision on disclosure. Anyone else never heard of it before, or is it just me?

There's a nice wee clip on YT somewhere where he talks to Phil Cunningham about the different versions of Auld Lang Syne.

I sometimes do wonder what someone who doesn't know the Bluestocking would make of it if they were shown all the images of the threads.

If there's any justice when humanity finally kills itself off and leaves a scorched earth I hope all that remains to be found in the future is a knackered server that just has the pictures from these threads.

Imagine how all of human history prior to the apocalypse would be interpreted.

It would be glorious. And gerbils would be revered.

No, never heard of it before, and I thought I had a fairly wide vocabulary. In many directions.

Is lawyer-speak? Anything to do with time?

google says
timeous (adjective)
SCOTTISH ENGLISH

1. in good time; sufficiently early:
2. "ensure timeous completion and posting of applications"

There would be TV programs with a future Neil Oliver talking about rituals and stuff.

I'd never heard of it either, and I collect words for fun!

Re the armed unwelcoming committee at the Staunch Ally - it kinda destroys the argument that men in dresses wouldn't be bothered if they used the toilet designated for their sex - not the Staunch Ally toilet, apparently😨

At some point hopefully AI will be able to cope with more than one image being uploaded at a time and someone can just feed in all the images from all the threads and get the AI to tell us what it thinks is going on.

I'd be fascinated to see what the computer thinks

I think I hear a faint voice coming from Pedantry Corner saying that if that was a one-legged pope, his cape would be white, and not red. He must be a cardinal who identifies as a one-legged pope

Paolo talking about Auld Lang Syne. It's from the fabulous series Scotland's Music which I can't find anywhere sadly.

Or maybe that's just his snuggly red bed jacket?

That prompted me to ask ChatGPT ‘is the pope a Catholic’, which it got right after I reminded it about orthodox and Coptic ones.

I just tried it. Oh dear.

Computer says no

I am really, really, REALLY missing the laugh emoji.
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