The Bluestocking - the one where the nights start to draw in

[Boiledbeetle]

Previous thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5401672-the-autumn-bluestocking-mist-mellow-fruitfulness-and-hot-chocolate

Settles down in the comfy chair by the fire.

Bloody hell come back of me boat in the nick of time for a bluestocking exclusive.

I love that poem by whomsoever she is.

i don't think i can do the next thread as am in and out for the next four weeks hoglette is moving with her brood and am required for hogsitting, cleaning feeding, directing the hapless man hogs etc

Phwoar!

Room 254, right. I'm on my way!!

Dont forget the tomatoes

I'm sure Shakespeare would have written a play based around the confusion in the above two posts.

You're right about the tomatoes! I'd forgotten.

I rushed off to room 254, only to find that Gemini AI doesn't know which side of a hotel room door has the number on - even when I told it several times. It then whiny-mansplained me in great detail about how it can't know which side any particular door opens on, & while it claimed to know the numbers go on the corridor side, it never managed to actually show that in an image. It got it wrong every single time.

So there was going to be a joke about me getting the number wrong, but you know what, Gemini? Forget it. You've ruined it.

Gemini may not be able to number rooms correctly, but the gerbil guides know which is which.

It's too late now. The mood has gone. Will someone send a gerbil to tell Boily to take the costume off & get out of the hoist, please?

Probably not in that order, though.

Right, ladies of all species, here...

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5417697-the-bluestocking-where-maud-reigns-supreme

is the next thread. Please gather your belongings & form an orderly queue at the front door. Do we have a volunteer to find Boily's Tunnocks stashes for her?

Oops, I forgot about Colin.

It’s ok, I’ll bring him.

Am I missing something? Why are we suddenly starting new threads after ten pages rather than 20?

We are on page 39 have you increased the amount of posts per page on your feed

Thank you for clearing that up, Boily - isn' it* a coincidence that I mentioned AlisonDonut *just the other day when I was thinking about Stockingers we hadn't heard from for a while?
The other one was Inkymoose - anybody seen her on other threads?
I'm not cyberstalking honest, I just like to know people are OK when they are absent from the Bluestocking for a while.

Weren't the gerbils and their idiosyncratic spelling used as a speedbump to stop Aston Uni scraping our data? We also used different languages at one point, I remember.
That's what made me think of the gerbils as heroic activists defending the privacy of our data
I miss their idiosyncratic spelling😞

The phrase ‘Foucaultian gymnastics’ makes me think the gerbils are swinging on a ruddy great big pendulum.

Nah. They're just being gerbils. They accept that the big female humans need hot chocolate, cake, bacon, tea, wine, gin, etc. without wasting any time on wondering why.

All the performances are for their own entertainment and they are quietly amused that we think that they are doing it for us

Oh yes…. Duh.

and cheese. big human females need cheese.

Morning all

And fruit.

Morning Dean. You have to share the cheese, remember.
I'm off out to spend frivolously today, so I'll let you all sort out shutting down this thread without me. Don't forget the labs!

I am happy to share the lots of cheese, but won't feed it to labs because it might upset their tummies.

Oh. Different labs?

They don't live here, they sneaked in the back door, they can jolly well go back where they came for and THEY CAN'T HAVE MY CHEESE.

Wombat, please come and scare the labs away.

Bloody hell, they're drooling.

Unloved, uncared for, unwanted.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

Did someone order a giant wombat?