The Bluestocking Women’s Pub: definitely full of ludicrous halfwits who refuse to get a grip (with unionised gerbils)

[MyrtleLion]

Welcome to The Bluestocking: convivial by design, opinionated in the best way, generously stocked with excellent food and drink that complies with whatever it’s meant to comply with, and any calories, gluten or alcohol are entirely virtual.

Staffed by impeccably trained, unfailingly polite gerbils who run a tight bar with plenty of enthusiasm and good intentions. Quick with the drinks, but terrible spillers spellers and liable to turn an idle thought on existential existence into a full blown musical with Busby Berkeley routines. You have been warned.

All women welcome, just in case that isn't obvious. Men can go to The Staunch Ally round the corner.

Previous thread here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5477133-the-bluestocking-your-local-womens-pub-warm-friendly-and-not-at-all-unusual-in-any-way

Yes, little arctic brother, I find it's a nice name for it, just confusing.

I don't know why some ornithologist gave that name to the Manx shearwater, whoever it was must have known about puffins.

Yes… wiki confirms that and also the etymology of ‘puffin’ which puffling really doesn’t want to know about.

bumbarrels remind me I must prune my bush soon

That seems like a perfectly good explanation to me @ErrolTheDragon

here needs to be (consults google translate) sorocular ?

That’s such a great photo.
yes… when there’s some good weather I need to hack the ivy etc, I’m bad at leaving it until after the blackbirds have started nesting in it and I have to leave it for another year.

ErrolTheDragon · Today 16:28
If ‘puffin’ wasn't already the perfect name for puffins, then ‘bumblebirds’ would suit them. Not, of course, to be confused with another of my favourite avians, bumbarrels.
Igneococcus · Today 16:34
Weirdly, the Linnean name Puffinus puffinus isn't the puffin it's the Manx Shearwater. Puffins are Fratercula arctica.

Thank heavens you two are here to raise the tone after my earlier lapse into sniggering immaturity😂

I could be " Bumblebird, the Fuzzy Puffling" but it's a bit of a mouthful.

DH bought me a knitted bobble hat for my birthday. Puffintastic! ( Obvs this is not me modelling it)

I missed helping with the moving.

Such a shame 🤥

And then Deano and I went and started talking about tits.

Lovely hat! and of course it's not you, she looks years over 4, which we know to be your age, from the candles on your birthday cake.

That said, I don't know what 4 is in Puffin Years

Thats an excellent hat. Top marks that DH.

That's a beautiful photo, Deano - I can see a face in it, is it a bird or is it Pareidolia?😄

Hm… seems puffins typically live to about 20 and can live to 30 so 4 is still quite juvenile …so there’s some company for you

However I just read this in wiki …wtf are people making a fuss about that cow?
In 2019, animal experts observed puffins, in two separate geographic locations, using sticks to scratch themselves indicating that the seabirds have a basic ability to use tools

It’s a longtailed tit - the nest, from which it gets its ‘country name’ is a ‘bumbarrel’.

https://poetrygeneration.wordpress.com/2020/05/19/bumbarrels-nest/

waves

I had fly Bailey's last night (at home). Felt my head swimming when I went to bed. Thought "A didnae think A'd taen that much!"

Head was swimming when I got up. Then I realised that I also had sore ears and a wee bit of sinus trouble. I am assuming that I am suffering from some form of lurgy rather than a hangover.

You go any decent linctus here?

a very real face, I assure you

Don't tell anyone that we are highly intelligent and evolved. Who knows what bits of genius we're up to in our burrows....

Thank goodness it’s unlikely that puffins can interbreed with corvids, AI would be the least of our worries if their skills were combined.

I'm very late to the new pub...
It's been a busy day, 45 minutes of which was spent on hold to various large organisations trying to find out a very basic piece of information. One of them is 'going to call you back.'
The last time I was promised a call back, it was BT. LOL.

And speaking of pareidolia... I drove home in the early dusk past a couple of bottle banks that sit behind a rural pub (not a 'country pub' with all that implies in terms of low beams, blazing fire, bougie menu involving rare-breed pork etc, but a 'rural pub', so a high probability of a pool table, people's own tankards on hooks behind the bar, and old blokes who all turn and look when the door opens).

Driving up past the bottle banks, which are rounded and dumpy, with a striated pattern on their sides and two large holes top front for the empties, they looked just like cartoon owls, with the striations looking like wings.

Is that pareidolia, or something else?

I'm even later! Thanks for the new thread @MyrtleLion

I've just been reading about @Boiledbeetle's hitherto unknown skill https://www.science.org/content/article/bee-hunting-beetles-are-first-animals-known-fake-smell-flowers

I’m just back from visiting my old friend. I had a lovely time and they were excellent hosts. Me and friend have arranged for her to come to mine for lunch next month. The hound came too and he was such a good boy (as he always is, but his good-boyness was commented on).

I was sent home with cake, which I am eating with ice cream.

Damn, Fuzzy, she's onto us!

Perfect day!