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

😂😂😂😂😂

That's gorgeous!

Sorry, AsWith, I'm not a chemist so your joke isn't getting the right reaction😄
Magpie is a better audience, obvs!

Hg is the chemical symbol for mercury.

Really??? I thought I knew all the 'oddities' like Fe and Cu and Pb and all that - just because I collect facts, I've never studied the periodic table.
But I never knew that mercury was Hg, that passed me by somehow.
Every day a school day here, and I love it

So, AsWith, belated😂😂😂!

Why did the biology teacher and the physics teacher split up?

For some reason, the pairing of H G Wells and Mercury immediately had me thinking of "War of the Worlds", even though I knew the alien invaders is the book were from Mars. However, when I looked it up, I discovered that the famous 1938 radio adaptation which caused a sensation in the USA, was staged by Orson Welles's theatre company, Mercury on the Air. The book was narrated by Orson Welles himself as a documentary and many Americans who hadn't caught the first few minutes thought it was real! So there is more than one association between H G Wells and Mercury.

I love the Jeff Wayne musical adaptation and remember driving through France one hot summer in the late 1970s listening to the mellifluous voice of Richard Burton as the narrator and the music playing at full blast.

I’m just catching up on the thread… I got my DD that T-shirt. Yes she’s an electronics engineer and yes we did watch all the Star Trek boxed sets available when she was a teenager.

I know this one!😄
No spoiler.

Because there was no chemistry.

I wish I had jokes, but I can’t think of any.

Can I provide discounted Liberty Print Tana Lawn instead? I’ve ordered from the company many times and they’re reliable. Don’t buy it all as I’m debating getting a couple of metres.
Dalston Mills Liberty Tana Lawn

Is anybody thinking about the next thread?

Trying not to...

Doing it now...

Next thread.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5487021-the-bluestocking-womens-pub-where-clever-women-sit-and-think-while-gerbils-run-the-bar

Free drinks!

That’s very pretty fabric, @ThisIsMyGCname

Isn't it just? Must resist...

I love the orange colour way-maybe pj bottoms.

Did day drinking.

Met many dogs. We live in that kind of place.

And it's still only 8.30 so we can now eat Magnums and drink wine before tomorrow's dinner at 7pm.

I want a Magnum now.

Icecream or champagne?
Heck, this is the Bluestocking, no need for ‘or’.

Ice cream!

Cripes, I nearly missed the bus, is there room for a crumbly damson?

I have some mini magnums in the freezer...........

Do you need help with those mini Magnums (Magni?) Damson? Selflessly offering my support...

Last call everyone. Make sure you don't get locked in!