The Bluestocking - Best Pub on the Internet

[EdithStourton]

Welcome to the Bluestocking women's pub. Excellent (if sometimes wilful) gerbil bar staff, varied cocktails, splendid cakes, cracking Sunday roasts...

Voted Best Pub for the umpteenth thread running, join us for conversation about tractors, units of measurement, films, wildlife, and even, sometimes, women's rights.

Just keep Glenda off the gin.

Any men, you can trot along to the Staunch Ally just up the road.

He has an defined minimum number of deliveries to make per hour, don't you know? He can't afford the luxury of brakes. They slow him down too much.

I have googled 'clitoria seeds' @IcakethereforeIam just in case this was a joke ....
The plants have flowers that are quite.. er... distinctive.

I did that too, thinking the post may have been got at by autocarrot 😁
Very brave, the person who gave that name to those sweet little blue flowers.

We had a good turnout for our meeting after all, so the cake I made is now crumbs.

I've just reached one of my favourite bits of sorting stuff!

I have a tiny notebook. I first wrote in it in June 1988! I stick it in with random stuff and whenever I find it again I write myself another note!

It's followed me through life and has the most random of shit written in it!

It's a tiny book of snapshots of whatever was in my head and my life at the moment I find it!

I shall now go and stick it somewhere else to resurface at some point in the future!

I'm so pissed off. Trying to sort out my Virgin media contract and got very overwhelmed and in tears. Sent to connections then to O2 then back and I said just email me and they said they can't.

I've made a formal complaint because I had to cancel a meeting at 3pm because I was still crying.

And I didn't get a second interview.

oh soddit

have a support camel

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I'm sorry MyrtleLion.

I didn't know that. Though I never take the bus.

Hugs Myrtle 🦁

@MyrtleLion bastards. All of them. Bastards.

I'm trying to hug you but I can't get a good grip

I'm tired after the train journey last night and this is the fourth time I've tried to sort it out. I have literally said I'm going to have to cancel because I can't keep going through the lengthy process of getting someone to tell me what I need to do.

Four different prices. The need to get a new O2 contract, then I don't need to, then I do, then I can't transfer the number from one contract to another but the Walrus can even though it's all in my name and the contract he gets won't count for the Virgin media account in my name. Then I can go into an o2 shop (15 miles away) to move the number, then I don't need it but I might not get the reduction. I said I can't manage right now and email me and she said she couldn't. So I said I'm going to be rude and hang up. And she said no she could sort it out and then I had to hang up. No-one said I'm sorry or can we call you tomorrow or anything. It was like I wasn't literally bawling my eyes out and telling them I was autistic which was really embarrassing. And none of them had British accents and they spoke too fast and I just couldn't understand.

I'm normally brilliant at this stuff so I don't know why it's been so bad today.

Anyway I've said in my complaint that I was treated badly as a vulnerable customer because of my autism and they can hear on the recording that I'm crying and I'm going to cancel if they don't sort it all out.

Well that's awesome because you're not widely known as a hugger, and the pictures made me laugh 💙

I think I need to watch some Motorway Cops because I'm still really upset and disregulated.

Oh Myrtle, that's all rotten😞
Sending around a whole team of gerbils to give you some serious hugs!

I have been trying repeatedly to get a response from an organisation for MONTHS with no joy. A response their own procedures state I should recieve.

I've emailed, phoned, resorted to sending actual letters multiple times since the middle of last year. Nothing back.

Earlier this week I emailed the top three members of the organisation on their personal organisation email accounts and cc'd in the manager who had been ignoring me.

I've just recieved an email from him.

Funny how he's suddenly realised he "overlooked" my case isn’t it.

😂

I'm sorry @MyrtleLion hugs and cake.

What a load of arseholes, Myrtle! Have the support animal of your choice and a bumper delivery of Tunnocks to brighten this rotten afternoon.

Sorry to hear that Myrtle. If it makes you feel any better, I have a history of crying over phone calls with Fedex and I'm not autistic, usually very calm. During lockdown I could get the family out of my bedroom/office by saying "I need to ring Fedex" they would all scuttle to safety at once.

They were Butterfly pea on the T&M seed sale when I bought them. The Latin name was on the package. I googled them once my eyebrows had climbed back down my face. Possibly, I thought, they were given that name because of something else and by a wild coincidence it just happened to look a bit rude. If Wikipedia is to be trusted 🤔 though, the 17thC Polish botanist who named it thought they looked like vulvas.

I needed some help but was getting ignored by two people in an organisation, until I went around them to the guy at the top, at which point one of the two claimed that they'd phoned my home multiple times & I hadn't answered. Just their bad luck that I use an answering service which showed they hadn't rung even once. Singed underpant moment.

The AI contributed the words!

That is amazing, thank you xxxx

I'm loving the gerbil love.

I am actually going to drink wine later.

Many thanks to whoever put up the Japanese children. Utterly gobsmacking. I tried to find the real piece on YT & thought there wasn't much difference - then realised the kids were still going on another tab & without them there is rather a large difference! 😂Very impressed with the glockenspiel players, though.

I have had such a long going-around-in-circles interaction with a mobile phone company that I emailed them this morning to say: just forget it. I can't deal with this any more, I can't keep going back to Square 1 with everybody I deal with, despite having sent transcripts of chat sessions etc., everybody has been polite and keen to help but nobody has an overview of the problem. So just forget it.

It was so difficult to compose the email with references, attachments, etc. and so frustrating, that I got a migraine, from which I am just recovering.

If you're not feeling 100%, these round-in-circles interaction are really difficult🙁

Good idea!