The Bluestocking: To the moon and back gerbil style.

[Boiledbeetle]

Previous thread of chat and general madness below

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5506124-the-bluestocking-womens-pub-spring-is-sprunging-and-mns-name-generator-can-do-one

Women: from an orderly queue at the bar or take a seat and grab a passing gerbil.

Men: turn left at the end of the road, keep walking until you find the Staunch Ally.

Bar gerbil a full fat coke please and a packet of Scampi Fries please.

Here’s a clip for everyone who wasn’t in London today.

https://x.com/drpamspurr/status/2042967282217869546?s=46&t=24c39_JwRrH3k0oebVKtWw

If you had two x four arms you’d be an octopus.

Although with 2 legs as well that would be 10, so a decopus?

A squid 🐙

Of course, I didn’t think of that!

Over 60 years ago, my grammar school summer frocks were blue gingham, worn of course with white ankle socks.

I’ve done some self reflection and 20 #bekinds lol

Well done now behave yourself !!!!😂

Yes ma’am 😂😂

A black coffee and a tunnocks (wafer) please, kind gerbils
🤯
And whatever she's having
Cheers

I've just watched an American dissing (as I believe the young folx say) British biscuits 😳 At no.5 was the Tunnocks wafer 😠 but at no.2 were Weetabix and no.1 Jaffa cakes! The man is clearly either a fool or a troll 🧌

Weetabix eaten as a biscuit?

Niche.

To watch or unwatch other threads that is a question

Morning. I haven't been into the Bluestocking all this thread because reasons. So I'm popping in on page 39 to make sure I don't miss the bus to the next one.

Next round is on me.

Or both!

You have to remember that the USA gave the world canned cheese😁

Tbf I don’t suppose much of that escaped their borders. Some of the foid oddities in the us are a function of its size and historical distribution and storage constraints.

I'm here. Having a lazy day.

There is some madness abroad on some threads today.

Horrible chilly wind here today but I think I'll try and restore myself with a spot of gardening.

I suspect B&B will stay exactly where they are: indoors, on a comfy carpet, in the sunshine.

Hello Cher, hope the 'reasons' weren't too bad and are doing whatever you want them to do to make things better and give you more time for propping up the bar at the Bluey again
Nice to read that Myrtle is having a lazy day for a change! Enjoy, Myrtle!

My observation on food and drink in the USA is that they can't make either decent tea or decent coffee - this side of the Atlantic we usually manage one or the other.
[Obvs I mean commercially - individuals can make perfectly acceptable tea and coffee - in my experience they are the ones who've spent time in Europe!]

That's a good point about food distribution in a huge country, Errol; also 'fast food' needed for quick stopovers on the extensive rail network.

I sometimes watch North Americans trying British food on YouTube, and often struggling with it. They really do have very different food traditions over there.

Weirdly, the one thing that seems to uniformly freak them out is Christmas pudding.

'pudding' seems to mean a kind of gloopy stuff in the USA, so I can see scope for confusion.

<flops into an armchair>
Can I have a glass of Pinot Grigio please, gerbils?

Today I went to the gym, did my weekly shop, dropped it at home, caught the bus to the garden centre to buy compost, moved Kitty’s catnip seedlings into a pot, batch cooked daal for the week’s lunches, phoned my dad & once the daal is out of the oven I’m going to settle down with the Sunday Times cryptic crossword. Although I may fall asleep over it.

Kitty is keeping an eye on her plants.

Pudding in German is a thick custard or blancmange type thing. Pudding as in dessert is "Nachtisch" which translates as "after the table".

I suspect the American concept of 'pudding' owes a lot to the German idea. There were a lot of Germans around in the US early on, relatively speaking. I've always thought that 'cookies' for biscuits comes from 'kekse'.

Yorkshire pudding baffles people from around the globe. But once they've had it, they're usually fans. I went for a Sunday lunch at a pub with an Anglophile American and she couldn't get enough of it.

I'm going back into the fray with the crocheted gerbils now, having stopped for some real coffee, but I had a quick glance at a couple of clues for yesterday's Times Jumbo cryptic, & I reckon one answer is 'MEAT AND TWO VEG'. 😂 I'm hoping all the answers are euphemisms.

Hope there isn't already another one.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5516083-touchdown-at-the-newest-bluestocking-inn-pudding-cups-of-tea-the-vegetable-garden-coming-into-its-own-and-gerbils-beautiful-gerbils-all-furry

There's a lot of German influence in US food, like New York cheese cake is pretty much exactly like a German cheese cake.
We southern Germans don't use the word Kekse (other than in brand names like Leibnitz Butterkekse) we say Plätzchen. My brother who has lived in Hannover now for well over 30 years says Kekse and the rest of the family does a little shudder when he does. It sounds all wrong.