The Bluestocking Pub: Infinite Cocktails, Questionable Logistics

[MyrtleLion]

Welcome to the nth iteration of the Bluestocking women’s pub, where gerbils are staff, the drinks are free, and alcohol has no effect except to get you to the sweet spot just before the drink you really shouldn’t have had.

Men can go to the Staunch Ally next door.

It’s OK if you don’t understand. Just assume everything is normal.

Previous thread is here:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5523989-bluestocking-womens-pub-its-maytime

I was very fortunate that my relatives were so willing to talk. They knew that I wanted to understand what had gone on, and I was a member of the extended family, and so they talked. Sometimes things I heard from one person filled in a gap for someone else.

I wrote it all down, so it's there for the subsequent generations. The main lessons I drew from it were, war is horrible enough without adding war crimes into the mix, and that people are extraordinarily resilient. Most of them, after all the death and dispossession, went on to very normal lives.

I see! I have never read Discworld. That'll be why 😉

Oh good Lord.
I'd better not let DH discover that or he'll making vats of it and eating it out of the jar.

Yes, definitely people are resilient. It's just beyond thinking about, what some people had to go through.

Possibly!

Aren't they a bit warm at the moment?

She had her say in 2023!

Totally! That's why I'm being rid of the knackered pair whilst it's too hot to wear them.

To be fair, I only got into the series about 10 years ago as I was put off as a teenager by the original cover art which seemed to me to imply that it was all a ladies bursting boobily out of corsets and googly eyed dragons teen boy sort of fantasy*. TBF, there are booby ladies and mad dragons but it's more subtle than the cover art implied.

Where in fact, it's one of the best realised multiverses ever. With both hilarious and deeply touching moments.

*I realise that this is horrifying sacrilege to fans of the original cover art. Sorry.

A word to the wise, Boily:
Don't buy things with faces, because chucking them out always makes you feel horrible.
I hate sending cuddly toys off to the charity shop. Fortunately any soft toys that remain here are the ones the (adult) DC want to keep forever.

I’ve still got a collection of cuddly toys in my room including the yellow teddy I was given the day I was born, a rag doll made by one of my aunts & a Brownie rag doll, special because my dad embroidered badges on her uniform as I got them. Binning any of them would be unthinkable.

You should try getting rid of the PG Tips cuddly toys.

They just refuse to leave

They go to the Kitten Cloud where they frolic all day.

Here they are, frolicking

I’d forgotten all about them! @MyrtleLion, have Boily’s old slippers gone to the Kitten Cloud? I can imagine them being very cosy beds for tiny kittens.

😍

I'm willingly going off for my shower now. I intend to turn the dial all the way to cold as it will go!

ChatGPT and I have fallen out over the logistics of getting to the Bluestocking while on the high seas because it keeps breaking the internal logic.

Therefore no more Gosie today.

Basically anyone can get to the Bluestocking because it's only a few metres from where ever we are. But we all live in different physical places. So chickadee can step out of the Bluestocking and order lobster in Maine but can't meet us all in Plymouth without physically crossing the Atlantic.

So as a lot of the patrons are on the high seas off Plymouth Sound they need to stop somewhere to meet someone who is at the Bluestocking. I don't think they can just stop anywhere and pop in. But ChatGPT doesn't understand this and thinks Swashy can just sail somewhere very quickly - she's on a galleon and the wind is down in this hot weather!

Ideas welcome.

Nor me.

I think you need a local version of the Bermuda Triangle.

Sodding great galleon engine with super jets.

UFOs are very fast and are bigger on the inside, @MyrtleLion.

I’m not sure if that helps.

Edited to add that in the paws of an expert they might also be able to tow things.

Combine this with my local Bermuda triangle and you're sorted!

The Bude Triangle. Well known hotspot for unexplained activities.

its got a very sane little dragon, obviously!
Happy Lilac Towel Day. Many years ago MN graciously changed their standard bunch of flowers into a sprig of lilac for the day. It’s mildly annoying that on this spherical world, the lilacs are mostly over by now - but they were still out in glorious bloom in Scotland above the Great Glen.