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

Barking up the wrong tree there, wasn't it?😁

And they were weaned off their Foucault-addled grievances?

I believe they were a different set of gerbils, the Foucault-addled ones went off to America to become Judith Butler's support animals.

Oh no! The symbol is gone! They're going to have to stay in Maine forever and endure the mosquitoes and black flies and poison ivy and <gasp> tourists!!!

On the other hand, if they stay Downeast, they can have lobsta, chowda, and blueberry cobbla whenever they want, once blueberry season starts!

Don't forget there's an old family farm south of Parsonsfield. It's aways from Portland, but not too far. I think some cousins had it for a while, but sold it on. But Chickadee should be able to help with any of that. Everyone in Maine knows everyone else.. (kidding )

“We had civilisation.”
“We had standards.”
“We had Scandinavians.”

😂

But you're missing all the fun you could have with cat photos.

I loved that too😁
Oh no - symbol is gone from the yacht!
Fortunately, there probably aren't many yachts in port with a charred and smouldering mast lying across the deck, so they'll be grand

I have a sweatshirt upstairs that says something like 'Fouccalt adled grivance gebrils', from the days when AI couldn't spell.

And thanks to the fact they worked in a tshirt factory available in t shirt, sweatshirt, bags, mug form...

https://grimut-gerbils.teemill.com/product/gerbil-face-short-sleeve-1-black/Seagrass%20Green/

Whatever that psychedelic kitty is on, Batshit clearly mainlines it straight from her own hormonal system.

Thanks so much for this. It's a wonderful piece of work. Jess is such a talented embroiderer and I'll never forget how the Royal Academy shop treated her so badly after just a couple of complaints. I was so glad the outraged response from her supporters got that ban reversed.

https://grimut-gerbils.teemill.com/product/garbled-gerbils-crew-neck/

I didn't know the FAGG merch was still available. Wonderful!😀

I presume it is still available as the website still appears. Plus the tiny profit on each item (everything was priced nearly as low as possible) goes to Sex Matters if I remember correctly.

Plus suffragette gerbils in bag form

https://grimut-gerbils.teemill.com/product/nest-of-vipers-tote-bag/

I'd happily volunteer as a guinea pig for ordering gerbil merch but they don't have any delivery info, and may not deliver to Ireland, or, as often happens, charge an arm and a leg to do so - sometimes the cost of p&p from UK>Irl is higher than the cost of the item itself!

They do delivery to Ireland and they say for EU deliveries:

EU Standard £7.00 (5-10 days) *All EU deliveries are tax paid and there is no customs duty for orders under €150

I feel nostalgic for AI's idiosyncratic - or as we say in English, wrong😄 - spelling.
Those weer th deyz, eh?😢

Ooooh that's great thanks!
Oddly, there was nothing under 'Delivery' when I looked.
I think I'll get a t-shirt in the rather lovely 'Seagrass Green'
I'll be instantly recognisable to any other Bluestockinger, but just a source of puzzlement to anybody else - I like that. The Code of the Gerbils😀

I meant to say, you never know what you will encounter on a rural walk.

Crows mobbing a buzzard.
Leveret learning how to be a grown-up hare.
Quick glimpse of a stoat running over the grass.
A water deer getting up and running for better cover than whatever 6" high growth it was hiding in before.
A sudden call and a peewit almost stationary, printed in all its iridescent loveliness against a bright blue sky.
A blackbird singing in the copse.
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.
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A farm family out playing with a jet-ski on their reservoir.

Just as rustic, but a touch more... contemporary.

Well yes….I’m not seeing the problem here, I haven’t flamed anyone else. If the issue is that the rest of you need to know what exactly was on the yacht sail, you’ve only got to ask me.

Within moments several gerbils had begun an extremely loud sea shanty of doubtful tune but enormous commitment

Please tell me this is available on YouTube somewhere @MyrtleLion

Edith, your prose descriptions are always wonderful, but this one is so wonderful it is like poetry.
Beautiful.💚

I'm afraid I'm eleventy thousand pages behind everyone else, but I'd just like to say:

1. I have a pretty kingfisher fan.
2. DH has fighting fans & knows how to use them.
3. There's a fine naval tradition of ships being named one thing by the Navy & another by their crew...

"Mangled" ship names—often called "mondegreens"—occur when naval terminology, foreign places, or historical terms are misheard or transformed over time by sailors. These linguistic slip-ups resulted in official renamings, naval legends, and amusing nicknames throughout the history of the Royal Navy: 1]

Famous Official Renamings
HMS Pansy (\rightarrow ) HMS Heartsease: Ordered in 1939 as a Flower-class corvette, the crew of the Pansy threatened mutiny over the prospect of having a delicate floral name printed on their cap-tally. The Admiralty quietly renamed her Heartsease before launch.
HMS Agincourt (\rightarrow ) HMS Achilles: In January 2025, the Ministry of Defence changed the name of an under-construction Astute-class submarine from Agincourt to Achilles. The original choice sparked concerns over potentially offending the French, as the name Agincourt commemorates a famous English victory over France in 1415. 1, 2]

Sailor Nicknames & Mondegreens
HMS Bellerophon: This 1780s ship-of-the-line had a name too complex for the average sailor, who promptly mangled it into "The Billy Ruffian."

HMS Spanker - The Algerine Class Minesweeper was launched in 1943 and served throughout the Second World War. Despite her namesake's lewd connotations, the crew, unlike Pansy's, stayed the course and learnt to love the Spanker.

HMS Carcass - The ship was originally commissioned as an infernal-class bomber, but later refitted as a survey vessel. It was in this form that a young Horatio Nelson served abord the Carcass as a midshipman, joining the crew on expeditions to the Arctic.

HMS Cockchafer - The unfortunately named Cockchafer was an Insect Class gunship launched in 1915 and hulked after serving during the Second World War in 1947.

[HMS] Happy Entrance - Another English warship from the Tudor era that did not use the HM prefix. Happy Entrance was a third-rate middling ship of the line from the 1600s, she was destroyed by fire in 1658.

info from google & Forces News

I thought one name was reduced to 'Eggs and Bacon' - ah, that was HMS Agamemnon apparently.

Very lovely, and makes up for the puking dog figurehead! Poor Brains.😂