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

in Portland an excited chickadee unpacked a newly-arrived box of Yorkshire Gold teabags and put the kettle on to boil. “Tunnocks!” She chirped in anticipation.

Three million pounds?

Hmmm. As a pirate, I confess to wondering whether we might be seizing this stash of smuggled goods to take back to the Blue Stocking….🏴‍☠️

Kitty thinks that if there’s going to be any reward or profit involved, she’d like her share in top grade silvervine & catnip.

I'm not fussy, I'll take my share in gold. As is traditional for pirates.

Perfect as always .

I'm being thick here.
I've used Safari for years but I'm finding it a pain in the arse. So I've downloaded Chrome, but I can't work out how to log in to MN there. AI or a Google search give me a link to the log-in page, but all that comes up is the front page. You can set up a new account of you want to post on a thread, but I cannot find where to look in with existing credentials.

Help me, wims! Plz.

If this first attempt goes well, we could develop a smuggling den behind a hidden vault at the BS. We could branch out. Dig tunnels. We could, of course, use the profits for good deeds if we chose to. Redistribution of goods etc. And silverline, of course. Secret knocks at the door. Lanterns against the stone walls by
the underground river beneath the basement where the small boats anchor. I just can’t shake the feeling that we wouldn’t get caught.

Not that I’ve started to dwell on it or anything.

I think you have to sign in with google, which is an option further down.

When I search for either 'sign' or 'log', nothing relevant comes up - just sign a petition or whatever.
Driving me nuts

Ooh tunnels, yes, we must have secret tunnels and lanterns to light us into the deep!

Sorry, Edith, can't help because I hate Chrome so much, I uninstalled it from my phone! You could try DuckDuckGo's browser? Supposed to be nice and simple?

I knew those 'fishermen' you met at the secret pub would turn out to be smugglers @Swashbuckled 😂

I’ve just tried to do it and the page just goes blank and nothing happens. Not sure if it’s because my google account (that I never use but just made because I had to for some long lost reason) is a different email address to the one I’m already logged in with on Mumsnet through…

I use Safari but don’t have any issues with it really….

I know. I knew it too…

And there ARE old smuggling tunnels under the secret fishermen pub. I think it will be an aim of mine to get them secretly opened up one day.

Edith, sometimes, in the past, if I switched to incognito mode for Chrome, I could get it to do what I wanted. My phone provider's log in page/pop up wouldn't show unless I switched.

Do we think we'll be moving tonight or tomorrow morning? I don't want to miss the move!

It all sounds very complicated....I'll try again tomorrow. Thanks to those who have offered advice.

Sorry, Edith, I can’t help.

When I’m on the desktop I use Chrome. I sign into gmail first, which needs 2FA on another device. When, later, I go into Mumsnet I have to sign in, but it remembers my email (not a gmail one) and password so I just I just click on “Log in”.

Edith, I don;t know if you have tried the following:

From the homepage, click on the little person sign top right.
Scroll down to the sign in option. It should prompt you to enter your e-mail and password to log in. Also, make sure you tick the 'keep me signed in' box.

Hope this works for you, if not you can e-mail MN for help at [email protected]

Auntie is correct. But you have to read the pop-up screen carefully because they are trying to force you to login with Apple or Google. If you look at the very bottom it will say, “Already have an account? login”.

then you will get a login screen asking again to logician Apple or Google and you can fill in your email address and then password in the fields below.

Thanks, I'll try that when I have a moment and report back!

Well, I'm in.
I clicked on 'I'm on' randomly (which I swear I tried yesterday) and it gave me the pop-up screen with the list of options to sign up or log in. On Myrtle's advice I kept on scrolling and was able to log in with email and pwd.

Probably I just need to update Safari, but I always dread updating my Mac after problems in the past. I can't remember what the problems were, there's just this overhand of old stress...

Morning, Edith,glad you've managed. Actually, I find Mumsnet incredibly glitchy, no matter what browser I am using. I think it's the overwhelming, constant barrage of ads that some browsers/devices can't cope with, depending on what settings you've chosen. I've got privacy set to the max on all my devices, and I don't think MN likes that, and I get booted out regularly and have to log in again.

It does glitch, Angle, but I'm too tight to subscribe!

Speaking of tight - or thrifty as I prefer to call it - I am currently keeping a close eye on heating oil prices. I want to top up over the summer to the desired level of 'not gonna ave space for a gnat's cock in there' (as the last delivery bloke put it). Prices are still almost 50% up on what they were at the end of Feb.

Busy day in the offing - our lovely builder has turned up to do a rather important repair to a large piece of structurally important woodwork, which of course required a 15 minute chat about dogs, gardens, pigeons etc. Must crack on...

Poor Boily! But you know the old saying:
if you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it’s yours forever.
If it doesn’t, then it's probaby involved in a complex smuggling operation somewhere off the coast of New England involving gerbils, Viking longboars, dragons, an over-excited dog, a legal eagle ocelot, a valiant pirate cap'n who, when she says 'What's that in old money?' means gold doubloons, etc etc......

Work going on in my house too, Edith - it's wonderful that it's getting done, but I haaaaaaate the disruption, do you?😣
In my case it's just a follow-up to the bigger job they did a few weeks ago, so the house should be back to normal soon; hope your work goes well and swiftly too
edited to say dammit I was too late to correct a typo in my previous post, 'longboars' for 'longboats'
Interesting fact: 'Longboars' is what miniature pigs call normal-sized pigs, did you know that?😏