The Bluestocking Womens Pub in an Adventure with Pirates!

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New thread. You know the deal - women's pub, men to the Staunch Ally next door.

Some of us are currently on the trail of an international seed smuggling ring, just for background information.

Ooh ooh ooh! I'm also wearing Next linen trousers, but full length. I found them in a recent "I wonder what's in this box?" moment whilst in the wardrobe.

Mine are from 2007/2008 ish. I'm pairing them with a Gap sweatshirt from probably the same time period. Finished off with my other, none gone on a voyage to Portland, pair of Highland Cow slippers.

Ta da.

I may have used a sharpie to colour in the slippers to match the outfit. Or the AI may have gone off on one with the blue theme!

You and I are clearly very fashion- forward today Boily.
My trousers are supposed to be full length (indeed, they are labelled as " long) but sit about 4" above my ankles.

Thanks for the tips, Edith! I hate crowds (can actually bring on mini-panic attacks) so I use the Tube only when extremely quiet, or when absolutely necessary. Otherwise I walk. The Eliz Line is pretty good, but getting out at Tottenham Ct Rd, I really have to steel myself! But Muji is just one block north, so I do it anyway.

Speaking pants, Muji is my go-to now.

I realise about an hour ago that I had been unnecessarily wearing a bra for three hours!

Obviously said abomination has been taken off and stuffed behind a throw cushion on the sofa.

Three hours of wearing a bra in my own home when no one was visiting, FFS. Gerbils, being me a strong drink as I recover from the shock

Fetching!😀

You look amazing, Boily!

i'm assuming this is for pants-knickers not pants-trousers?

And don't even start me on an American friend at uni who thought he was doing well with a young woman, indeed, that things were moving on far faster than he had ever hoped, when she said she needed to buy some rubbers.

He had a moment of stunned joy, then translated 'rubber' into English, and glumly headed with her to WHSmith.

Always!

Yes, pants/knickers-I seem to have lost the ability to call trousers pants now. Just makes me giggle immaturely! The rubber thing I had completely forgotten about... yeah, must've been a bummer for him 😁

I do still say trash and sidewalk and blocks (for distance), but I can mix it up with the "proper words" seamlessly. It's like being bilingual. And I can swear pretty well in "English" and Welsh, but I don't do a lot of swearing anyway (maybe at the radio sometimes).

One of my parlour tricks is taking off my bra without taking off my top. I don’t do it any more, because I need a bra on all day, otherwise I trip over my norks.

Incidentally:

fetch, n (1530) Trick, strategem; or distance along open water or land over which the wind blows; or the distance traversed by waves without obstruction

fetch, n [unknown origin] (1787) doppelgänger; or ghost

fetching, adj (1880) Attractive; pleasing

So, how did we get to "fetching" (meaning attractive) from the earlier meanings?

I never take my top off to remove my bra - isn't that normal?

Are other women taking their blouses or T shirts or jumpers off and not just sliding the straps down their arms and tanking the bra out of the neck hole??
Have I been doing it wrong since I was 15?

According to Etymonline
"fetching(adj.)
1580s, "crafty, scheming," present-participle adjective from fetch (v.), in one of its extended senses, here "bring or draw into a desired relation or condition." The sense of "alluring, fascinating" is by 1880, from the verb in the sense "allure, attract, fascinate" (c. 1600). "

I remember reading an American story where a bloke was going out in his new pants & red suspenders.

The initial picture in my head was not what the author had in mind.

There's the missing piece!

DH was bemused by a colleague mentioning her leather vest and pants😂. But he’d managed to ask the secretary for a rubber. And he had to tactfully explain to another rather exuberant colleague why in the U.K. he might want to moderate his usual greeting “Hi! I’m Randy!”

My bra stays on from morning till night so I never have any need to take it off while leaving my top in-situ. But I will readily admit that I'm close to the top end of the cup size scale at a JJ. I would be in extreme discomfort without a bra.

Also, it's actually really difficult to take my bra off from under my top with that amount of breast tissue in the way!

I can take off my bra with a top on but don’t often - going down the stairs etc is much more comfortable with it on. I sometimes undo the back when I’m watching tv in the evening.

I use "fetch" with "up" as it to end up or turn up somewhere.
"If I got on the big train, I'd fetch up in London".

And he had to tactfully explain to another rather exuberant colleague why in the U.K. he might want to moderate his usual greeting “Hi! I’m Randy!”

I used to know a young American bloke called Randy. Once he understood what it meant over here, he introduced himself with even more exuberance.

I have watched Ladies First on Netflix so you don’t have to.

”Red” Tennant (David Tennant’s son, Wilfred) plays Rosamund Pike’s daughter, Charlie. Red identifies as non-binary apparently.

It’s a cheap joke that a sexist man ends up in a world where women are in charge and returns to the male world changed and no longer sexist.

And the only reason I watched was because Rosamund Pike, Harriet Walter and Charles Dance were in it.

I have a rule not to watch Sacha Baron-Cohen and I broke it because I didn’t realise it was him. Idiot.

Don’t bother.

Didn't the Two Ronnies do something along those lines?

The Worm That Turned?