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Welcome to The Bluestocking, the best (perhaps only) online women's pub. Nothing in the food or drink can harm you, everything is served by a very enthusiastic crew of gerbils, who enjoy doing this and other interesting things. Any curious menfolk are welcome at the Staunch Ally down the road.

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The picture that is.

Fnar fnar

I don’t know about the top line but the Sigara one says smokers are more likely to get limp dicks. Not a problem in the Bluey of course.

I know nothing at all about these things.. but it seems like a good deterrent to me, if the male smokers believe it. Perhaps good for putting off young men who aren't hooked on smoking yet.

I'm a bit worried about this. It might not be good for our gentle supporters. Perhaps it's an outside shot of those who aren't allowed in, and are on the window ledge looking inside?

Hello Finbar.

I look forward to that image finding it's way on to packets here.

I believe I was misinformed. I thought they were Patrons. Turns out they were agency staff as the male gerbils have come down with mangerbil flu.

Did you know male gerbils own their own little dressing gowns of doom

Well I'm back from the shops and popped into the Bluey and was enjoying all this biblical stuff - if you suggest the sparrows-find-a-house trope to your vicar for a sermon, you might wish to tell him that you were reminded of it by a radical lesbian feminism atheist - maybe not when he's drinking tea, though...

But in no time you had lerd the tern [cf 'sner on the rerd'] with red-hot sex😁

Kitty's suggestion that it might have been a warning not to insert cigarettes anywhere except your mouth reminded me of this - back in the time of the book Our Bodies Ourselves, there was a bit of a fad for 'self-examination' using a speculum [not speculoos...] and a health warning was issued that nothing should be inserted in the vagina that hadn't been thoroughly sterilised by boiling first😏

It used to appear on UK ciggies but it's EU copyright and we weren't allowed to use it after Brexit. I understand that the images on our fags are courtesy of Australia.

So cute! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww!💙

• which will happen first: will the A and W keys wear out, or will I get Reptitive Strain Injury??

I don't know what Squee-n actually means, Android, but I can guess and I willingly accept the mantle👑.
Or the crown, since there isn't a 'mantle' emoji😄

Translation from Gemini

The text on the packaging is written in two languages: Greek and Turkish.
Here is the translation of each section into English:
Top Warning Label (Black Box)

• Greek: Το κάπνισμα αυξάνει τον κίνδυνο σεξουαλικής ανικανότητας
• Turkish: Sigara içmek cinsel iktidarsızlık riskini artırır
• English Translation: Smoking increases the risk of sexual impotence.

Helpline Information (Yellow Banner)

• Greek: Γραμμή διακοπής του καπνίσματος: 1431
• Turkish: Sigara Bırakma Danışma Hattı: 1431
• English Translation: Smoking Cessation Helpline: 1431

Product Brand (Bottom Section)

• English: Superkings Original Black

Thank you Myrtle. Obviously very important and sensible messaging but not as much fun as my childish, alcohol fuelled inference.

Feck sensible messaging, Janes, yours [and responses] were fun😂😂😂

Ah, good news and relief about the agency staff but sad news about mangerbil flu.

Duck Duck Go (my usual search engine) tells me that the currently dominant Covid variant in Europe is called XFG. That G isn’t for Gerbil, is it?

nothing should be inserted in the vagina that hadn't been thoroughly sterilised by boiling first

Goodness me! It had never occurred to me that the legendary penis beaker was used to hold boiling water!

And a cheery hello to all our male readers...

I thought my cousin who made her husband wash his knob in dettol first was a bit ott. I imagine if boiling water had been a legal option she'd have chosen that.

Those gerbils do have very pink noses.

I’d be prepared to be sympathetic for a day or two, but that will stop very quickly if Germane shares his affliction with our Gerbils.

How on earth do you know that, about the dettol I mean? I hope it was diluted first.

I'm so glad you asked that, so I didn't have to.

It was neat dettol! Same way I know about the fish, she told me.

As for the fish, she used to microwave it to near defrosted, leave on the side for a bit, then return to the freezer. Repeat every time he pissed her off. When he finally pissed her off enough that she served him the fish the swine was so pickled from the alcohol he consumed daily that the fish did nothing!

With that context, I think I might have reached for the neat Dettol too.

This!!!

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