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YeahTubaMike posted:
Cause I wasn't really paying attention? Why would I? I wasn't about to pick through a bathroom trash can to check on those used pads/tampons. Besides which, my mom had me later in life, so by the time I really knew that periods were a thing at all, she was already post-menopausal, and my sister is the oldest and almost ten years older than me, so right around the same time was when she left for college.
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YeahTubaMike posted:2) If you grew up in a household with at least one uterus-haver, how on earth did they hide their days-long periods from you? Because they didn't announce it?
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Sep 10, 2020 16:06
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DrBouvenstein posted:Cause I wasn't really paying attention? Why would I? I wasn't about to pick through a bathroom trash can to check on those used pads/tampons. Huh, well I guess that does make sense. edit: for the record, my mom had me when she was 20, so I guess I just assume everyone's mom had them young YeahTubaMike has a new favorite as of 16:27 on Sep 10, 2020 |
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Sep 10, 2020 16:10
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Henchman of Santa posted:Because they didn't announce it? Lol if you live in a house that doesn't have klaxons and strobes for code red.
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Sep 10, 2020 17:45
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My family was like period ninjas, you'd catch a possible glimpse of a tampon wrapper but then there'd be a big puff of smoke and it was gone before you were sure
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Sep 10, 2020 17:47
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I don't think I've ever known whether a family member or roommate was on their period unless they specifically mentioned it for some reason.
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Sep 10, 2020 17:56
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Lmao if your family didn't call a meeting every time with helpful printouts and an hourly schedule.
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Sep 10, 2020 18:04
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Our family killed and ate all the women aside from the brood mother who was kept pregnant at all times to avoid wasted eggs.
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Sep 10, 2020 21:20
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We had a red shade in a small front window that we pulled down whenever it was that time of the month for anyone in the house.
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Sep 10, 2020 21:41
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Hirayuki posted:We had a red shade in a small front window that we pulled down whenever it was that time of the month for anyone in the house. They also did this in London during the war. German pilots could still see the houses through the the shades unlike those with blackout curtains, but they still avoided bombing those homes because they were boys and easily grossed out
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Sep 10, 2020 21:54
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There's kind of an old fashioned mindset that periods are all 'womens' business' that men should be shielded from. My mother was hospitalised when I was in my late 20s and needed me to collect some things from home including tampons. Despite having lived with a woman for years she was still talking to me like I had no concept of what they were.
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Sep 10, 2020 22:45
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back in japan i had my dog spayed by the vet, after the surgery my wife asked if she could see the ovaries because she was curious, at which point the vet warned me specifically that because im a man, i might be terrified and disgusted by the sight and i was like lol no why would i be
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Sep 10, 2020 22:49
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When I was part of a students' union, the idea of having some generic tampons and pads in our freely available first-aid kit (which had cotton swabs, alcohol, band-aids and aspirin mostly) was floated around, so any gals in need could help themselves without needing to even ask. The two guys doing the shopping needed us to point out the exact supplies to buy on a catalog because, despite both of them being on their mid 20s and having sisters, they had no idea what was needed or what did we mean by "just buy some normal pads/tampons, no need to complicate matters". We also had to fight a bit against the general male idea of "those are yuck and who will use them anyway?". I kinda wanted to tell them that if they got really bad nosebleeds unannounced once a month they too would want to have something on hand to hold it on and not get blood everywhere 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I don't think I've ever known whether a family member or roommate was on their period unless they specifically mentioned it for some reason. My mother had uterine fibroids and a hysterectomy when I was 6 so I had absolutely no idea. A female friend had to explain things when I was 17.
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Sep 10, 2020 23:16
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Our water was turned off for the whole neighborhood today, and it was supposed to be turned back on at 6pm, but it hasn't been. Thank goodness I filled up all our buckets first. However. I never realized how much we really depend on water for eating. Can't wash fruit or vegetables. Can't eat Doritos. (I'm not using chopsticks) Can't make macaroni and cheese Can't make other pasta No rice Basically I'm reduced to canned ravioli and frozen mini pizza.
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Sep 15, 2020 10:04
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Beachcomber posted:Our water was turned off for the whole neighborhood today, and it was supposed to be turned back on at 6pm, but it hasn't been. Thank goodness I filled up all our buckets first. Just lick your fingers, geez.
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Sep 15, 2020 10:08
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Jiru posted:When I was part of a students' union, the idea of having some generic tampons and pads in our freely available first-aid kit (which had cotton swabs, alcohol, band-aids and aspirin mostly) was floated around, so any gals in need could help themselves without needing to even ask. The two guys doing the shopping needed us to point out the exact supplies to buy on a catalog because, despite both of them being on their mid 20s and having sisters, they had no idea what was needed or what did we mean by "just buy some normal pads/tampons, no need to complicate matters". I also have a sister and a mother, but for some strange reason they never went into detail as to their tampon/pad usage. I honestly think you're being a little unfair here, as a college-aged guy without a long-term girlfriend I 100% would have double-checked as well. I wouldn't want to come back with some insanely inappropriate type of tampon that explodes when handled incorrectly or something, you'd be telling stories about that instead.
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Sep 15, 2020 10:15
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Phlegmish posted:I wouldn't want to come back with some insanely inappropriate type of tampon that explodes when handled incorrectly or something, you'd be telling stories about that instead. Tambombs only go off if you don't make the appropriate genuflections and benediction to Inanna when you buy them, don't you know anything?  Next you'll be telling us how you don't know how to correctly insert an IED.
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Sep 15, 2020 10:50
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I knew there was a reason we used to make my sister go sit outside alone in the ritual shame hut during her period
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Sep 15, 2020 11:01
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Jiru posted:"just buy some normal pads/tampons, no need to complicate matters" Surely in such a situation you'd actually want the biggest, most absorbent, wingiest pads you can get rather than 'regular'.
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Sep 15, 2020 11:26
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Yes, I will take the Xtreme Edition Ultratampons, please. Can these be overclocked? I don't mind if it costs a little more, I'd do anything for my womenfolk.
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Sep 15, 2020 11:37
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I don't know poo poo about periods either. Boys just didn't get taught anything about them at my school. I remember the boys and the girls splitting off sometimes in health class. Presumably the girls were learning about periods. I don't remember what they taught us. Really, they should have taught us about periods too. That menstruation thread is very educational, and I think a good idea for folks who do not have periods to also read. Speaking of bad menstruation education for men: when NASA was sending up their first female astronaut, Sally Ride, they asked her whether 100 tampons would be enough. For her seven day mission. When she told them that was overkill, they ignored her and packed that many just in case. (Well, they were not just dumb but also sexist, but anyway)
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Sep 15, 2020 12:06
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Hyperlynx posted:
Valentina Tereshkova just used a pencil.
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Sep 15, 2020 12:22
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Phlegmish posted:Yes, I will take the Xtreme Edition Ultratampons, please. I've seen postpartum menstrual pads which an ice hockey goalie could use as leg pads, poo poo gets real serious at the deep end E: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Vulvas splitting like a dropped watermelon off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-sections ripen and burst in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be permanently recorded in time, in posts on Instagram. Time to get born. 
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Sep 15, 2020 13:08
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Humphreys posted:Just lick your fingers, geez. That's like trying to mop up blood by rolling an Ebola victim around the floor.
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Sep 15, 2020 13:58
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There’s got to be a better way! Like not eating the entire bag in one sitting.
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Sep 15, 2020 14:10
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TK-42-1 posted:There’s got to be a better way! That isn't life. I've lived for periods without running water, fridge and stove before. It's pretty amazing telling people how to get by without and they seem like I'm telling them to saw off their own legs and eat them.
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Sep 15, 2020 15:54
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I know right? Just have your servants feed them to you, obviously.
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Sep 15, 2020 15:56
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Just rinse your Dorito fingers in your MTNDEW.
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Sep 15, 2020 16:59
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bewilderment posted:Surely in such a situation you'd actually want the biggest, most absorbent, wingiest pads you can get rather than 'regular'. Humphreys posted:Just lick your fingers, geez.
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Sep 15, 2020 17:04
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Just lol if you dont have Enrique lick your fingers for you.
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Sep 15, 2020 17:11
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Quiet Feet posted:Just lol if you dont have Enrique lick your fingers for you. That's not the sort of relationship I want to have with Enrique.
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Sep 15, 2020 19:47
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Didn't you guys notice the bathroom smelt like blood?
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Sep 15, 2020 20:27
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UltraRed posted:Didn't you guys notice the bathroom smelt like blood? Code V, repeat, we have a Code V situation, all hands ready your crucifixes
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Sep 15, 2020 21:09
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RoboRodent posted:That's not the sort of relationship I want to have with Enrique. That's on you then prude.
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Sep 15, 2020 21:17
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The Righteous Brothers. I'm not gonna even say what.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Code V, repeat, we have a Code V situation, all hands ready your crucifixes V has come (to) poo.
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Sep 16, 2020 10:22
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The Righteous Brothers. I'm not gonna even say what. Did you just find out they're white?
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Sep 16, 2020 15:48
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I don't know who the Righteous Brothers are but I bet he got them confused with the Wright Brothers
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Phlegmish posted:I don't know who the Righteous Brothers are but I bet he got them confused with the Wright Brothers Let us not forget the Right Brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeD8-SnLtwE
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