I don't like running, period.

[Hugh Fatbastard]

I don't like running, period.

WOM wrote: I'm with Bored. Can't stand running.

You were the first person I thought of when I saw this thread.

[Bored Of Education]

I don't like running, period.

WOM wrote: I'm with Bored. Can't stand running.

Bloody right. Unfortunately, I have to do it so I can eat and drink to a reasonable degree and still get out of a normal sized chair.

[WOM]

I don't like running, period.

Hugh Fatbastard wrote:

I'm with Bored. Can't stand running.

You were the first person I thought of when I saw this thread.

You were the first person I thought of when someone mentioned needing a 'movement' during a marathon.

[ursus arctos]

I don't like running, period.

My wife's boss uses the old 'mad cow disease' gag coz he's the king of banter, and that's obviously the worst of all.

Can she use the old "Lorena Bobbitt Day" gag in reply? Or cover her wall with Salome and Lulu posters?

[Vulgarian Visigoth]

I don't like running, period.

"For example, they tell you that for men, their nipples will bleed because of the chafing between their shirts and their skin.

Does that actually happen to anyone? They must have nipples like a lactating woman...

[Bored Of Education]

I don't like running, period.

Maybe on marathons. Not on half-marathons.

[MsD]

I don't like running, period.

Thing is - on the one hand, some women are relatively unaffected by menstruation, and none of us want to be excluded from daily life, work, decision-making and adventure because of it; maybe that has led to some of us downplaying it, I don't know.

Then there are those of us - like me, for the last ten years or so - who could be described as "disabled" for at least one day a month, but who can't be classified (and protected) as such.

Whatever our personal experiences, the stigma serves to make it worse for us.

[Jimski]

I don't like running, period.

MsD wrote: It's not really the way, but if it promotes discussion,
I'm all for it.

This is my view on it too, so good on Gandhi. A brave thing to do.

[G-Man]

I don't like running, period.

I thank good old Bravo magazine in Germany for the sex ed it gave to generations of young people. If one read it, then there were no great mysteries about stuff like menstruation. That, and the many ads for tampons and pads, some with drawn graphics depicting how they fit.

I don't presume to speak on behalf of the great German public, but it seems to me that in Western culture, Anglo attitudes towards menstruation and most things happening beneath the belt are rather repressed.

[Incandenza]

I don't like running, period.

Roderick Spodes black shorts wrote:

"For example, they tell you that for men, their nipples will bleed because of the chafing between their shirts and their skin.

Does that actually happen to anyone? They must have nipples like a lactating woman...

[Jimski]

I don't like running, period.

Ouch. I find that far more cringe-making than the photos of Gandhi with her menstrual blood.

[G-Man]

I don't like running, period.

This open letter to Proctor & Gamble by a menstrual pad user has some amusing moments.

[Toby Gymshorts]

I don't like running, period.

G-Man wrote: Anglo attitudes towards everything are rather repressed.

Fixed that for you, G-man.

[G-Man]

I don't like running, period.

Good point. Thanks.

[Vulgarian Visigoth]

I don't like running, period.

G-Man wrote: I thank good old Bravo magazine in Germany for the sex ed it gave to generations of young people. If one read it, then there were no great mysteries about stuff like menstruation. That, and the many ads for tampons and pads, some with drawn graphics depicting how they fit.

I don't presume to speak on behalf of the great German public, but it seems to me that in Western culture, Anglo attitudes towards menstruation and most things happening beneath the belt are rather repressed.

Are English-speaking countries the only 'Western' countries where those ads are not commonplace?

I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case.

[Amor de Cosmos]

I don't like running, period.

I've got to admit that when I came to North America in the early 70s I was momentarily shocked to see ads for tampons and sanitary pads on TV. They certainly didn't exist in Britain at the time. I don't think it had much to with sexual education or openness though, but more to do with the American obsession with bodily hygiene. The horror of all body-fluids and odors struck me as extremely weird at the time — it was also the era of "feminine deodorant sprays." It was as if an entire nation was trying to cleanse itself outwardly, to compensate for being terminally fucked up in every other way.

[MsD]

I don't like running, period.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11746062/Singers-sanitary-towel-drops-out-of-her-knickers-live-on-TV.html

The story is in the link name - her reaction was very good.

[treibeis]

I don't like running, period.

When I worked in a Co-op in the 1980s, we weren't allowed to say "tampons", "panty liners" and whatnot on the shop floor. We had to call them "STs", which, as I eventually discovered, was short for "sanitary towels".

A customer once asked one of my colleagues what "STs" meant. He blushed and said, "You know, madam. Them ... them ... them ... them period blockers."

[Bored Of Education]

I don't like running, period.

Of course, there was a very early example of tampon upfrontness onstage.

[ursus arctos]

I don't like running, period.

Amor, someone should write an article about those ads if they haven't already.

They were highly schizophrenic, in that they were not allowed to be overt as to the actual use of the product.

So one got the impression that American housewives were desperately concerned about pouring coloured water on themselves.

[WOM]

I don't like running, period.

Viagra / Cialis ads are like that today. It's nuts, really.

[ursus arctos]

I don't like running, period.

Yes, and given their ubiquity on sporting events, there are a lot of very confused seven year old boys out there.

[WOM]

I don't like running, period.

They should ask their doctor if it's right for them.

[Amor de Cosmos]

I don't like running, period.

ursus arctos wrote: Amor, someone should write an article about those ads if they haven't already.

They were highly schizophrenic, in that they were not allowed to be overt as to the actual use of the product.

So one got the impression that American housewives were desperately concerned about pouring coloured water on themselves.

Jerry Della Famina in From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front Line Dispatches from the Advertising War writes extensively about them. His agency had the account for Feminique (IIRC.) He claims every scrap of research, before and during the product's lifetime, indicated there was zero market interest, yet millions of dollars was spent in trying to convince women otherwise.

[MsD]

I don't like running, period.

Btw, if anyone or their partner is considering a Novasure ablation to relieve menstrual problems, DON'T DO IT.