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to hate the term 'on the blob'?

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Champersonice · 04/05/2011 11:28

After reading about jam sponges on the mooncup thread, I googled and took a look. Under FAQs, they have used the term 'blob'. Yuk! I just hate that expression. Who agrees and what other terms do you dislike?? First one to say, 'got the painters in' gets a jam sponge Wink

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Bumperlicioso · 04/05/2011 20:36

My mum calls it 'woman's week' as in "are you on your woman's week?" She is a 50 year old lesbian psychotherapist with an asymmetric hair cut and a pillar box red fringe to contrast with her black hair, she dresses like a teenage art student. Why in god's name she can't use the word period and instead acts like it's a women's magazine is beyond me!

It also used to be her answer to every one of my ailments. If I was tired, upset, unwell it would always be "are you on your woman's week?". Now all my problems are apparently thyroid related.

GeorgeEliot · 04/05/2011 20:41

Don't see the need to refer to it all actually.

Although DH occasionally asks me if I am 'with mouse' if I am being particularly grumpy.

HRHTheDuchessofCambridge · 04/05/2011 20:46

DH asks if I am excused swimming
I loved the bit in Coronation Street, when Becky told Norris she was feeling ill as she was "shedding her womb lining" - a bit like Jo Brand.

LadyWord - I remember the Tampax Factory song - maybe we were at the same Northern collegiate University ?

dementedma · 04/05/2011 20:52

sometimes i say my guts are bad, which is anatomically incorrect, but DH knows what I mean! My American friend refers to it as the P.o.D - Period of Death!

mrsbumbledosem · 04/05/2011 20:56

the curse

i like on the blob

it's funny / ironic

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Champersonice · 04/05/2011 21:15

Ironic? Like Alanis sang:

"Isn't it ironic, don't ya think
like logging on to mumsnet
and being on your blob"

WTF? Irony??? Are you sure you know what ironic means??

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Verso · 04/05/2011 21:18

Great thread! Had totally forgotten "on the blob" from school. Ick.

I just use "period" and am v matter of fact about it. I have two daughters - hope I can share/not share the right amount of info when the time comes.

My Mum followed the "Good Housekeeping" family manual (which was kept on a high shelf) to a T (not realising I'd already found and read it...) and "chose a quiet moment" (as it said) - "perhaps when sorting laundry..." (I knew something was up as we never "sorted laundry" together) "and then offer a book - "Peter and Pamela grow up" is a good choice" (I can still see the cover - aargh) "and then suggest your daughter read it privately".

Well after this blizzard of close bonding and information sharing, when my periods eventually started I was so uncomfortable about mentioning them to her, I told my (big) sister, who found me a sanitary "napkin" from the dark ages (with the loops on the end!) and told me not to be so silly and tell Mum. Told Mum and SHE WENT MENTAL! Shock Hmm

who? me? scarred for life?<
wibble<

I might add I had some EXCELLENT school friends who soon furnished me with Lilets and Tampax Grin, so I soon got over it!

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Champersonice · 04/05/2011 21:23

Oh no - the ones with loops on the end?? Argh! I remember in junior school having a 'talk' about it. The boys went off somewhere and us girls were given a bunch of sanitary towels - they were hideous but at least we didn't get given any with loops at the end!!

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midnightservant · 04/05/2011 21:48

Champers - I know it's biblical. A biblical myth if you like. And the curse of Eve sounds more Deeply Mythical to me than Eve's curse.

In actual fact it was a day or two of horrible pain, plus the squits each month. That's pretty biological, if TMI.

GregoryPeck · 04/05/2011 21:59

My Dp calls it 'Pop week'- his own little phrase he has coined. Bless him. It stems from him asking 'Is it 'Pants On Purpose?' if I get into bed with pants on during my period.
I quite like it, its cute.

cardibach · 04/05/2011 22:06

I've just made my 15 year old daughter giggle by reading these out! SHe is formidably straight about it and has never been the slightest bit embarrassed. I'd lie to think it was due to my excellently down to earth and straightforward 'talks'. Actually I think that's just how she is.

Trinaluce · 04/05/2011 22:19

70 year old MiL calls it The Curse.

I call it leakage or say I'm leaking. Can't remember how it came about - possibly from being really embarassed about telling DH the very first time. Nothing to be embarassed about, I know, I know - but I was young and it was the start of the relationship....

Being 28 weeks pg now it feels like decades since I last 'leaked'!

ScatterChasse · 04/05/2011 22:21

At school we used to say 'there's a P in the markbook', because if you didn't want to swim on your period, she'd put a P on the register, so you couldn't keep using that as an excuse.

mrsbumbledosem · 04/05/2011 22:21

champer, yes, I am sure, and as you are not can I refer you to this
why on the blob is ironic use of language

bogbeanie · 04/05/2011 23:07

haha Jeremy - I will henceforth have the bleedy widgies!

RoxyRobin · 04/05/2011 23:27

The Museum of Menstruation has an extensive list of words and expressions for menstruation - mainly American, though. 'Kate Bush-ing' claimed to be a favourite - ???

www.mum.org/words.html

NumptyMum · 04/05/2011 23:28

Never heard of 'on the blob' but had to laugh at 'got the painters in' as last week I had to text colleague from work to say I'd be late as the painter had just arrived; painter really HAD just arrived, to paint our windows. She of course thought I'd suddenly got to return home for supplies...

TheSmallClanger · 04/05/2011 23:41

I've always disliked "on the blob", not sure why. I think boys used to use that term at school.

Here, it is a period, I am on/come on my period, or just "come on".

My mum refers to tampons as "plugs", which makes me cringe a bit. Thankfully, she is now menopausal and has no need for such things.

unlucky67 · 04/05/2011 23:41

In our house it is 'on my period' or just 'bleeding'...on the blob etc is yuk...or too wordy...
My DD at 3ish caught me on the the loo, saw blood and got upset - I said it was ok happens to everyone etc and it doesn't hurt (Hmm).
A while later she found my tampons and asked what they were for - think I expected her to remember more than she did and wasn't very clear...found her jumping up and down on the bed with no pants, lilet poking out of her 'lips' (so to speak) chanting 'mummy's got a pretend willie'....
What worried me most was why she thought I needed a willie....

Jonnyfan · 04/05/2011 23:54

This thread is hilarious! The whole thing made us cringe at school; we would say we were "on" and had the P in the markbook thing if we didn't want to shower after games. The shower was a strip off- run through-grab a towel at the other end! We hated it so much and would claim to bo "on" as often as we possibly could!

CointreauVersial · 05/05/2011 00:21

I've not heard the phrase "on the blob" - thank goodness, it's awful.

At boarding school it was always "the curse". We talked about it all the time; everything I learned on the subject was from mates at school.

In this house, we "have the decorators in". Lots of cheesy opportunities to stretch the metaphor:
"well, they're almost finished; onto the woodwork now". Or
"they've been a bit careless and had a spillage" Then finally
"the dustsheets have been put away for another month".

Oh, the laughs we have. Hmm

Liking "Arsenal playing at home", but it will confuse the hell out of DS1 who is their no.1 fan.

Mrswhiskerson · 05/05/2011 00:38

My ex used to say sheep sitting ,

my dh knows exactly when I am due just by the change in my mood, I get a
sort of
mini depression where I get sad and weepy , I hate it but dh is very very nice about it.
I say I have got cramps if anyone asks , a woman knows why another woman has cramps so nothing more need be said other than let
me buy you some chocolate/ ibruprofen.

I just can't say period for some reason , it just makes
me cringe as does menstruating , I really hate it if someone asks
me if I am on it's such a personal thing a bit like asking someone if they had had a poo that morning .

If I suspect someone is on and suffering rather than ask if they are on I will just offer painkillers/water etc.

Mrswhiskerson · 05/05/2011 00:55

A schoolfriend would simply walk into class clutching her stomach and loudly announce she was blobbing or ask the teacher for a tampon in front of the whole mixed class totally nonchalant .

1944girl · 05/05/2011 01:00

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burgerclub · 05/05/2011 01:06

I say "the lining of my uterus is coming away and being expelled via my vagina."