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AIBU?

... to not understand what panty liners are for.

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woollyideas · 14/07/2011 15:18

I just don't get it. Either it's TOTM and you need to use something, or you don't need anything.

(Feeling disgusted having just emptied about 40 of the damned things - used but clean if you know what I mean - from the bathroom bin* and need a rant.)

Oh, the waste! The plastic! The bleached paper! The pointlessness of it all...

*deposited by language student...

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IroningBoardForSurfBoard · 14/07/2011 16:20

is that better?

JanMorrow · 14/07/2011 16:20

I could have said dribbly flaps but I didn't.. consider yourselves lucky.

woollyideas · 14/07/2011 16:22

Thanks LRD. I knew I was normal.

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LieInsAreRarerThanTigers · 14/07/2011 16:24

LRD straight out? What, the window? Or you go out to the dustbin at 3 a.m. in your scanties? Sorry, not being arsey, it just gave me an amusing image in my mind.

LieInsAreRarerThanTigers · 14/07/2011 16:25

Or, talking of hanging around, you could peg them on a little line and use them as fly paper.

Becaroooo · 14/07/2011 16:25

pmsl @ "dribbly flaps"

Sadly more apposite in my case

Becaroooo · 14/07/2011 16:26

lie wouldnt they....attract the flies rather than repelling them????

ewww..........

JanMorrow · 14/07/2011 16:29

that's why fly papers do becarooo.. they get stuck to them.

Here's another - moist minge.

MumblingRagDoll · 14/07/2011 16:51

Agree that bin needs to be lined. Bathroom waste is usually germy and/or sticky.

woollyideas · 14/07/2011 16:56

I will review my bin practice. Until now, the worst thing my bin has seen is a fairtrade, organic cotton wool pad.

Goes off to think about what germy, sticky things most people put in their bins...

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LRDTheFeministNutcase · 14/07/2011 16:56

at liein.

We live in a little block of flats, so I pop down to the dustbin and put them straight in. I'm really anal about it since my parents didn't have a bathroom bin and insisted this stuff went in the wastepaper basket in my room (boak). But I would guess anyone who uses a mooncup will also have a bathroom bin that doesn't really get messy waste in it.

LRDTheFeministNutcase · 14/07/2011 16:57

Sorry ... that made no sense ... we live in a little block of flats with a communal dustbin that's inside in the basement.

HalfTermHero · 14/07/2011 18:06

The can be useful if you get super horny and soaking wet thinking about your dh around ovulation time. I don't bother with panty liners though I just change my knickers a couple of times a day if needed.

Hulababy · 14/07/2011 18:07

I used to use them as my sanitary protection before I had a couple of minor ops to repair adhesions in my uterus caused by Ashermans Syndrome. I didn't really need anything more, but needed something iyswim.

wallstreet · 14/07/2011 18:12

Very bizarre that you (a) don't use a bin liner (b) leave a guest's bin unchanged for, ooh, a month and then (c) come online to advertise this?
Though have to say when I stayed somewhere lately I ensured I emptied my own bin at the end of the weekend for this particular reason.

woollyideas · 14/07/2011 18:38

Wallstreet, couldn't be bothered to read the whole thread before having a go, eh?

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IWantAnotherBaby · 14/07/2011 18:56

I use one occasionally, at damper times of the month. And based on the number of ladies I've examined there today, I'd say about 25% were using one NOT during a period. Usually it's when they have enough discharge to feel a bit uncomfortable and want to be able to change a pad without changing pants.

PeopleCallMeTricky · 14/07/2011 19:01

I expect it's already been said, but I didn't understand either until I was pregnant, then it all made sense to me

mosschops30 · 14/07/2011 19:02

I use them. Habe a mirena coil which means i get about two days of spotting a month. Not enough to use a tampon but need something to protect underwear

tyler80 · 14/07/2011 20:08

I don't see the point either and all that plasticness in your knickers just leads to more moisture and that strange dirty pantyliner/sanitary towel smell imo.

I'm also not sure why using a bin liner and changing that is more hygenic than emptying a bin and washing it out??

AmazingBouncingFerret · 14/07/2011 20:19

Well this language student is well within her rights to use PL even if you don't see the point in them. I think while she is staying with you line the bin and you wont have to deal with unsticking anything unsavory!

Robins · 14/07/2011 20:28

Can this be removed please? How odd.

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Hulababy · 14/07/2011 20:33

Robins - why do you feel the thread is odd and shpuld be removed? The usefullness (or not) of liners has been discussed on MN before.

HairyFrotter · 14/07/2011 20:33

OP are you the lady who was on here a while ago who recycles and reuses everything? I'm sure she said something similar about kitchen towel.

SpeedyGonzalez · 14/07/2011 20:34

Good god, woman, why on earth didn't you make her clean the bin herself?

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