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To email the makers of Always and tell them they are stupid?

148 replies

belledechocchipcookie · 20/08/2011 16:49

I don't want scented sanitary towels or ones that are 'pretty,' I just want them to do the job they are supposed to do! There's no need to make them 'pretty,' no one's going to see them and they will change colour anyway.

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orangehead · 21/08/2011 09:25

I love my mooncup too. But when I did use towels needed wings, without them the towel just scrunched up in the middle and I leaked down the sides.
I also hate the 'have a happy period', how patronising

PuppyMonkey · 21/08/2011 09:33

Yawn @ "HengshanRoad". people can post what they bloody well want. Deal.

QOD · 21/08/2011 09:35

Bloody one way weave .... sucks your pubes in and doesn't let them out....

eurochick · 21/08/2011 10:05

I am another hater of the "have a happy period" slogan. WTF is happy about bleeding so much from my fanny each month that I have been on iron tablets for the past three and a half years and prescription painkillers for most of my post-pubescent life just to take the edge off the pain enough to get through the day?

Who the hell did they test that slogan on because I am certain it makes all women on menstruating age want to throw things at the telly.

mousymouse · 21/08/2011 11:32

view why is the water not allowed to be red? that is rediculous. and why is it water anyway and not a gloopy, realistic liquid?

I wouldn't mind.
and after all, if half the population will need such products, why beating around the bush?

viewfromawindow · 21/08/2011 12:17

It's not allowed to be red as it would look like blood! All ads have to be approved before they can go on air and this is considered "offensive"! I once had an ad refused as the girls arm was slightly outside the car window and this was considered dangerous. My fav one that most people don't know is that baby milk manufactures can't show in any literature, a man, child or older women feeding a child with a bottle. It must be an "obviously fertile women" otherwise you are advertising a benefit of bottle feeding which is that someone else can do it. Most of the other mums I know, both breast and bottle feeder, think this is a bit extreme. Doesn't bother me and I did a bit of both!

pippitysqueakity · 21/08/2011 13:18

Mousymouse...REDiculous! V good!Grin

huffythethreadslayer · 21/08/2011 13:22

I like wings...

notcitrus · 21/08/2011 13:26

Heh.
A mate of mine works for P&G and started off in perfumes, which he found made him very popular with the ladies as he got lots of free samples.
He then got a good promotion - but to the sanitary products division. He was gutted to find that despite the products being used by a lot more women, the freebies just didn't have the same pulling power. Grin

I think he's moved to another dept now so can't blame him for the annoying ads - his sister and I made our opinions on such ads clear a long time ago!

Red2011 · 21/08/2011 14:04

At the moment I can't wait for my period. I won't be happy but at least I won't be so damn ANGRY. Not had PMT this bad for many years.

Lovethesea · 21/08/2011 14:24

Then you have my inner debate ... so do I wear 'always' which can cope with my fake pill period but don't work on my dodgy bladder like my tena panty liners do, or do I hope the fake period is now ended and I can go back to skinny tena pads and dark thoughts about high rotational forceps?

A happy period? Happy!?! I have other words for them .....

Valetude · 21/08/2011 14:35

I like Always. They catch even the blobbiest of blobs and hide it all beneath some kind of magical dry-weave top-sheet and I like that. I use a whole pack for one period so that's about £2. I don't mind paying that.

I don't feel morally unclean during my period, but I do feel 'not clean' in that there's blood sticking to my pubes, perfectly understandably. I've taken to baby-wipes.

The slogan is a bit wet, but it's advertising. About 2% of adverts are any good, the rest are shite or offensive or boring. Filter it out.

jenniec79 · 21/08/2011 14:56

Always were SO much better than the utter shite that masqueraded as sanitary towels before them, that I forgave them a lot. Bodyform winged towels just earlier were still the thickness of the "princess&the pea" matress, while being surprisingly non-absorbant so when always came out when I was about 14 I wanted shares! Our school dresses in blue and white stripes were a factor, too.

I was on tampax for swimming from about my second cycle, but they never agreed with me enough to use all the way through. The best I ever found were lilets applicator tampons, so they (naturally) stopped making them, I have 2 left.

Mooncup is a revalation. As is running 2 packs of COCP.

lady007pink · 21/08/2011 15:43

I LOVE Always, they're the best STs ever. The only ones (with the wings) that never stained my clothing.

MissMarjoribanks · 21/08/2011 16:00

My mother helpfully bought me some super eco sanitary towels when I first started my periods. They were like sitting on a cushion. She had used Tampax for years and before that the towels with a belt, so these eco thingys looked quite comfy to her.

I went to Always (yy to wing sticking on pubes), then once I'd had sex and was less bothered about what went up there, Tampax.

Then I found MN and the Mooncup. Best. Thing. Ever. And despite the fact I don't need Always to advertise at me, I still want to chuck something at the telly when I see 'Have a Happy Period'. Do fuck off now.

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belledechocchipcookie · 21/08/2011 17:02

I used my mooncup for all of a day. I was just so paranoid that it would leak/fall out that I spent most io the day on the loo.

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mummymeister · 21/08/2011 20:04

Have heard of mooncups but having used a ring to help with my prolapse (pre operation) that was bad enough and the bloody thing used to boing out at inappropriate moments. Put me right off ! after seeing this thread i googled and watched the ad in question. Yuk - clearly written by a man who has no idea that periods are things we just cope with. i won't be going for coloured ones or scented ones. I use tampons and towels as a mix and it suits me. I did wonder though if the scented ones would go the same way as flavoured condoms.

MissusTulip · 21/08/2011 21:48

Don't mind always STs, even with the unexpected waxing - worse when it doesn't wax but just cacthes and pulls and you have to extricate your pubes? Blush Hate the advertising and the stupidity of scented / patterned whatever guff will prettify something intended to absorb blood and clots Hmm. Was ranting at TV at the ad where the twee little make-up brushes decorate the ST packets, WTF?

However, the ad I really don't get is the Tampax pearl one, where the div in the shiny silver trousers is 'outwitting' Mother Nature and her monthly gift (yuck). Erm, surely she will have blobbed in her thrush-inducing leggings before realising the tampax is called for? Or does she walk around with one up there just in case??? I honestly don't get this ad Confused

BlueKangaroo22 · 22/08/2011 09:17

I know yeah! Missus, the tampax ad drives me nuts too! The way she goes "I've got pearl" to which 'mother nature' replies "where?" Up my arse you daft old bint where do you think??
But yeah it seems like she just has one up there at all times just in case which we all know is not a good idea, lol!

nickelbabe · 22/08/2011 13:22

actually, one thing that disturbs me about the new style dry weave top sheet is how when you take it out, there's all this horrible blood just piled up on the back, behind the plastic.
almost like it'll all come pouring out if you catch it wrong.

another thing i don't like is that since this dry weave thign came in, they've felt a lot sweatier - more plastic, less comfortable (the old coating used to be quite soft on the skin), and i'm sure i've itched more after a period using the new ones.

Wrigglebum · 22/08/2011 14:26

I get more of a waxing from the ones without wings as they seem to do roly-polies in my pants when I'm not looking ( I'm wrigglebum on here for a reason, can never bloody keep still).
Pads make me itch like mad and one brand (can't remember which) my pubes got caught in the holes in the top sheet. Have been loyal to lilets since my first period.
After reading about mooncups on here went and bought one and got all excited about how much money I'd save. Then remembered we're ttc and after the next baby I'm hoping to get a mirena so hopefully no more periods. Oh well.

thebitchandherwomb · 22/08/2011 14:54

I feel venomous hatred towards the manufacturers of sanitary products.

I mean: what. the. fuck?

I am 34. I have outgrown la-la daisy waisies and rose petally wetals. Packaging showing pre-pubescent girls skipping through fields of sunflowers on a glorious summer's day in Provence just leaves me cold and vaguely bewildered. What has this to do with my monthly cycle? Flowers. Uterus. Flowers. Uterus. Flowers. Blood. Discreet? Huh? Don't get it.

Why do they think that the defining feature of the vast majority of women aged between 12 and 45 want twee little flowers as their motif? I would actually buy a product in blood red packaging with great big "I'm on the rag" written on the outside. Daisies? I don't think so. Fortunately, I don't watch much TV so "have a happy period" is not something I've heard many times. Or I would have thrown something at the set.

viewfromawindow · 22/08/2011 17:35

Can I just remind everyone that you still pay VAT on all sanitary products. Because as you all know they are a luxury and not really a necessity!

Valetude · 22/08/2011 17:37

There are flowers on my kitchen paper too.
I don't imagine anyone is trying to stereotype me when I'm wiping up cat sick.

diddl · 22/08/2011 17:41

I´m so old that I started off using a belt thing to keep a towel in placeHmm

Have talked to daughter about a mooncup but she doesn´t fancy it yet.