To wonder how this man could not know this?

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My friend and her dh popped over for lunch today. I'm not sure how the conversation evolved but we ended up talking about vat on sanpro and how it was unfair as they are fairly pricey in general,in which my friend mentioned she saw the new always infinity for nearly €5 for 9 pads. Friends dh pipes up that that's good value because its 9 months worth.
I said How and he said well you have your period,use your pad and then get rid of it,done til next time.

How has this man managed to achieve a good grade in biology and work in the medical field and think that we women just pop a pad on,have our period and then that's it?

is it? when did that happen?

My friends boyfriend thought she weed her period out when she went to the loo. Surely boys have sex education as well as girls.

I just asked my dp if he thought this and he said 'ew I don't wanna know' lol. My dad was so prudish, I once dropped the backing strip to a pad on the bathroom floor and he moaned to my mum and said 'what if (brother) had seen it!' My mum laughed and said. 'Well he'd certainly know it wasn't yours'

It's reduced rate VAT, so 5% instead of 20%

Reminds me of a young man who was training to be a nurse who had a placement on my friends ward. One of the other nurses sent him to the pharmacy for a handful of fallopian tubes, and he fell for it! :o

I was thinking the other day that sanitary towels should be free if you get free prescriptions. Only a the basic kind obviously, but why not when people need them.

Though to be honest, I wouldn't know if they were free because I got get free prescriptions when I'm pregnant!

Can't believe the man didn't get this though. Doesn't he ever empty the bathroom bins in his house?

A science teacher in my school sent a rather loud Year 11 lad to the tech department for some fallopian tubes. They sent him back to to tell the science teacher they would swap them for a long stand.

My son (then aged about 7/8) took one of his older sisters pads and stuck it one of those toy horse heads on a stick (hobby horse?).He thought it was blinkers,I stopped him just before he went out the front door to ply with his pals with it.

*play,not ply!

To be fair to men - if they haven't had to deal with periods, then how would they know? Especially if they have had no indirect experience with sisters etc. I know boys get sex ed too, but how much attention were they paying? How much do you remember from school when you were about 12?

When did the 5% happen? The same time Tampax decided our periods got shorter and lighter and we only needed 8 tampons in a box instead of 10?

It's 5 % Apologies. Thought it was vat free, nappies are vat free...or are they also 5 %? Hazy post dc brain!!

Boggling. You mean not every mother sends her sons out to buy the things from age five onward? (And anything else she'd forgotten, but the Dr. White's - no idea if they're even still a brand or I'm even remembering that right - sticks in my mind from the time I got the wrong ones and had to go back and swap them and had no idea why the shop assistants were being all weird about it.)

Didn't find out what they were for until a lot later, but I had a rough idea how long a supply lasted.

That said, one of my constant refrains is how most people have the observational skills of baby ducks, so maybe this isn't so surprising after all.

I think men have the same knowledge as girls who haven't had their period yet and no education. My niece had her first period when she was 11 and thought that that was the only one she would ever have.

It does make me laugh how naive some men can be about it though.

Here they have the luxury vat on sanpro.

Haha! My DP too thought this - until he was about 16.

Still cracked me up when he told me...

What's the luxury vat %? Luxury indeed.

My (male) friend once expressed surprise that women moaned so much about how inconvenient periods were. He thought you just went to the loo and 'had' you period like a poo, then that was it.

I asked him what he thought sanpro products were for if that were the case and he just said he'd never thought about it before. Bless.

I'm sure that we're taught that the blood lost is small & it probably sounds as if one pad would cover it.

Maybe he's never lived with someone & known them to change pads/tampons?

I was thinking about this 'one teaspoonful' of blood that I also clearly remember being told see all women lost during a period... It was while using a mooncup for the first time and I can categorically state that this is a severe underestimation. Who the hell came up with that amount and why were we all taught it?

People are amazing but an incredible amount of them - even the highly educated (in fact, especially the highly educated a lot of the time) - are very thick.

I think a pad probably would absorb all the blood from some women's periods - it would mine, for example. However, blood older than a couple of hours starts to smell, so eww...

A friend (female) of one of my daughters insisted that women only have 2 apertures, apparently her mother had told her; the one you poo out of and the other one (obviously for weeing and having babies through).

The girl still insisted her mum was right, even after I'd explained to her how this was not possible and why. My daughter was about 19 at the time and the friend about 18 months older. Thank goodness they're no longer friends.

Maybe teenage boys who aren't close to women might have an excuse for a grown married man????

what a dunderhead