Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To wonder if the phrase 'steamy romp'.

77 replies

ComposHat · 25/01/2014 18:34

has ever been used in a context other than a tabloid kiss and tell story?

I have never heard it used in real life, but it seems to be the sexual euphemism of choice in the tabloids.
Anyway it always amuses me.

OP posts:
BOFtastic · 25/01/2014 21:44

After attending a few wild coke-fuelled orgies and the odd ménage-à-trois with an unnamed footballer and his new squeeze?

TawdryTatou · 25/01/2014 21:47

Yy, she will spend years fighting her demons before embarking on a voyage of self discovery. Her journey will lead to her becoming more grounded, and able to do the school run like an ordinary mum. She will even bake cakes for the school fete in her country kitchen with the pink aga being the only nod to her former glamorous party lifestyle.

ArtVandelay · 25/01/2014 21:50

Revellers gasped in shock as the troubled star, clearly worse for wear, fell out of his luxury 90k RangeRover in front of the world famous trendy night spot.

KarmaVersusGeorgeOsbourne · 25/01/2014 21:59

I particularly like it when a steamy romp ends in someone's baby joy.

nennypops · 25/01/2014 22:26

How come no-one's stepped out yet? Minor slevs never walk to the shops in the tabloids, they always step out.

RealAleandOpenFires · 25/01/2014 22:32

A steamy romp:- is having a shag on a heritage steam train in an empty compartment, while it's moving @ night Grin

ariadneoliver · 25/01/2014 22:36

For lovers of tabloidese can I recommend Waterhouse on Newspaper Style It's back in print and still a classic.

BOFtastic · 25/01/2014 22:54

How about descriptions of celebrity beauties stepping out? They invariably defy the cold to display their ample assets (if fat), flaunt their curves (if medium), or show off their honed physique.

BOFtastic · 25/01/2014 22:58

Oh, and with little left to the imagination, of course. With the smile that says they have been wooed by an ageing rocker, or (perhaps a slightly younger) hellraiser, who has just completed rehab after a downward spiral into drugs hell.

boschy · 25/01/2014 23:02

oh and dont forget that TOT actually equals Triumph Over Tragedy...

SomethingOnce · 25/01/2014 23:57

I wonder if my post-baby body will be able to manage any sort of romp...

Caitlin17 · 26/01/2014 00:10

The Sun covered the ordination of women with the headline "Vicars with knickers" which I have a sneaky administration for.

Ledkr · 26/01/2014 00:12

No steam for me since I
Ditched the diet and ballooned to 9 stone and a curvy size 12.

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 26/01/2014 00:23

Horny trucking hubby has shagathon with naughty night nurse as tragic teenswept over Anne Hathaway tearjerker = Chap gave chapess brief peck on cheek while their child watched Les Mis for the 9th time.

ComposHat · 26/01/2014 11:21

I think it is tabloid law that Rod Stewart must always be referred to as Randy Rocker Rod. I'm not sure if that ia due to his sexual adventures in the 70s or due to the fact it is so wonderfully alliterative.

OP posts:
ComposHat · 26/01/2014 11:22

Oh and then the 'do ya yhink I'm sexy? star' in the second paragraph.

OP posts:
MarmaladeShatkins · 26/01/2014 11:55

Mick Jagger is ageing rocker.

David Bowie is oddball rocker.

gaggiagirl · 26/01/2014 12:05

The petite popstrel enjoyed a steamy bonkathon at her toyboy lovers 700k city pad before stepping out in a revealing topshop dress for a night out with pals.

nennypops · 26/01/2014 12:12

It always make me laugh when kiss'n'tell stories make out that they were Doing It 7 times a night. Somehow I don't think so. Perhaps it's a way to keep the sleb who is the subject of the story happy - the journos figure that he'll be so happy at being depicted as some super sex machine that he won't sue.

ComposHat · 26/01/2014 12:21

Yes no one has run of the mill sex with celeb 'he was an animal, he drove me wild' or ' he was a big flop between the sheets'
There seems to be no grey area.

OP posts:
NigellasDealer · 26/01/2014 12:23

*I had a steamy romp with DH before tucking into a slap-up roast with all the trimmings.

In time, I became pregnant*
no no no marmalade, you fell pregnant

eddiemairswife · 26/01/2014 13:05

Tony (5 times a night) Blair claimed he was an animal with Cherie the night he won the 1997 election. And if that doesn't put you off your Sunday lunch you've a stronger stomach than I have!

Thisisaghostlyeuphemism · 26/01/2014 13:25

Torid tony beds curvaceous Cheryl as labour romps to number ten.

Thisisaghostlyeuphemism · 26/01/2014 13:27

Animal is a daft thing to say. I always think panda.

MarmaladeShatkins · 26/01/2014 13:31

"no no no marmalade, you fell pregnant"

I am such a let-down. :(

Apparently Dean Gaffney was 'average' between the sheets'. Why I remember this, I have no idea...