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...to not wear pantyliners often?

185 replies

cinnamonorange · 13/04/2016 17:36

This just occurred to me (for absolutely no reason other than being bored in the loo)...do people actually wear them all the time? I only wear them for the tail-end of my period, and then go without until the next one. Is that normal, or am I gross?

OP posts:
BeardMinge · 13/04/2016 20:37

Never worn a pantyliner and never been to Nandos either.

OddSocksHighHeels · 13/04/2016 20:37

twenty whatever works for you! I don't think you're disgusting but I am jealous. I think most things I do seem to be disgusting by MN standards anyway Grin

OddSocksHighHeels · 13/04/2016 20:38

I have been to Nando's though. It's chicken, what's not to like?

ImogenTubbs · 13/04/2016 20:40

It's a cultural thing, apparently. Women in Europe wear them all the time, particularly in Italy, so I hear.

pearlylum · 13/04/2016 20:41

oddsocks- the price.

Save your money and go to KFC.

CockacidalManiac · 13/04/2016 20:42

KFC is fried chicken, Nando's is grilled.

OurBlanche · 13/04/2016 20:48

I'm another never: never

Shall we ask for our won forum?

Dear MNHQ,
Could we please have our own forum? We would like to discuss the relative benefits of never wearing panty liners and the waistline benefits of never going to Nandos.
Yours sincerely, TheNeverNevers

septembersunshine · 13/04/2016 20:48

I don't wear them but at the moment I'm 20 weeks pregnant and I'm changing my knickers 3 times a day! Main reason is I'm going to the loo so much, plus the extra discharge they start to feel a bit smelly and terrible. Don't like panty liners though... they don't feel small or comfortable to me.

CaptainAnkles · 13/04/2016 20:49

I rarely use them so a box of pantyliners lasts me about six months, but Nando's is lovely.
And that's not a sentence I ever expected to type.

OddSocksHighHeels · 13/04/2016 20:51

pearly I don't go often but the food is nicer than KFC. I'd choose Morley's over KFC anyway.

flanjabelle · 13/04/2016 20:52

I use them when ovulating as I soak through my knickers otherwise. Blergh.

I also use them after a bath, as my fanjo seems to enjoy drinking bath water and spitting it back out again after I get out. I'm not sure if that's normal or not. Or maybe baths cause me to randomly piss myself. I'm pretty sure it's bath water.

Flumplet · 13/04/2016 20:52

I feel like I should name change for this, because it's a bit odd, but doesn't anyone else wear them to stop discharge from bleaching their knickers?!! Before I used incontinence pads liners, my black knickers used to get a bleached pink patch?! Just me? BlushConfused

CockacidalManiac · 13/04/2016 20:53

I didn't ever think that a thread about discharge and panty liners would make me hungry for a Nando's.

flanjabelle · 13/04/2016 20:53

Oh and I bloody love a nandos. Not so keen on the price though.

BMW6 · 13/04/2016 20:53

Am 58. Have never ever worn a pantyliner. What will they think of next to get women to spend cash or feel paranoid? Smile

pearlylum · 13/04/2016 20:53

Never heard of Morleys.
Nandos is grim.

Overpriced chicken and chips, pushed up against people you don't know, all the sauce bottles are greasy from other people's drool. Yeuch.

CockacidalManiac · 13/04/2016 20:54

Overpriced chicken and chips, pushed up against people you don't know, all the sauce bottles are greasy from other people's drool. Yeuch.

I've never seen anyone neck sauce straight from the bottle!

Flumplet · 13/04/2016 20:55

I don't like Nando's (I'm a Harvester kind of woman).

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 13/04/2016 20:56

I've always worn them,just more comfortable when I do. Tesco value are comfy and unscented.

CaptainAnkles · 13/04/2016 20:56

You'd need to be one of those peri-peri-perverts to drink the sauce straight from the bottle.

StarUtopia · 13/04/2016 20:57

I'd love to not have to use them. As it is, I wear a sanitary towel daily (change it sometimes twice/three times). Costs a fortune besides anything else.

Why? If I don't, my knickers are grim within about an hour. There's no way I could function. I don't know if this is all down to having babies, but it's definitely got worse!

Plus, on a hot day, if I didn't, I'd be wet within 5 mins. At least wearing a towel, I can change it and still be comfortable.

On the plus side, I never get caught out with an unexpected period!

pearlylum · 13/04/2016 21:01

CockacidalManiac Neither have I, but I have seen lots of people eat greasy chicken with their fingers, licking fingers and picking up various sauce bottles during the meal. All the Nandos sauce bottles are covered in grease.

LisaRinnasLips · 13/04/2016 21:03

Never bought them in my life

OddSocksHighHeels · 13/04/2016 21:06

flanja I get the bath thing. That isn't fun but no way is a panty liner equipped to deal with it either Grin

flumplet I get the bleached knickers too, acid content maybe? I don't know. I try to wear lighter colours and have to replace fairly often but it's better than the problems I get from liners. Joys of being a woman!

pearly maybe Morley's isn't nationwide? There's about 3 on every street round here though. But sauce bottles with drool?! GrinGrinGrin

LisaRinnasLips · 13/04/2016 21:10

Flanja mine does that two since two births but will spit it out randomly 30 mins later when I'm dressed!