to hate the term 'coming on'?

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And the shortened 'I'm on' - both used to say someone is having a period. There's something about it that just makes me cringe...

I'm on the bus right now. Forgot where I was and cringed vocally in front of an old man, an elderly lady caked in make up and a load of grotty school kids. Got caught makes me want to scratch my eyeballs out!!!

There was a brilliant thread about this a year or so ago, where one poster said she'd tried to break the news gently to her husband by saying "Arsenal are playing at home this week," to which he looked puzzled and replied "No they're not, they're away at West Ham."

My periods synchronised with my office mate when we were doing our PhDs. She used to joke that I must have super strong pheromones (important disclaimer: we are physicists and thus know nothing about biology) or something, because I dragged her cycle out of place to match mine.

"The Communists are in the summerhouse"

Only time it's mentioned is to dh sent him out for towels he came back with TENA LADY!
Other than that a "don't even think about it" snarled through a mouthful of chocolate and wine...
Good job he loves me

I used to play hockey in my 30s. One day I missed an easy pass and the captain roared up the field, 'Derxa are you menstruating?!'

Haha love shark week.

Here I'm 'in the shop' ....like a car at the mechanics....out of order

DH also calls sanitary towels 'snatch patches'

It's "I've fallen off the roof"/"I'm off the roof" in this house

I'm loving "fallen to the Communists" and "shark week" though!!

My husband says "on the blob" which I hate!
He also refers to it as "wank week" which I find slightly more amusing.

Ever since the Aunt Irma episode of the IT Crowd, it's always Aunt Irma now. "The Irma Riots"

Shark week.

honeylulu

He sounds quite the charmer

Yeah, "falling pregnant" is definitely a thing. It sounds v weird to be honest.
I remember my friend used the painters/decorators thing. Another one I've heard is T.O.M.
I do tend to say "on my period", although I mostly don't talk about it.
Jam rag/Dolmio day... boak

My husband calls sanitary towels 'my nappy'

'Are you wearing your nappy majorly?'

Cue angry face

YANBU OP, I hate it!

It's definitely a regional thing, I'm Scottish and I've always said "I've got my period". I live in England now and everyone says "I'm on my period" here. "I've come on" just sounds really wrong to me somehow.

I once had an "emergency situation" at work and had to nip out to the shop. A colleague announced to all and sundry I was going out to get some jam rags!
Luckily I no longer work with said person and haven't had the need for any euphemisms at all for a few years now.

time of the month sounds better. Got the decorators in or rag week are the worst I think.

I'm BF and still amenorrhoiec 9 months postpartum, but when my cycles return, I shall be falling to the communists regularly!

sounds a bit dirty really!

My mum used to just flap her hands and let her sentences tail off. She called sanitary products things. She tried her best, bless her, but has always been a bit squeamish. My best friend and I called them doodahs. She had a lot of brothers so we wanted good code. They probably had NO CLUE WHATSOEVER what we meant...

I say I'm up on bricks.
I'm going to start saying closed for maintenance now too.

Does anyone still call it The Curse these days?

I say "I have my period". It was something g to be ashamed of growing up,according to my mother.
I find using the appropriate term helpful now. I don't say it often, but for example the other day, my 8 yr old ds asked me what I was using the wheat bag..so I was honest and said "I have my period, so cramping a bit".

No-one else ride the red wave then?

We have a girl at work (who I moan about quite a lot on here) who tells us all when she has PMS, when she's "on the blob" everything.

Yuck yuck yuck I do not want to know.

Thing is, even the word period is a euphemism! So all of you who "don't like euphemisms"... you're using one

DH is Irish and refers to it as me being 'On my moons'