To ask for your weird names for periods

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So I'm very boring and usually just go for "that time of the month" but I've read some cracking names for periods on threads and I want to know your favourites. AIBU to ask you for the weird and wonderful things you call it?

Is this a fetish thread?

Aunt Irma has come to stay.

No. Not at all. I'm just expecting mine and was bored and thought hmmm. I wonder what interesting things Mumsnet can come up with. They're a funny bunch. No offence intended. (Scurries back into being a lurker)

Shark week
Got the painters in
The witch

My mother used to call them “your doings” 😂

Someone I know used to say she was ‘up the fudd’ which took me a while to figure out

I know someone who says she has a ‘jammy fanny’ which is vile 🤢

DP calls it psycho week

I like the classic ‘surfing the crimson wave’

Aunt Flo is visiting
Redcoats on the march
Shark week (DD)
On the rag
The Curse

shark week! Brilliant.
I remember aunt flow. Any particular reason for aunt Irma?

On the blob makes me cringe.
Know someone who called it "lucifers waterfall" which is definitely odd!

Interesting. I've never had a 'pet name' for periods, just called them "periods". Boring I know. I've heard others refer to 'coming on' or 'the curse'. Horrible names I've heard are 'on the blob' or 'on the rag'.

I like, "Got the decorators in". Hee hee, that's the sort of name I could use in front of my mum in law and, bless, she wouldn't know what I meant. That's not fair though is it :-), I'm being mean.

It's a sale (Everything Must Go).

I basically think that all the euphemisms for periods are horrible and make it sound much worse than just saying you have your period. It's been such a relief to realise I can just say that instead of having to come up with some other expression.

@jessstan2 she must think you spend a lot of money fixing up your house! Which room are you doing this month?

My mum says she's on her 'rag'. She also calls sanitary towels 'jam rags'. I find that gross

I’m another that hates all the euphemisms for having a period. They’re cringey and make me wince when I hear them. It’s just a period. Say period.

The red terror.

Enough said.

Love 'your doings' my mum always referred to 'your do dahs'

Always shark week, period pains are known as the sharks attacking my uterus.

One of my tuttees calls it jam week 🧐

I’m currently flying the Japanese flag

My pal used to say the Commies had invaded.

"Perfecting my secondary super power"

From a conversation involving the sentence 'I don't need to wonder- my primary superpower is growing people inside me, and my secondary is bleeding for a week without dying.'

A fax message.
I am waiting for a fax today / the fax has arrived etc

Mystified

My Dp used to say "on the blob"

I remember at school we used to refer to it as being "on"

Never really heard any of the euphemisms until mnet.

I like aunt flo and have said this to dd before but i get the face

Going to adopt shark week i think

Lady Time!