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To be mildly miffed when in the lingerie department..

80 replies

annaop · 18/10/2021 21:45

.. men with their other halves still manage to have a quick gawp at the lingerie you're looking at rather than the lingerie their OH is looking at.

OP posts:
Fired · 19/10/2021 15:34

They sell vibrating cock rings in your local supermarket?!

In pretty much every supermarket these days. Usually durex brand, stocked with the condoms and lube.

CeratopsofthePharoahs · 19/10/2021 15:43

I too was hoping for a tale of lost priests and a man with a very boooooring voice closing the shop early. Oh well, no Golden Cleric award for you.

HelloDulling · 19/10/2021 15:47

It's just clothing. Good grief.

AmyDudley · 19/10/2021 16:18

I don't know why women need their husband with them when they go shopping for underwear. But this question came up on a similar thread before (about men hanging around women's changing rooms in shops) and there was a barage of people saying they couldn't possibly buy any clothing with consulting their DH because his opinion as a man was essential for every purchase or some such drivel.

So yeah OP - I don't want some bloke staring at me when I'm choosing knickers, just as I wouldn't stare at a man choosing his knickers. It's called manners. You should have waved them in his face and said 'what do you reckon random man - crotchless or g string ?'

Bbq1 · 19/10/2021 16:24

Because of course, men should keep their eyes averted to the floor in the lingerie department at all times and only look up when their partners grant then permission to do so. I'm sure the men you imagine are 'gazing' at your choice of lingerie Op really aren't, they are just looking around. How dare they though ... Yeah, just another thread to malign men yet again.

Chunkymenrock · 19/10/2021 16:32

@BarbaraofSeville

I get pissed off with men trailing round women's clothes shops after their female partners full stop.

They never want to be there and have a habit of standing right in front of the items I want to look at or they're engrossed in their phones so have zero awareness of their surroundings so are just in the way.

I couldn't agree more! I'd hate to drag a bloke along, they just get in the way.
Auroreforet · 19/10/2021 16:45

@AmyDudley
So yeah OP - I don't want some bloke staring at me when I'm choosing knickers, just as I wouldn't stare at a man choosing his knickers. It's called manners. You should have waved them in his face and said 'what do you reckon random man - crotchless or g string ?

😂😂😂'

mrsm43s · 19/10/2021 16:50

Why don't you just concentrate on the job in hand, and stop "gawping" at what everyone else is doing?

Other people are allowed to shop whilst you are shopping, you know! Just because you are considering buying something, doesn't mean that no one else is allowed to look at it (or that it particularly means anything if they do).

FWIW, I've never noticed anyone looking at me in M&S the lingerie shop, when buying my multipacks of big pants lingerie.

XingMing · 19/10/2021 16:56

Vibrating cock rings don't seem to have reached rural Devon's supermarkets yet; maybe it's a bit too Methodist.

Whatamesssss · 19/10/2021 18:04

@godmum56

if you weren't wearing it, what is the problem?
But in the pervy man's head she was wearing it just for him
Anonymous48 · 19/10/2021 18:07

I don't believe my husband has ever been with me when I'm buying undies.

TooBigForMyBoots · 19/10/2021 18:26

YABU OP and precious. People look at eachother, people look at stuff in shops, people look at other people's choices in shops and restaurants. People do not have to avert their eyes because you're buying fancy keks.🙄

Welshiefluff · 19/10/2021 18:32

Oh my god a man is looking at undies I like. oh the humanity!

NeverDropYourMooncup · 19/10/2021 18:44

@XingMing

Vibrating cock rings don't seem to have reached rural Devon's supermarkets yet; maybe it's a bit too Methodist.
They've got them in Morrison's and Tesco's in Tavy.

So I hear, anyhow. [cough].

rslsys · 19/10/2021 18:45

Many moons ago, DW & I went into the lingerie department of a large Department store in Birmingham (Browns?). I was about 4 paces into the department when I was seized firmly by the elbow by a real live Mrs Slocombe, escorted back through the double doors and deposited on a chair on the landing. I was told 'You can wait for Madame here'!

Rosesareyellow · 19/10/2021 18:49

Why are s you staring at other women’s partners when you’re trying to pick out underwear?

EerieSilence · 19/10/2021 19:57

"“Oh God, we’re in the lingerie section, Dougal. We’re in Lingerie!”

Elieza · 19/10/2021 20:38

There’s no way out.

There’s just no way out.

They’re gonna get us….Grin

XingMing · 20/10/2021 12:06

My flabber is suitably gasted, @NeverDropYourMooncup! Clutches pearls and fans herself vigorously...

CSJobseeker · 20/10/2021 12:11

@Spongeboob

The last time someone scrutinised my shopping I added a vibrating cock ring and 3 packs of condoms (what awesome timing being right near that aisle in a supermarket). The lady nearly keeled over. Closer to produce I'd have added the biggest cucumber I could find and winked. People are weird.
Cool story bro.

(Supermarkets don't sell vibrating cock rings.)

CallMeRisley · 20/10/2021 12:12

It’s Ireland’s largest lingerie section, so I understand.

CallMeRisley · 20/10/2021 12:13

@Spongeboob

*Cool story bro.

(Supermarkets don't sell vibrating cock rings.)*

They absolutely do.

To be mildly miffed when in the lingerie department..
CallMeRisley · 20/10/2021 12:14

Sorry I meant @CSJobseeker (I tagged the quoted posted by mistake)

SoupDragon · 20/10/2021 12:18

But in the pervy man's head she was wearing it

Are you able to read minds? Even when you're not there?

Dochas121 · 20/10/2021 12:19

Go on without me, I’ll only slow you down. It’s my own fault for messing with those stupid bra’s Grin