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What's the funniest/weirdest/stupidest euphemism you've heard/used for your period?

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Greenblock · 04/02/2007 19:16

I've never used Aunti Flo. Does anyone have an Auntie Flo? Does she mind?

Looking for some light relief from TTC!

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greedyforbabies · 05/02/2007 14:26

menses is the medical term for blobbing!

Ready · 05/02/2007 14:58

I'd never heard the term AF til MNet... Where I grew up it was "I'm on"... which when I think about it, it's kinda weird.

Pinotmum · 05/02/2007 15:15

Plummymummy, muslim woman cannot enter mosques when menstruating as they are considered unclean. I think Jewish woman also consider themselves unclean or that is what I was told by muslim woman and one jewish woman on a course I was on. I was to be told I was too!!

castlesintheair · 05/02/2007 15:21

On the (jam) rag.

At school we used to have to tell our swimming teacher we were "little pixies" ffs!

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Greenblock · 05/02/2007 15:24

Why 'little pixies'???!!!

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PandaG · 05/02/2007 15:26

When I did the Slimming World diet, the woman who ran the class would refer to the few days before period as 'star week', therefore knowing you could be heavier with pre-menstrual bloating.

I would use come on, or wrong time of the month - both terms from my mother.

castlesintheair · 05/02/2007 15:27

I have absolutely no idea

Flower3554 · 05/02/2007 15:33

Apologies in advance for these I have a friend who alternates between saying "oh the chains off the bike at the moment and the monkeys throats cut"

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Greenblock · 05/02/2007 15:34

ew!

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yeahinaminute · 05/02/2007 15:39

DH refers to me as being " up on blocks" !!!

plummymummy · 05/02/2007 15:42

Pinotmum, aha. Oh well, guess I am very unclean at the moment.

PinkTulips · 05/02/2007 15:46

on the rag was common when i was a teenager

i've only ever said 'i'm having my period' or 'i'm bleeding' though

Mhamai · 05/02/2007 16:14

AS a teenager in Dublin, you would hear and still do especially from older people, she's in her flowers

Mhamai · 05/02/2007 16:16

Some men still refer to women who have pmt as flowery bit*hes.

PinkTulips · 05/02/2007 16:18

lol... the dubs are more poetic than the rebels mhamai

gillian1973 · 05/02/2007 16:22

In Spanish i have heard it reffered to as 'the custom' i.e. a customary thing that happens every month. But this is also the language which has the very similar words for handcuffs (esposas)and wife (esposa)!!!!

Mhamai · 05/02/2007 16:26

Poetic my arse pt
Or how about, "I have THEM" the them bit said in a loud stage whisper as if to emphasise what "them" is.

fluffybear · 05/02/2007 16:40

got a friend visiting!

Ambi · 05/02/2007 16:45

at school it was surfing the crimson wave from the film Clueless, there are some even more gross terms though!!

UnquietDad · 05/02/2007 16:47

one of dw's friends sent her a link to a site with Yorkshire dialect for medical students, which included the classic "Barnsley's playing at home".

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Greenblock · 05/02/2007 17:14

substitute your preferred football team that plays in red, I suppose!

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Pinotmum · 05/02/2007 17:34

My mum's from Dublin and used to say to be "have you your friend?" in hushed tones. I'd be looking over my shoulder expecting a mate to jump out on me

plummymummy · 05/02/2007 17:42

Pinotmum. Can just imagine it said in the dublin brogue (my dad also from dublin). I do wonder why the word friend is used to describe it though as mine is never friendly!

becaroo · 07/02/2007 18:19

My brother and his friends would ask if I was "on the blob" (?) if I seemed a bit upset that they had broken my video recorder/stereo/cd player AGAIN.

PuppyDogsTails · 11/02/2007 13:32

My brother also used to ask me if I was on the Blob. After a while I stopped minding, as I was very irregular and this was the only warning I got, as I invariably came on the next day.

My dh calls it string, which makes sense I guess