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Fanny condensation

557 replies

ClopySow · 08/11/2016 21:46

On plastic chairs. Just me?

Please tell me it's not just me. It happened tonight at school parents meeting. Stood up after a nice chat with the maths teacher and there is it, the diamond shaped condensation patch of doom.

I nearly name changed because i am very embarrassed, but fuck it.

OP posts:
Mindtrope · 10/11/2016 17:56

So if it's condensation why don't men get it?

And some of you must be walking around with wet knickers if it's so common.

ShatnersBassoon · 10/11/2016 17:56

Not sure i've ever uttered these words before, but being a wheelchair user obviously has its perks

That did make me laugh Grin

GlassCircles · 10/11/2016 17:57

It's really nothing to do with secretions at all, any more than condensation on a window is.

Warm moist air gets trapped under you when you sit - when you get up it rapidly cools and forms droplets, aka fanny mist/diamond of doom!

SharingMichelle · 10/11/2016 17:57

I came here via the MN daily email where i misread the thread title as 'fanny condescension '.

I... don't know what i was expecting...

ShatnersBassoon · 10/11/2016 18:01

Perhaps men do get it, or the area that comes into contact with the chair doesn't get as warm as the same area on women, or there is naturally less moisture trapped in that area. Like I say, a seemingly bone dry hand will leave condensation on a cold window, so a seemingly dry crotch can on a cold chair. It isn't caused by wet knickers Hmm

Mindtrope · 10/11/2016 18:02

If it's all to do with condensation, then why don't all women get it?

I sit on my fair share of cold park benches, plastic office chairs etc. It's never happened to me.
I assume my body temperature is normal.

Ravenesque · 10/11/2016 18:02

I love fanny farts and haven't had one in years, which is quite disappointing.

I remember my first one, I had no idea such a thing existed and I gasped and then started laughing because it was funny and mental and sort of tickled. As I laughed more came out and it felt as though my fanny was playing the Reveille. It felt like a rite of passage into womanhood.

I am woman, hear my fanny roar!

Mindtrope · 10/11/2016 18:05

shatners- no I don't get it.

I don't believe in this condensation theory.

It's sweat,discharge or urine.

NoelHeadbands · 10/11/2016 18:06

Presumably not all women experience it because we're not all anatomically identical?

GlassCircles · 10/11/2016 18:06

If it's all to do with condensation, then why don't all women get it?

I imagine it's to do with the topography of your undercarriage - a completely flat undercarriage wouldn't trap any air.

Or if you are 'fortunate' enough to have one which allows a tunnel of free air flow from back to front, you might also avoid the problem Grin

ShatnersBassoon · 10/11/2016 18:07

Noel speaks sense.

GlassCircles · 10/11/2016 18:11

Why does it have to be a secretion? Is the steam from a pan of potatoes 'potato secretion'?

ShatnersBassoon · 10/11/2016 18:14

Secretion sounds more repulsive, which is important when you're trying to make strangers feel bad and in turn make yourself feel better.

Mindtrope · 10/11/2016 18:14

glass- the moisture has to come from somewhere,. In the case of a pan of hot potatoes it is undrained cooking water evvaporating,

In the case of making a seat wet it must be vaginal secretions, urine or sweat.

Mindtrope · 10/11/2016 18:15

What would you call it then? Sweat? Urine?
Has to be one of these three things.

SapphireStrange · 10/11/2016 18:16

It's sweat,discharge or urine.

No. It. Isn't.

Seriously.

NoelHeadbands · 10/11/2016 18:16

I've said what I call it.

Minge Mist.

GlassCircles · 10/11/2016 18:18

Ordinary air contains water, that's why you get condensation on windows. But yes, I imagine a damp warm undercarriage might contribute some water molecules to the trapped air. That still doesn't mean that the damp patch therefore contains secretions, unless any have actually flowed through your clothes.

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 10/11/2016 18:19

Sounds like one of the Impulse body sprays, Noel.

Mindtrope · 10/11/2016 18:20

sapphire= it has to come from somewhere- presumably your body. What could it be then? Prosecco?

It must be something exuding from your body.

Mindtrope · 10/11/2016 18:22

glasscircles- if it is coming from the air then why doesn't it happen if I leave a cardboard box on a table?

MotherFluffer · 10/11/2016 18:23

I wonder if my lack of fanny condensation is because my arse is so cold all the time? Fanjo stays warm, but I'm thinking the cold of my butt is enough to cancel it out and ensure I stay condensation free? At last, I've found my chilly bottom's purpose!

Any other non-condensationers care to comment?

GlassCircles · 10/11/2016 18:23

The cardboard box isn't warmer than the surface it is sitting on, so it isn't trapping warm air under it.

NoelHeadbands · 10/11/2016 18:24

It is just the way some bodies trap a small amount of air on non porous surfaces when they sit. Really.

If you want to think that it's discharge, urine, sweat, whatever- you crack on. Still not sure why you'd feel so threatened by it though.

GlassCircles · 10/11/2016 18:26

Mindtrope - if you put a hot cup of tea on a cold surface for a while and picked it up, it would leave a damp ring, wouldn't it? But the damp ring is water from the air, not tea.