You can always tell some women are childless by the fact that they....

[NinaInCognito]

...get in the way of you when you are in the supermarket dragging around a pram, trolley and fiddly child and then they sneer down at you with their basket full of organic lettuce, baguettes and mini-tampons while your trolley is loaded with nappies, a giant pot of Sudocrem and enough chocolate bars to re-sink the Titanic.

You then have to manoever around them while they continue said sneering.

God you can tell what sort of evening I have had, can't you? And I am embarrassed to admit that I used to be one of those women. I apologise to all you mums out there unreservedly.

Now for chocolate bars and MN......

Oh I never have problems with bloating, not sure whether to preen about that or not!!

you freeze it. thaw it. squeeze it out like hell.

then marinade it.

it will cook down like mince and take on the same texture.

Sorry to take this back, but those of you who claim that child free is a less loaded term than childless are wrong. What is the opposite of child-free? Child-burdened? Child-laden? For me, the term child free is extremely loaded as it implies that the opposite state is a negative. In fact, I'm verging on being offended by it.

Now back to tofu....

Sorry for the interruption but these "bloating" and especially "slow digestive transit" adverts confuse me. I'm guessing they are highly euphamistic but not sure. DH baffled too maybe you can all enlighten me.

Bloating = farty and Slow transit = constipated???

With the deflatine advert with the ballon with all the air which suddenly gets expelled I knew where I was. But these newfangled "digestive discomforts" are beyond me. Oh yes - what is "digestive discomfort"? Indegestion cos you've stuffed yourself way too much?

ive no idea what the mystery bloating is that means you need the handbag stuff

but there is definitely qourn induced stomach bloating

no, you've misunderstood. it is loaded, that's the point. in an equal and opposite way to childless. so women who don't want to have children, as is their right, wanted a term that expressed their choice. i don't think anyone's arguing that child-free would have been any more correct than childless in the context of this OP.

or slow digestif transit

sound s like something to do with french airports

is it the sennokot ad where some silly bint keeps chucking her lunch into her handbag? that pisses me off, so wasteful...

christ on a bike.i'd never treat my beloved handbags like that.think of the lining

I thought bloating was caused by an inability to fart, as in trapped air. That woman on that advert is talking with food in her mouth anyway, that's why she's got trapped wind. Silly mare.

So what is the neutral term nowadays then?

Anyone know/have experience of "digestive discomfort"? They obviously think there are hordes of women out there who will understand and rush out and buy the product, but I am at a loss.

Also baffled about the fibre drinks ads. Are they for people who don't want to eat food? My mum tells me that bulking fibre is usually prescribed to v old people to get them going. So why are the people in the ads fit young women? Bizarre.

I would agree Chukky, most vexing and now I shall be pondering that for the rest of the evening. Oh my life is sooo eventful.

yes i am baffled too

i only have digested discomfort if i eat quorn

or eat too much

actually my grandma used to complain about foods making her bilious

perhaps digestif discomfort is the sanme thing

alsdo sjhe would say in a rather tmi fashion ooh pardon me something repeating on me

My DH used to say things were "repeating". He got it off his mum.

I have got him off that turn of phrase smartish. "Sorry I've just done a burp and it really stinks" is surely far preferable.

Or just belch loudly and .

aitch...I got the voucher too, they had run out of chickens by 2pm (as they do most days said the checkout woman) but had also run out of veg. Apparently 4 vans pull up with supplies to stock up for the offer days...

lol at anyone under pensionable ages saying its repeating on me i think that goes with wearing a corset or a knotted hanky on your head

lb, i think saying women who don't have children is fairly neutral, although i'd still say that assuming that this is by choice is foolhardy and insensitive. sniding their shopping basket on the grounds of some imagined slight... well, that's just weird.

i know, SM, that's what gets to me... i think ffs never mind the food, that bag's ruined now and start fretting that the props person will have put a plastic bag inside so that someone will get the use of it again. [frugal]

voucher? for a fiver? lucky you. so had they run out of all veg or do they give it to you if they can't supply you with what you want?

i love handbags i believe celery is something people report as "repeats" but tis quint wee maxim

Bit of a mouthful though. And childless is an adjective. So does that mean there is no adjective in the English language that is not offensive to someone somewhere, to describe the state of not having children, whether by choice or not?

If that is the case, I suppose it shows how significant it still is. I find that quite surprising really.

oh must have read yours wrong
yup they had two staff handing them out as they had no veg left. pensioners were threatening to riot, I kid you not...

you were meant to take the voucher and choose some other veg not on the offer and the voucher would cover all the price differences....wonder how many did....?

strangely all i ever say if i do aND I HAVE REFERRED TO MY SIS TIS WAY IN CONTEXT Whoops

is she doesnt have children

so normally i would say my sis doesnt have children

which obviously is the case

i like handbags, too.

and costume jewellry, of which i have much.

must think of a good way of organising it, particularly necklaces, out of the way of little girls.