Comments on: The Shark Week Scriptures

By: trillion

trillion — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 06:50:14 +0000

Ironic considering this is passiveaggressivenotes.com: hasn’t every woman seen at least 100 signs in her life in bathrooms stating “Please do NOT flush your feminine hygiene products”?

By: 66Sick

66Sick — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:12:18 +0000

In this context, yes, since only the ladiez use tampons. But in a broader sense, I say let’s all embrace they/their as plural OR singular. It really helps to get beyond the difficult of third-gender or non-gendered pronouns like Ze/Hir. Let’s embrace THEY!

By: Jude

Jude — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:52:47 +0000

Tampax must be in cahoots with plumbers, then. This is from the FAQ section of the Tampax website:

Can I flush the entire thing?

Yes. The Tampax Cardboard tampon, wrapper AND applicator can be flushed in toilets connected to city sewer systems. Frequent flushing of tampons is not recommended for septic systems.

By: Bex

Bex — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:34:36 +0000

I’m all for the diva cup, but I’m sure there’s going to be SOMEONE out there, SOMEDAY, who empties the damn thing into the garbage pail (instead of the bowl) and puts a whole new spin on nasty….

By: Mantis

Mantis — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:44:23 +0000

Not ‘their’. ‘Her’. Her tampon. Her head.

By: Sorcha

Sorcha — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 02:36:13 +0000

Well, not if you’re at an evangelical college.

By: Sorcha

Sorcha — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 02:35:00 +0000

Moon/Diva Cups are okay – I used one for a while – but damn, so many users get so, well, evangelical about them. What works for one body might not for someone else’s, but a lot of the people who use them act like they’re getting some kind of reward for each person they convert.

By: Sorcha

Sorcha — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 02:30:31 +0000

That seems to have happened at my work, but we have clients that include people with drug and mental health issues.

By: Ali Longworth

Ali Longworth — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:05:57 +0000

“Moon cups” indeed! Just call them what they are, blood shot glasses. And for a real FTW, there a couple of little pills out there that stops the entire mess and nuisance.

By: anonymouse

anonymouse — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:02:32 +0000

I think Kermit is probably a menstruation fetishist. It is the only reason for his obsessive interest in stalking and replying to everything on this thread. Gross.

By: Mawwd

Mawwd — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:52:50 +0000

Kermit, even the tags for this note, made by the blog owners, says TMI. TMI to me simply equals “wow that’s gross, I’m going to think about something else now”. I think Polly was just trying to say how gross it was, and maybe a gentle nudge to the blog owner that she doesn’t want to be thinking about bathroom stalls covered in other people’s bodily fluids, i.e. the blog owner doesn’t HAVE to post these. Of course, that may never happen and we may have “shark week” happen (blood – sharks – get it)

Either way, sorry Polly, stop reading here, at my public state university it wasn’t bad at all, I think only once did I find a toilet covered in blood. My boyfriend’s private expensive-as-hell college continually had a women’s bathroom literally covered in female stuff. Like, 3 tampons on every seat, 5 pads rubbed across the wall and sticking there from dried blood, blood literally everywhere – on the ceiling – on the walls – on the seats – in the sink – in the showers. They did it every day. I never walked into the place without it being covered in nasty. It was unbelievable. I felt so bad for the cleaning ladies. For some reason every time I was there I would have a morbid curiosity of opening the door to see if it was still like that before running off to another building to do my business.

I don’t know what it is about some people, but when faced with “wow, I don’t *have* to clean up after myself?!” they make a point to make the biggest, nastiest mess possible.

By: redheadwglasses

redheadwglasses — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:07:22 +0000

Dave, I worked at a nice department store. The old ladies who used one restroom in particular because of its proximity to our restaurant TRASHED the place. Periods were long gone, but old people still poop. And these dressed up old ladies — many with serious money — smeared their crap everywhere. Daily.

By: Jami

Jami — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:04:26 +0000

@The Moon/Diva Cup Crowd,

Not every woman is comfortable with putting things inside herself there. Some of us find it insanely painful. (And no, nothing medically wrong. Just – well, won’t go into it.)

So again, pads FTW for some of us.

Every woman is different.

By: Humid Hockey

Humid Hockey — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:32:15 +0000

“Most (for the lack of better word) “normal” Christians probably wouldn’t want to go to a place where God was the centerpiece of life on campus. So this isn’t as obnoxious as it might be at a non-religious school.”

Dot, do you actually know any Christians at all, or have you just read about them in books?

Your statement boggles the mind.