u/SnooOnions973

It was 1987, I was at the mall with my older sister and her very cool boyfriend.

I went to the public restroom and saw blood. I had to go find my sister. She was not impressed. I didn’t know what to buy so I watched her at the supermarket counter shove something in my hands. The whole packet of non-applicator “light” flow tampons.

She pointed to the sign to the nearest toilets and said let’s meet up at 12:00 at the food court.

“But now what do I do?” I asked, gesturing to the tampon packet.

“You shove it up there ,til you can’t feel it anymore, you idiot!”, she rolled her eyes and walked off.

And that was the first time I learned to use period products. To this day, (I’m 53), I have never. Ever. Used a sanitary pad.

I told my sister that story about 3 months ago and til then she had no idea it was my first ever period!

We just dealt.

Your turn, fun genx period stories have at it!

Edit: I apologize, many of these stories are ones of absolute trauma (a bit like mine but also much worse). I have a habit of dark humour used to hide this stuff so I’m sorry if it’s misplaced. Can’t change the flair though, sorry.

I’ve seen bidets all over the world and even lived in a home growing up where my bathroom had a bidet, and I’m genuinely interested in how the cleanup works.

1. The bidets I had in my home in the 90s, the spout poked down and there was no snake pipe to change the angle. As such I used the bidet toilet ( an entirely separate porcelain contraption) more as a wash bath for my hair, dirty riding boots, hand-washed garments, etc.

2. How to you use a bidet without water getting everywhere?

3. How do you not get water up your asshole that it leaks out afterwards??

Thank you. Truly I want to know!

Anyone else see that the recent [your-taxes-paid-for-this-shit] are just AI slop? I just watched the one featuring the old lady talking some nonsense about “… that’s like taking a whole hospital offline!”. A) What? Who speaks like this? And B) Said lady is in supposed “hospital bed”, has the AI slop look about her and has 6 fingers. Am I yelling at a cloud? Yes! But FFS do better, QLD Government. Putting us out of jobs and then showing off about it is NOT col.