Annoying adds for feminie hygine products.

Nevyn · 13-04-2008 1:12am

http://www.thebody.com/content/treat/art941.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douche

rosarosa · 13-04-2008 1:13am

Vagisyl (sp?).....Reminds me of that scene in me, myself and Irene when Jim Carrey uses the PA system to ask for vagisyl for the bitchy lady at the check-out.....(love that movie)

metaoblivia · 13-04-2008 2:18am

Thaedydal wrote: »

http://www.thebody.com/content/treat/art941.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douche

Yeah, never done anything like that, nor did my mother ever mention it while having the "talk". I use the term douche bag, but in a completely different way

Abi · 13-04-2008 8:26am

rosarosa wrote: »

Vagisyl (sp?).....Reminds me of that scene in me, myself and Irene when Jim Carrey uses the PA system to ask for vagisyl for the bitchy lady at the check-out.....(love that movie)

Love that film mahself. In it the product is Vagiclean. Theres a bit extra at the start, where the little girl tells him to fu.ck off.. heh.. here ya go! :pac:

rosarosa · 13-04-2008 1:26pm

Vagiclean! slaps hand to forehead.....doh.....:)

Gauge · 14-04-2008 12:29am

Speaking of douching, vintage Lysol ads are incredibly hilarious in a tragic way, especially when you take into account that they were often used as a 'hush hush' method of birth control and as an abortifacent.

1928 ad
1948 ad
Flickr set of ads

Nevyn · 15-04-2008 4:16pm

http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/steinem.html

If Men Could Menstruate

A Political Fantasy by Gloria Steinem

A white minority of the world has spent centuries conning us into thinking that a white skin makes people superior - even though the only thing it really does is make the more subject to ultraviolet rays and to wrinkles. Male human beings have built whole cultures around the idea that penis-envy is "natural" to women - though having such an unprotected organ might be said to make men vulnerable, and the power to give birth makes womb-envy at least as logical.

In short, the characteristics of the powerful, whatever they may be, are thought to be better than the characteristics of the powerless - and logic has nothing to do with it.

What would happen, for instance, if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women could not?

The answer is clear - menstruation would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event:

Men would brag about how long and how much.

Boys would mark the onset of menses, that longed-for proof of manhood, with religious ritual and stag parties.

Congress would fund a National Institute of Dysmenorrhea to help stamp out monthly discomforts.

Sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free. (Of course, some men would still pay for the prestige of commercial brands such as John Wayne Tampons, Muhammad Ali's Rope-a-dope Pads, Joe Namath Jock Shields - "For Those Light Bachelor Days," and Robert "Baretta" Blake Maxi-Pads.)

Military men, right-wing politicians, and religious fundamentalists would cite menstruation ("men-struation") as proof that only men could serve in the Army ("you have to give blood to take blood"), occupy political office ("can women be aggressive without that steadfast cycle governed by the planet Mars?"), be priest and ministers ("how could a woman give her blood for our sins?") or rabbis("without the monthly loss of impurities, women remain unclean").

Male radicals, left-wing politicians, mystics, however, would insist that women are equal, just different, and that any woman could enter their ranks if she were willing to self-inflict a major wound every month ("you MUST give blood for the revolution"), recognize the preeminence of menstrual issues, or subordinate her selfness to all men in their Cycle of Enlightenment.

Street guys would brag ("I'm a three pad man") or answer praise from a buddy ("Man, you lookin' good!") by giving fives and saying, "Yeah, man, I'm on the rag!" TV shows would treat the subject at length. ("Happy Days": Richie and Potsie try to convince Fonzie that he is still "The Fonz," though he has missed two periods in a row.) So would newspapers.(SHARK SCARE THREATENS MENSTRUATING MEN. JUDGE CITES MONTHLY STRESS IN PARDONING RAPIST.) And movies. (Newman and Redford in "Blood Brothers"!)

Men would convince women that intercourse was more pleasurable at "that time of the month." Lesbians would be said to fear blood and therefore life itself - though probably only because they needed a good menstruating man.

Of course, male intellectuals would offer the most moral and logical arguments. How could a woman master any discipline that demanded a sense of time, space, mathematics, or measurement, for instance, without that in-built gift for measuring the cycles of the moon and planets - and thus for measuring anything at all? In the rarefied fields of philosophy and religion, could women compensate for missing the rhythm of the universe? Or for their lack of symbolic death-and-resurrection every month?

Liberal males in every field would try to be kind: the fact that "these people" have no gift for measuring life or connecting to the universe, the liberals would explain, should be punishment enough.

And how would women be trained to react? One can imagine traditional women agreeing to all arguments with a staunch and smiling masochism. ("The ERA would force housewives to wound themselves every month": Phyllis Schlafly. "Your husband's blood is as sacred as that of Jesus - and so sexy, too!": Marabel Morgan.) Reformers and Queen Bees would try to imitate men, and pretend to have a monthly cycle. All feminists would explain endlessly that men, too, needed to be liberated from the false idea of Martian aggressiveness, just as women needed to escape the bonds of menses-envy. Radical feminist would add that the oppression of the nonmenstrual was the pattern for all other oppressions ("Vampires were our first freedom fighters!") Cultural feminists would develop a bloodless imagery in art and literature. Socialist feminists would insist that only under capitalism would men be able to monopolize menstrual blood...

In fact, if men could menstruate, the power justifications could probably go on forever.

If we let them.

This made me laugh alot.

WindSock · 15-04-2008 5:15pm

Imagine the mess if men had periods. There'd be bloody rags everywhere. I can see it now. they'd be standing on the side of the street changing their tampons and just chuck them on the ground or at car windows.

Maximilian · 15-04-2008 5:44pm

WindSock wrote: »

Imagine the mess if men had periods. There'd be bloody rags everywhere. I can see it now. they'd be standing on the side of the street changing their tampons and just chuck them on the ground or at car windows.

Sure, just like how we throw used bog roll on the ground & at car windows. Pff. birds and your pre-conceived notions!

Nevyn · 16-04-2008 9:46am

Well it looks like some women might get paid for thier menses.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/biotech/20080320-9999-1b20medistem.html

New stem cell variety found in menstrual blood

By Terri Somers
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

March 20, 2008

A startup stem cell company with part of its operations in San Diego has discovered a new type of stem cell in menstrual blood, a finding that might allow researchers to avoid the medical and ethical issues surrounding the use of human embryonic stem cells.

Advertisement
Medistem Laboratories said these new cells are more like human embryonic stem cells than most so-called adult stem cells because they can turn into nine tissue types in the body. They also can replicate themselves faster than other adult stem cell types, giving them the potential to be banked and creating the possibility of a plentiful supply of cells for therapies, said Thomas Ichim, the company's new chief executive.

Zee Deveel · 16-04-2008 10:21am

I'm somewhere between grossed out and highly impressed here. Think that'll definitely be one to keep an eye on for the future.

EamonnKeane · 17-04-2008 7:17pm

snyper wrote: »

I doubt that highly

I know there are more women than men but certainly not that high.

No, there are more men http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio

cuckoo · 18-04-2008 1:11am

Thaedydal wrote: »

Well it looks like some women might get paid for thier menses.

See, those menstrual cups could pay for themselves!

panda100 · 27-06-2008 12:24pm

Thaedydal wrote: »

http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/steinem.html
This made me laugh alot.

Thats a brilliant site.
I particulalry liked this one : http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/busman.html
Watch any episode of the apprentice and you'll see how true it is.

http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/hsigns.html .Haha The rules eat your heart out.

LadyE · 29-06-2008 10:49pm

Dog Log wrote: »

<snip> are so high maintenance. How do you wimmins cope?

Don't say the "m" word!:eek:

Zaph · 29-06-2008 10:52pm

Dog Log infracted and banned from TLL

LadyE · 29-06-2008 10:55pm

Zaph wrote: »

Dog Log infracted and banned from TLL

Damn right

The "m" word really is that bad

:D:D:D

trout · 29-06-2008 11:16pm

LadyE wrote: »

Damn right

The "m" word really is that bad :D:D:D

what was it ? muffins ? marigolds ? MEN ??

LadyE · 29-06-2008 11:20pm

trout wrote: »

what was it ? muffins ? marigolds ? MEN ??

Those damn marigolds!!!!

:D:D:D

GirlInterrupted · 30-06-2008 10:29pm

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

I don't know about that. I've been quite ecstatic on occasion when I use them.

For instance, have you ever been frustrated at not being able to quite get the inside bottom of a long glass perfectly dry with a tea towel?

Well, just pop in one of the Always and let it soak up the water for a sparkling clean finish.:)

Funneeee:D

ztoical wrote: »

the ad were the woman used a glass of wine rather then the standard blue liquid and at the end giggles stupidly and goes "Do you think using dry white wine was cheating?" AHhhhhhhhhHHHH drove me up the wall.

Red wine would be a bit realistic I suppose:D

WindSock wrote: »

I don't understand how it could be any more ick than bleeding all over a nappy or shoving a bunch of cotton wool up your snatch

Anyway I wouldn't buy the tampons in the add with the applauding. I don't find it quite appealing to use a sanitary product that would give me the clap.

Couldn't have put it better....a round of applause, oh, maybe not:D!

Ginny · 01-07-2008 10:31pm

Have a Happy Period. Always.
WTF.
With pads as umbrellas?

cuckoo · 01-07-2008 10:57pm

GinnyJo wrote: »

Have a Happy Period. Always.
WTF.
With pads as umbrellas?

I HATE that ad. Uck. With all the blue tones everywhere - because blue is the official colour of periods.

Ginny · 01-07-2008 11:00pm

Sure aren't periods blue, they are in those testubes...:D

Abi · 01-07-2008 11:27pm

I know blokes hate the ads, but do any females hate them? fuxin hate them tbh.

GirlInterrupted · 02-07-2008 12:53am

GinnyJo wrote: »

Sure aren't periods blue, they are in those testubes...:D

I always have mine in a test tube. I like to be different.;)
I also have blue periods. Like Picasso.

littlefriend · 02-07-2008 2:11am

Abigayle wrote: »

Ah god.. do you remember when you were a bit younger, and you are sitting there between your mam and dad when the telly starts screaming this ad:

Whhhhhhhhhaaaaooow BODYFORRRRMM! BODYFORM FOR YOUUUUU!!

Didnt know where to put meh head..

My friends all still sing it. When we are on a night out for example and someone starts singing that one always comes out.. none of us know the words to actual songs so we end up singing 'he is Lord' or 'Mary had a baby yes Lord' - thats actually the worst one as we try to do a harmony with it. We were asked to leave Odessa one night. All the other tables thought we were complete freaks.

But the main thing I hate is when ppl say periodS. Makes me feel sick or when a guy says oh it must be her time of the month - like seriously fcuk off

mental07 · 02-07-2008 9:17pm

Abigayle wrote: »

Ah god.. do you remember when you were a bit younger, and you are sitting there between your mam and dad when the telly starts screaming this ad:

Whhhhhhhhhaaaaooow BODYFORRRRMM! BODYFORM FOR YOUUUUU!!

Didnt know where to put meh head..

I'd forgotten how hilarious that is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjqZ54dxd4&feature=related

pookie82 · 03-07-2008 12:15am

My boyfriend always sings the bodyform jingle to himself randomly. Does the high notes perfectly. The new always add is pathetic..... "Why shouldn't you have a happy period?" blah blah as in what are we making the big fuss about..... How about bleeding and crampng for seven days a month??? reason enough not to be happy for me. And the girl floating through the air and landing softly in a towel "bath" is just disturbing.

fonpokno · 03-07-2008 12:20am

mental07 wrote: »

I'd forgotten how hilarious that is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcjqZ54dxd4&feature=related

Ahahahahahahaha i remember seeing that now! what a hopelessly ridiculous ad! bahahahahahaha! God i love the 90s!

Annoying adds for feminie hygine products.

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