What do you call your period?

LadyE · 07-08-2008 9:29pm

Jesus some of the names that popped up in this thread are freakin disgusting :eek:

*adele* · 08-08-2008 1:27am

Riding the red river

trio · 08-08-2008 10:09am

I just say my period. When I was younger I used stupid names because I felt awkward about it, but now I don't give a fupp.

I have friends though who STILL insist on using stupid names for it well into their 30's. "My flowers" etc. Makes me cringe a bit at this age.

Red Hand · 08-08-2008 10:11am

I call it my Full-Stop.

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niavie · 08-08-2008 10:46am

painters are in or just plain old period

WindSock · 08-08-2008 11:03am

I hate the word period. I call it the bloodening, Kinda crappy, I need to come up with something better.

Malari · 08-08-2008 11:11am

I hate that the default position for the female body is pregnant. Every month you're wasting all this energy building up a lining in the womb and.....oh how disappointing, says your body, now I'll have to flush it all out because I'm not pregnant. Better luck next month!

Reku · 08-08-2008 11:57am

Malari wrote: »

I hate that the default position for the female body is pregnant. Every month you're wasting all this energy building up a lining in the womb and.....oh how disappointing, says your body, now I'll have to flush it all out because I'm not pregnant. Better luck next month!

True enough, there are a few parts of my body I view as a similar waste of nutrients. As regards periods I have often wondered why we evolved such that womens' bodies have them, why throw away all those cells after working to grow them?

But then there are quite a few of evolutions results I wonder over at times...

As to the calling it "your flowers" that some have posted, does that mean these people who use that phrase think periods stop permanently after sex, since once you lose your virginity you've been deflowered?:p

Maple · 08-08-2008 12:15pm

call it my period.

Crumble Froo · 08-08-2008 12:17pm

lol at the theory farohar...

and yeahhh! bastards! as someone who suffered quite badly with anaemia and hypoglycemia for a good while, why the **** didnt my body kick in and stop throwing all that precious blood out of my system?!

apparently, according to my doctor, i had less oestrogen in my body than most men. yet still... period kept happening... WHY?!

ugliest · 08-08-2008 12:18pm

Usually, my insides are turning into outsides.

ex used to call it the "time of pain."

Puddleduck · 08-08-2008 12:19pm

Id normally call it my period, but sometimes Id say 'flo' or my lady time but its mostly for laughs

Reku · 08-08-2008 12:29pm

http://www.jibjab.com/view/98143

:P

Leeby · 08-08-2008 1:29pm

I just say period, I've heard of it being called flowers before and I'm dying to know where the hell that came from!!! Seriously, someone please tell me.

Piste · 08-08-2008 5:34pm

Usually my friends and I would call it Tomás. An Irish twist on an old favourite

Catari Jaguar · 09-08-2008 1:59pm

WindSock wrote: »

I hate the word period. I call it the bloodening, Kinda crappy, I need to come up with something better.

LOL! That's brilliant!

My family/ boyf call it "Pyramids".
I was teaching these real rough girls, you know extra street smart 9 years olds, and this young wan goes "Is tha' when ye get yor pyramids?"

Legend!

Eviledna · 09-08-2008 8:09pm

I call it D'other. (You have to say it like D'unbelieveables.)

Zwillinge · 10-08-2008 11:14am

I call it Me Yokes!

I never really understood flowers...what certain time of month, a blooming happens?? It ain't that beautiful

Bagheera · 10-08-2008 11:17am

I just call it my period. I remember reading a book where the mother called it the bloody monthlies which I kind of liked.

sadista · 12-08-2008 2:47pm

I would normally call it flowers also but I dont know where that originated from...maybe someone got fed up of all the derogatory terms and decided to give it a nice name instead??:rolleyes:

Signpost · 12-08-2008 3:15pm

Opened it by accident and still read thru... Now i need to go for a smoke. GF used to call it yokes and even thou I'm not anyway into the drug scene I insisted her calling it that in case I ever decided to drop a few. We now agree on TOM. I dont really give a s**t what its called once she dont turn narky!

mollybird · 12-08-2008 6:31pm

i just describe how i feel. sore belly, sleepy, and sore back. it's pretty obvious from that.

Toots · 12-08-2008 9:44pm

I usually just call it my period. There was a customer in with me the other day who referred to it as 'blob week'! God I didn't know where to look. My manager was standing right behind me and he looked like he wanted the ground to swallow him up.:P

1_in_1,000,000 · 13-08-2008 8:51am

My period.

or
The moon is waxing
Bottom of my cycle

LEH · 13-08-2008 11:13am

"got the painters in"

never really understood why... but i like it! Nothing too graphic but gets the message accross

buckieburd · 13-08-2008 12:41pm

When we were younger used to call it your 'bad week' or your 'leakies' (gross I know!!!)

Now I would just say 'The Red Army has invaded'

Cant stand 'flowers' or 'period' mind you to be honest dont really like talking about them, I hate when girls in work tell you there on!! I dont really want to know the details of your menstual cycle ta very much!!

SpookyDoll · 13-08-2008 2:17pm

I just say "the reds are playin at home" or ring a bell and roar "unclean.....UNCLLLEAAAANNN" like Quasimodo, to stop the BF gettin frisky....

Sometimes it even works!

Nead21 · 13-08-2008 7:16pm

SpookyDoll wrote: »

ring a bell and roar "unclean.....UNCLLLEAAAANNN" like Quasimodo, to stop the BF gettin frisky....

hahaha lmao!!

rhapsody! · 14-08-2008 9:44am

buckieburd wrote: »

I hate when girls in work tell you there on!! I dont really want to know the details of your menstual cycle ta very much!!

Oh god I know, I sent a text to my friend asking how she was and she said she was on her period and that it was right heavy...

I just feel awkward mentioning it at all so alot of the time I don't bother :P

shoegirl · 14-08-2008 11:38am

Being a lady of sorts, I don't discuss bodily functions or fluids in public.

I find it the height of vulgarity.

laurak265 · 14-08-2008 11:40am

shoegirl wrote: »

Being a lady of sorts, I don't discuss bodily functions or fluids in public.

I find it the height of vulgarity.

I tend to agree with you! I have a friend who quotes "the pitch is flooded" and i think it is disgusting...

I just say my yolks or tom to my bessie mate or mother that would be it!

LadyE · 14-08-2008 1:12pm

shoegirl wrote: »

Being a lady of sorts, I don't discuss bodily functions or fluids in public.

I find it the height of vulgarity.

I agree with you. I have no need to talk about it. And these names...ah yuck..

SpookyDoll · 14-08-2008 1:21pm

Copulator wrote: »

Blow-job week.

ha ha ha ha -Im taking that one home!!!

Alessandra · 15-08-2008 11:59pm

:eek:I find if the need arises and I for some reason need to explain my bad humour/horniness or other symptoms to someone simply mentioning that it's "the time of the month" will suffice. Any further description I find superfluous and often times disusting. As others have said the discussion of bodily functions is not something which needs to be mentioned in polite conversation. Some of the names given to it by other girls repulse me

Bijoux · 16-08-2008 12:13am

My mother says 'Auntie Flossie has come to visit'

I just say 'time of the month' or 'im having my period'...or occasionally I take inspiration from Clueless 'I'm riding the crimson wave' :pac:

*Dallas · 16-08-2008 1:15am

im not in the habbit of disgussing it, but when the bf needs to know its 'i have my thingies'... although, im soo going to start shoutin 'unclean, uunnnclean'

SarahJ · 17-08-2008 5:21pm

Haha this is a great thread. Between me and my bestie, we call it TOM, as in Time of month.

'Ugh Toms here'

Reku · 18-08-2008 7:44am

Why do I suspect there might be one or two lads out there called Tom who can't figure out why one or two of their female friends talk about them so meanly behind their backs but are all nice and friendly to thier faces.:rolleyes:

Taylieboo · 25-08-2008 7:16am

My things

LovelyTom · 25-08-2008 7:35am

When one of the girls is being cranky, myself and the other guys say, "Must be her Dolmio day"

It was so much funnier about 2 years ago :P

LolaLuv · 25-08-2008 7:39am

shoegirl wrote: »

Being a lady of sorts, I don't discuss bodily functions or fluids in public.

I find it the height of vulgarity.

Absolutely. And when I do have to call it something, I say "my period". Saying something "cute" implies a sense of shame imo. I'm not saying I love menstruating, but it does mean I'm young and fertile. Nothing wrong with that.

Teferi · 25-08-2008 9:22am

I tell my girlfriend that she is getting her vampire teabags.

I get punched a lot.

john_aero · 25-08-2008 9:36am

LovelyTom wrote: »

When one of the girls is being cranky, myself and the other guys say, "Must be her Dolmio day"

It was so much funnier about 2 years ago :P

never heard that one before

ziggy · 31-08-2008 9:11pm

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Trinity · 31-08-2008 10:25pm

Dont have time to read the thread but my mother calls them 'your others'. I always though she was saying 'your udders'

I call them periods except when my son asks me to take him swimming and i say i cant i have 'the blood'. Bit graphic for a kid but he was always following me into the bathroom, slept with me and wanting to take baths with me up to the age of 6 so i had to say something when he saw and wanted to know was i dying and it wasnt in the handbook what to say to a 4 year old.

jobucks · 01-09-2008 11:42am

" The Evils"

Trinity · 01-09-2008 12:27pm

Or after a pregnancy scare when they arrive i call them the 'oh thank gods'

Fletch123 · 01-09-2008 12:39pm

I call it my period, simple as. I have no problem mentioning it when needs be, such as friend keeps on asking why you are pale and clutching your tummy. But I'd never announce it to the staff coffee room in the same way you'd say, "I saw Eastenders last night". That's not right...

cute_cow · 01-09-2008 12:46pm

normally just call them periods, sometimes friends, or tellin ghimself I've fallen to the communists!!

celticcutie · 01-09-2008 12:55pm

Copulator wrote: »

Blow-job week.

I give this one the prize - all the information required w/out producing any tummy turning images

although that depends on ones interest in blow jobs!!!

Boy oh boy I've never thought about periods as much in my life as I have since reading through this thread. Some of those names are grrrrosss

What do you call your period?

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