What do you call your period?

JP Liz · 06-08-2008 10:06pm #1

time of the month, friends, cousins, monthlys, bloodies, Eve's Curse, The Monthly Curse, Riding The Stick, Ragging, On the Rag, Aunt Flow's visiting, My Kitty's Bleeding, Bloody Mary, Redrum, Nature's Course, Devil's Juice etc

MILF · 06-08-2008 10:14pm

Some of those are rotten!!
Flowers mostly but my other half calls it Rag Week!!

Madame Razz · 06-08-2008 10:16pm

my dose!!

laurak265 · 06-08-2008 10:21pm

Got my yokes!

jellie · 06-08-2008 10:22pm

generally id just call it my period..

in in my group of friends we'll refer to it as "tom" if theres guys around - time of month

"ugh i feel crap"
"why?"
"stupid tom"
"grrr i hate that f*cker"

445279.ie · 06-08-2008 10:39pm

usually just call it my period

or "the pitch is flooded"

Alicat · 06-08-2008 10:45pm

My 'Lady Time'....

Or just 'my period'

DJ_Spider · 06-08-2008 10:54pm

A girl I went out with called it her jam! I also heard someone discussing it one day on a train, it was a guy telling his mate he had O when his g/f was on her rags! He said he had turkey pie with cranberry sauce! Ergh!!! :eek:

EDIT: Is that why another name for the lady garden is 'chainsaw wound'?

Quality · 06-08-2008 10:56pm

Period, Flowers, Friends or I am painting the town Red... Or sometimes I just tell people the truth... That I am haemoraging.

Winters · 06-08-2008 11:03pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhG8E2M4-DI

Lyrics probably a tad nsfw...

Nightwish · 06-08-2008 11:06pm

Christ whats with the names. Its pretty childish imo. Just call it what it is...period.

GirlInterrupted · 06-08-2008 11:43pm

I call it being on Red Alert.

Kinda true....:)

cuckoo · 06-08-2008 11:54pm

No special names for it, but i'm in negotiations to have "...sponsored by Cadburys" included in my each and every mention of it. I get through a fair whack of chocolate then.

Dee369369 · 07-08-2008 12:06am

I'd normally call it tom (time of the month

) or my period
Never heard of it being called flowers

am i missing something here?

SunnyP · 07-08-2008 12:09am

Just call it my period. My mother on the other hand calls them 'your friends' which I find odd

DJ_Spider · 07-08-2008 12:22am

Not very friendly are they? with friends like that, who needs enemies?!

HouseHippo · 07-08-2008 12:25am

My period unless im around my bf or other men get a bit shy call it my things or yokes lol

On front of other girls aged 14-17 My "flowers"

Pherekydes · 07-08-2008 12:40am

Nightwish wrote: »

Christ whats with the names. Its pretty childish imo. Just call it what it is...period.

Menses is what it is. What's the big deal about other names?

We call it the red tide. :rolleyes:

ash xxx · 07-08-2008 12:43am

Pretty much just call it my period, but I used to call it my jam tarts for an ex of mine, just to see the face on him, hehe

:D

HouseHippo · 07-08-2008 12:50am

Jam tarts lmao good one

Msfc · 07-08-2008 12:51am

I usually call it @#;! %^&# $%?># @{%&!, sometimes 'my period' aswell!!

hussey · 07-08-2008 12:53am

Playing for Munster, got the commies in and starring in a period costume drama.
All from Mr Ross O'Carroll-Kelly.

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 07-08-2008 12:56am

Dee369369 wrote: »

I'd normally call it tom (time of the month )

I had never heard of that til a few months ago when an ex said that is what her sister called it!

GirlInterrupted · 07-08-2008 1:02am

Pherekydes wrote: »

Menses is what it is. What's the big deal about other names?

We call it the red tide. :rolleyes:

Just reminded me that before it was being on Red Alert, it was the Crimson Tide...:)

No problem with little names...

challengemaster · 07-08-2008 1:04am

HouseHippo wrote: »

My period unless im around my bf or other men get a bit shy call it my things or yokes lol

On front of other girls aged 14-17 My "flowers"

Wait, you're calling it something silly infront of girls who are starting to get them?
Sense - This makes none.

metaoblivia · 07-08-2008 1:10am

It's just my period.

Stargal · 07-08-2008 2:02am

Period. I find the euphemisms a bit creepy tbh. Using them perpetuates the whole idea that periods are some kind of mysterious/weird thing that can't or shouldn't be talked about in public. Call a spade a spade.

Although having said all that, I have occasionally used the phrase 'reading in the Ussher basement' for when I have my period. Basically in TCD, where I went to college, the periodicals section was in the basement of the Ussher library - hence 'I'm reading in the Ussher basement'. But it's mainly for lulz.

Wow. That sounds even weirder when I write it down.

Twee. · 07-08-2008 3:03am

To mammy I'd say I have my period. Among my mates it's on the rag and PMS is "raggy". On the blob was thrown around for a while, but rag stuck. Not very nice is it lol?

Jules · 07-08-2008 6:43am

On the blob is well nasty! Generally jsut period, but from time to time i just tell him i'm plugged!

DublinWriter · 07-08-2008 7:12am

From ex's:

"my others"

"up on bricks"

Crumble Froo · 07-08-2008 7:18am

SunnyP wrote: »

Just call it my period. My mother on the other hand calls them 'your friends' which I find odd

so does mine,and i've always found it odd. i usually just go for 'my time of the month', or 'mother****ing red cramping bastards'.

Reku · 07-08-2008 8:10am

Why is it that of all the things in life it seems to be the genitalia & sex organs and things pertaining to them that have the widest variety of euphemisms? Only one thing on folks minds you'd swear....:P

Know an American co-worker absolutely loved the phrase "up on bricks" for a girl's period, thought it was hilarious.
Can't say I can remember female friends using euphemisms when discussing it around me, only made me feel out of place not embaressed.

Star Lord · 07-08-2008 9:07am

I remember seeing a Jo Brand sketch a right few years ago where she went through some names for it: Arsenal are playing at home, the painters are in, and she said her personal favourite was "I have vast quantities of blood leaking from my vagina"...

Malari · 07-08-2008 9:46am

I usually just say I'm being a girl.

I was messing a few months back and told my boyfriend in a kind of Deirdre O'Kane voice I was at that stage of my "menstrual cycle". He now does a little singing minstrel impression whenever I have my period :pac:

Femelade · 07-08-2008 2:24pm

Attracting the sharks..

Ginny · 07-08-2008 2:29pm

no name at all for it, althoguh right now it would be the never ending story...:(

Dizzyblonde · 07-08-2008 3:36pm

I call it my period, but I call the pains the Ladycramps

MissyKiki · 07-08-2008 3:57pm

Eeek! you're all so friendly in here!

Jam week for me...

rainbow kirby · 07-08-2008 5:27pm

"On the rag" or "Shark Week".

ChewChew · 07-08-2008 7:11pm

hardware shop. when its open it's like a fúcking pliers ripping my insides out so but thats only what i say if it's giving me awful grief.

other then that, tis my period. period.

Phlann · 07-08-2008 7:29pm

I have a friend who makes a point of telling me she's 'bleeding like a cut fish' when she's on.

Oh and once I got a text from a female friend saying she was 'gushing like someone on the Jeremy Kyle', followed by another one saying 'sry, wrong number'. I think she was joking.

As you can tell, I move in pretty sophisticated circles.

Loopy · 07-08-2008 7:29pm

Flo has come to town...

Abi · 07-08-2008 7:50pm

Im surfin' the crimson wave :pac:

tman · 07-08-2008 7:54pm

Full stop
Sometimes "dot" if I'm talking someone through entering a web address...

challengemaster · 07-08-2008 7:55pm

Abigayle wrote: »

Im surfin' the crimson wave :pac:

As sick as that is... I lol'd

07-08-2008 8:02pm

stinking mess

rain on · 07-08-2008 8:28pm

I call it my period, or "that time of the month" if I think the context requires delicacy.

On the rare occasion that I get cramps I am fond of announcing "My womb is at me!"; I lived in a house with a couple of very crampy girls a few years back, and it caught on..

apprentice · 07-08-2008 9:15pm

I call it "my full stop" ..... Dont know why...... Think my boyfriend came up with the name and it just stuck

CreepingDeath · 07-08-2008 9:53pm

A medical emergency... but then I am a guy.

Tom Dunne · 07-08-2008 10:03pm

Rational Thinking's monthly exodus.

Zaph · 07-08-2008 10:21pm

What do you call your period?

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