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I like to pretend I have a need for contraception...

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  • 13-11-2007 1:10am
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    Basq
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    OK, since this thread will soon die!

    I was thinking of posting this earlier but didn't wanna waste time making a new thread for it (ain't i considerate to all ye AH mods).

    OK, here goes:

    Why do they stock contraceptives in the 'Family Planning' section of a pharmacy / Boots etc? I mean if you're buying contraceptives, you're not exactly planning a family. Everytime i enter Boots, i always comment on this so anyone else care to elaborate?


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    Potential-Monke
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    Well, you're hardly going to put them in the middle of the paracetamol... THen again...


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    Sinfonia
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    basquille wrote: »
    Why do they stock contraceptives in the 'Family Planning' section of a pharmacy / Boots etc? I mean if you're buying contraceptives, you're not exactly planning a family. Everytime i enter Boots, i always comment on this so anyone else care to elaborate?
    You're planning to keep your family the same size it currently is.


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    Karoma
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    Thread split by. Title by me. Thoughts by basquille. Laughing by everyone. :p
    basquille wrote:
    OK, since this thread will soon die!

    I was thinking of posting this earlier but didn't wanna waste time making a new thread for it (ain't i considerate to all ye AH mods).

    OK, here goes:

    Why do they stock contraceptives in the 'Family Planning' section of a pharmacy / Boots etc? I mean if you're buying contraceptives, you're not exactly planning a family. Everytime i enter Boots, i always comment on this so anyone else care to elaborate?
    Just in case...


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    Terry
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    basquille wrote: »
    OK, since this thread will soon die!

    I was thinking of posting this earlier but didn't wanna waste time making a new thread for it (ain't i considerate to all ye AH mods).

    OK, here goes:

    Why do they stock contraceptives in the 'Family Planning' section of a pharmacy / Boots etc? I mean if you're buying contraceptives, you're not exactly planning a family. Everytime i enter Boots, i always comment on this so anyone else care to elaborate?
    In my local chemists they stock the condoms on the counter...
    Right beside the pregnancy tests.

    It doesn't really instill confidence in the durability of the condoms.


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    Basq
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    Karoma.. you're a funny guy. That's why i'm gonna kill you last!








    No, scratch that. You're going first on my list!

    1. Karoma
    2. Hitler
    3. ** Pending **


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    monkeyfudge
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    Would you rather they had a 'family unplanning' section?


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    Sinfonia
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    ...


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    star-pants
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    True... tis interesting, but I guess they assume if you're 'planning' you'll use contraceptives until the time is right. Thus a plan.

    But I have seen them up the top with pregnacy tests / cough lozenges etc..


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    Basq
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    Terry wrote: »
    In my local chemists they stock the condoms on the counter...
    Right beside the pregnancy tests.

    It doesn't really instill confidence in the durability of the condoms.
    That's true. Maybe it's just Boots that have the section 'Family Planning' but definitely have contraceptives and pregnancy tests alongside each other there too.
    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    Would you rather they had a 'family unplanning' section?
    And how exactly would you suggest they advertisement that? No.. no.. this thread would descend into utter madness then!
    star-pants wrote: »
    True... tis interesting
    OK.. that's all i wanted. You can close the thread now.


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    monkeyfudge
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    The condom machines in toilets now dispense jelly beans as well...

    What's going on there?


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    jtsuited
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    SumGuy wrote: »
    ...

    the funniest thing that I have seen all day!!


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    Basq
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    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    The condom machines in toilets now dispense jelly beans as well...

    What's going on there?
    Yeah, i got them mixed up once. Due to the lack of condoms and abundance of jelly beans...

























    .... i had JELLY BABIES!

    EH EH?! Who's with me?! OK, i'll get me jacket!


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    Karoma
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    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    The condom machines in toilets now dispense jelly beans as well...

    What's going on there?

    or M&Ms. I try not to think about the fact that 'sweeties' are sold alongside condoms...


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    Sonnenblumen
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    basquille wrote: »
    OK, since this thread will soon die!

    I was thinking of posting this earlier but didn't wanna waste time making a new thread for it (ain't i considerate to all ye AH mods).

    OK, here goes:

    Why do they stock contraceptives in the 'Family Planning' section of a pharmacy / Boots etc? I mean if you're buying contraceptives, you're not exactly planning a family. Everytime i enter Boots, i always comment on this so anyone else care to elaborate?

    Have you ever been offered free samples?


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    star-pants
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    basquille wrote: »
    Yeah, i got them mixed up once. Due to the lack of condoms and abundance of jelly beans...







    .... i had JELLY BABIES!

    EH EH?! Who's with me?! OK, i'll get me jacket!


    awh bless... I laughed!


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    monkeyfudge
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    Yep... it's so old fashioned...

    You want a condom machine that also dispenses Yu Gi Oh trading cards.


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    Dave!
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    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    The condom machines in toilets now dispense jelly beans as well...

    What's going on there?
    Can't believe you haven't figured it out yet...... What age are you like?


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    Basq
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    Karoma wrote: »
    Just in case...
    No plans in editing my original post... it's a valid question.


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    Robbo
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    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    Would you rather they had a 'family unplanning' section?
    Isn't that just a selection of wire coathangers and ferry tickets?


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    star-pants
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    Unless it's like... 'family planning.... on having no more kids'






    *runs away*




    edit - this was in reference to the contraceptives as family planning, not any other...not so nice unfamily planning remark


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    Karoma
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    Ahem. Let's keep it (relatively) tasteful... <- uh...you know what I mean. >.<


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    Basq
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    Karoma wrote: »
    Ahem. Let's keep it (relatively) tasteful... <- uh...you know what I mean. >.<
    Was it the 'Jelly Babies' comment? Was it too far? I'l retract it... hold on.. my sincerest apologies!


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    Karoma
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    basquille wrote: »
    Was it the 'Jelly Babies' comment? Was it too far? I'l retract it... hold on.. my sincerest apologies!

    Well, to be honest, in part - I have a distrubing image of the jelly babies being inserted into the meatus... :/


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    Basq
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    Oh God... there was no need for "the m word"!


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    Sinfonia
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    DaveMcG wrote: »
    Can't believe you haven't figured it out yet...... What age are you like?

    Enlighten us please...


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    giddyup
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    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    The condom machines in toilets now dispense jelly beans as well...

    What's going on there?

    You stuff a handful of jelly beans into the condom....for her pleasure.


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    Senna
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    I thought this thread was going to be about walking around from the age of 14 till about 17 with the same condom in your wallet. Just in the vain hope.


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    randylonghorn
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    Stayed in a Spanish hotel a while back, they had a mini-gym (and jeez do I mean mini!!) ... anyway, the guys changing room had a dispenser which provided such essentials as small containers of shampoo and shower gel, stick deoderant, comb etc. ... the last three items on offer were (in order) small containers of the local equivalent of Deep Heat, condoms, small containers of lube ...

    Given that the hotel catered mostly for younger males travelling for business purposes, many of them from abroad, and everything was labelled in Spanish, I reckoned there was serious potential for painful errors!


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    monkeyfudge
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    randylonghorn wrote: »
    Given that the hotel catered mostly for younger males travelling for business purposes, many of them from abroad, and everything was labelled in Spanish, I reckoned there was serious potential for painful errors!
    That's so you can deliver an Alabama Hot Pocket.


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    ibh
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    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    That's so you can deliver an Alabama Hot Pocket.

    :D


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