Annoying adds for feminie hygine products.

Nevyn

Which are the ones that drive you mad, make you cringe, made you laugh for the wrong reasons ?

I remember growing up there were no add for such things and when they started they were weird and obscure like the tampax one with the ballerina doing the dying swan solo from swan lake.

It is funny how add for such things are done differently in countries when bleeding from the crotch once a month is not such a taboo.

These two made me laugh in a good way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMIUOiMeDH4

Esp this one, how many blokes would go out at night in the rain to buy a box of tampons ? Bless him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo9kNFqpH5c

I don't think that we will get to the stage were companies will go for ads like these but at least it makes you laugh rahter then looking at the same blue liquid being pour on a pad as is what is used in ads for babies nappies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMCVyp9TFrg

And as for this one it's clearly a spoof but it makes you wonder if men did
have periods would such a thing be invented ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y1_YrIh8RQ

Maximilian

Well I think when they were thinking up the name for this product, they asked a 14 year old boy.

watna

The beaver on is great. Aussie ads are always quite funny. They get away with so much more than here!

Jules

I always hated that ad for Tampax with the doctor alban song, its my life! Went looking for it before but never able to find it! But rollarblading with a dog... My Arse!

Star Lord

Any of the ads where the lady in question is roller blading, running, dancing, skipping and generally looking like they've never been happier, rather than being slightly irrational or a little bit grumpy. Yeah they're trying to flog a product, but we all know what they do, and what they don't do is make you ecstatic...

justsomebloke

it the iraational urge to wear white clothes that I never got

Red Hand

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

Yeah they're trying to flog a product, but we all know what they do, and what they don't do is make you ecstatic...

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.:)

Sugar Drunk

oh god the ones for the sanitary pads are cringeworthy. yes im so excited that my period arrived that I have strapped a lump of plastic to my underwear and feel teh urge to swing joyfully around lampposts while roller blading with the dog !

oh and the tampax ones for the ones wrapped in yellow plastic and the guy thinks they are sweets. i mean i dont get it, if you want to make them descreet why not make the wrapper black so it blends in with things? a bright yellow is not the most subtle color

ztoical

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.

pebblesjm

has anyone tried the mooncup www.mooncup.co.uk/ thingy migigy? no more tampons or towels (MOST UNCOMFORTABLE YOKES EVER!!!:eek:) thinking of investing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,environmentally friendly too...it's good to be green:D

Would like to see how they'd market this one tho:p

ztoical

pebblesjm wrote: »

has anyone tried the mooncup www.mooncup.co.uk/ thingy migigy? no more tampons or towels (MOST UNCOMFORTABLE YOKES EVER!!!:eek:) thinking of investing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,environmentally friendly too...it's good to be green:D

Would like to see how they'd market this one tho:p

yep I used them after asking about them in this this thread [which I know makes some of the ladies on here go ick] I think they are great and there were adds for them all over the tub in london when I was there last month

Abi

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..

WindSock

ztoical wrote: »

[which I know makes some of the ladies on here go ick]

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.

old boy

great quote there ms mod

Jules

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

Quote of the Forum!!!!

Dudess

Yeah, who the hell invented tampons? A lump of bacteria-gathering man-made fibres shoved up one's cooch for any amount of time cannot be good... My mum's a nurse and she had to examine a girl with terrible itchiness and soreness - there was a whole load of bits of crumbled tampon up there... :eek:

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.:)

LOL

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..

That song is so hilariously OTT - it's a real "epic" power ballad. Er... yes... "perfect" for advertising sanitary towels...

Nevyn

Dudess wrote: »

Yeah, who the hell invented tampons? A lump of bacteria-gathering man-made fibres shoved up one's cooch for any amount of time cannot be good...

The Egyptians the first ones were made of Papyrus.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltampons.htm

The ancient Egyptians invented the first disposable tampons made from softened papyrus. The ancient Greeks invented tampons made from lint wrapped around a small piece of wood, recorded in writing by Hippocrates in the fifth century B.C. Other materials used for the first tampons have included: wool, paper, vegetable fibers, sponges, grass, and later cotton.

tampon patentIn 1929, the modern tampon (with applicator) was first invented and patented by Doctor Earle Haas who wanted to invent a tampon that could be effectively mass produced. Earle Haas filed for his first tampon patent on November 19, 1931. His patent description was for a "catamenial device," derived from the Greek word for monthly. He later trademarked Tampax as the brandname for his tampon product.

Gertrude Tendrich founded the Tampax company for the mass production of tampons after buying the patent and trademark rights from Earle

Peared

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..

Ha, brilliantly displayed. I could actually hear it while reading it.

The Sweeper

It's the "Whhhhhhhhhaaaaooow" bit that does it.

Abi

I don't mind the ads on the telly about them at all, but the bodyform one was outrageous. It embaressed everyone in the sitting room watching. My dad usually headed out to the kettle at this stage. Things havent evolved much either. Mr Abigayle will stay in the sitting room alright, but goes off into a rant about how they shouldnt show those ads on telly. To which I tell him that "these ads are for women who bleed. women dont ask to bleed for a week every month. If I didnt bleed every month you'd have another mouth to feed, so stfu." /flounces out the door. :pac:

AckwelFoley

Those subtle adverts for the femfresh type products crack me up.

Nevyn

Abigayle wrote: »

Mr Abigayle will stay in the sitting room alright, but goes off into a rant about how they shouldnt show those ads on telly. To which I tell him that "these ads are for women who bleed. women dont ask to bleed for a week every month. If I didnt bleed every month you'd have another mouth to feed, so stfu." /flounces out the door. :pac:

Esp when you consider that 1/2 of the worlds population is female and all will bleed at some stage and currently it's looking like at least 40 years of bleeding from the crotch from about 10 to 50.

AckwelFoley

Thaedydal wrote: »

Esp when you consider that 2/3rds of the worlds population is female

I doubt that highly

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

Nevyn

Fixed, need more coffee.

AckwelFoley

Thaedydal wrote: »

Fixed, need more coffee.

*hands T a strong piping hot cuppa*

Abi

Thaedydal wrote: »

Esp when you consider that 1/2 of the worlds population is female and all will bleed at some stage and currently it's looking like at least 40 years of bleeding from the crotch from about 10 to 50.

I suspect any man that sits there ranting about those ads, would be lost on your statistics Thae

When you think about it really, we are bloody* troopers aren't we??!! We are entitled to every little groan, tear, bucket of Haagan Daaz we have. Men cant even have a cold without reducing to a pathetic helpless lump. Not by any means am I starting a man-bash fest, but they arent great when they are not well. And, if you put into perspective exactly what we go through...

I've plenty of ammo for when the next ad comes on now! heh :pac:

*excuse the pun, but it works!

DetectivFoxtrot

slightly off topic but one word - VAGYSIL. Who in their right mind would buy a product by this name. Not me. No matter how itchy my snatch is!

Nevyn

It's the americans and their obsession with douching, which is pretty unhealthy.

Piste

There are also menopause tests called Vielle, which is the French for old...not very nice calling a menopausal woman old

LadyE

DetectivFoxtrot wrote: »

slightly off topic but one word - VAGYSIL. Who in their right mind would buy a product by this name. Not me. No matter how itchy my snatch is!

+1 to that!!

metaoblivia

Thaedydal wrote: »

It's the americans and their obsession with douching, which is pretty unhealthy.

Is it? Because I'm American and while I've heard the term, I have no idea what it actually means.

I always hate the commercials where they show the blue water being dropped into the pad or soaked into the tampon. We know how it works, a demonstration is unnecessary.

Nevyn

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

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

rosarosa

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

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

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

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

Gauge

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

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

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

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

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.


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Zee Deveel

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

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

Thaedydal wrote: »

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

See, those menstrual cups could pay for themselves!

panda100

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

Dog Log wrote: »

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

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

Zaph

Dog Log infracted and banned from TLL

LadyE

Zaph wrote: »

Dog Log infracted and banned from TLL

Damn right

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

trout

LadyE wrote: »

Damn right

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

what was it ? muffins ? marigolds ? MEN ??

LadyE

trout wrote: »

what was it ? muffins ? marigolds ? MEN ??

Those damn marigolds!!!! :D:D:D

GirlInterrupted

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!