Rant: Me and My Tampons

[littera_abactor]

Note: This post contains discussion of feminine unmentionables. Those who have issues with this - or who are deeply disturbed by the normal cycles of the female human body - should skip right over this one. (And probably start some therapy, but that's just my guess

Comments

[littera_abactor]

*eyes your icon with great suspicion*

That wouldn't be an all-natural, running-jumping-playing tulip, now, would it? Okay, I thought not, but right now these are questions I've got to ask.

And thank you! I'm glad I made you laugh.

I'm actually at this point investigating cups, on the grounds that they'd be cheaper and could hardly be more irritating and patronizing, and if not? OB for me. (Although my plumber brother-in-law says you shouldn't flush any part of a tampon, and I always trust a man with a giant snake, so I still won't be flushing them.)

[littera_abactor]

See, the idea of not flushing them icked me right out, too. But the prospect of having yet another conversation about the Menace of Tampons (second only to the Menace of Trees, on which my BiL is just...wow) with the man who is married to my sister, well. That changed things. Suddenly not flushing them didn't seem nearly so unappealing.

*eyes Teyla*

Much better. (Am I the only person who wonders if the Atlantis expedition worried about running out of tampons when they were cut off from earth? Or is it just one of those things that everyone except me knows better than to think about, let alone talk about?)

[thefourthvine]

Well, see, we have a dog who has a genetic propensity to view toilet paper as a magical unrolling dog toy. (Seriously. Genetic. Her sire does this, too. She inherited a lot of her weirder traits from him, and the result was that the owner of the sire spent the first year of Cassie's life laughing at us.) After the third time she joyously pounced on one end of the toilet paper roll and zinged around the house, encircling the whole place with toilet paper, we made a No Dogs in the Bathroom rule.

(This rule is why Cassie, who obeys the letter of the law, will pop the door open while you're in there - doors that aren't locked are not a challenge for her - and then just poke her nose over the edge, so all you can see is snorfling nostrils. "See?" she's saying. "I'm not actually in the bathroom, so I'm a good dog. Are you coming out now?")

[thepouncer]

I almost wrote a story once where Teyla and Weir started discussing Unmentionables and Weir asked how Athosian women handled menstruation. Although I also hold the belief that every singe woman who goes through the stargate has some sort of contraceptive implant.

I think about the logistics of Atlantis to a scary degree.

[thefourthvine]

See, whereas I try to avoid thinking of the logistics of Atlantis, because inevitably I come to the same conclusion: there's no way they could've brought everything they'd need for a year through in the departure scene we saw. They should've been in real trouble with supplies early on.

(They also couldn't've brought through all the *stuff* we saw on Atlantis in season one, but...well. For some reason, I find it more distressing to think of the lists that must've been on the Atlantis intranet: Rationed Supplies, Critical Use Only Supplies, Completely Consumed Supplies. And how long those lists must've become before the Daedalus showed up.)

[thepouncer]

I wish they'd introduced a quartermaster, who could have yelled at people who drank too much of the coffee and refused to issue new ammunition to Marines who were profligate with their P90 firing.

[thefourthvine]

I...YES. Oh, god, how wonderful that would've been. And he would've been McKay's SWORN ENEMY from day one, and it would've just been...oh. So wonderful.

*pines*

[secret_x_stars]

woah, you can flush OB tampons?! or did i just read that wrong?