That new Adult Content rating thingy.

[icarus]

I changed my general settings to Adult Content then looked at my LJ.

All of my posts looked the same, with the same cut-tag. The only difference from one post to the next was the title and the music.

"Wow. What a boring journal," I said.

Eh. Forget it. I turned the settings off.

I have a percentage in being interesting to newcomers. Why read if I'm not?

I figure that between the Buddhism, school stuff, the whacked out mom (did I tell you about the time she told my friend Christopher he was the Antichrist?), David Hewlett videos, figure skating, laughing at George Bush our-new-peace-activist, annoying landlady, recs, memes, forgetting which toothbrush is whose -- yeah, I'm not seeing 50% explicit content. That setting's not for me.

In other news -- what did they do to TampaxTM? These haven't changed in 30 years and they're now... ow. They're short and stubby and too wide and shapped all wrong. Ow. This is not a place I want to hurt.

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[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I have news for these boys: we're just not shaped that way.

I think they must have done a survey -- what's your number one complaint about tampons? And 99% of the women complained about leakage.

So the bozos decided, "Let's make them wider so they'll leak less" not realizing that the leakage comes from something they can't control: the woman needing to step out of the middle of that 3 hour meeting to change it.

[lebannen.livejournal.com]

When I used tampons I used Lil-Lets, which actually expand widthways and so don't leak in the same way as Tampax, but they're no wider when you put them in. And now I am another one of these smug people with a wonderful little silicone cup, so I don't use them either. One of the first times I used it, I found myself working an unexpectedly busy six-hour shift and didn't get time to go to the loo (we got one break early on, I was working on the assumption that there'd be another one later and used it to get breakfast). By the end of the shift I had that incredibly familiar, unpleasantly squishy feeling and disappeared as quickly as I could, only to find that in fact the cup had held up fine, and I'd just been running around so much (in multiple layers of clothing) that I was sweating. Was that TMI? Probably a good place to stop, then.

Edit - I'll change the subject, then. Re the adult content filter thing, if the person viewing the journal is logged in to an account with all the right boxes ticked, it will appear as intended. It will only look stupid if they are logged out, underage, or have 'collapse all remotely adult content' selected on the dropdown menu that they don't tell you about on the settings page. I suspect they're going to have to fix the way those things screw with the cut tags that people put there for a reason, so agefiltering v.2 may well be worth waiting for if you decide it's even worth it at all.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Was that TMI? Probably a good place to stop, then.

Nah. This stuff is interesting, to see how different we are.

Tampax don't leak at all for me. They're a perfect fit -- or rather, they were. I suspect that anything called a "cup" is going to be too big. Right now I'm tired, cranky, crabby, my lower back hurts, my energy is low, and I have a headache. "Trying to shove unfamiliar object up my crotch" is not high on my list. I just want my old Tampax to fit, damn it.

[lebannen.livejournal.com]

*Sends virtual tea and cake* (peppermint tea if you don't like normal tea when you're feeling rubbish).

Heh, I got my cup mail order, and my first thoughts on seeing it went a little something like 'fit that up there? hell no!', and I put it back in the packaging and thought about sending it back for a few days. Then I read the instructions about folding it to put it in, and decided it might not be so bad after all. But it's certainly not something I'd want to start using right away.

Best wishes for finding non-rubbish Tampax or a suitable replacement.