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.

Comments

[fleurrochard]

They sell them with applicators? Still? I saw some ads for that years ago, but haven't seen any of them in the last few years. (Not that I want an applicator, I prefer my fingers. *g*)

[feanna.livejournal.com]

I usually prefer my fingers too.
My mother used to buy the ones with applicators and I think they still sell them. I don't see any reason why not. Their commercials are usually for the plain ones though like you said.

[fleurrochard]

Well, I haven't seen any o.b.s with applicators in the stores lately, but maybe they're not sold everywhere?
And I think the ads for those with applicators were mostly in magazines for young girls anyway.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

In the U.S. I've only seen the finger applied ones.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I have a truly humiliating high school story about my experience with finger applied O.B.s when I was an exchange student in Germany.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I have a truly humiliating experience with a tampon applicator during one of my very first periods. To this day, I hate tampons. Pads all the way, baby.

[feanna.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm just used to it. I almost never use applicator-ones. I do like them for "dry moments", but as I usually don't buy them, I just use the simple ones. I think most Germans do actually. I do know though, that most Americans (at least in my experience) use ones with applicators and a friend of mine in the US had problems when she needed do borrow one from me for swim training.
Humiliating experiences do tend to form strong opinions I think. Also people grow attached to their habits. (Also the reason why we LIKE products the way they've always been.)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Exactly. And I'm more likely to try new things that I enjoy. Like new ice cream. I'll experiment. But trying new things that I don't enjoy? I just don't want to introduce a lot of variety.

[feanna.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should add here that I used to swim twice a week for many years, so getting used to tampons fast was the only option for me. My mother bought me small ones and told me to stick in my finger first to get a sense for the needed direction and to try out which position works best for me (to this day I change tampons while sitting on the toilet seat, I don't like the standing up with one foot on the seat thing they tell you to do in the o.b. instructions at all). I tryed it, it worked and while I used pads sometimes I never liked them (and you see more of the blood, which isn't a BIG problem, but I experienced tampons as cleaner).

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

In my early years I couldn't use tampons because I was just so tiny. They were very uncomfortable, I was always aware of them, like I'd put a railroad tie up there. After I had a sex life, tampons became more comfortable. I could put them in and forget about them. But the ones that expand like an umbrella to prevent leaks are back to that railroad tie experience.

O.B. had two problems. First the finger application, then they'd expand too much and be difficult to pull out.

[feanna.livejournal.com]

I've never been able to feel tampons when I pushed them all the way up. At least not feel in a way different from diffuse pressure that I'm not sure whether it comes from the tampos or the period.
The problem I have with tampos is that they tend to get close to the entrance when I pee, so I have to change them a lot. Of course I have missed most of my periods for the last half year or so (hormone issues), which is bad, because: hormone issues, but I can't really say that I miss the bleeding part, even though the only other symptom I usually get is having to pee a lot.