h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

you know, the tampon ads where some silly woman is roller blading while wearing see through white linen trousers

or the one where that other womans' on holiday in venice or something and also wearing white trousers.

WHY?!

who on earth wears white trousers when they're 'on the blob'?





am i the only one who gets bothered by these things?
FABT

guessing no one from the enormous bossoms thread is aroud this afternoon

maybe they're triying to say you will be able to wear white trousers with their product

i know they're trying to say that. But no one would ever believe it. do you know any one that would wear white trousers on holiday anyway?!?!?!?

Is it to prove that the blue liquid doesn't leak?

I never wear trousers anyway, white or otherwise - my bum's not big enough. I have to wear little men's jeans...

no one in their right mind would go near n e thing white let alone feel like rollerblading in that state ..lol

Is it possible to rollerblade curled round a hot water bottle and a box of chocolates?

I wouldn't wear white trousers anyway, but if I did I wouldn't let being 'on the blob' stop me.

I'm quite happy to wander around barely dressed at times ike that. When I went to the TG last, I only had a scrap of leather to cover my , and dear oh dear, I was 'on the blob'. Be brave, wear tampons!

thanks for the mental picture linda.

really helping my tea go down

I remember being really frightened that I might get Toxic Shock Syndrome through tampons - not because it'd probably kill me, but because those daft little leaflets said that I could never wear them again if I survived...

I didn't actually know what they were till 30+ when my daughter started getting leaflets and stuff from the school.

a friend of mine used to call the two respective choices 'elephant ears' and 'mice'.

My (male) othr half uses more tampons than me- He either uses them to mop up spilt tea (they're more absorbant than bounty ) Or he stands at the bar and pinches other people's beer with them. There are fwe things more disturbing then seing a a grown man hang a tampon inot another bloke's beer, then squeeze about half a pint into his own glass

Not only do the women in those adverts wear uncomfortably tight jeans in an impracticale colour when 'on the blob', but they also fail to look the slightest bit bloated, tired or irritable. It appears to me to be how men would like women to look at that time of the month.

I'm equally unimpressed by those face cream adverts where 17 yr old models announce "Wrinkles, I'm not bothered by wrinkles" - who is at 17? I'd be much more impressed if they found a 50 yr old who could honestly say the same thing.

Not everyone has troublesome periods.

True-
Some lucky b*tch*s barely seem to notice...

- but I thought those adverts were aimed at those who did have troublesome periods, which prevented them from doing their normal daily things, such as rollerblading....

I thought it was directed at women still using sanitary towels - as with physical activity they can become 'dislodged'.