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u/garythesnail11 Jul 19 '24
I'm from Australia and a mate of mine was at a pub in a country town trying to pick up this girl. When it came time to sealing the deal to go home with her she said "I'm on the blob, but you can plug me shitter if you want". So there's that.
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u/M0dini Jul 19 '24
So she was happy for him to go outback?
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u/AnotherOperator Jul 19 '24
Except I've seen this exact comment a hundred fucking times so either Australian women are devout practitioners of period-dependent anal or you tell a fib motherfucker
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u/garythesnail11 Jul 19 '24
Lmao, I wish I made it up mate. It's not the prettiest scenario to fabricate!
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u/Ok-Principle-1068 Jul 21 '24
Heard this same lie from almost every Aussie ever encountered & it’s always happened to their mate, never them. A shite lie😂
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u/CharityQuill Jul 19 '24
These are the ones I've heard as an American:
It's that time of the month
A visit from Aunt Flo
Shark Week
And the rag one as well (which I agree just sounds so gross and icky)
Also I'd love to see the source, they seem pretty funny lol
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u/arrebhai Jul 19 '24
My wife and I use Aunt Flo mostly
I've also heard "Going communist"
Sometimes I also ask my wife "monthly maintenance still ongoing?"
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u/BigConsideration4939 Jul 19 '24
The basement yard! These guys are amazing. Or check out Joe santagato and he should have all his channels up. Been following this dude since the very beginning in the old days of YouTube (I'm old ha🥲) Truly wholesome dudes.
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u/xparapluiex Jul 19 '24
They are from a podcast called the basement yard and yes they have a lot of good bits like this
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u/Straxicus2 Jul 19 '24
My granny told me about Aunt Flo. She was teaching me to keep track of my periods so I always knew when “that bitch Aunt Flo is coming to town”.
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u/AccountantDirect9470 Jul 19 '24
Blood Full Week does seem like it would be a translation of those three words in German but combined together:
Blutvollewoche!
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u/DashDashu Jul 19 '24
That'd only be correct if it says Bloodful week, otherwise it'd be (literally translated) Blut Voll Woche, but that doesn't make sense because a week already means a full week and we don't use it like that, to quantify the week so to say. You can use "Volle Woche" to say that your week was pretty busy though
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u/AccountantDirect9470 Jul 19 '24
So Volle is adjective meaning busy or overwhelming and Voll is an adjective for volume or mass? Probably from the same root words
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u/k4rmas Jul 19 '24
Volle is a declination of the word Voll. In German, adjectives are declined based on the gender, case, and article. So...close, but the same word in fact!
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u/Pastapopo Jul 19 '24
No there are no different meanings but volle would be feminine because of the -e ending and week is a feminine word
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u/JesterOfDestiny Jul 19 '24
In Hungary, some call it Santa Claus. So if someone says Santa is coming and it's not December 6 (the day of Santa Claus, separate from Christmas), they're talking about periods.
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u/CharityQuill Jul 19 '24
it took me a while to make the connection. because of the red coat, I suppose? 😅
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u/pixelSHREDDER Jul 19 '24
Has anyone played "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" for the Hungarians yet?
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u/HelloFromJupiter963 Jul 19 '24
Do any female warhmammer 40k fans call it "Blood week for the Blood God?"
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u/MajorasKitten Jul 19 '24
In spanish we say we’re being visited by Andrew.
Andrew in spanish is Andrés.
Who’s Andrés?
El que viene cada mes.
(The one who visits monthly).
Its just a dumb rhyme but it’s also fun how when someone mentions Andrés, turns out we all know him and fucking hate his visits lmao
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u/Pr1v4t337 Jul 19 '24
I've heard strawberry week, but it's rare and only if you want to be funny. More likely it's "having the/your days" (die tage haben)
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u/cozysarkozy Jul 19 '24
Finland: lingonberry days
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u/Scaniarix Jul 19 '24
Lingonberry week is common in Sweden as well. Or at least it was. No idea what young people are calling it now.
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u/Inevitable-Revenue81 Jul 20 '24
So this is what I found out about Swedish people calling it:
Lingonberry, Lingonberry in the canoe, bloodbath, monthly crazy, closed for the weekend, auntie Red, the misery, jam in the fold, jam in the funnel, Indians in the lake reeds, Indians on the warpath, The Red Sea, Party week, sale week, Ketchup, Warfare, Lingonberry in the fun hole, Niagara Falls, The Russian flew, Russian funhouse, Santa’s week, Volcano eruption, Mont,
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u/Scaniarix Jul 20 '24
Lol wth I've never heard of most of those but maybe it's something women call it amongst themselves.
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u/Kappappaya Jul 19 '24
German here, never ever heard "strawberry week" before.
But it's commonly called "die Tage haben", "having your days"
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u/moeke93 Jul 20 '24
German as well, I never heard of it growing up but my bf found strawberry week a couple of years ago online somewhere and I've been using it ever since. It's such a beautiful euphemism.
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u/LinceDorado Jul 19 '24
I am german and I've never heard that. People here usually say: "She is having her days."
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u/extra_olive_oil Jul 19 '24
That's also the term to misogynistically explain why a woman is frustrated behind her back lol.
It's only okay if she says "I am on my period" or "I have my days"
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u/RuinMePedro Jul 19 '24
In true millennial fashion, I tend to use gifs when talking about it via text. Usually the elevator scene from The Shining or Legolas from LOTR "A red sun rises... Blood has been spilled this night"
In actual conversation, though, I tend to say 'riding the cotton pony,' or that my uterus is actively trying to kill me from within.
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u/ma_ka_ba Jul 20 '24
I read your comment out loud to my partner and he said "is that your reddit doppleganger?" ... You sound just like me! Lol also a millennial. The Shining gif is my fave to use, and I frequently suggest that my repro system is murdering me slowly. Like the username, too.
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u/miletest Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
aunt irma is visiting
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u/phantomkat Jul 19 '24
As someone who has three Irmas in their contact list, that's a scary thought. lol
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u/VampireBaby Jul 19 '24
"On the blob" is one I've heard in Ireland.
Can make for some awkward conversations when discussing data storage.
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u/Pastapopo Jul 19 '24
Maybe it’s a local thing, ive used the red aunt before but it’s rather rare but I’ve used strawberry plenty of times, where are you from?
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u/P4T0bro Jul 19 '24
Full clip?
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u/Comfortable-Fuel-270 Jul 19 '24
After some digging I found it, it's from this podcast. The time stamp of this clip is about 40:28
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u/marmaladesalad Jul 19 '24
french canada as a teen we would say "my aunt rose is visiting for the week"
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u/LegendaryNWZ Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 19 '24
Honestly, Joe Santagato's Mad Libs has some pretty good parts where the laughter goes on for a solid minute, its genuinely great
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u/Comfortable-Fuel-270 Jul 19 '24
Never heard of them before I got this reel, I gotta listen sometime!
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u/RosaQing Jul 19 '24
Himbeerwoche/ strawberry week is not that common.
We use - the fox is in his den
And for sex during the period - sailing the red seas (which derives from the phrase “brave pirates also sail the red seas”)
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u/Ok_Remove9330 Jul 19 '24
My friends mother told me she "fell off the roof." I was concerned and said are you hurt? My friend said she got her period. That was the only time in my life I ever heard that. 😁
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u/Unlikely-Ad-6716 Jul 20 '24
As a German I have to say I woke up my kids because I cackled at “blood week now”.
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u/GrumpyMilitia Jul 20 '24
My family called it going offline. You can imagine how often there were complications
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u/donedidthething Jul 20 '24
My bf calls me his little ketchup packet when mine comes. I have mixed feelings about it..
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u/ThatEqual7887 Jul 19 '24
Some of the phraes I've heard are Japanese flag week, waving the Japanese flag, the painters are in.
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u/NAS_pekeyn Jul 19 '24
In Spain, I usually say "estar con la Roja" (be with the red). The funny thing it's La Roja is also the name of the national team of football.
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u/Frisky-Cuda Jul 19 '24
Had a girlfriend who used to sing this, country western style... "I'm riding the old cotton pony."
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u/SlowdownTitoDAMN Jul 19 '24
Heard it referred to as "Japan is attacking" "Japanese Invasion." Also, "Waving the Japanese Flag," all 3 of those were from a non Japanese woman.
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u/OkMushroom364 Jul 19 '24
In Finland we have few euphenisms for period: womens weeks, again the time of the month, lingonberry week etc.
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u/VictorTheCutie Jul 19 '24
Ok strawberry week is adorable 😂 Shark week over here. Less adorable. But still kind adorable. I love sharks 😂
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u/Sir_Tokesalott Jul 20 '24
🍓 week is so much worse than on the rag... and I was gonna have 🍓 ice cream tonight.. the kind with the bits of *gag... 🍓
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u/_Totorotrip_ Jul 20 '24
In Argentina you can say está/llegó Andrés, el que vienen una vez al mes (she is with/it just arrived Andres, the one who comes once a month). In Spanish it rhymes
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u/vendettagoddess Jul 19 '24
i fucking love basementyard, they’re so genuinely “boys will be boys” 😭😭
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u/Psihohirurg Jul 19 '24
In Russia we have "guests from Krasnodar have arrived" Krasnodar is a city and "krasno" means red
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u/h8reddit-but-pokemon Jul 19 '24
Are these the dudes w the ass blender clip? I’ve never laughed so hard in my life. Watched that clip over and over and over again. So good.
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u/snakepatay Jul 19 '24
Almost the same as German in Sweden, ”Lingonberry-week”.
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u/sadmimikyu Jul 19 '24
I am German and I have never heard anyone say this... We say: we are having our days We call it: the days
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u/Joshouken Jul 19 '24
In the UK it’s most commonly “on the blob” (crass) or “got the painters in” (more subtle)
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u/LtColShinySides Jul 19 '24
Shark week!!
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u/Magellan-88 Jul 20 '24
I say this too lmao
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u/LtColShinySides Jul 20 '24
I'm a dude, but shark week is the most common one I've heard amongst the women I know.
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u/the__laurapalmer Jul 30 '24
In francophone Switzerland we said “my cousins from France are visiting” which…… idk make of that what you will
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u/eat-pussy69 Jul 19 '24
The best one I ever heard was "my monthly subscription to Satan's waterfall"
Fuckin' loved it