Sorry about the triple-post, but I wanted to make it clear that this isn’t only about feminine products. I drink about a cup of tea a day. When I start a new box, I replace it before it runs out. When I start a new bottle of shampoo, I make a note to buy a new one soon. Hell, when we run low on paper in the office, I go back to get a couple of cases before we run out, mostly because it’s less hassle to have the stuff on hand than cope with running out which Murphy’s Law states will happen at the least convenient time. Maybe it’s being anal-retentive; maybe it’s being prepared. As far as I’m concerned, the only difference between tea and tampons is there isn’t any time when I can go a day without tea. Tampons and pads, however, are a bit harder to delay the need for!
As an aside, many years ago I worked in the IT department of a tampon manufacturer.
Such items are very useful for removing chalk from blackboards, although sanitary towels (unused) are more effective in this respect due to their larger surface area.
However it is not recommended that proprietory blackboard cleaners are used as a substitute for either tampons or sanitary towels, especially if covered in chalk.
I wish I had a cite for this.
Wow. There seems to be many many guys buying tampons. I have tried to help a girlfriend do this. She would not let me help- even to find the right aisle in the supermarket.
One time I actually looked thru the tampon range. There is about 4000 different types of tampons,pads etc. How do you guys know which one to buy? Or do you just take the empty box from the last one.
Done deal, just as long as they’re not bloody marys… 
By that logic, why buy anything for anyone else ever? Part of being a grown human is being aware you need to eat regularly, so why would I buy food for my wife*?
I really don’t get why anyone wouldn’t buy tampons. You go shopping, you pick up what the household needs. Simple as that.
[sub]*No, I’m not married. It’s just for argument’s sake.[/sub]
Oakminster blew up at me in the IMHO thread for a post that I did not even direct at him. I honestly had not even seen his thread. He then invited me to take it to the pit.
That be ‘seen his post’
As far as the Man/Child thing goes? I think that any guy that would refuse to do this simple task for their SO once in a while, or whenever it’s more convenient, is acting a lot more like a child than a man. :shrug:
Let me introduce you to another ancient invention,
The Shopping List!
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The Shopping List! ends the messy hassle of needing the remnants of last weeks shopping to do this weeks.
Simply write down the names of the items you wish to buy (and how many) on our patented cellulose matrix sheets and shopping couldn’t be easier! The Shopping List! requires minor assembly.
The Shopping List! does not include paper or pen/pencils, these items sold separately.
The Shopping List! is not available in pre-literate cultures.
Void where prohibited by law.
CMC fnord!
God bless the camera phone. When in doubt, click and send.
FTR, I would also be annoyed if my SO flat-out refused to get me tampons when I asked him. It’s on the two-parking space level, or even less than that, really. But again -
I’m not dating Oakminister. So I don’t care.
Daddy says every time the phone bell rings, it means a panty needs some wings.
It still doesn’t explain why you have a problem with buying tampons at the first place.
Buying tampons has absolutely nothing to do with being PC. As I explained in the original thread, refusing to buy tampons seems to make as much sense to me as refusing to buy aspirin. Everybody know women use tampons, it’s not any evidence of a shameful activity to buy them, everybody know you’re not going to use them yourself, tampons are as much part of the regular grocery list as shampoo, so what’s your issue with buying them? For instance, what would you feel if you had to?
I can do you one better, crowmanyclouds. If my wife needs anything complicated like specific female products, she will take a picture of the box on the digital camera and print me a handy-dandy photo of the item in question.
On preview, Cluricaun has out teched me by bringing in the camera phone, damn it. 
Wait, hang on. Of course Oakminster shouldn’t be pitted for something that doesn’t actually bother anyone involved, but he’s saying he doesn’t buy tampons because HE’S NOT “PC”. He thinks "PC"ness has something to do with buying tampons. He HAS said that men who buy tampons are not real men. Come on, that is incredibly stupid. Maybe not Pitworthy, but brain-meltingly dumb.
I misspoke here, sorry. He has said that he doesn’t buy tampons because he IS a real man, but denied that he believes the opposite, however that’s possible.
As I said earlier, he invited me to pit him.
Originally posted by Ensign Edison:
So we pit him for being a Mac. C’mon, people, we just have to Pit him for something, right?
:rolleyes:
You don’t know. The empty box isn’t available for some reason or another, or it happens not to be the right brand, because your gf had to buy this one which isn’t the one she normally uses. The product she told you to buy isn’t available. She forgot to mention a very important element, anyway.
All this apply also to beauty products, and doubly so. Your chance to bring back the correct cream/cleansing lotion/whatever is close to nil, regardless how detailled the instructions were. In fact, there’s no guarantee that the product she wants actually exist. If perchance it does, it’s so rare it’s only available in a couple pharmacies in a two miles range. Plus, contrarily to tampons, she’ll never use the one you bought.
And this is why I always use the same brand.
Beauty supplies? I have enough trouble with them. No way I’m sending him!
With, of course, no implication of anyone who thinks differently not being secure in his masculinity. :dubious:
Anyway, that’s not the same as not being a real man. Of course.
And had he invited you to stick your head in a blender…? :dubious: