charlytune

How much practice? I'm not very good at practicing. If something is a faff I'm liable to give up quickly, particularly if it's something that could be icky.

Ewwww. I think I'd need to look into that more before trying one.

When you're sitting the arse sits a bit above the vulva, height wise. Just didn't like the idea of water trickling poo down between my flaps, where it could then get into the vagina.

Ah! Thanks for this. I didn't know about the water direction. This makes sense now.

Loving the clear, graphic answers in here, so can I piggyback on this to ask a question for vagina owning bidet users please:

How do you use it so it doesn't sploosh poo bacteria into your vagina? Doesn't the water trickle down into your bits?

Many years ago when my workplace first adopted hot desking they installed a row of lockers for staff to keeping our stuff in, now we weren't going to have our own desks. I jokingly said, because it reminded me of being in school, that I was going to cover mine in pictures of The Cure and the Pixies. This must have been overhead by the nearby PA of our senior manager because less than an hour later an email came round forbidding the decoration of lockers. She was very much a 'make arbitrary rules on a whim' kind of manager rather than a 'actually manage people and get work done' kind of manager. She also tried to introduce ridiculous rules over what kinds of food people could eat at their desks which fell apart when her favourite underling walked into the office after a week on leave and oblivious to BreakfastGate eating an unlawful bacon sandwich, and there was gleeful uproar and she had to back down. She was also hilariously fired less than a year into the job, for lying about being ill and then posting on Twitter (which we were all following because she was apparently too dumb to understand what 'public' means) about shopping for shoes and throwing parties.

When someone describes themselves as an 'entrepeneur', particularly when they say that in their dating profile, I immediately assume they're just a grade A wanker.

I get "unknown (mobile?) client" using Jerboa

That's quite a reach there. Of course I don't think that. But just saying 'duh use menstrual cups' is a classist response. Where resources are more scarce they need to be prioritised, and so some people may not have water or fuel to spare to boil a menstrual cup, or the privacy to do it in eg if a stove is shared. Let alone access to menstrual cups' in the first place (which cost around £30 in the UK and so are already priced out of the range of a lot of people on low incomes).

I live in Liverpool, and I'm really fucking sick of them.

I don't even want to know what kind of infections someone could get from using a menstrual cup they're unable to sterilise.

I'm probably Festering.

Coming out of the tail end of Covid (my 3rd go yay!), I got stuck at my mum's for a week and only managed to get home Weds night. It was a bit of a trek and wiped me out so I'm just going to continue yesterday's routine of lying on the sofa watching TV with occasional feeding breaks. My flat is a bit of a state so I might try and do little bits of sorting that out. After a week of quarantining in a tiny bedroom at my mum's, and having to look after both of us while being ill and trying not to make her ill, a few days of lying on my sofa and tidying my flat is actually heaven.