Something you never heard of until you read the DIS

[ShootingStarMom2]

Mine, either.

Warning to others: do not google "goatse". I thought, "how bad can it be if it were mentioned on the DIS." I mean, we're not even allowed to type female anatomy words. WRONG. Honestly. Do not google it.

Ok, I'm not going to type it. DH wants to know if it's worse than the Diva Cup situation.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

i googled the first two.......i am NOT trying goatse.....nope......noooo way.....not hapening.

I googled before I got this far.

oohhhhhh my god.......why did i have to look.....how the hell do they do that.....and why would they want to

You had to do it too.

Warning to others: do not google "goatse". I thought, "how bad can it be if it were mentioned on the DIS." I mean, we're not even allowed to type female anatomy words. WRONG. Honestly. Do not google it.

This should be in the title of the thread.

As far as Diva Cups, in the early 70's there was something similar marketed in the US, the Tassawy cup. Apparently it was taken off the market. (I am dating myself.)

 

[Inigo]

Mine, either.

Warning to others: do not google "goatse". I thought, "how bad can it be if it were mentioned on the DIS." I mean, we're not even allowed to type female anatomy words. WRONG. Honestly. Do not google it.

You might as well double dog dare people when you write stuff like this.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Ok, I'm not going to type it. DH wants to know if it's worse than the Diva Cup situation.

Infinitely.

 

[Liberty Belle]

You might as well double dog dare people when you write stuff like this.

I didn't mean it as a dare. I meant it as a sincere warning.

 

[suejai]

I looked it up, the curiosity was killing me. However, thankfully, I didn't open any of the sites that came up in my search. I just read the first line of the description that displays on the search results.

 

[Robinrs]

I didn't mean it as a dare. I meant it as a sincere warning.

Yep and it's human nature NOT to look!!!!

 

[IDoDis]

Had never heard of the Diva Cup or the Moon Cup (neither had my OB/GYN).

Had not know about making ADR's well in advance.

I didn't know that people in some parts of the country think it's tacky for a mother-to-be's friends to give the mom a baby shower for 2nd and later children.

I didn't know that many people give such expensive high school graduation money gifts. Where were you all when I graduated?

I had never heard of Vera Bradley purses & wallets until I read about them on the Dis (and have yet to see one in person because they just aren't happening out here).

 

[Liberty Belle]

Yep and it's human nature NOT to look!!!!

So how'd you like it?

 

[NikitaZee]

I didn't know that people in some parts of the country think it's tacky for a mother-to-be's friends to give the mom a baby shower for 2nd and later children.

I discovered this when I lived in Kentucky for a bit. I didn't understand why anyone would consider it tacky -and women got downright mean about it!

 

[Robinrs]

So how'd you like it?

 

[FireDancer]

I never knew so many people had so many diseases that I have never heard of and probably can't pronounce.

 

[Redpepperflakes14]

That people who've spent hundreds of dollars on BBB will feel incredibly guilty if they can't give their daughter that experience at every trip. I was 14 the first time I went to WDW and my family was on less than a shoestring budget so I was just happy to be there.

Also, people really do love those Vera Bradley bags. I'm sure they're comfortable and hold lots of stuff, but am I alone in thinking they look like diaper bags? . To each his own I guess.

 

[cheermom1]

I never knew so many people can get their panties in a wad over a childs birthday party or renewal of vows..

 

[Tinkerbell58]

I didn't know about Disney Dooney & Bourke handbags until I read about it on the Dis!

 

[aristocatz]

One thing I learned on the Dis was about that weird subculture who buy baby dolls that look real and they treat them like real babies.....I think it was called "reborning dolls" & I thought it sounded really creepy.

 

[okeydokey]

That Pecos Bills offers free hamburger buns and a free "salad" bar.

 

[pooh_bear.614]

I never knew that people could possibly get their panties in that big of a wad over reusing a mug and doggy frito feet.

 

[bumbershoot]

Thankfully, my internet life started after I began customer service at Amazon, and then I started planning my wedding with the help of theknot.com and weddingchannel.com's message boards, so...nothing surprises me anymore.

- Something about a wedding reception where the bride gets a donation for every dance. A money tree? I'm pretty sure that was separate, but I never heard of either. Anyway, I can't remember it all so well.

So many different regions of the country have different traditions! And many traditions came from other countries. So my friend from college, whose family is from the midwest AND whose husband's family is from Mexico, had a happy joyous Money Dance, where people came prepared with bills and safety pins, and she danced for AGES with everyone, including me, and she was just covered in bills. It was traditional on both sides, even though she and her husband met in WA, and everyone was happy to do it.

But for people outside those regions who can't wrap their minds around such things, it seems awful. Everyone was happy to do it for them.

There are also regions that have the ceremony, the dance, and the dinner. One can be invited to 1, 2, or all 3 of them, and it's not a slap in the face to only be invited to one or two! Everyone understands, in those areas, that there are distinctions. It's quite interesting!

NOBODY...by law...pumps their own gas in NJ.

Already been mentioned, but "and Oregon".

I never knew blowing out the candles on a cake was considered unsanitary.

I watched a Monk episode to make me think about that...bleah.

On that note, from the DIS, I learned that there is a hotel near DisneyLand, that asks people not to flush their toilet paper.

And I would still LOVE to find out the name of it (the OP refused to give it), because NO ONE on the disneyland forums has mentioned it in the time I've been on the disneyland forums!

Come on one of my planes. I encourage EVERYONE to sit back and relax!

But it's NOT comfortable to everyone. So I'm sitting there, my shrimpy self with my seatback all upright, and I've got someone's icky head under my chin. Supa-fun getting up to use the bathroom!

Wonder why that's a law?

I think it's to create jobs.

That you could drive people crazy with peeps!

On a serious note, Peeps drive ME crazy b/c I miss them. But marshmallows aren't vegetarian (that always gets a question, so I'll answer...gelatin isn't vegetarian at all, in fact it's one of the least vegetarian things you can eat, LOL), AND marshmallows are made with corn syrup which is avoided like the plague in our household, plus then there are the colors...Peeps are a painful memory...

That LOTS of women don't work...outside the home, for pay!

Fixed that for ya. I mean, I am a very lazy at home parent, but most AHPs aren't, so I wanted to help out that sentence a bit.

Do not google it.

Or if you do, just read the words in the links. Don't just click.



It interests me when people are so grossed out by the Diva cup. Do I use it? No. But is it ANY different to me, really, than other things used for the same purpose, perhaps made by the Tampax company? no. It's just that you reuse it and it is less waste in the landfills, less blechy stuff leaking into groundwater (that isn't then sanitized like toilet water is). Plus, there's a mainstream product just like it (though disposable), the Instead cup. Out in stores as long ago as the early 90s! Was recalled for awhile (or am I thinking of The Sponge?), but it's been back out for a few years now. Yay pinkdaisy/swaddlebees company for making what I use now instead of disposable things!

And while family cloth skeeves me somewhat emotionally, we used cloth wipes for DS's bottom while using cloth diapers! (and obviously, from my last paragraph's last sentence, I do wash cloth used for other things) Same thing as the cloth wipes, just...with adults included too. I understand the concept...just maybe don't want to deal with adult, er, stuff. Totally hypocritical and silly of me!



What does amaze or interest me is...how many people don't think about things fully to see where mainstream thought breaks down...how many things that are as natural to me as breathing weird out other people because they don't want to think about it all...how many people listen to American MDs and ignore the whole rest of the world, other ways of taking care of our true, full, health, ignore ways of living for millenia that have worked to get us to about 100 years ago when American MDs mysteriously started being the be-all-end-all...who don't think about things they are putting in their bodies...who believe hype.... That's the sort of thing that amazes me and that hits me most days when I'm on the dis or any parenting board other than mothering.com...

 

[OceanAnnie]

Had never heard of the Diva Cup or the Moon Cup (neither had my OB/GYN).

Had not know about making ADR's well in advance.

I didn't know that people in some parts of the country think it's tacky for a mother-to-be's friends to give the mom a baby shower for 2nd and later children.

I didn't know that many people give such expensive high school graduation money gifts. Where were you all when I graduated?

I had never heard of Vera Bradley purses & wallets until I read about them on the Dis (and have yet to see one in person because they just aren't happening out here).

Moon Cup?! Moon cup? I'm scared to look. I've seen too much already. Can someone give me the PG version of what this is?