what genius of marketing decided that ads for feminine hygiene products should feature a wierd blue windex-like liquid to demonstrate absorbancy??

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seriously, it is nightmarish to picture a neon/aqua blue substance filling out my tampon. women unite! boycott the antifreeze pantyliners!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha they should use REAL BLOOD

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean babies don't really pee blue into their diapers?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked how The Day Today used Nirvana (kind of).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

They use it in diaper ads too. Because the body produces no pleasantly blue fluids, it doesn't gross us out.

Colgate used to use a stick of chalk to represent a bloody, decayed tooth.

― andy, Monday, 11 October 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Women's blood is actually blue, surely. Plus they don't fart.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It's probably because light blue is visible but neutral enough not to look like a big unsightly stain when its supposed to be neatly absorbing. There's also yellow but that has all kinds of nasty urinary connotations. A nice green would be good.

(What am I doing replying to this thread at all?)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i alwaysassumed that's jsut what menstrual blood looked like.

well now i know better!

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― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Also why when they show tampons in a tube or whatever do they...slide somewhat?

― Ratchet (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

This is an interesting WTFism I had managed not to notice until now, really. This marks the fourth occurance in my life where I gained new insight into feminine hygene product advertising. The first three = 1) finding out what they were actually for, 2) introduction of a certain roffle element after rolling my first joint in tampon paper, and 3) "Roca Pads". IT'S THE ROC.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

brings whole new meaning to the phrase "get up in my grill"

― kephm (kephm), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG I JUST MENSTRUATED BLUE CARACUA WTF

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

They use blue in paper towel ads too...

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Blue seems non-organic, hence less ew, I guess. Also/ie radiates coolness, associated with cleanness etc. Listerine and similiar usually blue, isn't it?

― OleM (OleM), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

it seems extremely chemical to me, generating a different kind of "ew" reaction.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Blue has this scientific feel to it. At least, it's the color I usually think of when imagining a scientist's beaker filled with bubbling fluid.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 October 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Because using tomato soup would be sick, sad, crass and wrong.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

but delicious.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a horror tale.

I knew a new age hippy vegan girl that kept an enamel metal bowl beneath her toilet called her "soul bowl." In this water filled bowl, she deposited her soiled, reusable pads made of hemp or whatever the fuck they were.

After soaking for awhile, she had her whipped hippy boyfriend take it out to the garden and pour the water on her favorite sunflower, to return her womanly essence to the earth.

Let the wretching begin.

― andy, Monday, 11 October 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

my code red mountain dew just got sent to the trash can

― kephm (kephm), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd ask what the flower smelled like, but that would ALSO be sicker, sadder, crasser and even wronger.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

(is 'wronger' even a word? I mean outside of the Australian Outback?)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

That doesn't sound conducive to a pleasant smelling bathroom but otherwise it's no more creepy than the kitschy blue denial of human excretions.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

commercials use blue because it is a "clean"-seeming colour, end of story

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm convinced that I saw an advert use red liquid once, and excitedly told someone about it. But my memory is destroyed, and it could possibly have been a dream

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Thread connections in action!

- what genius of marketing decided that ads for feminine hygiene products should feature a wierd blue windex-like liquid to demonstrate absorbancy??
- This is stupid (ketchup-related)

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 11 October 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen an ad with red liquid too! And one time they sent sample towels with little capsules of the blue liquid in the mail, so you could test the absorbing power of Libresse Invisible yourself.

Also, one Finnish ad made a joke about all this; in the end, after pouring the blue stuff on a towel from a glass, the woman drank the rest of the liquid!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

haha best post of the day!

― kephm (kephm), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't forget, use genuine Cherokee Hair Tampons.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/tv/images/sp-406.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone else remember the early 80s tv commercials that started out with a loud, hoarse "hi, this is brenda vaccaro and i want to talk to you about tampons!"? so good.

― dan (dan), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Good lord, I remember those. The memories. (Hey, Dan, were you at the Mouse on Mars show on Thursday? Looked for ya around.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 October 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I once had an absent-minded flatmate who used to forget what she was doing and leave half-eaten sandwiches and used sanitary towels lying around; I then had to dispose of them.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Near each other??

The middle school I went to had the ever-increasing problem of used napkins in the HALLWAY! You'd be shuffling among crowds of students from one class to another and had to dodge them. YUCK!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my ambitions that I'm unlikely to fulfil is: making a TV commercial for feminine hygiene products that has lots and lots of red liquid everywhere, like some kind of slasher movie.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always thought it would be funny to be in one in general - you know, if I got to pick my 15 minutes of fame. But I would definitely have to be sitting on a couch close to the camera. That's key.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I don't know why I even posted that story; there's never been an yuck factor involved in my relationship with feminine hygiene products. The half-eaten sandwiches were kinda yuckier.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I've seen ads with red fluid, but it wasn't *red*, it was more a clear pink shade. But the company that did red fluid switched back to blue really quickly, I guess the sales dropped or whatever.

― Hanna (Hanna), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder how often people DON'T buy specific products just because they were turned off by the commercials?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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― LC, Monday, 11 October 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Are sanitary towels really called 'napkins' in the US? Why not just call them 'nappies', since the diaper connotation is already there? WTF.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha ha ha! So glad I wasn't born at a time where we had to use them hammock thingies!

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

yes god bless tampons! dipped in windex or otherwise!

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Yup, tampons we love you...or something....

I wonder how often people DON'T buy specific products just because they were turned off by the commercials?
-- Sarah McLusky (x77tigersxu...), October 11th, 2004 9:43 PM. (coco) (later)

Me. I will NEVER buy a Toyota because of their advert with the fat burd, twas fatist and I'm boycotting them. 4evah!

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael Winner.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Good point.

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Arrgh did you see that fucking supercilious prick on Room 101 last night?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Eh no, I'd rather eat my own toenails.

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I watched him whilst eating my own toenails and wearing a hair shirt.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Were you sitting on a bed of nails prechance?

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

what did he put to room 101?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I was.

Snooty waiters, folk who sit at traffic lights after they've turned green, modern buildings and poor people.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Poor people, haha. Poor people without car insurance or just poor people?

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I was only joking pet.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Bummer, I was highly amused for a second.

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

and people who don't know it when they're in a commercial

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm glad he's starring in a feminine hygiene thread. Well, he is a bloody cunt...

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Language!

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Are sanitary towels really called 'napkins' in the US? Why not just call them 'nappies', since the diaper connotation is already there? WTF.
-- Liz :x (lizd4ply...), October 12th, 2004 7:16 AM. (Liz :x)

well, we don't call diapers "nappies". but mostly people call sanitary napkins "pads" or maxi "pads".

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Towels always sounds like you've got a huge beach towel in your pants, although that's not too far off in describing how it feels, yuck.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, when I first looked for the English word for these I kinda wondered about the word "towel" too. Then again, in Finnish they're called "health pads", I have no idea where the "health" part comes from.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably something like the 'panty-liners' for 'freshness' which are advertised so delightfully. Yuck. If yr not keeping yr nethers fresh via regular washing, there's no hope to be gained from bunging a sticky pad in your pants.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i always wondered about the "freshness" aspect of those too. surely they must inhibit the flow of air, thus creating a distinctly unfresh environment. yukko. showers people showers.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 09:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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