Bleeding in front of your coworkers: C/D?

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I sliced open the mole on my cheek while shaving this morning, and now that I'm at the office I find it starts oozing a little whenever I sit with my chin in my palm (i.e., often).

At first I tried to avoid seeing any coworkers, but my workload today won't allow it. What's the best response to this situation?

Them: Did you know you're bleeding?
Me: Yes, but it'll stop soon.

(apologies to anyone hoping for another MenstroGush thread)

Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

is that your blood?

some of it, yeah.

Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Put a plaster on it.

Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

styptic pencil (sp?)

beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

The band-aid/plaster solution would reduce public revulsion, but at the expense of making the problem ten times more visible.

Somehow, the fact that the wound site is a mole fascinates/disgusts people even more. Something about a brown spot with a runny center really touches a nerve.

Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

band aid >>>> bleeding wound

Only you care that a band aid is visible. Your coworkers just don't want to catch the AIDS.

Le Sterling Chow (dr g), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

the word MenstroGush looks like it should have a little trademark symbol after it. and i don't think any of us were hoping for that, no.

Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

classic definitely, especially if you can bleed on demand. hello, goodbye boring meetings!

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Sterling, they shouldn't be rubbing my cheek at the office anyway!

But yes, I'm looking forward to not being invited to meetings, or at least office cake. Especially if there's raspberry sauce.

Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Bleeding shaving cuts on the subway unbeknownst to you until you get to work: C/D?

Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

looks like its gonna be a gusher!

_, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

it could be worse you could be BLEEDING FROM THE VAGINA IN FRONT OF YOUR COWORKERS

ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I really wonder if that remark would have got half the mileage out of it had it been made by any other poster. I'm honestly perplexed as to its popularity with the troll set.

Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

i think its a pretty funny remark

_, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I occasionally get random nosebleeds during hot weather. The first I know about them is either a splash of blood on my desk or a very worried co-worker asking "Do you know you're bleeding?"

Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

periods always equal teh funneh

ALWAYS!!

ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

i think it would have got more mileage if it happened before the menstrogush remark

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, if you're a 14-year-old boy. No doubt you'd all faint if you got anywhere near a real woman.

Penises are quite funny though.

Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

8===D

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, if you're a 14-year-old boy. No doubt you'd all faint if you got anywhere near a real woman.

Penises are quite funny though.

theres this girl who has a boyfriend who is always rubbing her leg against mine all the time which confuses me to no end

oh and i have known a woman who has not always been a woman and in fact still has a penis. now that is funny for all ages from 8 to 80!!!

ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

that was actually a smiley of a babboon laughing

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

xpost laughing at your own mother isn't nice

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

the idea that mocking someone for publically announcing the strength of their menstrual flow on the internet somehow makes you scared of "real women" or what the fuck over has been one of the dumber things on ilx lately

_, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Grow up.

Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

kate youre retarded if you dont think itd be the same reaction or worse if lord custos started posting about the shape of his turds or if kenan shouted out how many drops of jizz he left on his print-out of the 'what do you look like' thread

_, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

the idea that mocking someone for publically announcing the strength of their menstrual flow

wait did someone do that on here???? i think i missed this cos that would have been funny!

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

the roffles are gushin

_, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I activate menstrual bravery

Sage Francis (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

You know for all the stuff that people talk about on ILE, I'm not sure why graphic discussions of menstruation should be so off-limits. I don't buy the fear of women theory or whatever it was, but all the horror over Kate's remark seems ridiculous. (I haven't followed the various conflicts this relates to all that closely.)

I really wonder if that remark would have got half the mileage out of it had it been made by any other poster.

I wonder too.

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

they were before you guys came here and made yourselves roffle tampons

xxpost

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

have i missed some funny remark or something which remark are we talking?

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

kate youre retarded if you dont think itd be the same reaction or worse if lord custos started posting about the shape of his turds or if kenan shouted out how many drops of jizz he left on his print-out of the 'what do you look like' thread

Are you seriously suggesting comments along these lines have never been made here? I doubt it.

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Poor Stephen. Thread well and truly hijacked. Has the bleeding stopped yet?

Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder if people would keep mocking someone who didnt react hilariously offended by the mockery

_, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

hysterically not hilariously, its not really hilarious

_, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

what about mark c's cud sandwich? are the "troll set" scared of pringles?

_, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

WELL DONE CHAPS

Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Archel, I'm fine now. The tenacity of these feuds is remarkable, though; guess I asked for it.

Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hello. I have bled in front of coworkers twice. One was when I wiped out crossing the street and hit a patch of ice and WHOOSH to the ground, which resulted in an ugly skinned knee. BUT no torn stockings--wtf? So my stockings were caked with knee blood. The other time, I got my period and was unprepared and it got a spot on my dress, which was black and white patterned so it showed on the white.

No one really cared much, either time.

Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

sorry for saying anything, glad your cheek is better.

i cut my finger horribly while waitressing once. there was really no time to properly bandage it and everything was insanely busy so they wouldn't let me go get a bandaid, and i was bleeding like mad but trying to wait tables with a bloody finger hid under napkins. ugh.

Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 16:30 (nineteen years ago)


10/19/05 12:18 pm
Do I have to repeat today's word again?

That's ACCESSORY. It's one word, kids.
Surely you, even in your Ritalin-plagued state
can learn that one.

Oh, here we go:

the idea that mocking someone for publically announcing the strength of their menstrual flow on the internet somehow makes you scared of "real women" or what the fuck over has been one of the dumber things on ilx lately
-- _ (...), Today.


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Grow up.
-- Paranoid Spice (masonicboo...), Today.


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kate youre retarded if you dont think itd be the same reaction or worse if lord custos started posting about the shape of his turds or if kenan shouted out how many drops of jizz he left on his print-out of the 'what do you look like' thread
-- _ (...), Today.

Of course, this is really a reference to my story about a ridiculously heavy period (and I was on the L platform, not at work - jeezus).

These guys seem to think that posting a personal item is asking for all sorts of commentary, ridicule, and obsession. It isn't. Mocking someone for something they can't help is indicative of someone who has severe psychological problems.

These autistic twits keep responding to me, and yet they plead 'autism' or 'illiteracy' when someone calls them on their inability to post anything other than pictures or one-liners.

Look - mockery and insensitivity is cruel. It was an 'all girls' discussion of menstrual abnormalities. You know damn well that the fact you take an unhealthy interest in my (hormonally-induced, 'cos I was living with Ken) menstrual abnormalities is cruel and immature.

Boy, you sure are sensitive about that 'hating women' bit.

Afraid you won't get married and make it into the club? Afraid you won't get laid by some blonde 'in the club' whore who doesn't even love you, then make more autistic black market babies, and the whole Nazi slavemaking game goes on and on, all the while, your arrested development selves just keep on illiterately twittering on the 'net about some woman and her menstrual problems...problems that were caused by the same people your daddy does business with, mind you.

Do you boys have any REAL feelings for women, or is it just about looking like you're getting laid, or about to get laid, as a form of social validation?

Fact is, you little sexless stuck-at-age-thirteen twerps, you are the beneficiaries of a racket that virtually enslaves and rapes some women, exploiting them for their fertility...'raping' them in all sorts of ways in order to 1) dirty her reputation should she ever be called in as a witness 2) threaten her with subtle blackmail, etc. etc.

Yes, you ugly little abortion-that-lived - that's misogyny.

It's a violation of women's civil rights. And you, you pampered, unaccountable little twit, benefit from it.

Oh go on - ask your fraudulent filthy rich whoring corporate attorney daddy what he knows about 'civil rights' and racketeering.

Once again, some other women posted about their menstrual abnormalities first. It is becoming apparent that at least some women have been administered, without their consent, some sort of hormonal treatment. That is why we're talking about it in public. Have you familiarized yourselves with the concept of 'aiding and abetting?'

A bunch of boys laughing about someone's victimization...well, I don't know what you'd call that sort of immaturity.

Because there is no other explanation for having my entire period over with in a matter of hours than a 'non-professional' and nonconsensual administering of hormones.

My point in that thread is that it had never happened to me before, and never since.

For christ's sake...would you autistic little squirrely pieces of shit laugh about that to my face? No, you wouldn't. And why? Because you know it's embarrassing.

Fact is, you DO have a rapist, violator mentality.

Good luck getting laid, unless it's with one of your under-the-table "working in PR" "Trixie-girl" prostitutes, autism boy.

Hey...have you talked to your rich arrogant in-bed-with-the-mob lawyer daddy about Sam Cooke yet? How's that coming along?

[....]

Can you read more than three words at a time yet?

And isn't it about time you stop appropriating Ethan?

Oh well, I know you're reply, you pampered prissy little diaper baby : "my dad owns you."

That's slavery.

Look that up, autism boy.

kerry, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

I really hate this website.

nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Let's move away from the battle of the sexes before there's bloodshed.

You know how you always think you have a bunch of bandaids but all the boxes are empty except for the tiny strips and spots? Why do they put SO MANY spots and tiny strips?

A bleeding mole? BREAK OUT THE SPOTS!!!!!

The NEXCARE "comfort" bandaids all come in variety packs in our local store. Bummer, because those are the best bandaids.
I'm a landscaper. I am CONSTANTLY bleeding at work.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Mocking someone for something they can't help is indicative of someone who has severe psychological problems.

lol, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

The NEXCARE "comfort" bandaids all come in variety packs in our local store. Bummer, because those are the best bandaids.

OTM on both points. These deserve their own thread.

rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

thread of missing kerry

dont blaze me dro (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago)

uhhhhhhhhh woah

(sorry for boob) (ENBB), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago)

What was that in response to?!

(sorry for boob) (ENBB), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 14:51 (fifteen years ago)

OK n/m it's the gusher thing again.

(sorry for boob) (ENBB), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 14:52 (fifteen years ago)


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