This guy I work with mornings in the school snack bar refers to eggs as "chicken periods" all the time

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How am I supposed to deal with this

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

eat your eggs with unrestrained glee in his face

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:28 (nineteen years ago)

egg mctamponwich

― rems (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:29 (nineteen years ago)

make up some story about an aunt or cousin or friend who died of haemorrhage and who would have lived is she hadn't just thought she was having a really bad menses, and say that talking about periods kinda weirds you out ever since

smash an egg against your face every time he says this

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:29 (nineteen years ago)

^ i like this latter idea

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

a former friend of mine used to do this chicken period thing. i found it quite funny really.

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

We serve breakfast food in addition to Funyuns, sodapop and mixed berry yogurt so things are pretty rough. "Ok I'm taking a break, can you get this guy two chicken periods over hard." I ask you. Probably I will have to type up a bulleted list of my complaints and concerns about this quirk and confront him with it in a quiet moment.

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

I suspect but do not know that he would gleefully refer to one of the sandwiches offered during lunch as a "chicken boob"

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

he's just being accurate!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

"Toast is Tampon"

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Chicken Periody Toast.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

dude, if this is your only problem...

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Does he ask the customers how they'd like their chicken periods done?

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

I remember someone from my dim and distant past referring to them as "aborted chickens" - which is much more appetising.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

But that's just plain untrue. :(

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

you could probably threaten him with a sexual harrassment complaint if you really really wanted it to stop

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Eventually you can just say "Jesus, we all get it, eggs are chicken periods. No-one cares. Just shut up about it."

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

yeah this is only funny when you're like 13

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

excelsior syndrome strikes again

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Inundate him with stupid questions. Try starting with "Are you sure they aren't commas?"

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 9 November 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

A period is the uterine lining sloughed off due to an infertilized ovum, not the ovum itself. I have found pedantry shuts people up. But then they hate you.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 9 November 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah but an egg is the equivalent to a human period, innit?

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 9 November 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

Like, chickens don't bleed but laying an egg is still basically the same thing. (except it's not necessarily a rejection of the egg, in the case where they're fertilised)

― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 9 November 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

My parents gave me this book about 'the birds and the bees' where they literally used birds---chickens---to illustrate the means & ways of human reproduction. Maybe this guy got all his instructions from this book? maybe this book could've cleared him up:

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/babies/index.htm

Anyway, human and bird reproductive cycles just aren't similar enough to call a bird's egg a "period," because it's all in a handy, self-contained package unlike the human menstrual cycle.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 9 November 2006 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

That link's kinda NSFW even tho it's made for wee Kinder.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 9 November 2006 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

Also, who eats Funyuns for breakfast? Dear god!

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 9 November 2006 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

Well the packaged snack stuff is available all day. Having said that I have had more than one breakfast of Oreos and Diet Rockstar brand energy drink.

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Thursday, 9 November 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, this is a great pair of pics!

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/babies/wbcf6.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 9 November 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Tuomaspaws...

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 9 November 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

the man is a wacky twat - the only language people like this understand is violence. Simply kill him.

and yes, oh Tuomas.....

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 9 November 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

I remember when I was in upper elementary, we were shown this animated sex education film, which at one point displayed a montage of different sex positions. Of course it's great that the educators aren't too shy about these things, but you can imagine the amount of giggles that caused among 14 year olds...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 9 November 2006 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

Did you have a nun draw a table on the blackboard with all the names of the different contraceptives on it, along with their stats for safety, and their level of approval by the Catholic church? I had that.

For future reference, the only methods of contraception approved by the Catholic church involve checking the calendar or early withdrawal. Thanks, the Pope.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 9 November 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

our nuns arranged for a woman with about seventeen children to come to the school and give us a sales pitch for the rhythm method.

― estela (estela), Thursday, 9 November 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

Christ, thank god I don't live in a Catholic country.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 9 November 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

C on T has papal approval.

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 9 November 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

but i thought every sp3rm was sacred?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 9 November 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Monty Python songs do not have papal approval (apart from Knights of the Round Table, which Pope Bennie has a soft spot for).

― ONIMO ph34rz teh NOIZE (GerryNemo), Thursday, 9 November 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Christ, thank god I don't live in a Catholic country.

Yeah, you'd be condemned for all eternity on the blasphemy thing before you even got NEAR having sex.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 9 November 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

I remember someone from my dim and distant past referring to them as "aborted chickens" - which is much more appetising.

Welcome to Chicken Baby Holocaust, may I take your order?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 9 November 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

i'd do the slow-burn on this one. some rolling of eyes, dirisive laugh, ignoring, and if it continues TOTALLY FUCKING SNAP. you'll feel better for it. calm people who suddenly lose it are pretty scary.

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

This alway reminds me of the anecdote of the English lady at aFrench dinner table appalled at their serving of tongue. "how can you eat that when you know where it comes from?" To which a Frenchman replies, "Why, Madam, have an egg instead."

My reaction to the guy in the thread title would be the same as to most puerile provocateurs - a shrug.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Better or worse than referring to babies as "womb poo"?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Babies are "crotchfruit", surely.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

"intra-uterine parasite"

― rrrobyn, the situation (rrrobyn), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

"The ultimate sexually transmitted disease"

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Now I'm grossed out by the word "beischlafen"

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

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