Body parts, conditions, and functions
 

I was just chatting with a friend around my age (60-ish) and we were talking about the 180 since our childhood in the way we refer to certain subjects.

For example, she said she can STILL barely say the word "pregnant" because that word wasn't used in her family. I think my mom used to say "expecting". She would have thought "PG" was crude, and NEVER would have said "bun in the oven" or anything like that.

Back in the day, one didn't discuss "that time of the month", and waited until there was a female clerk and no line before slipping "personal products" onto the counter.

She asked how our family referred to certain body parts, and the truth of the matter is that we DIDN'T. I knew the proper terms for all the parts and functions, but we just didn't discuss those things unless it was a medical-type conversation. Not classy.

Remember "polite convesation"? I do. I wouldn't want us to go back to the time when young people thought they were dying, or were some kind of freaks because they didn't know what was happening or supposed to happen. But we sure have swung that pendulum. Holy cow.

"her monthly visitor" or "her monthly" was a common phrase.

a vagina is still a monkey, or a woo woo. or your "lady parts" a man has a ding a ling or a whatitz. too funny.

My mom and aunts still cant say CANCER without it being whispered..."cancer" its too silly.

The flu is still "the grip" and you still just dont talk about money. its taboo to discuss someone elses money, I still cant get my mom to discuss her own money! she just says "I have enough, and thats all you need to know." um, mom?! I pay half your rent! no....you dont have enough!

I read an article once that stated every generation has it's own type of underwear. My mom was briefs (gasp!), her mom bloomers, mine bikinis (my poor mother) and thank goodness my daughter didn't like thongs. What next? Every generation needs a shocker.

My HS kids have fellow students who are openly "gay" and even cross dress on occasion. Taboo in my generation.My kids grew up with computers and find me appallingly low tech. It's always something and always will be.

And TV!! Remember when Rob and Laura (**** Van Dyke show) slept in twin beds!!!!

Look!! My nickname for Richard got censored! Bless NT.

B2Y, my Mom was the same way. Very prim and proper when it came to talking about "those things". I still wonder how on earth she had three children!

She called it "mother nature's gift" (ummm...no thank you) or "ladies days". My DDH used to call it "the beast within"!

My DDH called it the "OH NO" days. :eek::D

flatulence is the "winds" :o

My mom has never called my dad by his nickname...she's always called him "Richard". His siblings still use his nickname and think it's funny that my mom never does. (I dont like the nickname either, but luckily I just have to call him "dad")

For me, I use "girl stuff" when referring to certain things that only girls get. The accessories that you use during "girl stuff" is just "stuff". Underwear is either "underwear" or "panties". Sex is "sex", not some annoyingly crude term. Certain body parts that guys have dont really get mentioned unless I'm using my dad's nickname as a slang term for when my boyfriend is being a jerk.

My Mom used to say "I fluffed". :confused: :o

Pee is #1
Poop is #2


My brothers used to say puke was #3 but mom would get angry. :rolleyes:

When my dad gets a bit...gassy... I usually just ask him what crawled up his butt and died. He says he's much too classy to do anything so uncouth as to be gassy.

No one was worse with gas than my dog TinyMonsters. He's been gone for four years and it's sure a lot easier to breathe around here now.

I think the TV commercials that talk about solutions to some pretty personal problems have gotten a little out of control.

I'm not a prude......but if I had some of the conditions that they discuss you better believe I would already know what to do for it and where to buy a remedy. :o

Some of these commercials air during prime time not to mention all day. :rolleyes: They put ratings on TV shows to warn parents. I think some of these commercials deserve a rating....and a warning! :cool:

I remember when Jack Parr (anybody else remember him?)got censored for saying "water closet" (BR) on the tonight show. :eek:

I really really wish we could go back to the gentler days, when we didn't necessarily call a spade a spade, but ev1 knew what you meant..:(

BTW, my Grandma called 'em wooftees..:D

As a nurse I never understood why 'old' people called laxatives 'physics'. And when my daughters dog Timmy farted in Pet Smart I thought they were going to have to evacuate the building!

remember when Richard van dyke (got ya censors!) and laura had to have separate beds? Lucy and Ricky?

Remember when Lucy couldnt say pregnant on Tv? with little ricky she had to say she "was expecting a package" :o


Remember Laura and her peddle pusher pants?! what a hoot! the critics had a feild day that her legs were showing. They wanted her to wear a dress. :cool:

AHHHH, the good ole days..:)

I miss them so much. Nowadays you never know what you're going to see or hear on TV. My grandmother would be shocked!

You know, my mom and dad weren't snooty or "prudes" (as if that's a BAD thing). They were warm and friendly and laughed and had fun.

But they didn't hold with being vulgar or crude, and either we found a "nice" way of saying things, or we didn't say them at all. And we were taught by example that somethings just didn't NEED to be said. (Today it's called TMI)

I've gotten slack, and a lot of language I use now (pee, butt, etc.) would bring a look of disappointment to my mother's face.

My mom knew that "lady-like" didn't mean you couldn't swing a softball bat or climb a tree or haul in a mess of horned pout. It meant you didn't call attention to your private parts and functions, and you ESPECIALLY didn't do so by being vulgar. (Trust me, we learned the word "vulgar" at a very tender age).

I'm all in favor of "girl talk", and I don't want to go back to the dark ages. But I do miss the days of a bit more class.

Gosh, I love this thread...:)

You know, to this day I still can't use the word "panties." Maybe because I was abused...but I hate, hate that word.
My monthly was "my friend". Some friend!!:p
I still can't use words that are " common", even though I grew up in a low-to-middle class family.
Uptight, or classy? You be the judge:rolleyes:

Oh, as prudish as I am, when I had my first baby (my mom died a few months before, but I was blessed by a wonderful MIL), my MIL clued me in on the "correct" terms for "down there": Peterdink for the boys...:eek: never got the "correct" term for the girl parts, since I only had one after 3 boys...DH and I decided to call them by their correct parts, and not be inhibited about it. One of the best decisions we ever made.

And I agree-as progressive as I am about discussing human problems with the adult kids, I still cringe when I see a tampon commercial or an ED commercial. Ugh..

The only reason I dont like tampon commercials is because I refuse to have a "happy period". (tampax's ad line, or is that Always?)

I'm also quite ticked off at Tampax for screwing around with how their particular brand of tampon works. They redesigned it with little skirts on one end of them, which have caused me a problem or three and now I buy store brand (cheaper!:D and skirt-less). I'm sorry, but skirts do not belong on my tampons, as if they're a party favor.

Plus, it doesnt work, and why did they have to do it to every line that they sell?

I swear, a MAN had to have been the one who changed those tampons.

umm...sorry about that little diatribe, I'm still just a bit bitter about it. :mad: It's not cool to mess with a girl's tampons. I can be vocal about politics, but if you mess with the design of my brand of tampons, that's when you'll really see some anger and ranting. (and believe it or not, I used to be a prude and couldnt even say "period" or "tampon" out loud...even to myself)

/rant