Films, Australian Gladiators, Poll

[slemslempike]

At the weekend we went to see Step Up 2 The Streets and Son of Rambow. I liked both of them more than I thought I would. The dancing in Step Up 2 was quite great, though I think that they could have cut back DRAMATICALLY on the amount of white people telling black people what to do. I liked that they had Tyler from the first film at the beginning, though I'd thought that Andie was the sort-of-sister that he had a great relationship with in the first film, but she wasn't. I think I would have got more out of Son of Rambow if I'd ever seen a Rambo film. I'd been rather meh about the trailer, but it wasn't too cloying or awful - I liked how the French boy was seen as a dork by the other French students.

When we got back we watched the first episode of the new Australian series of Gladiators, which was bizarre. It's the same as ever, which is good. I suppose I actually mean that it's the same as the British version, as I haven't seen the Australian one before - the main differences are the accents, and on the Eliminator both the men and women do the monkey bars, and they rope-swing through water instead of paper, which upsets me a bit as I really liked the paper breaking bit. Anyway. The gladiators are ODD. The women are mostly blonde and look the same - there is one with blue hair and one with huge brunette hair, but apart from that they all look freakily similar. One is called Angel and has feathers in her hair. ANGEL. What kind of a name is that for a gladiator, hmm?? The men are slightly better, but all of their costumes look the same, and don't fit terribly well. My man was a tree surgeon and won. I am looking forward to the new UK series now.

This poll is quite intrusive, so obviously people should feel free to skip it altogether or only answer whatever they feel like. Also people who don't menstruate probably don't have anything to say to the first two questions. Basically, I have never even tried to keep track of my periods, and am never expecting them to show up, and have lately been wondering if this is a dire failure at womanhood. Then I thought that as I was being nosey anyway I might as well add in the question about nipple-licking that I had been pondering for some time.

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Comments

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I am often stymied by questions at the doctors, because unless I am bleeding right that second, or have only just finished, I never know where I am in my cycle, and I don't even know if they're regular or not. I imagine I would be more aware if I were doing things where pregnancy was a possibility, but when I was I was on hormonal contraception and just trusted it to do its thing without keeping track.

Gosh, it'll be awful if it turns out to be true about swimming - I've been doing quite a bit of backstroke recently.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

They do seem to expect you to know to the day, don't they? Whereas I generally say 'Um, beginning of March?' and they look at me as if I am slow.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I know! Surely the great variance of menstruation is not still a mystery to the medical profession?

[leedy.livejournal.com]

They do seem to expect you to know to the day, don't they?

That's rather silly, isn't it, given that lots of people have slightly irregular cycles.

(that said, I do know, if not to the day, then within 48 hours. I R CLOCKWORK WOMAN.)

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

I always thought mine were irregular until the trying-to-get-pregnant thing, and then it turned out they were pretty much totally regular, but I didn't expect a 35-day cycle.

Incidentally, when you go to the doctor when pregnant, they calculate how pregant you are based on a 28-day cycle and your last period, no matter if you know to within hours when you conceived and it has nothing to do with that. Silly little women couldn't possibly know, could we?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Good LORD, medical people can be quite rubbish. using a 28 day cycle no matter what? What happens if you didn't happen to have a period the month before? Are you miraculously a month extra pregnant?

[antisoppist.livejournal.com]

They don't let you be a month extra pregnant. They try to force you to be induced because you're Overdue and Your Baby Will Die. I had a 35 week cycle and after the first horrific induction I managed to get a sympathetic midwife to put my own estimated date on the form for the other two. Number two was induced as well even despite this and number three beat the clock by a day.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Gosh, how horrible. Well done number three though!

[cellardor.livejournal.com]

Gosh I didn't know that either. You'd think they'd take it into account more. I wonder if women doctors would be more inclined to alter the cycle, or if they'd stick with the 28 day one too. Just doesn't seem very scientific really.

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

The first time, I tried to convince them I knew better, the second time I refused to say, but said I was X weeks pregnant and I knew. They do the official due date by measurement at ultrasound, and I was spot on both times.

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Oh, and women doctors both times, and both had been pregnant themselves. Maybe it's a protocol?

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Swimming?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

That old thing about getting pregnant if you do the backstroke in a pool where a BOY has recently done the front crawl. It might be a Victoria Wood joke.