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

[whatho.livejournal.com]

About ten days' physical symptoms tell me these days, but I wouldn't know otherwise. I can't be bothered ticking calenders and the like.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Ten days! It really wants to make sure you know. Goodness.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Actually it's fourteen because it tells me when I'm ovulating as well, and it's a fortnight after that. But mostly it only gives me ten days of pain at present, which is charming of it. I hadn't contemplating that shouting 'THANK YOU, I KNOW' might put a stop to it though. I should try that.

[alltheleaves.livejournal.com]

Yes! Me too! The cramping (and feeling sick and bloated and being spotty and moody and tired) makes me so excited when I finally get my period. My period is a dream compared to the PMT.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's been the plus side! It used to be quite otherwise before I had pre-menstrual pain because the whole period thing itself was fairly ouchworthy, but now it's more sort of the blessed beginning of the end (for the next two weeks).

I don't think I'm very well designed.

[alltheleaves.livejournal.com]

Exactly! It's like finally, I don't have to be in pain for much longer. And somehow it feels wrong to take painkillers for cramps which aren't my period, but when I have my period I break out the high doses of ibuprofen, no problem. And that makes it a lot easier to cope with as well.

I am exceptionally badly designed.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

*Clings slightly* I sort of have that too about the proper period pains being legitimate medicatable pains and the other ones just sort of being extra. So now the proper ones make me weirdly happy. Which is almost like a good thing. Hm.