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Hmm? I guess I had never heard of anyone being allergic to cotton before. It almost sounds as if it could be toxic shock syndrome. It’s rare these days, but it’s real serious, so you will want to look into it.
If you're a girl whose period has started, the best way to avoid TSS is to use pads instead of tampons.
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Try a sea sponge
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No, it was a response to your BS post, little bennie.
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I thought Barclays was one of Ben's socks? If so, dang it all...he stuck it in the wrong orifice!
shareIt is one of its socks
shareSomething is seriously, and I mean big time seriously wrong with that it! There are places for folks such as it. You know...the ones who walk in circles asking a question then the other it (sock) answers, but then the third it (sock) chimes in! Before you know it...Id, Ego and Super-Ego are in an outright war with each other's it!
shareExactly, just as Terrygg was attempting to use gender confusion as part of its camouflage repertoire. JLeland is another sock.
shareTrolls at little bennie's lever don't deserve humanization; they're its. What's wrong with it? A totally empty, void, boring life, combined with, likely, some sort of vast inferiority and sub-level self-esteem.
shareI agree completely! It has harassed me through its various incarnations enough by now that civility, decorum are no longer even options.
shareI forgot! It is one of many its! I edited my reply to be correct. They are ALL ITS!
shareI would imagine that a man trying to use a tampon might feel sick.
It's probably not related to the cotton. It's the fact that you don't have a vagina.
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Really? So why'd you claim you were a guy several times before, little bennie troll?
shareWhere? I looked and couldn't find any posts Barclays made saying she or he was a guy.
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I have no idea. However, I went through Barclays' posting history pretty thoroughly, and nowhere could I find any post saying, or even intimating, s/he is a man. That's why I asked Naps to direct me to it or them.
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Most likely, yes.
I think this for many reasons. Amongst them: posting style, consistent language/grammar that differs too much from Ben&Socks, early on said s/he was blocking me and actually did (Ben doesn't do that -- he just says he's going to).
I'm not going to outline all of them or be very specific, because I don't want to give Ben any tips ;)
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Several posters on this thread, and on others.
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Why would it be weird that I brought him up when several posters on this thread alone are accusing Barclays of being Ben, and as I recall, even you said on another thread you suspected him/her of being Ben?
Again, I really don't know if Barclays is a woman with a tampon problem or not. Does it strike me as a bit strange that she (if she truly is a she) would post this topic here? Yes. Does that definitively prove anything to me? No.
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I took the time to PM you that because after careful reading, I became convinced that Barclays was not Ben. Due to having reading many of your posts, I also considered you to be someone who didn't leap to conclusions, without any substantial basis, and someone who was fair-minded. (Remember Wilson?) Don't recall the other new poster, off hand, nor vehemently defending anyone, including Barclays. I admit that initially I too thought Barclays was Ben, but have since changed my mind on closer examination. You may, and it's certainly your right to, think differently.
Obviously, it has gotten tips and adapted enough to fool you once again. I still see enough similarities in the vernacular and tone to convince me it's the same troll.
shareBen has yet to have fooled me, that I'm aware of. Actually the vernacular and tone, plus grammar and behaviour, are substantially different.
I was an editor for years, so my "ear" is finely tuned to the written word.
Posters, including myself, have been careful to not give Ben tips ;)
Cat, it's bennie. It's fooling you. I was an editor for years myself, and my "ear" is acutely attuned as well.
shareNaps, you know I luv you, but we are going to have to agree to disagree on this one. There have been any number of Ben's socks that we do agree on, but not this one.
P.S. I've meant to mention this for a bit, but haven't until now. I LOVE that you know how and when to use a semicolon! So few do, and it's a delight to me to see someone who does :)
" Substantially different," up to a point, which lends credence to my claim that it's adapting, much like an alien life form.
" Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall. " Proverbs ( usually known as The Book of Wisdom ) 16:18. Some of the rest of us on here can be discerning and intuitive as well.
Even squirrels, tenacious little critters that they are, can learn from experience in order to confound a home owner. Ben has definitely gotten tips.
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"Alien life form?" Have to disagree a bit. I'd say more like some sort of parasitical fungus.
I also personally wouldn't compare little bennie to a squirrel. IMO, squirrels are far more intelligent.
I don't want to say much more than I have, but in general, Ben has been very consistent, whether or not he realises it (and most likely doesn't -- not on the finer points of language, of which he's unaware).
I don't doubt that he's inadvertently gotten tips by some who unintentionally gave them to him, but they were few and far between. Most of us are savvy enough to be non-specific enough so we *don't* give him any tips.
What "woman" doesn't know what a sea sponge is? They've only been written about for the last 30 years or something...
shareI know what they are, but they haven't been exactly popular for the past 15-20 years. A millennial or younger may not know.
If the OP really does have a problem, your sea sponge suggestion is a good one.
I know what they are, but they haven't been exactly popular for the past 15-20 years. A millennial or younger may not know.
LOL! I never paid enough attention to sponge-pants to remember when it/he came out, but that was funny anyway.
shareHave any children. That yellow guy was unavoidable and funny to adults even.
shareI don't have any kids and don't even know what "that yellow guy" means. Am I missing something, or should I be grateful?
share Sponge bob.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206512 He was every where back in those days.
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Really? Here in the States they were A Thing a number of years back. As I recall, their use was advised as a safe alternative to tampons, back when toxic shock syndrome became a big deal. That was probably in the 80s.
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Yes, and? That's the first time I can recall hearing about them, and toxic shock syndrome, which became a big deal for the health of women. It could have been later when I first heard of it, or it could have been earlier. It didn't make a big enough impact on me to remember the year.
shareI remember that. I tried it once in college for economic and ecological reasons (all good intentions) but I decided that hand washing them in the same sink I brush my teeth in was too nasty for me and I went back to disposables.
If people can handle cloth diapers and cloth pads, like I know our grandmothers did, I guess more power to 'em, but I am glad that I was born in the 20th century and that we have disposable tampons, kleenex, toilet paper, etc.
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