Software apps get goofier every day. Now there’s an iPhone app called “PMS Buddy” that will let the user know when their female partner — ahh, never mind, let Wired explain it:
An upcoming iPhone app strives to facilitate harmony between Mars and Venus. PMS Buddy, coming soon to the iPhone’s App Store, is an application that keeps track of a woman’s menstrual cycles. The app is based on the PMS Buddy web site, whose slogan reads, “Saving relationships, one month at a time!”
Yes, the idea is to give you a reminder of when that time of the month is coming, so as to avoid misunderstandings, which could lead to heated arguments and “dinner plates being hurled across the room,” PMS Buddy’s web site says.
Well, that’s special.
Maybe they could take this idea a step further and come up with a Catholic version that lets guys know when it’s *safe* to engage in sexual congress: the “Natural Family Planning Buddy”. It would be a His & Hers set: hers comes with a thermometer, and when it hits the right temperature — RING RING! — he gets an email alert that says “Drop your socks and grab your scrock!”
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Honestly, JJ, I’d be shocked if there isn’t any NFP software already, but I’m forcing myself not to check.
Yesterday I did download some iPod software that seemed promising – a guide to public bathrooms that tells you the closest one to your location, which can certainly be handy for travellers.
It’s sponsored by Charmin and is called “Sit or Squat.”
However, it’s dependent on user input and lists the closest open restaurant as being in Markham Ontario, 9.453 miles away.
RB – You made me look! It looks like there’s a lot of NFP software, but nothing for iPhone (that I could find anyway).
“Sit or Squat”
are you serious??
It’s definitely good to know where the nearest public washroom is, especially for ladies of a certain age like myself. When you gotta go, you gotta go, as the bladder ages that situation becomes less and less negotiable.
Well, if no one has made the whole NFP one, then maybe I will…charge $4.99 and take all that money from Catholics and donate it to Planned Parenthood or something.
There are lots of crazy iPhone apps and I’m sure this will go the way of the “flashlight” apps (a blank white screen).
And come on, I sure as hell don’t need my phone to tell me when the PMS is on the way…
Hmmm… I’m with Mike. In fact, THIS tells us that there is no need for an iPhone app, nor an iWife. Spend enough time with the same woman and you KNOW whats coming.
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BTW… Undomestic Diva is one of the funniest blogs in the IntertOObs.
Mike – Believe it or not, it seems to be fairly popular. But it’s probably a fad that will wear off as soon as the iphone users change partners
Dave – Thanks for the link, that blog’s a blast!
No, I seriously don’t think anyone who’s been partnered up for any length of time needs a software app to tell him when things are getting *sensitive*. My ex old man could tell just by looking at me — that little bit of extra white around the irises of my eyes was usually the first indicator — Oh no! We have Incoming!!!
Hi JJ. The sit or squat is the rating attached to each bathroom. You don’t have to be a middle-aged woman to be desperate either! Last year I spent a week in Palm Springs, a desert climate. My body didn’t adjust well to the climate. I’d be desperately thirsty and desperately needing to pee simultaneously.
It’s not a community where people walk, but my friend and I did walk a lot, which meant we were often not close to the reliable standbys for free, clean bathrooms (McDonald’s, Starbucks, etc.)
On a couple of occasions I was reduced to daylight use of bushes.
RB – I left a post for you at the end of How Out to Lunch back when and I just want to make sure you saw it. It’s got nothing to do with peeing.
RB
I hope your friend was not the kind of friend I am, always right there with a camera when you least expect it
Daylight use of bushes is standard operating procedure around here (of course, this is out in the sticks). When I’m running any more than 3 miles, guaranteed I will have to stop and whiz somewhere. It’s so inevitable that I always carry a little TP.