Omg, just realised this must be the way manufacturers think about bras, that would explain a lot 😆

You can add numbers correctly, but why the hell would you do that?

Adding cup size to band size is a bit like buying pants and adding leg size to waist size. One measure cannot compensate for another.

A woman with band size 32 measures 32 inches around her torso underneath her breasts. That’s the number she needs, or else the bra is going to be too loose or too tight under the breasts.

A woman with small breasts and large chest cannot buy a bra with tighter band size that she wouldn’t be able to put around her chest and compensate with bigger cups. That would mean she would have to leave the bra open in the back and wear it as a strange kind of napkin with huge cups hanging loosely on her small breasts, leaving a large room above them.

The same goes for a woman with large breasts and thin chest. If she bought a bra with bigger band size and compensated with smaller cup size, it would be very loose around her chest and there would be two funny little cups resting on the top of her much larger breasts.

I’m taking it into caricature territory to make it easier to imagine, but even if the differences in size are not that big, it’s kind of what it actually feels like for a woman.

I don’t think you know how the bra size system works. The number is the size measured underneath the breasts. The letter is the cup size determined as a the difference between the measurements across and underneath the breasts.

Therefore no way is 32D equivalent to 34B. Or at least it shouldn’t be equivalent, but manufacturers don’t respect the standard, so the equivalence is not impossible in some cases. It’s really super inconsistent.

Also breasts can have different shapes and can be placed closer or further appart, which makes finding a fitting bra very hard for some people.

Tiktok is not real life. Go watch or read Persepolis. I also know someone from Iran, they don’t go back anymore for good reasons. Things are getting worse there.

But you won’t find it in Teheran anymore. Iran was diverse then, now it’s as backwards in the big cities as it was in the country.

I guess it could be read as there are no regularly showering non-incel men, just women, which would not be fair.

Yep, it’s that old, but very recyclable.

This is an old one, but I always enjoy telling it in new contexts:

Trump walks outside the White House aimlessly. He slowly picks up a stone, inspects it closely, then puts it back and continues his slow walk.

Vance is worried and calls the Kremlin for help.

"We’ll look into it, Mr. Vance… hang on… Oh. We’re terribly sorry, the fault is ours. By mistake we’ve sent him the instructions meant for Lunokhod.

Siphonophores are all fascinating and Praya especially so!

Also the surgeries often have to be done from the front, so doctors have to put organs out of the way, operate the spine, put everything back. It’s really scary. Everytime I think of it I start sitting a little more upright.

This is nice, but I can’t stop thinking of all the women and girls in Afghanistan, that were just recently stripped of ALL rights, including the right to speak when they want. Availability of arteries on men doesn’t do anything for them.

They know, they remember. And, of course, they won’t take any women with them.

Yeah, I feel it should wear pants with three legs, not one.

You said he let you go, so he’s around somewhere. Have you thought about what you would do, if you ever accidentally met your kidnapper?

I wish you all the best in your life!

What part of your single dad experience would you think others don’t expect or understand?

I agree. Where did anyone do that? All I see is women using my argument to protect themselves. Aramis87 acknowledged the existence of good men with “yes”, then expressed it’s still safer to chose the bear, which it is.

Unless the rapist guys’ skin turns green so they can be easily told appart from the good ones, women are going to chose the bear.

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Yeah, I think the title is a bit misleading and manages to make both the scientists and the dogs appear stupid.

I share your frustration with the election result. I’d like to point out that venting it on strangers and making others more miserable is not the healthy way to go about it.