Yes! Every day we sex and we can’t smoke anything anymore! Not even a post -coital smoke like in the old movies. They lie.

Then could you not do this testing on a machine at their office? What the heck?

I get a quarterly magazine from the Bruderhof, I would consider that cult Real Christians. They live in community, don’t own things individually, are pacifists, and seem overall to be actual Christians, in the way I understand Christianity.

We have crab cakes, some snacks you heat in the oven (jalapeno poppers and bean empanadas), tinned fish like sardines and similar, and cheese and crackers. And a “champagne” the Cava Raventos Blanc Blanc de blancs which is the best bubbly white wine I have ever had and not even expensive.

New Year’s Day is black eyed peas, collard greens, and potatoes. Yum.

Not good at receiving criticism in the moment, kind of defensive. I can hear it but cannot immediately say “yeah you are right”, it feels more like insult than help. Some of this is leftover hangups from my ex, who was quite cutting, mean about it. But some just my own immature tendencies. I have pretty much learned not to react and wait until I can think about it more objectively.

I had a boyfriend in England, he was Scottish (town southwest of Glasgow) but had lived in Canada, so the accent was muted. I am from Florida with parents from Louisiana so southern but not Southern l. I liked when he got drunk because he got more Scottish and he liked when I got drunk because I sounded Southern.

The worst Mexican food I’ve had was in San Antonio Texas, believe it or not.

Where I live, if you find a hole-in-the-wall Mexican place it will be fantastic, I thought that rule held everywhere. Oh no. No, no, no.

Remarkably bad food, so bad. Mole made with sweetened milk chocolate. American cheese in the enchiladas. Comically bad. Absolute shit food. And outside of that one horrible experience, overall very hit or miss. How? They literally WERE Mexico! I was expecting something so good. The only great food we got there was at a hipster breakfast place.

It’s funny because Tampa does bat way over its league in restaurants generally. We have amazing food here, all over. Why is “the” food that sandwich? It’s good but def overrated.

I agree on lobster because I think crab tastes better.

Agree on truffles, I think they are just expensive because they are rare and fragile, not because they are magically delicious.

People here LOVED Dave’s hot chicken. I went and really, it’s fine, I’d eat it but wouldn’t affirmatively choose it, if getting industrial fried chicken Popeyes and Publix are both better.

And man do people love Cuban Sandwiches here. Again, I will eat them they are fine but mostly because the bread is so good. Would rather just have a roast pork on the bread, dressed, without the ham & salami, or even the cheese toast on Cuban Bread I think is so good. There is nothing magical about the 3 meat combo.

Chilaquiles slap.

Tacos al pastor, yum. Never thought I could like pineapple in savory food.

Sopa Tarasca is heavenly.

Simple bean burrito with refried pintos, shredded cheddar cheese, chopped onion & chipotle salsa is something I would eat for breakfast, lunch or supper.

Respectfully disagree, I do rate it highly and think it belongs there. Even the simple stuff (if by mush you mean refried beans) is seasoned well and delicious. Tasty mush.

His other songs feel better to sing IMO, Last of my Kind and If it Takes a Lifetime are both so satisfying to sing.

I like to sing but have a good range of about half an octave. Here are the two extremes for me.

Cherokee by Kamasi Washington has an angelic singer who I cannot stand to sing with, I just listen.

We always belt it on C’mon Baby Cry by Orville Peck though even though nobody in my house can hit both his low and high falsetto notes, his voice & range is crazy good. I’m sure it sounds bad but feels so good to sing.

Eh? Comics are stories. I love reading books, so much, and never found it fatiguing? By easier to draw, do you mean “a picture is worth a thousand words”? Like it’s easier to convey meaning in pictures? Maybe, but I love long books, short stories and comics too.

If you want a great story, here is one for your group

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-fiddler-of-bayou-teche/

Like @Broadfern@lemmy.world I miss the subreddit abrathatfits.

You are correct you don’t see 30C on the ground much, but it’s the right size for someone with 30" ribcage and 33" bust.

And you are further correct that it would just look to you, when undressed, like what I and most of the non bra buying world think of as an “A cup”.

Now I have about 33" under bust and 37" or 38" or so bust, really don’t have to wear a bra at all, this still is small boobs, but the size that fits when I do wear a bra (like for work) is 34D.

If I was making up the bra sizing though - I would use:

Band size in inches (or cm, of course)

Wire width (A-K where A is tennis ball curve and K is basketball curve)

Cup volume (maybe measure like they do with implants, in cc? From say 100 to 1500, or wherever bra scaffolding fails)

So I would be something like a 34 D 300, and you are thinking of a 34D 600, who would be oozing out of my bras, and I would be swimming in hers. Right now in the bra world neither of us are really well served.

You can look at bratabase if you are interested in what the sizes really look like on different people, different boobs.

Maybe but the difference between small boobs and big is fat so probably both would increase, depends on the distribution of where they put on fat.

And see above - I literally had to buy a 34DD in the last bra I got and nobody would call me stacked, nobody. On the smaller band sizes the cup sizes are smaller. When I was underweight and flat, 30C, because 30a is for ping pong ball width boobs. It was frustrating. Bras need 3 measurements not 2. Volume should be separate from diameter.

I answered above but besides the increase in obesity (if it was fat causing the increase the band size would increase too) the sizing scheme has changed so a 34D is like an old 34B.

The real average is probably more like a 38 something, as the average waist is up to 38 and ribcage unlikely to be smaller.

Bra sizing is whack. I got a bra, and asked my husband “what size does this look like?”. He answered 34B. I agree that’s what it looks like, but it’s a 34DD. I have small boobs, the sizing doesn’t work the way it used to and honestly I’m glad because before I was a negative size, nothing fit. Small boobs stay close but small bra sizes are small in the wrong dimension - if small boobs are champagne glasses, small bras are made for half-lemons.

So now they say - under bust is band size, cup is bust minus band so if I have 37" bust and 33" under, they look small, are small, but do usually fit 34D. It’s like the opposite of vanity sizing, but much more inclusive at the small end of sizes.

Better to get pretty yourself I think? I feel like the bar for good looking straight guy is not even that high, you could be in the top half just by getting in shape, haircut and wearing clean clothes that fit.

My feet are narrow so I do this sometimes, to get a better fit in width, so they ‘stick’ and don’t just slide out the front. If your feet are wide don’t do it. And yes there is more tolerance in sandals.

Mine fought like banshees when they were young but are so close and friendly as adults. I didn’t do anything to make any of it happen as far as I can tell. I never understood why they fought so much, and they are so funny and love each other so much now.