Exactly, bust size is very nice, but it doesn’t speak about the torso shape. And shape is what determines, whether a bra fits.

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.

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.

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

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.

Managed to stop fascism? That was a collective effort, but ok. Stop totalitarian dictatorship? Not at all.

The bonds are deteriorating beyond repair. This won’t be enough. Trump win will embolden the rising far right in EU countries. There’s no good thing, I’m afraid. Sorry for my pessimism.

They’re not. They’re ready to screw themselves as well.

These things are all true. But the history tended to go the progress direction. Slavery was abolished, so was segregation, women got more and more of their rights. Things were gradually and often painfully getting better. Now it regresses.

I think the one who cooks should do things their way and the others should not interfere unless there’s some kind of medical concern.

It’s ok to eat a bit more nutritious food when it’s cold - your natural body heating costs energy.

Cover your head when outside, your head loses an unreasonable amount of heat.

If your bed’s too cold in the evening, buy a heating pad - a warm bed feels awsome.

If your hands get painfully cold, more excruciating pain may be waiting for you when they start to heat back up. To avoid the additional pain, put your hands under cold tap water first - I promise it’s going to feel warm. Then increase the heat slowly until your hands are warm again.

I think there’s some kind of general fascination with rich people ingrained naturally in the human mind. It’s not just in comics. It’s present in many fairy tales, mythology, religious books…

Iagree it can help the rich to get away with things. But I also think it’s not fair to blame authors for using good old archetypes, while I also support kindhearted critique of those archetypes - it’s important to understand their role in social context and to make authors aware of the downsides.

I think that’s why op’s asking in the first place, right?

If you were republican and asked whether the democrats are as enthusiastic this time as the last time, it would be a perfectly legitimate question. The fact is, people tend to shade themselves from the online madness (good for them), but then they can’t be sure whether the madness continues with full force or not.

Asking about it seems logical. But neither you nor I are able to answer.

There are also cheap specialized squishy water bottles with little shower-like hooked ending that can be used as a bidet if you don’t want to bother with insalling a real one.