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Friday Fun Thread for December 6, 2024

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Overheard at my hospital:

Senior psychiatrist, about 15 years older than me- "I need to get a breast reduction done, look at me, I'm tiny, and I swear a third of my weight is up here."

Then she went on about how it wouldn't be covered by the NHS, and it would ludicrously expensive to get done privately here, hence her plan to fly in to Turkey and get cut down to size there.

The shame! The squandering of God-given gifts! An imminent call for a diagnosis of severe body dysmorphia with threat of self-mutilation requiring involuntary commitment! A man can only sigh and pour one out.

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This is wildly untrue.

My wife literally became a yoga instructor seeking to fix her upper back issues, and if she doesn't work out >4 times a week they recur.

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... Yes? That was the topic under discussion.

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  1. I mostly reject that hypothetical because achieving functional strength and good movement is a whole body process

  2. That said, I would guess she could do it on five times a week ten minutes a day? It's hard to say because I really don't think it's isolable.

But I should note that Mrs. FiveHour is an extreme outlier in terms of poor balance in this case.

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Her bra size is essentially fake, in that in America we have decided that all cup sizes above D are kind of gross, disgusting, not sexy. The old Jeff Foxworthy joke about "If you think a 401K is your mother in law's bra size, you might be a redneck!" But cup size is just breast size relative to rib cage, and her rib cage/waist is tiny relative to her breasts. So her measurement would actually come out to something like a 30-F or G, but that doesn't exist in any American store, so she buys a 30-DDDD. Which also mostly doesn't exist.

So when I take her to Nordstrom to buy bras once or twice a year, she's always hoping her rib cage size went up a little, so that her cup size would reduce slightly, and she'd be something more normal like a 32-DD, which might actually be stocked in normal stores. Instead, turns out she's still the same size, and we find out that they have one, basically orthopedic, bra in stock in her size, in nude and black.

I am extremely lucky. But primarily for other reasons.

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