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    "I Kissed A Girl" Is Beloved By Babies • Over-30 Broads Barred From Bar
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    Image of dridirtitini dridirtitini
    12/03/08

    In reply to "I Kissed A Girl" Is Beloved By Babies • Over-30 Broads Barred From Bar
    I hear them on the whole ill-fitting bra deal, but where can I get a proper boob-analysis in my neck of the woods? All I know is Victoria's Secret and I constantly hear how bad they are. So I've been wearing the same 4 bras for the last 6 years...


    Any suggestions?

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    Image of graceful_gamine graceful_gamine
    12/03/08

    @tini: there's probably some websites with measuring instructions. i'd start there. although, a professional fitting would probably feel pampering. most department stores offer fittings too, so i would go to a higher end one. good luck!
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    Image of Red-headed bookworm Red-headed bookworm
    12/03/08

    @graceful_gamine: The measuring things on those sites never work for me, though. If I measure and try on a bra that those measurements tell me to wear, the back rides up and it doesn't lay flat in the front and all the other things they tell you are signs of a ill-fitting bra.
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    Image of HallieMarie HallieMarie
    12/02/08

    In reply to "I Kissed A Girl" Is Beloved By Babies • Over-30 Broads Barred From Bar
    I'm gonna use the 'ill-fitting bra' excuse to explain all my problems.
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    12/02/08

    In reply to "I Kissed A Girl" Is Beloved By Babies • Over-30 Broads Barred From Bar
    Ill-fitted bras? There was an IT Crowd episode that addressed this issue rather succinctly, I believe.
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    12/02/08

    In reply to "I Kissed A Girl" Is Beloved By Babies • Over-30 Broads Barred From Bar
    Minnesota, what on earth have you been raising up there?
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    Image of Pomonarona Pomonarona
    12/02/08

    In reply to "I Kissed A Girl" Is Beloved By Babies • Over-30 Broads Barred From Bar
    What did women do before corsets and bras came along? Did they strap 'em down like Ayla in the Clan of the Cave Bear?


    I know some of us need support, but not everybody, unless our main goal is to be pleasin' to the menfolks. Ill-fitting bras seem like a "solution" (the phrase "suspension bridge" was used in the article) to a "problem" (boob sagging=unattractive?) that is only causing real problems. Before we go any further, I know some people really *do* need the support, and I'm not talking about them. I'm thinking more of bra-wearing for reasons of vanity and pleasing other people.


    I know my dissertation-writing-induced life of bralessness and elastic-band pants is perhaps removed from reality, but why do we wear bras anyway? Most of the world for most of time seems to have gotten by fine without them. The first thing I do when I get home is extricate the girls from their booby-cage. Like I said, some ladies have very real support issues, but how many of us squeeze into uncomfortable contraptions just because it's a cultural imperative? (I admit, I do, when I have to leave my cave-like writing hovel.)


    Comfy bras ftw!

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    12/03/08

    @Pomonarona: You probably won't even see this comment cuz it's so late at night but everyone was ripping on you and I just wanted to let you know SOMEONE agreed...I'm a 32B and only wear bras to show off the ladies to better advantage. (The day I first found a push-up bra that fit I nearly died of happiness staring at my own cleavage. But I digress...) But yeah, it totally IS a cultural imperative, and you're not being pretentious OR sneering. I remember once during Rush Week at my sorority I had some girl come up to me and tell me I was making everyone really uncomfortable because I didn't wear bras, and I was completely shocked b/c I was wearing a tank top AND a shirt & really didn't see what the big deal was. And after Teri Hatcher refused to keep wearing bras on Desperate Housewives I believe they digitally edited her nipples out. So yeah, there's a bit of cultural weirdness there...totally hope you see this! :)
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    12/02/08

    In reply to "I Kissed A Girl" Is Beloved By Babies • Over-30 Broads Barred From Bar
    Do not - I repeat DO-fucking-NOT- get between a night out with my mom and me!
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    Image of FourInchHeels FourInchHeels
    12/02/08

    @Brigit: If you look at the article, she's totally a cute and hip mom! You want her in a bar, I imagine she knocks them back with the best!
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    Image of Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
    12/02/08

    In reply to "I Kissed A Girl" Is Beloved By Babies • Over-30 Broads Barred From Bar
    I can not believe that a business was blatant enough to say "no one over 35" That is such a clear cut case of age discrimination it's not even funny. I hope these ladies have a good lawyer.
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    Image of Tara Incognita Tara Incognita
    12/02/08

    In reply to "I Kissed A Girl" Is Beloved By Babies • Over-30 Broads Barred From Bar
    I do sing Katy Perry and switch the words to "I kissed my (son's name)..and I loved it!" because let's face it: I know very few baby songs.
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    Image of Hana Maru Hana Maru
    12/02/08

    @Tara Incognita: When I was watching babies as a teenager, I sang all kinds of pop songs to get them to chill. It worked.
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    12/02/08

    In reply to "I Kissed A Girl" Is Beloved By Babies • Over-30 Broads Barred From Bar
    Girl Guides- I will help with the peer pressure campaign if you stop pressuring me to buy those biscuits, ok? Jeez, I had enough when my sister was a Pippin, and Mum was too lazy to sell them, so just bought them herself.
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    Image of gherkinfiend gherkinfiend
    12/02/08

    @Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane: Sadly British Girl Guides don't sell biscuits. I would have enjoyed my time there more if it had involved baked goods...


    But good for them taking on airbrushing!

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    Image of deltabella deltabella
    12/02/08

    @Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane: If Girl Guides cookies are as awesome as Girl Scout cookies are over here, I will be HAPPY to take those off your hands.
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    Image of Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane
    12/02/08

    @deltabella: Not sure what Girl Scout cookies are like, but these are the biscuits I was raised on!
    [www.guidebiscuits.org.nz]
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    12/02/08

    @Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane: I was freaking awesome at selling them when I was in Brownies! Like seriously, I could move boxes of that shit (and that's not even counting what my parents bought)!

    You stayed through to Girl Guides? I did Pippins and Brownies (which I loved), but I just wasn't feelin' it in GG, so I changed to Sea Scouts for a bit (at my father's insistence), then gave up. I fucking loved Brownies though; when I started, the uniforms were still brown and we had to wear the pinafores.
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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    12/02/08

    @Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane: Hold up. Y'all call your little ones PIPPINS?! How effing adorable is that?! (BTW, I was a Girl Scout all the way through school, ending with my Gold Award.)
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    12/02/08

    @hellodarling!: Yeah, like the pips in an apple. I think that's how our fellow Antipodeans and the British do it, too. So it goes: Pippins (6 to 7ish), Brownies (7-8ish to 10ish), and Guides (10 to 14?). I think Rangers may come after that, but I'm not sure.

    In Scouts (which is traditionally the male version, but both of my little sisters did it instead of Brownies/Guides), it goes Keas, Cubs, Scouts, and you could be either in the Land Scouts version, or the Sea Scouts. We grew up next to a lake and lots of rivers, so my siblings and I did Sea Scouts.
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    Image of Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane
    12/02/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Nah I never did it, joke in my family is that I was off sick the day the note came to class inviting us to become Pippins. The sisters did Pippins and Brownies then quit. I did ballet instead, felt quite superior to the lowly Brownies!
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    Image of dirtybee dirtybee
    12/02/08

    In reply to "I Kissed A Girl" Is Beloved By Babies • Over-30 Broads Barred From Bar
    35 was the cut-off age for that English bar?? WTF???
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    Image of Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane Cesybabe or Nirvanah Crane
    12/02/08

    @dirtybee says we bee obama jammin: We had a case in NZ. Old crazy guy went to a student bar, bar refused to serve him. So he took it to Human Rights Commission and the news (in NZ, its really really easy to get on the National News if you want), and so the bar relented. Interesting situation.
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    12/02/08

    In reply to "I Kissed A Girl" Is Beloved By Babies • Over-30 Broads Barred From Bar
    Ok, I SWEAR not all of us in Texas are crazy, despite the headlines that show up here and everywhere else. Please believe me!
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    Image of hellosunshine hellosunshine
    12/02/08

    @girlreporter: I second that!!
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    Image of Never_Nude Never_Nude
    12/02/08

    @girlreporter: Yep, true dat. Not crazy, native Austinite here. However, I now live in the Pacific Northwest, and you can't make me go back.
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    Image of Mkp-hearts-NYC Mkp-hearts-NYC
    12/02/08

    In reply to "I Kissed A Girl" Is Beloved By Babies • Over-30 Broads Barred From Bar
    Heh heh... "Nude men" and "Woods memorial library", +end of day delirium = lulz. They make it sound like some sort of..exhibition.
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    Image of Ms. Pants Ms. Pants
    12/02/08

    @Mkp-hearts-nyc: Thank you!! I read that and was snickering like crazy. I'm not old enough for news tidbits.


    BITS! AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHA!


    Okay, now I just need a drink.

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    Image of FourInchHeels FourInchHeels
    12/02/08

    @Ms. Pants: Perhaps you've had enough to drink already!
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    Image of whats_in_a_name whats_in_a_name
    12/02/08

    @Mkp-hearts-nyc: The only way it could be any better if it was "Nude men" and "woods hole institute"
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    12/02/08

    In reply to "I Kissed A Girl" Is Beloved By Babies • Over-30 Broads Barred From Bar
    Singing Katie Perry to a baby is nothing; I sing Ne-Yo's "Miss Independent" to my cat.
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    Image of pantsless economist...access RESTORED pantsless economist...access RESTORED
    12/02/08

    @morninggloria: i sing womanizer to mine when he comes to my room and starts humping my arm in the morning after sleeping with my roommate all night.


    he is neutered, btw.

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    Image of peperony and chease peperony and chease
    12/02/08

    @morninggloria: I sing Prince to my cat: "Big red kitty...baby you're much too fat."
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    Image of Ratinski Ratinski
    12/02/08

    @morninggloria: I sing Domine In Excelsis Deo to my cat.


    Yeah. I spent too many years in choir.

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