Boob etiquette (a question for the ladies).

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Do you find it rude if a male friend talks about your boobs? Or boobs in general? How well would you have to know him for it to be normal? Is there some company where the subject shouldn't be raised?

I don't generally have a problem talking about boobs, since my friends know I'm not a sexist pig or anything (and it's not like the discourse is on the level of "Har har, look at those hooters!" or anything), but I've noticed some folks find it sorta weird. So should I just keep my mouth shut if there are people I'm less familiar with around?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 11 June 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Why did I know this was you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 June 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

How familiar does a girl have to be before she can talk freely about your kiwis? Same thing.

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 11 June 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, maybe so, but our culture has much less of a fixation on testicles, which - for better or (most likely) worse - makes them a less common topic to rise up.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 11 June 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

You can see boobs, so it's more natural to comment on them. Can't see testicles so easily. But why talk about your friend's boobs? I just can't imagine the circumstance. If the friend begins a conversation on her boobs, then I think she is inviting your comments.

― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 11 June 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, do you say "hey, your chest looks nice today"?

― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 11 June 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

What's with the image flooding, Remy?

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― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 11 June 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, do you say "hey, your chest looks nice today"?

No, but I once did, for example, ask a friend whether her boobs had gotten bigger. Which turned out to be an accurate observation, since she later told me she was pregnant.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 11 June 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

ever since I was three I knew that something was something different in my sexual preferences, as time went on I realized that I liked anime babes and Hentai. Ever since then I have been looking at anime porn and such, I`m not attracted to real girls that much. If I see a girl naked I won`t like it but If I see hentai I`m all in for it. Since I`m a christian I`m wondering if God made me thid way for punishment or something, I don`t blame him at all. He didn`t have to make me anyway so I thank him for simply making me. Anyway is it normal for me to like anime babes or not? Should I tell my parents or hide thid decret from them? I`m looking at this HOT anime babe in her bra and panties and I`m hard as heck! But is this a sin?

― ath (ath), Sunday, 11 June 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

uh, yeah - I can see that may be part of your problem, mr. social filters.

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― DAVE, for #1 Hits of yesterday and today! (dave225.3), Sunday, 11 June 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

I once had a conversation with a friend about how she had worn the wrong bra size all her life. Her bra size was actually smaller. That naturally segued into a conversation about the true size of her breasts. She was rather traumatized by the bra size revelation.

― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 11 June 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

uh, yeah - I can see that may be part of your problem, mr. social filters.

I don't think she really was that bothered about the question. We're close friends, for example when were flatmates she asked to wheel a lump on her breast.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 11 June 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

I was in the pub the other day and my (male) friend pointed out that my chest was sunburned, then got all embarrassed and said "not that I was looking at your chest or anything" , which I think is the right reaction. I mean, it was quite obvious from the top I was wearing that I had sunburn on my chest, but I still think it appropriate that he was embarrassed to have noticed it.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 June 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

Well, embarrassed to ADMIT that he'd noticed it, in any case.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 11 June 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

But then you just wouldn't mention it at all.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 June 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of miss real Tuomas? He was pretty good!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 11 June 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

I don't much bring up boobs IRL conversation, but I do when I'm watching ANTM or Project Runway or the like. I think those seem more like virtual boobs, so they're fair game.

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Sunday, 11 June 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, it was quite obvious from the top I was wearing that I had sunburn on my chest, but I still think it appropriate that he was embarrassed to have noticed it.

I don't think he should feel embarrassed to notice the sunburn. If you wear a top that reveals part of the breast, then it's perfectly appropriate to look at that part of the breast. Commenting on the breasts is perhaps not appropriate though.

In general, revealing part of the breast puts that part of the breast out into the public sphere and it will be noticed (And it is safe to assume that the women wants people to notice that part of the breast, otherwise why expose it?)

― Super Cub (Debito), Sunday, 11 June 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

My personal preference is that people withhold comment on my boobs unless I introduce them as a topic of conversation. I find such unsolicited observations to be presumptuous, just as if someone asked whether my ass had gotten bigger or if the pH balance in my vagina was currently acceptable.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 June 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

OTM. Tuomas, it's not a good idea to have a platonic female friend know you were checking out her body until she invites you to do so. Some people are more self-conscious than others.

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 12 June 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

B-b-but his friends know he's not a sexist pig or anything!

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Monday, 12 June 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahahahaha "(a question for the ladies)" HAHAHAHAHA!

― Dan (Guys, How Do You Feel When People Talk About Your Boobs?) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 June 2006 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

What excactly is an "acceptable" vaginal pH balance? I've never met a vaginal acidity I didn't like.

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Monday, 12 June 2006 03:06 (nineteen years ago)

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― Q('.'Q) (eman), Monday, 12 June 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

See there's this thing called concieving, Kenan...

;)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 12 June 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not in market, sorry.

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Monday, 12 June 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

Roxy, that second pic makes your bust look quite big, I guess it's because the way the bass covers your part of your waist. Anyway, I love your blouse! (And sorry for looking at your boobs.)
-- Tuomas (lixnix...), May 29th, 2006 8:23 PM.
"sorry"
-- mookieproof (mookie...), May 29th, 2006 8:31 PM.
ew

-- RoxyMuzak© (emilys...), May 29th, 2006 11:09 PM.

― A. Lingbert (A. Lingbert), Monday, 12 June 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

Tuomas, it's not a good idea to have a platonic female friend know you were checking out her body until she invites you to do so.

First of all, I don't think talking about boobs is necessarily "checking out their bodies" - if I'm good friends with a person, they know I'm not thinking about them in an erotic sense, so it could be the equivalent of saying, "You're nose nose looks red today!" (Ailsa's sunburn story is a pretty good example). Secondly, if I've known someone for years, I'm bound to know what their body looks like too. Like in the case mentioned, I'd lived together with this girl as flatmates, so I was bound to notice that her boobs had gotten bigger. Of course I wouldn't say anything like "your tits seem to be sagging today" or "you seem to be getting fatter", but friends still talk about each other bodies, and boobs aren't an absolute taboo in this sense. Just yesterday I was out with a friend who was wearing a loose dress and no bra, and we were talking about how her boobs might pop out. It had nothing to do with checking anyone out, just the sort of jokes friends might make.

But anyway, I do occasionally talk about boobs with my friends (other people's and theirs), and it's not an issue. I guess I was more interested on how outside observers might view this, because there have been a few situations where other have witnessed these discussions, and afterwards I've wondered whether they've thought I'm rude just for mentioning the subject, or did they realize it was a friendly discussion. Because I wouldn't want the fear of being labeled a sexist limit the things I can talk about, and I don't think merely mentioning boobs is sexist, though it can still be rude of course. But still, girls talk about boobs with each other, and even though my gender and sexual orientation obviously makes it a bit different from me, I don't consider the subject a taboo among friends.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 06:27 (nineteen years ago)

Spoken like a true Womens' Studies major.

While I can see your point re: familiarity and noticing when something's different, I stand by what I said about letting the subject speak first in most cases. If a friend came up to you and said "I couldn't help but notice your bulge seems to be a little bigger than usual today; what are you thinking about?" would you feel a little put-off?

It really comes down to how well you know the person. If you know they're open and not too body-conscious, then it would be okay to initiate conversation about their boobs. Otherwise it would be best to allow them to mention it first, playing it off with a gentlemanly "Well, it's not like I'm checking you out or anything..." or whatever, just to put them at ease and reassure them that it's a "just friends" type conversation. I have some female friends who have no problem getting changed right in front of me, and others who would be considered by most to be prudes. Everybody's different, and each person has their own line that you shouldn't cross.

But anyway, stop with this male liberal guilt! Your female friends know that you're a man, and they also know that you're sensitive to their issues. You don't need to be an apologist. If they want to talk about something with you, they most likely will. This is the 21st century, and you are in a relatively progressive country. If there's something you've just been itching to say to some girl and aren't sure if you should bring it up, then don't. And don't get sore about it.

As for your last part about when others are around, I wouldn't start a conversation like that in another's presence. She might be okay talking to you about her boobs, but not the other people present.

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 12 June 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

...but not in front of the other people present.

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 12 June 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really have a liberal guilt about this, I guess I was asking whether I should. And it's more likely them than me who starts the conversation anyway, I'm not totally devoid of social filters. But this thread was supposed to be about boob talk in general too, not just talking to someone about their boobs (which is obviously less common). When is it okay to talk about boobs, and when is it rude or sexist? Is the word "boob" (of course it's the Finnish equivalent I use, but its connotations are about the same) appropriate at all? Is there such a thing as "ironic sexism", just like there's ironic racism and homophobia?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

(my brain has fallen out of my head)

Yes, Tuomas, there is. Loaded, Maxim, Front, the whole 'lad' industry in general.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 12 June 2006 08:40 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, that thing never really reached these shores. But I meant more like in everyday behaviour and talk.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

Feel free to replace 'industry' with 'phenonomen', those things don't buy themselves.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 12 June 2006 08:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://i5.tinypic.com/143q32e.jpg

― guns to deal with vodka (haitch), Monday, 12 June 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think there's anything ironic about that.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

if I'm good friends with a person, they know I'm not thinking about them in an erotic sense

O RLY?

i thought it was all 'platonic' sauna frottage with you?

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Monday, 12 June 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

I have to say your comment about Roxy's boobs was the creepiest thing I can remember you saying on ILE.

If a VERY close friend indicates it's acceptable to talk about her boobs, then feel free to do so. Otherwise, don't. Full stop. The fact that YOU don't have a hang-up about it doesn't mean that it's going to be acceptable to all but a small minority of women (NB this may be different in Finland, where "your breasts are positively bursting with vibrancy today" may be the equivalent of "yours sincerely" or "hello", I dunno).

― Crimea River (Mark C), Monday, 12 June 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I realized immediately after I've posted that comment that it must have sounded pretty creepy, even though that was not the intention. So my apologies to Roxy. Sometimes I forget that while I can say certain things to certain people, I shouldn't say them to just anyone.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

And this happens with many other things than boobs too. I think something went wrong with my Social Norms 101 course.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

always with the 'social norms'.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Monday, 12 June 2006 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha weird thing was i was going to make some jokey comment about roxy's breasts on that previous wdyll thread before Tuomas. i would've been aiming for that off the cuff/throwaway/nothingpersonal 'jokingly uncouth but meant in friendly way' brand of back-handed compliment.

I have to say your comment about Roxy's boobs was the creepiest thing I can remember you saying on ILE.

it wasn't THAT bad. i've seen far worse on here, and not from he.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 12 June 2006 09:25 (nineteen years ago)

no pictures?
:(

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Monday, 12 June 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's all about who's saying it. I know certain people who can get away with all sorts of rude remarks, because that's their schtick. I don't think it's a good excuse when people are genuinely offended though.

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― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

Steve, I think it would have seemed a bit creepy from you too :)

― Crimea River (Mark C), Monday, 12 June 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

more boorish than creepy i was thinking - the difference must be acknowledged.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 12 June 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

i.e. "nice tits, luv" isn't creepy, it's just boorish/uncouth.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 12 June 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

nice tits, steve

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Monday, 12 June 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

creep

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 12 June 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

The women's studies answer is about women's sovereignty over their own bodies and breaking away from the idea (in the US anyway, I can't speak for anywhere else) that it's within any man's right to comment on, discuss, or touch any woman's body. It's about disabusing men of the notion that they have any right or business commenting about women's bodies with an expectation that such comments will be welcome or should be heeded.

See also street harassment, Eliza Doolittle.

Kenan, a pH imbalance in the vagina can also lead to vaginitis or yeast infection. But hey, as long as such things have never negatively impacted your enjoyment of vaginas there must not be a problem, right? (Don't freak out, I'm just fucking with you, although you did illustrate another way in which male commentary on women's bodies can be unnecessary and unwelcome.)

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 June 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

i think tuomas is creepy but the idea that one doesn't have a right to discus other people's bodies is even more creepy.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Monday, 12 June 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

Things that are unneccesary are by definition awesome.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 12 June 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

I most definitely agree on this in general, being a feminist myself, but surely there's a difference between objectifying comments from random assholes (or assholes that you know) and non-sexist chatter between friends of different gender? I think only the most militant feminist would say men can't talk about women's bodies in any case, regardless of the actual content of said talk.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

"in a totally non-sexist way, i would tap that ass."

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Monday, 12 June 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

am i the only one who thinks it would be awesome if 'boob etiquette' was joined into one word, 'boobetiquette'?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 12 June 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

I have actually done this, but it was with a particularly objectionable former co-worker who'd had them done and was virtually waving them in everyone's face. It took every molecule of reserve in my body not to just snap "yes, your tits look great now fuck off".

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 June 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

It's a basic linguistic shell-game: men do not have (the right to stare at any woman), so (men do not have the right to stare) at any woman. If only people bracketed their sentences correctly, we wouldn't have this sort of trouble.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 12 June 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

As it actually happened, all I could muster was an embarassed squeak yes, they look nice" before running to hide behind a pint on the other side of the room.

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― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 June 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

since my friends know I'm not a sexist pig

And some Tuomas's best friends are boobs!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 12 June 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

Let me give you another example: a few months ago me and a female friend of mine got into an argument on who's ass is bigger. This lead into us standing next to each other while another friend took measure of our asses. While our bottoms were literally treated as objects here, I think the whole situation had little to do with gender or sexism (towards either one of us). Now, most the discourse I have with girls on tits or ass or whatever is on this level, so I don't really think it should be labeled "creepy".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Boob etiquette (a question for the fellas).

― Dan (No Molestation Without Representation) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Right, right. Everybody's right. It's not to say that I don't have some friends from whom I would take "Nice rack" as a sincere compliment and "How's your vaginal pH?" as a welcome expression of concern. I think there's a combination of male entitlement (to comment/critique women's bodies) and a social fiction that when men and women interact, men are able to table their sexy boob thoughts and just engage the woman as a peer that draw the line for me personally.

Here's an example: I'm out at a bar with a law school pal and at some point in the night he looks at my chest and tells me that my shirt makes my boobs look huge. Now this is completely unwelcome and innapropriate and I tell him so, to which he responds, "I'll bet you let Jeff tell you that your boobs look big!"

And I do, but that's because Jeff is MY HUSBAND. And unless there was enough alcohol involved that I don't remember it (which is possible), he's never made comments about my breasts while in public within earshot of our friends. And if he had, there was probably a fight later. But otherwise, of COURSE Jeff can tell me things about my boobs. I welcome such comments because they might lead to doing it.

Now I'm distracted. But I think I've made my point. Or I hope so because I'm late for work - the jist of it is that a reasonable rule of thumb (or boob) would be NOT to bring it up unless the woman initiates her body as a topic of conversation. Such as by waving her recently augmented tits in your face, for an excellent example.

― Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:05 (nineteen years ago)

last par otm.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

But hey, as long as such things have never negatively impacted your enjoyment of vaginas there must not be a problem, right?

haha I R A BOY

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/images/posters/ira/poster09r.jpg

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Monday, 12 June 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

what is this finnish boob word? i dislike the english word boob in most contexts

― spectra (spectra), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

There are many words obviously, but the best translation and roughly the equivalent in tone is "tissi". "Tissit" in the plural. It's also the most popular one after "breasts".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Another average day in Finland...... :)

― JTS (JTS), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

It was a draw, by the way.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

Har Har, look at those hooters!

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Monday, 12 June 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

big tissit erotic restaurant

― guns to deal with vodka (haitch), Monday, 12 June 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

That restaurant looks even sillier than Hooters!

― Abbott (Abbott), Monday, 12 June 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

When I was in highs school, some religious nutso actually burned down the strip club right next to our school. (We got the day off due to all the smoke; I don't think I've ever seen so many happy faces in our school, everyone applauded when the headmaster told us we can go.) The same guy also tried to burn Michael Jackson when he was having a gig here, but he was caught pouring gasoline underneath the stage before the gig started.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Here in the real world, we call that "arson," and you go to jail for it.

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Even the first time!

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I can't remember the details... Maybe he was caught only after the MJ incident and it was later found out he burned that strip club too, or maybe he was on probation or something. But I definitely remember it was the same guy, he thought strip clubs and Michael Jackson were ungodly.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

He was on to something.

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

I once told friend she had great tits, but mainly because my g/f was losing an argument with her over how great my friend's tits were (female deprecation, actually wanted some male reinforcement since her b/f stopped sleeping with her).

1) Her tits are great.
2) My g/f pointed it out at much greater length than I did.
3) At that precise point, she needed a bloke to tell her that.

So, although I was definitely saying it from a sexist perspective, it's still (IMO) an order of magnitude less creepy than Tuomas in the Roxy example.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Bad move, dude.

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's OK, I only did it once, and for the first time in over 10 years of non-sexism, plus the rest of her would be taken care of by other sexists so I didn't need to feel any liberal guilt about the bit I was associated with.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I think you're cool as long as you didn't attempt the quarter test.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I don't find that much wrong in complimenting someone's tits if she's asking for it. Sometimes you do wrong things for the right reasons. I'd be wonderful to live in a world where your boobs wouldn't have anything to do with your self-esteem, but sadly that ain't the case. Of course in the long run such behaviour will only reinforce the existing sexism, but in some cases you gotta choose empathy over ethics.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Am I wrong to want to excelsior that?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

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― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

xpost The first sentence alone is priceless.

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

the old "she was asking for it" defense, eh? very eisenhower-era if you ask me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Asking for it" in the literal sense, not "asking for it in my imagination".

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

i don't find that much wrong in complimenting someone's tits, if THEY CAN FORM VOLTRON WITH THEM.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think any right-thinking person would disagree with that, Steve.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Clearly I shouldn't post anything on this thread anymore, since every sentence will be misinterpreted to pieces.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

+3 tits of voltron morphing

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

"Lovely roboboobs."

― Damn, Atreyu! (x Jeremy), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe a little sympathy is in order, though. Maybe Tuomas does not understand the meanings of our words and idioms. That happens. It's entirely possible that in Finnish, "She's asking for it" means you should buy her roses and dinner and leave without a kiss.

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

This is what they had the princess around for, wasn't it?

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/267780/2/istockphoto_267780_boo_hoo.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

"....and I'll form...the HEAD!"

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

NSFW pic

― 333333333333 (33333), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Have none of you had a situation where someone expects you to compliment on her appearance to make her feel better, if she's like "I'll never get a man again, I look horrible!". Generally I say something like "Do you really want a man who'll only care about your looks?", but if it feels like that would no good, of course I'll compliment her looks. Admittedly, that doesn't usually involve saying she has great tits, but that's how I interpreted Aldo's post, and that was what I meant by my garbled English there.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.littleshutterbug.com/gallery/voltron.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

yuck

xpost

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Have none of you had a situation where someone expects you to compliment on her appearance to make her feel better, if she's like "I'll never get a man again, I look horrible!"

Let's unpack this. Let's unpack this like we'll be here for a week.

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

When my friends have romance-related problems, they generally don't attribute these troubles to their physical appearance. Perhaps my friends have a better self-image than most. They are much more likely to lament their ability to pick/find good mates or conduct themselves well in a relationship.

― Super Cub (Debito), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

I compliment the cans all the time.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 12 June 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

what finally convinced me to try to not stare at boobs (i do try) and not try any longer to pretend that when I say "great boobs" or whatever I'm complementing the girl instead of just being a self-serving prick with a complete lack of tact and sense is was imagining living in a world where women hid all their goodies in hot, uncomfortable outfits with pleats and high collars and layers upon layers of starched cotton and wool while men went about wearing spandex drawers and tank tops, where the volume of a dude's triceps directly correlated to his performance in job interviews and our genital dimensions were essentially on display for all the world to gawk at or ignore at will. As much as a completely dumb son of a bitch might think "yeah I got big balls, thanks ladies!" would be his response to a wolf whistle, after going through the incredible extra trauma this would have added to our adolescence I think we'd all actually just feel like shit 90% of the time we were outside of the house. March on, ladies. I'll be in the turtleneck.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 12 June 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

Also Tuomas yes I just called you a completely dumb son of a bitch

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 12 June 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

For chrissakes, why does everyone think I'm talking about commenting how great someone's boobs are?! No doubt that's sexist and objectifying women, but what this thread was supposed to be about was boob talk in general. Of course, if you think there's no way you can even mention boobs without being a sexist, then the point is kinda lost. Anyway, my last post was a comment to Aldo's, and I was trying to say that in this very specific situation I might understand complimenting on someone's breasts. But I don't go on everyday saying "nice breasts" to my friends.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

Do you find it rude if a male friend talks about your boobs?

It has never happened, but I can imagine it would be, at the very least, awkward.

Or boobs in general?

I would find it tacky or infantile, depending upon the circumstance.

How well would you have to know him for it to be normal?

I don't think it would be normal for a male friend to discuss any of my body parts with me, save for perhaps, my hands. I think hands are fair game.

Is there some company where the subject shouldn't be raised?

Breast cancer sufferers or survivors, for example.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

i honestly cannot imagine discussing my friends' tits. they might as well not have any for all i care

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

and i'm one crass son of a bitch at the best of times

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, I do talk about men's bodies with my friends too, and my body. Of course it's not the same due to different treatment women and men get in general, but I just wanted to make sure you get the whole picture. Generally I'm against objectifying anyone, women or men, but it'd be ridiculous to assume this would exclude talking about bodies in any sense.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

dude, if you're bros, you can talk about her tits all day long

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

This seems bizarre to me. No man here except me and Tuomas has ever been asked by a female friend about their appearance? If a particular item of clothing seems too sexy or not sexy enough or whatever? If, say, the neckline is too low or too high?

I don't buy it. Not for a minute.

xpost

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

And it's not really an everyday subject of discussion anyway. But if, say, a female friend occasionally wants to talk about breasts or asses or whatever, as has happened, I'm not going to shy away.

(xx-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

Of course it is everyone's within everyone's rights not to talk about the subject, but if you know your friends well enough, you should now when it's okay to say something and when not.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

Also, there are many friends with whom I'd never talk about this. It all depends on what kind of personalities they are - some girls find the subject okay, some think it's rude, and there's nothing wrong with either.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

mary, you have lovely hands.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

Well Tuomas, you did ask the question: do people find it rude? Consensus (esp from the women here) sez yes, it'd seem.

FWIW I knew you meant the phrase "asking for it" literally (as in she asked "look tell me about my tits"), unfortunately that phrase is loaded in a rape sense in English and frankly I think its unfair of other people to give you shit for it.

(Cue 20 posts about "wilful ignorance" now I spose)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

if you know your friends well enough, you should now when it's okay to say something and when not.

So why even start this thread?

xpost

― 31g (31g), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://themot.org/gallery/d/3891-1/paintingstfu.jpg

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

damn, this is fucking OTM!

tombot in being a more convincing feminist than all the "sensitive" dudes on ilx put together non-shockah.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

i agree, reading it has cheered me up.

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

boobs ought to be hidden, and never spoken of, so that we may never see this again

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2004/05/14/qzPTJAO7.jpg

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

someday, anti-grav bras will allow this for all

until that day, time for synthetics

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yopu can't use the phrase "ask for it" without referring to rape? Christ, I didn't realize that! Whar phrase should you use then, when someone is, you know, really asking someone else to do something?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

emphatically requesting

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

gagging for it

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

>How familiar does a girl have to be before she can talk freely about your kiwis? Same thing.<

Not always. If a good friend of mine walks up with massive cleavage, I'm going to make a joke. It would have to be a good friend, and only among good friends, but it does happen. How often do you get to see kiwis protruding?

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

too often

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

Are you listening, Wolfmother.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

A lot of people here going to considerable extremes to beat up Tuomas just because he's Tuomas.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 07:15 (nineteen years ago)

indeed

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

I find it weird that random people (who the hell is "Eman"?) find it necessary to post nothing but "STFU". No one's forcing you to read the thread!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

it's like being back at school all over again

xpost STFU tuomas

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

just kidding btw

however - it would appear that you never sleep!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

actually it may be some timezone thingie at work

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

I had to wake up this morning around seven to go to a job interview, I hope the interviewer didn't notice the black beneath my eyes. I'm not usually up that early.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

I once had the pleasure of drinking some boob scotch, at a Bob Log III gig.

― registered ratty (registered ratty), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:39 (nineteen years ago)

A lot of people here going to considerable extremes to beat up Tuomas just because he's Tuomas.

-- Andrew Farrell (afarrell@g

Yes. I noticed that too.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Talking about boobs seems kind of weird to me, I must admit, and I can't imagine it being anything other than super-awkward, unless it's w/yr s.o.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

"Boob scotch"?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

Shame! (xxpost)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

I always wondere why in America it is so TOXIC to show a boob. Boobs are awesome, why should they be covered? They fee babies! Everyone cried about Janet Jacksons at the superbowl, but whos gonna stop the video tapes of ass kickings? You can show boobs I say, and why not show less violence?

Boobs forever

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:fNab89R-DRk9QM:http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/13/back-and-breast.jpg

click the link if you will dare to stand with me

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 09:49 (nineteen years ago)

That link was a bit of a let-down, tbh.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

boob scotch! (NSFW, but small, go on be daring and click it)

― guns to deal with vodka (haitch), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

I find it weird that random people (who the hell is "Eman"?) find it necessary to post nothing but "STFU". No one's forcing you to read the thread!

-- Tuomas (lixnix...), June 13th, 2006 5:24 AM. (Tuomas)

you've never been on the internets?

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

i want to see more videos of ass lickings than ass kickings i htink

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

"Boob scotch" means feeding scotch to a boob?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

it is STIRRED by the boob.

― guns to deal with vodka (haitch), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

jesus, you can't wilfully misinterpret boob scotch, it's like the simplest concept to grasp in existence!!

― guns to deal with vodka (haitch), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

What's the point of it tho?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

To see a boob, I'd guess.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I suspected

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Tuomas your problem here is that you're confusing your lack of body-awkwardness with something that everybody should want to aspire to or possess naturally, and whether by dint of being born in Non-Finland or being raised by crypto-prudes most folks aren't that ready to just toss off millions of years of biological imperatives and act like it's all hunky-dory. It's the same impulse I daresay that makes certain caucasian folks think that if they achieve a certain level of "awareness" of race issues and they mean well they're allowed to use the n-word. Your heart may be in the right place but your head is in the fuckin' clouds, man.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Tuomas your problem here is that you're confusing your lack of body-awkwardness with something that everybody should want to aspire to or possess naturally,

Oh, I have tons of body-awareness, but that doesn't stop me making fun of it. And I have female friends with a similar attitude towards the body, which leads to an occasional exchange of boob jokes or comparing of asses. However, I didn't mean to imply everyone should share this attitude. Since one's body-image is perhaps the most fragile part of many people's psyche, I wouldn't dare to apply the same standard to everyone.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

?!?!!?!?!!?!?!?!!?!!?!?!?!?!!?!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

What?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

I think that disclaimer should've gone somewhere much further towards the beginning of this thread.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hrm. I wouldn't be embarassed or offended by a friend commenting on my boobs, as long as it isn't a negative comment (oh my, yoúr boobs look awfully saggy today!). But that might be caused by the fact that I have really small boobs and don't perceive them as "erotic objects". So it's just another body part. Like the difference between nude ballerina's/modern dancers and nude pin-ups: the context defines the sexuality, I think. (ok sorry if this is a bit incoherent, this kind of weather makes my brain melt)

― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

the context defines the sexuality

oh, suuuuuure.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm actually not quite sure what I meant by that :P I guess I'm trying to say that there ARE situations where boobs lose their eroticism. Like in National Geographic documentaries, or at naturist campings or sth.

― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I'm trying to say that there ARE situations where boobs lose their eroticism. Like in National Geographic documentaries

DOES NOT COMPUTE

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

gloria leonard said it best

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, think "tara reid"

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

or bea arthur.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Lost eroticism?

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

tombot in being a more convincing feminist than all the "sensitive" dudes on ilx put together non-shockah.

Except that it's a pile of bullshit.

Dan OTM! I understand what is trying to be said there but for quite a lot of ppl that still doesn't make them "lose their eroticism." Depends wholly on the viewer, doesn't it?

FWIW I really don't care if my male friends discuss or compliment breasts but I can see why it'd be a rather daft thing to just bring up out of the blue; you'd have to actually know the person you're talking to pretty well and know that it is something that wouldn't offend them or take them off guard. It's not a conversation for random mixed-sex acquaintances. But this has already been said.

Also: THE WORD "BOOBS" IS ENOUGH TO MAKE ME WANNA SLAP HALF OF YOU! Man, I hope you guys don't actually say "boobs" when talking about this stuff. Cos THAT is actually creepy.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

I think that disclaimer should've gone somewhere much further towards the beginning of this thread.

I think people on this thread have been to quick to generalize from what I've said. Just because I think there are ways to talk about bodies that aren't sexist or offensive doesn't mean everyone has the right to talk about anyone's body. Of course personal integrity comes first.

In my own case I've noticed that treating body issues with humour alleviates them at least a bit. Like my example of the ass comparing contest: I don't think either one of us are happy with our bottoms, but making this issue into a joke helps to deal with it, at least it does so with me.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hrm, this makes me wonder if the male members of some tribe where the women walk around with bare breasts all day go: BOOBIES!! every five minutes?

― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Five MINUTES? That's generous.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

No, I don't think so. It depends on the viewer, in the sense of what's he's socialized to: the male tribesmen wouldn't probably find the boobs interesting, but an Western anthropologist might.

(x-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

So it is relative to context, but the viewer and the viewed are always part of that context too.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

AND it makes me rethink my attitude towards Greek statues of naked people: I always supposed it was meant to be an image of the concept of beauty, but maybe they were just horny sculpturers. how sad :P

― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.alanattack.co.uk/images/kmky/2/2-10.jpg

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Great. Now you all are making me try to figure out what a Spiritualized song about Boob Scotch would sound like.

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

It depends on the viewer, in the sense of what's he's socialized to: the male tribesmen wouldn't probably find the boobs interesting

i dunno, i'll bet the 14 year old tribesmen have a piqued interest.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

just now read this thread for the first time, glad to learn of The Roxy Example and the fact that stevem was originally planning to post a "backhanded compliment" about my boobs on WDYLL. THX BRO!!!!!!!!!!!!

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

haha this whole thread is clown shoes.

kudos.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

i am filled with hatred for all of you

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

inside your boobs?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

big love

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

stfu dude.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I'm trying to say that there ARE situations where boobs lose their eroticism. Like in National Geographic documentaries, or at naturist campings or sth.

Oh, indeed. In my opinion, completely naked breasts aren't erotic at all, 99% of the time.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

I insist on tassles.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, indeed. In my opinion, completely naked breasts aren't erotic at all, 99% of the time.

you are like the bizarro me or something.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

I think the big problem with TOMBOT's thought experiment is that most people (male and female) think breasts are visually pleasing and scroti are not. I can't fathom the context where someone genuinely, unironically says, "Hey, check out the scrotum over there! LOOKIN' GOOD!" And this is why I love America. (signed Hunter, Age 3)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

"hey fella, NICE BAG!"

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

stfu = stop tit fancying undeservedly?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

the systemic problem with my thought experiment is that it's mine, so in that sense the wife OTM, hypocrisy ahoy.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I always read this thread as: Boob etiquette (a question for the llladies).

http://www.theneurotics.com/photos2004-2005/slides/Bumpy%20Neurotic%20is%20Very%20Suave.jpg

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

It depends on the viewer, in the sense of what's he's socialized to: the male tribesmen wouldn't probably find the boobs interesting

i dunno, i'll bet the 14 year old tribesmen have a piqued interest.

I think in some African cultures having bare breasts is the norm, but showing your legs is considered dirty. Usually it's the hidden, forbidden things that are titillating, and once they become everyday they stop being that. It's kinda like your mom's breasts, you've seen then enough so often they've become absolutely ordinary, and you probably don't even consider them breasts.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Er, I think I forgot about the intercultural differences there, I guess some of you haven't seen your mom's breasts that often.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

it's been a couple of hours.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

stfu dude.

-- ken c (pykachu10...), June 13th, 2006 10:55 AM. (ken c)

EXACTLY

fuckin eurotards

― Q('.'Q) (eman), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eguBFbC11E

How about covering nekkered boobs with blue paint, then squishing said boobs against a canvas?

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

and whether by dint of being born in Non-Finland or being raised by crypto-prudes most folks aren't that ready to just toss off millions of years of biological imperatives and act like it's all hunky-dory

This is nonsensical - we cannot possibly have had men actually OGLING breasts in the modern sense "millions of years" ago - ffs we werent wearing clothes at all then.

I blame Victorian England. And hstencil.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I hope you guys don't actually say "boobs" when talking about this stuff.

Nah, we normally try to be a little more grown-up. That's why we use "knockers" or "jugs".

Srsly though, I think the main reason most people on this thread are using "boobs" is because that was the word used in the question, and arguing about diction would have hindered the main discussion.

― naus (Robert T), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

I will champion the use of the term "tits" against all combatants. Okay, not really. But it's a far sight better than boobs.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

What about "funbags"?

OK maybe not.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

Tits, funbags, lady pillows, breasts--ALL better than boobs. The only thing worse than boobs: "tittays."

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/womn/pinup/willendorf/willendorf_full/venus_of_willendorf_black.JPG
Venus of Willendorf, Paleolithic, c25,000 BCE

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a fan of boosies, myself.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

I talk with my female friends about boobs--theirs, others'--pretty frequently.

Also, Kenan to thread, as he needs to tell us about an incident at a Halloween party in which he mistook a girl's ample bossoms for part of her costume.

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

put in order of offensiveness ( I can't):

I appreciate that girl's figure
I appreciate that goal from 30 meters out
I appreciate that cool breeze upon my face

It's all appreciation of nature. Nothing sexist about it really. Sexist would be thinking the girl is worthless, or worth less. I know the original question had to do with saying things, but let's not get carried away...

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 04:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000I8U7.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― literalisp (literalisp), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.fantascienza.com/cinema/zardoz/media/zed.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

The gun is good

― literalisp (literalisp), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.picturetrunk.com/uploads/6e81da5029.jpg

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

betty boo-biquette

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry if my word choice on the title was a bad one... Being a non-native English speaker I'm not that good with the intricacies of different tones words carry. Maybe "tits" would be closer to the Finnish word I used.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that would definitely have made a difference.

Tits etiquette (a question for the ladies).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

No, 'tits' would be even worse on the UK, 'boobs' is a slightly comical word over here. Really, your word choice isn't really something to worry about, most people will understand from the question that you don't mean offense, and some people will attack you anyway.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

i hear women say 'boobs' all the time in preference to all the other options, but w/evs

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)

'Boobs' is ok. Talking about boobs is ok. Boobs are ok.

Leching is not OK. Judging is not OK.

― Zora (Zora), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is fantastic.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

So are boobs.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

boobs is a great word. it's so fun so say repeatedly!

boobs boobs boobs boobs boobs boobs

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

What's dud though is spelling it "bewbs."

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Jubbly etiquette (a question for the ladies).

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/61/167100043_bfa8ac7d05.jpg?v=0

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Jubbly etiquette (a question for the ladies).

KILLING ME

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9605/13/hw.min/beavis.large.jpg

"Boobs! Henh m heh heh. Boobs! Yeah. Boobs!"

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Shouldn't the thread just have been called "titiquette" at this rate?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

That "Chap Manifesto" -- is it just me or is there something really SOVIET about it? I keep expecting the pattern in his sweater vest to be tiny swastikas or something.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

What would swastikas have to do with the Soviets??? How is pointing out "boobs" is a creepy word "attacking" Tuomas?? Why would anyone bother posting Beavis & Butthead after that amazing Chap thing??? Guys I have a lot of questions, and I want answers.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

This is one of those things we'll never know the full truth of, Ally.

― Not Bill McNeil (Ned), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel has a keen eye and a nose for history.

What I have learned from this thread is that real men want to talk about boobies, sensitive men want it to be OK to talk about boobies, and both groups don't want to listen to women who don't want them to talk about their boobies. (generally speaking)

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Let's talk about tits, boobies
Let's talk about mammaries
Let's talk about dirty pillows
Jugs, bazoombas
That we see
Let's talk about tits
Let's talk about tits
Let's talk about tits
Let's talk about... *horn stab*

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I was trolling advice columns about ti-tays and I found this:

Men are aroused by the size of a woman's breasts the same way women are aroused by the size of a man's penis.

Um, not quite the same way, or am I totally off base on this?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Because, functionally speaking, if I longed for a large bosom to do the same thing for me that a healthy-sized penis would do for a woman, well, maybe I'd be a little odd, and impractical.

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

You're just not trying hard enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

FB, I've known you for a long time now and I find it very hard to believe that you've never wanted a woman to put her breasts in your vagina.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Just get a lady pregnant, not totally impractical.

xpost oh I thought we were talking about squirty squirty, not vadge issues. My mistake!!!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

On the face or on the tits (a question for the ladies).

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, you've been talking to my shrink again, haven't you?

― Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Are we talking about breast milk still?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I think so but now I'm not sure...

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Okay you people.

No, no, my brain is a mess of associations in the morning and little rational fact-checking -- that book cover just reminded me of the poster & propaganda styles from etc and etc. Please, don't let me interrupt.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

I have that book, I don't think it has anything on breast etiquette

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

well what kind of Chap Manifesto is that?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

"The one effect ladies should avoid when applying make-up is the so-called natural look, which is a chronic waste of time, money and whale blubber."

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

OTM!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

It seems highly likely to me that a Soviet propaganda poster would feature a swastika.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Who needs Chap when you have...

http://javasbachelorpad.com/cad1.jpg

Available here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

"beatniks"

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Let's talk about tits, boobies

Dan you are as a god to me

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I never fully understood the point in putting on makeup in a manner that makes it look like you aren't wearing makeup; it seems like it would be better to just wash your face (GROSS OVERGENERALIZATION YES I KNOW ECT ECT).

(xpost: Ned, I didn't realize red-blooded males liked transsexuals! I feel confused.)

(xxpost: It's all in the name, dude.)

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

i posted Beavis just 'cuz folks taking pleasure in just saying "boobs!", as evidenced upthread, reminded of him just sitting there relishing both the thought of and the utterance of the word.

Also, as a viral bit of marketing, since the new DVD set is out, i think.

all proper soviets like sweater vests(w/ ties).

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost: Ned, I didn't realize red-blooded males liked transsexuals! I feel confused.)

It's a weird world. But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Worst bedtime story ever.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.But remember the story I posted elsewhere about the trannie and the mook.

WAHT

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

That was worth it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

those "heather has two mommies" authors have gone too damn far

― kingfish du lac (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

What story is that?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

The story about the trannie and the mook, do keep up.

― Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Thursday, 15 June 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I read "lady pillows" as "lazy pillows," which is perhaps more apt.

The Mary Kay woman who did my make-up at Honfest (bright blue eye shadow and pink lipstick) said that she could teach me their natural look at a later date. She said the point of it is that you do look better, but no one can tell why or what you did. I can't attest to this however, as I usually do just have the naturally natural look. Though I did see a schoolgirl on a Japanese train spend half an hour curling her eyelashes and applying make-up that had no discernable effect, though she did no look great, so perhaps I will defer in this, as in all matters, to the Japanese teenager.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 15 June 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

(Best thread of the summer!)

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm DJing at a Mammary Studies student party, what tunes would you recommend?

― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

"Mammary all crazy now" (Slade)

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

man what WAS the story about the trannie and the mook?

― Allyzay lives aprox. 200 feet away from a stadium (allyzay), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know! And I'm afraid to ask.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

*cough* Dan, think nu metal. Think Interscope. Think a story I passed on to you elsewhere.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

...

I think my mind is intentionally saving me from this awful recollection.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I don't blame you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

JUST GOOGLEPROOF IT AND TELL US THE STORY FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!

― Allyzay lives aprox. 200 feet away from a stadium (allyzay), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Stand By Your MAMMS

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

Ally -- check yer myspace mail.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

No fair!@

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

TRUST ME YOU ARE BETTER OFF

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard worse.

― Allyzay lives aprox. 200 feet away from a stadium (allyzay), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Quit being such a tease, Ned! Don't turn this into the new train story!

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Do you like boobs a lot?
(Yes, I like boobs a lot.)
Boobs a lot, boobs a lot.
(You gotta like boobs a lot.)
Do you like boobs a lot.
(You gotta like boobs a lot.)
Boobs a lot, boobs a lot.
(You gotta like boobs a lot.)

Down in the locker room,
Just we boys,
Beatin' down the locker room
With all that noise,

Singin' do you like boobs a lot?
(Yes I like boobs a lot.)
Boobs a lot, boobs a lot.
(You gotta like boobs a lot.)

Do you wear your jock a lot?
(Yes, I wear my jock a lot.)
Got to wear your jock a lot.
(You gotta wear your jock a lot.)
Got to wear your jock a lot
(You gotta wear your jock a lot.)
Got to wear your jock a lot.
(You gotta wear your jock a lot.)

'Cause, down on the football,
Football field,
You never can tell
What a heel can wield,

So you gotta wear your jock a lot.
(You gotta wear your jock a lot.)
Jock a lot, jock a lot.
(You gotta wear your jock a lot.)

If I had a flag-a-long,
(If I had a flag-a-long.)
If I had a long flag-a-long,
If I had a long flag-a-long,
If you like boobs a lot, tag along

Bee beep, bop, de boob a lot.
(You gotta like boobs a lot.)
Boobs a lot, boobs a lot.
(You gotta like boobs a lot.)

They're big and round,
They're all around.
They're big and round,
They're all around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPVgKoruWdA

― sandcat dune buggy attack squad!! (leavethecapital), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 02:44 (sixteen years ago)

bahuuuuz seh wahhh keeah muh sluhk... uhnn... kebbuh.
rayuh camfuh uhhhhhh BLEAAAAAAAAHGHGHAH!
brains

― zombie, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 03:24 (sixteen years ago)

You know girls, it's great to live in a democracy today, where freedom is everywhere. But girls, we often take this freedom for granted: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of action. But you know gals, just because a bunch of men signed that Declaration Of Independence in 1776, doesn't mean that freedom was for men alone. Oh no, you take Tom Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Hancock - he's a helluva guy for you right there! All these men had wives. They probably had a few broads on the side too. These women wanted freedom just as much as their men did. But gals, I wonder, do we? I think it's time that we women thought about it a bit. Hell, I think it's time we did something about it. So come on, fellow females of the 20th century! Be glad that you're an American! Proclaim your freedom! Stand at attention! Pledge Allegiance! And...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njHeiTjynXg

― kickstand. kickstand? kickstand! (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 03:57 (sixteen years ago)

Discussion of boobs behind the back of the person is ok. If they are in front, it is not so good.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 04:22 (sixteen years ago)

waht!!!

― sandcat dune buggy attack squad!! (leavethecapital), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 10:58 (sixteen years ago)

What if you're discussing the boobs of the person your discussing with? It's hard to do that behind her back.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 17:24 (sixteen years ago)

You can't even see them!

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 17:27 (sixteen years ago)

i will be honest that for some reason, boobs have always been a comfortable subject of conversation for my friends and i. like my girlfriends don't mind talking about their boobs. we've always been really easygoing when it comes to "inappropriate" conversation!

― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 17:37 (sixteen years ago)

It's the same with me and my friends. That's kinda the reason I started this thread, because occasionally I might have talked about boobs with some other folks than my friends, and forgotten that not everyone thinks they're a proper subject for discussion.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:01 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, i mean it's certainly refreshing to not have to censor yourself around your close friends.

― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:03 (sixteen years ago)

One of my friends (male) was once like 'you have the ultimate side boobs' and I was like '...o_O'

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:06 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah same here esp since I've done a lot of research and studying on topics related to sexuality I just don't really see it as THAT taboo a subject. Generally I think I'm a pretty good judge of what is appropriate and when but I was at a bbq a couple years ago and related a really funny story to a bunch of ppl about friends of mine that had gone to a workshop on female ejaculation. A couple days later the host of the get together said I'd made quite an impression on the other guests who were a little shocked at my story. :-( I was pretty upset about it but in the end it's not my fault they were uptight idiots who couldn't appreciate a good story.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:06 (sixteen years ago)

Some people just can't handle the boobs!

― Aimless, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:07 (sixteen years ago)

What are "side boobs"? Boobs that point to the sides?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:07 (sixteen years ago)

actually, my bf and i once measured our 2 bestie's busts to determine whose was bigger.

― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:07 (sixteen years ago)

ew, that's really annoying E. that's like, normal conversation to me...

― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:08 (sixteen years ago)

Side boobs are more oriented to the lateral sides of the ribcage, as opposed to the more medial regular boob.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:10 (sixteen years ago)

It was really annoying esp since she made me feel really bad about it. It was as though I was like, "Hey, nice to meet you I'm Erica. So, wanna here a great story about female ejaculation?" within the first few minutes of meeting them. It came up in conversation as these things sometimes do. Needless to say I'm not really friends with that person anymore but yeah.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:12 (sixteen years ago)

How could your friend tell you have ultimate side boobs? I thought Americans don't see each other naked?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:12 (sixteen years ago)

(x-post)

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:12 (sixteen years ago)

Side boobs would be handy for keeping the twins apart when they are quareling with one another, I suppose.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:12 (sixteen years ago)

My friend and I came up with a method of measuring water displacement to determine breast volume in order to settle a dispute between some female friends. They had obviously different breast sizes, the opposite of what their bra sizes would indicate and the water displacement gave us good solid numbers to work with for size comparisons.

― joygoat, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:13 (sixteen years ago)

post should have read - "It wasn't as if"

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:13 (sixteen years ago)

I thought side boobs were just boobs when viewed from the side! I didn't realize it meant they were kind of actually located there.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:14 (sixteen years ago)

lol me too

― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:17 (sixteen years ago)

Jesus Aimless you are one goofy motherfucker.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:18 (sixteen years ago)

but i know what abbie's talking about

― I love rainbow cookies (surm), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:18 (sixteen years ago)

thx, abbott!

― Aimless, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:23 (sixteen years ago)

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/7396/differentiation.jpg

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:28 (sixteen years ago)

It came up in conversation as these things sometimes do.

We should chat more. :) Personally I really have to work to crowbar female ejaculation into conversation. My mum and her friends don't seem to like it either.

Also, as one who makes such observations frequently and enthusiastically, I think it's "sideboob" not "sideboobs". Thank you.

― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:29 (sixteen years ago)

it's nice to tell a lady that her breasts look fantastic this evening, but i get away with it more since they know i don't want to touch them in a greedy manner

― fade away & r80-8 (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:30 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTi_ag2PGk&feature=player_embedded

― Chubby Checker Psycho (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:30 (sixteen years ago)

Bah, try this instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTlqBFut4gs

― Chubby Checker Psycho (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:32 (sixteen years ago)

Thanks for the diagram, Abbott!

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:33 (sixteen years ago)

so basically side/regular = 70's/80's?

― snoball, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:44 (sixteen years ago)

So of course I have now spent the last ten minutes trying to determine whether or not I have sideboobs as defined by Abbott and I can't figure it out so I'm going to assume that means that I do not. I once had a guy friend say I had awesome pointy 70's boobs. I told him I didn't think "pointy" was necessarily the word he was looking for so he switched to "perky" which I felt better about.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:56 (sixteen years ago)

Okay if you aren't wearing an underwire bra do your boobs kind of get in the way of your upper arms? Mine do. (When I was going through puberty they kept going further & further to the sides & I had this totally Judy Blume fear they'd end up under my armpis by the time I'd fully 'developed'.)

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:58 (sixteen years ago)

I disagree re sideboob -- pretty sure it's just the word for side cleavage/breast reveal in certain items of clothing that cut away under the arms! Not opposed to thinking up other usages, but I think Abbott is coining something new here.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 18:59 (sixteen years ago)

Abbott - no, they don't. LOL at the Judy Blume thing.

Yeah see I always thought of it as exactly what Laurel is describing.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:01 (sixteen years ago)

laurel's usage of side-boob is the one i've heard before

― fade away & r80-8 (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:01 (sixteen years ago)

My misunderstanding of Abbott's definition made me think of sidecars, only with boobs where the car should be.

― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:02 (sixteen years ago)

e i think your gentleman friend meant that they were "swoop titties" which is how i wd describe 70s era breasts

― fade away & r80-8 (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:03 (sixteen years ago)

swoop titties!!! LOOOOOOOOOL

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:04 (sixteen years ago)

okay "swoop titties" is a phrase I can support 100%

― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:04 (sixteen years ago)

"pouting" is useful too

― fade away & r80-8 (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:04 (sixteen years ago)

It's like the titties are birds-of-prey that just spotted a mouse or rabbit in the field and... SWOOP

― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:06 (sixteen years ago)

Ooh, "swoop titty" is a good one. That silhouette is the precarious state, which probably lasts for about 15 minutes in one's early-to-mid 20s, of breasts being heavy enough to round out on the bottom (and have the accompanying ski-slope curve on top) without actually sagging even a tiny bit.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:06 (sixteen years ago)

Sci-fi illustrators of the era famously used the swoop titty silhouette on female figures but in a greatly enlarged version, which would be impossible to support in the correct form under Earth gravity. Must be all that space travel.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:07 (sixteen years ago)

yes laurel that is the shape exactly

― fade away & r80-8 (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:07 (sixteen years ago)

I think I still have that but only because I don't think they're big enough to really sag yet.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:08 (sixteen years ago)

I think "swoop titty/titties" is my new favorite descriptive phrase. Thank you Elmo.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:09 (sixteen years ago)

i use "banana boobs" for swoop titties.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:09 (sixteen years ago)

i used it on another thread a while back and the term was not embraced at all.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:10 (sixteen years ago)

I can't imagine why not.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:11 (sixteen years ago)

hahaha banana boobs is some sort of insult I think

― fade away & r80-8 (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:12 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah! Banana boobs don't sound good at all.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:13 (sixteen years ago)

elongated yellow teats is all I get from that

― fade away & r80-8 (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:13 (sixteen years ago)

NAGL

― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:14 (sixteen years ago)

x-post YES. Not pleasant.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:14 (sixteen years ago)

Laurels def of side boob is the one I know and love

― bentley cadence (gbx), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:14 (sixteen years ago)

bananas are delicious.

xpost

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:15 (sixteen years ago)

True but that doesn't mean I want to picture breasts that look like them!

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:15 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.liveandfeel.com/medicinalplants/images/17_04/banana1.jpg

― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:16 (sixteen years ago)

i prefer them ripe and as relatively unbruised as possible.

xpost - oh baby

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:16 (sixteen years ago)

sundae booby sundae

― hobbes (brownie), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:16 (sixteen years ago)

Did this just get really weird or am I missing something?

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:17 (sixteen years ago)

'banana boobs' I think is the idea of what I call 'tennis ball in a sock boobs.'

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:17 (sixteen years ago)

I feel like if a bra is worn with some regularity, anything involving figurative tennis balls and imaginary socks can be ruled out for life. I think of these as National Geographic boobs, for what are probably obvious reasons.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:20 (sixteen years ago)

There is, so far as your columnist can discover, zero evidence that bras prevent saggy breasts.

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:21 (sixteen years ago)

"ground pointers"

xpost

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:22 (sixteen years ago)

Laurel - as soon as I read "tennis ball in sock," all I could think was National Geographic.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:22 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.straightdope.com/images/art/2009/dope_090522_bras.gif

l-r: knockers, cones

― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:23 (sixteen years ago)

A 1952 article in Parents magazine (then called Parents’ Magazine), which offers the bizarre suggestion that one should periodically trace the silhouette of one's daughter's breasts (presumably unclothed) to gauge their development, also exhorts parents to get their girls training bras at the first sign of puberty lest the poor kids' breasts drop.

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:23 (sixteen years ago)

my friends always referred to a side boob as a tithouette

no alternates to swoop titties though

― D. Vance Wimpole (gnarly sceptre), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:25 (sixteen years ago)

this thread is doing fantastic things for my vocabulary

― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:25 (sixteen years ago)

"Bob Hope's nose"

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:26 (sixteen years ago)

I'd suggest bras are primarily a tool of fashion: they give women an approximation of the idealized female shape plus some control over jiggle, cleavage, and nipple protrusion

^^ This is what I've always thought of them as although I do know some women with really big boobs that just feel more comfortable with a bra on.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:26 (sixteen years ago)

Usually the same ones who sleep in their bras.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:27 (sixteen years ago)

When I was like 11 or 12 my parents gave me a sex ed book, which said you should go around looking at women's breasts so you could appreciate the variety of shapes and sizes of breasts, and I was like "ok."

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:27 (sixteen years ago)

Sure mom and dad, if you say I HAVE to . . .

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:28 (sixteen years ago)

lol

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:28 (sixteen years ago)

As soon as I saw the Excelsior in "new answers" I thought - Dan just posted n/a's comment.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:29 (sixteen years ago)

Thanks, Uncle Cece!

Women's breasts, even small ones, clearly sag over time, and it's not hard to believe the steady tug of gravity on minimally supported tissue partly explains why. ... Conceivably a bra could delay the process. However, not to harp on this, we don't know it for a fact.

All this means is that no one has conducted/funded/published any scientific studies that PROVE bras prevent sagging. It doesn't mean that breasts don't sag on their own in a directly observable way, or that other parts of the body also lose elasticity and that protecting those areas from pulling or stress can lessen wrinkles and other effects of aging.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:29 (sixteen years ago)

looooooooool

― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:30 (sixteen years ago)

i have enrolled myself in a small breast appreciation program over the last few years.

xp it seems weird that bra companies wouldn't have funded a study like that by now.

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:31 (sixteen years ago)

It does, doesn't it.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:31 (sixteen years ago)

I'm sure I've posted this before but can't find it now but it is topical . . .

One of the most embarrassing moments of my life - When I was about 11 or so a friend and I decided to stuff our training bras with tissue and go to my parents' restaurant for lunch. Once we arrived I went into the kitchen to say hi to my dad. He took one look at me and in front of all the other chefs he poked me in the fake boob and said, "What the hell is that?". I nearly died but did learn that faking one's breast size is never really a good idea.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:40 (sixteen years ago)

xp women sleep in bras? I've fallen asleep with my clothes on before, but I don't intentially wear a bra to bed. I can see it being no big thing if you don't have to wear ones with an underwire, but once underwires are required, I just don't see how that would be desirable.

― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:41 (sixteen years ago)

I know a lotter of bigger breasted girls who wear bras to bed!

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:42 (sixteen years ago)

For some reason, ENBB, that kitchen story seems like a really German thing to do. Did you ever read the book/blog called "Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About"? British guy, German woman, they go home to Germany to visit her family and she considers it normal to walk around starkers and discuss totally personal stuff with both her parents and everyone else in the room.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:43 (sixteen years ago)

Mil Millington! His blog was AMAZING

― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:44 (sixteen years ago)

I knew this one girl in college who was like a 44FF and she didn't wear a bra to sleep, but she sorta cradled one of them under her armpit.

― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:44 (sixteen years ago)

most of the larger chested women i've known can't wait to ditch the bra come bed time. apparently having to wear the thing all day gets uncomfortable?

xposts

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:44 (sixteen years ago)

LOL Laure - I remember when that book came out but I've never actually read it. I should though because I would probably love it and I think that you're right it probably was a very German thing to do. Here's another - between 6th and 7th grade I spent a month by myself in Germany visiting my grandmother. She took me to a public swimming pool one day and we got into this huge argument because she didn't understand why I didn't want to take my top off!

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:46 (sixteen years ago)

Boy I had no idea that I completely made up my definition of side boob. That's the reason I wear a bra, the damn things are just rubbing all over my arms all day otherwise. This is why I never got the point of 'lift & separate.' Lift I get, but thinking everyone else had the same thing as me, I wondered how/why one wld separate the things even further.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:46 (sixteen years ago)

I've never noticed any correlation between boob size and sleeping with a a bra either, though I don't know too many girls with boob size larger than D. Do big boobs really get in the way while you're sleeping?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:48 (sixteen years ago)

Mine separate too, Abbots. It's an ideal not of this era, and it makes it completely impossible for me to ever wear a push-up bra or have cleavage. Oh well, boobies, eh?

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:48 (sixteen years ago)

I mean, who's gonna complain?

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:49 (sixteen years ago)

Men with gynecomastia?

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:49 (sixteen years ago)

The boobs at the beginning of the final episode of Eastbound and Down were great huh?

― SourPatchCorpse, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:49 (sixteen years ago)

[/i]Mine separate too, Abbots. It's an ideal not of this era, and it makes it completely impossible for me to ever wear a push-up bra or have cleavage. Oh well, boobies, eh?[/i]

Me too! I may have some of that swoop action going on but cleavage is something I don't think I'll ever really be able to acheive.

The ones I've known who have done this are the kind of girls that have back problems stemming from their boobs. Btw - I'm talking like sports bras for sleeping not lacy underwire type things.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:50 (sixteen years ago)

wayyyyyy upthread: the reason 'banana boobs' hasn't caught on is that sometimes the kind of people you'd all hate refer to the man part as a 'tummy banana'

― going vogue (suzy), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:51 (sixteen years ago)

xp abbott - yeah, I pick bras on the basis of bringing them closer together.

xp laurel - I think I read something somewhere that if you have boobs that move toward the sides to get a push up bra in a cup size one smaller than the one you normally wear.

― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:51 (sixteen years ago)

Jenny Jones.

― SourPatchCorpse, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:51 (sixteen years ago)

xp enbb - okay, yeah, I can see back problems thing ... but I guess it somewhat depends on your posture when sleeping.

― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:52 (sixteen years ago)

The ones I've known who have done this are the kind of girls that have back problems stemming from their boobs. Btw - I'm talking like sports bras for sleeping not lacy underwire type things.

But I thought boobs cause back problems only when you're standing/sitting? Shouldn't lying in bed allow them to rest even without a bra?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:53 (sixteen years ago)

(xx-post)

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:53 (sixteen years ago)

Bill Engvall used the phrase 'banana boobs' in a stand-up performance, which is 100% reason to hate it.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:53 (sixteen years ago)

Um no because anything pushy-uppy just smushes them together and makes my chest look folded in the middle.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:53 (sixteen years ago)

Wikipedia page for gynecomastia v informative btw:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Severe_Gynecomastia.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Asymmetric_Gynecomastia.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Adolecent_with_Gynecomastia.jpg (Z-Man!)

and

Television personality Richard Simmons suffered from gynecomastia as a youth inspiring him to pursue a career as a fitness guru.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:55 (sixteen years ago)

x-post That's reason enough Abbott.

Tuomas - Like I said, having boobs big enough to either cause back trouble or necessitate sleeping in a bra is something I will never personally know about. All I know is that I have met a handful of ladies who do this. Sorry I can't provide you with the exact reasoning behind it. :-(

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:57 (sixteen years ago)

See . . . they even make special ones for it http://www.sleepbra.com/

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:58 (sixteen years ago)

Remember in Persepolis, her grandma wore a bra to sleep with pressed flowers in it?

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:59 (sixteen years ago)

Not that it's super relevant but I knew at three girls in college who had reductions to alleviate back pain. Like a fairly common thing

― bentley cadence (gbx), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:59 (sixteen years ago)

OK I have know idea what this is or who this ppl are but they seem to have lots of opinions on the issue:

http://www.fabsugar.com/234741

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:00 (sixteen years ago)

xxp it's probably easier for a lot of these women to wear a sports bra to bed than to try to sleep in a posture that isn't painful. Also, back problems really suck.

― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:00 (sixteen years ago)

Hmm, that site doesn't give much explanation for sleeping with a bra either, except that they say it helps alleviate wrinkles and soreness of breasts. No mention of big boobs though.

(xxx-post)

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:01 (sixteen years ago)

:-( what do you want from me!?

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:02 (sixteen years ago)

To solve the mystery of bog boobs!

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:03 (sixteen years ago)

big

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:03 (sixteen years ago)

Tuomas wants you to introduce you to these big breasted ladies so he can get first hand info.

― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:03 (sixteen years ago)

I think that might be what it is.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:04 (sixteen years ago)

lol the mystery of bog boobs

― Suggest this user to be danned. (dan m), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:04 (sixteen years ago)

I don't know if I'm equipped to solve something that sounds quite that mysterious tbh.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:05 (sixteen years ago)

My former girlfriend has DD cups... Maybe I'll ask her, if she can answer. She didn't sleep with a bra on though.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:05 (sixteen years ago)

hardy boys go pg-13

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:06 (sixteen years ago)

There's at least one boob on this thread, for sure.

― But not someone who should be dead anyway (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:06 (sixteen years ago)

x-post -- This might be appropriate:

http://www.pamelasuemartin.net/television/nancy_drew/images/caroonarama.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:07 (sixteen years ago)

bog boob : swamp crotch?

― bentley cadence (gbx), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:07 (sixteen years ago)

xp the banana boobs - for whatever reason I find them disturbing - probably because they don't have the width/roundness that I associate with that length/size.

― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:08 (sixteen years ago)

On the hunt:

http://hardyboys.bobfinnan.com/hbsincom.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:08 (sixteen years ago)

GBX :-( ewwwwwww

(although I suppose it could actually be a good equivalent to describe boob sweat)

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:09 (sixteen years ago)

I remember that tv show and thinking Sean Cassidy and the other guy were far cuter than the guys in "Dukes of Hazzard" - I think I had an argument w/a friend about this once.

― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:09 (sixteen years ago)

Not that it's super relevant but I knew at three girls in college who had reductions to alleviate back pain. Like a fairly common thing

rip ;_;

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:14 (sixteen years ago)

Don't worry bro they're all still pretty stacked

― bentley cadence (gbx), Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:18 (sixteen years ago)

I don't think we have Hardy boys in here... Are they like the Famous Five?

― Tuomas, Thursday, 9 July 2009 09:17 (sixteen years ago)

five years pass...

since my friends know

― Killarney Hilton (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 22:50 (ten years ago)

A search of ilx reveals:

12 threads using the word "boob" in their titles
66 threads using the word "etiquette" in their titles
142 threads using the word "ladies" in their titles

― I Am Curious (Boob) (Aimless), Tuesday, 9 June 2015 23:09 (ten years ago)

Dying at "the mystery of bog boobs" upthread

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 23:59 (ten years ago)

underrated wutang joint

― Killarney Hilton (darraghmac), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 00:03 (ten years ago)

http://cdn.whisper.sh/0512f0fbf22035953461c057e0594b49166b19-thumbnail.jpg

― THREE WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF TUFFY CRAG (soref), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 00:04 (ten years ago)

in some cases you gotta choose empathy over ethics

― drash, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 00:13 (ten years ago)

Man, I was a bit naive 10 years ago, wasn't I?

I still talk about boobs (in a non-sexist way), but I sure know the proper boundaries better now.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 10:58 (ten years ago)

Hmm...can you give an example of your reformed boundary respecting approach?

― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 11:20 (ten years ago)

it's a trap

― niels, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 11:27 (ten years ago)

Sshh!

― quixotic yet visceral (Bob Six), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 11:28 (ten years ago)

lol

― joked for the dadness (wins), Wednesday, 10 June 2015 13:02 (ten years ago)

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