Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.
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@miss-demeanor said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@auspice I don't know if you have Meijer where you are, but they carry a specific Hanes sports bra that I have fallen in love with. This thing keeps up with me during 12 hour days, in a warehouse, without poking, stabbing, itching, pinching, binding, or chafing. It even stops that grungy feeling from it being too warm and getting sweaty. I'm already scouring local stores to find extras in my size.
I've yet to find a sports bra outside of Panache that can handle my 36HH self. :
(I also don't have Meijer; haven't since leaving Cincinnati region in '07.)Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@auspice I dunno! But it might be worth looking into! I'm not quite that prodigiously gifted, but it has been a godsend to me. I had to retire my previous bras since they were actively chafing me raw at this job.
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@autumn I would potentially murder that person and claim aliens did it. Just sayin'.
@Miss-Demeanor Most standard brands don't go beyond DD. You're lucky to find a DDD in them, outside of specialty retailers.
And just because I never imagined that there would be a segue that involved Aliens AND Large Bra Sizes... this is fucking awesome and makes me smile. (I don't care if this is the wrong thread for loved things, that is just not a segue that comes along every day, y'all.)
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Bra time: I'm a 34D, which can be a needle in a haystack at times (though not to the extent of the above), and I dig the Vanity Fair Comfort 3X bras for everyday. They're T-shirt bras, so not the most stylish, but they're the first ones I've found where I don't want to rip them off at the end of the day. Padded straps, smooth lines, reasonably adjustable (I'm 4'10" so the straps always need to be adjusted).
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My 'pain in the ass to find' thing is shoes, I am a UK size 13 in an I fitting for width so both are essentially outside of the range that are actually carried in shops. If I want something that I can comfortably walk in with my gigantic hobbit feet then I am limited to ordering from online.
So then the fun of inevitably trying on and sending back a half dozen pairs of shoes which will of course be delivered whilst I am at work then need to be retrieved from the post office along with being a pain to return.
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@packrat said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My 'pain in the ass to find' thing is shoes
Fucking. Yes. I wear a size 16 wide(U.S.). They're basically like fuckin paddles for navigating bodies of water. Spring or Summer will hit and I'll have the novel idea of getting some new flippie floppies, which never goes that well. Ordering online is about my only option for many types of footwear and even that's a crap shoot sometimes. Sandals are often the worst, because while they're labeled a size 16 or whatever, I've had some that fit like a 13 or 14(eta: read, won't even go on at all or if they do my toes hang over the end like an '80s action movie hero dangling precariously from a ledge).
I feel your pain.
MSB free since 24/3/2018
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My big issue clothing is jeans. I inevitably have to wear guy's jeans because apparently in women's jeans having broad hips also means being fucking 6 feet tall. Thankfully I have been carefully cultivating my collection of JNCO jeans (DON'T YOU JUDGE ME!) and now have a solid three pairs of jeans and two pairs of shorts. I have a pair of guy's Levi's jeans to help round that out for the time being, but I'm hoping eventually to just replace all of them with JNCO jeans. So comfy. So durable. So 90s.
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Size 4 wide women's shoes (US) here. I'm tiny and my feet and hands are in proportion. I wear kids' gloves and kids' sneakers, but my dress shoes have to be special ordered.
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@faceless said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Yes. I wear a size 16 wide(U.S.)
16 shoe? You know what they say...
waggles eyebrows Howdy sailor.
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@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@miss-demeanor said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@auspice I don't know if you have Meijer where you are, but they carry a specific Hanes sports bra that I have fallen in love with. This thing keeps up with me during 12 hour days, in a warehouse, without poking, stabbing, itching, pinching, binding, or chafing. It even stops that grungy feeling from it being too warm and getting sweaty. I'm already scouring local stores to find extras in my size.
I've yet to find a sports bra outside of Panache that can handle my 36HH self. :
(I also don't have Meijer; haven't since leaving Cincinnati region in '07.)Look at the Bravissimo shop - although they are uk, they ship worldwide, and are decently priced. I'm an addict, never shop elsewhere any more.
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@jinshei said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@miss-demeanor said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@auspice I don't know if you have Meijer where you are, but they carry a specific Hanes sports bra that I have fallen in love with. This thing keeps up with me during 12 hour days, in a warehouse, without poking, stabbing, itching, pinching, binding, or chafing. It even stops that grungy feeling from it being too warm and getting sweaty. I'm already scouring local stores to find extras in my size.
I've yet to find a sports bra outside of Panache that can handle my 36HH self. :
(I also don't have Meijer; haven't since leaving Cincinnati region in '07.)Look at the Bravissimo shop - although they are uk, they ship worldwide, and are decently priced. I'm an addict, never shop elsewhere any more.
I usually go through Breakout Bras. Their physical storefront was close to me when I lived in SC and the girls that worked there were always awesome.
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Stay at home if you are unwell.. Especially do not have dinner with your friends. Thanks for that.
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@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
FUCKING STOP TRYING TO CALL OUT HUNG OVER.
We all know why you feel shitty and we don't care. You're a grown man and you know when you work. Either calm the fuck down with work night drinking or suck it the fuck up.
Follow up:
So you've put in your two weeks', but you'll let us know if you can work shifts after the posted date?
Man, you are just adorable.
Buhbye now.
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@faceless said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@packrat said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My 'pain in the ass to find' thing is shoes
Fucking. Yes. I wear a size 16 wide(U.S.). They're basically like fuckin paddles for navigating bodies of water. Spring or Summer will hit and I'll have the novel idea of getting some new flippie floppies, which never goes that well. Ordering online is about my only option for many types of footwear and even that's a crap shoot sometimes. Sandals are often the worst, because while they're labeled a size 16 or whatever, I've had some that fit like a 13 or 14(eta: read, won't even go on at all or if they do my toes hang over the end like an '80s action movie hero dangling precariously from a ledge).
I feel your pain.
Yeah, my husband is also a size 16 and buying shoes is always a crap shoot. I don't know if you have a Nordstrom Rack near you but he sometimes has luck actually finding stuff in his size there. Which is nice because it's always better to be able to try shit on before buying because, at that size? Things seem to get .. interpretive. Like, one brand's 16 will be WAY TOO SMALL and another brand's 16 will be WAY TOO BIG. It's like they're all throwing their hands up and saying 'WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO DESIGN SHOES FOR NON-HUMANS BECAUSE CLEARLY NO REAL PERSON HAS FEET THIS BIG'
I've got a playlist!
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@sockmonkey Gods, that really is the same as with boobs. (You'd think the squishy factor would help, but NAWP, rib cage width and depth and pokey pokey wires too long and all the nope nope nope.)
In a kinder, gentler universe, we could just inflate or deflate the bastards with helium to float under their own power and autofit any damn frillybra or fancydress or maybe something strapless we flounce across, but no, we gotta live here.
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@sockmonkey To be fair with mine at a mere size 13 UK (14 US I think?) That still apparently puts my feet in the largest one percent or so of feet for the male population. Fortunately it is not uncommon for most ranges of shoes to actually exist sized for my feet in recent years it is just that very few shops stock them.
Anything larger and it really does start limiting you to specialist shoes or importing from the USA.
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I am wistfully waiting for the time we can get cyberbreasts out of RIFT's, where you can inflate and deflate them at will. Ostensibly to make armor fit comfortably but still... want.
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It never fails, doing taxes every year and having to figure out how much we're giving to daycare is just the worst. It's god damn criminal how much we pay. I might as well be sending them to college. Seriously.
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@quinn said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
It never fails, doing taxes every year and having to figure out how much we're giving to daycare is just the worst. It's god damn criminal how much we pay. I might as well be sending them to college. Seriously.
Pffft, your 1000 in tax savings should TOTALLY cover that. Right?? (For a month and a half, anyway)
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A month and a half? Where do you live? Cause dude, where I live it's $3900 a month for the two of them and it's only that cheap because the youngest just got out of the infant room. Still better than the $4500/month we were paying last year, though.
They are not fucking around when they say kids are expensive.
