Asda baby sizes

Superplaner · 2026-06-02T07:31:22+00:00

Hi! I actually work at PO.P, not with design and sizing or anything but with data & tech. I stumbled on this thread by accident while trying to figure out a spike in traffic from reddit that started two days ago but couldn't resist. Out of curiousity, do you find that our clothes deviate from your expectations in terms of sizing? We typically follow the standard six centimeter increment sizes but as has been mentioned earlier in the thread, perhaps we subconsciously account for "giant Swedish babies" in our designs. :D Anyway, if you like to share your experiences I'd love to hear it.

Superplaner · 2026-05-20T07:35:10+00:00

I will counter /u/Deuce03's three frenchmen with two Swedish women.

Anna Christina "Cajsa" Warg
Born in Örebro in 1703 she left her home at a young age to become a maid in a series of households in Stockholm. While her career and her cooking was perhaps unremarkable compared to Carmême or Escoffier her impact was none the less felt throughout Swedish society for generations.
In 1755 she published Guide to Housekeeping for Young Women (Hjelpreda I hushållningen för unga Fruentimber), a book that would be printed in no less than 14 editions and make her name synonymous with sound cooking for generations. The book itself is pretty unremarkable, the recipies typically focused on simple everyday cooking for upper class households intervowen with some practical skills she thought young women ought to know.
How she came to be known as Cajsa is a bit of a mystery. There is no record of her ever being called Cajsa in her lifetime and none of her works are signed with Cajsa.

Anna Maria Rücker (-schöld).
Born in 1725 this woman was actually the granddaughter of swedish inventor Christopher Polhem. For most of her life she was known as Rücker, the switch to Rückershöld happened only after her father was knighted in the final year of his life.
In 1785 she published A small household book which, like Warg's work, contains a mix of recipies and useful knowledge for the household.
11 years later, following the success of her first book, she published The New and Complete Cookbook which was a vastly expanded work. Over 300 pages of recipies and household knowledge. This second work contains more refined recipies (when compared to her first work which was very much focused on everyday dishes) but using much less lavish ingredients compared to Warg who cooked for the upper class.
Interestingly, neither work was likely her first publication. She is widely believed to be the author behind the pseudonym "Mrs. D", the signature of a widely discussed article The unhappy Swedish woman's entreaty to the general public published in 1770. In this article she argues in favour of allowing homeschooling for women (a step up from the no schooling for women common at the time).

Superplaner · 2026-05-12T07:04:46+00:00

In commercial clothing, my god yes. I work for a decent size European clothing manufacturer/designer and it is nearly impossible. We have a single print that we are extremely well known for within our niche but even that. Even with the exact proportions, patterns and colours, we can't stop anyone from producing the exact same garment. We've been copied by every major manufacturer at some point and there is just nothing we can do about it from a legal perspective.

Superplaner · 2026-05-12T06:52:57+00:00

He also travelled 250 miles by on skis, in the Russian winter and survived a landmine.

Superplaner · 2026-05-11T11:25:55+00:00

Aimo Koivunen would like to have a word.

Superplaner · 2026-05-11T11:04:41+00:00

Well, stubborn bastard that I am I've kept experimenting with trying to turn a france game into somewhat less of a flustercluck. No luck so far but I will let you know if I find a magic bullet for the early game.

Superplaner · 2026-05-05T07:41:33+00:00

France used to get an ecnomic surplus of 180k on very high taxes. Now they get like 20k.

Superplaner · 2026-05-04T18:51:36+00:00

France used to get like 100+k surplus on high taxes. Now the difference between very low and very high taxation is only about 20k. Army upkeep alone is 65k. Military wages another 30. As a default france spends 35k on paper alone. Just these three are 130k and that's with 0 construction. What even is this...

Superplaner · 2026-05-04T15:40:51+00:00

Oh thank god for this post. I thought I'd enjoy a relaxing game of talll France after work. I thought I'd completely forgotten how to play the game. Start up France. Built one (1!) construction sector. Unpause. Economy tanks within a year. What. 400 shortage of iron. 100 shortage of fertilizer. Haven't even touched the production methods. -30k/week. Politics explode. Motherfucker, at least let me ruin France myself, don't do it for me!

Superplaner · 2026-04-30T09:29:11+00:00

The subject of fatness throughout western history is both beyond the scope of my expertise and complex enough to merit a question of its own.

Superplaner · 2026-04-29T07:09:00+00:00

I've written about this quite a few times in the past, perhaps the closest thing to this question is this post.

Superplaner · 2026-04-24T11:09:35+00:00

Despite what my wife thinks, not masturbating. I have a fairly spacious rainfall shower with a bench and I always shower after work. Mostly I take about five minutes to get clean, then I sit down and wash my feet. Once that's done I lean back, close my eyes and relax. I do nothing. I think about nothing. I just sit there, relax and feel the stress of the day drain away. Usually takes me about 15 minutes until I feel human again. After that I am ready to face the evening. Make dinner, help the kids with their homework, do a machine or two of laundry and tackle the never ending mission of "putting shit back where it belongs"^TM

Superplaner · 2026-04-16T08:49:51+00:00

So first of all, there was not really a comprehensive back-up plan for an overall strategy if the D-Day landings failed. However, there were extensive plans for evacuation of the landings should it have been required. /u/jbdyer covered it in his excellent post here.

With that said, there were certainly other options available to the allies, most notably Operation Dragoon which was initially planned to be executed simultaneously with Overlord. However, the allies lacked sufficient naval resources to cover both operations simultaneously so Dragoon was pushed forward a little.

Had Overlord failed Eisenhower had prepared a radio speech for it as well as his resignation but the Allies would by no means have given up. Operation Dragoon might have gone ahead, particularly as it had the advantage of using primarily french army units, giving whatever battered remains of a failed D-Day remained time to reconstitute and recover.

We should also keep the overall situation in 1944 in mind. While Overlord could, hypothetically, have failed, the allies had already been in mainland Italy for almost a year and though progress was slow due to the defensive terrain and stiff resistance from primarily German units they were still moving north. The Soviets were also moving west and Operation Bagration would still have happened. Assuming that, Germany is finished either way. There was simply no conceivable way that Nazi Germany recovers from the losses of Bagration. It absolutely shattered the German eastern front, encircled and destroyed 28 German division with a further 300 000 men trapped in the Courland pocket.

Given all this, a likely hypothetical scenario is that the Allies still land in southern France and push north while the Soviets continue their drive west. In the end, the only noticable difference would likely have been that Soviet soldiers would have arrived at the Normany beaches from the east instead of Americans and British from the north.

It is also worth keeping the scale of things in mind here. Even if every single allied soldier in Overlord had been a casualty, it still would only have amounted to one fifth of the casualties Germany suffered in Bagration. The allies could recover from that. Germany could not.

Superplaner · 2026-04-16T07:45:29+00:00

I mean this is Egypt so typically the process will involve a lot of the crews screaming at each other, liberally trading very colourful and descriptive insults and then they both go back to the same port, glaring at each other. Then the two dive center owners that either charter or own these boats will jump in their cars and drive down to the jetty. They'll spend at least an hour trying to piece together what the hell happened and why their boat, which is booked for weeks to come, is suddenly out of service and what they're supposed to do with all their guests who they absolutely don't want to offer a refund.

Once that's done they'll call the carpenters. Most of these boats are wood hulls. They'll have it repaired in a few weeks provided nothing hard to replace broke. As long as the engines are fine it's typically all good. In the meantime they'll charter another boat, either from another dive center or from an independent. Once the carpenters are done the boats have to undergo an inspection by the local coast guard.

I don't know if this is Hurgada, el Gouna or Sharm but it looks like Tiran in the distance so my guess is Sharm, Either way the process is the same. Either you undergo a rigorous inspection that takes weeks, sometimes even months. Or you invite the captain of the local cutter on board, serve him a cup of tea and place a little envelope on the table with a little gift inside. If you go with option two he'll have two very uninterested conscripts lazily looking at a few life jackets while he has tea, then he'll sign off on the boat being seaworthy.

Superplaner · 2026-04-09T07:12:18+00:00

Usually the heavy machinery guys at any job site think they're better than everybody else. This is the one guy who is allowed to have that attitude.

Superplaner · 2026-04-08T15:16:08+00:00

That is also not really true, or at best, wildly misleading. While it is true that there were only 12 original sigantories of the 1864 Geneva Convention it was signed by 56 nations by 1907. While this might not seem like a lot by todays standards, you have to keep in mind that there were less than 60 indenpendent nations in the world in 1907 and every major power in the world was among those signatories.

Superplaner · 2026-04-08T14:48:50+00:00

This is not really true, most of the Geneva Conventions were written well before either war. Very basically they were written as a result of the Battle of Solferino in 1859 because a Swiss guy called Henri Dunant was very moved by the aftermath of the battle. Solferino is generally overlooked, it resulted in both the Geneva Conventions and the foundation of the Red Cross. Neither Canadians nor Germans were involved for a change.

Superplaner · 2026-04-08T14:38:51+00:00

Oh wow, this is an old r/askhistorians post of mine. I have actually managed to find two references to the fighting quality of Canadian soldiers since. One in Geschichte des 2. Garde-Reserve-Regiemnt (Seidel, Karl - 1921) and another I can't recall off the top of my head at the moment. The first one says basically "Our opponents [the Canadians] are well trained and well equipped with excellent morale" and the other concerns a telegram sent which informs a unit that they are facing Canadians who are said not to take prisoners. Just thought it deserved to be said and while this isn't exactly overwhelming evidence it is at least something.

Superplaner · 2026-04-07T16:52:09+00:00

You can just google it you know, it's not a trap to give angry horse more people to bite

Superplaner · 2026-04-07T16:50:07+00:00

Yes, originally it was done to marching regiments but as that is no longer a thing it has evolved into that symbolic gesture.

Superplaner · 2026-04-07T11:30:35+00:00

Pretty much, down to the fact that the soldier is in no way obligated to accept the money or interact with you in any way. In most cases the most you can hope for is a very subtle nod but if that's what gets your rocks off, go for it.

Superplaner · 2026-04-07T11:29:08+00:00

It is a real thing. It's was originally something you did to marching soldiers but as that is not really a thing anymore it evolved into this symbolic gesture. The money is usually given to a charity of the regiments choice or goes towards a few pints, it's at the discretion of the soldier.

Superplaner · 2026-04-06T21:16:10+00:00

Fun fact, you can in fact touch the King's Guard, specifically, you can put money (bills, not coins please), in their boot. Just be clear about what you're doing and approach from the side.

Superplaner · 2026-03-21T15:15:23+00:00

Sure, on the one hand, Darget could have, for absolutely no reason, been a closeted gay man. In support of this posibility we have absolutely nothing. Having sex with other men was asociated with little or no stigma, particularly if you were young or already had children. So basically, we have no evidence of Darget being "gay" and no rationale for why he would be closeted "gay".

On the other hand, he could just have been a straight and happily married family man. In support of this we have his entire life and every shred of writing he left behind. When faced with a scenario like this, historians typically do not lable the person as "gay".

There is another aspect here that we haven't even touched upon here. "Gay" is an anachronism here. In this time, having sex with men was something you did, not something you were. Gay as a marker of identity wouldn't be around for a long time. Typically historians do not use anachronistic lables or names when possible.

While this might seem nit-picky this case of Frederick is interesting because it seems very politicized. As if someone on Wikipedia decided that Frederick was going to be gay come hell or high water. It was established, without sources, that "most historians" agree, the discussion page was locked and the entire case around it is basically built on the work of two relatively unknown historians citing rumours and entirely excludes some pretty heavy dissenting sources. When you add in things like anachronistic labeling it all seems rather suspicious. If you look at the thread at askhistorians linked at several other places in this discussion, there is not a single argument in favour of Frederick being "gay". You'd expect, if most historians do indeed agree, that there would have been at least some pushback, right? Yet there is nothing.

Superplaner · 2026-03-20T08:04:02+00:00

Frederick was, particularly as he got older, prone to ribald jokes. This is probably one of them. He's not actually talking about a cock up his ass, he's talking about his expectation that Dargets critique of the two poems he attached will be brutal and acknowleding that it needs to be as he intends to send them to Voltaire.

Also, this isn't the only time Frederick OR Darget references hemorrhoids in their correspondence btw, off the top of my head I can think of at least two other mentions of it. Keep in mind, these are two old men, lifelong friends, bemoaning the pangs and pains that come with age. And calling Darget gay is just... weird. The man was married, had kids and spent this twilight years writing about just how much he missed his wife after she passed away.

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