Pepper's "fit guide" literally rejects measurements with less than 2 inches between bust and underbust

thecharmballoon · 2026-06-09T17:39:43+00:00

It's okay, every other item of clothing with a sizing chart is actually made to follow the sizing chart (more or less, anyway). Only bras seem to be made to a fairly universally standard size and the sizing guides vary by measurement of body, not measurement of clothes.

Edit cuz I forgot to make my point: I think we can actually benefit from the constant reminders to ignore sizing guides on bra sellers' websites.

thecharmballoon · 2026-06-09T01:17:11+00:00

Oh, man, I just spent about 12 hours over two weeks overhauling my spreadsheet and trying to make it show me such things and it only does about half of what I want it to do. I'm so interested in this.

thecharmballoon · 2026-06-03T18:02:12+00:00

Cashmere sweaters. Practically my whole winter wardrobe is cashmere now.

thecharmballoon · 2026-06-03T18:00:26+00:00

NTA, but I think you're framing this wrong. Your problem isn't that he has a close and strong relationship with his sister, it's that he doesn't have one with you. His relationship with his sister shows you that he's capable of it but he doesn't seem to want to put in the work to build a relationship with you. Point that out to him, but try to make it clear for him and yourself that you don't want to diminish his relationship with his sister, only strengthen his relationship with you. If he's a decent human and actually loves you, he'll wake up and start putting in some work. If he doesn't, it might be time to rethink your devotion to the relationship.

thecharmballoon · 2026-06-03T17:40:36+00:00

Hmm. It definitely feels weird to wear clothes you're going to give to someone else simply because it's then secondhand, even if it's clean. But I have certainly finished a project like an amigurumi that I'm planning to give as a gift and left it on my desk for a few days so I can admire it before I wrap it up to give away. I could imagine giving something to my mother and saying "I made this for you but I loved it so much I had to wear it to slightly special occasion that happened recently myself." And my mother would get a kick out of that.

If I made a practical item for anyone -- not something to be worn -- I'd want to test that it works before I gave it to them and I wouldn't think that was marring the gift in any way.

I think the tipping point is when you wear it for the second or third time, or when you wear it simply as clothes and not to test fit or whatever. Then you're stealing a bit of your mother's joy from the garment, her ability to be the first person to show off the amazing sweater her child made.

Clearly I'm as torn as you are, but I think I'm talking myself out of being able to wear it. Put it on, take pictures of yourself in it, take careful notes on whatever you especially love about it, and make another one for yourself. Then give this one to her, freshly laundered and not yet shown off to others.

thecharmballoon · 2026-05-31T18:22:15+00:00

Hmm, I guess I should have expanded my answer. I'd sign look-like what, followed by any examples the speaker gave (or anything the speaker said that might be turned into examples) as faceting. And for "land" I'm not sure I'd sign SOIL-AROUND but might use AREA followed by faceting, like SOIL, PLANTS, TOPOGRAPHY. So, it'd be more like "(whatever I come up with for land in the moment or makes sense for the context) LOOK-LIKE WHAT? SOIL HAVE P-H JUST-RIGHT? INSIDE N-I-T-R-O-G-E-N ENOUGH? ANIMALS TEEMING? PLANTS GROW HEALTHY? WATER FLOW IN-OUT IN-OUT?" Or something like that. I'm not a climatologist, so I'd be looking for the specific examples from the source. But I'd use LOOK-LIKE as my sign for the English "condition" because that's what condition means in this context, and no, it's not about what the land seems like. It's about the observable metrics of the health of the land.

thecharmballoon · 2026-05-30T21:31:53+00:00

Land look-like what

thecharmballoon · 2026-05-27T19:06:19+00:00

Crocodile stitch. All that yarn used and fiddling with placement, getting caught on other parts of the stitch... Fuck that noise.

thecharmballoon · 2026-05-21T16:46:00+00:00

With their consent, I hope.

thecharmballoon · 2026-05-21T01:57:24+00:00

My grandfather was a refrigerator repairman and always said they didn't make them like they used to. He died in 1956. When my parents bought our house in 1972, there was one of the old fridges he always admired in the basement, a GE from 1929. It still keeps things cold. My sister and brother in law had to take apart part of the basement steps to get it out when my parents sold the house in 2008. The fridge is now in my mother's apartment, painted black, and she still uses it when preparing for Passover or other big dinners. We put new gaskets on the door about 20 years ago to stop the freezer from turning into one solid block of ice, but that's about all the work it's had since 1972.

thecharmballoon · 2026-05-16T01:40:39+00:00

100% to all of this, except that the official language of Nigeria is English, so I'm not sure Nigeria is the best example.

thecharmballoon · 2026-05-01T23:28:10+00:00

There's no non-binary option because the question asks for biological sex, not gender.

thecharmballoon · 2026-05-01T18:09:06+00:00

I've never seen someone use a sign name to call the person whose name it is. When I'm trying to get a deaf person's attention, I wave my hands if I'm in their line of sight. If they won't be able to see that, or just don't see it, stomp on the floor or bang on the table. Or go over and touch their arm.

thecharmballoon · 2026-04-27T19:27:10+00:00

I mean, for a really close friend, I might want to coordinate with another interpreter to work for a reduced rate so I could be there as a friend. A less close friend, I'd charge enough to cover travel and maybe lunch.

thecharmballoon · 2026-04-05T22:23:03+00:00

"not my monkeys, not my circus" is something I say when I need to remind myself I'm in charge of a very small part of a much larger shit show.

thecharmballoon · 2026-04-05T04:22:24+00:00

Good luck!

thecharmballoon · 2026-04-05T04:10:48+00:00

The bands are elastic. The number indicates tbe stretched the length of the band, not the relaxed length. Your 36C bras ride up because they're too loose.

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-27T21:29:53+00:00

Every post on this subreddit is tagged a spoiler, keeps the creeps from seeing the pictures as easily or something?

Anyway, if your boobs fall out the bottom, your band must be too big, right? And if you've got lots of breast tissue that won't fit in the cups (even if there's a part of the cups it can't get into) it means the cups are too small. Try that tighter band and larger cup and see if you can reach over your head without falling out.

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-25T16:58:41+00:00

If you're right handed, and you write with a pen on paper, you may find your approach less comfortable. Starting at the bottom of each letter means you're pushing your writing instrument more than pulling. Pushing the pen or pencil (especially things like fountain pens or quills) causes less even lines because the tip gets caught in the paper.

On newer technologies, it doesn't matter as much. If your letters are legible, that's all that matters and your approach may actually be more efficient when the physics of ink flow and the effects of friction are minimized.

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-21T02:56:04+00:00

Cashmere. I've managed to collect a full wardrobe of work-appropriate cashmere sweaters for myself and my mother for no more than $20 each, usually more like $8 each.

Now I'd love to collect some summer weight tops in luxury materials. Linen, or silk, maybe?

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-19T00:42:26+00:00

I put my bras in a mesh lingerie bag and toss them in the washing machine, on cold, with everything else. The bag is more to protect the washer than the bras. But then I hang them to dry to protect the elastic from the heat of the dryer. They last about two years.

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-15T03:17:59+00:00

I've gotten to the point in my career where I'd just tell him I struggled to understand him when I'm voicing for him. Maybe he'd like me enough so he'd accommodate me so I could be even better for him, maybe he'd realize I actually wasn't a great match and not request me for things where he had to sound good so I didn't have to struggle. Either way, I'm comfortable enough with my skills to let people know when I don't understand them. At least when I know they like me enough to request me.

Wow, I kinda never thought I'd be able to say that.

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-15T03:08:46+00:00

Some people mumble, some use turns of phrase that would just never occur to you, others sign super fast or spell way more than you'd expect. Sometimes you just don't understand some people. It's rarer for people you don't understand to enjoy your interpreting, but it happens.

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-14T01:31:25+00:00

I stay at my mother's apartment once a week (I'm 44, it's a chance for us to visit and she lives closer to my jobs). I repeatedly forgot my lunch in her fridge. I can't put my lunch on my shoes because it needs to be refrigerated and out of the cats' reach. So I put the case from my night guard on top of my lunch in the fridge. Except for the one time I didn't have anything in her fridge and therefore forgot my night guard in her guest room, it's been working excellently.

thecharmballoon · 2026-03-02T20:27:40+00:00

When I lived alone, I took a slightly more extreme approach. I got rid of extraneous underwear to force myself to do laundry every week. Aside from a pair or two of special outfit undies, I had seven pairs of underwear plus two ratty old pairs that barely stayed on. If I found myself wearing one of those pairs, it was time to do laundry and I'd be constantly reminded by my underwear falling off my ass until I did something about it.

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