Grrl Power #1167 – The labors of Rowan
It’s possible Deus has warped Maxima’s taste in whiskey over the last few years. She may be super sus of him and his motivations, but she’s not going to turn down the top-tippy-super-promise-definitely-the-highest shelf stuff. If she’d thought about it, she’d have realized her own personal stock has slowly evolved from Jim Beam to stuff that’s at least 15 years old. She’s not “Drive a car till it runs out of gas then have her people just buy another one” rich… well, considering how rarely she drives, she could do that, the point is she doesn’t have that mentality – but – the average bottle of whiskey in her personal bar is rings in at around $150, and she doesn’t think that much about dropping that much on a restock.
It helps that she doesn’t really drink that much. If her and Anvil and Peggy are staying up late and talking, the three of them would probably go through a bottle. Anvil can keep up with Max. Peggy is a normal human 5’4″ woman that weighs… uh, I’m going to say 110? Of course she’s missing a leg below the knee… No idea how much that would weigh. I’m convinced that all writers are on FBI watchlists. (I know that seems like a non-sequitur, bear with me.) I personally have googled “what sedative does Dexter use,” all kinds of stuff about guns and explosives, military prisons, the pentagon, “woman leaning over pool table,” etc. I feel like googling “woman individual body part weight calculator” might tip the threshold to “active surveillance.” So I’m going to just guess that Peggy weighs… ninety… uh… four pounds?
Anyway. Max takes 3-4 weeks to go through a bottle on her own. She’ll sometimes cap off her paperwork with a shot before she settles in for a trashy TV show before bed.
Panels 2, 3, and 4 are supposed to encapsulate the “Honestly I’m really trying not to look at your boobs but they’re right there…” >glance< “Yes, we both know I just got caught but it was just a flick of the eyes, not a leer, I’m really trying not to…” >glance< “Dangit!”
I mean, women are fully aware of it, right? They have to be. Okay, off-topic, but I really want someone to make a first person shooter, and if you pick a female avatar, all the male NPCs do the boob glance. But the game company never says anything about it. I bet you’d have a bunch of male gamers being like, “The in-between mission section around the base was kind of creepy for some reason.” and female gamers would be all “I can’t put my finger on it, but something about this game is just so realistic.”
I know when I’m playing Lara Croft or FemShep and some NPC starts coming on to them I’m immediately like, “Yo, you know I’m armed, right?” I can’t tell if that’s me channeling Maxima and being offended for the female character, or just me being a het dude and reflexively uncomfortable at being vicariously hit on… yeah, through a video game. I know, it’s stupid, but it’s there. That’s all totally different from when my FemShep boned down on Garrus. Garrus was rad. Although I really wanted FemShep to get with Tali, because she was super rad. But you couldn’t to that without a mod, and installing some random .EXE on my PC so I could watch a user-generated clunky Skinemax cutscene seemed like a poor decision.
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So, who in your opinion would qualify as an “Evil, handsy movie producer” that a ‘stuntwoman’ such as Harper would have to deal with?
Is the one who destroyed Star Wars a producer or a director?
You… do know she’s talking about SmugD, right?
it is now Canon in my head that she had to deal with JarJar Binks, because he was obviously one of the producers for the movies he was in
Darth JarJar remains one of my favorite absurd fan theories, because it’s both plausible and insulting to all parties involved.
*shakes your hand in gratitude*
Well, Harvey Weinstein is the obvious choice, but I’d bet that a majority of movie producers would qualify.
I’ve only met one producer/director and I was only in that movie because I was the only one that fit the costume when the first stuntman declined. I don’t remember what name the movie was released under, but I played the Big Bad stomping through the desert in Six Things From Outer Space, an American kaiju movie where 6 astronauts from another planet landed in Dugway Proving Ground and 5 died and the one that lived grew 20 feet tall and stomped a bunch of miniature sets in the desert way outside of Dugway but still in the same state. It was August in Utah and my costume was made from a wetsuit and after every take I was given a quart of iced-down Gatorade as I took the costume boots off and dumped a quart of sweat out of them. I think that might have been the reason the first stuntman turned down the gig. BTW the “monster” had webbed feet, in the desert…
Mmm, that sounds like the intro scene to the old A-team series, Hannibal’s movie gig.
Yupp, Max needs to get out more as a civilian, so she’ll have a bit more personal knowledge what it is like to be an ordinary human rather than a super powered Goddess. :)
Wow, that ARCHON paycheck can really warp one’s sense of price.
Being Rich does that.
Reminds me of that bit on Futurama. “To my lazy, spoiled son, Tandy, who never learned the value of a dollar, I leave my entire 10 million dollar fortune.”
“…Is that a lot?”
A lot? Well it depends. In the time the show is playing, this probably is barely enough to buy a decent meal.
10 million is enough to buy 3.334 million whale-sized coffees in the year 3000.
(Fry spent $300 on 100 coffees, and the first one was a ‘whale’ sized coffee from the aquarium for $3)
Yep, and don’t forget the price of the Professor’s glass bottle ($5) or the price for prostitution (Petunia charged $2 and a robot hooker charged $0.25). Also Bender’s bail cost $5,000 and Fry’s balance was $0.93 before inflating to $4,300,000,000.00 and he was considered rich. Rich enough that Bender put on a monocle.
Also in 2000, a cheese pizza and a large soda cost $10.66 at Panucci’s Pizza.
Yes, but in this case it has more to do with Deus serving her from his personal reserve. Based on Dave’s commentary, I assume she’s never actually purchased a bottle of either of those.
I’m more of a beer drinker myself (not mass-market rice lagers, more like Firestone Walker Parabola, Founders Bolt Cutter, Russian River Pliny the Elder, Dogfish Head Old School, and Brasserie des Franches-Montagne Abbaye de Saint Bon-Chien), but I’m partial to a Lagavulin 16, which is just over $100 a bottle.
I wonder about that, or if it’s the people she hangs out with. Unless Max has an assistant that she orders everything through that organizes her general necessities and adds things she requests without mentioning the final bill (which I can easily imagine her having, only mentioning the bill if it is close to her high end budget. But also doesn’t quite feel like something she would have, but damn that would be convenient and if someone got her into one she wouldn’t stop it.) I doubt Max would knowingly spend more than $500 on most luxury consumables, despite having the paycheck to easily cover it.
You… saw the car she drives maybe once or twice a year, right? I know people living paycheck to paycheck that easily spend $500/mo on consumables. I mean, the average consumer drops over $200/mo on just subscriptions, let alone daily alcohol / smoking / coffee / Slurpee habits. And Max’s income is far, far above average – $500 is a probably rounding error in her bank account. Most likely she just swipes her magic money card for whatever she wants (like most consumers), but she doesn’t ever have to think about whether it’ll clear or if she’ll be able to pay it off.
Which reminds me, the team does have their own personal financial manager who probably does handle most of the big picture things with Max’s money and ensures there’s always some cash available to accommodate whatever her habits are. Don’t know that he’d be as involved as to manage her day to day balance in checking, but he could have easily automated the monthly credit card payments and a (limited) sell-to-cover from investments if she ever went on a real spree. Probably he’s got an automated report that lets him see all his patrons’ spending so he knows if he ever needs to have a serious talk with an overspending client.
Keep in mind that these supers do a high-risk job just like police and firemen, so having a few nice things or hobbies/habits are very understandable.
I know if I came home after a bad fire my wife would wait on me hand a foot, mainly because I’d be covered in soot, stinking to high heaven, and a bit grumpy. After I’d come out of the shower she’d send the boys to bed, shoo me to my easy-chair, hand me dinner/beer, and cuddle with me until I calmed down. It’s the little things…
I don’t mean more than $500 total, I meant on individual items. As you said, I’m sure she pays little mind to her monthly expenses since she can easily afford it. But I can easily see her looking at some top end stuff she had elsewhere planning to grab it since it was pretty good, but pass on it because it wasn’t worth the price despite it essentially being spare change to her. While she certainly seems to enjoy quality alcohol, she strikes me to not feel like it being worth a high price in general. Doesn’t mean she would turn away a gift though.
Now cars on the other hand are of an entirely different category. Even if she only touches it a couple times a year, you could hardly compare it to a consumable.
“It’s a banana, Michael, what can it cost, ten dollars?
This was the exact line I was thinking of when I made that post.
It’s actually less her paycheck and more that she literally didn’t know how expensive the stuff she drank was.
To be fair it is a valid tactic. Get someone used to the good stuff and most have problems dipping back into the average stuff. Yes her paycheck helps adjust that problem, but it does cut down on potential suitors since either they will not have had the money, budget, or connections to get the stuff… Or they do not have the knowledge or have experienced it and thus would go with the average stuff or whatever they had enjoyed before then… Or do something stupid.
As the common joke for the last one… Just because the name is in French it doesn’t mean it is better. As more than a few people fall for the fancy French name for spaghetti with white powdered cheese thinking it is somehow unique or expensive rather than what it really is.
“I present to you a toasted legume puree’ topped with a lightly sweetened confiture de fraise, served entre deux tranches de pain. That will be $25.”
“For a @#&^% peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich???)
Serves you right for having hoidy toidy strawberry jam instead if good ol fashioned “grape” jelly. :)
If you’re in a place that calls a peanut butter sandwich that, the cost is gonna be like five times higher. XD
I’ve very deliberately never bought ‘good’ scotch (or even semi-reasonable scotch) always absolute bottom of the barrel trash so I had at lest one type of alcohol I could cheerfully drink cheap shit. Had a very good income for a while and ruined cheap bourbon, cheap rum, and cheap vodka for myself (don’t like brandy, gin, or tequila, and I’ve only recently developed a taste for wine… cheap wine, good ol goon)
For me, bottom of the barrel alcohol is just not worth it as the taste is downright awful even if you do not have anything to compare it to. One or two price steps above that though you can easily find good stuff – be it wine, whisky or beer. Just do not expect every brand in that range to be good, so some research into available options is needed.
When it comes to whisky, I am frankly spoiled as I have access to some high quality homemade one – nothing in the reasonable price range comes close to it.
There are out there percentage of body weight for parts of the body. It’s just a matter of deciding how much Peggy weights and rule of three her leg out of the total. They are averages but it should help you in that matter.
Due to her military activities, she should also be considered to have above average musculature for a woman her age, even before you remote the mass of much of her left leg.
There’s an old joke that goes “If you wanna lose 50 pounds, cut off a leg” in reference to losing weight vs losing fat. It’s a terrible joke, but I’d guess the point is that a leg is pretty heavy. I’d wager something around 20 to 30 pounds at least on an average, in shape person.
This is also why a kick can do a lot more damage than a punch.
That’s why you power your punches with your legs.
Yeah, when I broke my back and couldn’t trust my legs anymore, I had to quit martial arts, couldn’t kick or punch worth a damn anymore.
The reason my kicks do more than my punches is because they’re hauling the rest of me around every day and I don’t work my arms much. Not much for speed, but I have gotten an opportunity to flip a guy who thought he had the upper hand and wasn’t watching my feet. The look on his face when he realized he screwed up keeps me warm at night.
I was always told it as “You wanna lose 10 lbs of ugly, cut off your head “
Cancer, fastest weigh-lost program ever. I lost 55 lbs in a month, and it only costs $54,000 to have it removed… Plus the chemo causes nausea, vomiting, joint pain, just the usual side-effects… but better than loping off bits!
*tries to make a joke quickly* Here I thought taking a huge dump was the best weight loss option.
LOL sorry, you have NO idea how often I got asked how I lost so much weight so fast, it’s kinda on auto anymore ;)
Day will come – and it’s nowhere near yet when we will have a total grip on cancer. No big deal.
People will get it to lose weight. Get it removed when the weight’s gone.
We already have tapeworms for that. In either case though, not worth it as the side effects can be far worse than just eating right and exercising.
The joke I remember was, to lose a couple hundred pounds of ugly fat………… divorce.
Just for the current book series I’m working on alone, I have researched:
sniper rifles, sniping distances, syringe sizes, alcohol potency, chloroform vs ether as inhaled general anesthetics (including toxicity), a dozen animal venoms and their potencies, anabolic steroids, handguns, shotguns, supersonic vs sub-sonic ammunition, different ammos for handguns/rifles/shotguns, climbing gear, fire suppressant systems, elevator mechanical schematics, helicopter schematics, building blueprints, thermite (including how to make it at home), haloperidol, the central nervous system (particularly the severing of cervical nerves and their effects at different points), helicopter models and specs, small bladed weapons (from combat knives to bagh nakh), hollow-point ammo effect on the human body, different forms of tear gas (effectiveness vs. potential toxicity), models of hand grenades and their explosive output, solid explosive compounds (e.g., simple black powder vs. smokeless gunpowder, vs, triple base black powder), fentanyl toxicity… and the list goes on.
And I’m working on only the second book in the series at the moment. (Also taking notes for further along, but still.)
I’ve had a lot of fellow authors tell me that yeah, the FBI/NSA (if you’re in the States) do get alerts at times when someone’s looking into stuff like that. But then they do a quick look at patterns of research. If you’re spending three hours researching sniper rifles, then another two on sniping itself, and two on gear for scaling structures like radio towers… but then the next day are doing research on trees indigenous to a given area, Native American tribes, home remodels, and things like “what is a ‘two up – two down?” and “How are bra cup sizes determined?” (it’s actually more complicated than most men think as a B-cup on a 32 isn’t the same as a B-cup on a 42 so far as actual cup… volume… goes).
The agencies tend to flag you as some form of writer who is seriously into researching their source material. Think of it like “check search history occasionally, likely a writer, low concern.”
(Or so I’m told.)
FYI halothane is the most widely used volatile agent in developing nations
And Adam Warren of Empowered fame does his research as well, as can be seen in the series.
Chloroform and Ether both have industrial uses that Halothane does not. (E.g., the former can be used as a solvent and the latter is often used as a starter fluid for engines in particularly cold environments.) Therefore, in a developed nation (as with my book series in progress), it is easier to get those two and to be able to do it in a manner that doesn’t specifically trace to anesthetic usage.
(The MC in the series is part of a sanctioned government agency of agents for hire… conducting espionage, assassination, sabotage, renditions, rescues, and so on. But they still pretty much supply their own gear and whatever is needed for their mission at hand, though the pay is good enough that it’s not typically an issue. Not having others be able to readily trace where certain substances are going and to whom is a plus as well, so some things travel through alternate routes or subcontractors. It’s an alternate Earth kind of series, so the government isn’t the same in some countries… nor is the geography always the same.)
A lot of things can be used to achieve particular effects when mixed as compounds (e.g., thermite can be made at home) or have uses that are not obvious because, for example, a particular side effect may be what’s sought rather than the primary effect. (A lot of doctors are getting pissed, for example, because there is a shortage of Ozempic… a medication used to help control things like Type II diabetes. However, it also promotes weight loss… so there are some doctors who are less ethical and are prescribing it to people who simply want to shed some pounds rather than work for the weight loss with diet and exercise. Never mind that when those people go off the medication when they hit their desired weight they’re much more likely than not to gain that weight back and then some.)
Speaking of research… the writers and consultants for the TV series Burn Notice did theirs as well. Everything they used in the show for spycraft actually works as they say it does (which is how I learned that you can make thermite at home). Basically, they not only researched it all, but tested it in the application for which they used it in the show.
The NSA thanks you for the efficiency of getting all those keywords into my browser history at once.
Hollow point rounds are especially fun if you seal white phosphorous into the cavities. You can expect a good reaction from every body.
First chapter of the first book the MC completes a hit on his target with a 50cal HEIAP round with a faster burning compound (penetrates the briefcase, the body armor, and then the detonation is achieved in the target). Also because the range he was at inhibited penetration to the point where it wouldn’t go all the way through his target before achieving full ignition of the explosive compound. (Planned that way.)
Let’s just say that in describing the after effect, the name “Jackson Pollock” was used.
I enjoy trivia quizzes and word games. This leads to a lot of highly random searches. Good luck to anyone trying to find patterns in my searches. Any sketchy ones are almost certainly buried in the general noise.
It probably helps when they Google your name and you already have a couple of books out.
Unless you write under a pen name like I do… (And many other authors as well.)
“Of course she’s missing a leg below the knee… No idea how much that would weigh.”
I keep finding figures of 16-20% body mass per full leg.
Which makes some sense, given they are nothing but muscles and bone to literally carry the rest of the body.
” So I’m going to just guess that Peggy weighs… ninety… uh… four pounds?”
My wife’s 5′ even, and slim, and weighs in at about 85. She’s active, but not exactly buff. Peggy is absolutely buff. So, maybe 105, 110?
Are you sure you want the word “courtier”? Usually it means someone who is regularly present in the court of a king, queen, or other monarch, focusing their attention on gaining the monarch’s favor. (Despite Max’s position of authority, I don’t think she has the monarchic temperament . . .) Someone who is courting another person romantically would usually be called a “suitor,” thanks to the peculiar logic of English.
Its something a layperson would say, not quite the right word, but close.
Yeah, I think that might actually be the wrong word, but it’s one of those words that kind of sounds right in the moment. I absolutely have my share of typos, (I actually misspelled MacAllan on this page) but sometimes in an attempt to write realistic sounding dialog I’ll intentionally use the wrong word because sometime people do that.
Especially when flustered. He seems to be hiding it well, but talking to a tall busty lady like Max, I mean Harper, some mistakes are bound to happen.
I just watched a hilarious video about this… it even has a funny name. I shure it will bite me in the arse at some point.
Probably ‘suitor’ is more common, although it also often implies “actively working towards a marriage proposal”, so it’s maybe too strong a term this early on.
its not common but a suitor can be one sided. i.e a hopeless suitor. even if he dropped the suit she still wouldn’t be interested.
I think courtier is correct. It implies noble enough to get random valuable stuff shit and lots of money shit in a way that suitor does not.
Imagine any one of those folks in that bar encounter Maxima in her regular gold skin and purple hair…?!?
Rowan would say, “You look like some tall woman I met a few weeks ago…!”
Now what would the others say,including that one lady who tried(and failed)to remove Max from the bar?
Given that Rowan is a firefighter, it is not unlikely that they might meet on the job.
And she might see him, slip and say, “Hi.” before she remembers why he looks familiar or that she’s not supposed to know him as Maxima. Oh, the trials of having a secret ID.
Max is a trained spec-ops operative turned colonel, I doubt she’d make that mistake. At least not until he knows who she is and both are in the early stages of love, not casual hook-ups. Max is just trying out casual meetings, not trying the one-nighter hookups. Max is a very strong feminist, so she’s going to test the hell out of this poor guy. No chads for her and he’s trying hard not to look like one!
Yes, it is more likely that in a stressful situation Maxima wants the firefighters to take car of something, sees him and calls him by name.
She is trained enough to avoid an accidental greeting. A random instruction (she is not positioned to give a direct command to civilian emergency response) is possible. And is much easier to explain away. It is in her interest to look up some people she might likely need to work with.
Just FYI: “Fiduciary” means “acting in good faith with regard to the interests of another” or “holding something in trust”; it doesn’t mean “relating to finance”. It comes from the Latin root “fidere” meaning “to trust”. The word is distantly related to “semper fi”, which is short for “semper fidelis”, which translates as “always loyal” or “always faithful”; or the dog name “Fido”, which means “faithful”.
It’s certainly a believable malapropism for this character to say though, so I don’t think any dialogue needs to change.
Just FYI: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fiduciary
The fireman is using the term correctly. Less Latin, more English.
You should really check a dictionary. Notably the Cambridge English dictionary: “relating to the responsibility to take care of someone else’s money in a suitable way”.
To paraphrase the fireman: “You’re testing whether I have the resources/capability to provide for/look after you”
Less latin, more English. The term is being used correctly it’s not a malapropism.
Max is trying to see if Rowan will try to impress her with spending big money on her like Deus has, I don’t blame her, “smug D” tries that ALL the time, so it’s a deal breaker from the top for her. She knows he’s got decent money, he IS a doctor, so this was to see if he can back up that claim to seduce her etc…
Max is still seeing what kind of man Rowan is, and I don’t blame her. Wifey tested me SO many times over the first years, until I called her out on it and we had our first real fight. I didn’t leave her so that was the end of it.
Depends if he is a resident or not. :) doctors go from absurdly poor (living on ramen and stealing tp from the hispital and having 4 roommates) to incredibly well off (private safe in your penthouse apartment with a personal maid, a 110” tv, and going to Peter Luger steakhouse multiple times every few months without thunking about it) within a period of about 2 years from what I’ve seen with my older brother.
Specialists is where the money is at, My Oncologist charges $1200 a visit, my rheumatologist is $800, my kidney doc is $750, but my family doctor is only $75. Depending on the hospital and which state it’s in, residents start out at a base pay rate, like any other hourly “slave” :p
I have no idea how much my brother charges for anything. He’s an anesthesiologist so I’m guessing the hospital pays him, although he also does run a few pain management clinics. But he clearly is doing really well compared to how he was doing as a resident.
In the USA they charge you separately from the hospital, don’t ask me why, I never got a straight answer. Most specialists after residency may work out of a hospital, but are not necessarily employed by the hospital. My last hospital surgery included statements from everyone involved, including the anesthesiologist. Hell my chemo was $2,000 USD a dose ALONE! I was on it for 6 1/2 weeks, so yeah, I’m in major debt, even after insurance.
American hospitals are running a racket with the health insurance companies.
The price on the bill is not what your insurance pays, it’s just a stupid-big number to make you pay more for insurance.
Or maybe he knows a really good beer that’s surprisingly cheap.
I’m about to show my lack of taste here (Haven’t been out drinking in years, and wasn’t really a connoisseur even then)…
Innis & Gunn probably isn’t her taste in beer, but is a nice light beer that won’t break the bank.
Or some mead. Mead isn’t expensive in general, but it is nice alcohol. (Most expensive mead I can find is $200/bottle, for reference)
You must be reading that definition differently than I am – Rowan is not using the word ‘fiduciary’ correctly. This has nothing to do with him managing someone else’s money, it’s about him spending is own money. “Fiscal” would be a better term, although some dictionaries confine the usage to government funds rather personal ones. “Financial” would be slightly more accurate pedantically, but loses the effect of demonstrating that Rowan a) naturally leans toward an educated vocabulary, and b) isn’t intended to be so blunt as to just say “money” directly.
“Rowan is not using the word ‘fiduciary’ correctly. This has nothing to do with him managing someone else’s money, it’s about him spending is own money. ”
You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct! You’re also actually correct, but that’s not as meme-worthy.
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Maybe he manages a trust and pays himself from it.
Nice work if you can get it.
Laphroaig and Glenfiddich. I like Max’s taste in Scotch. Granted I’ve never had the 30 or the ’64, but any Laphroaig or Glenfiddich is good.
Order her a box of wine.
Let her see how the other 90% live!
I’ve done this taste test. There’s no difference. Lmao.
I’m trying to remember which brewery it is where if you get their beer at the brewery it’s gorgeous, but everyone shits on it because canning destroys it. I think it’s an Irish one?
Reminds me of how the stuntwoman on Buffy The Vampire Slayer who did Buffy’s fight scenes was quite a bit taller than Sarah Michelle Gellar, and also was about 2 cup sizes larger in that area.
I remember listening to the audio commentaries on the Buffy DVDs, and as the action scene started, with Buffy’s turned so you couldn’t see her face and ready for action, someone on the commentary said “Look out vampires, Buffy’s put her fighting boobs on!”
So, there is some precedent that Harper could stand in for an actress in a stunt scene, even if the actress was quite a bit smaller than her.
Don’t worry, its not just hero men, Lesbians and Bi peps also stare at boobs!
At least Maxi knows that cost doesn’t always equal good taste
She will drink that stuff, but she ain’t paying a grand a bottle for it, let alone 120G
And most times, the cost per glass bars and restaurants charge amounts to more than if you bought the whole bottle
Check it for yourself next time: order a glass, find out the name of the booze, check the size of the glass and the bottle, then go to a liquor store and see how much they charge for a bottle
Another method is to ask any partenders you know (or might meet) what their personal favorites are. Basically, what is good for the price. They’re most likely “in the know” for what is good for sipping straight or “rocks”, what’s good for mixing (often cheaper stuff that still holds up well), what’s going to get you hammered cheapest (“We’re doing a row of shots, dude!!”), and what’s ordered by people more for status than actual flavor (but’s still good).
It’s like wine. There’s a big difference between what you want to drink to enjoy and what you want to cook with. Cheaper wines are just fine to cook with because you’re looking for the primary flavors that hits on the front end since you’re mixing it with other ingredients. For drinking, lean a bit more expensive but balanced in price (unless you just want to be drunk off wine rather than beer or liquor) because then you’re getting something that has a more subtle flavor profile where you have the “front end” flavors, then the ones that develop on the “back end” (mostly when you exhale through your mouth you get those flavors), and then the subtle notes that might linger after the others have faded.
What’s popular isn’t always the best. For example, Bacardi is often seen as the “go to” for rum by a LOT of people because it’s popular. The problem is, it’s more a “mixer rum” than anything because it’s a little sharper and harsh. For me, I enjoy Cruzan Dark Aged rum. Mixes well and mellow for when you want something like a Rum and Coke, but still nice and smooth enough to drink straight as something to just sip.
Then there’s other variants. When researching my first book in my series, one of the Trade Houses is run by a family of German origin. So I researched into things like schnaps. (Yes, with one “p”.) What we think of and often have here is “schnapps” (two “p”s for “piss poor” imitation… it’s pretty much hard liquor infused with a flavoring). True schnaps (one “p” for “perfect”) is stuff like Obstler Schnaps. It’s made from ripened pears or apples that are allowed to ferment on their own and break down before the liquid is pulled off, filtered, and distilled. Both will get you drunk… the latter is just going to be a more enjoyable experience getting there if you want something that’s not just made to appeal to college kids and alcoholics.
I’d describe schnapps as hard liquor infused with hard flavoring. I haven’t had it much, but the times I have, it’s been the Altoids of alcohol.
> And most times, the cost per glass bars and restaurants charge amounts to more than if you bought the whole bottle
That’s because you’re also paying for service, location, etc…
How much does a body part weigh? Fill a container with water. Weigh it. Put your body part in it. Weigh it again (after removing body part). The difference is the rough weight of the body part.
Body is 90% water, displacement of the water will remove the right amount of water, and it won’t be 100% accurate, but it’s close enough without dismemberment.
No need for the bucket, an average human calf is roughly equivalent in size to a 2l drinks bottle, 1l water = 1kg, so Peggy is down about 2kg of muscle, c4.5lbs. The bone and foot will add to the mass, but it’s probably the soft tissues that matter for this situation.
My favorite internet ad ever, laugh wise, was that text adventure site: LOSE 30 LBS, GET YOUR LEG MAULED OFF BY A LION!
No idea how accurate that is but it makes sense. And peggy is pretty buff for anyone, so I doubt she weighed 110 lbs to start with.
Speaking of Peggy and her weight (minus a leg):
https://www.newsweek.com/josh-sundquist-one-legged-man-insurance-company-bmi-weight-1690099
That would only work if the leg was intact, many times when a limb is removed is because the damage was too great, or the limb was already removed and they had to “clean” up the stump. if someone had a leg crushed and burnt in a car fire, there’s nothing worth testing in that manner. In most cases, it’s a “before and after” thing.
The downward glance is a difficult hard wired reflex to stop. I’ve missed entire sentences women were saying, because I had to keep “Don’t Look Down. Don’t Look Down. Don’t Look Down…” running through my head to stop the unconscious drive to look. It was like trying to not blink both eyes at the same time.
Trying to describe it has been interesting. Some women will do the same thing with slightly opened shirt exposing toned abs and pecks on men.
The closest I’ve come to a description is someone has an iPad hanging around their neck playing your favorite part of your favorite TV show or movie. They like having it visible there, because it makes them feel good. But you know if you look at it they will think you are a creep.
I am a scotch snob with a diploma in Single Malt Scotch from the Edinburgh Whiskey Academy. I find that scotch doesn’t markedly improve in quality when the price tag exceeds $100. Then again, I’d catch the largest amount of sh!t from my spouse if I came home with a $200+ bottle of scotch.
I done sample trays of Malt Whiskey at distilleries in several countries and after about 16-21 aged years I can’t even taste it much less afford it.
Discussions of this sort often make me think of the Audiophile Rule. A friend of mine is a stereo snob. He works part time at a stereo shop and skimmed the best equipment. His car stereo lists for more than my last three cars put together. He can tell the difference between one speaker and another and describe it. I can’t. I can appreciate high quality electronics but there is a point where my perceptive acuity levels off and spending money beyond that point just doesn’t make sense. The rule is when you can’t tell the difference anymore, stop. Anything beyond that is just a bragging point. I’ve also had it demonstrated that I can just discern the difference between cheap tequila and good tequila but beyond that it is just more tequila.
Similar experience in buying a violin for the offspring. Past the base level “okay” instruments, I don’t hear the difference, but apparently there’s a lot that I’m just not hearing. And it’s not just a linear better/worse ranking, the sound has a lot of subtleties, so the instrument we bought might not have been the favorite of the next customer to come in.
I guess experts in any area are going to pick up on details that us grunts will be oblivious to.
Also, some people will shop by price, assuming expensive means good. But just like any other super-expensive thing, price itself can be a status thing.
The same can be said about things like televisions and computer monitors. For a lot of people they want the latest high rez, kajillion megapixel display. After a certain point, resolution becomes a moot point because the average human eye can only spot the clarity differences to a certain level before you effectively plateau. Not to mention that we only actually see clearly in a very narrow cone and it’s the constant motion of our eyes (even the small flickers around to take in info) that sees at its best with the rest being fuzzier and just processed as being present unless we have a reason to look directly at it. (Consider that if you wear glasses there’s a given focal point on the lens where the image is sharpest because that’s the area you’re going to be seeing through the most… and while the rest of the lens still helps a lot, it’s not as effective for clarity.)
So many of these ultra high resolution TVs and monitors are mostly status symbols after a certain point because the eye doesn’t really get any more out of it than a simpler image.
My personal problem with things like TVs and sound systems is that I have sensory processing disorder. Two of the effects it has on me is that I can see a wider range of color shifts (I can differentiate between colors better than most people), and I have a higher sound frequency awareness than most people (I can perceive higher and lower frequencies than most people register even when listening for them). The problem with the former is that if the screen projection isn’t consistent all the way across I can see it and it bugs the hell out of me so I can’t watch it without being constantly distracted. (Think of a TV where the left 1/3 of the screen is just a little brighter or a little darker… most won’t notice it but I can see it clearly. I’ve given a TV to a family member more than once when that’s been the case.) The issue with the latter, is that if you have something like someone playing a stereo with the bass up even where others in the room can’t hear it… I can and can’t tune it out. This has happened even when the sound has had to travel through multiple walls, including one made of cinderblock.
Imagine how distracting a world Daredevil/Matt Murdoch lives in with his heightened senses. Mine’s not superhuman like his is… but having a significant chunk of your sensory input heightened can be as much of a drawback as a perk in many cases.
Never buy any musical instrument from a box chain or generic online store, they only carry instrument-shaped objects. But the 2nd-to-cheapest ones at a real music store are perfectly fine for learning on, and the mid-range ones are great for hobbyists.
But for a pro doing music for a living, especially at the upper levels, the sound-quality-to-money curve keeps going up for a long, long time. Although you can only tell in person or on professionally-recorded tracks playing back on a decent sound system, your phone/computer speakers just don’t have the ability to replay it properly. And even with top-end instruments, only a handful of people in the world can exploit the differences between say a $50K violin and a $1.2M violin.
All good advice; our violin teacher said much the same, and we got one that we are all very happy with (and cost half as much as my car!). We do also have a VSO, which we bought just for use in public school events, so if it accidentally got sat on or fell down a flight of stairs, nobody would shed a tear. But it sucked so much that I was worried those thing might happen not so much by accident.
‘Okay, I get that you accidentally sat on it. But where did the bullet holes come from? And is that…. confetti?”
I have a friend that went through the headache of the paperwork, and is now making his own Everclear! His setup is so fancy and complicated I had to ask what did what, but it is so smooth and refreshing compared to anything else I had ever tasted! His last batch was 130 proof and it had NO bite and didn’t bother my ulcer at all! He said he’s looking into adding flavors to his finished product (and no don’t ask, he can’t sell a drop by law, but he can “give” it away all he wants). Everclear isn’t the right name, it’s actually rum, but until he starts using dyes and flavors, it looks like just plain rubbing alcohol. He’s tried corn mash, didn’t like it much.
I know a bee-keeper who has 20 5-gal carbouys in his basement with different flavors of mead. He can’t sell it either, but all his regular customers get a bottle for Christmas.
You need one of these “Pay no attention to my browsing history” mugs, Dave.
https://www.amazon.com/Writers-Coffee-Mugs-Ceramic-Hearbeat/dp/B06XW93WJN/ref=sr_1_4?crid=OSVHL5CZYOQ8&keywords=Im+a+writer+not+a+serial+killer+mug&qid=1688392312&sprefix=im+a+writer+not+a+serial+killer+mug%2Caps%2C92&sr=8-4
If I drank coffee I would definitely get that.
Though I do enjoy some christmas spice tea a few weeks out of the year…
I don’t drink coffee either, but that would make a great pen holder on my desk ;)
there needs to be a shirt of that…..
I have a mug I drink my morning coffee from when I’m actively working on one of my novels. It says:
“Please do not annoy the writer. He may put you in a book and kill you.”
https://www.amazon.com/Retreez-Funny-Mug-Sarcastic-Inspirational/dp/B08B5DC8S8/ref=sr_1_21?crid=S9QAFUCM75QE&keywords=please+do+not+annoy+the+writer+mug&qid=1688443084&s=home-garden&sprefix=please+do+not+anno%2Cgarden%2C98&sr=1-21
Murder mystery taking place at a writer’s convention. “But I thought you were planning to kill your ex-husband!” “I was. I’ve made the best-seller list four times that way.”
The interesting thing is that in my book, a few of the things that happen were inspired by events in my actual life. (E.g., the MC creates an improvised thermobaric bomb that basically acts as a “bunker buster” at one point. It was inspired by my figuring out the physics of how I actually… and accidentally… turned a leaf burn pile into a thermobaric bomb that detonated with enough force to rattle our house thirty yards away. That was three years ago, and I was 50 at the time.)
There’s a medic in the book who is directly modeled after (including the first name, and with his full permission) the nurse practitioner who I see regularly and I credit with saving my life on the day I came closest to offing myself… in large part because of a medication I was on to treat my already severe depression. He will be making an appearance in at least one more of the books as well. (He’s been my primary medical care provider for over five years now and it was my way of thanking him for saving my life.)
The MC encounters a male victim of domestic abuse by his wife, and the MC’s own brother was abused by his first girlfriend before he met the woman who became his wife and cares very much for him. I’m a three time abuse survivor by previous girlfriends before I wised up. A couple of years later, I met the woman I ended up marrying. We’ve been together for 23 years, married for 22, and while there have been rough times we’ve always endured. I included it that way because I’ve experienced it, and also because I didn’t want to contribute to the trope/narrative of men being the abusers all the time.
A lot of authors use parts of their lives to inspire parts of their books.
Different rationale for the penalty, but in Baen books note Joseph Buckley, the man who died forever, or at least many times.
Ugh. I can’t stand Laphroaig. The sad thing is Lagavulin is one of my favorites, and when you go to a bar and they don’t have it, they will inevitably offer Laphroaig. And yes, they are both very peaty, BUT Laphroaig is salty. Salt is a thing with some scotch, particularly the Islay scotches, but I personally can’t take the taste of salt in alcohol. Similarly I’ve found when ordering a martini with a blue cheese olive, eat the olive immediately, otherwise it leeches salt into the martini and makes it undrinkable.
IME Lagavulin isn’t so much peaty as it is smoky, which is what I really like about it.
When my leg was amputated above the knee, I lost 12 pounds. Can you extrapolate from there? (Sixty year old white male, somewhat underweight at the time.)
A buddy and I were just talking about this: aging smooths out the whiskey, but the base is the same. Glenfiddich is nasty stuff to begin with, so I don’t know that 50 years in a barrel will make it that much better. Give me a Glenmorangie 18 or Lagavulin 16 over any Glenfiddich I’ve ever tried…
“Lagavulin 16 over any Glenfiddich I’ve ever tried…”
oh yes that water of life that I keep under the shelf from roaming eyes, Lagavulin 16.
Guess I lucked out on not having to spend a ton of money for “high end” wine.
even good wine tastes like spoiled juice to me.
cant even be in a sauce it tastes so bad.
I make my own fruit wines(not grape) and malt liquors then turn them into vinegars for sauces and pickle making. Sometimes I will make a nice 40 proof mead with chamomile just for the hell of it. I think there is a five year old barrel of fig liquor around here somewhere…
I’ll agree, Lagavulin 16 is very good. I enjoy Laphroig, and at the distillery the manager gave us Laphroig 30 to try. Not positive it was 30, this was in 2000, and back then a bottle was way over our budget.
Caol Ila and Ardbeg are very good as well for the Islay ones. Bowmore is alright. Only one I didn’t like was Bruichladdich. (The distilleries have changed a bit since then too)
I do like Ardbeg as well. Although there was one variant they made where they tried to punch the smoke up as high as it could go. That one taught me you can have too much smoke.
OK, so this has nothing whatsoever to do with the current story arc, so please bear with me.
I was just thinking, “Wow, this may be the longest we’ve gone without seeing Sydney!” Then I remembered, “Oh, right, she’s benched for 3-4 months because the orbs are low on power.” (*) But that got me thinking, “Hang on, there’s no way Dave would have his main protagonist out of action for that long (in comic time), even with a jump-cut!” So there must be a way for her to recharge the orbs faster. But HOW?
And then it hit me: the unknown brown orb!
Remember back when she and Max were comparing each orb to a function of a spaceship (PPO = phasers, Flyball = propulsion, etc.), and they were theorizing what spaceship function was still missing that the brown orb might provide? Some of the theories proposed included warp drive, holodeck, and cargo hold. But there’s one function they overlooked: power supply!
So here’s my theory: I think the brown orb actually supplies power to the other orbs. Rather than each orb recharging itself independently, they instead passively receive a slow-but-steady flow of power from the brown orb. Furthermore, by actively using the brown orb, Sydney can quickly recharge all the orbs back to full power, much like Green Lantern uses his lantern battery to recharge his ring. That’s why all her previous attempts at using the brown orb seemed to have no effect — up until now, they had never gotten so low on power that they needed a manual quick-recharge.
Of course, that begs the question of where the brown orb gets ITS power from. Maybe it generates power on its own using a miniature fusion reactor or something, or maybe it receives a flow of power from an external source (again, like Green Lantern’s battery gets its power from the central lantern on Oa).
Thoughts?
(*) Actually, looking back, it’s just the Flyball that’s low on power, not all of them. But that’s besides the point.
Brown orb also only has two upgrade paths: Recharge Rate and Max Storage seem like the obvious labels.
I think it’s the medical bay of her seven-orb spaceship myself. Based on her big use of the blasting orb, I think each has their own power source, as well as linked ones.
And no, it wasn’t flyball that ran out of power. She expended all the power with her blaster orb super-fusing a massive area and her atmosphere orb doing matter transmutation, which carried over and depowered the flyball.
So a med orb only has the options of ‘Repair” or ‘Replace”?
Or passive healing vs active, who knows?
I really hate this theory, because while it may make sense, it’s also incredibly boring. How would it help the narrative? What kind of interesting stories could involve it? It wouldn’t serve any purpose on its own. There are no problems that it helps solve that it does not itself create. Orbs running low on power? Sydney holds the brown orb until they’re recharged. Where else do you go with that?
If the orbs had a much smaller power capacity, and Sydney frequently had to weigh how much to use them versus when she’ll have sufficient opportunity to recharge them, then it would serve a narrative purpose in driving her tactics. When it’s such an infrequent event, the brown orb might as well just not exist. The other orbs exist to solve external problems. They do something interesting.
Ok, narratively, it justifies pulling Sydney off the stage so the other characters have some opportunity to shine. It’s just a tool for the author to say “Sydney’s going to go do something boring for a while, so let’s focus on someone else!”
Sydney and Max are the main protagonists in the comic, so it make sense to switch off between them. quickest way to kill off a story series is to have only one protagonist. I’m sure at some date we’ll have a long story about Anvil, or a longer one about Dabbler. Even Peggy had a short bit with Cora! Comics have one nicety, they can drag out for a long time on one story line, or jump weeks in a single page change. In both cases a simple message covers it well. (meanwhile or [insert time frame] later). Not to mention flashbacks and recaps.
I still say what I said years ago- it’s the Room ball. Power supply room, cargo hold, med bay. Whatever room you need, unlocked or accessed via other functions.
One might call it a Room of Requirement, unless one feared intellectual property lawyers with a distaste for lowbrow wordplay.
Being on an FBI list isn’t the worst list to be on. There are others that are far worse and some far more dangerous.
Oh, I really love Girl Power as it doesn’t use lazy art. Keep up the good work.
Aside from the art starting to look like those WikiHow drawings you mean? Starting to wish he’d go back to the beginning style…
Another webcomic I quite enjoy starts with one of the main characters realizing she’s been put on a government watchlist, and confronting her government-sanctioned stalker. Hilarity, conspiracy theories, and cyborgs ensue.
Regarding that Glance: On our first date, my wife was a little concerned that I might not actually be straight, because she never caught me Glancing.
I’ll emphasize the word *caught* here. That was clarified later on. :D My glances only happened when she was turning to look or point at something, so my eyes had time to come back up before she turned back.
Also, the joys of writing fantasy: a lot less research! Not none though, if there are any elements that resemble the real world. Japanese teapots, tea pets, and tea ceremony were my most recent ones.
That really depends on the fantasy.
My own fantasy story had its share of moments where I had to come up with a plausible reasons WHY dragons would need to have things like refrigerators and designated marksman rifles that are properly sized (and zeroed) for them.
The eventual answer? Humans.
So, anyone else suspicious that a random stranger, who probably doesn’t sample drinks anywhere near to that kind of price tag, knows exactly the price of something that crazy expensive? Maybe its the paranoia talking, but something doesn’t add up. :o
He was looking at his phone when he announced the price of the Glenfiddich – pretty sure he had just looked it up.
For the Laphroiag ’30, he knew it was too expensive for him, but it was the bartender who knew the price.
He looked it up on his phone, I doubt any man that isn’t high society would know off-hand the pricier side of fancy drinks, The most I’ve ever spent on a bottle of whiskey was $60, a licorice flavored sipping whiskey I can’t remember the name of off-hand.
The most I’ve ever spent on a single bottle of alcohol was about $30 for a good sized bottle of Bailey’s Irish Cream. My go-to rum (Cruzan Dark Aged) is about $15 a bottle and is nice and smooth. The Wife thinks I’m crazy that my favorite beer is Guinness Stout… or a good oatmeal stout. (She says it’s way too strong for her. Of course, she drinks Corona, so… We both like a good crisp hard apple cider, though, like Angry Orchard.)
I don’t drink much or often. I’m pretty lightweight as a drinker for a guy who’s 6’5″, 270lbs. (Mostly because, as I mentioned, I rarely really drink.) The rough part for me is that if I do want to have any alcohol… I can’t take some of my meds I need to take before I go to bed unless I’ve waited four hours (+2 per added drink). So a single Cruzan Rum and Coke at 6pm means I can’t take my meds until 10pm at the earliest. It would suck a lot more if I were more inclined to drink.
Max is clearly testing Rowan, I always hated that. Like when he glanced down and hesitated a moment to ask her about her size difference to actors. She noticed the glance and smiled when he didn’t mention her boobs. Women that have been used or “burnt” many times do tend to do that, my wife did that to me many times, even after we were married. I just kept up the respect and did my best to ignore the tests. It does work both ways, if I was dating a gal that kept asking for pricey stuff or going expensive places, I would end it, fast. Like the trap questions, “Do these jeans make me look fat?” and so on. I’d flat out say, “I’m not answering that, there’s no safe way to answer that!” So she’d give me the pout-face and pretend that didn’t frustrate her, etc…
Usually when a female asks a “trap question” it’s a matter of exact words and tact that the more socially inclined gender feels is more a reasonable test than the verbal minefield it’s so often taken as. Common valid answers often includes things along the lines of “wanna smash”, “you’re wonderful”, “I have no strong feelings one way or the other”, and/or the true communication fallback of asking for clarification.
I am not certain that either standard gender is really more socially inclined than the other. They just approach it differently. I also don’t think the non-standard genders are really less socially inclined than the standard ones, it’s just that there are enough people who question their very existence or their veracity for saying who they are that makes being sociable a process of navigating a minefield.
As for your safe answers, I’ve seen all of them fail to be safe, so I’m going to file that one under different people are different people.
Emotional conversationally inclined, then. There’s quite a bit of bias in the cultures I interact with to have more of what most women do be counted as “being social” than for men. And I was referring to the “tests of intelligence” a lot of women seen to instinctively put in their more involved conversations as being taken as minefields, not being sociable as a whole. Few would consider trick questions to be agreeable, removing that entire facet from consideration for that metric.
I only said they’re common valid answers, not that any of them are safe. It depends on the question, the type of person asking, and what they’re asking for. Being too pushy or so unaware as to miss a “blatant” hint for funtimes make the first and last answers definitely not overlap in safety, and being too clingy or apathetic make the second and third as well. That isn’t even getting into when they’re expecting a “right” answer instead of just a “valid” one, and anything not entirely in line with their expectations is insufficient.. or whether there even is a right answer rather than it being an actual trap. It’s just that *usually* there’s a “right enough” kind of answer for them to continue from. Picking “opt out of this conversation tree” instead tends to be at least a little disappointing as a result.
My wife was a bit of an odd duck, she had 3 brothers, 2 step-brothers, a step sister, and a half sister. And she was the middle kid, so getting attention in her family was difficult at best. A lot of guys took advantage of that in high school for her, so by time I rolled around she didn’t know what to expect. I know she thought all I wanted was to have sex, which I didn’t. I dated her for 3 months, then we got an apartment together for another 6 months. I didn’t touch her until then (aside from making out), so the testing started from the get-go. I still remember the look of joy and shock she had when I asked her to marry me!!! I think some of it was she was so used to fights all the time with her brothers/dates, so when I wouldn’t she couldn’t figure it out!
I figure Max is the same way, for the same reasons. I hope for her sake Rowan is the same type of guy for her as I was for my wife, I know she’s never been happier!
You could probably google “proportional weight of each limb to total body weight engineering” and avoid upsetting any monitoring software.
At least she didn’t order up a round of Japanese Angel or the like Hmm?
Alcohol being super expensive always amused me, mostly because it feels more like a prestige thing going back to the wine cults or *I spent X amount of money so we are convincing ourselves its better than it really is*.
that said something recent this reminded me of. A conversation or two I had after watching the latest episode of Helluva Boss *the lost episode from season 1 that finnaly got cleared to air *legal issues as Kesha voices Beelzebub and she was in a legal battle with her producers, not helped that she co-write a song in the episode *sung by a sound alike Rochelle Diamante*, well credits out of the way;
in the episode there is a scene where Blitz *an Imp who was having a bad night in the previous episode chronologically* gets into a drinking contest with Queen Beelzebub, which to qoute the show *from Bee’s personal supply, the hardest shit their is*
which we saw back early in season one a normal flask of Beelze-Juice can mutate a fish into a kaiju *demon booze*.
And in this drinking contest Blitz chugged the whole keg.
Which the conversation part here was, this stuff he just chugged is a restricted alcohol made by and for the personal use by the Demon lord of Gluttony. The kind of thing that could make the black market rounds in Hell among the more pompous nobles *the Goetia* as something they’d likely spend a small fortune just to have a small bottle of; and here was Blitz just chugging a whole keg of the stuff.
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Tenchi Muyo OVA 3 *pretty sure it was the third OVA*, there is a moment where most of the main cast and their “prisoners* are just chilling inside Tsunami’s space ship and drinking a special Jurain Sake, a normally ceremonial Sake only to be drank during special rituals and celebrations; and as the show said the one time a bottle went up for auction it sold for the same price as a planet. Yet here they were just drinking it casually.
Would it surprise anyone if Deus was producing an autobiographical movie with secretly recorded scenes?
You know, we can’t help but stare at her breasts when you keep changing the camera angle like that.
Most women are fully aware. Some simply don’t care at all for any of a variety of reasons. Some have rather poor vision and no corrective eyewear so can’t see when glances happen. etc. etc.
*All* the male NPCs? Please, 75-85%. And 20-30% of the females. (Those that don’t/do are either too polite/impolite or simply don’t/do care due to orientation.) Or a lesser fraction if you didn’t max out the bust slider, no point in glances if there’s nothing to see. Or more if you push the bust value past the slider limit? I think dang near everybody would glance at Z-cups.
Also, some women are so short, like my wife (4’11”), that whether you’re looking at their face, or their boobs, they can’t tell very well. A downward glance from me doesn’t change the angle that much.
She just admitted to me that she doesn’t think she’s ever noticed a boob glance, despite having an H size cup
I feel sorry for her spine.
While my wife was 5’4″ she was very thin at first, 99 lbs when she had our first, but she went from a decent C to a large DD and I had to give her upper/middle back massages and buy those pricey bra’s to contain her “growth”, thankfully she gained 20 lbs and added some upper body thanks to carrying our son around often. After the youngest she lost a cup size which made her happy, me, not so much ;p