BS: Bra fitting clinic

Subject: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: gnu
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 06:49 PM

Soooo... I was on my way to The Real Atlantic Superstore this morning to pick up something for Mum and I see this big sign for one of the stores in the shopping complex that said, "Additionelle Bra Fitting Clinic Sunday 2PM Register Now."

Soooo... in I went in and said I wanted to register. They told me it was for women only. I said I am an expert in the asthetics of bra fitting and could offer comment and advice. They said no. I said I am a care giver for a little old lady and she couldn't attend. They said no, yer sick. I said I was just lying because I was embarrsed about the real reason, that being that I just lost 110 pounds and wanted to find out if a bra was the "right thing" for me. They said no, please leave. I said okaaaay, okaaaay... I just really like big tits. They picked up the phone and I left.

Sexist er what?

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 06:58 PM

Something tells me you are pulling my leg, Gnu. Because basically you are too sane to do a thing like that.

But we can wish, can't we...

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: bobad
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:03 PM

You should file a complaint with the Human Rights people - that's blatant discrimination on the basis of gender.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: gnu
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:05 PM

I wish for big tits, small tits, just any tits pretty much every day. I am still a young man. Well, a horny man, at least. It's just the nature of the beast. Even if I ain't so wilde a beeste anymore.

Crass humour? Tasteless humour? Yes. Sue me. It's Saturday night.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Ebbie
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:05 PM

No. I suspect they were discriminating on the basis of age. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: gnu
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:08 PM

AGE? That is specifically forbidden in our Charter of Rights! I shall write a god damned letter (Canuck joke) to my MP demanding access to tits be included in my Medicare on the grounds of mental health issues!

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: bobad
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:09 PM

Maybe the leer and drool scared them.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Don Firth
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:10 PM

I dunno. Someone here's putting up a big front......

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: GUEST,999
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:12 PM

I volunteered to be an assistant fitter. I told them my hands are cold but my heart is warm. They called security. Sheesh, ya know?

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: bobad
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:15 PM

I would always let them know that if they wanted to go braless I'd give them my full support.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: gnu
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:16 PM

Yes I do know, 9. I bin gettin the cold over the shoulder boulder holder all my life.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Don Firth
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:26 PM

Try a visual on this phrase:

"A nervous titter ran through the crowd......"

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:29 PM

What a bunch of small minded people!!!

I mean, gn-ze was just tryin' to be of help... I don't get it???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:36 PM

It's not agism, and it's not anything that's actionable. It's uglyism, and if gnu was better looking -- a LOT better looking -- he wouldn't have had a problem. He probably should have had something besides pickled herring and sauerkraut for lunch as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:37 PM

Gnu, plastic surgeons can do wonders these days. I'm sure they could enlarge and firm up whatever you already have.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: gnu
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 07:52 PM

Jeri? Enlarge? I don't wanna play with mine myself.

Hmmmm... would they look like real titties? That I could take with me everywhere I go? Just, haul em out and admire em WHENEVER I wanted to?
I was thinkin reduction but you do have a point.

Oh... ahhh... nevermind. Just a thought. Crass yet again, but certainly worth consideration. You are an ideawoman!

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 08:11 PM

The last time the subject of fitting came up, the surgeon doing the "adjustment" suggested some dimensions and sent me to shop for the necessary bra(s).

When I got back, and after the adjustment was completed, he assisted while I checked the fit.

(I've wondered since if he assumed we were married, but she was "just a friend," and didn't object. The adjustment was quite nicely done.)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 08:24 PM

At least they'd let you into the bra fitting, G!

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: gnu
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 08:38 PM

Oh, I might get in but would I get out without assistance from the pOlice?

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 08:40 PM

Truth be known is that there's more to this than meets the eye (pun intended)...

The P-Vine had an implant after her mastectomy and, well, things weren't exactly right... Seems that is the case for a lot of breast cancer patients after their treatments so...

...there are these places that specialize in "bra fittin'"... There a lot more to it then most folks could know...

Took these people 2 hours to get things evened out... And Medicare even pays for it...

Me??? They have a waiting room just like a doctors office with comfy seats for napping and lots of car magazines...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: gnu
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 08:55 PM

All of a sudden, I don't feel like jokin any more. Lost more than one close relative to breast cancer. I like titties but I loved my grandmother.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 08:59 PM

Sorry, gn-ze... I hated to have to tell ya what those businesses do...

Sniff...

B:~(

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 09:18 PM

my mrs needs her knockers felt up several times a day...

she enjoys the attention and affection, and slightest thrill of being naughty.....

maybe a bit of a problem while she's out at work ???

but I perform my duties at regular intervals throughout the evening
and at weekends...

..plus it serves as a handy check up for health monitoring puposes........

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Ed T
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 09:31 PM

You could always just go over to "Angies" peelers - they welcome tittie lovers/feelers/sizers/starers/rubbers/droolers over in that Dieppe bra-less business ;) That is if you have a spare $20 or so in your hip pocket (0v0)

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 09:54 PM

All this concern! Sounds like a tempest in a T-cup to me!

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 10:06 PM

The Germans had an immense bra (Die Grosser Bustenhalter) in the experimental stages during the concluding weeks of WWII, but it never reached operational status. Designed and constructed by Blohm und Voss, It was called "Gross Bertha" (Big Bertha), and it was as large as the Isle of Man. Or was it the Isle of Wight? Or the Isle of Skye???   Hmmm. Well, anyway, it was incredibly large. (Not as big as Australia, mind you...but still damn big!) It's not clear how they intended to use it, but it's a good thing they never succeeded.

The Soviets siezed the damaged Grosser Bustenhalter and some spare parts when they overran the famed German research site at Peenemunde, and carted them off to Russia in a special sealed train in June 1945. Nothing is known about the final fate of the giant bra in Soviet hands.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 10:14 PM

Back when I was in college I was more interested in un-fitting bras.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: artbrooks
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 10:21 PM

Swen said to Ole, "what kinda work you doin' dees daze?" Ole replied. "I'm a diesel fitter". "A diesel fitter - where do you verk?" "I verk down by Svenson's Dry Good Store" "Vat are yu takkin' about - you can't do dat at Svenson's" "Shure I can - I look at da ladies, and I go and pick out one a dem bra things, and I say 'dies el fit 'er'".

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 10:22 PM

From my German 101 class in 1957: "Die Dicke Bertha shoss bis Paris"

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Ed T
Date: 06 Oct 12 - 11:10 PM

Krupp: Is that the same company (Krups) that makes the coffee makers today?

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Megan L
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 03:17 AM

Actually they worked at breeding them andeventualy sold them to the Brits at a vast profit you can now see them in Cornwall, Big bertha and little sisters

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 04:45 AM

They swing to the left, and they swing to the right ♫♫

What you want g, is an upper decker flopper stopper.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: gnu
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 06:44 AM

Yo, Bobert. No problem. Just being moody... again.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 03:45 PM

So, this woman walked into the Cathedral, topless.
The Archbishop had a stroke.


The verger approached her and said:
"You can't come in here dressed like that!"
"Yes I can" she replied, "I have a Divine Right"
The verger said "The left's not bad either, but you still can't come in!"

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 05:58 PM

Don Firth...LMAO!

FWIW, there is no comparison to a store-bought bra and a custom made one. A good bra fit is essential and not that easy to come by, imo.

gnu...I hope you get a titty fix, soon.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Ed T
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 07:05 PM

There may be a "wet nurse" listed somewhere on Kijiji to assist you in an emergency, gnu?
Just speculating, of course;)

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 07:37 PM

C'mon fellas, this is unnecessary. There are serious issues to be debated about sex and gender equality (and "emotional intelligence") and you are simply handing out ammunition to those who believe that men are inherently [fill in the blank].

Of course you will say "Can't they take a joke" but that really does rather help to make the point.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: gnu
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 07:38 PM

Too kinky for me, Ed.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Ed T
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 08:06 PM

Well, are men not ""inherently [fill in the blank]?""

My concept of this blank (interested in women's breasts for sexual purposes, not baby nurturing).

However, this seems to be a social "type of thing", as it differs, somewhat, in different global cultures.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: gnu
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 08:42 PM

"C'mon fellas, this is unnecessary. There are serious issues to be debated about sex and gender equality (and "emotional intelligence") and you are simply handing out ammunition to those who believe that men are inherently [fill in the blank]."

You have the floor... enlighten at will. Matter of fact, if yer serious, you might consider starting a thread about them or threads about each as the case may be.

Why you would come on this thread and shit on it seems odd to me. Didn't you read the OP? IT'S A FUCKIN JOKE! NO more than a joke... a lark... seriously.

As far as your, "Can't they take a joke" comment, that is BS... you DON'T HAVE TOO.

Go ahead. Enlighten or start a new thread(s) or... you know.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 09:02 PM

Okay, let's lay it out...

No jokes...

Bra fitting "clinics" are for women who have had mastectomies and reconstruction surgery... I have way more knowledge about it than I'd like to have... I've lost one wife to it and another hopefully coming out the other side dis-formed...

I brought this to gnu's attention and ever since he has been trying to turn this thread around because that's the kinda sensitive guy he is so...

...maybe we just need another thread... Kinda a reset where we come at it from a different direction... There are some jokes and fun to be had but not at the expense of women trying to regain an image of "before", something that most men cannot understand... Unfortunately for me and two wives with different outcomes, I do...

Peace...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: gnu
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 09:19 PM

See, Bobert... like you said in the PMs... I did not know that. I just thought (stunned as me arse that I am) it was about women with odd sized tits. And, since I like all tits, and I do mean ALL, (no, not men's tits if yer thinkin of a joke) I wanted to make what I thought was a simple joke about my sexuality. If that rings true for any other lads, or lasses, fine. If it offends, TEACH me but do it by other than just shitting on me. Otherwise, I gotta say... tough titty said the kitty when the milk ran dry.

Seriously, ya can't make a joke without someone tellin ya why yer this or that and why SOMEONE SOMEWHERE is gonna be offended. If ya don't enlighten me herein, Ricky, start a new thread and I'll ask a mod to close this thread. Fair enough?

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 09:25 PM

Exactly, gn-ze... My apologies...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: gnu
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 10:02 PM

BOBERT! No apology is necessary. NONE whatsoever.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 10:49 PM

An intelligent discussion - with no jokes about boobs.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/lifestyle/2012/09/dont-mention-sex-war-if-youre-man

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Ed T
Date: 07 Oct 12 - 10:52 PM

""Bra fitting "clinics" are for women who have had mastectomies and reconstruction surgery...""


I don't know much about this topic....but, I did a quick Google search on this is topic (try it yourself, if you wish).

From what I read, there are many types of such "fitting clinics" in many locations, shopping malls etc. There seems to be an upsurge of women finding out, through these clinics, that they were not wearing the correct size, and (for the most part) they are no more than a healthy fitting of the correct bra to a woman's dimentions and not specifically dealing with mastectomies or reconstruction surgery.


While I have sympathy for anyones anyone's loss, based on that, the humourous posts (intended), IMO, did not go far beyond the good taste (beyond others on this site, that is). If I am wrong, just let me know, in the route gnu indicated earlier.

Generally speaking, this type thread has a very limited life, and I expect it is near the end of the line anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: frogprince
Date: 08 Oct 12 - 12:02 AM

Ok..I can't help it...I gotta tell this on myself.

It's been a few years ago now. We were planning to go to the area Ren Fair. It occured to my wife that an old-fashioned dress she had might be adapted to pass as a simple renaissance period custume, if we could find the right extra touch. So we take a look at bustiers in Victoria's Secret. She goes in the dressing room to try one on. It has fasteners all down the back. She speaks up, "could someone come in to help me try this?" A clerk looks at me and says I can go in there with her. So we're in there together, in a partial-door dressing stall, with me helping her get the thing on and off of 'em. I guess it was something about the "getting away with something" feeling; never been more turned on in my life; she about had to knee me in the cajones to keep me from doing something to get us "busted".

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Oct 12 - 12:25 AM

Good heavens, Richard! I am gobsmacked and mortified to think that you would think there is anything prurient in my interest in the history of Die Grosser Bustenhalter, one of Germany's most top secret weapons of WWII. Nothing could be farther from the truth! Are you not aware of my passionate interest in military history, particularly that of the Second World War?

For instance, I can name every battleship that served in the Japanese Navy in that war, and can also tell you the caliber of the guns it carried. I can do similarly with most of the other navies involved. I can even name every heavy cruiser in service in the IJN. I can further go on to bore you to tears by describing all the various fighter and bomber aircraft that served in those forces, the names of a number of top aces, etc...without prurient intent.

I am stunned, sir...stunned that you would misinterpret my interest in Die Grosser Bustenhalter as being sexually coloured!

Furthermore, I fear that the process of not offending you in any way in this and future threads might prove so arduous and elusive as to cause me to end up twisted and tied up rather like a pretzel...and I'd still probably fail to meet your requirements!

In short, sir...be off with you. Pound sand. Milk a stone. Go climb a rope or teach dogs to tap dance and speak Esperanto. I can't be bothered trying to achieve something as nearly impossible as meeting your fastidious requirements for righteous politically correct posturing.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: GUEST,Frank
Date: 08 Oct 12 - 12:34 AM

Did you hear about the dyslestic man who walked into a BRA.

Then there was the girl who had a third breast in the middle of her back......not much to look at but great to dance with.

There was a young lady from Assizes
Who breasts were two different sizes
One was so small
t'was nothing at all
But the other was huge and won prizes.

I'm out of here.

Subject: RE: BS: Bra fitting clinic
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Oct 12 - 02:17 AM

Devizes