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[Poll #806410]

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[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I've always felt that diopters is an awful measure of sightedness and I don't get why the rest os the world persists in using it. I'm very nearsighted (-8 in the left eye, -10 in the right) and somewhat astigmatic (.75 in the left and 1.25 in the right) but that doesn't say anything about the fact that my left eye is actually uncorrectable—the amblyopia, hypertropia and ... something else I forget that means the vision in it rotates counter-clockwise as well ... mean the best vision I've ever been tested at [with all possible correction] was 20/70, and I've been told that the best that would be possible with intensive vision therapy (that I just don't have time for—half an hour, three times a day, minimum of six months) would be about 20/50.

I'm completely right-handed; my interpreting equipment has a mute button that needs to be pressed and held down (not even a switch or anything), and I have a lot of trouble doing so with my left hand.

I'm 170cm, which is 5'7". I think bra cup size is different, though. Unless I'm mistaken, UK bra sizes are one higher: US AA=UK A, US A = UK B, US B = UK C, US C = UK D, etc. (But the average size in both countries is C.)

Last meal here was lunch, though black bean burgers are in the works.

bra cup sizes

[pne.livejournal.com]

Unless I'm mistaken, UK bra sizes are one higher

No idea. I suppose it's possible.

(But the average size in both countries is C.)

That's what I thought as well, so I was a bit surprised when at one point early on there were more 'D' answers than anything else. But the distribution has evened out a bit more now.

I suppose that means that the average US woman has larger breasts than the average UK woman?

Re: bra cup sizes

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Right. And the average US woman is also fatter than the average UK woman, which I suspect is at least tangentially related. I also wonder if part of it is genetic—i.e. a bigger, more diverse gene pool in America than in the UK, some of which is from areas where women have larger breasts—but that's just a guess. (And I suspect expanding on that hypothesis would get me accused of racism/ethnocentrism/something, so I'll stop.)

Possibly too much information, but G. was shocked to discover that my breasts here are considered smaller because he was sure they were average size (which in the UK, they would be)—and he was also rather confused to go shopping with me and find out I needed a B cup, because he was sure I was a C. That was when we looked this up.

Re: bra cup sizes

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Oops. I have the LJ Firefox extension on (which designates a random icon instead of the default), and usually I check to make sure my icon isn't weird/inappropriate. But, yeah, that's Gareth in the pic on that one. Heh.