Boob etiquette (a question for the ladies).

My friend and I came up with a method of measuring water displacement to determine breast volume in order to settle a dispute between some female friends. They had obviously different breast sizes, the opposite of what their bra sizes would indicate and the water displacement gave us good solid numbers to work with for size comparisons.

post should have read - "It wasn't as if"

I thought side boobs were just boobs when viewed from the side! I didn't realize it meant they were kind of actually located there.

lol me too

Jesus Aimless you are one goofy motherfucker.

but i know what abbie's talking about

thx, abbott!

http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/7396/differentiation.jpg

It came up in conversation as these things sometimes do.

We should chat more. :) Personally I really have to work to crowbar female ejaculation into conversation. My mum and her friends don't seem to like it either.

Also, as one who makes such observations frequently and enthusiastically, I think it's "sideboob" not "sideboobs". Thank you.

it's nice to tell a lady that her breasts look fantastic this evening, but i get away with it more since they know i don't want to touch them in a greedy manner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTi_ag2PGk&feature=player_embedded

Bah, try this instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTlqBFut4gs

Thanks for the diagram, Abbott!

so basically side/regular = 70's/80's?

So of course I have now spent the last ten minutes trying to determine whether or not I have sideboobs as defined by Abbott and I can't figure it out so I'm going to assume that means that I do not. I once had a guy friend say I had awesome pointy 70's boobs. I told him I didn't think "pointy" was necessarily the word he was looking for so he switched to "perky" which I felt better about.

Okay if you aren't wearing an underwire bra do your boobs kind of get in the way of your upper arms? Mine do. (When I was going through puberty they kept going further & further to the sides & I had this totally Judy Blume fear they'd end up under my armpis by the time I'd fully 'developed'.)

I disagree re sideboob -- pretty sure it's just the word for side cleavage/breast reveal in certain items of clothing that cut away under the arms! Not opposed to thinking up other usages, but I think Abbott is coining something new here.

Abbott - no, they don't. LOL at the Judy Blume thing.

Yeah see I always thought of it as exactly what Laurel is describing.

laurel's usage of side-boob is the one i've heard before

My misunderstanding of Abbott's definition made me think of sidecars, only with boobs where the car should be.

e i think your gentleman friend meant that they were "swoop titties" which is how i wd describe 70s era breasts

swoop titties!!! LOOOOOOOOOL

okay "swoop titties" is a phrase I can support 100%

"pouting" is useful too

It's like the titties are birds-of-prey that just spotted a mouse or rabbit in the field and... SWOOP

Ooh, "swoop titty" is a good one. That silhouette is the precarious state, which probably lasts for about 15 minutes in one's early-to-mid 20s, of breasts being heavy enough to round out on the bottom (and have the accompanying ski-slope curve on top) without actually sagging even a tiny bit.

Sci-fi illustrators of the era famously used the swoop titty silhouette on female figures but in a greatly enlarged version, which would be impossible to support in the correct form under Earth gravity. Must be all that space travel.

yes laurel that is the shape exactly

I think I still have that but only because I don't think they're big enough to really sag yet.

I think "swoop titty/titties" is my new favorite descriptive phrase. Thank you Elmo.

i use "banana boobs" for swoop titties.

i used it on another thread a while back and the term was not embraced at all.

I can't imagine why not.

hahaha banana boobs is some sort of insult I think

Yeah! Banana boobs don't sound good at all.

elongated yellow teats is all I get from that

NAGL

x-post YES. Not pleasant.

Laurels def of side boob is the one I know and love

bananas are delicious.

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True but that doesn't mean I want to picture breasts that look like them!

http://www.liveandfeel.com/medicinalplants/images/17_04/banana1.jpg

i prefer them ripe and as relatively unbruised as possible.

xpost - oh baby

sundae booby sundae

Did this just get really weird or am I missing something?

'banana boobs' I think is the idea of what I call 'tennis ball in a sock boobs.'

I feel like if a bra is worn with some regularity, anything involving figurative tennis balls and imaginary socks can be ruled out for life. I think of these as National Geographic boobs, for what are probably obvious reasons.

There is, so far as your columnist can discover, zero evidence that bras prevent saggy breasts.

"ground pointers"

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Laurel - as soon as I read "tennis ball in sock," all I could think was National Geographic.