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WCDT strips 3746 to 3750 (21st to 25th May 2018)
Case:
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Aw, Carl-E, I remember you.
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#metwo !
Is it cold in here?:
You've been missed!
The best people from the time you were active are still here so you'll have some "familiar faces".
awgiedawgie:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 24 May 2018, 05:03 ---Well, there's your problem - weight isn't linear with height. As the one dimension (height) increases, so do other dimensions, in other directions, though not as much. If I recall correctly, it's about a 3/2 or 4/3 power, but definitely larger than 1. Not as big as a square power, but definitely not linear. Note the curve to the lines in the graph below (although there's a great deal of disagreement about the cutoff for overweight/obese, the BMI gives a good idea of the volume/mass relationship with height. This graph is for women, BTW).
Besides, most of those "height/weight" charts were developed off really old data - from the 30's and 40's when most governments first started collecting it to study nutrition and health - and people have changed a lot since then. Some of the nutritional info that was learned in that research has changed the way we grow so much that we're a much larger species on average than we were!
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I only went by what I found. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. To be honest, that chart makes more sense than the ones I found, which were linear. As the body's weight increases, it must also increase in strength to support the additional weight, so a non-linear increase is logical. Of course, according to that chart, it's still not unreasonable to think Bubbles is around 300 lbs. And I still think that anything heavier than that would have become problematic for a soldier - specifically in regards to equipment and to her fellow soldiers. We may never know for sure... one never asks a woman how much she weighs.
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--- Quote from: awgiedawgie on 24 May 2018, 00:10 ---I am male as well. When I was 17, I hit 6'3" (I grew 18" in 18 months - my parents had long given up trying to keep me in clothes that fit). I was 153 lbs for the next 5 years. When I was 22, I started a job that involved a lot of heavy lifting, my upper body got stronger, and I went up to 165, where I stayed for the next 15 years. Now I'm pushing 50, and badly out of shape, and I'm 200 lbs even. My brother, on the other hand, is only 6' tall and in much better shape than me, and he's also 200 lbs. He's very dense.
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Ah. Your rapid growth may have something to do with that, as the bone density is actually considerably less after a rapid growth spurt like that. I was one of the biggest kids around until 6th grade when I stopped growing at 5'6" and watched everyone pass be by through high school (the last inch wasn't added until I was 25). No rapid growth spurt for me!
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Exact same thing happened to me - I was one of the tallest in my year when I started secondary school, but by the time I finished school most people had overtaken me (I'm also 5'6", coincidentally). Oddly, though, I did recently go up a shoe size for the first time in twelve years. Is that something that normally happens in one's mid-twenties?
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When I reached my full height of 6'3" I had also reached my top shoe size. Curiously enough, in my mid thirties, I went down a shoe size.
Is it cold in here?:
One of the best predictors of success in a romantic relationship is having things in common in how the partners were raised and in life histories.
A compatible sense of humor is very important.
Their senses of humor overlap. I doubt that Bubbles's pre-military career had much in common with a childhood as a human in Savannah. What they have in common in their background is disabling trauma, which is not a happy foundation.
Undrneath:
While it may not be a happy foundation per say, they both understand the others trauma in a way that can be very bonding. They also have the shared experiences of them growing together, supporting each other, and trusting the other this is the best sort of foundation a prospective relationship can have.
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