Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT strips 3746 to 3750 (21st to 25th May 2018)
Pennepasta:
Regarding bubbles' weight - I remember someone making an offhand comment about riding a horse (I think? May have been a reindeer?), and Bubbles saying that she'd flatten it. Does that impact the discussions here? :P
Edit - http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3333. She thinks she'd crush a reindeer.
Storel:
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I reasoned that Bubbles is roughly 6'8", based on how she passes through doorways in their apartment (assuming they are standard commercial 7' doorways). The upper range for the normal weight of a large-framed human female at that height is just over 200 lbs. ...
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Whoa, what? I'm 5'7" and over 200 lbs. While slightly portly and male (38" waist), I'm also still a sinker, I cross my legs and sit on the bottom of the pool (much to the entertainment of children).
Females are often more buoyant due to a difference in body fat, and may well weigh a bit less, but I challenge you to find a solidly built 6'8" female in the neighborhood of 200 lbs. My svelte 5'3" daughter is 150 lbs easy (she ran track, athletes tend to be denser).
I can easily see Bubbles at 350.
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I had a female friend in high school who was a diver and cheerleader. She was fit, but thin. She was 5'9" and weighed 135 lbs (she swore I couldn't lift her, because I was so skinny - so I did it just to prove her wrong). She was at the very low end of the normal range for her height, but she still wasn't as thin as Emily. (Yes, athletes - especially runners - tend to be more dense, so your daughter's 150 lbs is not too surprising)
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I'm male, 5'9-1/2", never particularly muscular, but I did a fair amount of bicycle riding in college, and when I was 20 my weight ranged from 135 lbs to 140. By the time I was in my mid-thirties I was up to 145 (my first wife thought I still looked kind of gaunt), and then I started taking anti-depressants -- several of which cause increased appetite and weight gain. I'm in my mid-fifties now and I'm around 185-190, but you probably wouldn't guess it right away because my face and arms are still skinny (my waist is about 38" too).
--- Quote from: Pennepasta on 24 May 2018, 09:43 ---Regarding bubbles' weight - I remember someone making an offhand comment about riding a horse (I think? May have been a reindeer?), and Bubbles saying that she'd flatten it. Does that impact the discussions here? :P
Edit - http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3333. She thinks she'd crush a reindeer.
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I seem to recall reading somewhere that deer/reindeer can't carry riders nearly as well as horses can -- their spines can't support as much weight, or some such thing. So yeah, if that's the case then Bubbles might very well be more than a reindeer could handle.
Undrneath:
--- Quote from: Pennepasta on 24 May 2018, 09:43 ---Regarding bubbles' weight - I remember someone making an offhand comment about riding a horse (I think? May have been a reindeer?), and Bubbles saying that she'd flatten it. Does that impact the discussions here? :P
Edit - http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3333. She thinks she'd crush a reindeer.
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I feel like this was slight hyperbole on Bubbles part she does seem to have a dark sense of humor sometimes.
Morituri:
Data point: When I hit 6'10", and had a build more or less like Elliot's, I weighed 390 pounds. When I got out of shape and flabby, I got up to 430. These days, with a lot less bulk in muscle or fat, I weigh 350 pounds.
People tell me now that I am "normally" proportioned. That they wouldn't guess, until there were something nearby to compare me with, that my size is out of the ordinary in any way. I don't look fat any more, I don't look beefy, I'm just a regular guy who happens to be large.
There are a lot of tall guys who are ectomorphs - for tall guys, being skinny is more common than a "regular" build. If I were proportioned like Marten, I might only be 250 pounds or so.
Bubbles is the same size I was when I graduated, or possibly even slightly larger. As somebody pointed out, she is taller and broader than Elliot. I would be pretty shocked if she occupies less volume than a 330 pound human would. And the armor she was wearing isn't the 100-pound suit of medieval plate - it was heavier than that, and rated for modern weapons fire. I'd bet on it being about 200 pounds worth of dense metal and ceramic.
(Edit: For those who use a sane metrology, I'm 208 cm tall and now mass about 159 kg. At my heaviest I was about 200 kg. If someone my height were actually slender, they'd mass about 115 kg. I'm guesstimating Bubbles' size as being certainly no less than that of a 150-kg human and suppose that her armor probably masses another 90 kg at least.)
brasca:
It's amusing that Claire and Tai who are professionally at odds are on the same page when it comes to matters of romance.
And while this can also be construed as creepy there's nothing wrong with chatting about this as long as they ultimately heed Dora and Marten's advice to let this all play out naturally.
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