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I see. But 30 dollars in change are heavy and impractical to carry around. Even if it's the same value, I'd have to prefer the Bills. My wife is rather petite and has to carry around a lot of change and says it's tiresome at times.
- As someone who has 30$ in bills, even they get in the way and manage to be obnoxious. There was a girl in my middleschool who had "a lot* of change and she was constantly miserable. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
  
  IDK if this is actually a fashion trend but, I've noticed recently some girls with $30 in bills going braless? Like dressed up professionally for office job, sans bra.
  I would 100% do this.
  I would be annoyed if I was unable to because I had too much change.
  
  Yeah, a lot of women are rebelling against the idea that you have to wear a bra to look "professional". Truly people should be able to do what makes them comfortable. I wish I could go bra-less, but my back would give out before the end of the day.
  
  I agree they should do whatever makes them comfortable. I also 100% acknowledge that this is a me problem, but I find it very "distracting" in a sexy way. I suspect I just need to get used to it and I'm here for that journey.
  
  Yeah, just like bare shoulders and ankles, I think people will get used to it over time.
  
  If you noticed and are distracted (and you're not the only one), I'd argue that it's a them problem not a you problem. If you're "dressed up professionally for an office environment", that dress code is supposed to be boring, conservative, modest clothing. I personally hate workplaces like that, but if that's the kind of place you work, then that's the expectation.
  Assuming what you found distracting were nipples, there are ways of not wearing bras while still keeping nipples hidden or at least discrete. If someone's supposed to be "dressed up professionally for an office job", it's reasonable to say that someone who isn't making an effort to hide her nipples isn't meeting the dress code. It would be the same if a guy came in wearing a skin-tight shirt from Father Sons.
  I would love it if we lived in a world where workplaces just let people wear the clothing that made them comfortable, but until we reach that world, people who have to dress conservatively for a business environment are going to have to cover up.
  
  I grew up before the trend of women being required to have shapeless lumps for breasts and welcome with my whole heart the demise of the foam padded bras and gods damned, horrifyingly named "modesty pads". There is no way that having nipples should be considered unprofessional but here we are. I don't like the look of the lumps and don't like the implication that only the unnatural smooth look is professional.
  
  I think it's way more stigmatized in the US than it is in the EU, for example. I've seen a lot of nips in professional settings that I find shocking, but only because it's made me realize how much it is sexualized? in the US. Which is weird.
  
  I feel like we're going back more to bra-less or "less structured" styles for all sizes, or at least I see it more, which I think is cool. A large portion of people also have pains with bras because there is a lot of shitty/predatory retailers that don't stock "uncommon" sizes and will try to shove you into "something" so you leave with a purchase so I think it's kind of a twofold thing. It is shockingly hard to find weird/uncommon sizes outside of online or boutique stores too which can get pricey fast, and finding or having the money to properly find a bra that fits is honestly frustrating because there is huge fluctuation between brands (when there shouldn't be!!!).
  I personally am not a fan of bearing nips to the world so I'm forever stuck with bras/pasties but maybe one day lol.
  
  This is why schools need vending machines
- "my wife is rather petite" also supports your view point on the topic.
  BUT another way of viewing the topic is that $30 in paper money only has that value because it has it written on it. If you set them both on fire and melt them, copper and nickel maintain a lot more of their value than paper currency.
  So really it can be argued either way ¯⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯
  
  Analogies only go so far. Even the best will break down if you stretch it too far.
  
  I like contactless payment, but these contactless tits aren't for me.
  Do you remember those days when you'd go abroad and have to exchange your tits for the local tits? It was nice trying to collect them.
  
  This makes no sence.
  This whole post is about bills vs coins and yall are using some kinda badly frammed tiddie metaphor
  
  It literally could not be more straightforward~.
  
  I, for one, would greatly prefer breasts that are acceptable currency at vending machines.
  
  So richer women would have bigger boobs? And paying for things made them smaller?
  
  This sounds like a reimagining of that In Time movie. I'd watch it.
  
  Bro you saw the answer. They have the same value despite different sizes. It's simple. Basic. Elementary. 😉
  Joking aside; no I'm totally serious. They should have semi-automated mammogram vending machines that pay people to get tested and they should be as common as the blood pressure kiosks at pharmacies (which should also pay people to use them). The value of catching more treatable diseases earlier in their progression would well outweigh the cost.
  
  If you ever get lost, $30 in coins will also allow you to leave a longer trail than $30 in bills, thus the change allows for more stretching of the analogy!
  
  Oh absolutely! it's just fun to break them down to see how they would work,
  Kinda like taking apart toys to get to the insides. You'll end up with broken toys.
  ↑ There's another analogy to break down
- I came to a similar conclusion from the greentext. Big and small are valuable but one is more convenient to carry around with you (due to the mass).
  E: I think I see the tumblr users' confusion here... the sentence
  Suppose you had $30 in coins as well, which would have greater mass?
  can be interpreted like a semicolon or separate sentence...
  Suppose you had $30 in coins as well. Which would have greater mass?
  or as a extension describing the object...
  Suppose you had $30 in coins which would have greater mass as well?
  Some might have taken the latter interpretation which makes the rest of the story incomprehensible.
  
  The latter interpretation is itself incomprehensible. So yes, it renders the story incomprehensible, but I don't know why anyone would consider it.
  
  You are correct it is, I'm trying to highlight where things diverged in the story into gibberish, which is not easy to tell for someone that lost the thread of the story there. The word "which" is the key difference, so if people miss the first interpretation and go with the other cadence when reading.
  Try this: Read the word "which" in the original sentence in your head or out loud once with a higher pitch than the rest of the sentence. Then try reading the sentence again with the word "which" at the same or lower pitch as the rest. If the reader goes the wrong path then they might not even realize that the alternative is there.
  
  Ok fair enough, but I don't think it matters specifically how they got to their ridiculous interpretation. The problem is that instead of thinking "hey, I probably misunderstood, I should read that over again" they just started going "REEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

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