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[Tack]

Kids have a tendency to grab on to you, to make them easier to carry. Also much of the weight is taken on your hip in the traditional carry stance.
Holding a box two-handed in front of you is comparatively far, far heavier.

That being said, most people who carry boxes often generally learn to catch one edge on their belt, which makes it a darn sight lighter.
It's all about muscle groups.

[misko27]

i have no innate sense of how much a pound is okay

For reference, when I was born I weighed 9-pounds, and that was enough to break my mother's tailbone.

A 70-pound pregnancy is like a zebra (yes I had to look that up).

If you've got a 70 pound baby in your stomach, something is horribly wrong.

She's talking about carrying around toddlers.

If you have any amount of baby in your stomach, there really is a problem; let alone 70 pounds.

[Rose]

Look, I happened to pig out on veal, okay?

[Vector]

Kids have a tendency to grab on to you, to make them easier to carry. Also much of the weight is taken on your hip in the traditional carry stance.
Holding a box two-handed in front of you is comparatively far, far heavier.

This is why, when I'm carrying boxes of books, I usually carry them wedged on my hip.  *shrog*

[scriver]

Gender roles are pure bullshit, plain and simple. If we spent more time doing what we wanted, instead of what other people want us to do, the world would be a much happier place.

Yeah, this is really one of those issues where not caring enough about your fellow man is the problem, not caring too much.

[Tiruin]

Funny thing I've researched (ok, inferred from medical data): Men are naturally 'stronger' than women (due to hormones and all, puberty, and the development of the body...), but how strong they are is relative--muscle mass and such; it was a general assumption which exploded into a common belief despite the details being sketchy, though as a general fact there was little difference between what labors can be done by either sex, just the body build being different (differences also lie in the skeletal structure).

Sad thing in my opinion: these beliefs began to become a statement of 'what you can/cannot do'...despite as a whole-it doesn't make sense to classify by such.

..
*points to something summarzing all of this*

Gender roles are pure bullshit, plain and simple. If we spent more time doing what we wanted, instead of what other people want us to do, the world would be a much happier place.

Yeah, this is really one of those issues where not caring enough about your fellow man is the problem, not caring too much.

^
Anyone can do anything. Literally.

[Xantalos]

Funny thing I've researched (ok, inferred from medical data): Men are naturally 'stronger' than women (due to hormones and all, puberty, and the development of the body...), but how strong they are is relative--muscle mass and such; it was a general assumption which exploded into a common belief despite the details being sketchy, though as a general fact there was little difference between what labors can be done by either sex, just the body build being different (differences also lie in the skeletal structure).

Sad thing in my opinion: these beliefs began to become a statement of 'what you can/cannot do'...despite as a whole-it doesn't make sense to classify by such.

..
*points to something summarzing all of this*

Gender roles are pure bullshit, plain and simple. If we spent more time doing what we wanted, instead of what other people want us to do, the world would be a much happier place.

Yeah, this is really one of those issues where not caring enough about your fellow man is the problem, not caring too much.

^
Anyone can do anything. Literally.

I couldn't stop myself

[kaijyuu]

If you have any amount of baby in your stomach, there really is a problem; let alone 70 pounds.

You've never heard people use the word that way? "Stomach" is quite often used for most things in the abdomen area, at least where I've lived. Especially when talking about pregnant women, as it's a... politer? term than uterus.

If you haven't heard "stomach" used that way, how about "tummy"?

[Eric Blank]

Anyone can do anything. Literally.

So long as it's within the realm of human capability, yes. None of us are going to be flying like super heroes anytime soon

What sadded me today: discussing existentialism in philosophy.

[kaijyuu]

Existentialism is great! Nihilism is the downer.

[Frumple]

Nihilism's pretty freeing, imo, if you spin it the right way. If nothing has value, everything is equal in value, and what is is what you make of it.

Existentialism is a bloody power trip of the best sort. Can be, anyway. It's the good stuff.

[Tiruin]

Anyone can do anything. Literally.

I couldn't stop myself

I obviously meant that with the unspoked 'with common sense.' :/

[Xantalos]

Anyone can do anything. Literally.

I couldn't stop myself

I obviously meant that with the unspoked 'with common sense.' :/

The sentiment is too funny to waste on such trivialities as sanity or common sense, though :\/\>

[misko27]

Nihilism's pretty freeing, imo, if you spin it the right way.

In its dress clothes even pure cynicism seems a pleasant and reasonable thing.

[mastahcheese]

Nihilism's pretty freeing, imo, if you spin it the right way.

In its dress clothes even pure cynicism seems a pleasant and reasonable thing.

What about a classy suit?