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I reread Your reply Steve. I think we have *very* different ideas of what "not uncommon" means.

Just to pick a number off the top-a my head, "not uncommon" would be more than.. say.. three or four percent. Mebbe five. You?

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Looks like there are around 43,500 breast reductions in the US per year (https://www.plasticsurgery.org/news/press-releases/breast-reduction-in-young-women-improves-quality-of-life-decades-later).

Apparently that figure has held steady since 2011. To me that qualifies as not uncommon. Especially bearing in mind that weтАЩre only talking about women who had particularly large breasts in the first place which is already a minority.

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Assuming there are around 150M women, that's what percentage? I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader. ;-)

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ЁЯШЕ Really Jay? 150 million? You're going to include prepubescent girls in your calculation? And women with A-cup breasts? Less than one percent of women in America have a breast size over a D-cup (https://www.modernmom.com/a1d713f4-3b45-11e3-8407-bc764e04a41e.html). And you're not really in breast reduction territory in most cases until you're much larger than that.

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Okay, Steve. I'll let You calculate the number of women with D+-cups. I'm fascinated You have such an interest in them. Me? I think You just like to argue. But go ahead and calculate the percentage, if You're so concerned, and get back to me.

If it's more than 3%, I'll be surprised, but ICBW, 'course.

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"I think You just like to argue."

"Not uncommon? Are You serious, Steve?"

ЁЯШБ Yep, it's only arguing when I do it....

I agree though, I think we've spent more than enough time discussing the size of women's breasts.

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