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    • HOW is this possible??? I thought you could not go much pasta few weeks once you burned of all excess body fat. THAT IS ASTONISHING! I NEVER imagined that to be remotely within the scope of possibility!
    • Any interest in a fantasy NHL league??? Would KILL to play...but need at least 8 of us, and I know there are a few others....even if we start now with a random draft! It allows hockey fans to "bust other team's balls" and get to now each other, make new friends!  If interested, let me know and I will try again to drum up support, even willing to offer 1 bag of diapers (Megamax in the US, Betterdry/Crinklz in Canada as Canadian sellers offer those without the ridiculous tariffs...and not to the winner, but to the MOST IMPROVED player! The RANDOM DRAFT prevents those of us who are diehards from gaining an unfair advantage of those who are just starting out either as hockey fans, casual fans who only watch their own team and everyone who has never played fantasy NHL before. AV-A-LANCHE!!!!!!!!!!!!! (roller coaster ride thus far, scratching my head!) PS...I am incontinent, so NOT wearing is NOT a good option for me...and have been IC for over 22 years now....as a musclebound 34 year old, saw it as the end of my life....as a 55 year old? HONESTLY can state that NO ONE treats me ANY differently! 
    • When I wear a diaper to work I'll hold it as long as I can until I have a genuine accident. I also drink extra coffee and seltzers so I almost never make it past 11:30 AM. After I have my first accident I usually have another around 1:00 and again around 3:00. If I don't change then I need to be wearing a MegaMax with booster or better, otherwise I'm guaranteed to leak. 
    • Adam, Northshore products (diapers) in their own hourly rating order are as follows... Product Capacity    mililitres(oz) No of Wettings ml/400 Rating hours    Count per Bag    Bags per box    Items per box Megamax / Megamax Classic    1,449.1 (49) 3.6 12 10 4 40 Megamax Airlock 1,123.7 (38) 2.8 9 12 4 48 Supreme / AirSupreme 1,182.9 (40) 2.9 8 15 3 45 Megamax Airlock Lite Megamax Lite    828 (28) 2 6 12 4 48 Table Notes: 1. Capacity in oz is converted to mililiters by multiping the oz figure given for the 'L' version of the diaper by 29.5735 making the assumption that the oz given is in US fluid ounces. 2. 400ml is the average adult bladder capacity, where the average human voids 4-6 times over a 12 hour (day time) period. Since the body produces 3-10ml of fluid per minute through normal blood filteration, if one has night time issues that do not reduce this fluid production speed while asleep, in 40-120 minutes, the bladder will fill to the 400ml and void. The adult produces 100ml per hour plus a portion of the extra fluid consumed. Source data - https://www.northshorecare.com/adult-diapers/adult-diapers-with-tabs My Observations (based on what Northshore publishes) What I notice about the diapers and the way they are packed, is that you pack 48 of the least absorbant diapers in the same space as you pack 40 of the most absorbant diapers.* This would be logical based on the thickness ratio between the 'Megamax / Megamax Classic' 12 hour, 49 oz, 1449ml capacity diaper to the 'Megamax Airlock Lite/Megamax  Lite' 6 hour, 28 oz, 828ml capacity diaper, boring bit - and the maths gives the ratio as 4.8 : 4 should be roughly equal to 48 x 828 / capacity x particle size :  40 x 1449 / capacity x particle size. Since capacity x particle size is common in both sides of the ratio equation, they can cancel out, and leave 48 x 828 : 40 x 1449 which equates as 39744 : 57960, or 1.45 : 1, which does not equate 4.8 : 4 (or simplified as 1.2 : 1 ). Therefore, mathematically, there is waste space in the truck of 2% per item of 'Megamax Airlock Lite/Megamax  Lite' 6 hour, 28 oz, 828ml as compared to 'Megamax / Megamax Classic' 12 hour, 49 oz, 1449ml capacity diaper.  BUT... in the middle of this is 48 of the 'Megamax Airlock' 9 hour, 38 oz 1123ml diaper in the same space. This seems illogical until one sees that you quote that the 'Supreme / Air Supreme diaper' has an 8 hour, 40oz 1,182ml capacity, but state that its fluidic capacity is more than the 'Megamax Airlock' 9 hour, 38 oz 1,123ml diaper! Its almost as if Northshore is unsure of the capacity of the product it makes... OR thinks that a diaper with less capacity can last longer! It is more likely that Northshore has no real idea of capacity, exact sizes and/or how to pack diapers / outers etc. with minimum waste space into a truck. Maybe they place each outer on a pallet, where they can only fit x pallets into a truck.  * This is based on your statement that a change in outer size either +/- would reduce the total items in a delivery truck, and that change would be a huge loss for the company, not in fuel, but in the requirement for a second or more delivery truck. It is almost as if you are claiming that a delivery truck is full since the complete space inside if taken up exactly by the packaging of x outers, where any increase or decrease in the inner bag would drasticly change the outer box dimensions to such an amount that only half the count of individual items would end up on the delivery truck. Back to what you are stating - the tensile strength of paper is up to 83MPa, where plastic can be engineered to that level, but plastics have a higher elasticity than paper / paper products. Also, in manufacturing, a roll of printed plastic can be heat molded around a product in the packing stage of a production line where paper has to be folded. It is a different form of production line, and I can see your reluctance to employ it. In relation to the security of the product - ie keeping it dry etc, plastic has been sold as same, but plastics are known to allow moisture into the product it is trying to protect. This issue was addressed in the use of waxed paper in 1851... but again, this technology and process is been hiden / lost to the sales of plastic as a product that can do everything. If plastic was so perfect, why do you, as a company, not use plastic as the outers instead of cardboard? Final thoughts... I tried to suggest a way Northshore could assist in reducing the amount of plastic waste in our world.... by replacing its plastic bags with papers / cardboard, and Adam keeps throwing up roadblocks. Considering that even in its advertising it can't decide whether to lie consistantly, it seems, to me, as a fools errand to talk to these people! For years, products were wrapped in paper, some of it was waxed and/or oiled as a way to protect the product that was wrapped. Paper is 100% reusable. Plastic is single use and throw away. Today, it is all too convienient for producers to wrap the product in plastic. If we were this cavalier about any other compound on this planet, lets say water, it wouldn't be long before no usable water existed... and still inconsiderate greed driven producers would contaminate it. Recently, at a local shop, I seen a bunches of bananas in a sealed plastic bag, while beside it, from a different supplier, were bunches of bananas not in a plastic bag. Yes, the non plastic wrapped bananas sold out first. In other places, I've observed single items of fruit wrapped in plastic including individual grapes wrapped in plastic. The wierd and crazy part of all this is plastic is coated with oil, although in small quantities, and handle any plastic item, and the oil is absorbed, plus the micro particles of plastic, into our skin - and the food that it is wrapped in like that poor grape or the bananas, both have absorbed the micro plastics plus the oil (plastisizer). It is safer to eat anything else than to eat that poor contaminated food> plasticizer is the oil that keeps plastic flexible, where the daylight has evaporated most of that plasticizer from the outside of the plastic, but fruit breathes and absorbs it into its cells. It is why plastic pants, over wash cycles, get hard and brittle - the plasticizer has dried out so the plastic is now hard and brittle. This natural degredation of plastics is an advantage to the producers - it forces you, the consumer, to repurchase what you already own cause it breaks and falls apart. Some here have noticed that plastic car parts that used to click to open/close now have not got that flexibility and break. It is an inbuilt / planned obsolesence - an engineered design strategy that everything breaks and needs to be replaced. Consider this, there are roman columns still standing that were built over 2,000 years ago, yet modern (50-100 years old approx) concrete structures need constant repair. It is not that we forgot how to build, it is more to do with it is more money for the concrete company to sell the same concrete multiple times - however, for the world, all this money is wasted resources that always end up in a dump somewhere, where these resourses being finite, are getting more and more expensive, and running out.
    • 149. My Last Deception I woke up smiling again. A couple of days had passed since we watched the DVD, and I had already noticed that Tess wasn’t resisting being babied. If I gave her a pacifier, or asked to braid her hair, she would just accept it. I wasn’t quite sure what suggestions Ffrances had given her to enforce this, but it didn’t matter about the details. Tess couldn’t be trusted to manage her own regression now; so it wouldn’t be long before she got used to being a complete baby. The only fly in the ointment now was Spike; and that too was only a matter of time. I could be more comfortable with that boy being around now that I could think of him as a girl whenever he was present; but there was still the fear that he would try to steal my baby away from me. Which had gotten even more intense when I realised the next day just how little attention I’d paid to his attempts to grope Tess during the movie. Sure, I’d had a lot on my mind, while Ffrances and I had spent a good portion of the screen time making out. But seeing the kids following our example should have been an immediate sign that I needed to be responsible. I had to remind myself that he still had the instincts and urges of a boy, and that how I perceived him didn’t actually make him any less likely to take advantage of her. I’d thought it was okay because he was a girl and therefore trustworthy; putting too much weight on how things appeared to me. It had been the same yesterday. I’d heard that Ffrances was getting off work early, and had  signed off on my own work to get back here before her. The kids were both home, of course, now that the school had disbanded for summer. I’d come into the lounge and found Tess reclining on the couch, apparently rewatching Captain Kairo, although the video was paused. I’d heard Spike’s footsteps going upstairs, and immediately known that I needed to interrogate them as soon as he returned, to make sure that they weren’t doing anything that would impede Tess’s regression. But as soon as she came down in a dress, my worries had slipped my mind. That was a big deal now; that he was still a boy, and we’d managed to cure my suspicions, rather than the situation that made suspicion reasonable. Now my perceptions had changed, I needed to make sure that Spike actually started feeling and acting like a girl, then there would really be nothing for me to worry about. And with an email to Tess’s parents last night, I’d already set plans in motion to make sure that they would tell Ffrances what she needed to hear. “What’s that?” Ffrances asked, and I realised that I might have said her name out loud. She was awake, of course she was. She could be such a light sleeper at times. “Nothing big. I was just…” “Sounds like you’re thinking seriously. Want to tell your Mistress what’s bothering you, honey?” “I… uhh…” I stammered, flustered. I wanted to speak to Trish Naylor before Ffrances talked to her about it, to make sure that she said the right things. I wasn’t actually ready for this conversation yet. But maybe it would be okay; I was pretty sure that they would wait to talk to me before saying anything about Spike to Ffrances. That had been the whole point of last night’s email. I decided to go for it. “I was thinking about Spike. We need to help her.” “Help how?” Fframces asked, giving me a couple of second to think, and to put my thoughts together. The important thing was to tell Ffrances my idea, and then to set up everybody else so that when she read between the lines, it would seem that everybody else agreed but didn’t want to talk about it directly. Then I could persuade her to include some gender-change suggestions in Spike’s hypnosis sessions, and before long the horny teen boy wouldn’t be around to corrupt Tess anymore. “Did you know he’s transgendered?” I said, and immediately realised my mistake. “She, I mean. I should start using the right words all the time now. But I’ll do that myself, that’s not something I want to cheat with.” And I didn’t want Ffrances to change my perception full time, because that would just make me too complacent to realise when my plan needed a little nudge. “Oh, she told you?” Ffrances answered, completely derailing my train of thought. She was supposed to say that Spike was just cross-dressing to make me feel more comfortable, and then I’d push the subject, and say that Tess’s parents had suspected it too, even if they didn’t know the right words for it. Ffrances wouldn’t believe me, but we’d talk about what I thought she could do to help Spike accept it, and then when she got confirmation from a third party, she would feel obligated to follow through with my plan. But what was I supposed to say if she didn’t deny it? Just move on to the plan? “What?” I mumbled, completely thrown off my stride. “I mean… not in as many words. But there’s been so many little hints. She tries to say it, but halfway through she just chickens out and clumsily turns it into a hypothetical. She wants to be a girl, but she’s scared that we’ll judge her for it. I think she doesn’t understand that this is something that a lot of people go through, but… You know yesterday? We were both home an hour earlier than usual, and they were watching TV, didn’t expect us at all. Spike already in her girl outfit, even though they had no reason to expect me. That convinced me, so I kind of hinted that I understood, and she kind of… talking in code and euphemisms, you know? I think she hasn’t spoken to anybody in the trans community, doesn’t know how to express herself. But it’s clear what she wants.” Ffrances sighed. That clearly bothered her, and I wondered whether I’d slipped somehow, said something that she knew was wrong. Or perhaps, in the time Spike and Ffrances had spent together, he’d let the mask slip enough for her to be sure that he still had the predatory instincts of a man. “I don’t want to believe it,” she said, after a long pause. “Spike promised she would tell me if she made a real decision about this stuff. She knows about the help I can offer, and that was a long conversation. I thought we would just be waiting for the right moment. But if she’s coming out to you before Tess, I guess that means she’s still wrestling with self-doubt. I thought we were making progress… but I guess I’m too close, so I can’t analyse her feelings objectively. Or maybe she’s practising, trying to find the right way to say it to build up courage.” “I’m pretty good at reading people,” I said. “I used to think it was just knowing if somebody’s sub or domme, but maybe I can pick up this other stuff too.” “I wasn’t sure if you were joking about that,” Ffrances said. “But it looks like you were right about Tess. You predicted her behaviour, when I was miles off. So I think you’re more perceptive than I ever realised. You could be right about Spike too. What do you think we should do?” “I… uhh…” I started, even more confused than before. She was just buying it, without needing any trickery or even any explanation. That was one outcome I had never planned for, because I couldn’t even imagine it happening. And she’d already talked about this stuff? I guess that if Spike had been sleeping in her office for a while, they would have had reason to chat about some of Ffrances’s work. And she was a shrink of sorts, so she had probably come across a lot more people who really wanted this kind of transformation. “I think you could add something to the hypno sessions. I mean… I wouldn’t do anything without consent, but I think she’s just too afraid to ask. You could give her a way to show it without explicitly saying. Like suggest that she sees herself as a girl whenever she’s in the outfit; and won’t feel embarrassed about changing into girl clothes here because she knows it’s safe. Like the thing Tess has with baby clothes, right? But working for both little and adult girl outfits. Get over her insecurity about asking by presenting it as a general thing… like, she feels like whatever age of girl she’s dressed as. Make it sound like you’re intending to give her more control over the regression, but make it clear that you’re giving her the option to be a girl her real age as well. Without her actually needing to ask.” “I prefer to be clear about these things,” she said, but I could tell she was wavering. “But if it’s something she gets the choice to use how she wants… yeah, that might be a reasonable compromise. Well, our next session’s going to be on Monday I think, so I’ll suggest it then. And I’ll try to be a little more attentive, as well. After everything we discussed, I really should have seen that choice even if she didn’t have the courage to raise the subject again. And the same for being comfortable… I’ll say that when we’re home with nobody else around, I can help her to let go of inhibitions about changing into… whatever outfit she thinks is appropriate. Right? So I’m giving her the choice, and not doing anything that she didn’t ask for still.” “Yeah,” I said, my smile returning. I knew that it would be hard to get Spike to say enough things that Ffrances would actually go through with this; and even harder to get him to put on girl clothes, even without inhibitions. But I was sure that I could get into his head well enough; and before Monday, he would be ready to say a few things that would appear to confirm my suggestions, as far as Ffrances was concerned. My nemesis, the boy who wanted to corrupt my little, would seen disappear. And knowing that I had won this battle excited me more than I had ever thought possible. “You’re wonderful,” I growled, rolling over to pin Ffrances to the bed. “You can do everything, and help anybody. Never stop doing that.” She whimpered, clearly enjoying herself just as much as I was. And I knew that for the next few minutes she would be too flustered to utter a word; but she really didn’t need to speak anyhow.
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