Why do we have toes?

[RaikkonenRules]

What is the point in us having toes, it's not like we use them for anything.

Anyone got any explainations?

[Mark]

If you don't have toes you pretty much can't walk. :mark:

[Jefe Máximo]

Tell me you're not being serious with that question..

I know you're not, but please just tell me anyway!

[Daniel]

If you don't have toes you pretty much can't walk. :mark:
Yes. Balance

[Brown, Jon Brow]

To walk you use your heel and toes. The most useless part of the foot is the middle bit. All that it does is connects the heels to toes :\

When you take a step you use your toes for balance on your back foot.

On a more serious note RaikkonenRules, THIS SHOULD BE IN 'THE SERIOUS QUESTION THREAD'!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

[oily oaf]

So that Paris Hilton can count up to 20

[johnny shell]

because they're left over from evolution when we were monkies & really used out feet to hold onto stuff.

[GridGirl]

I was going to say so we can wear Flip Flops, however I've just bought a pair of FlipFlops that don't flip or flop. I cant wait untill they arrive so I can test them out. :D

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465241&in_page_id=1770

[LotusElise]

It's impossible to walk without your big toe, apparently, although the other toes are less useful.
A foot with one toe would like really odd though, wouldn't it?

[donKey jote]

I don't have any toes !! :eek:
I need a hug :dozey:
http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/16/16_3_166.gif

[schmenke]

You need a lobotomy :dozey:

[Ian McC]

I can only assume this thread was started in the middle of a drunken evening :p :

[Hazell B]

I don't have any toes !! :eek:
I need a hug

You do have toes. In fact you have all the exact same bones as us humans, but just the centre toe is showing and it calls itself a hoof ;)

Next week's question - Do we need a brain? :rolleyes:

[CarlMetro]

I always thought they were there so you have something to stub on the corner of the bed first thing in the morning :confused:

[RaikkonenRules]

I can only assume this thread was started in the middle of a drunken evening :p :

No just wanted to see what interesting theories everyone comes up with. :)

[johnny shell]

I practice on my toe nails so that my finger nails look nicer.

[fasttrakker55]

Why do we have brains? So as to not ask some pretty dumb questions I guess. Oh, my question applies to most and not all of us BTW.

[martinbalmer]

I always thought they were there so you have something to stub on the corner of the bed first thing in the morning :confused:

I'm sure as hell nature would have presented us with something else to stub if we didn't have toes :(

[Daniel]

I always thought they were there so you have something to stub on the corner of the bed first thing in the morning :confused:

I managed to kick a vacuum cleaner the other night in the dark. Lovely :mark:

[Spoonbender]

What is the point in us having toes, it's not like we use them for anything.

Anyone got any explainations?



Mmm, have you never jumped in the bath with the Mrs? :)

[Hondo]

What is the point in us having toes, it's not like we use them for anything.

Anyone got any explainations?

Yeah. You got toes so you can tell whether you're facing frontwards or backwards. If you look down and see toes, your ass is behind you, which you should now be able to find with both hands.

[RaikkonenRules]

Mmm, have you never jumped in the bath with the Mrs? :)

H'mm I'd be lucky if I did I'm only 16 ;)

[donKey jote]

You need a lobotomy :dozey:

and you need a bath :mark:

[donKey jote]

You do have toes. In fact you have all the exact same bones as us humans, but just the centre toe is showing and it calls itself a hoof ;)
twas only an old movie quote, but you raise a good point...
So how many fingers do you have then?
I've only got 8.
oh yes and two thumbs ;)


Next week's question - Do we need a brain? :rolleyes:

You might, I certainly don't :p :

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[Mark in Oshawa]

H'mm I'd be lucky if I did I'm only 16 ;)

Toes have their uses young man, believe me......

If you want to ask what is a useless body part is, wonder why we have an appendix. Why do we have Wisdom Teeth?

Evolutionary dead ends for sure. At least toes keep your foot from falling over and you with it....

Talk to someone who has lost toes how much their mobility suffers. A friend of mine when I was a kid had a dad that lost a few toes and had to relearn how to walk, and to this day limps. Running was never an option....

[schmenke]

and you need a bath :mark:

Tonight is bath night :)

...the missus is getting excited :) :uhoh:

[donKey jote]

don't forget the flowers :)

http://www.hotelspol.it/Inglese/ING%20beauty%20baths.htm

[schmenke]

Nah, she's just happy that I have ten toes... :erm:

[donKey jote]

Including that center bone that Hazell calls hoof ? :uhoh:

[schmenke]

You mean the one that I always manage to stub on the corner of the bed each morning?

[donKey jote]

You ought to be more careful...
They say stubbing is bad for your eyesight.

[schmenke]

...and painful.

[donKey jote]

Maybe you should get a futon, might be softer.


I'm off to me stables. Have a nice bath. :)

[RaikkonenRules]

Toes have their uses young man, believe me......

If you want to ask what is a useless body part is, wonder why we have an appendix. Why do we have Wisdom Teeth?

Ok how about we try to answer that too. :)

[Donney]

I don't have wisdom teeth :dork:

As well as a broken femur, my son lost most of one big toe in a motor cycle crash a few years ago. He seems to have compensated really well and doesn't have a limp. Latest injury - foot broken in three places after coming off a mountain bike. :(

[Captain VXR]

Toes have their uses young man, believe me......

If you want to ask what is a useless body part is, wonder why we have an appendix. Why do we have Wisdom Teeth?

Evolutionary dead ends for sure. At least toes keep your foot from falling over and you with it....

Talk to someone who has lost toes how much their mobility suffers. A friend of mine when I was a kid had a dad that lost a few toes and had to relearn how to walk, and to this day limps. Running was never an option....

Isn't the coccyx the most useless part?

[Hazell B]

Isn't the coccyx the most useless part?


Nerves lurk there ;)
But you can break it with few ill effects I'm told.

Frankly I believe wrinkles are pretty pointless.

[jso1985]

might be, infact the other day I saw a radiography of a women who didn't have any coccyx bone(or at least it looked like it was fully attacched to the sacrum), and she never had any problem around that area. from what I know the muscles needed for pooping are attacched to the coccyx