What is the point in us having toes, it's not like we use them for anything.
Anyone got any explainations?
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What is the point in us having toes, it's not like we use them for anything.
Anyone got any explainations?
If you don't have toes you pretty much can't walk. :mark:
Tell me you're not being serious with that question..
I know you're not, but please just tell me anyway!
Yes. BalanceQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark
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:
So that Paris Hilton can count up to 20
because they're left over from evolution when we were monkies & really used out feet to hold onto stuff.
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/liv...n_page_id=1770
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?
I don't have any toes !! :eek:
I need a hug :dozey:
http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/16/16_3_166.gif
You need a lobotomy :dozey:
I can only assume this thread was started in the middle of a drunken evening :p :
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 ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by donKey jote
Next week's question - Do we need a brain? :rolleyes:
I always thought they were there so you have something to stub on the corner of the bed first thing in the morning :confused:
No just wanted to see what interesting theories everyone comes up with. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian McC
I practice on my toe nails so that my finger nails look nicer.
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.
I'm sure as hell nature would have presented us with something else to stub if we didn't have toes :(Quote:
Originally Posted by CarlMetro
I managed to kick a vacuum cleaner the other night in the dark. Lovely :mark:Quote:
Originally Posted by CarlMetro
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Originally Posted by RaikkonenRules
Mmm, have you never jumped in the bath with the Mrs? :)
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by RaikkonenRules
H'mm I'd be lucky if I did I'm only 16 ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Spoonbender
and you need a bath :mark:Quote:
Originally Posted by schmenke
twas only an old movie quote, but you raise a good point...Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazell B
So how many fingers do you have then?
I've only got 8.
oh yes and two thumbs ;)
You might, I certainly don't :p :Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazell B
http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/16/16_3_166.gif
Toes have their uses young man, believe me......Quote:
Originally Posted by RaikkonenRules
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....
Tonight is bath night :)Quote:
Originally Posted by donKey jote
...the missus is getting excited :) :uhoh:
don't forget the flowers :)
http://www.hotelspol.it/Inglese/ING%...ty%20baths.htm
Nah, she's just happy that I have ten toes... :erm:
Including that center bone that Hazell calls hoof ? :uhoh:
You mean the one that I always manage to stub on the corner of the bed each morning?
You ought to be more careful...
They say stubbing is bad for your eyesight.
...and painful.
Maybe you should get a futon, might be softer.
I'm off to me stables. Have a nice bath. :)
Ok how about we try to answer that too. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
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. :(
Isn't the coccyx the most useless part?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
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Originally Posted by Captain VXR
Nerves lurk there ;)
But you can break it with few ill effects I'm told.
Frankly I believe wrinkles are pretty pointless.
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