sorry for the bad quality, my phone is bad up close
I hit my pinky finger real bad while hammering a nail when I was a kid, it broke off some of the skin but when it grew back it kinda has a divit in it. Doesn’t hurt or cause issues in any way but it’s just kinda a interesting part about my body that’s unique and I probably wouldn’t fix if given the chance.
I’ve come to love these little inconstancies that shows that a body has been used for fun and living, scars with a story are really sweet.
I have a scar on the back of my left wrist from when my wife and I were in highschool and had just started dating. We were at her house while her mom was gone, and I brought over a hookah because we thought it was really cool back then.
She had the hose you smoke out of in her hand, and gestured towards me, pulling the whole hookah over sideways and slamming the coal into my wrist.
Burnt me a bit and left a sort of small rough patch there when it healed but its been a funny story for us whenever it comes up. I usually tell the story like she’s an assassin trying to kill me with a hookah :)
aww that’s sweet
I can deliberately crack my joints by clenching my fists.
depending on how old you are that’s either a really cool party trick or super lame 😅
I have a dark spot on one finger that came from my ex wife stabbing me with a pencil.
I have single transverse palmar crease on my other hand. It’s estimated to occur in around 1,5-3% of people, so that’s pretty interesting I guess
The two toes closest to my big toe on each foot are “webbed” (connected up to the first knuckle). I’ve noticed people have this to varying degrees but I’ve never seen it as much as my dad’s side of the family. My right foot has it slightly more than my left.
Can you swim faster ? you might be the first in a lineage of sea-dwelling apes, if you would just commit to the lifestyle
I have never met someone else who has tested it, so I don’t know if it’s common or not, but I can blow air out of my tear ducts. When underwater at the pool, it looks like two narrow streams of bubbles rising from the inside corners.
Do you do it deliberately ?
I saw a drag queen use liquid eyeliner on her waterline (you’re not supposed to do that) and it came out her nose lol
Your tear ducts (and everyone else’s as well) are connected to your nasal cavity. It’s where tears drain and partly why we get runny noses when our eyes are tearing up.
Definitely more unusual to be able to force air the other way, but not impossible. I’ll sometimes do it accidentally if blowing my nose too hard.
You can push liquid through them too. Makes it look like you are crying milk/blood/whatever.
Neat!
My mom pierced my tragus (both sides), with a starter stud, with no gun. It took quite a while, probably 5 minutes per ear. Hurt like hell. I think I ended up putting in 8ga acrylic plugs, which I think caused the cartilage split all the way to the edge of each tragus. Being a rambunctious 16 year old, the piercings got bumped too hard, and ripped out. This caused the tragus to split in half, and it healed that way.
This was 20+ years ago.
My hands are cold, and my nails are a little blue most of time. What is more uncommon is that my thumbs are cold too.
My daughter gets Raynaud’s syndrome in her first two fingers on both hands. They will turn white and her nails will turn blue while her thumb, pinkie, and ring fingers are pink and warm. Been that way since she was tiny.
Are you on ADHD medication or do you consume an excessive amount of caffeine?
I don’t want to be rude, but I just share something about my body being not unique but uncommon, I don’t seek any help or diagnosis, I already have what I need.
I can’t make my pinky and ring finger touch my other fingers on my left hand. It looks like I’m doing a bad Vulcan impression if I try. I can however make them touch if I bend my fingers. But if they are straight, they flex out to the side. I’ve tried for years to correct it but had no success.
I have that but with my right hand. It makes proper high-fiving difficult and people just assumed I was lying about not being able to close my fingers properly. It’s really validating to hear someone else with a similar issue.
That’s pretty interesting. A shorter-than-typical ligament or something, maybe.
- I can produce rumbling sound inside my ears
- I have extra pair of teeth
I can do it to. Selectively by ear. This article seem to consider it highly unusual
but from the last time I saw this skill making the internet rounds, it’s not entirely unusual, as far as I can remember. It had comorbidity with easily being startled or something as well. If you are curious, a few minutes of search or AIing should have the correct information.
Can do the rumbling sound too. Can also wiggle ears. I can also make the air smell funny.
Does the funny smell come… From your… ears?
Due to a knee surgery many years ago, I have one leg slightly longer than the other & have slightly off kilter walk. A completely unlikely scenario in which I’m stranded in the desert and must walk for help. I fear I may trek for what seems an eternity only to find myself coming full circle. Again most likely will not occur. But if so, I am prepared to account for leg length deficit.
I heard everyone does this as one leg is the main leg and thus stronger. Lefties turn to the right, righties to the left or so. So your knee would either even you out or shrink the circle.
This can result in issues with your vertebrae. At least it did for me. If you experience lumbar pain or weird lower body tingling, act sooner, not later.
What will you do if you overcompensate?
They’ll circle back to this question later
My unbelievably large penis
Whenever life gets you down, has you wearing a frown, and the gravy train has left you behind
Is there a Lemmy equivalent of /r/BigDickProblems ?
That is correct. It is unbelievable. /s
We want to believe but are prepared to accept adequate enough as the most likely and probable scenario.
Eldricht PP
I get it. Life is hard.
Prove it
I have a sizable birthmark on my back that grows thick hair (the surrounding skin does not).
Do you have a pilonidal cyst?
(I learned from last time I brought this up: if not, don’t Google it. It’s a gross body thing.)
From a quick google, no. The mark is halfway up my back. I have had this mark my whole life. It grew (even relative to my size) during childhood. It stopped growing when I did. I had it inspected multiple times. It is apparently benign. It started growing hair during puberty
I don’t mean to suggest that you do - I’m nowhere near knowledgeable enough to do so. However, from my inexpert knowledge, nothing you said contests the possibility.
Apparently a birthmark on your lumbar region can be indicative of a pilonidal cyst, not a problem itself. They’re genetic. The cyst happens (from my very limited knowledge based only on having experienced it) when your tailbone doesn’t close fully and hair on your buttcheeks grows across the gap, collecting in the resultant opening in your spine.
I hope you don’t have one! Mine was no fun to remove.
edit: I missed the first time reading your comment that you said it was halfway up your back. From my understanding that’s not common for the affliction I described. I apologize for making assumptions.
I did look up pictures, and I have experienced nothing like that. Thanks for the new fear, though! Cheers!
Happy to be of service!
In case of actual concern … If you had one, you would probably know. Mine was not subtle, at least.
When I was very young I stuck my index finger in fire, it burnt a chunk of it, so now I only have about half a fingerprint on that finger.
Extra pair of ribs, which was fun at trivia one night…
“How many pairs of ribs do human beings have?”
“Well, first you need to know I have 13 pairs of ribs, that being said, human beings have 12 pairs of ribs.”
Neat. And thanks to Marilyn Manson, we’re still on target to maintain an average of 12 pairs of ribs pp
Do you know that Marilyn Manson got his bottom ribs removed so he could suck other guys’ dicks
That’s an urban legend. He actually got them removed so God could make him two wives and he could suck their dicks.
It doesn’t sound like it makes sense, but if you know, you know!
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Fun Christian bone trivia:
The “Adam’s rib” myth is obviously a retcon because even super primative people knew ribs were symmetrical. Hell, back then with less obesity and clothes, ribs were probably pretty obvious.
That’s not even getting into how bones are super obvious after death.
There’s one bone that male humans uniquely don’t have, and is related to why the Romans and Greeks thought a small flaccid penis was the peak of human masculinity.
We don’t have a literal bone in our boners.
A difference that humans would have noticed.
A more accurate translation is the “side” of Adam, with the idea he was made from mud or clay and that part was pinched off as you’d do pottery to make Eve.
