You know how they say “kids are resilient” but really it leads to them needing therapy as adults?
I’m convinced a lot of the random physical pains of old age are the delayed effects of those childhood injuries we jumped up from and immediately forgot.
That is 100% the truth.
I sneezed at an angle this morning and fucked my back up. Also, why the fuck does a large portion of my body and weight sit atop a single column of bones precariously cushioned by jelly and rubbery bits? And if said jelly/rubbery bits get squeezed a bit too hard, the bones smash nerves that control my fucking extremities?
Nature really fucked us.
So many poor “design choices” in human anatomy. (Note, I know there’s no intelligent design).
The optic nerve. External testicles. Lack of decent fur. The way some nerves and blood vessels are routed make zero sense. An immune system that often wants to kill you. The list goes on. I’m sure a biologist or medical person could add plenty more. Many animals have some of these traits, too. If some trait or process is just barely good enough, nature will chug along with it for millions of years. Nature is all about some redneck engineering.
External* testicles are legit really cool though, they change their distance from your body to regulate temperature
*they also can and will retract all the way inside your body if it’s cold enough
Wait wtf? Really??
And I thought vaginas were weird…
Anyone who’s routed network cables can tell the spine is rookie work
I’ve spent a lot of time under false floors, routing cables in overhead trays, and neatly configuring cables in server racks so nothing gets pinched.
Nature is a fucking amateur.
A horrible thought I heard once and can never get out of my mind:
Our bodies originally had horizontal spines and everything hung down from it. Now we hold our spines vertically, but the internals now all hang wrong.
No idea if true (seems like it’s simplifying eons of evolution), but it makes me very uncomfortable imagining it.
Nature: Bro, it’s fine. All the other animals will think you’re smarter if you stand up straight. You’ll look really cool too, all tall and hairless and shit. Chicks love that stuff.
I don’t think we were meant to live this long. Science can’t just let us live longer without fixing our shitty bodies.
Science: Lol fuck you, you’re 62 years old, here’s a Tylenol, go to work. Maybe your overlords will let you rest in 3 years (if you have the money)
I’m not going to link the same Louie clip for the third time this month, but we’re using a clothesline as a flagpole.
Used to be horizontal until some weirdo decided they wanted to use front legs to carry their car keys and guns. Imagine doing a wheelie on your motorcycle (not mine!) all the time because you think you can see better that way and don’t like SUVs.
The spine seems to be working pretty well for every other vertebrate though 🗿
I sneezed on the toilet and tweaked something in my hip. It still hurts sometimes.
That’s what you get for trying to multitask!
/s
I’m 50, and a back injury from my 20s is like “Bonjour my friend, we meet again, ho ho!” It does come back to haunt you.
I’m 53 and some of my pains have totally disappeared.
Neck used to lock if I twisted my head just right while looking in the mirror. Walked around for 3 days at a time like C3PO. Knee blew out. Broke my femur and that hurt on and off for 10-years. None of that now. Weird.
That’s really awesome!
I haven’t had issues with my back in years (actually maybe over a decade), but it just came back recently.
I feel that. I fell on one of my knees on the ice when I was in middle school, and it aches pretty regularly and clicks like a zip drive when I walk.
Exercise everyday, then you at least know you are the cause of your pains.
A few weeks ago, I was lying in bed. Literally all I was doing was moving to turn and I pulled a muscle in my leg. Getting old fucking sucks.
My last major back injury was from hanging washing on a clothes horse.
I simply used my arm to grab something light within my reach and my back buckled. Now I’ve had sciatica for seven weeks. Piriformis syndrome is no fucking joke! Fuck the human body!
If you insist. 😏
This is my experience exactly. I’m sure the injuries of youth are why I’m so randomly and easily injured in middle age.
Coincidentally, in my twenties one of my friends was hit by a car going 30 MPH, and he got up, and kept partying the rest of the night. No serious consequences at all.
No joke, not only are kids bones more “rubbery” and difficult to break, if they do manage to break it they’re gonna be in a cast for like a couple weeks and that’s it.
If an adult breaks something that’s gonna be like 3 MONTHS of cast time (minimum) AND most likely some form of stupid physical therapy :/
It really do be like that. But also, cars are too big and drivers are too selfish.
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