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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - what are toenails for? what is thier purpose? were they engineered into us and why?

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:27:44 AM EDT

Saturday morning debate:

what are toenails for? what is thier function?

I think they have no function, and we could do without them and they are an evolutionary byproduct much like the same way that male nipples are a byproduct of female...er, nipples

What say you? what are toenails for?

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:30:40 AM EDT

[#1]

For chewing on.

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:31:05 AM EDT

[#2]

When it comes to something as complex as the human body, I think there is a reason for everything

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:31:11 AM EDT

[#3]

if you let them grow long enought you can use them as cleats...

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:31:17 AM EDT

[#4]

We are meant to use the clippings as a tool to dig parasites from our skin and teeth.

I wonder what a stubbed toe would feel like without a nail.

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:31:38 AM EDT

[#5]

Toenails are for polishing, cause they look pretty that way, silly.

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:32:05 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
if you let them grow long enought you can use them as cleats...

or climbing trees...

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:33:24 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
When it comes to something as complex as the human body, I think there is a reason for everything

~~Agreed~~, however...you still cant answer the question? "Think Nipples"

edited to say: I assume that is is possible for the human body to have "no reasonable purpose" attributes. Like toenails, earlobes, taint seam etc.

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:40:00 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Quoted:
When it comes to something as complex as the human body, I think there is a reason for everything

Agreed, however...you still cant answer the question? "Think Nipples"

Sir,
I ALWAYS think "nipples".Beewbies,actually!

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:42:45 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Quoted:
When it comes to something as complex as the human body, I think there is a reason for everything

Agreed, however...you still cant answer the question? "Think Nipples"

All human embryos are created female..... It's only after a certain amount of time, that the males actually BECOME male...

I think one of the Docs here or someone else with more specific info, can elaborate, but that's the jist of it. Leftovers

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:44:08 AM EDT

[#10]

vestigial claws

Posted: 9/10/2005 10:17:42 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
vestigial claws

We have a winner Alex!

Posted: 9/10/2005 10:24:26 AM EDT

[#12]

The better to dig boogers out with....

Posted: 9/10/2005 10:27:43 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
The better to dig boogers out with....

With your TOE nails? Dude, you've got to have some bigass nostrils if you can pull that off...

Kharn

Posted: 9/10/2005 10:28:52 AM EDT

[#14]

to store and hide the GOOD jam?

Posted: 9/10/2005 10:30:04 AM EDT

[#15]

I had a couple fingers cut off and they replaced them with my toes.

Quoted:
Quoted:
The better to dig boogers out with....
With your TOE nails? Dude, you've got to have some bigass nostrils if you can pull that off...

Kharn

Posted: 9/10/2005 10:34:45 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
I had a couple fingers cut off and they replaced them with my toes.

Um, sorry I asked.

Kharn

Posted: 9/10/2005 1:37:58 PM EDT

[#17]

Vestigal appendages reducing from prior use. Like an appendix.

I heard somewhere that the average humans toes have reduced approx 25% since the dark ages, as we now wear shoes commonly and the balance assistance supplied by them is no longer needed.

- Nw -

Posted: 9/10/2005 1:42:01 PM EDT

[#18]

They provide impact protection. And they're getting smaller from generation to generation and becoming less and less useful.

And they give us something else to amuse ourselves with when we get bored. Paint them, pick them,
trim them, polish them, etc...

CJ

Posted: 9/10/2005 1:47:53 PM EDT

[#19]

Men can lactate in special circumstances, but it requires training..in one of my ex-wife's breast-feeding handbooks I read about a tribe in Africa where the older or crippled males act as wet-nurses for the village women that go work the fields..

I need my toes, I don't know how many times I nearly fell but flexing my toes saved me. I can also hang off the bottom of my sons' top bunk with my toes bent around the bars...

Posted: 9/10/2005 6:43:27 PM EDT

[#20]

I hate my toenails. I rip 'em out with pliers every month or so. Worthless ingrown POS.

AB

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:31:05 PM EDT

[#21]

Speaking of toes. My dad was born with six, had one removed as an infant so that he would have the proper number. In his early 20s he lost another in an auto accident, and now has only four, a big toe and the next three. There is no moral to this story, but talk about shitty luck. His grand children have their toes counted immediately after birth.

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:38:04 PM EDT

[#22]

Why do men have nipples?

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:50:06 PM EDT

[#23]

Nails make the ends of the fingers more firm and thus easier to grab things.

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:50:55 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Quoted:
When it comes to something as complex as the human body, I think there is a reason for everything

Agreed, however...you still cant answer the question? "Think Nipples"

All human embryos are created female..... It's only after a certain amount of time, that the males actually BECOME male...

I think one of the Docs here or someone else with more specific info, can elaborate, but that's the jist of it. Leftovers

Some nerdy stuff. The sex is determined at fertilization and do not have female or male parts until later.

some begin as males and others as females, depending on their chromosomal
constitution." But we have to examine this in a little more detail.
Fertilization is the process whereby a male gamete, the spermatozoon
(sperm), introduces its nucleus into the female gamete, the secondary
oocyte (egg). The nucleus of the sperm and the nucleus of the egg fuse with
each other to form a brand new cell, known as the zygote, which becomes the
new individual. If the sperm carries the Y chromosome, the zygote will
develop into a male, if the sperm carries the X chromosome, the zygote will
develop into a female. Therefore, GENETICALLY, the embryo is determined to
be male or female at the time of fertilization. However, the developing
gonads do not display male or female characteristics until about the 7th
week after fertilization. The Y chromosome carries a gene that codes for
the "testis determining factor," which induces the formation of the testes.
Certain cells of the testes then produce antimullerian hormone which
prevents the formation of the female genital tract.

Therefore, using either the genetic or gonadal criteria it is incorrect to
say that all embryos begin as males.

Posted: 9/10/2005 9:52:16 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
Like toenails, earlobes, taint seam etc.

More nerdy info
As far as the line on the scrotum is concerned: Higher animals, including
people, are bilaterally symmetrical. The line on the scrotum is merely an
indication where the right and left halves of the scrotum met and fused
with each other during development.

Posted: 9/11/2005 1:38:42 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Quoted:
if you let them grow long enought you can use them as cleats...

or climbing trees...

or climbing up the opposing team members in water polo.

Posted: 9/11/2005 1:52:38 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
I hate my toenails. I rip 'em out with pliers every month or so. Worthless ingrown POS.

AB

Sweet Jesus

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