Useless Body Parts

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Skarjo** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:00 pm

Indeed, recent studies into the appendix showed it was and is far from useless. It, in fact, holds a small amount of all the natural gut flora in precisely the correct ratio in something approaching a little gut bunker so that should the gut get wrecked by an infection and the natural balance of flora upset or wiped out; the little shopping-mall full of survivor bacteria can tool up and roll out the armoured bus to repopulate the gut and make it all nice and healthy again.

So people who had their appendix removed were shown to take far longer to recover from gut disease as it took far longer for the natural balance to restore itself.

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Turok** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:19 pm

Appendix supremacy.

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Oh Teh Noes** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:36 pm

Skarjo wrote:the little shopping-mall full of survivor bacteria can tool up and roll out the armoured bus to repopulate the gut and make it all nice and healthy again.

lol irl

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Dowbocop** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:42 pm

The body hair one also ignores eyebrows, eyelashes, nasal hair and ear hair.

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Turok** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:43 pm

Dowbocop wrote:The body hair one also ignores eyebrows, eyelashes, nasal hair and ear hair.

Their functions are sweat roof, sweat roof, air filter and air filter, respectively. Correct?

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Dowbocop** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:54 pm

Turok wrote:
Dowbocop wrote:The body hair one also ignores eyebrows, eyelashes, nasal hair and ear hair.

Their functions are sweat roof, sweat roof, air filter and air filter, respectively. Correct?

Correct, correct (also protects against dust I think), correct (nasal hair (and hair further down the respiratory tract) also forms part of the mucociliary escalator, which shifts germy mucus up from your bronchi so you can swallow it to your stomach to kill most of the microbes), and probably correct (I'm sure any ones in your outer ear do that, but there are also hairs in your inner ear that sense the vibrations from your ear drum/bones, so are in integral part of your sense of hearing).

So that's that one strawberry floated 8-)

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Turok** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:56 pm

This kind of articles:

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Glowy69** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:58 pm

TOE NAILS.

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Jax** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:41 am

According to Cracked.com (I have no reason to doubt them :lol:

) the reason we don't have body hair is because we were dirty bastards who never cleaned. So, hair loss.

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Jax** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:42 am

glowy69 wrote:TOE NAILS.

I don't know if you've ever lost a toenail and then worn anything whatsoever on your feet, but yeah. They're not useless.

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Rightey** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:50 am

Cuban Pete wrote:
9. Body hair
No doubt we were once hairier. Up until about three million years ago, we were covered with body hair. But by the time Homo erectus arrived, the ability to sweat meant we could shed our woolly ways.

No doubt these researchers have never seen my rear end, keeps everything nice and toasty even in the coldest of times. 8-)

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Slartibartfast** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:55 am

Commander Jameson wrote:
Cuban Pete wrote:
1. Male nipples
Because, why?

Because when nipples form during foetal development, all foetuses are female and only become male later.

Well, nearly - a foetus is either male or female from the moment of conception. Just male and female foetuses follow the same development (including proto-nipples) until they diverge after a few weeks.

That's pretty fascinating.

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **gaminglegend** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:11 am

I heard a rumour that the Appendix can actually save your life in some situations..

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Green Gecko** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:26 am

Jaxley wrote:
glowy69 wrote:TOE NAILS.

I don't know if you've ever lost a toenail and then worn anything whatsoever on your feet, but yeah. They're not useless.

I would have thought they prevent you from crushing your toes onto their own bones, which could be pretty painful.

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Lime** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:13 pm

gaminglegend wrote:I heard a rumour that the Appendix can actually save your life in some situations..

Yes, it can be inflated and used as a flotation device.

(floatation? Google not clear on spelling!)

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Peter Crisp** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:32 pm

I knew someone would mention my unmentionables. My cock has never been so popular :lol:

.

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Fishfingers** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:06 pm

Ears, I mean why isn't there just a hole there?

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Igor** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:07 pm

Same reason using a funnel to pour liquid into a bottle is easier than without, I suppose.

PostRe: Useless Body Parts by **Skarjo** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 10:08 pm

Fishfingers wrote:Ears, I mean why isn't there just a hole there?

Focuses sounds that come from in front of you.

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