+123 How come the general response to being able to touch your toes or being double jointed is, "Oh, gross"? It's actually a pretty cool ability. amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Wait, what kind of person thinks it's gross to be able to touch your toes?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Exactly, isn't that just an indicator of general fitness?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Wait, most people can't touch their toes?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I can't.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, I think being grossed out by double-jointedness is understandable. I have a hitchhiker's thumb, and people get grossed out when I show them probably because their mirror neurons imagine that happening to their own thumb, and as people who can't do it, it would be hyperextending their thumb. It's the same reason people don't like watching people touch their eyeballs or throw up. http://ctrlv.in/120894

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I can do that same thumb thing and people always tell me I'm a mutant. :(

by Anonymous 12 years ago