Where did Mankind get shorted

Cliffy

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Yup! Blame it all on our alien DNA. Women are crossed with Venusian DNA and man with Martian DNA. Couldn't even keep their own planets inhabitable, they had to come down here and mess with our DNA. Could it be why we don't take care of our environment? It's in our genes to screw it up.
 

JLM

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YukonJack's thread regarding what our greatest gift over all the other animals is made me think to start this one.

I've heard people point out the short comings of the human animal before, versus the design of other animals. So, what animal trait did we get shorted on in your opinion? I'll start it with one grievous oversight....

And no, no, it's not a size issue... if you watch carefully you will see... they got prehensile penises and we didn't!!


YouTube - Elephant sex 2


Where mankind got shorted was that he was given a brain, but is lacking in many cases whatever it is that is needed to make it work.
 

YukonJack

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With mind in the gutter, as usual, Machjo embarrassed himself by saying:

"Oh please keep your fantasies to yourself."

Obviously, Machjo you never had the pleasure of a puppy as companion.

Or you probably never heard of seeing eye dogs.

Don't judge people you don't know by how you occupy your time at "work".
 

Machjo

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With mind in the gutter, as usual, Machjo embarrassed himself by saying:

"Oh please keep your fantasies to yourself."

Obviously, Machjo you never had the pleasure of a puppy as companion.

Or you probably never heard of seeing eye dogs.

Don't judge people you don't know by how you occupy your time at "work".

That was intended as humour. Sorry, I should have specified.
 

VanIsle

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But imagine the things you could do to a woman with that thing!
Unless they really did a "fast forward" on that video, that was a true wham, bam, thank you mam. With something like that, imagine is all you could do because every woman would be running. Fast!
 

karrie

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I found another design flaw today...

why on earth can we bite our own lips/cheeks/tongue? Ridiculous! All these years of using these teeth, and then OW!!!
 

Dexter Sinister

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Choking, there's another one, common to many creatures: air and food share the same passages. And then there's using the same organ for reproduction and elimination, a feature I've seen likened to running an open sewer through a playground. Who was the incompetent engineer on that project?
 

AnnaG

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You must travel in tame circles, most lobster fishermen can drink a 26 ounce quart before lunch. Well maybe not most but half for sure. When I was stupider a long time ago I could drink a quart and still function, greatly reduced but upright function. That bad habit stopped a long time ago. Now I do it with beer or wine. I don't vibrate anymore either. It's hard on arthritics.
26 ounces isn't a quart. It isn't even a yankee quart (32 ounces for those, 40 ounces to a Canuck quart). You need more schooling, boy. lol
 

AnnaG

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Adds a whole new dimension to the word 'screw.' Actually I think it's the woman you want to be imagining the things you could do to her. It always helps if she's interested...
So far, the issue seems pretty dull, as a lot of men can't figure out how to work what they have and need extensive training. :D

More seriously, mankind got badly shorted on physical strength. A chimpanzee is several times stronger than the strongest man, and to make it worse, we're very poorly armed in the tooth and claw department. Our sense of smell isn't very good either compared to most critters. Nor am I sure this upright posture is a good idea. Our backs ache, our feet hurt, our bellies sag, veins in our lower bodies swell and produce nasty conditions like varicose veins and hemorrhoids, birth is often difficult and dangerous...
Evolution is at fault there. Having a large, versatile, and complicated brain cost a lot of genetic energy that could have been poured into other attributes like your formidable claws and teeth. Our brain development took quite aq bit of energy, hence we developed our brain at a much more rapid rate than other primates. It was simply to our best advantage to be able to out-think our prey, our predators, and to comprehend how we can use other stuff to our advantage.
 

AnnaG

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Yup! Blame it all on our alien DNA. Women are crossed with Venusian DNA and man with Martian DNA. Couldn't even keep their own planets inhabitable, they had to come down here and mess with our DNA. Could it be why we don't take care of our environment? It's in our genes to screw it up.
lol You're a funny guy sometimes, Cliffy. :D
 

AnnaG

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Where mankind got shorted was that he was given a brain, but is lacking in many cases whatever it is that is needed to make it work.
Many many other species also have brains, you know. And ours developed from mostly something that controlled autonomic functions to what we use (or misuse) today. We weren't given it.
 

AnnaG

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I found another design flaw today...

why on earth can we bite our own lips/cheeks/tongue? Ridiculous! All these years of using these teeth, and then OW!!!
Same thing with not shutting the breathing tube when one is swallowing, she says with a lung fulla tea. lol
 

AnnaG

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Choking, there's another one, common to many creatures: air and food share the same passages. And then there's using the same organ for reproduction and elimination, a feature I've seen likened to running an open sewer through a playground. Who was the incompetent engineer on that project?
lol Exactly what I just noticed.
Not saying nothing about the sewer pipe thing.
 

karrie

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Choking, there's another one, common to many creatures: air and food share the same passages. And then there's using the same organ for reproduction and elimination, a feature I've seen likened to running an open sewer through a playground. Who was the incompetent engineer on that project?

Was it an engineer or a fashion designer? Because it makes skimpy clothes a lot sexier if all the nasty or ludicrous bits can be covered up with one small section of fabric. :lol: