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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kazan on August 12, 2005, 11:25:46 am
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/mcsnee/433748.html
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Yar! :)
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:lol: Like it :)
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Just, y'know, out of the blue, not being able to take a piss without screaming? That's just stupid.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Great!
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:lol:
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Funny but not true..
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You're special.
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Bah, *8***8* u.
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Originally posted by Charismatic
Funny but not true..
you're not supposed to try and start flamewars in parody threads
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I really should resume work on my website.
For starters, this site (and some of those linked to from it) can go on "ScepticDescenter's Rebuke to the Religious Crusaders".
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Originally posted by Descenterace
]"ScepticDescenter's Rebuke to the Fascist Fundies".
fixed it :D
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Thanks!
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:wakka: That's awesome!
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:lol: Brilliant :lol:
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*points* he started it :D
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*gets into the HLP Mech*
I'll finish it
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Originally posted by Charismatic
Funny but not true..
Shush! My faith tells me there is an Almighty Dumbass, so who are you to try and dismantle it?
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Originally posted by Kosh
:lol: Brilliant :lol:
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Originally posted by Ford Prefect
Shush! My faith tells me there is an Almighty Dumbass, so who are you to try and dismantle it?
[color=66ff00]As God I choose myself as a qualified entity to claim whatever I want as fact.
This of course also reinforces the fact that I'm not terribly intelligent and why, when I attempted to make the universe in 7 days, I botched it. Later I blew up an infinitely small, infinitely dense particle, just for kicks. It appeased my sense of dissapointment at the whole 7 day plan. I was pretty surprised when soup on a dirtball turned into monkeys with fashion interests after a lengthy duration. I then decided to spice things up by writing a bunch of vagely similar yet fundamentally different books and unleashing them upon the clothed, balding apes. They were quite impressed by my carefully prepared light shows which I seasoned with a dab of mumbo-jumbo and a small amount of fear inducing wrath.
I keep the results on 90 millenia betamax tapes.
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Betamax? You bastard!
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Originally posted by aldo_14
Betamax? You bastard!
[color=66ff00]Put away those firey biscuits!
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Bah, someone has to ruin it with a paragraph longer than one line.
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Originally posted by Kazan
*gets into the HLP Mech*
I'll finish it
whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold the phone, when did HLP get a 'Mech and why wasn't I informed?
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MP that reference is old as the hills...
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Mech? Wha??
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Toes. They're just dangling there, off the end of your feet, with a bunch of fragile little bones. Combine these with #1 above, and you've got a recipe for disaster. You think Jonathan Ive would have created something as stupid as toes?
we need them to walk. that's why they're there.
on the other hand... :wakka:
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Dont need them to sit in front of comptuer all day reading crap like this. But if its funny crap wtf, go ahead! Chop em off!
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I think you can walk without toes...albeit nice and funny like. You can't run without 'em IIRC though.
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You probably can. Just look at the guys in the paralympics who sprint on prosthetic legs.
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This is a fantastic topic.
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Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]I keep the results on 90 millenia betamax tapes.
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So that's why our old betamax machine went missing...
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Originally posted by aldo_14
You probably can. Just look at the guys in the paralympics who sprint on prosthetic legs.
don't prosthetic legs have fake toes on them though?
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Originally posted by Cobra
don't prosthetic legs have fake toes on them though?
*pulls out machete* Do you want to find out? :devil:
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:shaking: uh-oh...
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But prosthetic legs bend and such. Without the ability to push off the ground with your toes, I don't think you can run.
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solatar there are special running prosthetics
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*tries to save himself* ...special ones that bend perhaps? :D
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They look a bit like spatulas....... there's a solid attachment IIRC to the knee (I'm not sure if you get them for amputees above the knee... maybe though), and where the 'foot' would be it's a sort of bendy plasty bit.
This isn't the best picture, but here's an example (96 Atlanta paralympics)
(http://www.about-face.org/images/embedded/gow/newten/1/runner1.jpg)
Might look odd, but they can run faster than pretty much anyone here (unless we have some olympians I don't know of).
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Meh...
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Originally posted by Solatar
But prosthetic legs bend and such. Without the ability to push off the ground with your toes, I don't think you can run.
you can run without toes. You just don't get that maximum impetus for the second lever arm (lower leg to foot AND foot to toe).
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So it's more of a waddle?:p
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No, its more of a run. You can simulated this by putting on a pair of skiboots and running. You have to lift your knees higher mainly.
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Originally posted by mikhael
you can run without toes. You just don't get that maximum impetus for the second lever arm (lower leg to foot AND foot to toe).
(i know thisreply isn't directly in response to the above...)
I think running prosthetics are designed to bend to imitate that, though. I'm not sure how physically close it is (probably hard to judge compared to fully-bodied sprinters because there will be psychological differences when the brains figuring out how to run, so you wouldn't expect the same speed anyways).
I have to admit not watching the paralympics recently, but I'm pretty sure that the running motion for the sprinters, etc, is pretty close to fully-bodied.
The whole toes thing.... I think it's not so much about having something to do the physical work of toes, as it is about having 5 of these small, vulnerable digits. Albeit I'm not sure how useful it is to have seperate digits for toes in general (i.e. like balancing on rough ground).... I never remember doing anything specifically by moving individual toes playing football, at least.
Although that's maybe going a bit deep into the subject of feet.....:D
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Well, when I sprint for track I don't even use the heels of my feet. My sprinting spikes don't even have much on the heel, just spikes on the ball and toe area.
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Longer distance running uses the balls of the feet more, doesn't it? I was never an accomplished runner, myself, so I dunno.
( Fast left winger, but that's really a different kind of running.)
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Long distance uses the entire foot. They land on the heel and roll the foot until they can push off with their toes.
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Figured as much :)
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I continue to believe in Intelligent Practical Jokester/Sadist Design.
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I always thought we had toes for grabbing things, though this can prove to be rather difficult for most. I try it, it beats bending down sometimes. I also heard they're used for balance (http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar98/890148788.An.r.html). Hmm, apparently they actually were used for grabbing long ago, interesting. They're also useful for playing footsies. ^_^
I would think anyone with a prosthetic leg would need to learn how to properly balance themselves because of the lack of toes, at least until prosthetics are so advanced they compensate for this with prosthetic toes on the legs.
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The thing about prosthetic legs that I'd have trouble getting used to would probably be the lack of calf muscles.
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Originally posted by Solatar
So it's more of a waddle?:p
LOL!:nod: