I had to address my friends: don’t pity me for my bad design. I’ll get better.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
I had to address my friends: don’t pity me for my bad design. I’ll get better.
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From his opium den PZ issues a laudanum fueled communiqué to his arachnid friends, pleading with them not to euthanize humans because our poorly constructed legs. Ok.
Speaking of venomous critters, I found this interesting:
I knew about ringnecks, but garters too? I had a ribbon, which is a skinny garter, for a pet. Scary!
Actually being envenomated by any of these, if it ever got that far, would probably not be fatal or even noticeable. Does kinda expand the category of venomous snakes into colubrids though.
The startlingly awful design of knees is pretty good evidence there is no creator.
I like the pillowcase.
@numerobis, I can personally attest that human knees do have major design flaws, but they usually work well enough to get us to child-rearing age, which is pretty much all that evolution asks for.
imback @4. “they usually work well enough to get us to child-rearing age, which is pretty much all that evolution asks for”… I know it’s just telly, but Alice Robert in BBC’s The Incredible Human Journey appears (IMO) to make a strong case that before we left Africa, grandparents were already an essential component to assist with child rearing (elder-baby sitting, gathering and other apsects of helping out). Hence human longevity after fertility. And (my extrapolation) knees are therefore actually essential for a decade or so after child rearing age.
Here is a relaxing video that hopefully will help you ignore the pain.
I could not find any Shoggoth video so I picked the second best: Relaxing Cat Kayaking.
.https://youtube.com/watch?v=DQ6K8xehjgk
You need comfrey compresses for a couple days. See the discussion of comfrey in Charly’s 18th post on gardening and the discussion of comfrey in the comments.
Pleasant dreams, PZ
birgerjohansson
That video was lovely. Thank you.
phony phossils for pharyngula:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/back-3
imback@4: sure I got to breeding age with functional knees but only barely; I was moaning about them already by my early 20s. They’ve actually gotten better with age because I picked up cycling, which in evolutionarily-significant times wasn’t really a thing.
Take it real easy, PZ, and don’t rush back to normal routines or work. That will only make things worse, and too much stress (or a fall) might mean the surgery has to be redone.