If I could go without having to use the bathroom, but still, you know, be alive, that'd be great, because then I wouldn't have the side egffects of my Crohn's. Otherwise, I'd go for not having to shave my face. I hate it.
If you could give up one bodily function what would it be?
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This is essentially my reaction to the thread and that post! How convenient!Mozza444 said:
But seriously: upon consideration, I would definitely go with sleep. It would be so gratifying to have all that extra time. Plus, I always take at least 45 minutes to fall asleep even when I'm dead tired. Being able to say "fuck you!" to that feeling would be so awesome.
So, yeah. Sleep.
I second this one. I love Zumba, and my bike, but I REALLY hate getting up at 0500 just to do those things so I can keep from getting fat.- Imagine if I only had to do them on the weekends or whatever... for FUN and not necessity!Valate said:
You thus missed the obvious part of being female that I'd immediately point out! Y'know, gouting blood from my crotch once a month really sucks. Can I just make that go away forever without A) having to get it all removed and go on hormones or B) becoming so underweight I fly away in the wind?Aetera said:
Yeah.
Anyway, at first that's what I thought this thread was about -- things that you could safely give up. I figured saying "breathing" would have me instantly die. But since it doesn't...
Breathing. Not even because I could swim forever...but because without breathing, I don't need to train cardio! If I don't need oxygen, I can run as fast and hard as I want, for as long as I want, and not have my lungs cry at me. Whoooooo.
Sleeping comes in a really close second, because it has the advantage that I think sleeping is nice. It's comforting, and you can have cool dreams. I'd get 8 extra hours a day, which is cool, but it's also nice to curl up and snooze with your partner, or take a nap in the sun, or whatever.
Third is "gaining weight past (healthy point here)." I want a self-regulatory system that automatically shafts any extra calories that I eat when my body fat percentage reaches a certain level. Like "oops, 20%, no more fat for you!" Yep. That way, I could actually eat the amount of food I'd like to eat and still be healthy. (Note that I didn't put 'eating' because I actually love eating food.)
H'okay, there it is.
Oh yeah -- someone mentioned vomiting. Did you know horses can't vomit? This is why they die from gastric problems so easily. ^^;
... You do realize that even if you had gills, you'd still be breathing water, right? Also, would you just emerge from the surface to play video games for 30 seconds at a time?Thundergod1020 said:
I see what you did there.Faux Furry said:
I second this.
you know that most doctors will remove that voluntarily right? Seriously- my brother had his removed before he went to do a long climb in the Himalayas. (Can you imagine how bad it would have sucked for his appendix to explode that far away from a doctor?)megaman24681012 said:
Let him show off his amazing googling skills if thats what he wants to do.Mozza444 said:
I think I'd probably go with sleeping too, seeing as I enjoy eating but sleeping is just kinda pointless. So many extra hours to spend so I can get all the shit i actually want to do every day done.
You'll suffer from massive overheating if it gets hot outsideVerlander said:
Most of the choices in this thread seem to only work if the removal of that organ/function suddenly doesn't have averse effects anylonger.
Not being able to sleep is called amnesia, and most people having it actually want to sleep.
If I had to give up one function, it's the immune reaction I get against harmless pollen - it gives me hayfever
Sleeping was my first thought as well.
A bit weirder one, if assuming you wouldn't be damaged by the thing you didn't have to do, or the consequences thereoff, and that it wasn't replaced by anything else of equal inconvenience, i would be tempted to opt for blood circulation.
Think about it, without blood, the lungs wouldn't put the oxygen anywhere, basicly ridding you of the need of oxygen in the process, making breathing something you didn't have to do, same goes for most of the organs, so it might turn out to be quite the package deal, since most of our bodily functions are related to the blood flow, so if we just assume theywork "magicly" due to the rule, this one might be awesome. But maybe i'm stretching the game a bit...
A bit weirder one, if assuming you wouldn't be damaged by the thing you didn't have to do, or the consequences thereoff, and that it wasn't replaced by anything else of equal inconvenience, i would be tempted to opt for blood circulation.
Think about it, without blood, the lungs wouldn't put the oxygen anywhere, basicly ridding you of the need of oxygen in the process, making breathing something you didn't have to do, same goes for most of the organs, so it might turn out to be quite the package deal, since most of our bodily functions are related to the blood flow, so if we just assume theywork "magicly" due to the rule, this one might be awesome. But maybe i'm stretching the game a bit...
Sweating...? I'm a pretty clean person, but I think I'd have a much easier time if I just packed that whole sweating thing in!
