To think the human body is a bit of a bodged kob?

[DisgraceToTheYChromosome]

I've been awake since 0400 with a trapped nerve in my neck, now in its 8th day. The pain is manageable, but the random tremor as the nerve heals pisses me right off. And spring is here, so my feet are driving me mad by sprouting pompholyx. Horrible itchy little bastards.

Broken limbs, life theatening infections, exploding at both ends: these I can deal with. It's the niggles get me down.

Kob = job.

Kind of. Back troubles, myself. Mind you, I saw a polar bear dying of starvation (after getting in a fight with a walrus) on one of David Attenborough's programmes, and I figured that I'd rather be me than that bear.

I agree, hay fever is my current body issue.....sneeze sneeze, eyes water, more sneeze, dry mouth, few more sneezes....driving me bonkers!!

I think a lot of problems are caused by us evolving to walk upright.

Periods, however, are a basic design flaw and proof that either God was a man or Mother Nature is a Father.

I think maybe we're now living longer (and having babies later) than the human body was designed for).

My immune system is a bodge. Can't fight off a simple cold, will overreact to things that aren't even there. Athsma! Why?????

Migraines feels like my brain is wired up wrong

I agree at least my body! Why does it continue to gain fat above a healthy level? Why not make you lose your appetite if it starts becoming unhealthy? Why do we crave sweet things that are almost never good for us? And my big one is why do toddlers have 3 times more energy than adults?

The obvious answer is that for most of our evolutionary history food was scarce and largely unpalatable (compared to modern food) we have no mechanism to keep us healthy in the face of abundant junk food, it leads us into a positive feedback loop?

I agree. A bodged kob all round

The sacrifice the human body has made for walking upright and a large brain is spinal problems and dangerous childbirth.

I'd rather be a dog.
Or a dolphin. Hmmm that would be nice. ...

I'd love to be s dolphin!

I want to be an axolotl. They can swim and walk. They always look smiley and if you chop off a leg, it grows back.

If you think about it, breasts are quite weird. There has to be a more efficient way of feeding babies that sticking a couple of projecting things on the front of the chest.

Evolution has a billion year history of bodging it and calling it good enough. I bet it lied on its resume when it applied for the job.

Went to an awards ceremony once where Alice Roberts was the speaker. Gave a brilliant talk about actually how crap the human body is. Such as:

• Most machines with an essential bit of kit have a back up, yet we only have one heart.
• Which bit of your body is most sensitive to knocks? Oh yes, the brain. Let's put it really high up then!
• Testicles. Ask any man whose ever had a sporting incident and he'll agree they're in a silly place. Apparently elephants have cracked this by having them inside?

A dolphin yes that would be bliss, but surely some kind of bird would be the ultimate experience
an eagle?

birds are very long lived compare to other creatures of similar size
?
there is some correlation between body size and life span but birds live for longer, seagulls I think live about 20 years

I'd like to be an eagle but not a seagull, tje public image is v bad.

However I'm sticking with dolphin as I could also pretend to be a mermaid, which I spent most of my swimming childhood doing.

Thinking on this further, surely a mermaid wouldn't suffer with back problems (being supported by water most of the time) and would be untroubled by childbirth and periods as the only way I can see them shedding eggs would be fish -style.

But where do mermen have their willies?

And those cockle shell bras must be mighty uncomfortable.

Why keep your sights so low? Why not aim to be an actual mermaid?
Although I think you'd get fed up keeping that long hair tangle free, and the difficulty moving on land might be a pretty big design flaw.

On the boob front. We don't need big ones as flatter chested ladies can just as easily breastfeed, so why do some of us have these huge protruding, backache inducing, waste of space norks?

cuttedup I see you've really given this mermaid thing some thought

Grapejuice with the consideration that getting yourself up onto a rock to lure sailors to their death must be quite scratchy, I think I'll stick with being a dolphin.

I will be sad to lose the option of long green hair but a least dolphins do a lot of smiling, and having sex for recreation.

Another design flaw is why not have adult teeth that regrow in some way. And why have soft feet with loads of nerve endings in them?

The worst part of the engineering is the process for replacing ourselves. Placing the order is fun but then

you cannot specify the pink model or the blue model
you sometimes get two or even more when you only ordered one - but you can't order more than one
they won't give you a firm date when the goods will be delivered
and as for the actual system of getting the goods to the customer don't get me started - a man who has seen the process can see what rubbish that is even though it's the other customer who is put to so much trouble

Start again from the beginning. Hand the whole system over to Amazon, they'll do it right. Especially with Premium and the Lockers.

dolphins have predators
killer whale might be a better bet on the aquatic mammal front?