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[-] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 30 points 6 days ago

Biology in general is disgusting. Eating is gross, its just a weird process if you think about it, and especially weird that so much of our lives are dedicated to it. Waste removal is extra gross. Reproduction is.. not even gunna go there but it’s gross, and childbirth is so much worse. Mouths are gross, our protruding luxury bones are gross, tongues are just tiny tentacles, and thats gross. Also theres just -so much hair- which is, you guessed it, gross.

Guts are gross. I know we aren't meant to survive disemboweling, but we do it routinely now to deliver babies, and do they put your intestines back where they belong? Hell no! They just shove that shit back in there and let it sort itself out.

And then we move away from humans and other animals lick themselves to get clean which is gross. They eat poop, sometimes directly from a rectum (theirs or not), which is gross.

Diseases are gross, auto-immune issues are gross..

Man.

I find it best to just not really spend a lot of time thinking about the practicalities of biology. I mean, I have done the thinking, and imho, its not really worth it. It just makes everything seem gross, genuinely. Like really, stop to think about just hair growth, a relatively benign fact of biology. Some small thing starts growing under your skin at a bud point, then erupts through your protective skin layer, and just keeps growing.. until its multiple feet long, in some cases (thank fuck leg, armpit, and genital hair stops growing at inches instead of feet). Just gross.

[-] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That's why humans also have a strong biological drive to find things inexplicably attractive about each other. That raw rugged attraction to someone who turns you on. Strong enough to blind them to all the gross things. This is nature's aphrodisiac.

OTOH I generally agree with you, I cannot be blind to how gross we are. Every time I take a warm steaming shit, there's no way I can feel attractive to anyone. I even lose attraction for anyone as soon as I smell any normal human foul odor emanating from any of their numerous orifices, or see something gross about them. This is nature's birth control.

[-] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago

Heh, maybe thats why I find humans so gross. I have absolute zero sex drive (ace/aro), so no instinctual compulsion to overlook how gross humans are.

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[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

auto-immune issues are gross…

Autoimmune issues at least know who the enemy is.

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

There are Buddhist meditations that are more or less exactly this post.

Dis-enchants sexuality, basically.

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 32 points 6 days ago

Humans would be grosser without skeletons.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 10 points 6 days ago
[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 days ago

They do have one. It's just, sometimes liquid.

[-] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 7 points 6 days ago

Skeletons are the least gross part tbh. I used to have a skeleton as my pfp, and also because it's the closest I imagine getting to genderneutral euphoria lmao

Let me out of this meat cage 🍖

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

Skeletons would be less gross without the fleshy parts around them.

[-] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 21 points 6 days ago
[-] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 days ago

Man is just an improperly deboned donut.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Meat donut. They're made out of meat.

stupid autocorrect

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago

Filled with shit. We are shit filled meat fritters.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Shit filled meat cannoli

[-] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago

Go all the way or don't go at all...

https://youtu.be/T6JFTmQCFHg

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 15 points 6 days ago

We're just a coiled tube, surrounded by a protective sustainment system, that requires constant maintenance.

[-] wet_bones@lemmy.4d2.org 12 points 6 days ago
[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago
[-] percent@infosec.pub 3 points 6 days ago
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[-] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 12 points 6 days ago

Down with body positivity, up with egalitarian body negativity!

You are 35-140kg of under refrigerated self heating meat. You have been out and thawed but not properly dehydrated for decades. You are disgusting.

[-] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago

damn like... i get it and the meme's not wrong, but i think a lot of it is so cool. how the circulatory system went (evolutionarily) from being "just squirt blood on all the organs" to the elegant, efficient tube-based system we have. like, it's kind of insane we have tubes routing blood to our entire body, everything in it, and coming back to a central point

or how there are so many parts of our body that just have a natural microbiome that we coexist with. like we have our own little slice of like... world, inside us

(poop is kinda gross tho, i can't lie)

[-] Pirtatogna@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

Mmmm, skin.... holes.... <3

[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 11 points 6 days ago

I feel a touch of Violet coming on...

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[-] restingOface@quokk.au 10 points 6 days ago

Cover your knees up if you're gonna be walking around

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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago
[-] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 3 points 6 days ago

Hahaha why does this comment sound so cathartic

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[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

We are also smelly cause we sweat but don’t a have great sense of smell so our dogs and cats probably know a lot about us through that without us knowing

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago

Noses are so ugly and they're right in the middle of the face. Very hard to avoid looking at those ugly things.

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 6 days ago

Don't get me started on all the different revolting fluids.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 4 points 6 days ago

Humans are disgusting

Mmm, oh yeeesssss 🫠

[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 4 points 6 days ago

Guys literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting.

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[-] 5715@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago

Sinews invoke the word gnngnngnn in me.

[-] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I remember I offended someone once with the offhanded remark that human earlobes are gross lol

Jealous of people that have that rare trait where the lobe is connected. Their earrings look so nice.

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[-] Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 days ago

Skin is the sexiest organ 😏

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I do prefer you to have holes.

[-] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 2 points 6 days ago

I am weird therefore I am.

[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

Do you even know how much sticky red liquid is in there, which you can't get out of your carpet

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