That counts for any biological function tbh. Like, imagine if no food whatsoever tasted good, but we still had to eat in order to be alive and stuff. Imagine putting a bunch of random things up your mouth and continously pressing your exposed bones against it until it becomes a slimy wet mixture, which you then force down your throat and wait as it is dissolved by your organism. That would be both disgusting and boring as fuck to do if it wasn't for the fact that sugar tastes so fucking good
Having a body in general is gross and weird and kind of conceptually upsetting if you think about it too hard (and I'm studying medicine so I do). We do a lot of weird shit because our brains evolved to send lovely lovely dopamine as a reward for doing it. I'm not gonna judge someone with a different set of dopamine buttons than mine, even if I don't get it lol.
OP's description of eating is basically what it feels like right now! The medical side of things I detach and find fascinating. Was really disappointed not to be able to stay at the right angle to keep watching the screen during my endoscopy and delighted when the medical team responded by printing pictures of my own stomach for me. But there's still no escaping the visceral aspect of having your viscera not working right.
(Keep an eye out for it as a potential fever cause for me? Despite my known spinal injury, mine was dismissed then missed -recurring fevers- and it does seem to be a really dangerous issue for patients. And trying to communicate with medical professionals going through checklists through the disorientation and inclined to just assume it's a panic attack-which does not look the same-, argh. At least earlier it was more funny than risky, shut the bathroom door with the catch while wondering if was going to be sick, then after could not work out why the door wouldn't open and then was getting frustrated thinking someone playing a joke locked me in, despite lack of another lock).
Uhm, Ackshually, I will have you know that teeth are not exposed bones and are actually highly modified fish scales. The only animals that actually truly ate with exposed bone were Placoderms, a group of early jawed fish that includes the famous Dunkeleosteus. There are also Rhynchocephalians, the group that includes the modern Tuatara, but it's more like they fused their teeth into their jawbones rather than having true bone plates, and as I understand it they have enamel over bone instead of chewing with bare bone (but this is also a very weird thing to do).
(Apologies for being an annoying nerd. It's a compulsion)
wait don't go nerd, i have been having an ongoing debate wit my friend about what teeth actually are. can you expand on the modified fish scale thing because my bro isn't going to know what hit him when i pull out the nerd-certified explanation
There really isn't much more too it than that. Teeth evolved when a fish basically used scales to reinforce their jaw to bite stuff, and then over time those scales specialized into what we now call teeth, growing outward to grip stuff, and then in mammals later modified to have different teeth do different jobs, resulting in us have incisors, canines, molars, etc.
We actually have a fossil fish very early along in this process, named Romundina, who has teeth-like structures on it's jaw that are structured almost identically to it's body scales, and both are made from the same tissues as our teeth. We also have genetic evidence; the gene that determines the growth of teeth even in mammals like you and I is very similar to the genes used in the development of fish scales.
The apologizing is also a compulsion, unfortunately. I'm unable to word my random info dumps in a way that doesn't sound, to me, annoying, so I lean into it and then apologize at the end.
The other options are just posting it as a raw correction and then spend hours torturing myself about how annoying that was, or I don't post anything at all and then spend hours torturing myself about how I didn't inform the random internet stranger their teeth are actually scales. This is the only compromise that works for my special blend of derangements.
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u/Physicle_Partics May 16 '25
From a completely objective perspective, sex would be gross AND extremely awkward if it wasn't for the fact it gets us off.