Dean, everybody has odd-looking feet. We just usually don’t notice, because we’re used to them.
Sure, some are nicer than others, but only in a relative sense. Any first-year Industrial Design student could no doubt come up with feet that would be just as functional but far more…elegant, aesthetically.
hippogriff, an Industrial Design student would take the foot from the biophysicist and figure out how to put it in an attractive (yet fully-functional) package. The form follows the function, but what we’re talking about here is, again, the aesthetic value (making feet less “odd-looking”).
My knees were built wrong to begin with. The kneecaps are slightly to the outside of where they should be, and if the leverage gets slightly wrong they pop out of place and the lower half of my legs go 90 degrees out of alignment and my feet stick out due East/West. It’s excriciatingly painful. The left knee was the one I had most trouble with, and when I was 16 I had it reconstructed, drilling holes in the kneecap and threading the tendons trough it like a button, and at this point the one that was operated on is stronger than the one that wasn’t. It’s why you will NEVER get me on a pair of skis, and why I laugh at the idea of “intelligent design.”
rayannina about 13 years ago
Enjoy it while it lasts, Heart. Five years from now, it won’t be your feet he’s looking at …
Destiny23 about 13 years ago
It’s not her fault Mark can’t draw feet!
fritzoid Premium Member about 13 years ago
Dean, everybody has odd-looking feet. We just usually don’t notice, because we’re used to them.
Sure, some are nicer than others, but only in a relative sense. Any first-year Industrial Design student could no doubt come up with feet that would be just as functional but far more…elegant, aesthetically.
hippogriff about 13 years ago
Industrialo Design student? I would prefer a professor of biophysics. Who cares about aesthetics on the last part of a 50 mile hike?
fritzoid Premium Member about 13 years ago
hippogriff, an Industrial Design student would take the foot from the biophysicist and figure out how to put it in an attractive (yet fully-functional) package. The form follows the function, but what we’re talking about here is, again, the aesthetic value (making feet less “odd-looking”).
fritzoid Premium Member about 13 years ago
If I could have one body part re-engineered to correct the design flaws, it’d be my knees…
fritzoid Premium Member about 13 years ago
My knees were built wrong to begin with. The kneecaps are slightly to the outside of where they should be, and if the leverage gets slightly wrong they pop out of place and the lower half of my legs go 90 degrees out of alignment and my feet stick out due East/West. It’s excriciatingly painful. The left knee was the one I had most trouble with, and when I was 16 I had it reconstructed, drilling holes in the kneecap and threading the tendons trough it like a button, and at this point the one that was operated on is stronger than the one that wasn’t. It’s why you will NEVER get me on a pair of skis, and why I laugh at the idea of “intelligent design.”
Decepticomic over 3 years ago
rerun