Why do we have toenails?

sabre_ac · Nov 20, 2003

Sitting here in my parents living room clipping my nails and naturally leaving them on the floor got me thinking....
Why do we have nails?? Toe nails and finger nails?
What purpose do they serve?

skipper kelly · Nov 20, 2003

You can use them as toothpicks

evade28 · Nov 20, 2003

Originally posted by sabre_ac
Sitting here in my parents living room clipping my nails and naturally leaving them on the floor

ha, i do that too!

Scotty's_Girl · Nov 20, 2003

Scratching, biting your finger nails when your nervous or bored, painting them with nail polish ...

doggies40 · Nov 20, 2003

Originally posted by sabre_ac
Sitting here in my parents living room clipping my nails and naturally leaving them on the floor got me thinking....
Why do we have nails?? Toe nails and finger nails?
What purpose do they serve?

If i didnt have fingernails(even though there short now) i dont know what id do if i got nervous or really stressed out, or bored. I grew mine for the first time in ages but then something stressed me out and i bit them again, i guess ill always bite them.

Mooster7 · Nov 20, 2003

To pick lice out of each others hair.

Without long, mondo fingernails, evil Chinese warlords would look like just some schmuck with a droopy mustache.

I wish I had wicked big talons so I could gut other creatures.

If we didn't have fingernails, we'd probably have finger prints on both sides making it easier to accidentally leave evidence behind at our crime scenes.

My balls itch.

Peace,

skipper kelly · Nov 20, 2003

Just imagine if we had lashes on our fingers and toes and nails on our eyes. ummmmmmmmmmm

Im sure a lot of the female variety would enjoy it.

noogie_da_sheep · Nov 20, 2003

honey, i'll be with you in a sec...just have to paint my eye lids

Mr. Blonde · Nov 20, 2003

I think we have them to hold your skin in it's place. If we didn't have them, imagine nothing but skin all over your fingers and toes. With the amount of use they get your skin may stretch. How would that then look with heaps of floppy skin hanging off the ends of your digits?

.............or they may be there just to scratch yourself.

JUBJUB · Nov 20, 2003

Originally posted by sabre_ac

Why do we have nails?? Toe nails and finger nails?
What purpose do they serve?

Why do we have toes at all ?
They serve no purpose,unless you wear thongs.

Nic · Nov 20, 2003

Evolution.

P_D · Nov 20, 2003

Balance.

mantis · Nov 20, 2003

Originally posted by sabre_ac
Sitting here in my parents living room clipping my nails and naturally leaving them on the floor

I cured my kids of doing that, I told them that any toe nails I found in the loungeroom, would be in their next meal, after that they were very careful watching where each one landed & would pick them up & put them in the bin.

Richmondfan#1 · Nov 20, 2003

Originally posted by Nic
Evolution.

Exactly right! We developed from long claws to nails, to allow precision grip and opposability (friction ridges also aide in grasping). The claws limited grasping preventing opposable digits coming together, hence the evolution of nails and the human species! Claws were about prehensibility and the power grip mainly.

Well, that's fingernails anyway

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JUBJUB · Nov 20, 2003

Re: Re: Why do we have toenails?

Originally posted by mantis
I cured my kids of doing that, I told them that any toe nails I found in the loungeroom, would be in their next meal

Could that be one of the Colonel's secret herbs & spices ?

Nic · Nov 20, 2003

Originally posted by Richmondfan#1
Exactly right! We developed from long claws to nails, to allow precision grip and opposability (friction ridges also aide in grasping). The claws limited grasping preventing opposable digits coming together, hence the evolution of nails and the human species! Claws were about prehensibility and the power grip mainly.

Well, that's fingernails anyway .

Gee, that was a good guess, eh?

mantis · Nov 20, 2003

Re: Re: Re: Why do we have toenails?

Originally posted by JUBJUB
Could that be one of the Colonel's secret herbs & spices ?

No I think more the crunchy coating.

Richmondfan#1 · Nov 20, 2003

Originally posted by Nic
Gee, that was a good guess, eh?

Hehe. I have a human biology exam tomorrow and so I crammed most of today. Primates and the human species are a subject in the exam ... hence my nerd-ish reply

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mantis · Nov 20, 2003

Originally posted by Richmondfan#1
Hehe. I have a human biology exam tomorrow and so I crammed most of today. Primates and the human species are a subject in the exam ... hence my nerd-ish reply .

HEH HEH good way of doing revision, who would have thought a footy forum, would help with that.

eagleskickass · Nov 21, 2003

bring back the footy

i cant BELIEVE we are discussing this topic

carn_the_nmfc · Nov 21, 2003

What a disgusting thread.

ImperialPurple · Nov 21, 2003

Toenails are there for my 4 year old to bite, usually in the car when she's bored.

carn_the_nmfc · Nov 21, 2003

Originally posted by ImperialPurple
Toenails are there for my 4 year old to bite, usually in the car when she's bored.

That's what my nieces and nephew do. It is rather gross.

Mikki · Nov 21, 2003

I learnt somewhere that they're there to protect the tops of our fingers and the tops of our toes.

RooMatera · Nov 22, 2003

Originally posted by goaldrush
That's what my nieces and nephew do. It is rather gross.

Who's sons and daughters are they ?

Toia's ? maybe Voss's ? or Hird's ?

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