Dude grabbing tools and parts while I work is the dream. If we robot arms and exosuits more elegant you know I’m building that asap
I mean, you could pick it up with your foot without bending down, right?
People really underutilize their toes. I’m anything but flexible, but I use my toes to grab small or squishy stuff like this all the time. I can even open a door with my foot if I’m carrying stuff with both hands while barefoot, though it took a lot of practice and still comes with a chance to fall.
I took 3 weeks of karate and the best thing it did for me was teach me how to high kick. Not with a full leg swing, but a 2-stage kick of knee up first as the foot swings out. Pretty good for kicking up gate latches, pretty good for balance and (slower) precision on less-durable door handles.
the saiyans wrapped thier tail around thier waist.
Every time I try to think of a non-sex related one, I just come up with another sex one.
Nonsexual one is you can do the whole tap someone on the other shoulder trick.
Tail + buttcheeks = terrible time wiping
Humans used to have tails and it came off the bone right above the crack in our ass. Some people still sometimes are born with a vestigial tail.
Costanza, is that you?
You’d just lick it clean at that point, like cats do!
Meh. I’ve had to wipe that area of a few dogs, horses, and some others, but it’s super rare.* The tail is held up and away from the anus while the fecal matter is pushed out, so the dirty portions don’t touch the ‘clean’ areas of the tail and body… and I would bet if we had tails we would do the same and keep the tail held up until we’ve finished wiping/bideting. The animals also can keep it up and out of the way for the duration of sexy times, so I would bet we’d have no issue for doing it for the few minutes between evacuation and cleaning, and that’s before even considering that we’re human and could build a tool/device to do that already.
*Only exception I can think of immediately is pretty gross though: Cows are hideously unclean on average, with their shitty bumholes spilling over the vagina, balls, and tail if the owner doesn’t clean them occasionally. (The colon health / fecal composition is pretty dependent on the local conditions and feedings, so it’s not like they’re always bad)
About the cows: How much does that come from breeding vs the historical cows from more ancient times?
I mean…sheeps werent always the way the modern varieties are as of now (suffocating under their wool if it wasnt sheered)
I think car seats would be designed differently then
I just use my feet to pick up stuff in such situations
Well then having opposable big toes would make that even easier.
For sure. But wearing shoes would feel like those winter mittens where you trade using hands for being warm
Also have always used toesies and a flick motion to bring things up to hand level. I have a vivid memory of my abusive mom slapping me hard across the face for me being “too lazy to bend [my] back” to pick up e.g. laundry. Which has only made me more motivated to do this over the past couple decades.
Anyone who’s ever had lower back pain can feel that evolution’s only been selecting for upright walking mechanics for ~4 million years. Whereas our first land-based tetrapod ancestors had horizontal load-bearing spines for ~371 million years!
Kludgy af.
inb4 the car door closes on that tail
I’m already used to being mindful of a tail behind me thanks to having a guide dog. Revolving doors are the worst, especially when someone is behind me and doesn’t account for the dog and keeps pushing the door while I’m struggling to stop them. Car doors, too.
Careful… Big Bill Brown will tie you up in a tree with that tail!
(I Wish that I had Duck Feet)
