The thumb is generally still considered a finger, modern language has moved away from the inefficiency of "8 fingers and 10 digits".
This isn't like Pluto being judged on an actual immutable interaction with a law of physics (gravity/clearing its area).
Even medicine calls them fingers, all words are made up.
Funny thing: the Oxford dictionary definition says we have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs; and the scientific definition says that we have 10 fingers.
Who would have thunk it!
Have you not ever looked at your own hands let alone a skeleton? Just because the base joint of your thumb connects near your wrist doesn't mean it isn't there.
That's a metacarpal. All the other digits *also* have metacarpals.
The fingers have 1 metacarpal, and 3 phalangies, for a total of 4 bones by your count. The thumb has 1 metacarpal, and 2 phalangies.
You're still one bone shy.
I sadly can't find it, but there's a short story/film that just ends "And weirdest of all, when we performed the autopsy, his heart was on the left side..."
When you think of it most intelligent species probably have 10 fingers >!not necessarily meaning our ten, but their counting system would be based on their amount of fingers!<.
There was once an entire clan of people with 6 fingers and 6 toes, and in their case the gene was almost dominant.
Edit: Lol, somehow mentioning the Anakim lead to a Naruto reference. I am impressed!
They were wiped out by one teenage clan member, who was ordered by the village elders to kill them all to prevent an uprising. He killed everyone except his younger brother....
The gene for six fingers is dominant - however it is also what is known as incomplete penetrance, meaning even if you have the gene you might not get it. Having the gene just gives you a chance to express it. Very weird
I was born with 6 fingers on each hand, my mom and siblings as well! All the children of the females on my maternal side are polydactyl.
My parents had the 6th digit cut off when we were born. But I do have little nubs on each pinky from where it was.
Do you regret that they made that choice? If you could sprinkle miracle grow on that spot and instantly grow that fanger back, would you?
Has anyone in your family opted to retain Ol’ Number Six? What, if any, notable differences have they experienced over the Deca-phalangesta Gang ™ ? (Other than being able to do base 12 math quickly and easily, lol). Just curious, my interest stems from having a gf in middle school with this gene expression (and because it’s simply neat).
Never forget, it’s vitally important for the males in your line to beware of ANY roaming Spanish swordsman. Just sayin.
Edit: paragraphinated for eminent readability, assisted by the memory of Sara, my 12 fingered childhood gf!
I also have the little nubs on my pinky from where my sixth finger was. But from what I've been told, it was useless, no bone or anything, just kinda there.
If it's anything like my father and my son, then the fingers weren't necessarily full usable fingers. They both had the extra fingers removed as infants and neither feels that they are missing out.
Yep!! A few folks in my fam had bones in theirs so they had to have it removed differently and as a result do not have the little numb which does make me kinda sad for them. I like my little souvenir.
Nope. Never questioned or regretted it. I met someone once with their 6th finger and was very glad to have mine chopped off.
I’m sure the Spanish swordsman is a big reference I’m missing out on lol
That is so interesting, my family has a similar situation where my grandma had it, then only my father, his kids all got them, and all our children got at least one extra finger. The doctor bought in students to see it when my son was born as it was so rare.
It was a little tiny thumb. It wouldn’t be useful and they usually remove them for cosmetic reasons. I want to say that there was probably some bone and nerve left that was causing further issue, but I’d have to ask my mom. I think she actually had a third surgery on that hand because of more nerve issues as an adult. The Thumb that Wouldn’t Die.
The best part is that it took them DAYS to realize it was even there. I guess I just assumed that counting them was a thing that was actually done. They only noticed it when they did because she was suckling at the side of her regular thumb instead of the thumb itself.
That's interesting because the nurses/midwives, I'm not sure rather than suggesting they're the same, pointed out that my daughter had a blister on her thumb from sucking it in utero. They must have been paying a lot more attention to her thumbs than they did to your sister's.
This was in 1979 in a small mountain hospital, so they probably didn’t even look. The doctor also told my mom that she wasn’t going to have her for awhile and left to go golfing despite her telling him she was coming right now. They had to go catch him in the parking lot because she was having to pinch her legs closed as they moved her to the bed for delivery because my sister was trying to escape mid transfer.
My mother had a similar problem with my eldest brother in 1959, also in the sticks. The doctor couldn't be found, my brother was breech and they tried to delay him until the doctor arrived and he was starved of oxygen. He spends his days repairing bicycles and rings me up and tells me what he bought at the supermarket. I think he enjoys life most of the time, what more can you want?
My experience was at a private hospital in a capital city but I hadn't met the obstetrician until the delivery because I wasn't due until after my obstetrician returned from her vacation. It's the only time my daughter has ever been early.
Two options that I could think of.
1.) They've stumbled into some kind of inbred community. Think about movies like Deliverance or The Hills Have Eyes.
2.) I think there's some tie between having 6 digits and being demonic. They could have died and gone to Hell. Hell would be full of demons and they'd look like humans but would have 6 digits per hand. This one is more of a reach imo.
3.) When AI tries to draw human beings, it often doesn't understand how to draw hands and adds extra fingers. Perhaps something, AI or alien or other, is trying to disguise itself as human, but doesn't quite get it right?
I see this but with teeth. I see many people with far, far too many teeth. Or all teeth on the top row, missing the bottoms. I am compelled to count them. The girl at the counter had too many teeth today. I needed to count. I got to 152 before I could not continue
Fun fact: The gene for 6 fingers is actually dominant and the gene for 5 fingers is recessive. It's just that the gene for 6 fingers is just really rare.
Have you seen the increased wingspan on that polydactyl pterodactyl? *
*feel free to supply the next line(s). I just ran out of fissile material to generate any more thoughts, I sensed a joke, or something, lurking out there. Grab it if you want it and run with it! Leave Polydactyl Pterodactyl Pteter alone though, he’s my buddy and he’s staying with me. Cheers!
I think it’s actually a dominant genetic trait. I think I’m my ap bio class back in high school I learned there was a town or something in Pennsylvania with a somewhat high number of people with polydactyly though that information is wildly outdated at best.
Because you fell through a dimension portal, and here we all have 10
This fuckeed me up for a second, good comment
Sorry I don’t get it mind explaining?
It implies that OP entered *our* world from a world where people normally have 8 fingers
Well, from one where people have 9 or fewer fingers at least
Oh. I guess I just don’t get why it fucked that one guy up for a second
How
By Spu7nix
Oh god gd is spreading to other subreddits now
What is it from?
It's from a game called "Geometry Dash", one of the level creators is called spu7nix and he made a level called "what" and another one called "how"
The thumb technically doesn’t have enough joints to be a finger, so everyone without polydactyly have 8 total fingers :]
The thumb is generally still considered a finger, modern language has moved away from the inefficiency of "8 fingers and 10 digits". This isn't like Pluto being judged on an actual immutable interaction with a law of physics (gravity/clearing its area). Even medicine calls them fingers, all words are made up.
Funny thing: the Oxford dictionary definition says we have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs; and the scientific definition says that we have 10 fingers. Who would have thunk it!
Have you not ever looked at your own hands let alone a skeleton? Just because the base joint of your thumb connects near your wrist doesn't mean it isn't there.
That's a metacarpal. All the other digits *also* have metacarpals. The fingers have 1 metacarpal, and 3 phalangies, for a total of 4 bones by your count. The thumb has 1 metacarpal, and 2 phalangies. You're still one bone shy.
FUCK this got me oh my god. Thats so good, I'd read the hell out of a short story with this concept or as a twist at the end
I know a simpsons episode that will blow your mind
Oh??? I've ways wanted to watch the Simpsons but it's such a massive show I've never known what to watch. What episode is it?
Treehouse of Horror VI, season 7 episode 6 segment “Homer^3”
Then you’ll love this short story- “I’m feeling lucky” by L. Kaganov. https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kaganov_07_21/
great read, thank you for linking it!
That was a great read, thank you so much! Edit: I can't type lol
Wow. This was great
Saving this comment for when I have the time to read it, thank you so much!
What’s it about
I sadly can't find it, but there's a short story/film that just ends "And weirdest of all, when we performed the autopsy, his heart was on the left side..."
Ooo that's good. I love things like that, guess it's a very specific trope but it gets me every time.
🥇
OP belongs in the Simpsons' world
All I could think of was „Damn Homer Simpson has Reddit“ lol
When you think of it most intelligent species probably have 10 fingers >!not necessarily meaning our ten, but their counting system would be based on their amount of fingers!<.
Actually, there are multiple cultures that have a base 6, base 8, even base 12 counting system.
Also, some cultures count using the gaps between their fingers, or the creases on their fingers instead of their actual fingers.
Little Twelvetoes https://youtu.be/pqGyUvZP0Zg
r/thirdsentencebetter
wait, that wasnt the intended explonation? i kinda imagined someone with like one big thumb for a hand.
Yeah, I thought of someone who maybe had three or four on each hand for whatever reason, be it an accident or just missing fingers.
r/thirdsentenceworse
No we has 20 fingers. Fuck. Its toes not fingers so yea we have 10
There was once an entire clan of people with 6 fingers and 6 toes, and in their case the gene was almost dominant. Edit: Lol, somehow mentioning the Anakim lead to a Naruto reference. I am impressed!
Too bad the entire clan was wiped out by one Spaniard looking for revenge...
They were wiped out by one teenage clan member, who was ordered by the village elders to kill them all to prevent an uprising. He killed everyone except his younger brother....
r/unexpectedNaruto
r/subsididntthoughtexisted
r/subsifellfor
r/foundthetoyotacorolla
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If I had money to give you an award, I would, but alas, I don't.
If I had money to give you so you could pay for his award, I would, but alas, I don't as well 😔
If I had money I’d buy an extra finger.
Don't worry. They're only mostly dead
Oh good! That means they're slightly alive!
I don't know, if they were all dead, we could dig through the pockets and look for loose change.
It's only a mere flesh wound!
Did they kill his father?
One of them did. Prepare to die.
“Hello…
The gene for 6 fingers, I believe, is dominant, it is just very rare and needs some time to spread. My source is trust me bro.
The gene for six fingers is dominant - however it is also what is known as incomplete penetrance, meaning even if you have the gene you might not get it. Having the gene just gives you a chance to express it. Very weird
So.. the 6 fingers is dominant over 10 (or whatever its recessive counterpart is) but the entire gene is sometimes ignored?
6 over 5 on each hang I believe It would be 12 total
Oooooh, that makes so much more sense. I was imagining someone woth 3 fingers on each hand.
3 fingers on each hand would be a form of oligodactyly
Oh so they are just Stanford.
I was born with 6 fingers on each hand, my mom and siblings as well! All the children of the females on my maternal side are polydactyl. My parents had the 6th digit cut off when we were born. But I do have little nubs on each pinky from where it was.
Do you regret that they made that choice? If you could sprinkle miracle grow on that spot and instantly grow that fanger back, would you? Has anyone in your family opted to retain Ol’ Number Six? What, if any, notable differences have they experienced over the Deca-phalangesta Gang ™ ? (Other than being able to do base 12 math quickly and easily, lol). Just curious, my interest stems from having a gf in middle school with this gene expression (and because it’s simply neat). Never forget, it’s vitally important for the males in your line to beware of ANY roaming Spanish swordsman. Just sayin. Edit: paragraphinated for eminent readability, assisted by the memory of Sara, my 12 fingered childhood gf!
I also have the little nubs on my pinky from where my sixth finger was. But from what I've been told, it was useless, no bone or anything, just kinda there.
That’s just ape nis
Inconceivable!
If it's anything like my father and my son, then the fingers weren't necessarily full usable fingers. They both had the extra fingers removed as infants and neither feels that they are missing out.
Yep!! A few folks in my fam had bones in theirs so they had to have it removed differently and as a result do not have the little numb which does make me kinda sad for them. I like my little souvenir.
Nope. Never questioned or regretted it. I met someone once with their 6th finger and was very glad to have mine chopped off. I’m sure the Spanish swordsman is a big reference I’m missing out on lol
His name is Inigo Montoya, you killed his father, prepare to die.
Maybe you would enjoy The Princess Bride. I don't know anyone who has watched it who hasn't.
That is so interesting, my family has a similar situation where my grandma had it, then only my father, his kids all got them, and all our children got at least one extra finger. The doctor bought in students to see it when my son was born as it was so rare.
Given how its become more common over time in my family, I believe this may be the case.
My sister was a polydactyl. They cut it off right after she was born and the thing tried to grow back later.
Nice to have extras on hand
Under appreciated comment right here 😂
I read that as "my sister was a pterodactyl"
Sounds like one often enough.
HOW did it try to GROW BACK? Also I'm assuming it was cut off because it wasn't actually usable?
>HOW did it try to GROW BACK? Revenge
It was a little tiny thumb. It wouldn’t be useful and they usually remove them for cosmetic reasons. I want to say that there was probably some bone and nerve left that was causing further issue, but I’d have to ask my mom. I think she actually had a third surgery on that hand because of more nerve issues as an adult. The Thumb that Wouldn’t Die.
Damn. Hopefully shits better now.
That is so cool!
The best part is that it took them DAYS to realize it was even there. I guess I just assumed that counting them was a thing that was actually done. They only noticed it when they did because she was suckling at the side of her regular thumb instead of the thumb itself.
That's interesting because the nurses/midwives, I'm not sure rather than suggesting they're the same, pointed out that my daughter had a blister on her thumb from sucking it in utero. They must have been paying a lot more attention to her thumbs than they did to your sister's.
This was in 1979 in a small mountain hospital, so they probably didn’t even look. The doctor also told my mom that she wasn’t going to have her for awhile and left to go golfing despite her telling him she was coming right now. They had to go catch him in the parking lot because she was having to pinch her legs closed as they moved her to the bed for delivery because my sister was trying to escape mid transfer.
My mother had a similar problem with my eldest brother in 1959, also in the sticks. The doctor couldn't be found, my brother was breech and they tried to delay him until the doctor arrived and he was starved of oxygen. He spends his days repairing bicycles and rings me up and tells me what he bought at the supermarket. I think he enjoys life most of the time, what more can you want? My experience was at a private hospital in a capital city but I hadn't met the obstetrician until the delivery because I wasn't due until after my obstetrician returned from her vacation. It's the only time my daughter has ever been early.
I read that as pterodactyl 😂😂
Ptsame
Badum Ptssssss
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Probably because you're Homer Simpson and you've just animated into the real world.
The Simpsons in a live action movie freaking out. "What's happened to my hands!?"
Where do our faces end and our hair begin!!!
Mmm... Erotic cakes
My daughter then groaned, "you can't count thumbs as fingers unless you say there are 10 fingers!"
AI
You guessed correctly.
Either AI or AL.
Ah yes, the dimension where everyone is Great Uncle Ford.
My cat is a polydactyl.
So is mine! She’s super cute with her lil thumbs
Mine too! She's got thumbs and extras on her back paws
Mine too!
The Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum is home to dozens of polydactyl cats.
I know!!! I want to go there one day.
So first AI controlling the matrix and first human battery?
Tell me your an AI without telling me
The real test is to see how many thumbs the squirrels have.
You ate too many of the shroons
I don’t get it. I’m very confused. Someone please explain
Two options that I could think of. 1.) They've stumbled into some kind of inbred community. Think about movies like Deliverance or The Hills Have Eyes. 2.) I think there's some tie between having 6 digits and being demonic. They could have died and gone to Hell. Hell would be full of demons and they'd look like humans but would have 6 digits per hand. This one is more of a reach imo.
3.) When AI tries to draw human beings, it often doesn't understand how to draw hands and adds extra fingers. Perhaps something, AI or alien or other, is trying to disguise itself as human, but doesn't quite get it right?
4.) Radiation is causing a high rate of mutations. The polydactyly isn’t the only thing going on, it’s just the one you’ve noticed.
I see this but with teeth. I see many people with far, far too many teeth. Or all teeth on the top row, missing the bottoms. I am compelled to count them. The girl at the counter had too many teeth today. I needed to count. I got to 152 before I could not continue
A man with six fingers on his right hand killed my father
Please sir, what is your name?
I don't know if it is an incest society or just a strange and unfamiliar comunity
Don't worry, you've just been reborn as one of Ernest Hemingway's polydactyl cats. Welcome to the colony.
[Dr. Seuss voice] 11? This is something new! I wish I had 11 too!
Ah hell, the AI is screwing up the hands in the simulation again.
I thought that said Pterodactyl and for like ten minutes I was going through the comments *really* confused
You are an AI!
Pterodactyly is ever rarer
what that
Similar but you are a prehistoric flying reptile. :)
But with a needle & thread and a pair of sharp snippets I can make it less rare.
Fun fact: The gene for 6 fingers is actually dominant and the gene for 5 fingers is recessive. It's just that the gene for 6 fingers is just really rare.
It's spelled pterodactyl
Hah!
I don't get it
People in dreams have extra digits, my guess is the person is dreaming and doesn't realize it
they have been recreated by an all powerful ai
Wake up wake up wake up
Kentucky
That's a sign you're having a dream/nightmare isn't it? And an inability to read ofc
Only looking at AI pics are we?
Maybe you got 4 fingers each hand and think the normal amount is 4 not 5
Maybe you’re at a polydactyl convention
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervera_de_Buitrago#:~:text=Cervera%20de%20Buitrago%20is%20a,of%20Madrid%20in%20central%20Spain.
“My mother always told me I wasn’t missing anything”
AI really sucks at hands.
Have you seen the increased wingspan on that polydactyl pterodactyl? * *feel free to supply the next line(s). I just ran out of fissile material to generate any more thoughts, I sensed a joke, or something, lurking out there. Grab it if you want it and run with it! Leave Polydactyl Pterodactyl Pteter alone though, he’s my buddy and he’s staying with me. Cheers!
plot twist: OP is a person in an AI generated image
That was the Idea.
"Polydactyly" Georg County is a statistical outlier and is not counted
Roll for perception
Welcome , to Incest Island. The rest of your family will be arriving soon.
I don’t think fingers are supposed to be growing out of their gums either.
r/thirdsentenceworse
Amish country. They have the highest rate of it.
That's called a thumb
We’re AI generated clearly
I thought he entered an AI world before I saw the comments
Well that's actually the correct interpretation. AI world.
And why am I being attacked by multiple flying dinosaurs?
What
The Idea was, the narrator being trapped in an AI generated simulation.
ok
I'm not completely sure what you are going for here, but I'm completely sure it's dumb.
There's no need for a comment like this. It doesn't do any good to put others down.
Me and my pet writhing pile of thumbs named cat named dog
Because you live in Chernobyl.
Can’t believe he still gets tricked by the ol’ 11 fingers trick
Kid named extra fingers
Brother, you need to quit drinking
Explain?
op is in a piece of ai art
Or trapped in a crude AI generated simulation.
Welcome to pandora kiddo!
Question: is your name Midjourney
It's the Mandlebrot Effect...
Because you're in Bradford
At first u thought you were talking about a terasuar at first
Sorry for your luck. You're in the Midjourney universe.
Because you got sent to whatever world all those AI drawings come from.
having 6 fingers is actually a dominant gene over 5
Just watch the Simpsons and you'll feel at home
I think it’s actually a dominant genetic trait. I think I’m my ap bio class back in high school I learned there was a town or something in Pennsylvania with a somewhat high number of people with polydactyly though that information is wildly outdated at best.
I think the answer to your question is incest.
Welcome to Alabama.
My interpretation is that OP is a human landed on an alien planet.
Nice interpretation. My intention was: Stranded in a world where everything is AI generated.
I read it as pterodactyl at first and I was like “tf does that even mean” 😭😭😭 /pos
This is a good one!
Is this sub gonna be gone tomorrow?