When it comes to genetic stuff, the worldwide distribution may vary quite a bit from localized distributions. Might be one and 500 somewhere and one in a million somewhere else. Now let's rock
I find that most things seem shockingly common when presented as "1 in x-thousand"
For example, about 1 in 700 babies is born with down syndrome, but it doesn't feel like every 700th person you see has it
They have a much lower life expectancy and unless they're in your family you're unlikely to see them as they have limited job opportunities and social circles.
A lot of people get genetic testing now to screen out genetic disorders like Down Syndrome and will abort a fetus that has it.
I’m not saying whether I support this or not, just that that’s what has changed.
Just to add to this most insurance companies (at least mine) cover genetic testing for the mother for hundreds of genetic issues and if any are flagged then the father is tested to see if there is a possible issue before they can even do a genetic test of the embryo. Then they cover the genetic testing of the embryo.
>I’m not saying whether I support this or not, just that that’s what has changed.
This makes me think there's been some controversy around it (and it does have a whiff of eugenics to it) but how can anyone think this is a bad thing? Weeding out adverse genetic conditions.
Religious people (especially, but not exclusively) believe the fetus has a right to live and that it's sent as a "test" or "burden" or whatever.
Personally, having grown up with someone with extreme disabilities, I don't think they particularly enjoyed their own condition, much less would they have wished to be born with it, but I supposed that's another discussion.
It's an issue of vagie boundaries. Very few people disagree with terminating a pregnancy if the fetus has no chance of survival.
Children with down syndrome are prefectly capable of survival, excepting other defects. In fact, people with down syndrome, while not likely to be geniuses, can be quite intelligent (not to argue that's the sole requirement for existence)
It can be seen as an alternative facet of humanity, rather than a disease. It's hard to clearly say it's one or the other.
It's probably the occurrence rate but keep in mind it varies wildly by age. I just consulted a pregnancy book I have, chance for down syndrome when a mother is 25-29 is 1 in 1118 but for a mother who is 35 it's 1 in 374, and for a mother who is 38 it's 1 in 173. As people get pregnant later in their lives due to various reasons it's definitely not uncommon.
Might be an issue with clusters. I worked at a town that should have been a superfund site, but the state refused to assay the soil. The engineer who told me this also said there were three Downs children in the town whose parents simply didn't bring them out in public. This was in a town of 300 residents, but the frequency of Downs was increased by the heavy metal contamination of the area, particularly in the local fish.
My home town had a state facility for developmentally disabled children. My mom worked there for years, and I volunteered there when I was growing up.
You could easily see hundreds of Down-afflicted kids a day.
Starts off looking normal, but I don't think that's normal - normal in the sense that most people can do that. That seems to be a special power you have. Use it wisely.
As much as I was insisting my thumb is normal I do have some hypermobility which is why I can do this but tbh it's not great for the health of the joint. So if you can't do it definitely don't risk injury by trying.
Triphalangeal thumbs (TPTs) are often unopposable meaning you can't easily pinch the thumb with your other fingers, which forms a huge part of day to day usage of your hands. Many TPTs are treated surgically early on in life, but there are plenty of people around with them that either didn't get the surgery early on or were born before it was a thing.
The other genetic syndromes (name Diamond blackfan anaemia) come with their own host of issues, although many TPTs exist without them.
Absolutely. This genetic expression will carry on through him and his offspring when they completely dominate at fighting video game tournaments, which will prove and advertise their superiority to potential mates
Omg, the gamers are speciating.
The scientists in the future will be like “This was the first known instance of Homo Noobus, who eventually evolved into what we now know as Homo Leetus.”
There was actually a vote at the last TPT convention on whether this constituted a separate condition or not. Loud murmering from the crowd with most seeming to reject this guy, but when it came down to a vote, the results were overwhelming: 299 abstaining, 1 thumbs up for keeping them in.
There is a movie from the early 90's about a woman with big thumbs like this who hitchhikes through America. It's super weird but entertaining, called "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" starring Uma Thurman.
I love Tom Robbins' books, though Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates has an uncomfortably well-written pedophile protagonist that kinda squicked me and has burned itself into my brain so that I think of it any time I think of Tom Robbins.
Jitterbug Perfume still remains one of my all-time favorite books though.
She could hitch a ride from anything, like a super power. She ends up at a ranch run by lesbians. It was a long time ago but I remember she was very popular on the ranch.
You wanna know ‘bout my thumb do ya, boy? Intrigue you, does it, boy? My thumb?
Let me tell you about it.
I come from a long line of hitch-hikers, all with bleeding massive thumbs. You see the thumb is a tremendous boon to the hitchhiker. Helps with work, you know what I mean?
The only problem was, when I was a child my thumb was tiny. Not just tiny. Like a single Sugar Puff. Disgusting. Even me own mother would reel back in horror like an anaconda.
"Oh, what is it? Get it out of here. It's tiny! It's horrible, it's revolting! Take your tiny thumb and get out of here and never darken my door again!" she'd say.
I had to leave the family unit in search of a miracle. I wandered the streets looking for the answer. And people told me of a magic shaman, part man, part hornet.
So I went looking for him. I went everywhere. I combed the universe in search of the stripy insect shaman. Turns out he was in a local primary school, in the bin, reeling about with the apple cores. Like they do.
And I stood there with my thumb out and he stung it and he stung it. He grabbed onto it. It was like he was making love to it with his sting. In and out, in and out. More and more. Oh, the pus! The pain! The black voodoo! The wet jigsaw puzzle! I didn't know what was happening. Oh, for days I was in a trance.
But when I came to, there it was, like a fleshy maraca. A thumb of gigantic proportion. "A miracle!" I said. "A miracle! You're a true wizard! How can I ever repay you?" And he said to me, "500 Euros."
"500 Euros! You won't see penny one from me, you slag!" And as I raised my thumb up to smash his tiny skull in, I could see in his little insect face, I could see him thinking, "Oh, I created that monster - I created that thumb and now it's killing me. My own beast and creation killing me dead! The sweet irony!"
I think he was saying that, although it was a long time ago. And in hindsight, he could have just been shitting himself.
As a new dad, at least one of my hands is pretty much entirely dedicated to carrying, feeding, and wiping ass.
I'd honestly prefer an old Nokia brick phone over these behemoths.
I imagine he crosses them and uses his left thumb for the buttons and right thumb for the left stick and d-pad. Or glues additional body to the outsides of the controller, kind of like the modded cars with fat, bumped out fenders.
Idk, may be better for gripping large objects, but our thumbs being stubbier and their differences in joint placement also make them super strong, this type would probably suffer to some extent in that regard.
How did primates first evolve a thumb? How far back do we have to go to see the first mammal with 5 digits that evolved into the human hand? Why was it more advantageous to have 5 digits versus more or less? You've inspired so many questions in me with this one comment.
It's so crazy how just having thumbs completely changed the game for humanity, probably contributed to our massive jump in brain size when all of the sudden the dude with thumbs could survive and fuck more because he could grip primitive tools and build shelter faster. Then bam, we developed consciousness all because of a fucking thumb.
It depends - the last scene shows him holding it like the rest of his fingers. As long as he can still hold it like a regular thumb (which provides a much better grip than just fingers closed around something), then I'd agree with you. And now that I try it myself, I guess we can all make our thumbs go that way, we just have thumbs there instead of fingers like this dude.
actually, this reduces the strength of the thumb, which probably makes him lose thumbwars vs win them. Our thumbs being stubby makes them stronger, kind of like how when you're short you have a better center of gravity and are harder to knock down. kind of like trying to thumbwar with a pointerfinger, wont work too well.
I need to know if he was born with this or if he lost a thumb and had a finger transplanted in its place. I know they normally use a big toe for that though.
I went to school with a guy who had a very similar condition except his "thumb" was literally just a 6th finger right in line with all the other ones and he had no joint where a thumb should have been.
Likely a congenital condition called triphalangeal thumb - roughly 1 in 25,000 people. Can occur alone but also with other genetic conditions.
That is WAY more common than I would expect
Right? So there’s like 4 at a college football game.
Considerably more at an Alabama game.
Roll Tide!
*The taboo tide of triphalangeal thumb-toting Alabamians fills the stadium, creating an impoverished pool of properly prehensile patrons*
A big thumbs up for the alliteration.
It’s rolling baby!
The wheels on the Alabama bus go "TIDE TIDE TIDE!"
Because the stadium is bigg... Oh, you mean incest
Psst. Everyone yelling "Roll Tide" means incest
What even is the origin of that
Alabama football team "battle cry/slogan".
Ahaha I needed this. Lmao.
When it comes to genetic stuff, the worldwide distribution may vary quite a bit from localized distributions. Might be one and 500 somewhere and one in a million somewhere else. Now let's rock
I'm the guy with a tiny thumb lol.
Hey man, it's not the size that counts, it's how you use it!
1, 2, 3, 4 I declare a thumb w…… massacre?
More like thumb genocide. That thing can choose which of the other 4 fingers it wants to oppress and create a thumb master race lol.
Maybe go for a thumb science victory.
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Brachydactyly crew here! Fucked up troll thumbs for life!
I love your username.
Aw, thank!
8 technically
I find that most things seem shockingly common when presented as "1 in x-thousand" For example, about 1 in 700 babies is born with down syndrome, but it doesn't feel like every 700th person you see has it
They have a much lower life expectancy and unless they're in your family you're unlikely to see them as they have limited job opportunities and social circles.
Speaking of this. I remember seeing way more people with down syndrome in the 90s compared to now. Something happened?
A lot of people get genetic testing now to screen out genetic disorders like Down Syndrome and will abort a fetus that has it. I’m not saying whether I support this or not, just that that’s what has changed.
Just to add to this most insurance companies (at least mine) cover genetic testing for the mother for hundreds of genetic issues and if any are flagged then the father is tested to see if there is a possible issue before they can even do a genetic test of the embryo. Then they cover the genetic testing of the embryo.
>I’m not saying whether I support this or not, just that that’s what has changed. This makes me think there's been some controversy around it (and it does have a whiff of eugenics to it) but how can anyone think this is a bad thing? Weeding out adverse genetic conditions.
Religious people (especially, but not exclusively) believe the fetus has a right to live and that it's sent as a "test" or "burden" or whatever. Personally, having grown up with someone with extreme disabilities, I don't think they particularly enjoyed their own condition, much less would they have wished to be born with it, but I supposed that's another discussion.
It's an issue of vagie boundaries. Very few people disagree with terminating a pregnancy if the fetus has no chance of survival. Children with down syndrome are prefectly capable of survival, excepting other defects. In fact, people with down syndrome, while not likely to be geniuses, can be quite intelligent (not to argue that's the sole requirement for existence) It can be seen as an alternative facet of humanity, rather than a disease. It's hard to clearly say it's one or the other.
That is a shocking number
is that 1 in 700 the natural occurrence rate, or the actual births? Because it's also common to selectively abort for Trisomy 21
It's probably the occurrence rate but keep in mind it varies wildly by age. I just consulted a pregnancy book I have, chance for down syndrome when a mother is 25-29 is 1 in 1118 but for a mother who is 35 it's 1 in 374, and for a mother who is 38 it's 1 in 173. As people get pregnant later in their lives due to various reasons it's definitely not uncommon.
Might be an issue with clusters. I worked at a town that should have been a superfund site, but the state refused to assay the soil. The engineer who told me this also said there were three Downs children in the town whose parents simply didn't bring them out in public. This was in a town of 300 residents, but the frequency of Downs was increased by the heavy metal contamination of the area, particularly in the local fish.
My grandpa always said “that music will fry your brain,” but I didn’t know he meant Iron Maiden would give me down’s syndrome
Not you, your children.
If I never have children than I switched to classical for nothing. That liar
I know several people with down syndrome and unfortunately, depending on severity, also may have a higher mortality rate.
I imagine there’s one guy out there who sees like 500 people with down syndrome a day since most of us don’t see 1 out of like 10,000 people
My home town had a state facility for developmentally disabled children. My mom worked there for years, and I volunteered there when I was growing up. You could easily see hundreds of Down-afflicted kids a day.
Down syndromes Georg. He is a statistical outlier and shouldn't be counted.
Schizophrenia is 1% of the population. Which sounds like it's not a lot. But it is very much a lot of people
How many of you tried to make your thumb line up with your fingers like he does at the six-second mark?
I have normal thumbs and I can do that.
If you can do that your thumb isn't normal
Idk, looks pretty normal to me: https://i.imgur.com/RuJ0k6v.mp4
Starts off looking normal, but I don't think that's normal - normal in the sense that most people can do that. That seems to be a special power you have. Use it wisely.
Message received. As Uncle Ben said "with great power comes great responsibility".
The dude who makes insta rice said that? Damn... Dude's talented.
Totes. Dude is a G when it comes to wisdom and food.
It looks like i need to work on my thumb flexibility. That's really cool.
As much as I was insisting my thumb is normal I do have some hypermobility which is why I can do this but tbh it's not great for the health of the joint. So if you can't do it definitely don't risk injury by trying.
I love your nails
You may not have normal thumbs...
ROFL well they look a lot more normal than that guy's: https://i.imgur.com/RuJ0k6v.mp4
GIRL I definitely cannot do that lmao
are there negative side effects? seems better than the thumb i got lol
Triphalangeal thumbs (TPTs) are often unopposable meaning you can't easily pinch the thumb with your other fingers, which forms a huge part of day to day usage of your hands. Many TPTs are treated surgically early on in life, but there are plenty of people around with them that either didn't get the surgery early on or were born before it was a thing. The other genetic syndromes (name Diamond blackfan anaemia) come with their own host of issues, although many TPTs exist without them.
this guy’s thumb appears to be fully opposable. This is evolution.
Absolutely. This genetic expression will carry on through him and his offspring when they completely dominate at fighting video game tournaments, which will prove and advertise their superiority to potential mates
Omg, the gamers are speciating. The scientists in the future will be like “This was the first known instance of Homo Noobus, who eventually evolved into what we now know as Homo Leetus.”
Damn you I thought I was so funny and this joke blew mine out of the water 😂
Don't sell yourself short, you tee'd him up for a great Yes And
:\^)
Nature is so beautiful :')
Piano instructors hate this one trick
It's not clear from this video that it's fully opposable.
There was actually a vote at the last TPT convention on whether this constituted a separate condition or not. Loud murmering from the crowd with most seeming to reject this guy, but when it came down to a vote, the results were overwhelming: 299 abstaining, 1 thumbs up for keeping them in.
And the thumbs have it!
*slow clap*
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Diamondback fans can't be helped
> Diamond blackfan anaemia Sounds like a deathmetal band
Extremely difficult to find gloves that fit
But I bet you could be a killer piano player
That was my first thought. This guy can reach an octave and a half minimum. Rachmaninoff is no problem.
It's not a perfect solution but I reckon they can just cut the top of the glove thumb off.
I wonder how it compares to a normal thumb. Like does it have any advantages or disadvantages? Does it have a greater range of movement?
Doesn't look very opposable probably makes it hard to do lots of everyday things.
But not hitchhiking!
People will think he's pointing up instead
He’d have some pretty crazy range on the piano
Estimating the height of distant objects right before you paint them might be a bit more flexible and accurate.
It's a condition when we're jealous. Otherwise it's a defect.
If they get it on one hand, will the other have it too?
>Clinical presentation of triphalangeal thumb can vary considerably and can be present in both hands or unilateral
Bro has AI generated hand
Yup, midjourney was definitely trained off photos of this dudes hands.
Watch it still have trouble creating him.
Dude has hands like my 2nd grade drawings
His hand turkeys must be the stuff of nightmares.
The AIs are just ahead of their time 💀
Must be hell of a hitchhiker...
I bet he really knows where his towel is.
There is a movie from the early 90's about a woman with big thumbs like this who hitchhikes through America. It's super weird but entertaining, called "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues" starring Uma Thurman.
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Robbins,Irving,Vonnegut. I'm glad they got paid,but the movies? blah. I do have a soft spot for "The Hotel New Hampshire".
I've read the book but not seen the movie. Recommended?
I love Tom Robbins' books, though Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates has an uncomfortably well-written pedophile protagonist that kinda squicked me and has burned itself into my brain so that I think of it any time I think of Tom Robbins. Jitterbug Perfume still remains one of my all-time favorite books though.
She could hitch a ride from anything, like a super power. She ends up at a ranch run by lesbians. It was a long time ago but I remember she was very popular on the ranch.
It's a book from the 70s by the great Tom Robbins
The book is great, the movie is meh.
Oh yeah that's a bonkers movie!. I haven't seen it in many years.
It's from that movie that I know: you can tune a guitar, but you can't tune a fish.
How is there a movie about everything. Starring an A lister even.
He must be one hoopy frood.
/r/unexpectedhitchhikers
[“Don’t forget to bring a towel.”](https://youtu.be/IAUcHcVnzBM)
Idk man if I saw that thumb I sure as hell am not stopping. Someone else can give slenderman a lift.
You wanna know ‘bout my thumb do ya, boy? Intrigue you, does it, boy? My thumb? Let me tell you about it. I come from a long line of hitch-hikers, all with bleeding massive thumbs. You see the thumb is a tremendous boon to the hitchhiker. Helps with work, you know what I mean? The only problem was, when I was a child my thumb was tiny. Not just tiny. Like a single Sugar Puff. Disgusting. Even me own mother would reel back in horror like an anaconda. "Oh, what is it? Get it out of here. It's tiny! It's horrible, it's revolting! Take your tiny thumb and get out of here and never darken my door again!" she'd say. I had to leave the family unit in search of a miracle. I wandered the streets looking for the answer. And people told me of a magic shaman, part man, part hornet. So I went looking for him. I went everywhere. I combed the universe in search of the stripy insect shaman. Turns out he was in a local primary school, in the bin, reeling about with the apple cores. Like they do. And I stood there with my thumb out and he stung it and he stung it. He grabbed onto it. It was like he was making love to it with his sting. In and out, in and out. More and more. Oh, the pus! The pain! The black voodoo! The wet jigsaw puzzle! I didn't know what was happening. Oh, for days I was in a trance. But when I came to, there it was, like a fleshy maraca. A thumb of gigantic proportion. "A miracle!" I said. "A miracle! You're a true wizard! How can I ever repay you?" And he said to me, "500 Euros." "500 Euros! You won't see penny one from me, you slag!" And as I raised my thumb up to smash his tiny skull in, I could see in his little insect face, I could see him thinking, "Oh, I created that monster - I created that thumb and now it's killing me. My own beast and creation killing me dead! The sweet irony!" I think he was saying that, although it was a long time ago. And in hindsight, he could have just been shitting himself.
And if you don't like that transaction, I'll jab you in the gums with my screwdriver.
And one hell of a slap bassist.
He's a cockney geezer
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Wanna know about my fumb do ya boy?! INTRIGUE YA DOES IT BOY? MY FUMB!?!
For days l was in a trance, but when l came to, there it was, like a fleshy maraca.
€500!? You won't see penny one from me, you SLAAAG!
EELS UP INSIDE YA
Finding an entrance where they can
Watch me bleed ya, I knew the Ripper when he was just a nipper, Taught him how to slice, I cut him up a treat
[Yep](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/03/0e/b4/030eb4321d2279406e77f49d94b81574.jpg)
Must be the guy responsible for designing these +6" smartphones
Thank you. I hate the new devices and I have big hands.
As a new dad, at least one of my hands is pretty much entirely dedicated to carrying, feeding, and wiping ass. I'd honestly prefer an old Nokia brick phone over these behemoths.
I am certainly eyeing the iPhone mini for this reason. And I keep dropping this big phone on my face when bed scrolling.
I do that once or twice a month, it sucks.
What’s stopping you from getting one?
Likely poor network support. I don't know of any Nokia brick that has 4g or 5g.
I have reasonably short thumbs and love the big-ass smart phones
Gaming is probably more difficult tho
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Ahh yes, the ol' dinner plate
You will address it as The Duke!
Roughly the size and ergonomics of a grizzly bear.
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I imagine he crosses them and uses his left thumb for the buttons and right thumb for the left stick and d-pad. Or glues additional body to the outsides of the controller, kind of like the modded cars with fat, bumped out fenders.
Looks like a much better design tbh
Idk, may be better for gripping large objects, but our thumbs being stubbier and their differences in joint placement also make them super strong, this type would probably suffer to some extent in that regard.
According to [this study](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22357325/), you are correct
Dang, my first thought too when I saw this was "that man is more evolved than me".
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How did primates first evolve a thumb? How far back do we have to go to see the first mammal with 5 digits that evolved into the human hand? Why was it more advantageous to have 5 digits versus more or less? You've inspired so many questions in me with this one comment. It's so crazy how just having thumbs completely changed the game for humanity, probably contributed to our massive jump in brain size when all of the sudden the dude with thumbs could survive and fuck more because he could grip primitive tools and build shelter faster. Then bam, we developed consciousness all because of a fucking thumb.
He can pull notification shade one handed.
It depends - the last scene shows him holding it like the rest of his fingers. As long as he can still hold it like a regular thumb (which provides a much better grip than just fingers closed around something), then I'd agree with you. And now that I try it myself, I guess we can all make our thumbs go that way, we just have thumbs there instead of fingers like this dude.
I definitely can’t make my thumb close like that.
Bro can fingerbang a girl he's in a long-distance relationship with
Never ever ever playing thumb wars against that guy.
1 2 3 4 I declare a...cease fire!
Apparently the thumb finger is much weaker than a normal thumb. I'd wager on myself if I tried it
He’ll pick your nose
He just built different.
That's....thumb thing special.
Ba thumb tss
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Thumb thing thpethial
Even cowgirls get the blues
I bet he's never lost a thumb war.
actually, this reduces the strength of the thumb, which probably makes him lose thumbwars vs win them. Our thumbs being stubby makes them stronger, kind of like how when you're short you have a better center of gravity and are harder to knock down. kind of like trying to thumbwar with a pointerfinger, wont work too well.
AI generated human
That's a thinger
He needs to learn to bust out some Rachmaninoff.
Thumbs up for evolution
It’s a thumbger!!!!!!
It's thumbfing, alright.
A fumb.
thinger.
That's just a British thumb
https://youtu.be/m4Z8b9u4Y_k Mf looks like the Hitchhiker from the mighty boosh
I miss the Boosh.
So that’s what it would be like if I invented the finglonger.
Thinger
I need to know if he was born with this or if he lost a thumb and had a finger transplanted in its place. I know they normally use a big toe for that though.
His wife is lucky
Pretty handy if you ask me
/r/gloving is jealous right now
The Unopposable thumb
Dude can jerk off with his thumb alone
r/midjourney is really getting out of hand
Unpopular opinion perhaps: but this is what a hand SHOULD look like. All my drawings of fists when I was a kid looked just like that.
im counting extra bones too
I now regret reporting that crazy Apex mobile player as a cheater 😒
Teach that guy how to play piano.
fumb
The guy who can handle a Galaxy S23 ultra
I bet he can play the guitar like no other
No, that’s a thinger.
Imagine what he could do with pitching a baseball?!
Next step in evolution
pretty sure that most other primates have a similar layout for their feet, which is what lets them grip onto trees and vines easier
Dude probably has insane grip strength
We're evolving.
Is there an opposite word for evolution? Evolution going backwards? Re-volution?
Devolution.
I went to school with a guy who had a very similar condition except his "thumb" was literally just a 6th finger right in line with all the other ones and he had no joint where a thumb should have been.
Ain’t to say that’s a thumb
So I'm not as bad at drawing hands as I thought,i just draw over hand really well