If you could get rid of one bodily function?

poundapunnet

what would it be?

For me I think it'd be sweating. Just imagine all the time and money you'd save because of the reduced need to shower and do laundry. All the miserable hours spent on overheated buses smelling other people's feet that you wouldn't have to deal with anymore. There are other ones that are more disgusting, but I think overall it'd be the one that'd improve my life most frequently.

(For the purposes of the thread, this is 'a waving a magic wand and there's no consequences' kind of scenario, e.g I don't overheat and die, if you get rid sleeping you don't suffer psychotic episodes or get cancer etc)

B_Rabbit

Sleeping, you have so much extra time.

EireGreg

Headaches

OneEightSeven

Sweating cools your body down - you need it, but it would be great if it smelled of water.

My 2-year-old nephew woke up from his midday nap sweating one day and when I picked him up, his sweat didn't smell at all - sweat starts smelling when you reach puberty.

EireGreg wrote: »

Headaches

This ^^^

I hate headaches. Always get them.

Zed Bank

Pissing, would be exceptionally handy on a night out.

poundapunnet

B_Rabbit wrote: »

Sleeping, you have so much extra time.

Yeah, I could see the benefit of getting rid of it, but on the other hand you'd miss out on things too. Dreams are fun, and I enjoy sleeping when I get the chance.

Sulla Felix

Dying, at least due to normal processes. Don't think I'd like to be truly immortal, be nice to have an out if I got bored.

sadie06

Sleeping for sure.

Donkey Oaty

Pain.

TheFarrier

Burping. It's not as satisfying as a good fart or as funny.

January

Menstruating. Definitely menstruating.

Links234

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Pain.

Didn't work out so well for Ants In My Eyes Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBvV1miNoA8

thegreatgonzo

I could live quite happily without the menstrual cycle.

Teyla Emmagan

Periods, of course. Sleeping, sweating and pissing - this stuff is nothing compared to up to 7 days of agonisingly passing golf ball sized clots out of your body. Not to mention the accompanying pain, diarrhea, leaking, chaffing, random lumps of blood all over the toilet cubicle and the 5 days of hormonal boob pain and mentalness before hand.

Headaches someone said - pffft!

poundapunnet

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Periods, of course. Sleeping, sweating and pissing - this stuff is nothing compared to up to 7 days of agonisingly passing golf ball sized clots out of your body. Not to mention the accompanying pain, diarrhea, leaking, chaffing, random lumps of blood all over the toilet cubicle and the 5 days of hormonal boob pain and mentalness before hand.

Headaches someone said - pffft!

It was a closer runner-up for me, but my thinking was that you only have to deal with it once a month, and only for forty odd years. Also I don't get as bad a dose of it as that, if I did it'd probably be a different story.

Drehen

Pancreatic secretion.

No Pants

Never having to shave again.

Pretzill

No Pants wrote: »

Never having to shave again.

You could just grow a beard or wear panties?

I think I'd get rid of all the uncontrollable functions like sneezing, hiccoughing, coughing, burping, farting etc -

January

January wrote: »

Menstruating. Definitely menstruating.

Yes but would your answer be the same if you were asked again in, say, four or five days?

I could live without sweating or menstruating, but I love to sleep so I'd keep that.

Would be nice if we had no necessity to eliminate our bodily waste, but it doesn't bother me as much as other peoples B.O.

michellie

Gaining weight- imagine all the food we could eat guilt free.

nlgbbbblth

Sneezing.

My mood drops drastically when I sneeze.

RayM

That eyelid twitching thing that happens sometimes.

oldyouth

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

7 days of agonisingly passing golf ball sized clots out of your body. Not to mention the accompanying pain, diarrhea, leaking, chaffing, random lumps of blood all over the toilet cubicle and the 5 days of hormonal boob pain !

So do ya fancy the ride or wha??

Davarus Walrus

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Periods, of course. Sleeping, sweating and pissing - this stuff is nothing compared to up to 7 days of agonisingly passing golf ball sized clots out of your body. Not to mention the accompanying pain, diarrhea, leaking, chaffing, random lumps of blood all over the toilet cubicle and the 5 days of hormonal boob pain and mentalness before hand.

Headaches someone said - pffft!

Ara Jesus.

January

Candie wrote: »

Yes but would your answer be the same if you were asked again in, say, four or five days?

I could live without sweating or menstruating, but I love to sleep so I'd keep that.

Would be nice if we had no necessity to eliminate our bodily waste, but it doesn't bother me as much as other peoples B.O.

Well considering I haven't had one for the last nine months and I'm saying it now, yes.

Teyla Emmagan

oldyouth wrote: »

So do ya fancy the ride or wha??

There's always someone into the freaky **** :pac:

Davarus Walrus wrote: »

Ara Jesus.

It's a horrible process, to be fair.

January

January wrote: »

Well considering I haven't had one for the last nine months and I'm saying it now, yes.

Congratulations (assuming the usual reason for the nine months).

fando

Sex drive - such a waste of resources.

zetalambda

I can't believe nobody has said farting. I can only assume that people enjoy it far too much to give it up?

Tilly

fando wrote: »

Sex drive - such a waste of resources.

Eh? But you'd never want to have sex? Is there something wrong with you?

Fox_In_Socks

Aging. I would like to be as I am now forever. (30)

eviltwin

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Periods, of course. Sleeping, sweating and pissing - this stuff is nothing compared to up to 7 days of agonisingly passing golf ball sized clots out of your body. Not to mention the accompanying pain, diarrhea, leaking, chaffing, random lumps of blood all over the toilet cubicle and the 5 days of hormonal boob pain and mentalness before hand.

Headaches someone said - pffft!

God woman, that's not normal, go see a doctor!!!

Muise...

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Periods, of course. Sleeping, sweating and pissing - this stuff is nothing compared to up to 7 days of agonisingly passing golf ball sized clots out of your body. Not to mention the accompanying pain, diarrhea, leaking, chaffing, random lumps of blood all over the toilet cubicle and the 5 days of hormonal boob pain and mentalness before hand.

Headaches someone said - pffft!

Hmmm

Much as I hate giving birth to chunks of liver and feeling like I'm letting myself and the sisters down by sometimes having to stay in bed on account of pain due to my sex, I have had a few migraines that made me wish for death instead of solitude, a good dose of codeine, and a hot water bottle.

Also, sweat? Really depends on the person. Don't know why some people get BO and others make me happy or dizzy with the want after catching a waft of their sweat. I'd miss the smell of some people way more than BO bothers me.

"I return in three days" said Napoleon to Josephine. "Don't wash."

Nforce

Farting...especially when it's a SBD created by a woman.

corner of hells

My stigmata , old women think I'm religious.

FouxDaFaFa

Periods are like an overly helpful acquaintance who turns on you when things don't go their way.

"Hey Brain, I got everything ready for the baby!"
"That's thoughtful of you, Body but I don't want one at the moment".
"Ah, go on!!"
"No, thanks".
"GO FCUK YOURSELF!"

I could certainly live without them.

MyPeopleDrankTheSoup

fando wrote: »

Sex drive - such a waste of resources.

what's the point of living then though? serious, it'd be fair depressing if i lost my equipment in an accident or something and had no reaction when seeing a hot girl. still, not really putting said equipment to use at the moment

Lingua Franca

I haven't menstruated in over a decade (thank you mirena!) and I will happily never menstruate again. I don't miss it one bit.

Muise...

FouxDaFaFa wrote: »

Periods are like an overly helpful acquaintance who turns on you when things don't go their way.

"Hey Brain, I got everything ready for the baby!"
"That's thoughtful of you, Body but I don't want one at the moment".
"Ah, go on!!"
"No, thanks".
"GO FCUK YOURSELF!"

I could certainly live without them.

:pac:

That's pretty much how my mother explained it to me as a child!

The_B_Man

So if we do away with that, what do men get???
I'll swap no periods for having a layer of turtle shell-esque protection around our balls, in cases of surprise punches and kicks in that general area.

On topic. Sleeping. Or needing a ****e!

Lingua Franca

RayM wrote: »

That eyelid twitching thing that happens sometimes.

I've had that for weeks now and it's driving me mental.

I am going to go with sleeping too. It is such a waste of time. Time I do not have in my life.

It is a funny question though because when you think about peeing or craping - have you ever noticed that that never gets boring? I mean we are a species of animal that bores easily. Just look at people sitting in traffic.

We spend a lot of our lives thinking "Oh feck not washing up again" or "oh feck not queueing again" - and so on and so on a long long list of things that we are simply sick to death of boredom doing.

Yet not once in my life have I found myself feeling or thinking "I have to poo again - how boring is this?". Or "Oh no not ANOTHER pee - this is like watching family guy reruns for the 100th time".

Excreting never gets old.

Sam Kade

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

Aging. I would like to be as I am now forever. (30)

Too old 23-24 would be the ideal age to stay at

Muise...

The_B_Man wrote: »

So if we do away with that, what do men get???
I'll swap no periods for having a layer of turtle shell-esque protection around our balls, in cases of surprise punches and kicks in that general area.

On topic. Sleeping. Or needing a ****e!

Good question. Do men have an equivalent - in terms of an inescapable nuisance and pain - to menstruation? (Bearing in mind that it's only really painful for about 50% of women, but probably an annoyance for all.)

Muise...

Deleted User wrote: »

I am going to go with sleeping too. It is such a waste of time. Time I do not have in my life.

It is a funny question though because when you think about peeing or craping - have you ever noticed that that never gets boring? I mean we are a species of animal that bores easily. Just look at people sitting in traffic.

We spend a lot of our lives thinking "Oh feck not washing up again" or "oh feck not queueing again" - and so on and so on a long long list of things that we are simply sick to death of boredom doing.

Yet not once in my life have I found myself feeling or thinking "I have to poo again - how boring is this?". Or "Oh no not ANOTHER pee - this is like watching family guy reruns for the 100th time".

Excreting never gets old.

Not me - I can be either really busy or really tired sometimes and wish there was someone who would do it for me.

Fox_In_Socks

Sam Kade wrote: »

Too old 23-24 would be the ideal age to stay at

But I look better, am nicer to talk to and am fitter now, than at that age.:pac:

Gael23

Been struggling with constipation fairly badly the last while so at the moment not having that part of me would be nice!

Chazz Michael Michaels

Sam Kade wrote: »

Too old 23-24 would be the ideal age to stay at

Why would you want to be a retard forever?

Chazz Michael Michaels

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

But I look better, am nicer to talk to and am fitter now, than at that age.:pac:

Agreed. I'm 33, and the last few years have easily been the peak of my life. Literally everything is better.

Nforce

Pins and needles...or worse still....muscle spasm!

Muise...

Muise... wrote: »

Not me - I can be either really busy or really tired sometimes and wish there was someone who would do it for me.

You are on your own with me there then. I love a good dump. I do my best thinking or Lou Reeding at that time too. For someone like me who is totally obsessed with time management and packing as much as I can into a day (im working late while I type this so I am multi tasking) it is one part of my life I am happy to waste time on

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

But I look better, am nicer to talk to and am fitter now, than at that age.:pac:

I am gonna go with this too. If I could freeze myself at 33 I would. I am fitter now than at 33 but not much. I am struggling to really squeeze my body for everything it has got in the last 2 years. What I have now I really really work for and I reckon I have about 15 years of work ahead of me to maintain it. But the 33 area is where I would say I could be happy maintaining forever.