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If you could get rid of one bodily function?

  • 05-04-2014 08:16PM
    #1
    poundapunnet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭


    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)


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  • #2
    B_Rabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭B_Rabbit


    Sleeping, you have so much extra time.


  • #3
    EireGreg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭EireGreg


    Headaches


  • #4
    OneEightSeven
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭OneEightSeven
    MEGA - Make Éire Great Again


    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.


  • #5
    Zed Bank
    Closed Accounts Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Zed Bank


    Pissing, would be exceptionally handy on a night out.


  • #6
    poundapunnet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #7
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    sadie06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭sadie06


    Sleeping for sure.


  • #9
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Pain.


  • #10
    TheFarrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭TheFarrier


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


  • #11
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    Menstruating. Definitely menstruating.


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  • #12
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    Pain.

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

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


  • #13
    thegreatgonzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭thegreatgonzo


    I could live quite happily without the menstrual cycle.


  • #14
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭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!


  • #15
    poundapunnet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭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.


  • #16
    Drehen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭Drehen


    Pancreatic secretion.


  • #17
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭No Pants


    Never having to shave again.


  • #18
    Pretzill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,843 ✭✭✭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 -


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #20
    michellie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,692 ✭✭✭michellie


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


  • #21
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Sneezing.

    My mood drops drastically when I sneeze.


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  • #22
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    That eyelid twitching thing that happens sometimes.


  • #23
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭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?? :)


  • #24
    Davarus Walrus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,280 ✭✭✭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.


  • #25
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #26
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭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.


  • #27
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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). :)


  • #28
    fando
    Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭fando


    Sex drive - such a waste of resources.


  • #29
    zetalambda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 822 ✭✭✭zetalambda


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


  • #30
    Tilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,987 ✭✭✭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?


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  • #31
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


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


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