What are you mad at evolution for?

[Zkribbler]

Wouldn't that make wearing pants a bit awkward? There would need to be a complete redesign of fashions, bathrooms, vehicles, furniture...

Who cares? If anyone ridicules you for not wearing pants, you smack 'em with your tail.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Having sweat glands is pretty annoying

They were actually pretty fundamental in both our rise as a species and our current ability to be out and about during the day. Many other mammals shut down during the day or are capable at best of maintaining only brief bursts of high-energy activity due to their inability to cool themselves as efficiently as we do. Seriously, our sweat glands were probably as much responsible for us rising and wiping out everything that threatened us as our hands and maybe even our brains.

 

[Borachio]

But then horses, too, sweat.

Luckily for us, despite them being very big and strong (and sweating a lot), they can often be very frightened by the most silly things. Like paper bags.

Otherwise they'd have wiped us out long ago. Possibly drowning us in pools of horse sweat.

 

[yung.carl.jung]

Definitely metabolism and gaining weight. Although maybe evolution isn't to blame and technology is where we've gone too far beyond our evolution where we have such excess. I saw a stat the other day that the percentage of obese people since 1980 globally has tripled. 1/3rd of the entire globe is overweight now.

Also pointless bugs. At one point they were probably a food source but damn, insects are gross. Like why do ticks exist? There's a huge uptick (pun intended) in lyme disease cases in the past few years. It may be because it's being diagnosed a lot more, but ticks seem completely worthless. I get that mosquitos are food for bats and junk, and spiders do... something beneficial? I think? But what purpose do ticks serve besides spreading infectious disease and being disgusting?

I agree with most of your post, especially on metabolism. The entire existence of "fat cells" pisses me off to no avail. But..Spiders, seriously? Hating on spiders? That I cannot approve of. I mean - They eat the bugs that trouble you. How is that not amazing? I never have to worry about mosquitos because I have an army of spiders in my room

Spoiler :

They like to crawl into my mouth at night. Warm and safe.

Spoiler :

Actually, I'm sure that's an urban myth

Stop eating so many carbs and sugars and you won't have that problem. Don't forget to exercise.

The problem isn't evolution, the problem is lifestyle.

This is true for most people. However, if you were once obese (not just stocky, medically obese) then this simply does not apply. Fat cells that are once formed never die off. Until you die. And if you give yourself the slightest break, a few too many cheat days, you'll be fat again in no time.

Trust me, I used to be a deadset believer in calories-in-calories-out. But metabolism isn't that simple. Nutrition isn't that simple.

However, as someone who has lost close to 100 pounds at one point in his life I can verify that your advice is good. Great, even. The availability of sugar, simple (!) carbohydrates and lack of exercise are most likely the biggest reasons for obesity epidemics like the one in the US.

Then again there's also trans-fats, literally addictive fast food that molds your taste buds to hate anything healthy, terrible parenting, targeted advertisement, a mostly sedentary culture.. It's such a complex mess that making generalizing statements is truly hard.

 

[Lohrenswald]

What are you mad at evolution for?

poor eyesight

 

[Perfection]

Butt hair

 

[shadowplay]

External testicles.

 

[Lexicus]

I never have to worry about mosquitos because I have an army of spiders in my room

My roommate found a big one in the bathroom, and was going to kill it but I took it outside instead because I never kill spiders for this exact reason. I don't like them much but I like lots of other bugs less.

 

[Borachio]

Butt hair

Ooh yeah. What a nuisance that stuff is!

I wonder what its function is, apart from annoying me.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Not bringing back the "nice" Dinosaurs, and by nice I mean "veggiesauruses", not the "meatasauruses"... eff those guys.

 

[Lexicus]

Not bringing back the "nice" Dinosaurs, and by nice I mean "veggiesauruses", not the "meatasauruses"... eff those guys.

Birds are therapod dinosaurs!

 

[Sommerswerd]

Birds are therapod dinosaurs!

Bah... I want gigantic slathering beasts, not sports-bar appetizers.

 

[Lexicus]

 

[Farm Boy]

How the mighty have fallen.

 

[Lexicus]

How the mighty have fallen.

But they can fly now!

 

[Farm Boy]

Chased into the air like a bug.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Granted, hes not going to be anyone's boneless buffalo bites, but you forgot slathering... and gigantic TBH, because while "as big as a man" is big for a chicken, its not big for an animal.
.

 

[W|M]

Not a fan of appendicies myself

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Granted, hes not going to be anyone's boneless buffalo bites, but you forgot slathering... and gigantic TBH, because while "as big as a man" is big for a chicken, its not big for an animal.
.

Actually 'as big as a man' is pretty freaking big for land animals - much less ones that can fly. Humans are actually quite large compared to most of the animal kingdom and it's always been that way. The megafauna of the past get a lot of attention because *yuge* but most living things are much smaller.

 

[Borachio]

I'm fairly mad at evolution for house-flies. And ants.

Pesky little critters.

I wouldn't mind so much if they'd just leave me alone.

I don't understand why flies come in the house and then immediately try, and fail repeatedly, to get out through the windows. Occasionally taking a break, to leave little stains on the glass.

And ants, in the garden, just insist on crawling up my legs and biting me all over.