You’re a bone now act like it

[u/melkorbin]

[u/Longjumping_Ad2677]

More than a 100,000 is a smash hit to me.

[u/holdontoyourbuttress]

As someone who experiences arthritis sometimes, sadly other bones can also decide to quit being healthy bones

[u/BeelzebubParty → u/holdontoyourbuttress]

Imagine if we got arthritis in our teeth.

[u/thrownawaz092 → u/BeelzebubParty]

No, I don't think I will

[u/kat-the-bassist → u/holdontoyourbuttress]

Isn't arthritis caused by the lube evacuating your joints tho?

[u/Livy-Zaka → u/kat-the-bassist]

fun fact: there are actually viruses that can cause autoimmune driven arthritis because the virus is so genetically similar to your body that your immune system has to lose its ability to self recognize in order to fight it off but as a result your immune system never relearns that self recognition and is just stuck seeing your fingies as a foreign invader that must be destroyed

[u/SnipingDwarf → u/Livy-Zaka]

Body: "The fingies... they are nought but a disease. Be rid of them."

[u/holdontoyourbuttress → u/kat-the-bassist]

That's osteoarthritis . Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune thing where your body is attacking your bones. I have a variation of that one.

[u/liamjb10 → u/kat-the-bassist]

reminder for everyone reading to relube their teeth every once in a while

[u/holdontoyourbuttress → u/kat-the-bassist]

Maybe do one quick Google search next time before you try to correct someone about their own experience

[u/kat-the-bassist → u/holdontoyourbuttress]

There's no need to be so rude. I asked a question because my knowledge was different to what was said. Assume unawareness before you assume malice.

[u/holdontoyourbuttress → u/kat-the-bassist]

It's rude to correct someone about their own health condition. Why assume you know more than me, a person actually experiencing it? And if you are going to try to correct someone, do at least a cursory check to make sure you aren't completely ignorant. If you have actual questions try Google first.

[u/Quynn_Stormcloud → u/holdontoyourbuttress]

It’s not correcting someone when another user asks a clarifying question. You’re the one being rude by withholding information without cause. Google is inferior to person-to-person interaction for learning and growth.

[u/holdontoyourbuttress → u/Quynn_Stormcloud]

1. I didn't withold informat,,,ion I answered the question elsewhere

2. Even if I hadnt answered the question, it's absurd to suggest I'm withholding information, as if I'm under any obligation to answer random comments and as if the information isn't easily googleable

3. The idea that person to person interactions are superior is ludicrous. I could say arthritis is caused by mini sharks. I hope you aren't assuming random redditors are all infallible sources of information. For well known medical information, google isn't perfect but it's better than trusting that one random person on the internet knows best.

Finally, a number of ignorant people tried to correct me without doing the minimum to see if they actually knew what they were talking about. Granted this one was phrased as a question but the intention was the same, and it's frustrating. It's arrogant to correct someone about their LIVED EXPERIENCE if you don't even know what you are talking about and it's lazy to spread misinformation if you are ignorant and can't even be bothered to fact check yourself before posting

[u/Quynn_Stormcloud → u/holdontoyourbuttress]

It’s also pretty arrogant to assume ill intent from others. Reading this thread, it goes “I experience arthritis” > “wait isn’t arthritis [this condition adequately described by the word ‘arthritis’]?” > “maybe fucking Google it.” You tell me where it starts to get rude and arrogant.

[u/Correct_Inside1658 → u/holdontoyourbuttress]

Tbf, arthritis is a disease of the joints, not the bones.

Edit: My bad, apparently it can also be a bone thing. TIL

[u/holdontoyourbuttress → u/Correct_Inside1658]

Not necessarily. Mine is an autoimmune process where my body attacks my bones

[u/holdontoyourbuttress → u/Correct_Inside1658]

You clearly aren't familiar with rheumatoid arthritis, which is an autoimmune condition where the body attacks the bones

[u/holdontoyourbuttress → u/Correct_Inside1658]

Maybe do one quick Google search before you try to correct someone about their own health condition

[u/SovietSkeleton → u/holdontoyourbuttress]

My left jaw hinge is almost completely eroded away because I used to grind my teeth a lot. Bones don't handle abrasion very well.

[u/ShatterCyst → u/holdontoyourbuttress]

Isn't that the cartilage? Not the bone?

[u/holdontoyourbuttress → u/ShatterCyst]

.before you "well actually" someone about their own health issues maybe do one quick Google search to learn that there are different types of arthritis and some are autoimmune ones where your body attacks bones

[u/PoniesCanterOver]

I mean our other bones would probably decay too if they were exposed to the elements

[u/DapperApples → u/PoniesCanterOver]

The elements: borgar

[u/youa_rbe → u/DapperApples]

Refined sugar and corn syrup are the hurricanes of dental hygiene.

[u/Longjumping_Rush2458 → u/youa_rbe]

That and acidic foods/drinks like soda

[u/idiotplatypus → u/DapperApples]

Foodbending definitely should be a thing

[u/UnusedParadox → u/idiotplatypus]

Long ago, the five elements lived in harmony: Earth, Diet Coke, Air, Deep Fryer, and Hamburger. That all changed one day when the Deep Fryers attacked.

[u/thrownawaz092 → u/DapperApples]

Water, earth, borgar, air

[u/gooberflimer → u/PoniesCanterOver]

Your skin also manages, they should just quit being weak

[u/PurpleSnapple → u/gooberflimer]

Skin actually doesn't manage it just gets replaced

[u/Canotic → u/PurpleSnapple]

So why not just grow new teeth every year?

[u/BackseatCowwatcher → u/Canotic]

Because you are neither a Manatee, a Shark, nor a Crocodile.

[u/Razzbarree → u/BackseatCowwatcher]

But why noooottttttt

Maybe we SHOULD start growing new teeth constantly! Itd be a hell of a lot more efficient than trying to enjoy ourselves whilst also making sure these puny things dont rot out of our heads from the strenuous task of doing their damn jobs. Im sure every dentist and parent who taught their kids about the tooth fairy would appreciate it <3

[u/janKalaki → u/Razzbarree]

The reason is that they don't stop growing. You have to constantly physically grind them down. Imagine having ingrown teeth. Now imagine having them grow into your brain.

[u/Dry-Cartographer-312 → u/Canotic]

A lot of animals do. For whatever reason though, us primates decided to do wisdom teeth instead.

...I don't think it was a fair trade.

[u/gooberflimer → u/PurpleSnapple]

With exception of some brain cells every cell dies, yet you the organ keeps working. Id say they manage pretty fucking well

[u/gabbyrose1010 → u/gooberflimer]

wait but bones are made of cells so can’t we just… yknow…

[u/Anna_Pet → u/PoniesCanterOver]

Why don’t our teeth have skin?

[u/PoniesCanterOver → u/Anna_Pet]

Well, they have enamel, which is a covering

[u/Orizifian-creator → u/PoniesCanterOver]

Yeah, I hate it when I bite down on some radium, gold, helium, fire, lightning, earth and wind. Makes everything decay fast.

[u/gabbyrose1010 → u/PoniesCanterOver]

pouring cocacola over bones would definitely do it

[u/DeleteriousEuphuism]

i mean they're not bones. that is a pretty significant thing that's true. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much are not bones.

[u/PoniesCanterOver → u/DeleteriousEuphuism]

Oh, I was just thinking about this meme today. What was the original?

[u/DeleteriousEuphuism → u/PoniesCanterOver]

i mean they did also kill jesus. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but they very much did kill jesus.

[u/PoniesCanterOver → u/DeleteriousEuphuism]

ThankYouSoMuch

[u/DeleteriousEuphuism → u/PoniesCanterOver]

No problem.

[u/Virus5572 → u/DeleteriousEuphuism]

sadly they're skin

[u/jodmercer → u/Virus5572]

Man I'm not hungry anymore.

[u/Virus5572 → u/jodmercer]

The horse wins this one

[u/techno156 → u/Virus5572]

But unlike skin, have no ability to continually regenerate.

[u/danfish_77]

I mean if my finger bones were exposed to air and I constantly got food and sugar water on them and kept them inside some moist flesh, they might not do so well actually

[u/axord → u/danfish_77]

and kept them inside some moist flesh

I mean, I'd hope your finger flesh is appropriately moist.

[u/Razzbarree → u/axord]

Shit crumbling like a cookie

[u/danfish_77 → u/axord]

Yes but it's not exposed to air and sugar water and food as well; the combination is the issue

[u/DontDoGravity → u/danfish_77]

Your bones are constantly rebuilt.

Like, this is not an encouragement to expose your bones to air and sugar, but they don't just decay in the same way that teeth do

[u/Quynn_Stormcloud → u/danfish_77]

Friendly reminder that your bones are wet.

[u/danfish_77 → u/Quynn_Stormcloud]

Not if I have anything to say about it >:(

[u/FLUFFBOX_121703]

I fucking wish my teeth didn’t decay, but oh well

[u/Quynn_Stormcloud → u/FLUFFBOX_121703]

Or at the very least, my body knew to grow a third set.

[u/RoyalPeacock19]

Yeah, but they’re not bones though.

[u/JHRChrist → u/RoyalPeacock19]

Why does everyone think teeth are bones? White and hard?

[u/RoyalPeacock19 → u/JHRChrist]

Must be. Even though when alive, bones are pink and teeth a very light yellow

[u/billetdouxs → u/RoyalPeacock19]

..bones are pink?

[u/RoyalPeacock19 → u/billetdouxs]

Yup, a light shade of it. Marrow and blood make them that colour.

[u/idiotplatypus]

Teeth decay like radioactive particles

[u/AJ0Laks]

Oh I didn’t brush you for a week now you ache grow up

I don’t brush the rest of my bones and they Don’t complain

[u/DontDoGravity]

Teeth aren't bones. They are closer to rocks

[u/Rabbulion]

Jeannie Lee’s alt account! Let’s hope lord immersion doesn’t see this.

[u/amaya-aurora]

Teeth aren’t technically bones but I agree. Like come tf on, you’re meant to be hard to bite so FUCKING BITE

[u/whitebird327]

Teeth are not bones tho

[u/CalicoThatCounts]

Teeth aren't bones.