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[–] [email protected] 158 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They are forgetting that TERRIBLE design choice where if you accidentally bite the inside of your cheek it swells up making it easier to bite it on accident again and again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

There's also the weird decision to put a bunch of easily-bruised bones in your butt which would normally be used for a tail.

I once had a creationist defend the coccyx as being necessary for keeping muscles together. That was fun.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're just supposed to bite that bit off. Otherwise it's just going to keep happening.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Instructions unclear, but I can now drink through a straw without opening my mouth