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Pretty sure we are the only animals with pink rings around our mouth. It's flipping weird.

It probably helps with verbal language understanding as humans often use mouth movements to interpret words (see McGurk effect). But I still think it's weird.

Big pink rings.

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[-] tomiant@piefed.social 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The mouth is a sphincter.

It is connected directly to your butthole.

The mouth is your face anus.

[-] Murse@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 month ago

Fun fact: when two people kiss, they create a long tube that starts and ends with an anus.

[-] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

So you could also extend that tube woth a third person?

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Plot for human centipede right here.

[-] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ever performed a double butt kiss?

[-] daannii@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

The mouth is the face anus to the soul.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

Wow, embroider that on a pillow.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

We are just a coiled tube, surrounded and protected by a system maintenance apparatus.

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] mimic_dev@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Humans are just meat silly straws

[-] Chaotic_Altruist@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

They're even more histologically related to each other than they are to anything else. Lips and anus look surprisingly similar under a microscope.

[-] fisch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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