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"You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."
They're made of meat?
The mouth is a sphincter.
It is connected directly to your butthole.
The mouth is your face anus.
Fun fact: when two people kiss, they create a long tube that starts and ends with an anus.
So you could also extend that tube woth a third person?
Plot for human centipede right here.
Ever performed a double butt kiss?
The mouth is the face anus to the soul.
Wow, embroider that on a pillow.
The fanus.
We are just a coiled tube, surrounded and protected by a system maintenance apparatus.
They're even more histologically related to each other than they are to anything else. Lips and anus look surprisingly similar under a microscope.
Humans are just meat silly straws
Delete this comment!
Mandrills, geladas, Rhesus macaques for a few.
Look at most Carnivorans (dogs, cats, etc) and they tend to have black lips. Is that less weird or more weird?
The human mouth is also the most sensitive area of the body (even moreso than lower areas), so that's almost certainly related. More blood flow and a specialised cell-type...
Yeah if we're saying it's weird meaning it's unusual, then no it's not weird. And if we're saying it's weird meaning bodies are weird in general, then yeah, it's weird that we have colored lips, and also weird that we have bone-like protrusions sticking out into our mouth, and weird that we have little hairs growing right out of the surface layer of our skin.
As soon as you think closely about any piece of it, all the pieces start to seem bizarrely weird.
They don't really have plump ring lips like us.
It's not just a hole with skin flaps. It's this plump ring of fat around the hole that's also tinted a bright color.
Dunno of any animal except us that has that.
https://www.google.com/search?&q=red+lipped+batfish
https://www.google.com/search?&q=TONKIN+SNUB-NOSED+MONKEY
I googled weird lip animals and picked a couple
Man, the Red-lipped Batfish is weird. It looks like someone made it in the Spore Creature Creator.
The Tonkin Snub Nosed Monkey is cute. It's sad they're critically endangered.
It's been years since I watched a nature documentary and it's nice learning about animals I was unaware of before today.
I think we have different ideas on what's cute. Those monkeys are creepy.
They don’t really have plump ring lips like us.
Okay, but I was replying to the OP. What you're doing here is bringing in a new dimension, i.e. "plump."
Regardless, I think I already kind of answered that when I talked about kissing. Very few animals I know of do prolonged kissing. Humans do. That, and our sexual attraction cycle is more or less endless, whereas with most animals, it only happens during select times of the year.
As for "why" to both things? I think it's because humans are vastly more helpless at birth compared to most other animals. We need lots of care, and for a prolonged period. So evolution has drastically increased the mechanisms of sustained attraction between the parents via things like prolonged sensual kissing and a near-endless sexual attraction.
You're just getting too used to seeing those phony fat-lipped MAGA concubines. They're normalizing that expensive carved up face image.
We're all just tubes ... tubin' around.
Have you seen genitals though? Now that's some weird stuff.
Yeah . Both sets are super weird. I can't even..
Piglet would like a word with you.
Also cats. Dogs. Lemurs. Rats.
Basically, any creature that has a pink nose probably has pink lips. We just don't notice because they are mostly covered in fur and proportionately thinner than human lips.
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It'd be weirder if they were green or blue.
sometimes they are blue. it’s usually someone on the way to being a corpse, but i’ve seen it.
That's definitely true
Evolutionarily, it probably helps with both speech and nonverbal language, i.e. facial expressions
Yeah that's my guess. Since we use language so much and are social. It would help to make facial cues like the mouth shape, more visible.
I speculated that lighter skinned people have more pink lips and are generally thinner, compared to darker skinned because darker skinned people generally have larger lips, which would make up for any visibility loss from less contrast.
Humans just really need to see what shape the mouth is at any given moment.
That's kinda weird too even if it makes sense.
My understanding is that focus on the mouth in social interactions is also influenced by culture. That's why some cultures generally represented a happy face with the emoticon :) while others used ^_^
The former is focused on the mouth and the eyes lack meaningful expression, while the latter is the opposite.
Batfish: "Yes! It is indeed my lips that are weird and make me feel self-conscious."
[alt-text since Lemmy web UI doesn't seem to have a way to add it to the image: photo of a red-lipped batfish. Besides its bright red lips, its head has a large protruding bulge, and it stands and walks on its four leg-like fins instead of swimming like a normal fish.]
I prefer it to my brown ring.
You could always get it bleached to match!
My dog disagrees.
Does your dog have a noodle ring around their mouth ?
Some other animals do have lips.
Fish. I think that's it. Maybe you could argue snails.
But they ain't pink
Dogs have lips, for one
100%.
Give me a wolf muzzle any day. Having a human face just feels wrong.
-- Frost
Exactly! 🐺
-- Frost
Freedom of Form Foundation is working on this (and the rest of the body) :3
I really hope it's scientifically possible somehow!
Even if not, I bet it'd be more feasible to build a robot wolf body, scoop out our brain and put it inside. I'd take robot wolf over *waves paw at human body* any day.
We're all feral (for the non-furries reading this: normal animal shaped) which means the rest of the body is significantly harder than it would be for an anthro, but honestly the stuff they'd need to do to our limbs is probably small potatoes compared to the shit they'd need to do to our skull (and that applies equally well to anthros).
-- Frost
What's so weird about a gasket. What SHOULD be there?
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