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Can any of you do novel things with your toes/feet?
#11
RE: Can any of you do novel things with your toes/feet?
I can turn my feet laterally and basically point my toes in opposite directions, viz.:

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or cross them such:

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It's useful for narrow corridors and similar; it means I can stand against the wall and allow someone past with no danger of having my toes stepped on or run over.

I can also combine it with an upper body rotation, meaning that I can do a 180 about-turn on the spot without having to move.

I'm also able to sit comfortably in the full lotus position, then propel myself around on my hands. Or walk literally on my hands and knees; or just my knees like some drunken Munchkin. Or if I desire, lie flat on my back and do touching the toes exercises with zero effort.

Yeah, I'm weird.
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#12
RE: Can any of you do novel things with your toes/feet?
(March 6, 2016 at 10:25 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I can pick stuff up, and with my hip limiting my mobility, that sometimes comes in, er, handy.

Oh yeah, I forgot I'm able to do that, using my toes. I once picked up an errant table tennis ball and raised it to my hand so I could throw it back to the players, but for some reason they went off the idea of wanting it back.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#13
RE: Can any of you do novel things with your toes/feet?
(March 6, 2016 at 10:26 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:
(March 6, 2016 at 10:25 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I can pick stuff up, and with my hip limiting my mobility, that sometimes comes in, er, handy.

Describe "stuff" please.

A pair of jeans, dropped cigarette lighter, that sort of thing.

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#14
RE: Can any of you do novel things with your toes/feet?
I can and do pick up things with my feet not to mention adjusting the bath tub taps with my toes. If you have reasonably long toes that's not hard. I can move move my little toes independent of the rest. Is that special? It's useless.
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#15
RE: Can any of you do novel things with your toes/feet?
When I was much younger, I could put my toes in my mouth. Now, 40 years later, I can't even reach my belly. Can still pick up stuff with them, though. When I can't be arsed to bend, it's a good alternative to the fingers.
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#16
RE: Can any of you do novel things with your toes/feet?
(March 6, 2016 at 10:40 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I can turn my feet laterally and basically point my toes in opposite directions, viz.:

[Image: Lat%20Feet.jpg]

or cross them such:

[Image: Lat%20Feet%20Crossed.jpg]

It's useful for narrow corridors and similar; it means I can stand against the wall and allow someone past with no danger of having my toes stepped on or run over.

I can also combine it with an upper body rotation, meaning that I can do a 180 about-turn on the spot without having to move.

I'm also able to sit comfortably in the full lotus position, then propel myself around on my hands. Or walk literally on my hands and knees; or just my knees like some drunken Munchkin. Or if I desire, lie flat on my back and do touching the toes exercises with zero effort.

Yeah, I'm weird.


Oh, never thought os that.

I can do the first and take around ten steps.

Haven't tried doing the latter (and not going to make an idiot of myself by doing it at work).  Shall let you know

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#17
RE: Can any of you do novel things with your toes/feet?
I have freakishly long limbs, fingers, and toes. On top of it, my second toe is as long as my pinkie finger and every joint on me is double. I can do the all the stuff Stimbo mentioned, and I can put both legs behind my head up to the knee joint. When I'm sitting, I tend to wrap one leg around the other, which my family has coined my "pretzel", and I'm most comfortable contorted into extremely compact positions, like right now, I'm sitting on my bed, typing with both knees under my chin. A friend once asked me to try to pick up a softball with the toes on one foot... that one took a bit of practice, but I was able to hold it for four seconds. I'm like a circus freak. I was also diagnosed with osteoarthritis at the age of 22, though it hasn't bugged me much at all since I moved here eleven years ago.
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#18
RE: Can any of you do novel things with your toes/feet?
I'm very adept at both opening and eating Doritoes, Cheetoes, Fritoes, Mentoes, Tostitoes, and any brand of pimentoes using only my feet. No idea why this ability is limited to those specific items, though. Angel

I'm getting pretty good preparing potatoes and tomatoes with my feet as well. And toest.
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RE: Can any of you do novel things with your toes/feet?
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RE: Can any of you do novel things with your toes/feet?
(March 6, 2016 at 9:46 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Nothing suitable to mention on the open forums.

Stole my joke. Dodgy
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