If you could give up one bodily function what would it be?

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mysecondlife

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nosebleed. I nosebleed easily.. especially in this dry weather...

I often wake up and find drops of blood on my pillow.
 

Cazza

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I would say sleeping. The time saved by being awake 24/7 compared to shaving or toilet breaks. Though I could save money by not eating. I could make more money because I don't get tired.
 

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Kinpatsu said:
Menstruating. I can't believe no one's brought that up yet! I would definitely do without it (and all its other things - cramps, bloating, etc.) if I could.

ETA: No, wait, I guess I'm not TOO shocked no one's said this yet. Know your audience and all that.
Yeah, I'd have to agree with you on this. Not the funnest time to have.
Otherwise, I think I'd go with pooping. It's just generally not a nice thing, and while yes, there is some relief after an extended session, it's more trouble than it's worth.
 

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Cap said:
Kinpatsu said:
Menstruating. I can't believe no one's brought that up yet! I would definitely do without it (and all its other things - cramps, bloating, etc.) if I could.

ETA: No, wait, I guess I'm not TOO shocked no one's said this yet. Know your audience and all that.
Yeah, I'd have to agree with you on this. Not the funnest time to have.
Otherwise, I think I'd go with pooping. It's just generally not a nice thing, and while yes, there is some relief after an extended session, it's more trouble than it's worth.
I'll be voting for menstruation too. It just sucks that in addition to leaking blood, you get all the other little miseries to go with it =S And I know you can technically skip your period every time if you're on the pill, but it'd be nice just to do away with it altogether.

I'd agree that it'd also be nice to give up all the unpleasant sides of childbirth as well, but at least you get something for all your efforts! What do you get from your period? Nothing, that's what... =P
 

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PoisonUnagi said:
Excretion, because then I can last forever. :>
No sleep would suck because no dreams.
There is always daydreaming. With the extra spare time you could easily daydream for extended periods of time
 

Sacman

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Breathing.. there's so much you can accomplish without breathing...
 

Naqel

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I'd totally give up my sense of shame.

Think of all the chicks a guy could pick up with cheesy lines if his brain didn't rebel against just how cheesy they are.
Not to mention I could throw away all the garbage I amassed over my short life, and finally start using VoIP services.
 
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Peeing. Pooping has the potential to be weirdly fun/satisfying from time to time, peeing does not. It's just annoying and takes valuable time and concentration.
 

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Wild Cat said:
Menstruation. Period.
He he, I see what you did there.

I think I'd go for that, too. The most unnecessary function a living being ever ended up with.
 

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Sleeping...assuming I didn't get tired or exhausted or die from lack of sleep...so much extra time! No drawbacks to having to get ready for work/school early!
 

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My first instinct was to get rid of going to the bathroom, then I had an epiphany. I have celiac, which means that whenever I eat anything with gluten (all grains except corn and rice) my body attacks my villi in my small intestine as I try to digest the gluten. If I got rid of digesting food, I would never have to go to the bathroom again, I would never have the celiac symptoms again, and I could eat whatever I wanted, in whatever quantities I wanted.

That would be awesome.
 

dyre

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Excreting (is that cheating?)

Sleep is nice...you can't do a whole lot at 5 in the morning anyway. Though, it would be useful for nocturnal superheroes with daytime jobs.
 

Brandon237

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Valate said:
... Death. HA! LOOPHOLE! But really, gastrointestinal processing. I'll lose weight and never get hungry. Also never have to go to the bathroom.
Actually, to some degree that is NOT a loophole, amino acids stop the breaking down of the molecules at the end of your DNA, the ones that when lost, cause ageing. So you could have biological immortality (although likely with an increased risk of cancer, which you might get many times if you don't get killed in an accident of some sorts).

So for me it would either be that (But only if I could also have it for my future wife, lonely and immortal sounds shit) or I would not need sleep and always feel completely fine and refreshed as if I had just had a very good sleep.
 

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First thing I thought of was eating because it would save so much money, but you saying sleep sounds much better as it would save so much time and that means I could study/work as much I wanted and couldn't get tired.

Someone brought up breathing which could be pretty cool, but saving time not sleeping would be definitely the best.
 

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brandon237 said:
Valate said:
... Death. HA! LOOPHOLE! But really, gastrointestinal processing. I'll lose weight and never get hungry. Also never have to go to the bathroom.
Actually, to some degree that is NOT a loophole, amino acids stop the breaking down of the molecules at the end of your DNA, the ones that when lost, cause ageing. So you could have biological immortality (although likely with an increased risk of cancer, which you might get many times if you don't get killed in an accident of some sorts).

So for me it would either be that (But only if I could also have it for my future wife, lonely and immortal sounds shit) or I would not need sleep and always feel completely fine and refreshed as if I had just had a very good sleep.
You wouldn't have to be lonely just because one wife dies, you could always get married again and with immortality you could experience so many different cultures and all that and learn so many different skills, try so many different jobs. Although two main downsides:

1) The world is going to end eventually, whether humans cause it or billions (or trillions?) of years from now when the sun inevitably explodes, it would be pretty boring in space for eternity or alone in the world.

2) Even though you could remarry you'd probably become extremely depressed since life would lose all value.
 

Freethinker101

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Slightly evil as this may be but Morality? Being human is considered to have morals and morality, but what if that all slipped away? It would be interesting to experience, till something happened, most likely murder on a ridiculously large scale. Also the human race would move ahead more swiftly, less caring about deaths and all that, but it would lead to consequences later down the road though.
I think I'll just go with breathing, much simpler and easier to have, might build an underwater utopia or something...
 

Jakobos

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well, as much as i'd like to say breathing or sleeping, they're just part of life's challenge.

but you know one thing that i'd like to be rid of, flatulence, it's cause people nothing but problems
 

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Chemical Alia said:
Childbirth.
Use protection/ other methods of contraception like the pill, implant.
Oh, also enjoy having "Lack of content" getting throw at you.

OT: Defiantly sleeping. That way I'd be able to spend time doing everything that I want to.