BS: Biology of the anus

Subject: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Jack Campin
Date: 05 Jun 21 - 03:45 PM

This is fascinating stuff.

Anal evolution

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Jun 21 - 06:50 PM

Fascinating indeed. Let's hope that the mods don't see fit to wipe your post, Jack...

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Joe_F
Date: 05 Jun 21 - 07:24 PM

I have always found it curious that we animals did not develop the same improvement with respect to the respiratory system. How much more efficient to have one nose to breathe in & one (connected to the mouth) to breath out, with continuous peristalsis in between! Singing would be a lot simpler, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Jun 21 - 07:38 PM

With regard to the anus, it's been said that its siting is proof that there is no intelligent designer. After all, who with any sense at all would position the pleasure ground right next to the sewage outfall...

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Jun 21 - 08:34 PM

I've long s.aid not to call someone an a-hole. That hole is very useful.

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: JennieG
Date: 05 Jun 21 - 08:36 PM

Bummer......

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Jun 21 - 08:57 PM

Fascinating article!

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 02:31 AM

Jack, do you actually look for subjects like this ?

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: The Sandman
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 03:31 AM

Jack is analysing arseholes he finds it more interesting than probing the proboscis.

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 05:06 AM

It is an interesting article and I read all of it. I was anticipating responses coming in in piles...

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 08:48 AM

Oh, Steve Shaw, I can't believe you beat me to that. Where was my head? Don't answer that!

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 09:07 AM

A mate of mine, a good few years ago now, had had a nasty bout of diarrhoea. I asked him how he was. "Oh, I'm ok now," he said, "except that it's left me with an arsehole like a half-chewed blood orange..."

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 09:25 AM

Reminds me of colonoscopy prep.

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 10:16 AM

This article has already been posted at Mudcat: perhaps Jack was reading the MOAB annex a couple of weeks ago. That is a fascinating article.

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 11:25 AM

Posting in MOAB is not the same as posting at mudcat...

Cheers Jack, a fassinating article which so many of us non 'MOAB elite' mudcatters
would otherwise have been completely unaware of...


My arse has dictated my daily life since early childhood..
Irritable...??? more like bloody hostile vindictive bowel syndrome..

Bowel conditions are a serious topic of open down to earth discussion in my family...

Coarse lavatorial humour effectively keeps my mum still smiling despite her dispairing suffering of incontinence...

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: robomatic
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 03:22 PM

That's a seriously good article; thinking of subscribing to The Atlantic for this and some of their wide ranging world political articles.

Puts me in mind of a couple of other evolutionary items: The incredible oxygenation achievements of birds in their modifications of lungs and airsacks to enable the metabolic energy they require to execute flight, presumably also a feature of dinosaur evolution since it is the current wisdom that birds are the current examples;
Also, the quite natural question as to where and how did the anus evolve? There has long been the anti-evolution argument that the eye coujld not evolve but had to be designed since so many disparate elements had to exist and work together to get the funtionality we now perceive in optical organs. A quirky movie with that as a plot element came out a few years ago: "I Origins".

Meanwhile, there have been serious articles out on the ability of the lower digestive tract to absorb oxygen and that this could actually feature in medical treatments when the lungs are compromised.

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Jack Campin
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 05:03 PM

I think I've looked at the MOAB thread(s) just once in the 20-odd years I've been on Mudcat so I couldn't have got it from there. I get the Atlantic's daily email digest.

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 05:11 PM

I can't help feeling that this whole topic has a ring about it...

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jun 21 - 07:23 PM

robomatic, a couple of years ago I started a subscription to The Atlantic for the very reason you state - they have some seriously good long-read articles.

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Jun 21 - 02:35 AM

analysis ?

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Raedwulf
Date: 08 Jun 21 - 03:46 AM

The "Intelligent Design" argument about the eye was long ago debunked. I think those who subscribe to it have largely stopped using the "What use is half an eye?" line of argument because it's so obviously a dumb question. Our eyes didn't evolve from half an eye; they evolved from less efficient, less sensitive eyes.

Scientists ran a mathematical model back in 1994. If you start with a light-sensing surface, allow it to change in small, random, biologically feasible way, and only retain those changes that make it more sensitive you get to a recognisable eyeball WITH a lens in about 400,000 generations. Which is (aha-aha) an evolutionary eye-blink!

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 08 Jun 21 - 07:52 AM

Old saying, ' in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king '

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Jun 21 - 03:55 PM

Fortuitously I am reading a recent copy of the New Scientist and "News in Brief" there is a samll article on"Life Saving oxygen could be given anally" - stop yer imagination - it is delivered in a liquid.

Tests in pigs prove it works to a degree. And for patients needing oxygen in COVID it could be preferable to respirators because the patient has to be sedated. Except that diarrhoea is also a symptom. But..........

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: robomatic
Date: 09 Jun 21 - 03:18 PM

I think H.G. Wells wrote a short story where a man exploring in the hinterlands discovers a valley where the people have no sight. He fancies he will do quite well for himself...

And yet he doesn't!

There have been cases where creatures have had eyes in ancestral generations and yet their species has lost the use of sight either because it does no good or because other senses have proven more valuable, or both

In the case of the movie "I Origins" the scientist characters are looking for a 'first cause' genetic mutation. But did I say the movie was a work of art (and an offbeat love story)?

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Raedwulf
Date: 09 Jun 21 - 03:53 PM

He did inded, robo - The Country of the Blind, available here.

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Jun 21 - 03:39 AM

thanks for the story

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Jack Campin
Date: 10 Jun 21 - 04:16 AM

It's not quite obvious how a story built around "in the country of the constipated the man with an arsehole is king" would work.

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Jun 21 - 09:25 AM

That's a [w]hole other issue, that is...

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Raedwulf
Date: 11 Jun 21 - 04:16 AM

Faulty premise, Jack. In the land of the constipated, the laxative manufacturer is king (and the enemologists are nobility)! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: The Sandman
Date: 11 Jun 21 - 04:33 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Jack Campin - PM
Date: 10 Jun 21 - 04:16 AM

It's not quite obvious how a story built around "in the country of the constipated the man with an arsehole is king" would work.
i would nominate Martin Amis, a writer who uses delightful language but takes a long time to say anything meaningful or anything at all.
martin amis the prince of waffle, a writer who suffers from literary constipation, is perfect to write on the subject"in the country of the constipated the man with an arsehole is king"

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Jack Campin
Date: 11 Jun 21 - 04:40 AM

Cubical jobbies

Well on their way to inventing Lego.

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Jun 21 - 05:11 AM

Shitting bricks, Jack?

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Raedwulf
Date: 12 Jun 21 - 01:58 AM

Sand - By your description (I've never read him), surely Martin Anu… Amis *cough* suffers from literary diarrhoea? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jun 21 - 08:02 AM

I thought this thread was a provocative biography.

the anus is famous for its flatus
to the aimless penis.
With or without gayness

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Jun 21 - 09:50 AM

Shitting bricks, Jack?

OK give us a clue, where on the Bristol Stool Scale - would that be? -5 maybe?

And in hopes of this working** - see Bully Hole Bottom, with an estate agent (realtor) in the background worth look into (if you see what I mean).

**Monmouthshire, (I was just passing through!). Fakebook post set to "public view"

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Donuel
Date: 12 Jun 21 - 02:18 PM

Bristol must be proud.

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Jun 21 - 06:23 AM

bristols is a whole other anatomy in the UK

And back to topic here's my "pome" on the UK

"The map of Brittain shows - agog,
An outline somewhat like a dog.
Provincial wits, convulse in fits,
To see at last where Lundun sits"

Bristol is about knee-high.

Subject: RE: BS: Biology of the anus
From: JennieG
Date: 15 Jun 21 - 01:44 AM

Poor little kitty......