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Source: SligPants on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fimbriated_fold_of_tongue

I recommend checking yours by curiosity, people have more or less long ones.

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 85 points 2 months ago

Sweet tongueticles bro

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 63 points 2 months ago (7 children)
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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Imagine getting those caught between your teeth.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I got mine slightly damaged by my electric toothbrush which is why I researched what they were. They are not as big as the pic.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Just trim them with a pair of nail clippers.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

drink half a bottle of vodka first

[–] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 2 months ago

Kellogg's fan?

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

You are the next logical step of superior evolution, and must always hide your powers, for there be those who will be looking for you, to perform... unsound... experiments.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No need to imagine. It hurts like hell for a while, then you forget they even exist.

[–] Zoldyck@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've lost two. Hurts like a bitch but it was worth it

[–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Well, checking had just made me squirt all over my mirror

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

The (not) technical term for that is "gleeking".

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I hope it was followed by putting your shirt in cornholio mode and making Dilophosaurus sounds

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I could have gone my whole life without knowing this, I'd have been that little bit happier.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 6 points 2 months ago

Knowledge is sometimes a burden but overall it makes us stronger.

[–] soul@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Thanks. I hate it.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My tongue is... like smooth underneath? Nothing that looks anything like these! I'm scared!

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apparently not everyone has these. I learned about them on an AskReddit thread many years ago. The title of the post was something like "what's something about people's body that they probably don't know?"

I showed the comment about this to my wife and she found she has them. She was so freaked out by their presence that I've refused ever since to find out whether I do.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Human bodies are weird! Tongue things, ear lobes are weird, some people can smell ants! There's so many more!

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 11 points 2 months ago

This can’t get off my feed fast enough

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

bruh can't we have this marked nsfw

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

"L" .. nsfL.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago

Oh dear lord put some foreskin on that, you're scaring the children.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 8 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of the mutant half-axolotl in season 1 of the Fallout tv series!

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have these! Plus I've got a bony lump on the roof of my mouth. Like half a small golf ball or half a large marble at the back of my hard palate, right before my soft palate. I always thought everyone had it, but a few years ago I learned it's rare. More common in certain genotypes, most people in my family have it.

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[–] fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

Used to ask what these were as a kid when I found them on my tongue. Nobody knew what I was talking about and I just assumed it was adults being stupid like usual. Guess I was right.

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I've got a couple of these dangly boys. Hurt like hell when they get caught inbetween teeth.

I also stretched out my tongue's frenulum while in high school resulting in me being able to stick my tongue into my nasal cavity.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Tongue stalactites 🧐

[–] iamanurd@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago

This makes me quite uncomfortable.

[–] Levi@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Neat. I feel like I'd accidently chew them off if I had them.

[–] Sly2@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is honestly so cool. It reminds me that we're friggin Aliens.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 2 months ago

Especially as embryos, which is where this comes from.

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anyone else thinking it reminds them of a xenomorph from Alien?

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[–] Skanky@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This may have awakened something in me

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

what that demon tongue do tho

[–] betahack@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

......so mouth fingies?

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago
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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago
[–] Janx@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you not hide individual posts/images in PieFed? Guess why I'm asking this...

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[–] Inkstainthebat@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

That is so frickin cool

Im gonna check if I have them too but going off feel It doesn't seem like it...

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago
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