{"id":2106,"date":"2010-07-14T07:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T11:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2010-07-13T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T16:41:51","slug":"belly-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/07\/belly-buttons.html","title":{"rendered":"Belly Buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Belly<\/a>There are innies, outies, and the occasional pierced one (and whatever the hell you classify that picture<\/a> to the the right as), but right after that, belly buttons get pretty darned uninteresting.\u00a0 Or do they?<\/p>\n

So-called scientists are claiming belly buttons are the key to determining your athletic prowess<\/a>.\u00a0 I mean sure, if you can hang a bottle out of yours, you probably aren’t too athletically inclined.\u00a0 But otherwise, this seems a non-intuitive relationship.<\/p>\n

Yet these folks are claiming that how far your belly button is off the floor (after adjusting for height differences) will determine if you are a runner or a swimmer.\u00a0 High navels make you a runner and low navels make you a swimmer.<\/p>\n

Further, Africans tend toward high navels and Europeans toward low, which apparently explains why blacks dominate track & field while whites rule the pool.\u00a0 Yet they go on to note that belly button height is really correlated to body type.\u00a0 That is, if you have longer legs your navel is relatively higher than a person of the same overall height with short legs and a long torso.\u00a0 Duh.\u00a0 The Duh-plus is that people with long legs have an advantage on the track while long torsos are an advantage to swimmers.<\/p>\n

So while the whole belly button claim makes for a great headline, all that’s really being said is runners should be tall with long legs and swimmers should be tall with long torsos.\u00a0 Anybody who’s ever watched the Summer Olympics on TV should already have had a handle on that.\u00a0 Or is it news that blacks tend toward longer legs while whites tend toward long bodies?\u00a0 Hardly.<\/p>\n

Therefore, I guess we really didn’t learn much here today.\u00a0 Except that maybe if you can hang a bottle out of your belly button that you absolutely should.\u00a0 Because your husband is really gonna need a drink when he gets home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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