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- t3hNinj4, on 10/12/2007, -6/+48@linkedList
So sex feels even better than masturbation! Sweet!
Twenty and lonely, by the way. I need to get one of those girlfriends everyone's always talking about.
The life of a ninja is a solitary one :( - LavaHot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39This is also why getting a hand job is so much better than masturbation.
- aNotSoNiceTroll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+36I'm tickling myself right now...
Oh wait, that's not tickling. - weizilla, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31I can tickle myself....
- Gisterogue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30But I CAN tickle myself. I'm not kidding. Surely there is someone else out there who can tickle themselves too?
- fwedwic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Mutant :P
- Chingmiester, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Alcohol or not, no one wants to read about people misreading the article.
- punkrockxtian, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Handjobs... poor bastard
- jord, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24@undersky:
you sound like a 15 year old, and if you are then you are excused, however if you find yourself even slightly older... shape up man - mikie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19have you ever given yourself a stranger?
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18@"This is also why getting a hand job is so much better than masturbation."
But that doesn't explain why it feels like someone else is doing it if you switch hands. - trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16So why doesn't this work when I tickle my nose hair and start sneasing for hours.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12i have no trouble tickling the bottom of my own feet..
- organdonersteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11you can tickle yourself. rub your finger along the roof of your mouth.
- UberNick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Ever heard of that trick Andrew Dice Clay calls 'the stranger'?
"So you sit on your hand till it gets real numb, right..." - pyrotix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12The real question is: Why can't a person tickle herself?
- cwshea, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13Actually kinda interesting.
- pastasauce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10If that happens, watch the depression rate in men sky rocket.
- bonemachine, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10good thing that doesn't work for masturbation.
- bbhh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9me too.. buried as inaccurate?... just kidding
- 3RNC77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Thus why "Tickle Himself Elmo" failed miserably
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I can tickle my own feet, in fact its hard to wash them cause it tickles so much. I wonder if eventually our brains will figure out that masturbation doesnt = more people, and make masturbation not feel like anything.
- LavaHot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6A stranger is where you sit on your hand so it turns numb. Thank you Scrubs!
- drilldown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@panique
Left brain/right brain. Now, is the left hand female? - zephc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@WaterDragon:
Yeah! Down with the educated stupid and evil dumbasses, ignoring Cubic Creation.
lolz. I think Travolta and Cruise are waiting for you back at the compound. - InternetUser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@Gisterogue
Me too. Sort of. Make your tongue into a point and gently stroke it over the roof of your mouth. aaaaaargh. - xobecide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I can and I will.
- mem0ryburn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6yeh, learned this from Bill Nye
- tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What?
- Shenaniganz08, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Actually this has been recently being proven wrong, with studies that were conducted @ UCLA.
I graduated w/ a Cognitive Science Minor so I learned about this last year ( 2006). The information from that paper was from information from 2003.
Certain spots ( back of the knee, bottom of your feet, etc) are still ticklish even self induced ( studies were done using a feather )
On the most part "tickling" and being "ticklish" are top-down processes ( prefrontal cortex) , you're more likely to be ticklish from people you know ( or like) than from a stranger. - spudnic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5A feather would move in an unpredictable way - bending and flicking when brushed against the skin for example - meaning that the brain cannot predict the movements, making it somewhere in between tickling yourself and being tickled. If anything what you're saying supports this article.
Guess common sense trumps your Cognitive Science Minor, sorry - vaxguru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"sneezing"
- Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5dugg up for mentioning Bill Nye. love him.
- Wildthing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd hate to think what the world would be like if that were true. I doubt humanity would be able to have gotten past cavemen.
- akzidenzgrotesk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@pastasauce
not just in men! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3When I saw the topic I knew that it wouldn't be long before someone said that :) 10 points for honesty!
- cuoops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is sensational!!
- joeTaco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4dugg down for writing "fsck"
- goodoldharris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"the cerebellum can predict sensations when your own movement causes them but not when someone else does"
This is the same language used in the article, but it's worded really poorly. The brain can predict sensations regardless of whether they are caused by me or something else. I'm 100% certain of it. (Although I suppose it may not be the cerebellum.)
The rest of the article seems to contain the real discovery: "Further studies using robots showed that the presence of a small delay between your own movement and the resulting tickle can make the sensation feel tickly." That's kind of interesting, and it makes sense that you could more accurately predict the timing of the sensation when you're causing the sensation yourself. - goodoldharris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3WaterDragon:
Relax dude. You've got a good point but it could just be the way the article was written. Instead of saying "why a person can't tickle himself", it probably should have said "why most people are less ticklish when they tickle themselves".
But you have a good point - why not send the researcher an email (a NICE email) and point out your childhood experiment? Here's her homepage: http://www.icn.ucl.ac.uk/sblakemore/
(If you email her, I suggest she will be more receptive to your point if you don't call her a dumbass.) - bradmac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I read this as "Why can't a person tAckle himself?"
Very confusing for a few seconds. The logistics would be incredible... - unicronband, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I want a tickle robot!
- Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hah you're right
- Beerduck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Who says you can't tickle yourself? I know I can...
- Arbus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Your Thetan levels are off the charts, my man!
- Badfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So does this explain why slapping myself doesn't hurt as bad as if someone slapped me with the same amount of force?
Reminds me of the schoolyard expression "see? it doesn't hurt." after the accuser slaps himself to prove the slap he gave to his buddy didn't hurt, when in actuality, it most likely FELT like it hurt more.
I'm sure it would hurt even worse if I were to close my eyes and wait for the slap at any time. Kind of like facing against a wall when you know someone will be throwing a tennis ball at you. - TheFr00n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This article is rubbish. You absolutely can tickle yourself. You're just not sensitive to tickling everywhere.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This submission should have been made by webtickle.
- Gisterogue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ah didn't see this thread. It's true tough, there are people who can. I am extremely ticklish, more than anyone I know; I find being tickled extremely discomforting. When I tickle myself in certain areas like the soles o my feet, my palsm, my gums, the top of my mouth (yuck!) and other places, admittedly it isn't as bad as other people doing it, but ys, it really does tickle.
- Holyfool19, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Finally serious and useful science! Was getting tired of all this A.I.D.S. and Cancer research getting nowhere.
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