7/09/07 – Design Flaw?

Ok so you know how when you burn your tongue on something scalding, for me its usually coffee b/c I am not awake enough to make good decisions hence the piping hot coffee in the first place, it heals almost instantly? You know, you put something that is approximately 9 billion degrees in your mouth and despite scorching the tar out of your tongue it heals overnight. One minute you can’t even touch your tongue to the roof of your mouth it’s so damaged but 14 hrs later and it is totally healed and fully functional. This holds true for biting your tongue as well, it hurts more but heals just as quickly. The tongue just closes up that hole and keeps on doing its tasting.

Now I know the tongue isn’t a weight bearing joint BUT it is a very complicated and complex bodily mechanism. I mean this is the part of your body that can distinguish between Coke and Diet Coke, lets you know when to expel rotten things from your mouth before your stomach makes you do it, keeps ice cream in the cone and not on your arm, produces thousands of syllables a second, and can be a really effective yet harmless way of expressing disdain or irritation at being grounded.

So if this marvel of a muscle can almost instantaneously recover from being bitten, burned, and otherwise battered don’t you think the ankle should be able to rebound a tad more quickly? I mean I don’t know about you but my ankle can’t say superkalfragalisticexpealaldocious.