why do I sit with my legs folded under me until they go to sleep and then ARGGGGHHH WHY WHY WHY

WHY

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

GHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH

this is no way to sit

I am a grown ass man

and you're gonna do it again tomorrow

tomorrow? I'll do it again in like 15 minutes

and then hobble around the house groaning like someone's just slashed my achilles tendon

I have this problem, too. I thought I was the only one. I also with my legs crossed in pretzel knots.

you think nature or instinct would train us not to assume a position that will in short order cripple us

BUT NO

maybe I need to ditch the chair and sit on a nice hueg pillow like a pasha

I do this! I often sit with one leg tucked underneath me or my legs totally crossed even at my desk. It's not good.

we must look like preschoolers

I know. :/ Sometimes I catch myself doing it and try to sit nice and straight and professional but it never lasts long.

I have never sat like this in my life

well, maybe a few times on the floor, but it was not a sustainable seating position by any means

I have a bad habit of sitting with just the balls of my feet on the floor, heels raised, like I'm about to get up, but I'll sit that way forever and then one or both of my feet fall asleep and CURSES RAGH

but I also fold one foot up under too

feet falling asleep is annoying

one or both legs falling asleep and attendant pins n needles as blood flow returns is RRRAAGRRRRAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH ARRRRRRR BRAGHHHHHHHHHHAG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWv53OJ-ydI

and yes I am doing it again right now

i sit like this :-/

pretty sure one of my legs will just fall off at some point

my 9th grade history teacher told me I sat like that because of something about my hips and that I should try not to do it cause it would make them worse.

I still do it but mostly with my right leg now instead of both. A bartender I knew used to tease me - "why are you kicking yourself in the ass?"

fuck you, flexible ppl

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-january-15-2008/the-jimmy-legs

I always sit like this so I can read on the train platform. Don't care if anyone thinks I look dumb.

i . . . am also able to read on the train platform while standing? also on the train and most other places?

u are very special too mookie

i know!

but so can we all be, by standing upright, perhaps

maybe if I notice myself sitting with my les tucked under me I will try to stand up immediately and be more special

Les
Legs

Stupid iPad

"special"

nope

You put those air quotes away mister

I can stand and read too... I just don't like doing it! ¯\(º_o)/¯

I just caught myself doing this. I always do it the same way so that it's my left leg tucked up under my right with my left ankle sitting right under my right thigh. Never the other way round.

My wife and I were out getting something to eat a few weeks ago and I couldn't believe I saw a grown-ass woman sitting like this in public:

https://p.twimg.com/AnpQXxICAAABnHd.jpg:large

I never do both legs like that but do the one leg thing so often and now can't stop noticing each time. Last night on the bunch while waiting for the T. This morning when I came into work this was the way I first sat down at my chair. :/

nb I wouldn't do this if wearing a skirt and nice shoes but put me in jeans and flats and in a place where I'm comfortable and all bets are off.

It's either this or I have my legs crossed. Sitting with just my feet on the floor is really uncomfortable for me.

that picture.. I can't even figure out how a body can get in that position. did you people all have your kneecaps removed?

i really hope nobody itt sits on their legs while using the toilet

that photo is exactly how I sit

sometimes one leg, sometimes two, I like to switch it up

my hips hurt just looking at that pic

I just caught myself doing this. I always do it the same way so that it's my left leg tucked up under my right with my left ankle sitting right under my right thigh. Never the other way round.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 1:12 PM (Yesterday)

I think this is like that thing where if you fold your hands, you always put the same thumb on top of the other, and if you switch it feels really weird, somebody told me once it had to do w/ dominant side of brain?

I'm not a particularly flexible person either, my body shape is like early troglodyte

fuck you, flexible ppl

― mookieproof, Wednesday, April 4, 2012 3:44 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also fuck your young, healthy knees.

But actually last night I was sitting in a chair kind of slumped down and sideways on my right hip with my legs crossed and when I got up my entire left side was asleep or cramped. From here on out, I will only sit like this:

http://www.the-leaping-lamp.com/images/wall-e-axiom-passengers.jpg

i just tried sitting with my right ankle under my left thigh and it is not comfortable

bodies are so weird

ikr?

Also fuck your young, healthy knees.

fyi I am over 40yo

i really hope nobody itt sits on their legs while using the toilet

― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, April 5, 2012 11:00 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

NEVER! Just so that's clear.

I am weirdly flexible and double jointed. Not because of any exercise (lol, yeah right) or anything I do, I just always have been. I can do weird things with my elbows and stuff too.

I just caught myself doing this. I always do it the same way so that it's my left leg tucked up under my right with my left ankle sitting right under my right thigh. Never the other way round.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 1:12 PM (Yesterday)

I think this is like that thing where if you fold your hands, you always put the same thumb on top of the other, and if you switch it feels really weird, somebody told me once it had to do w/ dominant side of brain?

Huh! I just tried it with my right under my left and it was totally weird. Just tried the folded hands thing and am definitely left thumb over right. Interesting!

that picture.. I can't even figure out how a body can get in that position. did you people all have your kneecaps removed?

― gimme prizza (crüt), Thursday, April 5, 2012 10:59 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Huh? If you were kneeling, couldn't you then just sit down so that your but was resting on your calves? That's basically what she's doing. I thought most people could do that even if it's not that comfortable for some?

butt

not but

anytime anyone wants to use that frog-in-gradually-boiling-water sheeple cliche they should just refer to this habit instead, it is infinitely more relatable and thus scarier

I always sit like this so I can read on the train platform. Don't care if anyone thinks I look dumb.

― tanuki, Tuesday, April 3, 2012 11:22 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

I hope you mean the outdoor El platforms and not the subway b/c blargh, subway floors!

Both, actually ._.

If you were kneeling, couldn't you then just sit down so that your but was resting on your calves? That's basically what she's doing.

the positioning of her feet is what's throwing me off.

I am trying to sit on my calves and I keep falling over

also my knees hate me now

I do this all the time on the sofa. And I have terrible circulation, so I get super-plus double-bad pins and needles death.

it's the worst

Often, I'll snooze in such a way that my legs both fall asleep. I won't know that until I try to stand up and I find myself on the floor, face down.

once I woke up to someone slapping me repeatedly in the face. it was my own hand.

my arm had gotten wrapped behind my head which cut the circulation off so completely my hand had gone totally numb and started thrashing around. was prolly about to go necrotic.

Often, I'll snooze in such a way that my legs both fall asleep. I won't know that until I try to stand up and I find myself on the floor, face down.

― fka snush (remy bean), Thursday, April 5, 2012 12:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My mother did this once except that she fell over and BROKE BOTH HER LEGS :/

JESUS GAH

and yet you still sit on yr legs :)

One worse than the other but I know both were pretty messed up. She just toppled over and landed on top of herself.

I can't stop!

Do you guys also do the hopeless limp-running around the sofa to try to wake your sleeping leg up? IT HURTS, BUT IT'S THE ONLY WAY.

E, your story is horrifying. I've blacked out from standing up too quickly (especially at the gym after working out), but I've always had a few seconds of 'ooh, I'm going to fall' before actually falling.

and then hobble around the house groaning like someone's just slashed my achilles tendon

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Tuesday, April 3, 2012 9:57 PM (2 days ago)

xp

once I woke up to someone slapping me repeatedly in the face. it was my own hand.

this episode is upsetting to me tbh

stay tuned for next week's episode of E3's body follies

AIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

FLUCKJ