http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-january-15-2008/the-jimmy-legs
― MIke Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 03:51 (twelve years ago) link
I always sit like this so I can read on the train platform. Don't care if anyone thinks I look dumb.
― tanuki, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
i . . . am also able to read on the train platform while standing? also on the train and most other places?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
u are very special too mookie
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
i know!
but so can we all be, by standing upright, perhaps
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
maybe if I notice myself sitting with my les tucked under me I will try to stand up immediately and be more special
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 05:23 (twelve years ago) link
LesLegs
Stupid iPad
"special"
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 05:28 (twelve years ago) link
nope
You put those air quotes away mister
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 05:31 (twelve years ago) link
I can stand and read too... I just don't like doing it! ¯\(º_o)/¯
― tanuki, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
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, 4 April 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
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. :/
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
It's either this or I have my legs crossed. Sitting with just my feet on the floor is really uncomfortable for me.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
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, 5 April 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
i really hope nobody itt sits on their legs while using the toilet
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
that photo is exactly how I sit
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes one leg, sometimes two, I like to switch it up
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
my hips hurt just looking at that pic
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
― 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?
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not a particularly flexible person either, my body shape is like early troglodyte
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
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
― carl agatha, Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
i just tried sitting with my right ankle under my left thigh and it is not comfortable
bodies are so weird
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
ikr?
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
fyi I am over 40yo
― 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.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
― 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?
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
butt
not but
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
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
― their private gesture for bison (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
― 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!
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
Both, actually ._.
― tanuki, Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
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
― gimme prizza (crüt), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
it's the worst
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
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, 5 April 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
― 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 :/
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
JESUS GAH
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― emil.y, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― fka snush (remy bean), Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
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
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
this episode is upsetting to me tbh
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
stay tuned for next week's episode of E3's body follies
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
AIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 04:58 (eleven years ago) link
FLUCKJ