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My neck hurts just looking at this.
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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None of y’all are horny looking at this?
No I for sure am
Naah, it's the wrong way around.
You prefer the right side ear hole? Weirdo.
Dude it looks like a Halloween Rubber Ducky tipped onto its front... ofc I am.
U alone on this one bruv
Negative, ghost rider
ghost rider
Makes sense that ghost rider would be horny for a skellington.
You like looking at her coccyx, don't ya?
Oh hell yeah
Yep, I don't have a response to that.
Probably should not have asked.
Damn, Mary's mom has been working out
"Chawklate? I rememba chawklate. Sweet, sweet chawklet. I ALWAYS HATED IT!"
Damn, that neck part is doing basically all of the first 180° of bending. Rest of the spine be caught slacking.
Would you want what your ribcage comes out of to bend significantly?
Might take your breath away, or break your heart, or both.
Nice ass tho, big dawg
Thats got to be the rib cage holding it straight. Otherwise your ribs would famous, and I dont think you breasbone could stay connected.
Your ribs would what now?
Become famous. I dont understand whats so confusing about that.
But it doesn’t say ‘become’. That totally changed the meaning. My breasbone can brease easy now, thank you!
…a significant part of the spine does not bend.
My scoliosis would like a word
That part of the spine is bent though. When standing up it naturally curves outward.
Wouldn't your ribs have to fan out for that part to bend?
I'm thinking they compress towards the spine.
Is this really an X-ray? I thought you'd see all the ribs and limb bones instead of an imaging slice like this
It might be a slice of a CT scan, so still X-ray, but more and with a lot of post-processing.
Pffft, my spine dose that shit when I sleep wrong.
It does bend just not in that direction.
There’s no way she doesn’t pay for this later in life though.
Full scorpion.
I misread that as 'cartoonist' at first and thought this would gonna be a take on how they bend their own lore or something 😅
Calcification of the chest wall is holding our contortionists back from their true cat-like potential.
It would be odd to be standing behind a contortionist and see them tilt their head back to look at you while their body continues facing forward.
It would be interesting to see some statistics about contortionists and spondylolisthesis.
That reminds me, I've not watched Alien for a while.
Looks like something from a horror movie.
looks like they could suck their own dick
Can't we all
What would happen if you did this to a regular person lol
An assault and battery charge.