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MEN! Check your fingers!

soupcan Dec 01 2010 12:32 PM

Men whose index finger is longer than their ring finger were significantly less likely to develop prostate cancer. Unfortunately I'm a long ring-finger guy. Nice knowing you all.

Ceetar Dec 01 2010 12:35 PM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

This is pretty much the definition of correlation not causation right?

metirish Dec 01 2010 12:38 PM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

My ring finger is ever so slightly longer than my index finger....... The Grim Reaper comes dressed as a can of soup.

TransMonk Dec 01 2010 12:51 PM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

Mine look about the same. Still, I figured prostate cancer to be an eventuality if I lived long enough.

Fman99 Dec 01 2010 12:52 PM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

I can explain this... you ask your kids to pull your finger, to amuse them with some awesome colo-rectal noises. Do this over and over again, until your index finger is longer, and you've passed so much gas that your prostate is wonky. I'll take that Nobel prize now, thank you.

Frayed Knot Dec 01 2010 02:51 PM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

Ring finger definitely longer on the right hand but closer to even with the index on the left.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 01 2010 03:40 PM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

Both hands look like they could be either even or ring-by-a-nose. Flerg.

Kong76 Dec 01 2010 04:40 PM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

I haven't been able to pee more than three seconds at a time since seeing my ring fingers are a good half nail longer than index.

dgwphotography Dec 01 2010 06:48 PM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

My index and ring finger are the same length on my right hand. On my left hand, my ring finger is almost a full nail longer than my index finger. Must be caused by all that bowling...

HahnSolo Dec 01 2010 09:04 PM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

Been nice knowin' y'all.

metsmarathon Dec 01 2010 10:37 PM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

sweet. i think i'm good.

G-Fafif Dec 02 2010 04:52 AM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

The end is apparently near.

Centerfield Dec 02 2010 07:57 AM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

Mine is not even close. Ring finger is a full nail longer than my index finger. This can't be good.

Vic Sage Dec 02 2010 08:09 AM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

ditto. damn. life is giving me the finger!

Benjamin Grimm Dec 02 2010 08:18 AM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

Mine are about the same, on both hands. My grandfather died of prostate cancer in his 50's (back in the 1950's). One of his sons, my uncle, got prostate cancer in his 60's and was cured. His other son, my dad, is now 75, and has not had it. I'm curious to see what my grandfather's and my uncle's comparative finger lengths were, but since they're both dead at the present time, and I'm not interested in exhuming either one of them, I'd have to rely on photographs. And maybe some day I'll do that.

Edgy DC Dec 02 2010 08:28 AM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

The Thing has four digits anyhow right? Can't imgaine it's easy to to a prostate exam on The Thing.

Ashie62 Dec 02 2010 08:30 AM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

Oh well, its been fun folks.

Rockin' Doc Dec 02 2010 08:32 PM Re: MEN! Check your fingers!

My ring finger is mildly longer than my index finger on my right hand. The difference between the longer ring finger and the more diminutive index finger is significantly greater on my left hand. I broke my left ring finger in 10 places in the mid 80's and had to have it surgically reconstructed. If only I had broke my legs instead, I might have made it to 6' tall.