Why do we have toenails?

starch4ser

Anyone?

frag420

It gives gross people one more thing to chew on!!

Teyla Emmagan

To climb trees with.

Angeles

To scratch that annoying itch on the other foot!

earpiece

starch4ser wrote: »

Anyone?

If you don't want yours, I'll prise 'em off with a screw driver for you?
Make for great You Tube footage.

Saila

to thow at people

Celly Smunt

because i'd imagine the rubbing at the top of your foot from shoes with leave you with constant irritation of the skin.I'm not dentist though so don't take my word for it.

Biggins

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My name is URL

They're just vestiges of evolution

Saganist

Left overs from the course of evolution. They would have been some sort of claw in our ancestors history.

funkyjebus

pmcmahon wrote: »

because i'd imagine the rubbing at the top of your foot from shoes with leave you with constant irritation of the skin.I'm not dentist though so don't take my word for it.

What about before shoes!

funkyjebus

pmcmahon wrote: »

because i'd imagine the rubbing at the top of your foot from shoes with leave you with constant irritation of the skin.I'm not dentist though so don't take my word for it.

What about before shoes!

Oranage2

So I can paint them to look pretty -

Chuck Stone

Former claws I reckon.

Celly Smunt

funkyjebus wrote: »

What about before shoes!

i believe in creationist theory,we've always had shoes.

Saila

Oranage2 wrote: »

So I can paint them to look pretty -

this, basically if you have toe nails you are a girl

Celly Smunt

Saila wrote: »

this, basically if you have toe nails you are a girl

painted toenails look rank

Dublin Chick

pmcmahon wrote: »

painting toenails look rank

Celly Smunt

Dublin Chick wrote: »

painted,my bad.

A little gloss maybe

starlit

To protect our feet and toes when we walk on foot!?

phasers

Because that's how God designed it.

Celly Smunt

doovdela wrote: »

To protect our feet and toes when we walk on foot!?

you've clearly never cracked your toe off the bed and cracked a toe nail.

headmaster

The Americans were the 1st race to have toe nails. They used them as tooth picks, long before the europeans knew what they were for. The reason being that the yanks had such big mouths that the foot was the only thing that would fit into the cavity and scrape all the sh1te out. Now though, the europeans are really catching up, but not using them as much as they should be

minikin

because we wouldn't know what to call toes if they weren't stuck to toe nails.

starlit

pmcmahon wrote: »

you've clearly never cracked your toe off the bed and cracked a toe nail.

No I wear nail polish on my toenails!:p

foxyboxer

Traction.

Standard Toaster

They're there to stop your toes from fraying.
A bit like that little plastic jobbie at the end of your shoelaces

Oranage2

Saila wrote: »

this, basically if you have toe nails you are a girl

Guys cant make their toenails pretty too?

kazul

doovdela wrote: »

To protect our feet and toes when we walk on foot!?

Is "walking on foot" different to other types of walking?

Calibos

Some might say that God is a bit of a messer with the way he added body parts that currently serve no purpose and look like vestigal organs from an evolutionary past but are in fact merely placed within us to test our faith.

However, toenails are not one of these. He put them there for aesthetic reasons. How stupid would we look if we all had fingernails but no toenails. That would just look silly!!

LeeHoffmann

Is "walking on foot" different to other types of walking?

walk on water? walking on sunshine? walking on air? I dunno

BrensBenz

Since the invention of toenails, prophesised by both Leonardo and Darwin, a range of industries and millions of jobs have been developed to cater for the wearers. Imagine the consequences if toenails had not been invented or if the government were to attach a Draconian tax on keratin:

· The hosiery industry would shrink without toenails secretly eroding their products from the inside. Darning would become a lost art. Millions of sock-makers, distributors, retail staff and darning teachers would be unemployed;
· International dialogue would be diminished because purchasing socks in a foreign country, and trying to communicate with those foreign shop assistants about those strange sizes on those foreign socks would become unnecessary;
· The pharmaceutical industry and those podiatrists whom we hold in such regard would be devastated by the disappearance of various fungal conditions. Where would those spores live then? Well?
· The beauty(?) in a bottle industry would be devastated and millions of highly-trained and qualified beauticians would be unemployed if toenails were not available for decoration. And, as a direct consequence, the child-care industry would wither away because, as we all know, without decorated toenails, males would no longer be attracted to females;
· The plumbing industry would be hit badly if there were no longer blockages caused by toenail clippings. Millions of plumbers and plunger manufacturers would be idle. There could well be a criminal response, e.g. the production of fake toenail clippings and threats to block civic or national drains with them. We would all be doomed;
· Shoe sales would also suffer because mothers would have no reason to press their thumbs on the toes of their children’s new shoes, thereby giving mothers less reason to enter shoe shops. Millions of shoe shops would close down and airhead SITC fans would have 50% less to talk about;
· The standard of debate would suffer since there would be no need to discuss the best implements to trim toenails, e.g. scissors, clippers, kitchen knife, cheese-grater, teeth, etc., etc.

So, beware even considering the purpose of toenails. They are a vital component to 21 century global economies and I, for one, am delighted to have my twelve toenails.

RichieC

Either God put them there or they are vestigial remnants of our three climbing past, further back even they were our lizard claws.