what's the word for a leg elbow?

I cut the inner part of my leg elbow while shaving and forgot the name

::: spoiler unrelated cat photo also here's my cat being cute

idk just wanted to share her getting a suntan 🥰 :::

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56 Comments

WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works · 118 pts · 1y (7 replies)

You mean...your knee?

TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 81 pts · 1y (6 replies)

...oh

illi@lemm.ee · 56 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Just how high are you?

MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 52 pts · 1y (1 reply)

No officer, it's "hi, how are you?"

TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y

To which the answer is: “As high as a kite.. No, wait. Higher. A GPS satellite? No. Even higher. Voyager 1 should be about right.”

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

Yes

Empricorn@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1y

Potato.

archonet@lemy.lol · 5 pts · 1y

Higher than giraffe titties, huh?

rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 98 pts · 1y

Couldn't help myself.

TastyWheat@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 1y (3 replies)

db2@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

A shrubbery!

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

ow, I hurt my Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing

Yep, checks out 👍

TastyWheat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Goddamnit I even did the voice on my head as I read your post. Well done

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1y (11 replies)

The outside is the knee. The inside in the eenk.

And the bit on your arm opposite of the elbow is the woble.

naught101@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (2 replies)

The loose bit of skin on the outside of the elbow is called the weenus

Blackmist@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y

Hey, Simpson. Your weenus is showing!

xorollo@leminal.space · 1 pts · 1y
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unaccomplishedbottom@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y (5 replies)

I did not know that. Thank you

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Look at me. No, look at me. I need you to know that it's a joke. I spelled the words backwards.

unaccomplishedbottom@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

In my defense when I left that comment I was out, didn't sleep last night and am high as frick. I'm tired lol

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Lol, no worries. I just didn't want to be that guy who put incorrect data in someone's head forever.

M137@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Congratulations, you're an gullible idiot!

unaccomplishedbottom@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

I really really am lol

Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Jan, you're such a wenis.

match@pawb.social · 0 pts · 1y

The wenis is a dance.

MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 28 pts · 1y (9 replies)

Why, the kneepit of course!

Volcanna@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y (8 replies)

We don't call it the elbowpit, so this must be the legpit.

AmidFuror@fedia.io · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

No. Leg pit is the taint. The elbow has two sides.

rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y

Hey! This is a family friendly establishment!

Please use the polite term: grundle

Sludgeyy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Armpit is where your arm attaches to your torso.

Behind your elbow is a different pit

AmidFuror@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

The Pit of Despair.

Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

He's only mostly dead.

AmidFuror@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y

Go through his clothes and look for loose change!

klemptor@startrek.website · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I actually do call it the elbowpit

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y

Indeed. Careless use of the word we, there.

Etterra@discuss.online · 19 pts · 1y

You mean the knee?

Don't feel too bad. One time I had a brain fart and couldn't remember the word "microwave" and called it the "nukeamajig." I still do, but on purpose now.

GeekyOnion@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I would say "inside of the knee," if I'm reading the context right.

neatchee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Wouldn't the legpit be the pocket created at your hip when your leg is folded against your body?

Acamon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Do you mean the popliteal?

PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Knee?

bstix@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It's called "popliteal" in English, sometimes but uncommonly shortened to "poplit".

cyberslask@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

There is also "hock", but that is mostly used in relation to horses.

_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 1y
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

bottom hinge

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

what, your grunch?

RattlerSix@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Knee booty

h3mlocke@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

This is what my uncle would call a "real knee-slapper"

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Did we ever get an answer to this?

TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y (7 replies)

Those orange and brown stripes remind me this Minecraft cat. Such a beautiful color.

OfCourseNot@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Nope, that's an orange/red tabby while op's is a calico, which is also present in Minecraft. Fun fact: except in rare exceptions all red tabbies are males and all calicos are female.

Note: these aren't breeds, but names for the coat coloring.

QualifiedKitten@discuss.online · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Your fun fact is only partially correct. Calicos and torties are almost always female because the black/brown/grey(dilute) and red/orange colors are both located on the X chromosome, so in order to have both colors, they have to have 2 X chromosomes. Male calicos & torties have some genetic abnormality such as XXY or are a chimera. Red/orange females are much less common than red/orange males, but not all that rare, because they have 2 X chromosomes and therefore have to have 2 copies of the red/orange gene to be solid red/orange, while males only have 1 X chromosome, so they only need 1 copy of the red/orange gene to be red/orange.

Another fun fact: All domestic cats with red coats are tabbies. Through selective breeding, some reds exist with a coat that appears solid, but they're still tabbies with the agouti gene, just very low contrasting in the striping.

OfCourseNot@fedia.io · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You are right, it was an oversimplification, 25% is hardly a 'rare exception'.

In my defense I have to say that it was late, I was already in bed, and very sleepy. And I knew that, this being lemmy, some other nerd would come with a more thorough explanation.

QualifiedKitten@discuss.online · 2 pts · 1y

All good! I do a lot of lurking, so you gave me the perfect set up to actually participate! I do a lot of kitten fostering, so I spent A LOT of time reading up on their genetics to try and make sense of things and guess what the father(s) look(s) like. New fun fact: kittens from a single litter don't all necessarily share the same father.

TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

yep! that pic doesn't really show off her coat very well


this pic is from when I fell asleep on the couch and came up to bed and she was all snuggled up like a shrimp and was so snoozy she didn't wake up till after I layed down

TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

So, is this the right one? At least the colors match, but it doesn’t have any stripes.

OfCourseNot@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y

That's the one.

AreolaGrundle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Ditch

Agent641@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Big Knuckle