BS: An existential question

Subject: BS: An existential question
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 01:55 PM

Why can't one tickle one's self ?

Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: Amos
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 01:56 PM

False premise--I tickle myself pink frequently!



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Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: Jos
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 02:02 PM

The effect of tickling results from its NOT being under the control of the person being tickled.

Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 02:19 PM

That's true, and seems pretty much self-evident; but I don't know that it answers the basic WHY? A person gets an orgasm from self stimulation, or from similar stimulation "inflicted" by someone else. Why isn't the tickle response at least more similar than it is.

Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 02:45 PM

Frogprince, I think you need to do a survey.

When I was little, I would tickle myself by touching the bottoms of my feet. Now, the skin there is far tougher and not ticklish.

You need to ask a bunch of little kids if they can self-tickle. They are the people with the soft,sensitive skin.
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A common aspect of tickling is that the touch is unexpected. Obviously we cannot give ourselves an unexpected touch.

Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: Becca72
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 03:04 PM

Actually, my feet are so sensitive that I CAN tickle myself, even at 37 years old.

Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 03:23 PM

I knew a guy in 7th grade who gave himself a hernia by trying to bite his toenails, but that probably doesn't count as tickling.

Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: Amos
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 03:24 PM

Accepted Inflow                  Unacceptable (Resisted) Inflow

Tickling actions on self            Tickling actions imposed by another
Sexual stimulation--self
Sexual stimulation by another

Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 03:32 PM

"An existential question"

'Why can't one tickle one's self ?'

Because if one could it would be an ontological question.

Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: Jeri
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 03:44 PM

The question is not why one can't tickle one's self, but why one would want to. I've HATED being tickled, but I've gotten to the point where I LOVE having my feet tickled. Other bits, not so much, but I can turn off the 'give a damn' so the tickling doesn't result in the desired torture.

Rap, I shouldn't admit this, but I can bite my toenails. The thing is, I can also smell my feet, so there isn't much point. It probably could be an ice-breaker in social situations though.

Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 14 Oct 09 - 03:48 PM

When I was younger, I used to bite my nails.
But my dad nipped that habit in the bud by making me wear my shoes.

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: GUEST,Toes to the Nose
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 02:38 AM

See your one Seamus and raise the bid....

When I was young - we were so poor - I had no shoes
So when it came time to go to school...
My father painted by feet brown
And laced up my toes.

Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 02:56 AM

I can tickle and frequently do with

one of these

Use on head and shoulders. tried it on my knees last night.

Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: Rowan
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 03:53 AM

Guest TttN,
You've got a way to go before you trump Ivor Cutler and his lumps of coal, though.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 05:54 AM

Bruce: Why is it a rule that a concept cannot be both existential and ontological? The distinction, semantically, is a piddling one, and I have never actually met a self-proclaimed philosopher who could give me a satisfactory explanation of the difference?

And if it is a rule, who made it? Plato? De Beauvoir? The guy working down the chipshop who sez he's Elvis? ...

Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 07:02 AM

Babies often react when they tickle themselves.... I believe we get so used to touching ourselves day to day that we build some sort of immunity (or tolerance) to those tickly feelings

Subject: RE: BS: An existential question
From: Charley Noble
Date: 15 Oct 09 - 08:55 AM

Then there are those old-time string band members that would train themselves never to crack a smile. I envision them sitting around the breakfast table with their coffee, 2 pm in the afternoon, reading each other one-liners and penalizing anyone who even cleared his throat.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble