I know butts are made for pleasure and pooping. :V

They're made for pooping. Pleasure is just a very lucky side-effect

Trues. :3

Anuses are made for pooping. Buttocks are muscle and fat storage and a large part of the reason humans can walk upright and run.

Well if you want to be technical about it, the gluteal muscle groups are largely responsible for humans being able to walk upright and run, while the fat deposits over them are meant for lipid storage and cushioning upon which to sit. *nerdface*

Which is pretty much what I said, just in larger words. That said you missed out on the importance of the connective tissue that anchors to the pelvis and helps act as leverage for other muscles, including those in the back and the legs. Also I do not think that cushioning is much other than an accesory function because naturally sitting is quite an unusual posture for humans and squatting is considered more natural in most circumstances. The fat storage also serves a sexual signalling function, to advertise health and physical reserves of energy, which alongside the hips may be more easily accessable during pregnancy and help with the development of intelligence as opposed to abdomnially placed fat. (this is old information I got out of new scientist, so it may be outdated, updated or disproved.)

Some of the info is outdated. Squatting was more natural around the time of cro magnon people, but after thousands of years, sitting on our asses has become more natural by far. Try squatting on you haunches and you'll notice that your blood flow to your calves and feet gets cut off after 15-20 minutes most of the time, less if you're chunky like me. As for sexual signalling, research is showing that it's more of a cultural psychology thing than biological.

Squatting is still widely more common in more gather-hunter societies than sitting, and so far as I know sitting originated as part of the expansion of the middle class. Sitting was part of a show of power (throne/chairman type crap) like shoes (which aren't actually all that good for use biologically and stunt a lot of our musculature, balance and bone development). After you've gone a long period of time without frequent sitting the posture (ESPECIALLY chair sitting) is highly uncomfortable and often painful. Our spines aren't designed to take the brunt of the weight in quite that fashion, this is part of why standing desks and treadmill desks are being more encouraged. There is also the other note that prolonged sedentary lifestyles have strong physiological consequences that are part of why sitting is more common, because it self-perpetuates as it shifts what parts of the body are responding to what (talking about bone density changes and muscle formation/atrophy). And note, I am a -very- chunky individual and I actually find squatting pretty comfortable, though not near as comfortable as standing upright. There is also the different kinds of sitting like that practiced in Japan, which after getting used to it is quite comfortable for many people. Not that that note proves that either sitting or squatting is better, but more a point to suggest that either is highly influenced by how often it is used.

Yeah, sexual signalling is a bit of a leery one. It's hard to tell what the fuck is even going on there, what with the plasticity of human brains. I wonder if cultural psychology going back far enough may have ended up physically influencing the development (but that's me idly speculating).

I wish I could squat but it's actually pretty painful for me to do so. I think my weight, as well as the lack of muscle in my legs (or consistent blood flow for that matter since I'm often stationary, drawing all the time) has made it so squatting is very painful for my calves

It is in large part getting used to it, and it definitely hurts at the start. If you've been wearing shoes or sitting for large parts of your life, it changes the way the muscles are built and a lot of people don't know how to squat properly, either. It's similar to how shoes completely change the way people walk. the other thing is that even if squatting is more natural that sitting, it's not really natural to do either for huge amounts of time--we're roaming animals, we work best when walking.

AHhhh interesting~

Actually, this made me wonder, how many people when they squat are trying to do it flat footed?? Because that is fucking uncomfortable, even coming from someone with low-tone tendons and a higher degree of flexibility :x As a kid I spent a huge amount of time (at least a third of my play!) running around on the balls of my feet for extra speed and also because I was totally a dinosaur. So I tend to resort to the balls of my feet a little faster than other people as well. (that might be part of how I developed monstrous calf muscles)

Yeah on the squatting toilet! Sitting actually doesn't compelete open the mechanism that helps us hold in fecal matter when standing, squatting straightens out the anus.

I used to run on the balls of my feet as well but it actually REALLY fuckedup my ankles-- and I didn't sprain anything, it just didn't sit well with my feet. I just remember my mom always trying to instead get me to walk heel-to-toe and that worked much better once I got out of my ball of foot walking phase (although I still do that for fun sometimes ahahhaha)

True true! Lol.

Anuses are made for pooping. Buttocks are muscle and fat storage and a large part of the reason humans can walk upright and run.

And squishing. Squishing is a very important purpose of the butt.

YES. also landing pad for hands.

You should try moving to Washington State! It barely goes over 28c here in the summer~

That is the plan! It's just getting there that is the problem.

*dumps ice in your pants* :D

*does an ice boogie*

also you are assuming I wear pants.

I live in a house where people don't mind if I am nude, am a hermit and live with hermits...I wear clothes very, very infrequently. I really wish I was not a cultural necessity to wear them because UGH CLOTHING

I get the same way each summer, here. Pretty much entirely reliant on the good will of friends for transportation and relief from cabin fever around then :T
Hope some good rain rolls your way.

It is poooo. I don't have many friends with cars :x

I hope it's hail, because unfortunately by this point in the year when the raindrops fall they're literally warm to the touch D: queensland is balls yo

Shiiit, man, you are stronger than I, lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY84MRnxVzo

*tf2 heavy voice* I LOVE THIS THIS SONG!

Butts.

Yes.

Uh. i hope i could swap.. i am almost always feeling cold xD Ass for butts.. i have seen some ideas that made me laugh on the floor having things not even close to reality so, you are right!

Yes! Swap! Teleport swap would be good. I wish I could just transfer the heat. :I

Like I said, people do not get it, haha. I think it's a little more obvious if one's initial exposure to them is from a biological perspective or something? I don't even know

Heat. Gah. The whole cooped up thing, yeah that's been my life for the past for years here in the good ol' US of A.
6 months of tapdancing around a hideous 100F in summer (about 30 more than 'my' summers usually are) a couple of months either-side of that which are bearable, then the remaining 3-4 are so far below freezing it's treacherous to even attempt walking/driving anyplace and nigh-impossibly hard to even breathe. I just brushed snow off the car for five minutes and have an icicle-beard Icicle beard ಠ_ಠ
And Mirsathia is making us move south, someplace even more hot & humid year-round *flails*

So um, yeah. Not sure about butts 'cept I like big ones & I cannot lie, but ye have my very heartfelt sympathies about the fucking climate issue.

I am actually in Queensland! Idk what AZ is? D:

warm is poo. ;; I am so glad that australia is in the middle of flooding seasons so I don't have to feel so bad about running myself a cold bath(s) every day

oh? what condition makes you feel so bad in warm weather?

I have no idea? I just feel horrible and get really depressed and sluggish, and very prone to heatstroke. It's bad enough to give me fainting spells and periods where I can't stand, similar to low blood pressure, if I try to be active despite the sluggishness, but all the doctors I've talked to haven't been particularly helpful.

This is not uncommon, actually. I'm the same way when it gets too warm.

That's one of the best things about living in Albuquerque - as long as you're indoors and you have a good fan going, being nekkid is enough to make summers quite tolerable (we're in a high-altitude desert, so there's not much humidity or air to hold heat).

Move to Albuquerque is what I'm getting at @_@

ice helmet :o