Mermaids don't have knees!

[Giant_Spongess]

Pictures of mermaids with knees drive me crazy. There's absolutely no reason for mermaids to have knees, except that people like this doof can't do it any other way.

Rargh!

[Qadgop the Mercotan]

Cite?

Since a mermaid is a Chimera-style creature, I can't see why knees must be ruled out.

[PinkNailFile]

Wait... I don't get it.

So ... Oh wait. The light dawns. Thanks for clearing that up Giant_Spongess . Another bit of ignorance vanquished.

[Giant_Spongess]

They're supposed to have fish tails. Show me a fish with knees!

[Giant_Spongess]

Originally Posted by PinkNailFile

Wait... I don't get it.

So ... Oh wait. The light dawns. Thanks for clearing that up Giant_Spongess . Another bit of ignorance vanquished.

You're welcome.

*bow*

[Cervaise]

Mermaids don't have a... lot of things.

[pinkfreud]

I see your point, but couldn't the tail have a fishy exterior and still have a humanoid skeletal structure? Unlikely, maybe, but we're dealing with a mythical creature, and the morphologies of mythical beasties don't always make sense.

[Marley23]

I don't see definite knees in that picture. Maybe it looks like knees because of the way the tail comes forward. I imagine there is a muscle in marine animals that might be comparable to the knee, so why not make it like a knee in a mermaid?

[marshmallow]

But...how do you have mermaid hentai without knees? Wait, don't answer that.

[Manduck]

Originally Posted by Giant_Spongess

Pictures of mermaids with knees drive me crazy. There's absolutely no reason for mermaids to have knees, except that people like this doof can't do it any other way.

Wow, that mermaid has an enormous ass! Do mermaids have asses?

[wolf in second hand clothing]

Fry: Why couldn't she be the other type of mermaid? With the fish part on top, and the lady part on the bottom?

[ZebraShaSha]

Originally Posted by mstay

But...how do you have mermaid hentai without knees? Wait, don't answer that.

You know those holes in the side of pools, where bubbles come out? Well, how else do you think mermaids make a living?

[Gorsnak]

And fish tails are always vertical, while those bastards keep drawing the mermaid tales horizontal! Won't someone think of the scientific accuracy??

[Ike Witt]

That 'doof' has just attempted to make a better mermaid.

[Typically Sunday]

To answer your question: a wizard did it.

You're welcome.

[Guinastasia]

Maybe the mermaid tail is so flexible that any part can be bent at will?

[Batsinma Belfry]

Originally Posted by Manduck

Wow, that mermaid has an enormous ass! Do mermaids have asses?

That's what she's trying to find out with the hand that's not holding the tail.

[elfkin477]

There's no reason for humans to have a few of our internal parts, but we do anyway. Mermaids having knees is no more nonsensical than bats having thumbs - which they do.

[cruel butterfly]

Originally Posted by Giant_Spongess

They're supposed to have fish tails. Show me a fish with knees!

They aren't so much "knees" really. If a mermaid is half-human/half-fish, then we have to assume that the being possesses all the attributes of each of its parts in, well, each of its parts. The pose that the mermaid is assuming in the linked picture represents a pose that any human female would assume if she were being photographed for a sexy spread. Therefore, the human half of her has overtaken the anatomical limitations of her fish half.

[cruel butterfly]

Originally Posted by cruel butterfly

They aren't so much "knees" really. If a mermaid is half-human/half-fish, then we have to assume that the being possesses all the attributes of each of its parts in, well, each of its parts. The pose that the mermaid is assuming in the linked picture represents a pose that any human female would assume if she were being photographed for a sexy spread. Therefore, the human half of her has overtaken the anatomical limitations of her fish half.

Cite.

[Marley23]

Originally Posted by cruel butterfly

Cite.

Oh, that takes me back.

[Ranchoth]

Gentlemen, please! There's only one way we can solve this for sure...

We must find, capture, and dissect a mermaid to examine it's musculature and skeletal structure. Actually, we should make that several mermaids, to compare against each other. (I'd hate to find out, years later, that the only one we bothered to catch was just a freak or something.)

::silence, crickets::

Oh fine, sure, be like that. You know, that's the same sniveling anti-science attitude that killed my Unicorn vivisection research. I hope you're happy.

[pinkfreud]

Originally Posted by Manduck

Wow, that mermaid has an enormous ass! Do mermaids have asses?

Some do. Ever see Bette Midler in Divine Madness?

[rjung]

Originally Posted by wolf in second hand clothing

Fry: Why couldn't she be the other type of mermaid? With the fish part on top, and the lady part on the bottom?

No one would ever admit to finding such a beastie.

[Robot Arm]

Originally Posted by Gorsnak

And fish tails are always vertical, while those bastards keep drawing the mermaid tales horizontal! Won't someone think of the scientific accuracy??

Okay, she's half-woman/half-porpoise. Happy now?

[Alessan]

Originally Posted by Robot Arm

Okay, she's half-woman/half-porpoise. Happy now?

1. Mermaids are mammals.
2. Mermaids fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the mermaid is to flip out and kill people.

[HPL]

Originally Posted by Marley23

Oh, that takes me back.

Just like that time when he talked about mermaids having knees.

Originally Posted by cruel butterfly

They aren't so much "knees" really. If a mermaid is half-human/half-fish, then we have to assume that the being possesses all the attributes of each of its parts in, well, each of its parts. The pose that the mermaid is assuming in the linked picture represents a pose that any human female would assume if she were being photographed for a sexy spread. Therefore, the human half of her has overtaken the anatomical limitations of her fish half.

And the time I fought the Giant Chicken.

[Fern Forest]

Originally Posted by Giant_Spongess

Pictures of mermaids with knees drive me crazy. There's absolutely no reason for mermaids to have knees, except that people like this doof can't do it any other way.

Rargh!

Considering what they'll probably be doing out of water I imagine the knees come in quite handy.

I wonder if the term "mermaid" brings up more bad art in an image search then any other term.

[Manduck]

Originally Posted by Fern Forest

I wonder if the term "mermaid" brings up more bad art in an image search then any other term.

Dead heat with "unicorn", I betcha.

You'd have to go some to beat this one, though. But at least it answers my mermaid/ass question.

[don't ask]

Speaking of things mermaids don't have, my all time favourite Aussie slang term is mermaid. Truckies used to use it for transport inspectors who set up temporary weighing stations to ensure that trucks weren't overloaded. They were called mermaids because they were useless cunts with scales.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Originally Posted by wolf in second hand clothing

Fry: Why couldn't she be the other type of mermaid? With the fish part on top, and the lady part on the bottom?

That ain't a Mermaid!

That's a typical resident of Innsmouth, Mass.

[Shirley Ujest]

Originally Posted by Manduck

Wow, that mermaid has an enormous ass! Do mermaids have asses?

They've tried to have asses, but the donkey keeps drowning.







Do mermaids have vaginas?

I mean, where to baby mermaids come from or is it just a lesbian fish community that spontaneously reproduce?

[CalMeacham]

As long as actresses insist on having knees, so will mermaids depicted by them.

In art, mermaids vasry. Really old prints often show mermaids with split tails. One Playboy cartoon from the 1970s showed a mermaid whose tail began at the top of her legs, giving her both a vagina and an ass.


In Jack Chalker's G.O.D. series, the mermaid has a porpoise tail, with horizontal flukes and no scales. One erotic cartoonist depicts mermaids with removable tails, with knees (and vaginas and ass) underneath.

They're imaginary creatures. You're only limited by your imagination.

[Pixisis]

In the Museum am Markt in Karlsruhe Germany there is a two tailed mermaid who doesn't get scaley until just below the knees.

[Grey]

Originally Posted by Marley23

Oh, that takes me back.

God I hope not.

[Bewildebeest]

The mermaid in Copenhagen has knees. I'd regard that is definitive.

[cmkeller]

Originally Posted by Shirley Ujest

Do mermaids have vaginas?

I mean, where to baby mermaids come from or is it just a lesbian fish community that spontaneously reproduce?

Their fish tails turn into human legs, perfectly capable of human-style reproduction, when dry. What, you never saw that mermaid documentary, "Splash"?

[Bewildebeest]

Originally Posted by cmkeller

Their fish tails turn into human legs, perfectly capable of human-style reproduction, when dry. What, you never saw that mermaid documentary, "Splash"?

Kind of like grunion?. That must be something to see!

[cmkeller]

That must be something to see!

Daryl Hannah's legs are [definitely something to see.

[JThunder]

Originally Posted by Ranchoth

Gentlemen, please! There's only one way we can solve this for sure...

We must find, capture, and dissect a mermaid to examine it's musculature and skeletal structure.

Swim, Ariel! Swim for your life!

[Bewildebeest]

Do coelacanths have knees?

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Originally Posted by Bewildebeest

Do coelacanths have knees?

Veeerrrry primative ones.

[Ranchoth]

Well, from the art gallery referenced above, it seems the artist is working under the "tails begin beneath the knee" theory. (I'd link to the specific examples, but they involve full frontal nudity, I suppose that'd be frowned on by the "aussie mermaid" PTB.)

However, I can't tell from the paintings if the mermaids' thighs are actually two separate limbs that re-join into a single tail, or if it just looks like the beginnings two limbs, but it's really just the upper part of a solid tail.

In any case, my tireless and painstaking research on mermaid anatomy* has yielded at least a slight tidbit: the blog of some fellow who visited Copenhagen, including a museum** that featured a mermaid skeleton. Which, as you can see, features a pelvis, but no human-like leg bones. However, it may be possible that mermaids normally possess some free-floating vestigial femurs in the tail that could, under the right position, give the mermaid the appearance of having a humanoid leg structure under the flesh of the tail. Such bones might be left out of mermaid skeletal displays by mistake, misunderstanding, or some misguided sense of aesthetics on the part of anatomists or anthropologists.

And yes, for those who were wondering, I am indeed a weird, pathetic excuse for a human being.


*Meaning, I searched for "Mermaid skeleton" on Google images. And what of it?
**A modern art museum, anyway.

[rjung]

Originally Posted by Shirley Ujest

Do mermaids have vaginas?

I mean, where to baby mermaids come from or is it just a lesbian fish community that spontaneously reproduce?

They lay egg sacs in the ocean, and then the mermen come and spray semen to fertilize 'em. How mermaid bukkake works is left to your imagination...