# Are you an inny or an outy **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 23, 2001, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535 "2001-02-23T00:33:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nefarious_chipmunk/32/1045_2.png) [@Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefarious_Chipmunk)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/1 "2001-02-23T00:33:26Z")
Okay, I was thinking about this the other day. I remember a time when people whould ask is you had and inny bell button or an outy. I was thinking about it and I don’t think that I have ever seen and outy on anyone over…oh…twelve. So my question is, do you have an inny or an outy? ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/2 "2001-02-23T00:41:01Z")
Innie. Way innie these days. When I was pregnant, though, I was a flattie for a while. Hoo, boy. I need to go home. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/3 "2001-02-23T00:54:36Z")
Innie. The fatter I get, the innier it gets. In a research study during high school it was found that not a single Playboy centerfold had an outie navel. ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/4 "2001-02-23T01:22:04Z")
Innie ---
**Author:** ![broccoli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@broccoli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/broccoli)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/5 "2001-02-23T01:35:25Z")
Innie ---
**Author:** ![K-Web\_Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@K-Web\_Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K-Web_Catalyst)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/6 "2001-02-23T01:41:26Z")
I’m a definite innie, so in that I got to do lint digs some times, but my mom is an outie, which may be a result of pregnancies, I’m not sure. But she is an outie. ---
**Author:** ![Wozzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@Wozzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wozzo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/7 "2001-02-23T01:51:52Z")
Outie, and I can’t blame it on pregnancy. ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/8 "2001-02-23T01:52:57Z")
I have an innie. Outie people are fucking wierd! ::shudders:: I don’t know what it is. I bet MrCynical is an outie. ---
**Author:** ![K-Web\_Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@K-Web\_Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K-Web_Catalyst)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/9 "2001-02-23T01:55:33Z")
It’s true lint gets trapped by the hairs, and you have to clean your belly-button. If you do it in public, you can get a lot of weird looks. ---
**Author:** ![Wozzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@Wozzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wozzo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/10 "2001-02-23T02:02:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mercutio \* > \*\*Outie people are fucking wierd! > \*\* Am not. ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Doll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/11 "2001-02-23T02:04:30Z")
I’m also an innie. Nothing new to see here, move along, move along… ---
**Author:** ![DarkJudicator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@DarkJudicator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkJudicator)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/12 "2001-02-23T02:05:33Z")
This is a question I ask people all the time. They look at me strangely. Innie. ---
**Author:** ![fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@fish\_in\_the\_sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fish_in_the_sky)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/13 "2001-02-23T02:58:50Z")
Innie. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/14 "2001-02-23T03:04:30Z")
I’m an innie. My boyfriend is a flatter innie and he derives great joy from sticking his finger in my bellybutton and flicking it out with a little “pop” sound. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/15 "2001-02-23T03:23:50Z")
I’m an innie as well. I also have very little skin in the region and it is very sensitive to the touch. When I was a pre-schooler, I was trained to rub my bb with this bluish crystal if I remember correctly in order to thicken the skin but it never worked. There was a concern of transfer of infection through this spot although after 50 years that has not been a problem. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/16 "2001-02-23T07:07:40Z")
Another innie checking in… //hijack alert//With a slight hijack question…why does belly button lint always match the color of the socks you were wearing??Or is that just me??//end of hijack// ---
**Author:** ![Fatwater\_Fewl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@Fatwater\_Fewl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fatwater_Fewl)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2001, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/17 "2001-02-23T07:29:01Z")
Outie… oh, belly buttons. Ummm, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/18 "2001-02-24T00:47:56Z")
I’m an inny. My belly button is kinda cute. I have a friend whose belly button goes in on the outside and then out in the middle…it’s odd. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/19 "2001-02-24T05:10:29Z")
I thought I remembered from my childhood the words were “insie” and “outsie” but I could have remembered wrong. I haven’t seen a single outsie since I was a kid. But on my web page I put a story I wrote that includes a character whose “navel was an ‘outsie’ about eight inches long, curled at the end and terminating in a polished fingernail.” It is prehensile and has the ability to extend out to much greater lengths. It might have been inspired on some level by the writings of Carlos Castaneda. ---
**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535/20 "2001-02-24T19:11:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hypergirl \* > \*\*I’m an inny. My belly button is kinda cute. I have a friend whose belly button goes in on the outside and then out in the middle…it’s odd. \*\* I’m not sure that “odd” is sufficent a word to describe that belly button… Apologies to those affected, but I think that outies may be the most disgusting things in the known universe. I am, of course, an innie. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-an-inny-or-an-outy/55535.md?page=2)