Tickling and knifing people

[Fallout]

Ok, so I have this theory about tickling and knifing people. Makes perfect sense to me.

I remember seeing this marine training video years ago which taught you how to take someone out with a knife. They cut major arteries so people bled out very quickly and most importantly of all, they shut up. I think it was on CBBC, but I could be wrong. Anyway, basically they get the pointy thing and damage their assailant in a nasty way, hitting key areas.

What were the key areas that I remember? Well, obviously the neck, because as everyone knows, the neck contains a little juggler from the circus. Also they go for under the arm, where a major artery runs which supplies blood to fingers which are used for swearing. Another was the inner thigh, which is obviously a sexy area, as it's close to the sexy bits. Those are the ones I remember.

Now, I don't think it's a coincidence that some of the most ticklish areas are your neck, your arm pits, and your inner thigh. My theory is that us hairless apes have a natural inbuilt ticklishness in those areas because they contain major arteries and we need to protect them. When a naughty girl wiggles her digits in your arm pit your natural instinct is to giggle, pull away, and then in my case, knock her the feck out. I believe that's our natural response to protect areas that if wounded could result in our untimely demise and a lot of cleaning.

What do you think? Is ticklishness a fun and silly giggly response which has no real purpose except to make you look like a little girl, or a mechanism to protect you from being killed dead? Is ticklishness actually extremely manly because it means you have an elite defence mechanism programmed into your nervous system?

This does raise an interesting point though. What about people who aren't ticklish? Aside from being inhuman, are they easier to kill with a knife? I bet they are. I bet you could just slip a knife between their thighs at the coffee shop and they'd just sit there reading a magazine and not even realise it'd happened. Throwbacks, the lot of them.

[Littlepeahead]

I'm not ticklish, and I often think up different scenarios of how I'd most like to kill you.

[Bibio]

you will find that the non ticklish ones are the ones who will knife you as they have no feeling.

[Wideboy]

food poisoning

Interesting question though i'm not sure all areas that are sensative to tickleidge carry a vital blood supply.
Some people are ticklish on their hands and feet or on the end of thier nose/ears. Perhaps someone who knows about reflexology or pressure points might be able to explain as it's thought some seemingly unrelated areas are linked to vital organs.

[Mr Speirs]

Drugs are bad m'kay

Yeah I don't laugh, I lash out when tickled, I do warn people.

[Jayneflakes]

Not ticklish here, but this is a learned response due to having a father who thought it great fun to tickle us until we screamed.

As I recall being tickled is a response that is based in anxiety, it is more to do with the fear of being tickled than the actual tickling action. Also that kind of sensation is linked on the pain scale and is a way of confusing the body. Biologically I cannot imagine what use it would be, other than to fend off parasites who make the skin tickle when walking across it.

It really annoys the wife that I do not respond to being tickled.

my most ticklish spot is my stomach and if you knife me there I'll writhe around screaming for hours before expiring.

Originally Posted by Fallout

I remember seeing this marine training video years ago which taught you how to take someone out with a knife. They cut major arteries so people bled out very quickly and most importantly of all, they shut up. I think it was on CBBC, but I could be wrong.

I need to seriously review what my kids are watching I think!