Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Cracking Knuckles

Quick survey: Have any of you ever been addicted to cracking your knuckles, but somehow, after years of doing so, trained yourself to stop? If so, why did you it?

Another question: Do you have any weird joints that you crack? I just cracked my jaw. I don't know anyone else who does this, but I've been doing that since the 4th grade.

7 comments:

Sullivans said...

I am not a knuckle cracker. I can make my knees pop though.

KaraktinsinFl said...

I crack mine...but everytime I do...I hear my grandmother telling me to stop in my head! Do you know WHY you hear that cracking sound?? I do :P
I want to learn crack my jaw and pop my knees.

John said...

But do you feel like you have to crack your knees? My fingers feel really stiff if I refrain from cracking them for a while.

Krish - My grandmother told me "every time you hear a knuckle crack another angel has broke his back." OK, she didn't say that. Had she though, I might have stopped. So I'm going to tell my kids that. And I don't want to hear anything about "air bubbles in synovial fluid" or other such liberal media nonsense.

When I was 19 I moved out to LA to become an actor. A guy I met at the bus terminal helped me get into "film", and ever since then I can crack my jaw. I also cry myself to sleep at night.

Unknown said...

wow, John, that is really brave of you to share the intimate details of your bedtime ritual...bravo young man, bravo.
oh well, i did used to crack my knuckels all the time and about a year and a half ago i decided to stop and have been clean and sober ever since...i stopped my bad habit because i thought it sounded kinda gross and annoying to others.
after that, i stopped biting my cuticles (now they look very pretty)...since i was on a roll, i stopped drinking soda and eating beef...damn! what i freak i've become!
yesterday i thought about picking up smoking....mmmm, that's sounds relaxing...i'll let you know how that works out.

Sullivans said...

LOL Jimmy.
No I dont have to crack my knees. You are an obsessive knuckle-cracker though. While driving, while sleeping. All the time.

John said...

I am reading about cracking knuckles and it sounds like maybe it really is bad for you. Peep this article: http://www.spinegroup.com/Advice/NkCrk.html
It's about back and neck cracking, but I am sure it applies to the knuckles.

Jimmy, why did you stop eating beef? The only way to save the endangered Black Angus is to commercially produce and consume them. I mean, really - can you imagine wild cow? They'd get all tough and gamy, losing all of the marbling we've endowed them with. Honestly, I can't imagine a huge steer just wondering around the woods with no one to tend to him. The notion seems pretty ridiculous, like wild chickens or wild pigs. When is the last time you were hiking and ran across a pig? Or even a trough from which a pig could feed? You know, back in the day they lost a bunch of turkeys to the wild. Now, their descendants are much smaller and have taken to distilling absurdly potent whiskey.

Good luck with the smoking - I'm sure you'll do really well with it. Remember, this isn't about clearing the chamber and holding it. Just relax and take one puff at a time.

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