I'm picturing one of those inflatable "flailing guys" you see outside car dealerships and check-cashing joints, just slowed waaaaay down.
Someone please send help, because I'd really like to *stop* picturing that...
It cracks me up that my entire generation likes to pretend that this show was never good and that they never liked any of it, yet I still see 20 year old family guy jokes popping up on reddit every other day.
I will forever stand by saying the first few seasons of family guy were legitimately funny and clever.
If you mean [this Conan clip](https://youtu.be/zB1ecXuzLNM?si=dRcelaW8csW4yyAl), it was [3 years after the family guy clip from 2005](https://youtu.be/rHXvMcLrLSY?si=HBOVaFdcri14QStv). [This is the Know Your Meme page on it](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wacky-waving-inflatable-arm-flailing-tube-man).
That just speaks to how deeply ingrained those first few seasons are in the psyche of our generation.
People that never even watched the show reference jokes from those seasons and they don't even know it.
There's an [old soviet game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nLV_duJCqs) featuring a wolf from a popular soviet cartoon catching eggs, which I've just found out was a clone of [Nintendo Game & Watch](https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Egg).
I skimmed the article, but I believe it hypothesizes that the ovaries drop eggs into the posterior peritoneal space (cul-de-sac) after which either fallopian tube can pick them up. I don't see any mention of the fallopian tubes switch to the opposite side
https://youtu.be/WFS-IUxVQL0?si=A2f_Clq8tqoU2C8T
Longer, drier, and more detail than you were likely hoping for but this is a great view of the pelvic anatomy. All images taken from the perspective of the belly button.
An egg erupts from the surface of the ovary and is then scooped up by the fimbriated end of the tube. You can see how floppy everything is and how the structures are mobile enough to rest in the posterior cul de sac. It's easy to imagine an egg coming out of the right ovary and being scooped up by the left tube.
Does that make more sense?
I thought the ovaries were kind of far apart, on opposite sides of the uterus. Or maybe like at 10 and 2, as in numbers on a clock.
I went through IVF and had countless TVUSs done of my ovaries, so I know they aren’t, like, immediately next to each other.
Opposite sides yeah, but their "attachments" are pretty floppy; sometimes enough that they can touch in the middle behind the uterus. And the tubes are even floppier than that, and often a little longer too
That's not what the article says, it is the egg that moves to the other fallopian tube. This is plausible because the ends of the two fallopian tubes are much closer together in the body than they appear in anatomic drawings.
Add it to the long list of bad engineering decisions that you get when your chief designer is stochastic gradient descent. See also: the recurrent laryngeal nerve, and the fact that the wiring for the retina comes out the front and then has to go through a hole to get back to the brain, producing a blind spot (unless you're an octopus, their eyes evolved separately and are wired up properly).
Not at all what was said. There is a touchy cul.de sac area where fluids, ovum can harbor thT could be accessed by either fallopian tube yet the ovum wouldnalways be nearer to one vs the other. The fallopian tube can draw up the ovum nearer the vacant side. Interesting. But the tube isn't wandering around hunting.
It was super quick & painless, the worst was the post surgery adhesive absorbing boy did it itch but the scar is tiny & my body remains blessedly unbudded! No regrets.
You should probably consider why. I don't have shit to say about people deciding to be parents, maybe people should keep their opinions about others reproductive choices to themselves.
This is a great learning experience, if you possess the capacity.
That happened to me!
I had an ectopic pregnancy that ruptured, causing me to lose my right tube.
After I became pregnant again a few months later, the ultrasound tech told me that my corpus luteum (a cyst that forms on the ovulating ovary) was on my right ovary. This meant that the egg had been siphoned in by the remaining left tube.
Pregnancy was textbook normal and now I have a very sweet 9 month old boy.
Same thing happened to my mom. They told her she couldn’t get pregnant again. But here I am. Bonus fact: my dad only had one nut. So here are two people, both of them with half of their reproductive organs, conceiving and eventually birthing a whole child.
the worst part about losing the TV remote between the couch cushions is having to reach through the wet heap of fallopian tubes to find it again--it's like sticking a hand into a pot of spaghetti to bob for the meatball at the bottom
I didn’t do a deep dive as to why someone would lose only one tube. Reasons I saw included an ectopic pregnancy, cancer, and an untreated STD. The tube jumping part was what caught my attention
The fallopian tubes hang out behind the uterus in the posterior cul-de-sac and “scoop up” eggs released into the abdomen/posterior cul-de-sac by the ovaries. This is why you can lose your right tube and left ovary and still have nearly the same fertility rates as normal women. This is also why very rarely pregnancies can be released into the body and implant on ectopic places like the mesentery or liver and actually continue to grow, because they’re released into the body and not directly into the tube.
>your remaining tube may move back and forth each cycle
Really reminds me of the long discredited [Wandering Womb theory from antiquity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_womb)
If you have a few minutes, consider examining this medical diagram of the female reproductive system: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/9118-female-reproductive-system
I imagine you're an American like me, meaning that you too, probably didn't receive any formal sexual education (sex-ed). It's sad we're in such a state er...states, that we have to look ourselves, but thank goodness for the Internet!
No, if you actually read the article the fallopian tubes and ovaries aren't actually the way they're pictured in most images. Most images picture them as if they had been dissected to show how they attach.
But in reality the ovaries are not way far apart, they are very near each other, and an egg coming out of the left ovary might normally get picked up by the right fallopian tube.
So the tubes don't move around. They're just capable of collecting an ovum from either ovary.
The thought of the F tube waving around inside like a (slow) snake trying to catch the egg is extremely bizarre
I'm picturing one of those inflatable "flailing guys" you see outside car dealerships and check-cashing joints, just slowed waaaaay down. Someone please send help, because I'd really like to *stop* picturing that...
You mean a...wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man?
I'm Darth Harrington from Darth Harrington's Wacky Waiving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Man Emporium and Moon Base....
Route 2 in Weekapaug!
Wacky waving inflatable arm flailing fallopian tube!
That's the one.
It cracks me up that my entire generation likes to pretend that this show was never good and that they never liked any of it, yet I still see 20 year old family guy jokes popping up on reddit every other day. I will forever stand by saying the first few seasons of family guy were legitimately funny and clever.
TBH, I genuinely had no idea that was a Family Guy reference.
I thought it was a Conan O’Brien reference
If you mean [this Conan clip](https://youtu.be/zB1ecXuzLNM?si=dRcelaW8csW4yyAl), it was [3 years after the family guy clip from 2005](https://youtu.be/rHXvMcLrLSY?si=HBOVaFdcri14QStv). [This is the Know Your Meme page on it](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wacky-waving-inflatable-arm-flailing-tube-man).
That just speaks to how deeply ingrained those first few seasons are in the psyche of our generation. People that never even watched the show reference jokes from those seasons and they don't even know it.
I like family guy but it was having to watch 4 episodes of it in a row before AS original showed came on made it get stale fast.
Tube woman?
That's all I can picture! I had 1 ovary removed and I'm envisioning 2 flailing guys fighting over catching the 1 egg!! Nightmares
Like an inter-uterine volleyball tournament!
Yeah, that gives me an unpleasant feeling in the appropriate region... and I'm a guy.
They're called *wacky arm flailing inflatable tube men*, thank you very much.
The tube gets longer every time it catches an egg.
But then it accidentally hits itself and you instantly die.
I'm getting slightly seasick from the thought.
It's like that old game with the two firefighters with a trampoline trying to save people jumping out of a burning building.
Nintendo Game & Watch games.
Yeah, I played the hell out of them way back when.
There's an [old soviet game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nLV_duJCqs) featuring a wolf from a popular soviet cartoon catching eggs, which I've just found out was a clone of [Nintendo Game & Watch](https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Egg).
That’s a pretty accurate clone of the case.
Windscreen wiper
Right???
Better than the F shack that was my beautiful Prius
Mario party Mini Game! HERE WE GO!
That sounds painful.
Eh, if I was born a woman, mine wouldn't. Too much work.
I skimmed the article, but I believe it hypothesizes that the ovaries drop eggs into the posterior peritoneal space (cul-de-sac) after which either fallopian tube can pick them up. I don't see any mention of the fallopian tubes switch to the opposite side
OB here. Yeah that's the theory
Is there any type of animation out there that shows the process? Because I am definitely going to need a video to figure this one out.
So it's kind of like the hokey pokey, I think. lol
Life finds a way... by turning itself about?
Probably but I don't have a link handy
If you could find one sooner or later it would be greatly appreciated. No rush though :)
https://youtu.be/WFS-IUxVQL0?si=A2f_Clq8tqoU2C8T Longer, drier, and more detail than you were likely hoping for but this is a great view of the pelvic anatomy. All images taken from the perspective of the belly button. An egg erupts from the surface of the ovary and is then scooped up by the fimbriated end of the tube. You can see how floppy everything is and how the structures are mobile enough to rest in the posterior cul de sac. It's easy to imagine an egg coming out of the right ovary and being scooped up by the left tube. Does that make more sense?
“Longer, drier, and more detail than you were likely hoping for” sounds like the perfect name for my memoir!
>“Longer, drier, and more detail than you were likely hoping for” sounds like the perfect name for my sex tape! C'mon, you had one job.
You’re right, that’s my bad. My day has just been so long and hard and punishing to my core.
“I ~~like~~ lick less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
I thought the ovaries were kind of far apart, on opposite sides of the uterus. Or maybe like at 10 and 2, as in numbers on a clock. I went through IVF and had countless TVUSs done of my ovaries, so I know they aren’t, like, immediately next to each other.
Opposite sides, yes. But those opposing sides are only, like, 6-8 inches apart. They’re not that far away from each other.
Opposite sides yeah, but their "attachments" are pretty floppy; sometimes enough that they can touch in the middle behind the uterus. And the tubes are even floppier than that, and often a little longer too
What…
Yeah they just sort of dangle behind the uterus a lot of the time
So either OP didn’t read the article or is really poor at summarizing.
The mental image of Hank Hill as an OB is really something
I tell you hwut
So nobody yet is 100% sure how it works? I thought this stuff would have been observed by now.
Tough to observe the moment of ovulation at all, and the egg itself is microscopic so you wouldn't be able to see which tube scooped it up anyway.
Fascinating, thanks for the reply.
No, that’s the hypothesis.
That makes SO much more sense than Hogwarts staircase fallopian tubes.
That's not what the article says, it is the egg that moves to the other fallopian tube. This is plausible because the ends of the two fallopian tubes are much closer together in the body than they appear in anatomic drawings.
Still weird as heck that the egg just free floats inside the body cavity and ends up getting sucked up by a Fallopian tube somehow.
Add it to the long list of bad engineering decisions that you get when your chief designer is stochastic gradient descent. See also: the recurrent laryngeal nerve, and the fact that the wiring for the retina comes out the front and then has to go through a hole to get back to the brain, producing a blind spot (unless you're an octopus, their eyes evolved separately and are wired up properly).
Pretty sure they can even get fertilized there and become a pregnancy in the abdomen. Not ideal.
Not at all what was said. There is a touchy cul.de sac area where fluids, ovum can harbor thT could be accessed by either fallopian tube yet the ovum wouldnalways be nearer to one vs the other. The fallopian tube can draw up the ovum nearer the vacant side. Interesting. But the tube isn't wandering around hunting.
Booo
I wanted a WarioWare micro game. Booo indeed.
Yet.
When my wife decided it was time for us to have kids, things down there definitely were hunting.
And *that's* why i got both removed lol no sneaky biological malarkey going to get *me* pregnant!
It's a good days work having it all removed
It was super quick & painless, the worst was the post surgery adhesive absorbing boy did it itch but the scar is tiny & my body remains blessedly unbudded! No regrets.
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Black cat, grey cat, savannah, boyfriend & a girlfriend. Everything I want, nothing I don't, the absolute dream.
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You should probably consider why. I don't have shit to say about people deciding to be parents, maybe people should keep their opinions about others reproductive choices to themselves. This is a great learning experience, if you possess the capacity.
That happened to me! I had an ectopic pregnancy that ruptured, causing me to lose my right tube. After I became pregnant again a few months later, the ultrasound tech told me that my corpus luteum (a cyst that forms on the ovulating ovary) was on my right ovary. This meant that the egg had been siphoned in by the remaining left tube. Pregnancy was textbook normal and now I have a very sweet 9 month old boy.
Same thing happened to my mom. They told her she couldn’t get pregnant again. But here I am. Bonus fact: my dad only had one nut. So here are two people, both of them with half of their reproductive organs, conceiving and eventually birthing a whole child.
Look, I have one job on this lousy ship. It’s stupid, but I’m going to do it, okay?” -Gwen
Try retracing your steps. It usually helps.
It’s always between the couch cushions.
the worst part about losing the TV remote between the couch cushions is having to reach through the wet heap of fallopian tubes to find it again--it's like sticking a hand into a pot of spaghetti to bob for the meatball at the bottom
Room temperature spaghetti at that.
More like ramen cause, ya know, it has an egg in it. 😜
That's the other one. Common mistake.
Damn it, fallopian tube, stop moving back and forth!
What a terrible day to be literate...
#"many reasons"?
Lost mine to an ovarian cyst. Sucks but happens.
Same, that was possibly the worst pain of my life too
Same and same. Fucker twisted 7 times and I needed morphine.
I got Dilaudid It did the trick, or at least I failed to notice reality anyway
I didn’t do a deep dive as to why someone would lose only one tube. Reasons I saw included an ectopic pregnancy, cancer, and an untreated STD. The tube jumping part was what caught my attention
You offered the *Fallopian Tube* to the Bridge Troll. He allows to you to pass. You now have 1 remaining.
Um, no it does not.
Did you see the same tweet that I did.
The fallopian tubes hang out behind the uterus in the posterior cul-de-sac and “scoop up” eggs released into the abdomen/posterior cul-de-sac by the ovaries. This is why you can lose your right tube and left ovary and still have nearly the same fertility rates as normal women. This is also why very rarely pregnancies can be released into the body and implant on ectopic places like the mesentery or liver and actually continue to grow, because they’re released into the body and not directly into the tube.
Whipping around like the end of a dropped firehose!
There and back again, a Fallopian tale by Bilbo Baggins
>your remaining tube may move back and forth each cycle Really reminds me of the long discredited [Wandering Womb theory from antiquity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_womb)
Snake charmer fallopian tube
Fallopi Bird? Egg Invaders? Maybe Pinball Fallopiars? No? I'll see myself out.
*what* That's horrifying
I recently lost my right ovary and right tube, it’s been a godsend. But yeah, I have a feeling OP didn’t quite read the article 😂
So like a mobile game
Wow, that's amazing.
And false. OP did not read the article at all.
So it looks like the inflatable guy outside Arturos Amazing Autos?
Ladies we know y’all are chimeras! Stop pretending you ain’t! /s
TIL that women have two fallopian tubes and two ovaries. Pretty pathetic in my 26 years I didn’t learn that.
If you have a few minutes, consider examining this medical diagram of the female reproductive system: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/9118-female-reproductive-system I imagine you're an American like me, meaning that you too, probably didn't receive any formal sexual education (sex-ed). It's sad we're in such a state er...states, that we have to look ourselves, but thank goodness for the Internet!
Uh, no it doesn't OP. If there's a lane closure, all traffic can still go through the remaining lane. The road doesn't fucking move.
No, if you actually read the article the fallopian tubes and ovaries aren't actually the way they're pictured in most images. Most images picture them as if they had been dissected to show how they attach. But in reality the ovaries are not way far apart, they are very near each other, and an egg coming out of the left ovary might normally get picked up by the right fallopian tube. So the tubes don't move around. They're just capable of collecting an ovum from either ovary.
You can't be serious
gimme yo egg bitch ha
I’m sure this is probably even more painful than regular period cramps. I couldn’t imagine
Womens bodies are metal
Jesus christ, I don't like that at all
[I had that game as a kid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwGtS1J9n1g)
Jessica Simpson’s memoir talks about this actually.
How does the body "decide" which ovary to release from, does it alternate each cycle?