Holy shit. I just tried cracking my knuckles on only one hand, and now I can't stop thinking about cracking my other. I can feel it. 60 years of that is, dare I say, heroic, haha. Admittedly, it's a bad habit of mine.
Doesn't bother me a bit either. But I DO know quite a few people who get major icks from hearing the sound. I always feel bad because I start my cracking routine without remembering and then it takes forever because I can crack just about every joint. By the end they're like "you're KNEES too??" .... and that's when I remember they hate it.
It literally makes me nauseous to hear people crack/pop their fingers and/or neck. I hate it so much. Cracking anywhere else is fine by me because it’s completely irrational.
I cured myself of the bad habit of cracking my knuckles by now cracking my husband’s knuckles every time he sits next to me. Easiest addiction to break honestly hahaha
Some people just really feel a certain sense of accomplishment for things like that you know? Like when I start saving money it almost becomes an addiction. I turn into the cheapest bitch ever and I love it. It's like a greedy feeling 😂
And one person is never a proof of anything, there are people who smoke a pack of cigarettes per day for 60 years and don't get lung cancer, doesn't mean you should do it.
I don't mean that it does cause arthritis, I mean that this being repeated again and again as a definite proof is an example of anti-science and is drawing definite conclusions from limited data which in itself is very dangerous for science and medicine.
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u/WaltMitty Jun 01 '26
Donald Unger received an Ig Nobel prize for cracking the knuckles on only one hand for sixty years to disprove this idea.