Your middle finger is only your middle finger if you also count your thumb as a finger. Which I find hard to accept. @showerthoughts 🖕

  • @[email protected]
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    420 days ago

    Your original instinct was actually correct. Fingers have the metacarpal, proximal phalange, middle phalange, and distal phalange. The thumb doesn’t have a middle phalange. The proximal and distal phalange connect directly to each other.

    • unknown1234_5
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      119 days ago

      I may or may not have just started feeling up my hand while wiggling my fingers to check this