Counting Potatoes

How Long is Your Ring Finger

Perhaps of all the fingers in our hand, the ring finger is the only one with a sentimental connotation. Mushy people say that the ring finger contains a vein that leads right to the heart, thus the wedding ring signifying love and eternity is placed there. Now I don’t know if this is true, but one thing I know is that according to Michael Moore’s latest documentary Sicko, should you slice off your ring finger, it would cost at least $12,000 to reconnect it for aesthetic and sentimental reasons. That’s almost half a million pesos here in our side of the globe.

The ring finger though hides a secret beyond the romantic. The usual length of the ring finger is said to be 2% longer than that of the pointer finger. One little known and surprising fact about the ring finger however is the fact that its length is directly proportional to how aggressive you are, what you’re interests are, how horny you are and basically all the things that are connected to having a high level of testosterone. This is because some scientists claim that the length of our ring finger is a manifestation of the amount of testosterone our bodies were introduced to when we were just in the wombs of our mothers.

Now, the same scientists are saying that this condition (longer ring fingers) usually occurs in boys (and thus accounts for the fact that most boys go for head bashing, rough sports, war games and the likes for pastimes). . Girls, on the other hand, have ring fingers that are more or less equal in length to the pointer, thus less testosterone and a lot more affinity towards gossiping, cooking and shopping. This doesn’t mean that girls are exempt though. Some girls actually have longer ring fingers than the pointer. So if you’re a girl and you’ve always wondered why guns, sex and rough sports interests you more than Barbie dolls, roses and dresses, you don’t have to look very far or do extensive soul searching for the answer. Just check the length of your ring finger.

And the next time you’re in a bar, you can look for something more than the wedding ring or its mark when checking out your prospect’s ring finger.:)

	How Long is Your Ring Finger