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Elmore Furth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-14-09 09:45 PM
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Modern man a wimp says anthropologist
Edited on Wed Oct-14-09 10:04 PM by Elmore Furth
I knew Arnold Schwarzenegger was a girly man.










LONDON (Reuters) - Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions.

Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters during initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump at least their own height to progress to manhood.

Any Neanderthal woman could have beaten former bodybuilder and current California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an arm wrestle.

An analysis of the footsteps of one of the men (preserved in the mud), dubbed T8, shows he reached speeds of 37 kph on a soft, muddy lake edge. Bolt, by comparison, reached a top speed of 42 kph during his then world 100 meters record of 9.69 seconds at last year's Beijing Olympics.


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Tobin S. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-14-09 09:50 PM
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1. You need a NSFW tag in your subject line
Also if you don't want to get this thread locked, I'd delete the first picture.
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Elmore Furth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-14-09 10:00 PM
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2. NSFW -- "not safe for work"?
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Tobin S. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-14-09 10:02 PM
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3. yes
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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-14-09 10:28 PM
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4. Oh..Bullshit. I'm in Great Shape.
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 10:11 AM
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5. We're good at not dying when we live in crowds and filth
Our germs killed off most everyone else.

That's a kind of strength I suppose, but maybe not something to brag about.
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TxRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-15-09 01:38 PM
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6. Yet we are here, they are not... Think.
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