Posted on 10/20/2009 8:43:53 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
An anthropologist has described modern man as “the sorriest cohort of masculine Homo sapiens to ever walk the planet”, with even Arnold Schwarzenegger at his muscular peak no match for a Neanderthal woman in the arm-wrestling stakes.
According to Peter McAllister, in Manthropology: the Science of Inadequate Modern Man, so completely wussy have we become that were Usain "Lightning" Bolt to go head-to-head with an ancient Australian aboriginal, it'd be silver medal position for the Jamaican sprinter.
The prologue of McAllister's book warns blokes just how much of a humiliation they're in for, opening with: "If you're reading this then you - or the male you have bought it for - are the worst man in history. No ifs, no buts - the worst man, period.”
Chaps are then reminded that a Roman soldier was able to march one-and-a-half marathons in a single day, Rwandan Tutsi men could jump higher then the current world record of 2.45 metres, and Huichol Indian dads in Mexico tied strings to their 'nads so that their other half could give a quick tug during labour enabling them to share the childbirth experience.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
Turn your head and cough.
aRnold has a big muscle in his head, but he never uses it.
Any truth to this?
Yes, but how many of those ancients got to experience the unique pain of peeing on an electric fence?
...yeah, well, I can do calculus.
Let’s for a moment say this is accurate, that we’re pathetic weaklings. So what? Everyone already knows other animals are bigger, fiercer, faster, and stronger than us. We could never whoop a bear or chase down a wolf.
What’s special about us, and what makes us the lords of all creation and the mightiest beings yet born to earth, is our brains. If a neaderthal woman could out arm-wrestle me, so be it. I could just shoot her and be done with it. Who’s that man now? Who outlasted who?
Could a Roman soldier punch a bullet? I don’t think so.
I agree with you. There’s no way I am buying any of this bovine scatology. Let’s go back to the 1850s, with frontier people and mountain folk in the hills of Tennessee and N. Carolina making their living off the land just as I imagine Neanderthals doing; these people were lean mean fighting machines not muscle bound behemoths.
This is just headline grabbing nonsense. Arnold at his peak could have snapped these people like twigs.
Well we all know who won THAT battle.
In a way yes. Brain power is much more important than brawn in modern society. Lots of diseases and chronic conditions that killed people in the past have been vaccaniated against, treatable or manageable. The human race has elminiated nature’s sieves for eliminating the weak, diseased and those with poor constitutions.
Damn....I want to see her take on ArNold...
Natural selection in action....Nukes will fix THAT problem....
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