Modern liberal men are wimpy says anthropologist. Tell us something we don't know!

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:40:56 +0200, "Jim Crowley"
> wrote:

>http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...59D0BR20091014
>
>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.
>
>These and other eye-catching claims are detailed in a book by
>Australian anthropologist Peter McAllister entitled
>"Manthropology" and provocatively sub-titled "The Science of the
>Inadequate Modern Male."
>
>McAllister sets out his stall in the opening sentence of the
>prologue.
>
>"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...As a class we are in
>fact the sorriest cohort of masculine Homo sapiens to ever walk
>the planet."
>
>Delving into a wide range of source material McAllister finds
>evidence he believes proves that modern man is inferior to his
>predecessors in, among other fields, the basic Olympic athletics
>disciplines of running and jumping.
>
>His conclusions about the speed of Australian aboriginals 20,000
>years ago are based on a set of footprints, preserved in a
>fossilized claypan lake bed, of six men chasing prey.
>
>FLEET-FOOTED ABORIGINALS
>
>An analysis of the footsteps of one of the men, 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.
>
>In an interview in the English university town of Cambridge
>where he was temporarily resident, McAllister said that, with
>modern training, spiked shoes and rubberized tracks, aboriginal
>hunters might have reached speeds of 45 kph.
>
>"We can assume they are running close to their maximum if they
>are chasing an animal," he said.
>
>"But if they can do that speed of 37 kph on very soft ground I
>suspect there is a strong chance they would have outdone Usain
>Bolt if they had all the advantages that he does.
>
>"We can tell that T8 is accelerating toward the end of his
>tracks."
>
>McAllister said it was probable that any number of T8's
>contemporaries could have run as fast.
>
>"We have to remember too how incredibly rare these
>fossilizations are," he said. "What are the odds that you would
>get the fastest runner in Australia at that particular time in
>that particular place in such a way that was going to be
>preserved?"
>
>Turning to the high jump, McAllister said photographs taken by a
>German anthropologist showed young men jumping heights of up to
>2.52 meters in the early years of last century.
>
>STARK DECLINE
>
>"It was an initiation ritual, everybody had to do it. They had
>to be able to jump their own height to progress to manhood," he
>said.
>
>"It was something they did all the time and they lived very
>active lives from a very early age. They developed very
>phenomenal abilities in jumping. They were jumping from boyhood
>onwards to prove themselves."
>
>McAllister said a Neanderthal woman had 10 percent more muscle
>bulk than modern European man. Trained to capacity she would
>have reached 90 percent of Schwarzenegger's bulk at his peak in
>the 1970s.
>
>"But because of the quirk of her physiology, with a much shorter
>lower arm, she would slam him to the table without a problem,"
>he said.
>
>Manthropology abounds with other examples:
>
>* Roman legions completed more than one-and-a-half marathons a
>day carrying more than half their body weight in equipment.
>
>* Athens employed 30,000 rowers who could all exceed the
>achievements of modern oarsmen.
>
>* Australian aboriginals threw a hardwood spear 110 meters or
>more (the current world javelin record is 98.48).
>
>McAllister said it was difficult to equate the ancient spear
>with the modern javelin but added: "Given other evidence of
>Aboriginal man's superb athleticism you'd have to wonder whether
>they couldn't have taken out every modern javelin event they
>entered."
>
>Why the decline?
>
>"We are so inactive these days and have been since the
>industrial revolution really kicked into gear," McAllister
>replied. "These people were much more robust than we were.
>
>"We don't see that because we convert to what things were like
>about 30 years ago. There's been such a stark improvement in
>times, technique has improved out of sight, times and heights
>have all improved vastly since then but if you go back further
>it's a different story.
>
>"At the start of the industrial revolution there are statistics
>about how much harder people worked then.
>
>"The human body is very plastic and it responds to stress. We
>have lost 40 percent of the shafts of our long bones because we
>have much less of a muscular load placed upon them these days.
>
>"We are simply not exposed to the same loads or challenges that
>people were in the ancient past and even in the recent past so
>our bodies haven't developed. Even the level of training that we
>do, our elite athletes, doesn't come close to replicating that.
>
>"We wouldn't want to go back to the brutality of those days but
>there are some things we would do well to profit from."

The modern American male is a soft-bellied pussy.

ted

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:11:26 -0700, wrote:

>>"We wouldn't want to go back to the brutality of those days but
>>there are some things we would do well to profit from."
>
>The modern American male is a soft-bellied pussy.

The word you aren't familiar with is "civilized".

>
>ted

On Oct 17, 3:52*pm, hal wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:11:26 -0700, wrote:
> >>"We wouldn't want to go back to the brutality of those days but
> >>there are some things we would do well to profit from."
>
> >The modern American male is a soft-bellied pussy.
>
> The word you aren't familiar with is "civilized".

No, hal, guys like you are complete pussies. You revel in it.

Trav

nyrface wrote:
> On Oct 17, 3:52 pm, hal wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:11:26 -0700, wrote:
>>>> "We wouldn't want to go back to the brutality of those days but
>>>> there are some things we would do well to profit from."
>>> The modern American male is a soft-bellied pussy.
>> The word you aren't familiar with is "civilized".
>
> No, hal, guys like you are complete pussies. You revel in it.
>
> Trav

----Glad to see you guys admit to being Neanderthals....

In article >,
suds mcduff > wrote:

> nyrface wrote:
> > On Oct 17, 3:52 pm, hal wrote:
> >> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:11:26 -0700, wrote:
> >>>> "We wouldn't want to go back to the brutality of those days but
> >>>> there are some things we would do well to profit from."
> >>> The modern American male is a soft-bellied pussy.
> >> The word you aren't familiar with is "civilized".
> >
> > No, hal, guys like you are complete pussies. You revel in it.
> >
> > Trav
>
> ----Glad to see you guys admit to being Neanderthals....

Glad to see you admit you have no balls...
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On 10月18日, 上�3时11分, wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:40:56 +0200, "Jim Crowley"
>
>
>
>
>
> > wrote:
> >http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...59D0BR20091014
>
> >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.
>
> >These and other eye-catching claims are detailed in a book by
> >Australian anthropologist Peter McAllister entitled
> >"Manthropology" and provocatively sub-titled "The Science of the
> >Inadequate Modern Male."
>
> >McAllister sets out his stall in the opening sentence of the
> >prologue.
>
> >"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...As a class we are in
> >fact the sorriest cohort of masculine Homo sapiens to ever walk
> >the planet."
>
> >Delving into a wide range of source material McAllister finds
> >evidence he believes proves that modern man is inferior to his
> >predecessors in, among other fields, the basic Olympic athletics
> >disciplines of running and jumping.
>
> >His conclusions about the speed of Australian aboriginals 20,000
> >years ago are based on a set of footprints, preserved in a
> >fossilized claypan lake bed, of six men chasing prey.
>
> >FLEET-FOOTED ABORIGINALS
>
> >An analysis of the footsteps of one of the men, 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.
>
> >In an interview in the English university town of Cambridge
> >where he was temporarily resident, McAllister said that, with
> >modern training, spiked shoes and rubberized tracks, aboriginal
> >hunters might have reached speeds of 45 kph.
>
> >"We can assume they are running close to their maximum if they
> >are chasing an animal," he said.
>
> >"But if they can do that speed of 37 kph on very soft ground I
> >suspect there is a strong chance they would have outdone Usain
> >Bolt if they had all the advantages that he does.
>
> >"We can tell that T8 is accelerating toward the end of his
> >tracks."
>
> >McAllister said it was probable that any number of T8's
> >contemporaries could have run as fast.
>
> >"We have to remember too how incredibly rare these
> >fossilizations are," he said. "What are the odds that you would
> >get the fastest runner in Australia at that particular time in
> >that particular place in such a way that was going to be
> >preserved?"
>
> >Turning to the high jump, McAllister said photographs taken by a
> >German anthropologist showed young men jumping heights of up to
> >2.52 meters in the early years of last century.
>
> >STARK DECLINE
>
> >"It was an initiation ritual, everybody had to do it. They had
> >to be able to jump their own height to progress to manhood," he
> >said.
>
> >"It was something they did all the time and they lived very
> >active lives from a very early age. They developed very
> >phenomenal abilities in jumping. They were jumping from boyhood
> >onwards to prove themselves."
>
> >McAllister said a Neanderthal woman had 10 percent more muscle
> >bulk than modern European man. Trained to capacity she would
> >have reached 90 percent of Schwarzenegger's bulk at his peak in
> >the 1970s.
>
> >"But because of the quirk of her physiology, with a much shorter
> >lower arm, she would slam him to the table without a problem,"
> >he said.
>
> >Manthropology abounds with other examples:
>
> >* Roman legions completed more than one-and-a-half marathons a
> >day carrying more than half their body weight in equipment.
>
> >* Athens employed 30,000 rowers who could all exceed the
> >achievements of modern oarsmen.
>
> >* Australian aboriginals threw a hardwood spear 110 meters or
> >more (the current world javelin record is 98.48).
>
> >McAllister said it was difficult to equate the ancient spear
> >with the modern javelin but added: "Given other evidence of
> >Aboriginal man's superb athleticism you'd have to wonder whether
> >they couldn't have taken out every modern javelin event they
> >entered."
>
> >Why the decline?
>
> >"We are so inactive these days and have been since the
> >industrial revolution really kicked into gear," McAllister
> >replied. "These people were much more robust than we were.
>
> >"We don't see that because we convert to what things were like
> >about 30 years ago. There's been such a stark improvement in
> >times, technique has improved out of sight, times and heights
> >have all improved vastly since then but if you go back further
> >it's a different story.
>
> >"At the start of the industrial revolution there are statistics
> >about how much harder people worked then.
>
> >"The human body is very plastic and it responds to stress. We
> >have lost 40 percent of the shafts of our long bones because we
> >have much less of a muscular load placed upon them these days.
>
> >"We are simply not exposed to the same loads or challenges that
> >people were in the ancient past and even in the recent past so
> >our bodies haven't developed. Even the level of training that we
> >do, our elite athletes, doesn't come close to replicating that.
>
> >"We wouldn't want to go back to the brutality of those days but
> >there are some things we would do well to profit from."
>
> The modern American male is a soft-bellied pussy.
>
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yo mama is a neanderthal

Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> suds mcduff > wrote:
>
>> nyrface wrote:
>>> On Oct 17, 3:52 pm, hal wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:11:26 -0700, wrote:
>>>>>> "We wouldn't want to go back to the brutality of those days but
>>>>>> there are some things we would do well to profit from."
>>>>> The modern American male is a soft-bellied pussy.
>>>> The word you aren't familiar with is "civilized".
>>> No, hal, guys like you are complete pussies. You revel in it.
>>>
>>> Trav
>> ----Glad to see you guys admit to being Neanderthals....
>
> Glad to see you admit you have no balls...

---I've got balls to spare, pussy....whereas, you're still a Neanderthal....

wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:40:56 +0200, "Jim Crowley"
> > wrote:
>
>> http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...59D0BR20091014
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> These and other eye-catching claims are detailed in a book by
>> Australian anthropologist Peter McAllister entitled
>> "Manthropology" and provocatively sub-titled "The Science of the
>> Inadequate Modern Male."
>>
>> McAllister sets out his stall in the opening sentence of the
>> prologue.
>>
>> "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...As a class we are in
>> fact the sorriest cohort of masculine Homo sapiens to ever walk
>> the planet."
>>
>> Delving into a wide range of source material McAllister finds
>> evidence he believes proves that modern man is inferior to his
>> predecessors in, among other fields, the basic Olympic athletics
>> disciplines of running and jumping.
>>
>> His conclusions about the speed of Australian aboriginals 20,000
>> years ago are based on a set of footprints, preserved in a
>> fossilized claypan lake bed, of six men chasing prey.
>>
>> FLEET-FOOTED ABORIGINALS
>>
>> An analysis of the footsteps of one of the men, 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.
>>
>> In an interview in the English university town of Cambridge
>> where he was temporarily resident, McAllister said that, with
>> modern training, spiked shoes and rubberized tracks, aboriginal
>> hunters might have reached speeds of 45 kph.
>>
>> "We can assume they are running close to their maximum if they
>> are chasing an animal," he said.
>>
>> "But if they can do that speed of 37 kph on very soft ground I
>> suspect there is a strong chance they would have outdone Usain
>> Bolt if they had all the advantages that he does.
>>
>> "We can tell that T8 is accelerating toward the end of his
>> tracks."
>>
>> McAllister said it was probable that any number of T8's
>> contemporaries could have run as fast.
>>
>> "We have to remember too how incredibly rare these
>> fossilizations are," he said. "What are the odds that you would
>> get the fastest runner in Australia at that particular time in
>> that particular place in such a way that was going to be
>> preserved?"
>>
>> Turning to the high jump, McAllister said photographs taken by a
>> German anthropologist showed young men jumping heights of up to
>> 2.52 meters in the early years of last century.
>>
>> STARK DECLINE
>>
>> "It was an initiation ritual, everybody had to do it. They had
>> to be able to jump their own height to progress to manhood," he
>> said.
>>
>> "It was something they did all the time and they lived very
>> active lives from a very early age. They developed very
>> phenomenal abilities in jumping. They were jumping from boyhood
>> onwards to prove themselves."
>>
>> McAllister said a Neanderthal woman had 10 percent more muscle
>> bulk than modern European man. Trained to capacity she would
>> have reached 90 percent of Schwarzenegger's bulk at his peak in
>> the 1970s.
>>
>> "But because of the quirk of her physiology, with a much shorter
>> lower arm, she would slam him to the table without a problem,"
>> he said.
>>
>> Manthropology abounds with other examples:
>>
>> * Roman legions completed more than one-and-a-half marathons a
>> day carrying more than half their body weight in equipment.
>>
>> * Athens employed 30,000 rowers who could all exceed the
>> achievements of modern oarsmen.
>>
>> * Australian aboriginals threw a hardwood spear 110 meters or
>> more (the current world javelin record is 98.48).
>>
>> McAllister said it was difficult to equate the ancient spear
>> with the modern javelin but added: "Given other evidence of
>> Aboriginal man's superb athleticism you'd have to wonder whether
>> they couldn't have taken out every modern javelin event they
>> entered."
>>
>> Why the decline?
>>
>> "We are so inactive these days and have been since the
>> industrial revolution really kicked into gear," McAllister
>> replied. "These people were much more robust than we were.
>>
>> "We don't see that because we convert to what things were like
>> about 30 years ago. There's been such a stark improvement in
>> times, technique has improved out of sight, times and heights
>> have all improved vastly since then but if you go back further
>> it's a different story.
>>
>> "At the start of the industrial revolution there are statistics
>> about how much harder people worked then.
>>
>> "The human body is very plastic and it responds to stress. We
>> have lost 40 percent of the shafts of our long bones because we
>> have much less of a muscular load placed upon them these days.
>>
>> "We are simply not exposed to the same loads or challenges that
>> people were in the ancient past and even in the recent past so
>> our bodies haven't developed. Even the level of training that we
>> do, our elite athletes, doesn't come close to replicating that.
>>
>> "We wouldn't want to go back to the brutality of those days but
>> there are some things we would do well to profit from."
>
> The modern American male is a soft-bellied pussy.

---Especially the teabagger variety....

suds mcduff should ram an icepick in his eye.

suds mcduff should be chained to a garbage truck and dragged.