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Modern man 'a wimp', sez anthropologist
2009-10-15
Great. As if I didn't felt inadequate enough already...
Posted by:anonymous5089

#9  ....meanwhile the NFL, along with participating universities and colleges, is trying man made selection to bring the Neanderthal back.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-10-15 20:01  

#8  Modern man has developed weapons and tactics and a class of warriors that more than compensate so that the rest of us can be wimpy.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2009-10-15 19:56  

#7  Well, some of us are. At least, I have internet pr0n. Could be worse!
Posted by: anonymous5089   2009-10-15 15:21  

#6  Some are and some of us aren't. Single Malt. Life can be good.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2009-10-15 12:38  

#5  We modern men have Single Malt whiskey.

End of arguement.
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2009-10-15 12:25  

#4  It is true what he says about Neanderthal Man. They were immensely strong. They also needed alot of calories to survive. This limited the number of them a given territory could support.

Very simply, they could not compete with the larger numbers of modern humans.

Posted by: Frozen Al   2009-10-15 11:40  

#3  Consider the times at the fall of the Roman empire and the chaos that occured. I'm sure the upper classes had become as dithering and wimpy as ours have. It was probably the common scum that sired us. Dr. Pajama bottoms wouldn't last a minute.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck   2009-10-15 11:30  

#2  Life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid. John Wayne said that, I think.
Posted by: Glenmore   2009-10-15 11:23  

#1  ...but lives well over two/three times longer than earlier man. [In certain metro 'hoods' the life expectancy is about the same when the utes play stupid territorial rituals imitating early man.] Brain over brawn. You were given that item for a reason, use it.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-10-15 10:43  

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