Where is my topic?

[Pego]

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<Coward. To deny actual differences is racist. You are a racist of the worst kind, one of the reasons that we have the problems we do. Coward.>

Nerve, first of all, the biological differences between races are miniscule. In the American (and many western European societies) the issues of life-style and culture are more socio-economic than based on race.
Second of all, did it occur to you that accepting the above facts may not be "politically correct" or cowardly, but actually not be biased?

[dunes runner]

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> Don?t you know that processing defeats the purpose? The whole point is to eat your foods in as natural a state as possible.

Then don't eat oatmeal.

[michael lewis]

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"Don?t you know that processing defeats the purpose?"

I'd say DIGRESSING defeats the purpose of this board and this post.

[MJD]

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>Well, you certainly can't argue with the
>scientific research there. Canadian housewife
>walks into grocery store in minor U.S. burg and
>can instantly judge the relative health of both
>nations.

Would you relax. I just thought it was a very timely comment-even a little funny. Maybe it is only this little tiny burg that doesn't buy much in the way of fruit and vegetables. You can't argue with the fact that that is not a good thing whether you are a member of WHO or not. As far as being a bigot, I don't personaly know any canucks that are as pro-American as I am. I just put up my yankee flag for crying out loud.

[Guest]

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What is the current topic of discussion? It seems that this thread has descended into the bickering and squabbling that most do after 40 or so posts.

[Guest]

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Fuck you uncle fucker-----let's invade Canada! Oh, and by the way, what would Brian Boitano do?

[Guest]

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That's it; I'm going to the "Historical threads."

[Guest]

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><Coward. To deny actual differences is racist.
>You are a racist of the worst kind, one of the
>reasons that we have the problems we do.
>Coward.>

Nerve, first of all, the biological
>differences between races are miniscule. In the
>American (and many western European societies)
>the issues of life-style and culture are more
>socio-economic than based on race.
Second of
>all, did it occur to you that accepting the above
>facts may not be "politically correct" or
>cowardly, but actually not be biased?

"Miniscule" differences biologically can equate to large differences in the real world, something you probably already know, but won't admit to. It wouldn't be PC.

[gh]

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OK boys, my final word before calling it the end of the day: knock off the pissing match. Please.

[DentyCracker]

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This thread is fuunnneee

[MJD]

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>This thread is fuunnneee

"Around 16 percent of adult Americans have at least one tattoo,...Five percent even claimed that tattoos made them feel more intelligent or, in three percent of cases, more athletic."


http://tlc.discovery.com/news/afp/20031006/tattoo.html

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ ... 70x390.jpg

[blacklily]

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>By the way, frankly said, national track records
>in my country have been also stagnating for
>decades. And not only in short distances, where
>you could suppose the influence of steroids.
>Today's children don't endure pain, if they don't
>have to. And running is a lot pain, which I know
>from my own experience as a miler. In fact, even
>a mile was too much for me and I have ever looked
>at long distance runners like at some
>masochists.

However, when you consider that
>you have 270 million people, huge possibilities
>and you have almost no world class middle
>distance runner... My previous sharp notion about
>"African-Americans, mulattos and half-blind
>Marla Runyan in US middle distances" was meant
>in such a way that African-Americans have a
>genetically worse predispositions for these
>distances. If they dominate these distances in
>US, it tells something very interesting about the
>physical state of the 200 million white majority.

Hmmm. Didn't David Krummenacker & Regina Jacobs get world medals this year? The U.S. doesn't dominate in middle distance (far from it), but it's not like we're not in the mix.

Considering how few black Americans overall have even taken up distance running, can you even legitimately claim for a FACT that this population has a "genetically worse predispositions for these distances"? The increased diversity that I'm seeing in U.S. middle distance races suggests otherwise. Black Americans are also significantly likelier to be overweight than their white counterparts -- a fact you ignore as it complicates your thesis.

However, I wholeheartedly agree that America has an obesity problem. If we don't get a handle on it now, it will really impact our sports future.

[Guest]

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>>I strongly agree the North Americans in
>general
>have a major health crisis.
>

Natasha, it is much worse down here. Down in
>Eville NY for the week-end festivities and there
>is a gigantic Walmart in Springville. My wife
>just went for a grocery run and she commented
>that she couldn't believe how pathetically small
>the produce section was compared to a much
>smaller Canuck grocery store. I won't say what
>she said about the patrons and their state.>

Why is she shopping for produce at a Walmart. Try a grocery store of some sort.

jd

[MJD]

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>Is a large
>part of American society overweigtht, bad
>lifestyle, smoking/drinking etc. ?? Absolutely
>, but that has always been so, but it is less so
>today than anytime in the last 40 years.

>We
>are just more AWARE of these bad things today so
>it gets more publicity.

"Americans are not just getting fatter; they are ballooning to extremely obese proportions at an alarming rate.

The number of extremely obese adults -- those who are at least 100 pounds overweight -- has quadrupled since the 1980s to about 4 million. That works out to about 1 in every 50 adults."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/artic ... udy_finds/

[Guest]

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Why do I get the impression that we are preaching to the choir here?