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White men cant run!

  • 22-08-2008 10:49pm
    #1
    FreedomJoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭


    Having watched some of the olympics one thing that has struck quite clearly to me is that White people are either getting slower or always were slow!

    All the fastest people in the world seem mostly to be Black. And I would have a guess and state that most of the Gold medals at the olympics have been won by black/asian ethnic origins.

    So whats happened? Have white people become slower or are other ethnic groups clearly better than white people at most sports?s

    As for Irelands poor medal count, lets hope that the olympics make GAA an olympic sport for 2012!


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  • #2
    Daithi McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Daithi McGee


    FreedomJoe wrote: »
    Having watched some of the olympics one thing that has struck quite clearly to me is that White people are either getting slower or always were slow!

    All the fastest people in the world seem mostly to be Black. And I would have a guess and state that most of the Gold medals at the olympics have been won by black/asian ethnic origins.

    So whats happened? Have white people become slower or are other ethnic groups clearly better than white people at most sports?s

    As for Irelands poor medal count, lets hope that the olympics make GAA an olympic sport for 2012!

    If you were getting chased a lot you would be fast too.


  • #3
    genericgoon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,675 ✭✭✭genericgoon


    The answer is lions.


  • #4
    Drift
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,395 ✭✭✭Drift


    FreedomJoe wrote: »
    lets hope that the olympics make GAA an olympic sport for 2012!

    We'd get lots of silvers:

    Australia would win the football
    Wherever is good at lacrosse would win the hurling.
    The yanks would win rounders, the japanese would come second and canada third.

    In fairness we might have a chance with handball.


  • #5
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    White men can't do a lot of things.


    EDIT: Why do you capitalize white and black?


  • #6
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    How soon will this go the way of the "Why are there no good black swimmers?" thread?


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  • #7
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,965 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    blah http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080602042304AAyXVID


  • #8
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Athletics is dominated by black people maybe, but look at all the other sports. Swimming for instance, i don't think i've ever saw a black swimmer (i'm sure they exist though).

    What about gymnastics?


  • #9
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    What about gymnastics?

    Asians.


  • #10
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,965 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Swimming for instance, i don't think i've ever saw a black swimmer (i'm sure they exist though).

    What about gymnastics?

    I saw one the other day, somewhere


  • #11
    phenomenon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 446 ✭✭phenomenon


    I, for one, welcome our new athletically superior black overlords!


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  • #12
    genericgoon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,675 ✭✭✭genericgoon


    javaboy wrote: »
    How soon will this go the way of the "Why are there no good black swimmers?" thread?

    The answer is drought. :D


  • #13
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    phasers wrote: »
    Asians.
    Well, you know, Asia is a big place.


  • #14
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    GhostInTheRuins wrote: »
    I saw one the other day, somewhere
    Are you sure it wasn't just dark?


  • #15
    genericgoon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,675 ✭✭✭genericgoon


    Yeah and why are the Middle Easterns so good at terrorism? Or the Brazilians at football? Whats up with that?


  • #16
    Lockstep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,031 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Athletics is dominated by black people maybe, but look at all the other sports. Swimming for instance, i don't think i've ever saw a black swimmer (i'm sure they exist though).

    As all the good swimmers are in Europe by now.


  • #17
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Athletics is dominated by black people maybe, but look at all the other sports. Swimming for instance, i don't think i've ever saw a black swimmer (i'm sure they exist though).

    What about gymnastics?

    Blacks dont make good swimmers for some reason.
    Unless you count Eddie The Eel!!

    http://www.videosift.com/video/A-hilarious-swimmer-from-Guinea-in-the-2000-Summer-Olympics


  • #18
    bluto63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    My friends granny put it best: "of course they're gonna be good when they spend their whole day running through the jungle!"


  • #19
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,965 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Are you sure it wasn't just dark?

    Maybe, I can't be sure. I just remember commenting on the black swimmer is all


  • #20
    LolaLuv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭LolaLuv


    We were taught in high school that black people have a greater lung capacity. I have no idea if that's true or not. It's either a classic example of the backwoods Pennsylvania education system or the answer to why black people run faster and sing better.


  • #21
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    PillyPen wrote: »
    We were taught in high school that black people have a greater lung capacity. I have no idea if that's true or not. It's either a classic example of the backwoods Pennsylvania education system or the answer to why black people run faster and sing better.

    I learned something similar.

    Except it was that they have more red blood cells than whites and so can get O2 to the muscles quicker or something to that effect.

    Not sure if it's true though. And not googling it. It's far too late for that.


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  • #22
    GhostInTheRuins
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    I'm not sure, I was talking to an eighty year old a few weeks ago and he told me that blacks have an extra muscle in the back of their thighs which lets them run faster. Don't know how true that is.


  • #23
    mikemac
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    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Athletics is dominated by black people maybe, but look at all the other sports. Swimming for instance, i don't think i've ever saw a black swimmer (i'm sure they exist though).

    What? :eek:
    You don't remember Eric the Eel. Man is a legend, not only did he represent his country in the 2000 Olympics but he won his heat (the other competitors got disqualifed for false starts.

    Should be a legend of the boards tbh


    Skip to the end, poor guy was almost drowning
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0zGrtOKtZc


  • #24
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,965 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    micmclo wrote: »
    Skip to the end, poor guy was almost drowning

    He must have been brilliant so


  • #25
    Lirange
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Lirange


    kickoutthejams wrote: »
    As all the good swimmers are in Europe by now.

    Not unless the Americans and Australians defected.


  • #26
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,365 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    obviously arabs, hispanics, asians can't run either as i don't see them winning any olympics medals in these sports, over 1 billion indians and not one of those guys even close to winning a medal in the 100 or 200 metres :rolleyes:


  • #27
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    rossie1977 wrote: »
    obviously arabs, hispanics, asians can't run either as i don't see them winning any olympics medals in these sports, over 1 billion indians and not one of those guys even close to winning a medal in the 100 or 200 metres :rolleyes:

    The Moroccans are brilliant at long distance.


  • #28
    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


    javaboy wrote: »
    How soon will this go the way of the "Why are there no good black swimmers?" thread?

    Great point. Was thinking about that the other day :tongueyouteysmileyfacechap:


  • #29
    Ann22
    Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭Ann22


    I think its something to do with their bones. My husband who is white can't float at all in water. I can't swim out of my depth but if I hold my breath and let my body go limp I turn upside down and my bum floats. My hubbie just sinks to the bottom. I nearly drowned once in the deep end of a pool-I was flailing about underwater about halfway between the surface and the bottom... I couldn't get up for a breath of air-very frightening- and he calmly walked across the bottom reached up and pulled me by the arm to shallow water. How weird is that? His brother is the same. I think their bones are very dense. They have wuzzy hair, I wonder if maybe generations back they have black ancestry?:D


  • #30
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Ann22 wrote: »
    I think its something to do with their bones. My husband who is white can't float at all in water. I can't swim out of my depth but if I hold my breath and let my body go limp I turn upside down and my bum floats. My hubbie just sinks to the bottom. I nearly drowned once in the deep end of a pool-I was flailing about underwater about halfway between the surface and the bottom... I couldn't get up for a breath of air-very frightening- and he calmly walked across the bottom reached up and pulled me by the arm to shallow water. How weird is that? His brother is the same. I think their bones are very dense. They have wuzzy hair, I wonder if maybe generations back they have black ancestry?:D
    Are you honestly trying to say that white people just sink whereas black people float in water.... honestly!?!


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  • #31
    Ann22
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    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Are you honestly trying to say that white people just sink whereas black people float in water.... honestly!?!
    No the opposite. I was wondering if it's true that black people don't make good swimmers then maybe there's a reason. My hubbie is unusual in that he can't float. I was just thinking maybe whatever's going on with him is the same with black people. My hubbie also can't go down waterslides properly, he sticks to them. Odd that.:)


  • #32
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Ann22 wrote: »
    . My hubbie also can't go down waterslides properly, he sticks to them. Odd that.:)
    ROFL
    Quote of the week


  • #33
    nycman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭nycman


    Who is the fastest white man......Paul Hession??


  • #34
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    nycman wrote: »
    Who is the fastest white man......Paul Hession??
    I heard Collin Farell only lasted like 10minutes one time.


  • #35
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,493 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Are you honestly trying to say that white people just sink whereas black people float in water.... honestly!?!
    Different people have different bone densities and different fat and muscle percentages that will affect how well they float. Apparently Paul Daniels (magician) has a high bone density and sinks like a methaphorical stone.


  • #36
    Zillah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    There's actually a scientific explanation for it. Really. Its barely even racist too.

    Humanity originated in Africa, white people are essentially an offshoot. Black people, as a whole, possess drastically more genetic diversity than any other race. If a comet were about to hit the planet and we saved just one small African village the majority of human genetic diversity would be preserved. The reason this is relevant is that because of this diversity black people are more likely to have extremes of performance. If we drew a graph that showed the maximum speed/fitness of a sample group of white people we'd see a fairly predictable average, no one goes particularly high or low. If we did the same with a sample group of black people the graph would show that a bunch of them average out like white people, but there would be a few that went way higher as well as way lower on the graph. Those few that go much higher on the graph are the ones who make the best athletes.

    So while on average all races have about the same performance, the best black athletes are likely to be better than the best white athletes.


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  • #37
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    Daithi McGee wrote: »
    If you were getting chased a lot you would be fast too.
    Explain this one for me.

    genericgoon wrote: »
    The answer is lions.
    bluto63 wrote: »
    My friends granny put it best: "of course they're gonna be good when they spend their whole day running through the jungle!"

    Do you think all Africans live in a jungle? Do you think all black Americans live in a jungle?



    *looks at the 'Thanks' for these posts too...hmmm...


  • #38
    gino85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭gino85


    Karoma wrote: »
    Explain this one for me.


    *looks at the 'Thanks' for these posts too...hmmm...


    i put the thanks up because i found it funny, i think he was saying somthing along the lines that they need to run faster because a large amount of black american would live in the less well off areas and crime is rampent. running faster than other people would be a matter of life and death in some cases


  • #39
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    The winter olympics is dominated by white people.


  • #40
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,493 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Winter events at a recreational level are dominated by white people any way.


  • #41
    titan18
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    Cycling is dominated by white people too.There is a black swimmer on the American team too.ALso,Jeremy Wariner is white and hes one of the best 400m runners in the world


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  • #42
    Terry
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    gino85 wrote: »
    i put the thanks up because i found it funny, i think he was saying somthing along the lines that they need to run faster because a large amount of black american would live in the less well off areas and crime is rampent. running faster than other people would be a matter of life and death in some cases
    How come there are no white people from poor areas who can run just as fast then?


  • #43
    gino85
    Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭gino85


    Terry wrote: »
    How come there are no white people from poor areas who can run just as fast then?

    im guessing they dont care about thier life as much


  • #44
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,365 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    its funny that 20 years the same argument would have been made about boxing, "how come no white guys are world heavyweight champ"

    today the eastern europeans and russians dominate that division Ruslan Chagaev, Sultan Ibragimov, Oleg Maskaev, Sergei Liakhovich, Nikolay Valuev and Wladimir Klitschko are much bigger and stronger than anyone else. valuev is 7ft tall, klitschko at 6'7 moves around the ring like a small guy


  • #45
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Karoma wrote: »
    Explain this one for me.


    Do you think all Africans live in a jungle? Do you think all black Americans live in a jungle?

    *looks at the 'Thanks' for these posts too...hmmm...

    My mum says those things about the lions as well because she thinks it's funny.


  • #46
    kieranfitz
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    javaboy wrote: »
    How soon will this go the way of the "Why are there no good black swimmers?" thread?

    baisicly its to do with bone density


  • #47
    EamonnKeane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 950 ✭✭✭EamonnKeane


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Are you honestly trying to say that white people just sink whereas black people float in water.... honestly!?!

    And if they weigh the same as a duck...


  • #48
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    janeybabe wrote: »
    My mum says those things about the lions as well because she thinks it's funny.
    gino85 wrote: »
    i put the thanks up because i found it funny, i think he was saying somthing along the lines that they need to run faster because a large amount of black american would live in the less well off areas and crime is rampent. running faster than other people would be a matter of life and death in some cases

    So racist jokes are okay as long as they're funny?
    Want me to make it a rule that you're only allowed post in AH as long as you amuse me? Guess how long you'll last.
    All of you: AH is not the place for that sort of crap. Cop on.


  • #49
    nomorebadtown
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    :rolleyes:
    here we go


  • #50
    Ass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 995 ✭✭✭Ass


    Karoma wrote: »
    So racist jokes are okay as long as they're funny?
    Want me to make it a rule that you're only allowed post in AH as long as you amuse me? Guess how long you'll last.
    All of you: AH is not the place for that sort of crap. Cop on.
    Remember the time you made those muhammed lol pictures around the time of those Danish cartoons? How is that any bit more acceptable than making racist jokes? No topic should be off limits for jokes or humor. Sexism, creed, racism, what ever.


  • #51
    Naos
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    Karoma wrote: »

    *looks at the 'Thanks' for these posts too...hmmm...

    I thanked it because it was funny. There is no need to be so PC - it was a joke and a good one at that.


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