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Reg, it is from Curb your Enthusiasm. Larry is going to a Dodgers game and he picks up a hooker-not for sex but to use the HOV lane. Meanwhile Larry’s dad has glaucoma and Larry hears marijuana may help his dad. The hooker has better dope than Larry and they stop at his Dad’s and get baked. Larry is having some paranoia but his dad is into it and feeling good. When Larry gets up his dad says, “he blew the scene.”
Can’t find a good vid. If you like Curb it is a really good episode.
It does not make sense to have women compete against men in sports. In basketball for instance there has never been a professional NBA player who is not a man. A few have been sort of close but not good enough. Hell it is a big deal if a woman even dunks. With males 12 year old boys often can do that. Just not athletic enough. Some shoot more than well enough but lack the athleticism to compete so you’d be effectively denying ladies an opp to compete professionally. There, Unseen, i took the bait!
There are anatomical reasons why top male runners run significantly faster than females. Of course, males have harder muscle but another less discussed reason is skeletal. One thing I learned when I studied Anatomy for Art is that females are generally a bit knock-kneed vs. males who are generally a bit bow-legged. A person who changes genders but keeps the prior gender’s anatomy brings those disadvantages or advantages with them. Look at this couple walking and note the obvious difference in their leg anatomy. I chose it because their feet at ground level are in exactly the same position. Her knees are almost touching, maybe a half-inch apart. His knees look about 6 inches apart, but his trousers are loose, so maybe closer to 8″ apart. Add the skeletal advantage together with masculine muscle and that’s why men run so much faster, that and also because men tend to be taller, giving them a longer stride. After the photo, there’s an interesting video of a mixed relay where the Polish team chose a female to run the last leg presumably because she was the fastest runner on the team. Starting with a 5 second lead, 5o seconds later she’s been passed by four men.
First the photo:
and now the video:
No I do not think that Europe has a bigger problem with racism than the US. The US is an exceptionally racist society and the fall-out, especially with African-Americans is atrocious. Just walk around a black inner city in most cities. There are no non-racist societies anywhere in the world. A few countries are slightly less outwardly racist.
But yes, in terms of Sport, fans in Europe can be far more brazen with their bigotry (hence not a single out athlete) and perhaps (though it is a stretch) why an American athlete came out first (NFL last year).
Hooliganism is a rarity here
I think you might live in an Oregon bubble because I saw hooliganism in the US during my several brief trips (including in more affluent cities like greater New York and Boston). I would say working class Boston douchebags seemed as rough around the edges and as openly vulgar as a snarky plumber from Glasgow, Malmo or Marseilles
I would not be surprised to learn that girls at ages 6 through 10 can compete on an equal footing with boys that age.
I used to KICK BOYS ASS at arm wrestling up until about 6-7 grade. Once they hit puberty that changed. But before, I was very athletic and lifted an insane amount of weights and had arms of steel – beat every single boy in my class.
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