If you want a good laugh
find a tofu-wearing hand-wringer and ask them whether they think that being of Afro or Afro-caribbean origin coveys a genetic advantage upon sprinters. Places them in a terrible ethical dilemma and then they tend to explode in a shower of artisan bio yoghurt and spelt.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 18 Jul 2012, 9:26, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

But genetics is the racist.
All good Guardian readers know that.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Wed 18 Jul 2012, 9:27, Reply)

I read the Guardian.
genetics is more species-ist really, though.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 18 Jul 2012, 9:28, Reply)

There was a really good programme on a week or so about this
Michael Johnson was on it, tracing his ancestry etc.
Gist was that packing hundreds of slaves into a boat, losing 90% of them on the way, meant that only the very toughest survived and bred, producing later some great athletes.
Was a rather unsettling watch.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Wed 18 Jul 2012, 9:33, Reply)

I started watching that
Wish I'd finished now
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 18 Jul 2012, 9:41, Reply)