I overheard some ladies talking yesterday and instructing their kids not to get in the ocean. Here are two of their reasons: 1) they just had lunch and lady said you'll get cramps, you can't swim for an hour, and 2) your face will turn to scales while food is in your stomach.
Later, a young woman was advising me on my newest problem, leg cramps, and she told me it was impossible for me to get leg cramps because I wasn't sprinting. She said that leg cramping is caused from dehydration and only a person who sprints will get dehydrated; not distance people, so she suggested I see a doctor.
We all know these are pretty ridiculous, have you overheard anyone advising others about "their myths?" The people making these comments were from England.
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Oh boy...here are some "myths"...: white men can't dunk.
Whenever someone even infers that Africans from East Africa are better distance runners than the rest of the world, and that sprinters (okay, the first 10 best times ever in the 100 meter dash) that are Africans from West Africa, or descendants from the same are faster genetically, someone will rise up and raise hell. Of course, there are "freaks" within these statistics that will prove the statistics wrong, such as marathon record holder the white British girl, and a couple of americans and a brazilian african descent that are top swimmers. Yeah, and that guy from one of the Guyanas. BUT, this is a tricky and sensitive subject, I am out of here. And yet, show me the all star basketball team without Larry Bird and pot smoker what's his name (the movie guy) and how many non blacks do you have? I tried hard to make varsity at my high school, trained a lot, but I had was B-team material. That is my genetics...I was good here in the middle of Brazil, but mediocre in the middle of the Mid-South. Now I am back into the middle of Brazil and I am good again, because everyone else is so mediocre...billy fanstone.
Oh boy...here are some "myths"...: white men can't dunk.
Whenever someone even infers that Africans from East Africa are better distance runners than the rest of the world, and that sprinters (okay, the first 10 best times ever in the 100 meter dash) that are Africans from West Africa, or descendants from the same are faster genetically, someone will rise up and raise hell. Of course, there are "freaks" within these statistics that will prove the statistics wrong, such as marathon record holder the white British girl, and a couple of americans and a brazilian african descent that are top swimmers. Yeah, and that guy from one of the Guyanas. BUT, this is a tricky and sensitive subject, I am out of here. And yet, show me the all star basketball team without Larry Bird and pot smoker what's his name (the movie guy) and how many non blacks do you have? I tried hard to make varsity at my high school, trained a lot, but I had was B-team material. That is my genetics...I was good here in the middle of Brazil, but mediocre in the middle of the Mid-South. Now I am back into the middle of Brazil and I am good again, because everyone else is so mediocre...billy fanstone.
