Hah!

And if you consider the average height for the middle ages, the average person these days would practically be a titan.

I think that statement that the 21st century (schizoid, couldn't resist) man is the worst example of "manhood" is an incredibly generalized one at best. They're probably using overweight Westerners as they're baseline, when in fact there were plenty of people throughout history who were just as fat and lazy as SOME people are now.

However, I will say that the average neanderthal and early homo sapien, the ones that were fighting tooth, nail and spear every day for survival, could probably kick an average modern person's ass in a straight fight. Those guys were the hardest of cores.

Quick note; did you know that the west is NOT actually responsible for the most obese people? Nations like Turkey actually have 20% more morbidly obese people than people in the States and Europe! :D The more you know!

I did not know that. Of course, you don't normally hear information like that from media sources.

I stopped using standard media as a means to learn stuff about current events about four years back. xD Now if I wanna know something in particular I go look it up. Don't ask why I was looking up rates of morbid obesity; I look up some seriously random shit.

I think we have a lot of unhealthy habits we need to get around. We're healthier in some respects (diet and medicine) but few of us can lift our own weight any more; your average Irish railroad worker from the Victorian era probably could bench press a mining cart.

I thought the evil video games were turning us all into violent murderers.

I have it DVR'd, watching it in hunks and pieces. Hard to beat the Irish for being good drunkards, I gotta admit that!

And I'm half Irish, get off my back, I can say it and stand by it!

I'm half-Irish on my mom's side, half-German on my dad's. So I never knew whether to drink or invade a small country.

It MIGHT be true. But people in the Victorian era didn't have UCAVs, satellites, supersonic stealth bombers, and combat drones, either. THIS muscle *points to a brain*, when exercised hard enough, will always produce more results than *points to every other muscle in the human body* these muscles. >:D

Sure, people will say "BUT THEN YOU WILL LOSE IN A FISTFIGHT!" Being good in a fistfight didn't discover that the speed of light can be broken, it didn't discover a cure for malaria and it sure as hell didn't invent machines that can put out more efficient production than fifty big, muscle-bound men could manage for each one.

Besides...being good in a fist fight didn't invent high-tensile steel, refining processes, and the foam material that goes into a worklifting bench, either... ;D

Nah, I'm pretty sure a drunk Irishman could give a drunken master a run for his money...