This is all anecdotal
but from experience, people who are very intelligent do seem to be bad at sport. Of course there are exceptions, there are to everything! I was in the top set for *everything* at school apart from PE, for which I was in the bottom set. I honestly have no good excuse for this other than that I am extremely clumsy, skinny but with large breasts and bad balance. This rules you out of most things. When I was at Sussex all the sports teams resigned themselves to losing to Brighton in the varsity because we were the academic uni and therefore bad at sport. Now I'm at Cambridge I've stumbled across a few people who are intelligent AND good at sport, but I just think they're weird...
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 14:05, 5 replies)

This is, of course, clearly horsehit.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 14:08, closed)

Which bit?
Or the general point? Cos I agree that yes, intelligence and sportiness aren't mutually exclusive, I just seem to meet people who are one or the other!

And we never hit horses.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 14:13, closed)

I bet you do, you beat them and beat them. I know your type...

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 14:14, closed)

Yep
when I say I'm a "researcher" I actually mean "horse beater".
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 14:16, closed)

You lost me at 'large breasts'.

(Mr Fudge It shouldn't be illegal to have sex with an eagle, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:26, closed)

I see what you've done there
You've tried to throw me off my argument with the line 'skinny but with big breasts'.

Where was I again?
(rockdoctor, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:28, closed)

Mwahahaha
My evil plan worked!!!

I did think about not including them but it is true, they do make playing a LOT of sport more difficult if not impossible. They're a valid excuse ;)
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Mon 23 Apr 2012, 16:48, closed)

Good. Lesson learnt then.
Now put on this bikini, go over to the corner, jump up and down a bit and have a good think about what you've done. Think!
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 23 Apr 2012, 23:32, closed)

You are a girl, aren't you?
'cos if not, there could be a few people feeling a bit ashamed of themselves now...
(RTFM May your god go with you, Tue 24 Apr 2012, 10:01, closed)

I coach one of the Cambridge sports clubs and they are a fair mix of abilities and intelligence..common sense is more of an issue with some of them!
(cmouse is pondering about life in other jobs, Tue 24 Apr 2012, 13:13, closed)