Why do so many eductaed people wear glasses/contacts?

[Ecthy]

<-- Though, as you can tell by my avatar my eyes don't do sh!t...

[ColdWizard]

Originally posted by Sava
and your mother dresses you funny

Only because I'm too fat to dress myself.

[Ecthy]

CW = glasses, dumb, fat = NERD

[ColdWizard]

/me feebly throws a pocket protector at Ecthy.

[duke o' york]

Yeah, but Skanky, have you ever tried to buy sheet metal recently? It's not even square!

[Flubber]

Etchy- I was just looking at your trip thread and you look like a pretty skinny geek to me

As to the original question-- natural selection-- In general people with worse physical attribute had to be smart to stay alive. This does not preclude smart people with fitness but the weak AND dumb ones generally survived less.

Its not an absolute as is evidence by the weak and dumb that exist to this day

[Kuciwalker]

Also, the association smart = weak is false. I know at my (geek) school, we have the best athletics in the area. Just not in sports like football or basketball - we're better at individual sports like swimming and track and tennis.

[Ecthy]

I'm definitely not among the skinniest people. Skinnier than some, but better than most (that I know).

[Snotty]

Average build, last time I saw you anyway.

Kuci, maybe the geek schoolkids learn faster that effort = results.

[duke o' york]

Well if you waste all your school time on sports without the requisite talent then you'll end up like the well-built guy at the hardware store who played QB for his school, but was never good enough to make it to college. Women like hunks, sure, but they like money too, and not too many hunks have cash. Maybe that's why they're tempted to play away from home.

[Snotty]

but studying and athletics arent mutually exclusive?? I only wish they had let me cycle at school for PE

[Tattila the Hun]

It's all about the size of skull. If you have normal sized skull, the enormous brain required for smartness presses the eyes from behind, and causes shortsightednes. You must have a huge head.

[Kataphraktoi]

his head is below his name in the avatar box

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Well if you waste all your school time on sports without the requisite talent then you'll end up like the well-built guy at the hardware store who played QB for his school, but was never good enough to make it to college. Women like hunks, sure, but they like money too, and not too many hunks have cash. Maybe that's why they're tempted to play away from home.

Because exercise is a great way to stay healthy and relieve stress, and isn't mutually exclusive with academics?

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Hey wait a minute what does this say for me. I know i am not a freak of nature I am very smart, wear glasses most of the time and am good at voleyball and swimming, I am ok at soccer but i really suck at spelling and grammar
Course I dont know where my glasses are at the moment