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    Genetic Testing Promises to Reveal Your Child's Sports Aptitude

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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    12/02/08

    In reply to Genetic Testing Promises to Reveal Your Child's Sports Aptitude
    this feels unplesently remanescant of min-maxing a character for an RPG.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    12/02/08

    In reply to Genetic Testing Promises to Reveal Your Child's Sports Aptitude
    I know two people who bought stock in this company.
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    12/01/08

    In reply to Genetic Testing Promises to Reveal Your Child's Sports Aptitude
    I should be horrified, but... I've always thought such a thing would be awesome for musicians. I'm a happily mediocre cellist, but what if I would have been a knock-out harpist, or a hardcore trumpeter? I'll never know!!!


    When they make a test gauging finger dexterity, breath control, and embrouchure, sign me up. Except I already know my kids will play double bass or trombone, because I spent too many years as an orchestra manager with eighty thousand violinists and nary a trombone for miles.

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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    12/01/08

    In reply to Genetic Testing Promises to Reveal Your Child's Sports Aptitude
    I'm trying to find a way to work abortion or Down's syndrome into this comment, but I can't quite make it work.
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    Image of jajbowler jajbowler
    12/01/08

    In reply to Genetic Testing Promises to Reveal Your Child's Sports Aptitude
    If Varsity Blues has taught me anything, it's that every decent-hearted American deserves to know whether or not their child can vicariously fulfill their parents' adolescent desires for glory and regional immortality.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    12/01/08

    @jajbowler: and that whipped cream makes for a smashing good bikini.


    oh, and that Aiihh donn wan yer liife!!

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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    12/01/08

    In reply to Genetic Testing Promises to Reveal Your Child's Sports Aptitude
    "Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Johnson, after testing your child we discovered that he will excel in almost any sport or competition, that you place him in. He is flush with the DB gene."


    "DB gene?"


    "Douche Bag. Yes sir, merely by taking this test you've proved to us that this child will be raised in a no-holds-barred environment where he will be forced to win no matter what the cost. He'll be a prick, but he'll be a successful prick."

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    Image of newgalactic newgalactic
    12/01/08

    In reply to Genetic Testing Promises to Reveal Your Child's Sports Aptitude
    Is that little boy in yellow sporting hair gel?
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    12/01/08

    @newgalactic: Yeah, friggin, hair gel of the gods... sweat.
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    Image of Cankles Cankles
    12/01/08

    In reply to Genetic Testing Promises to Reveal Your Child's Sports Aptitude
    Parents are too worked up over this crap. A similar type story came through on Deadspin a few weeks back... Anyhow, what bothers the hell out of me is the parents keeping their kids from even starting school until they are a bit older just so that they can be larger than their peers and therefor more competitive.


    Stupid stuff. How does it feel to graduate High School at 22?

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
    12/02/08

    @Incognito: Great. I get older, and all the girls in my "senior" class stayed the same age. It reminds me of my third freshman year in college.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    12/01/08

    In reply to Genetic Testing Promises to Reveal Your Child's Sports Aptitude
    I already know that any kids of mine would suck at:

    Soccer

    Hockey

    Baseball

    Football

    Tennis


    and be too short for competitive swimming.


    Only alleged sport they might have a chance?

    Aside from video games, it would be cross country running.

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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    12/02/08

    @ManchuCandidate: Wrestling or gymnastics could be options: they both can favor compact frames.

    Or, hang them from the closet, bat-like, overnight, with lead weights attached. :)
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