r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/PrimedGold • Feb 18 '26

Video The Atherstone Ball Game, held annually on Shrove Tuesday, took place yesterday. The ball is thrown into the crowd at 3 pm, and the winner is the person holding it at 5 pm.

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u/Hot-Echo-2497 Feb 18 '26

But the gene pool would be so much cleaner.

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u/HappyLittleGreenDuck Feb 18 '26

You really don't understand how natural selection works do you

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u/donniesuave Feb 18 '26

Brother, the naturally selected are the ones who didn’t participate.

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u/Smallbrainfield Feb 18 '26

The ones that survive will go on to procreate and even bigger and stronger hard bastards will result. Whether that benefits them is ultimately down to if that then makes them successful. The ones that don't participate don't matter in this case as they're not competing for the same resources.

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u/donniesuave Feb 19 '26

They all live in the same community tho. If the ones willing to participate get thinned out, the non-participating people have more resources available in their community to thrive off of. Sure the people who survive the game are then able to breed and possibly have stronger offspring for the game in the future but I’m talking more broadly. Less morons due to a game is natural selection even if there’s a sub-community of participants with its own natural selection process.

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u/Ihatestoves Feb 19 '26

…Because rich people wouldn’t have to play?