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Francis Galton, the 19th century eugenicist and cousin of Charles Darwin, once visited a missionary station in Southwest Africa, where the Nama people (called Hottentots by the Dutch settlers) lived. The women of this race are known to exhibit a peculiar morphological quirk, which for the sake of medical precision one may refer to as ‘steatopygia’, but for the sake of clarity I will call ‘having a fat ass’. In an amusing letter he recounts his surprise at seeing one of these women, and details his attempt to obtain measurements of her figure.

>“I profess to be a scientific man and was exceedingly anxious to obtain accurate measurements of her shape; but there was a difficulty in doing this. I did not know a word of Hottentot, and could therefore never have explained the lady what the object of my foot-rule could be; and I really dared not ask my worthy missionary host to interpret for me. I therefore felt in a dilemma as I gazed at her form, that gift of bounteous nature to this favoured race, which no mantua-maker, with all her crinoline and stuffing, can do otherwise but humbly imitate.

>“The object of my admiration stood under a tree, and was turning herself about to all points of the compass, as ladies who wish to be admired usually do. Of a sudden, my eyes fell upon my sextant; the bright thought struck me, and I took a series of observations upon her figure in every direction, up and down, crossways, diagonally and so forth, and I registered them carefully on an outline drawing for fear of any mistake; this being done, I boldly pulled out my measuring tape, and measured the distance from where I was to the place she stood, and having thus obtained both base and angles, I worked out the results by trigonometry and logarithms.”
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>>25339221
My nigga.
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>>25339221
>I worked out the results by trigonometry and logarithms.
I've hear that many rappers do the same.
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The faustian spirit prefers small but tight asses, contrary to the preference for enormous butts among the negroes of the world.
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>>25341310
Girls with big breasts ain't shit without legs.
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>>25339221
A bit off-topic really but Galton was a great man, a true intellectual genius, who has been slandered / memoryholed for daring to say that 2 + 2 = 4 in areas of science where the current paradigm is that it isn't.

He did a lot of pioneering work on statistics. Then there's the eugenics stuff. And almost in passing there's great work like "The Art Of Travel".

Well done FG!

>>25341310
>>25341661
Front and rear should balance. You can be slim all over and look good, or you can be curvy all over and look good. But big tits no ass is bad, and vice versa

A woman of this type causes deep unease in the observer. We know instinctively that she is unstable and might topple over forwards or backwards respectively in any difficult situation (e.g. on the deck of a yacht in a rough sea).
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>>25339221
This nigga measured a bitch's ass with triggernometry, can you get more autistic?
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>>25339221
I will now take up once more for myself the study of statistics

Thank you Galton, my Hero and fellow admirer of sturdy cocoa
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>>25341708
Neck, wrists and midriff are the patrician's taste



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