metro article on helmets

[Titan yer tummy]

Part 1
Once upon a time there was a neighbourhood called Rotonatta. But instead of people Rotanatta was inhabited by dogs. Rotonatta was a peaceful friendly place and most of the time all the dogs got on quite well together. But there were two sorts of dogs who lived in Rotonatta. There were the ordinary dogs who were friendly cuddly pooches who loved everyone and were always well behaved and didn’t bark and scare people and just enjoyed chewing on the odd bone in a most civilised doggy sort of way. And then there were the feral dogs who, most of the time, were just like the ordinary dogs. The ferals were lead by an alpha feral. There were also sniffer or seeker ferals. The ordinary dogs and the feral dogs chewed bones together and chewed each other’s bones and no one would get too tense about things.

To be continued

 

[ufkacbln]

... which really sums up the sanity of most of TyT's posts.

 

[MontyVeda]

[QUOTE 1777075, member: 45"]Do donkeys figure anywhere in this story? I hope so. Donkeys are great.[/quote]
what are you on about? donkeys are crap! Why would anybody want a donkey FFS!

 

[Norm]

Always abusing the poor donkeys. They are almost as put upon as the badgers.

What have badgers got to do with it? If you want to post about badgers, go to a badgers forum.

 

[MontyVeda]

do kids have wear helmets these days when having a donkey ride along the beach?

 

[MontyVeda]

...

TYT's been gone awhile. I do hope he's not writing too much.

I assumed it was just copy and paste.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

Motorbike users excepted they are the only users of public highways that are singled out.
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Errr not quite, helmet use is mandatory for horse riders <14

 

[ufkacbln]

No it is just an elaborate "we should all get along and respect each other's point of view" post with a side order of role assigning amongst those who don't agree with his views. Nothing insane about that at all really.

But missed assigning a role where someone posts tripe and then refuses to answer the questions that it raises!

Personally I assumed TyT was barking!

 

[thnurg]

I stopped and ran over to help today when I saw a guy lying at the front of a car tangled up in a bike. He already had his Mum and the car owner helping him. It appears that he had wiped out and gone into the stationary car. He was in a bad state having a fit. Once he got over the fit he was in dazed confusion and it looked like he had taken a knock to his head. He did not have a brain bucket on.
Helmets won't prevent all kinds of injuries but a knock to the head will be far less severe if wearing one.

 

[ufkacbln]

I stopped and ran over to help today when I saw a guy lying at the front of a car tangled up in a bike. He already had his Mum and the car owner helping him. It appears that he had wiped out and gone into the stationary car. He was in a bad state having a fit. Once he got over the fit he was in dazed confusion and it looked like he had taken a knock to his head. He did not have a brain bucket on.
Helmets won't prevent all kinds of injuries but a knock to the head will be far less severe if wearing one.

Unprovable, how do you know that he did not lose control because he was having a fit in the first place?

 

[Red Light]

[QUOTE 1776907, member: 45"]To support an argument that helmet promotion is an own-goal you referred to research on the outcomes from helmet compulsion.
[/quote]

So which bit of

" More importantly though helmet promotion/mandating is shown to put people off cycling and the health benefits of cycling are over 20 times the health risks."

are you having trouble reading?

 

[Red Light]

[QUOTE 1776894, member: 45"]No I'm not. That would be a curious situation indeed.[/quote]

So why do you suggest it is said in A&E and, according to you, not in a neurosurgical unit wehre they should know about such things?

Oh, and those two cyclists you saw in four years on the unit, I guess given the fact you have no data on the patients and what had happened to them you don't have a clue either whether they had been wearing a helmet or not when they got their head injury?

Are you medically qualified by the way?

 

[col]

 

[benb]

Some irrelevant crap

Hey, TyT. Seeing as you obviously have some time on your hands, would you care to answer my question as to why a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet and suffers a head injury is a fool, but a pedestrian who doesn't wear a helmet and suffers a head injury isn't? I'm pretty sure I've asked it at least 3 times, and you haven't answered yet. I'd hate people to come to the conclusion that you're an evasive troll.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

Hey, TyT. Seeing as you obviously have some time on your hands, would you care to answer my question as to why a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet and suffers a head injury is a fool, but a pedestrian who doesn't wear a helmet and suffers a head injury isn't? I'm pretty sure I've asked it at least 3 times, and you haven't answered yet. I'd hate people to come to the conclusion that you're an evasive troll.

I don't think he's evading being thought of as a troll