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The CycleChat Helmet Debate Thread
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Drago
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* Mods, feel free to move this to another forum if you think appropriate. The topic covers several areas so I took my best guess.
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This weeks afternoon plays on Radio 4 are about a lady who is in some kind of locked in state following an accident. She can hear and understand all that is happening around her, but is unable to physically respond.
Anyway, to the point.
It transpires the lady had fallen from her bicycle and acquired her injury in that manner. Lots of "oh Mum, why weren't you wearing your helmet?" type lines offered by upset offspring. Doubtless non cyclists are nodding sagely at the sadness of it all, and how the poor woman has brought this upon herself.
As the tale unwinds were told that the lady falls from her bicycle, and as she lay on the ground a car drives over her. Of course, the play does nothing to explain how a thin piece of expanded polystyrene with holes in it is supposed to save ones head from injury when a tonne or more of car drives across it.
Doubtless the script writer meant no harm, and it was intended to convey a gentle safety message to waft out of out radio speakers and add some meat to the smell of lentils and patchouli that normally pervades Radio 4's programming. Unfortunately, all it does is further reinforce the helmet argument to a public which have never been presented with a balanced view of the cycling safety debate.
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This weeks afternoon plays on Radio 4 are about a lady who is in some kind of locked in state following an accident. She can hear and understand all that is happening around her, but is unable to physically respond.
Anyway, to the point.
It transpires the lady had fallen from her bicycle and acquired her injury in that manner. Lots of "oh Mum, why weren't you wearing your helmet?" type lines offered by upset offspring. Doubtless non cyclists are nodding sagely at the sadness of it all, and how the poor woman has brought this upon herself.
As the tale unwinds were told that the lady falls from her bicycle, and as she lay on the ground a car drives over her. Of course, the play does nothing to explain how a thin piece of expanded polystyrene with holes in it is supposed to save ones head from injury when a tonne or more of car drives across it.
Doubtless the script writer meant no harm, and it was intended to convey a gentle safety message to waft out of out radio speakers and add some meat to the smell of lentils and patchouli that normally pervades Radio 4's programming. Unfortunately, all it does is further reinforce the helmet argument to a public which have never been presented with a balanced view of the cycling safety debate.
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Drago
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No, I'm somewhere in the middle. A wearer, but not entirely convinced.
In particular I'm not convinced that a lid will save the wearer from someone parking a car atop their head, like the Beeb seem to think.
In particular I'm not convinced that a lid will save the wearer from someone parking a car atop their head, like the Beeb seem to think.
Dave Davenport
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Yep, it's this sort of uninformed, drip fed nonsense that makes people (some of whom don't even own a bike) feel free to tell me how stupid I am for not wearing a helmet.
glenn forger
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Yes they have radio 4 have had debates about cycle helmets a couple of times.
Should this guy really have been silenced for his opinion, or should every comment spoken be counter argued by the alternate views as well ........ Or you could just accept it as a programme .... What about all the Christian programmes ... The son of God had never been proved either
It's just a play. People say things like "if only........." in response to tragedy.
Interpreting it as some sort of propaganda or pro helmet campaign suggests the possibility of your own brain injury.
"If only I hadn't read this post.......................if only I hadn't replied to it......................if only I hadn't strangled the cat as a result..............."
PS I wear a helmet, but they're overrated as it didn't protect me from this post.
Interpreting it as some sort of propaganda or pro helmet campaign suggests the possibility of your own brain injury.
"If only I hadn't read this post.......................if only I hadn't replied to it......................if only I hadn't strangled the cat as a result..............."
PS I wear a helmet, but they're overrated as it didn't protect me from this post.
Drago
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I couldn't say - I'm Jewish.
I would suggest Sir that your brain is injured, as you clearly didn't read my post properly. I suggested that it was doubtless intended as a harmless plot device, not as some kind of campaign by the controller of Radio 4 to have us all marching like massed ranks of fascists resplendent in our Giros. The bit you missed reads, "Doubtless the script writer meant no harm, and it was intended to convey a gentle safety message..."
No mention of anything more pressing, urgent or sinister. It's the thoughtless and ill informed do-goodiness - new word, (c) Drago Enterprises 2016 - of it all that grinds my gears. I in no way suggest or believe that the Freemasons have teamed up with the Illuminati and the Rand Corporation to take over Radio 4 and brainwash us into wearing helmets.
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God Radio 4 afternoon plays really are the most depressing listening this side of a brexit debate.
But to the point, it's fair enough for the playwright to offer their opinion and it probably does reflect the received wisdom about helmets.
Having just come back from Amsterdam where I saw about 5 helmets amongst the thousands of riders the whole time I was there I do think helmets are a bit of a statement of a non-cycling friendly country.
But to the point, it's fair enough for the playwright to offer their opinion and it probably does reflect the received wisdom about helmets.
Having just come back from Amsterdam where I saw about 5 helmets amongst the thousands of riders the whole time I was there I do think helmets are a bit of a statement of a non-cycling friendly country.
Hugh Manatee
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Just occasionally though you are treated to a James McLevy, Inspector of Police play. 45 minutes of pure gold. I have spent a small fortune on duetting them on CD as well.
Drago
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You mean its not real?
