Why did you delete my post and repeat what I said?mcminty wrote:
Thread cleaned up a bit...
Your brain sits inside your skull with the ability to move around a little. When you fall without a helmet, your head comes to a sudden stop - your brain keeps on moving (as things happen, it has momentum). So your brain slams into your skull and gets nice and bruised. Hard enough, and you can bleed out.
Helmets, made of some wonderful soft foamy stuff, increase the stopping distance, and thus decrease the force that is applied to your brain via the inside of your skull.
You can be as careful as you want, until some other idiot (yes, without one you are an idiot) comes around the corner in their car and collides with you. Helmets. They are made for a reason. Wear them.
first and only time ive been snowboarding i was going down the easiest hill u can get (after falling off the t-bar)haffeysucks wrote:
i went skiing for the second time ever, and went down double black diamonds with no helmet. every other person on the mountain wore one.
i faceplanted many times, but here i am today.
biking, however, is pretty dangerous. probably moar dangerous biking in an urban area than on mountains, which is what i do. so wear your fucking helmet.
faceplanted broke my nose
didnt ruin my day though
saw that and thought of this
In the Netherlands, we ride our bikes EVERYWHERE, and NOBODY wears helmets. It's just not done. We're a cyclist country, and I guess people know to watch out for crazy bikers. That said, the single most dangerous group on our roads are highschool kids on bikes. (After women of course.)
I remember this British kid years ago at school and he was the only one wearing a helmet. We didn't understand. Did it rain bricks in Britain or something? People don't wear helmets on bikes here.
I remember this British kid years ago at school and he was the only one wearing a helmet. We didn't understand. Did it rain bricks in Britain or something? People don't wear helmets on bikes here.
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Yes, yes it does. Though if your really unlucky it rains breezeblocks.LaidBackNinja wrote:
In the Netherlands, we ride our bikes EVERYWHERE, and NOBODY wears helmets. It's just not done. We're a cyclist country, and I guess people know to watch out for crazy bikers. That said, the single most dangerous group on our roads are highschool kids on bikes. (After women of course.)
I remember this British kid years ago at school and he was the only one wearing a helmet. We didn't understand. Did it rain bricks in Britain or something? People don't wear helmets on bikes here.