Gwadien
Uneducated Northern Cretin
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To be fair you have to take his word for it
Really?To be fair you have to take his word for it
It's a photo. It's entirely possible that he had a both hands up and was bringing one down and the photo caught him when it was crossing his face.Really?
Yes. It is a photo. A flash of the moment and it can look like you're doing a Nazi salute when you're really not.Really?
Fair.
If you're talking about pyschosis, then it's very difficult to prove - many studies suggest that most people have underlying problems which cannabis enhances - it doesn't randomly bring on new mental health issues.
It's a photo. It's entirely possible that he had a both hands up and was bringing one down and the photo caught him when it was crossing his face.
Of course, it's entirely possible that he was msking a joke.
Andbit's entirely possible that he's a nazi.
What's important is that we should barely give a fuck because of the above issues/possibilities.
Yeah it's fucked.
There's a documentary on Netflix called Murder Mountain which talks about a place in rural California where people have been growing weed since the 60s - it started off as a hippy thing where it was all peace and love, then it developed into crime; biker gangs getting involved so the farmers had to buy their own weapons and therefore considered to be considered gangsters.
Now they're legally allowed to grow it the crime has reduced massively.
It's just so fucked that we're still not openly allowed to consider the war on drugs a waste of time, money and lives.
edit - we won't talk about the 100ks of dollars the farmers had to pay for permits/rights/tax etc.
"Is this the next breakthrough in bike safety?"
"Is this the next breakthrough in bike safety?"
No. No it isn't.
The current ones don't actually stop deaths though. It's the brain hitting the inside of your skull that kills you, helmet or no helmet.Indeed since the real breakthrough might be getting more people to use the current ones, as well as removing more of the drivers who drive like prats.
The current ones don't actually stop deaths though. It's the brain hitting the inside of your skull that kills you, helmet or no helmet.
What we need is more cyclists and a change in culture. But don't hold your breath
The current ones don't actually stop deaths though. It's the brain hitting the inside of your skull that kills you, helmet or no helmet.
What we need is more cyclists and a change in culture. But don't hold your breath
Yeah, if you fall off your bike and hit your head on the kerb then a helmet'll definitely help you. Get hit by a car at 40, not quite as helpful.Actually they reduce serious injury/death (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001457518301301) since hitting your head directly on something (Road/Kerb) is always going to be much worse than having some padding between your head and that object since that padding absorbs some of the impact.
Yes we do need a culture change, including in how cyclists ride and no I won't hold my breath
Yeah, if you fall off your bike and hit your head on the kerb then a helmet'll definitely help you. Get hit by a car at 40, not quite as helpful.
I don't see bad cyclists any worse in numbers than bad drivers, or bad pedestrians. There's the same percentage of cunts across all three groups. Apart from only the one in a two tonne metal box is a real danger to anyone else, as borne out by the deaths.
Funnily enough - the past two xmases I've been riding bikes (pedal) and mopeds around south east asia. I know the accident stats are worse there than in blighty, but you see me avoid roads here like the plague, and I'd never ride a motorised bike in the UK. Reason being - everyone in asia rides a bike and a moped/motorcycle for a large part of their lives - so car drivers are considerably more pleasant. There's a lower average speed and they're waiting for some nutter on a bike to swerve in front of them - and when it happens it's no big deal.
If you ride sensibly and normally on a UK road you get some chav in a corsa punishment pass you for shits and giggles. Or worse.