I'm lazy, and didn't expect any useful responses to my rant, so I never
came back. So, this is out of date, and I wouldn't have replied at all,
except that you guys actually try to make some good points, and so I
felt slightly obligated to reply to them. I am piking minkuni to quote
as he made the most "useful" points.
minkuni said:I know, if it smells like a troll...
Hey, I shower at least once a month...
minkuni said:If I hadn't been wearing the helmet I would have had more than some
superficial bruises on my chin to worry about.
That is not an argument that would hold up under any real scrutiny. You
in fact have no idea what would have happened to you if you had not been
wearing a helmet. There is proof, though again, I'm too lazy to go find
it again, that states that helmet use is indeterminate in saving or
CAUSING injury. There are as many studies showing that helmets save
people, as studies showing that helmets cause injuries that otherwise
would have been prevented had no helmet been worn.
minkuni said:If you think a helmet looks too stupid then don't wear one, but don't
harass people who actually care about (and use) what they've got
between their ears :p
That is in deed a FINE thing to say. And I'm not disputing it
WHAT-SO-EVER. But if you reread what got my biscuits so fired up, other
than ANYTHING written by Fossy, you'll see that this all stemmed from
Tom saying that this was folly to be riding without helmets, and that
hopefully there would be a LAW against it for RTL. Again, what you say
is great, I don't herass (or myass for that matter) people for wearing a
helmet. I am however constantly himassed by people telling me that I
could or should or MUST wear a helmet. That is NOT ACCEPTABLE to me in
any way, shape, or form. If you accept that I shouldn't tell people
what to do (which, if you reread what I said, you'll see that I didn't)
then you must accept that people (any people, law officials included)
shouldn't tell me what to do, as long as the only person that I'm
possibly injuring is myself. (Don't even get me started on how we don't
own our own bodies, (suicide being illegal and whatnot) though, cuz that
really gets my hizzy in a tizzy.) (Though, my uncle made an astute point
the other day, he said that perhaps the police weren't looking out for
our own safety in implementing mandatory seat belt laws, but were
instead looking out for the tidiness of the unfortunate souls who might
run over our bodies as they are flung from our vehicles.)
Oh, and by the by, 20 mph, though brisk, is really not that fast. If
you can sustain 20mph in a race situation, you should also be able to
roll out of a fall and save yourself any major injuries completely.
That is not to say that all can, but that's the same as the
skinny-assed skater boys from youtube fame that (though wearing a
helmet, cuz that really saved them) break their arms and legs from
falling literally off their skateboard while standing still, cuz they
have no musculature built up at all. They, and you if you fall into the
unicycling end of this spectrum, shouldn't be riding hard. If you do,
and you fall, and you break yourself, then you have no right at all to
tell the rest of us that we should take extra precautions because of
what happened to you. The rest of us are in good enough shape for our
bodies to save us, we don't need "safety" gear to do what we can
inherently do ourselves.
So, anywho, once again, I'm not a troll, I just don't like people being
stupid. And, more to the point, I agree the to each his own, it's when
people start spouting off against that, that I get mad.
So, to everyone (cept my fav bud fossy) have a great evening and
weekend, and don't let them scary trolls get you.
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