Boris Johnson's helmet.

pottssteve
pottssteve Posts: 4,069
edited June 2008 in The bottom bracket
The silly old sausage just can't make his mind up, so he's leaving it to us...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main ... do1701.xml

Some of the comments below are smashing. :)
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  • Harry B
    Harry B Posts: 1,239
    Great article though and well written. He's a lot more intelligent that he gets credit for...or lets on :wink:
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  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...can't vote 'cause I don't like the vegatable thing...I happen to think Boris is a top bloke when it comes to cycling...excellent article...
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • ricadus
    ricadus Posts: 2,379
    you could tell he was French by the noise he made on impact
    :lol:


    Paul on June 17, 2008 12:24 PM writes:
    "Personally I wear a safety helmet at all times,
    along with knee and elbow pads, a back
    protector and kevlar body armour. To hell with
    sweat and inconvenient chaffing, fye upon those
    who complain of being bumped and scratched in
    the conjugal bed..."

    YOU WEAR ALL THAT IN BED?!!!!!??

    I sure do and more besides. Don't you know that
    more fatal accidents happen in the home than
    anywhere else?

    He obviously knows that most serious accidents happen in bed.
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  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    To follow on from ChrisLS, the question in the poll is - being pedantic - wrong anyhow. Boris is (elected) Mayor of London; the Lord Mayor is a different title and person altogether, being an unelected position, and a largely ceremonial one at that.

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • 3leggeddog
    3leggeddog Posts: 150
    If boris were to wear a helmet, it would surely have to be purple
  • sicrow
    sicrow Posts: 791
    ChrisLS wrote:
    ...can't vote 'cause I don't like the vegatable thing...I happen to think Boris is a top bloke when it comes to cycling...excellent article...

    well said !!!
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  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    The important thing is that we assess the risk, we make the decision, and be it on our own heads - or, in the case of my helmet, sometimes not.
    That's how a helmet debate should end! (on the 3rd post :twisted: )
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • Gavin Gilbert
    Gavin Gilbert Posts: 4,019
    sicrow wrote:
    ChrisLS wrote:
    ...can't vote 'cause I don't like the vegatable thing...I happen to think Boris is a top bloke when it comes to cycling...excellent article...

    well said !!!

    3000 London cyclists say otherwise.
  • TheBoyBilly
    TheBoyBilly Posts: 749
    3000 out of a total of how many London cyclists? (clue: half a million cycle journeys in the capital per day)
    To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity - Oscar Wilde
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Some drunk guy wrote:
    A helmet wouldn't have helped in the least in my last cycling accident: I cycled into a cow coming back from the pub whilst truly paralytic. No, really. A Cow. I think it was in the road.
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  • Gavin Gilbert
    Gavin Gilbert Posts: 4,019
    TheBoyBilly wrote:
    3000 out of a total of how many London cyclists? (clue: half a million cycle journeys in the capital per day)

    I haven't come across any London cyclists in favour of the proposal. I have however, come across a number of people who voted for de Pfeffel Johnson who are already regretting having done so.
  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    Gavin Gilbert wrote:
    TheBoyBilly wrote:
    3000 out of a total of how many London cyclists? (clue: half a million cycle journeys in the capital per day)

    I haven't come across any London cyclists in favour of the proposal. I have however, come across a number of people who voted for de Pfeffel Johnson who are already regretting having done so.
    Well - it sounds like your views have been supported by a reliably broad cross-section of society then.... :roll:
  • boybiker
    boybiker Posts: 531
    Anyone who crashes and injures their heads while not wearing a helmet because 'helmets don't work' should be left to die at the side of the road.
    The gear changing, helmet wearing fule.
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  • Harry B
    Harry B Posts: 1,239
    boybiker wrote:
    Anyone who crashes and injures their heads while not wearing a helmet because 'helmets don't work' should be left to die at the side of the road.

    Don't start them off :roll:
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  • neeb
    neeb Posts: 4,473
    Anyone who crashes and injures their heads while not wearing a helmet because 'helmets don't work' should be left to die at the side of the road.
    What if they injure both of their heads and they are wearing a helmet on one head but not the other? Wouldn't that disprove your implicit assumption that helmets offer protection in most potentially fatal bike accidents? Or maybe you just bear a grudge against two-headed people because they tend to be better at grammar than you. :wink:
  • MartinC1
    MartinC1 Posts: 12
    Anyone who crashes and injures their heads while wearing a helmet because 'helmets work' should be left to die at the side of the road.

    :D
  • mortuk2k
    mortuk2k Posts: 14
    boybiker wrote:
    Anyone who crashes and injures their heads while not wearing a helmet because 'helmets don't work' should be left to die at the side of the road.

    You didn't think that through, did you? :roll:
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    mortuk2k wrote:
    You didn't think that through, did you? :roll:

    You are The Pub Landlord (having deduced that via the gift of British Thinking), and I claim my £5. :wink:

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal

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