Car drives over girls head in Manchester

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  • meanwhile
    meanwhile Posts: 392
    Always Tyred wrote:

    Actually, a saucepan would probably not have been as good.

    A wok maybe, which is domed.

    You guys should watch Discovery Channel.

    You should buy some better saucepans. Mine are mine are anodized aluminum and nearly a centimetre thick - more than that on the base. They would laugh, LAUGH, at being driven over.

    Mind you, I could do with carbon fibre handles on them to soften up the handling...
  • dondare
    dondare Posts: 2,113
    downfader wrote:
    ..hmm I have to be honest. I wear my helmet to keep the sun off my head/out me eyes. :oops:

    A baseball cap is better for that.
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  • dondare
    dondare Posts: 2,113
    Has anyone read the star letter in the most current issue of C+?
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  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    dondare wrote:
    downfader wrote:
    ..hmm I have to be honest. I wear my helmet to keep the sun off my head/out me eyes. :oops:

    A baseball cap is better for that.

    Mine blew off. :oops: :lol: Mind you I have found the helmet good for low branches. :D
  • dang65
    dang65 Posts: 1,006
    I can see that a helmet would make little difference to most the posters on this thread. A hard whack of head on tarmac would probably make a big improvement. :roll:
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    dang65 wrote:
    I can see that a helmet would make little difference to most the posters on this thread. A hard whack of head on tarmac would probably make a big improvement. :roll:

    Hmm, cheap Bells helmet - £15, lump hammer £7, a soft fruit like a melon £4. A youtube video coming up. Priceless :D
  • dazzawazza
    dazzawazza Posts: 462
    downfader wrote:
    ..hmm I have to be honest. I wear my helmet to keep the sun off my head/out me eyes. :oops:

    Also brilliant for prevention of salty sweat in eyes and on sun glasses.
    Washing of padding is optional.
    80s sweat band could be used as an alternative; goes well with Stubbies riding shorts and Wham crop-top. :P
  • dondare
    dondare Posts: 2,113
    dazzawazza wrote:

    Also brilliant for prevention of salty sweat in eyes and on sun glasses.
    Washing of padding is optional.
    80s sweat band could be used as an alternative; goes well with Stubbies riding shorts and Wham crop-top. :P

    When I used a helmet regularly I found that it made the problem far worse. It was, in fact, being blinded by sweat which made me give up wearing a lid altogether.
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  • dazzawazza
    dazzawazza Posts: 462
    dondare wrote:

    When I used a helmet regularly I found that it made the problem far worse. It was, in fact, being blinded by sweat which made me give up wearing a lid altogether.

    It all depends on the sweatiness of the person and the absorption capability of the padding. Some kind of mathematical equation is probably required. :wink:
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    Hmm. I do sweat like a priest in a brothel, but never had problems with it in me eyes. just wiped it away with me hands. :lol:
  • dazzawazza
    dazzawazza Posts: 462
    Wiping is a solution, but I always find that when wearing sunglasses a salty film develops on the lenses. I'm quite sweaty though (on the lines of the brothel example).
  • Wynne G Oldman
    Wynne G Oldman Posts: 266
    I feel like a bit of a traitor, but!!!!! I bought a Motorcycle last month, and am selling my bike, so thankfully, I will never have to get into the debate of whether one should wear a helmet, or not again!!!!!!!!!! :D
    "on your bike" Norman Tebbit.
  • dirk_van_gently
    dirk_van_gently Posts: 826
    nwallace wrote
    I think it was one of nick saunders round the world tours on motorcycle where a companion had a 4x4 drive right over him in an accident. The view was that had the 4x4 not been configured for dirt tracks (big fat soft tyres) the injuiries would have been fatal rather than minor rib and back injuiries]

    ever seen the Penn and Teller illusion, where they drive a 32ton truck over the little guy (never sure which one was which).
    The whole illusion was done by having a near flat tyre on one side of the truck, what you didn't see was the huge counterbalance weight on the other side of the truck, real clever. Not relevant to the discussion, but I think this thread went off the rails a while back :D
    If you see the candle as flame, the meal is already cooked.
    Photography, Google Earth, Route 30
  • dondare
    dondare Posts: 2,113
    Wynne G Oldman wrote:
    I feel like a bit of a traitor, but!!!!! I bought a Motorcycle last month, and am selling my bike, so thankfully, I will never have to get into the debate of whether one should wear a helmet, or not again!!!!!!!!!! :D

    You reckon... http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Motorcyclehelmet/
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  • Wynne G Oldman
    Wynne G Oldman Posts: 266
    dondare wrote:
    Wynne G Oldman wrote:
    I feel like a bit of a traitor, but!!!!! I bought a Motorcycle last month, and am selling my bike, so thankfully, I will never have to get into the debate of whether one should wear a helmet, or not again!!!!!!!!!! :D

    You reckon... http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Motorcyclehelmet/
    AAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
    "on your bike" Norman Tebbit.
  • meanwhile
    meanwhile Posts: 392
    downfader wrote:
    ..I do sweat like a priest in a brothel

    I certainly hope any priest who visits a brothel wears proper protective gear - perhaps that's why they sweat so much?

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