Helmet ******s

On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 01:45:04 GMT, "Tom Kunich"
wrote:
As is always the case at this time of the year, some ****** has to bring up
helmets in a way that shows helmet ******s as what they are - stupid ass
blowhards:

As is always the case when some jerkoff wants a MHL, somebody trolls
to start another usenet helmet war.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3451325.stm

That is pretty dumb.

You can take the cowboy out of the country but you can't take the hat off of
the cowboy.

Don't confuse country cowboys with Australian bushmen a la Crocodile
Dundee.

Next: baby safety helmet for any time they're put in strollers.

Next: Usenet war about potential mandatory glove laws when somebody
loses a hand in a machine and OSHA mandates gloves for that
industry...
--
Rick "You call that a troll? Now THAT'S a troll!" Dundee

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 03:40:34 -0500, "Q." LostVideos-AT-hotmail.com
wrote:
Yeah well ... take that ...
http://tinyurl.com/25mqd (way too big to post)

*sigh*...even with a fixed-width font, it just doesn't look as good
as it would on an old 25 line console-mode screen...
--
Rick Onanian

"Rick Onanian"

As is always the case when some jerkoff wants a MHL, somebody trolls
to start another usenet helmet war.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3451325.stm

That is pretty dumb.

Next: Usenet war about potential mandatory glove laws when somebody
loses a hand in a machine and OSHA mandates gloves for that
industry...

In the park where I do volunteer MTB patrol, a woman died after her horse
reared and she struck her unhelmeted head on a rock. Most equestrians wear
helmets these days.

I got my first (and only) factory job because the kid who ran the machine
before me lost his hand in it.

I take this **** seriously. Whatever.

On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 15:39:18 GMT, "Peter Cole"
wrote:
"Rick Onanian"
Next: Usenet war about potential mandatory glove laws when somebody
loses a hand in a machine and OSHA mandates gloves for that
industry...

In the park where I do volunteer MTB patrol, a woman died after her horse
reared and she struck her unhelmeted head on a rock. Most equestrians wear
helmets these days.

I got my first (and only) factory job because the kid who ran the machine
before me lost his hand in it.

I take this **** seriously. Whatever.

It's great to take it seriously outside of the usenet context; but
here, it makes absolutely no difference whatsoever, and one can save
lots of bandwidth by rapidly defusing it with humor [or a reasonable
facsimile] before it grows (although there's no guarantee that the
fuse will not stay lit anyway). Did you see last year's big helmet
war? Probably a good two thousand messages among three or four
threads, and I doubt that there was a single person who was
influenced in any way.
--
Rick Onanian

Q. LostVideos-AT-hotmail.com wrote:
: http://tinyurl.com/25mqd (way too big to post)

ohh, come on .. i'm old enuf to remember the BBS days. you could have at
least given me one of the nudie ones.
--
david reuteler

I'm sure my head will be influenced in some way if I wear a helmet.

Rick Onanian wrote:

Did you see last year's big helmet
war? Probably a good two thousand messages among three or four
threads, and I doubt that there was a single person who was
influenced in any way.
--
Rick Onanian

"Peter Keller" wrote in message
news
On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 23:51:06 -0500, Q. wrote:

"Tom Kunich" wrote in message
link.net...
As is always the case at this time of the year, some ****** has to
bring
up
helmets in a way that shows helmet ******s as what they are - stupid
ass
blowhards:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3451325.stm

You can take the cowboy out of the country but you can't take the hat
off
of
the cowboy.

Next: baby safety helmet for any time they're put in strollers.

Christopher Reeves fell from a horse and landed *helmet first* ... fat
lotta
good it did him.

C.Q.C.

You wouldn't expect it to. I don't see any way a helmet can protect
against neck injury.

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were used in its preparation or propagation.


Of course you can't relive an old injury but some people believe that if he
wasn't wearing the helmet he would have sustained a fractured skull that
would have given him a better chance of complete recovery.

But "what if's" aren't worth a damn.

"Trent Piepho" wrote in message
...

Ok, who's next after that? Are there any helmet laws that effect more
than
20% of any population? Or is it just minorities who get told what to
wear?
Easier to get the laws passed when you select some small group, and say,
"look
at these risk takers, they do something you don't! They raise your
insurance!
Make them wear a funny hat so we can all see that they are different.
Isn't
it fun to make other people live they way you want them to live?"

You've hit the nail directly on the head Trent. (better wear a safety helmet
for that too)

If you don't fight it in every single instance you are going to be next.

"David Reuteler" wrote in message
...
Q. LostVideos-AT-hotmail.com wrote:
: http://tinyurl.com/25mqd (way too big to post)

ohh, come on .. i'm old enuf to remember the BBS days. you could have at
least given me one of the nudie ones.

LOL! That's exactly what I was thinking of when I looked that one up. But
this is a public forum, and I'm not Janet Jackson (doh!).

However, since you asked ...

http://tinyurl.com/3glgs

And ASCII art is even preserved in a museum:

http://tinyurl.com/ypz44

Ahhhh ... the good ol' days of Commodore 64's and daisy wheel printers
*sniff*

C.Q.C.

On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 01:45:04 GMT, "Tom Kunich"
wrote:

As is always the case at this time of the year, some ****** has to bring up
helmets in a way that shows helmet ******s as what they are - stupid ass
blowhards:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3451325.stm

You can take the cowboy out of the country but you can't take the hat off of
the cowboy.

Next: baby safety helmet for any time they're put in strollers.

I think we should thank the Australians for being guinea pigs in
studying the effects of helmet compulsion. If they are willing to be
of use to horse riders in other countries as well, then why not?