Today I'm angry about.....

[Bruce Rioja]

Biker I know told me that the reason people get hurt is that generally they low side it (fall off on the inside when tilting) and hit kerbs, walls, other cars etc. On a track there's often no impact as they just slide along / roll and there's no collision. Might be burns and all that though.

Shouldn't be if they're kitted out in para-aramid.

[Athers]

Yeah true, obvs got the best gear when I see em sliding on their backsides on telly

[thebish]

Biker I know told me that the reason people get hurt is that generally they low side it (fall off on the inside when tilting) and hit kerbs, walls, other cars etc. On a track there's often no impact as they just slide along / roll and there's no collision. Might be burns and all that though.

Shouldn't be if they're kitted out in para-aramid.

when i did my bike test - the bike school specialised in showing a folder of pictures of bikers who had slid along on tarmac at a range of speeds without protective gear..

gloveless hands at 30mph on tarmac - not a pretty sight..

feet protected only by trainers on tarmac at 40mph - a mangled wreck...

legs that were just encased in jeans at 60mph - not much left...

yet still i see people riding in t-shirts and shorts with no gloves in the summer....

[Il Pirate]

I realise that pedantic robots like yourselves cant grasp the concept of a nickname but even the dvla call road tax road tax.

Apostrophe shortage?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Biker I know told me that the reason people get hurt is that generally they low side it (fall off on the inside when tilting) and hit kerbs, walls, other cars etc. On a track there's often no impact as they just slide along / roll and there's no collision. Might be burns and all that though.

Shouldn't be if they're kitted out in para-aramid.

when i did my bike test - the bike school specialised in showing a folder of pictures of bikers who had slid along on tarmac at a range of speeds without protective gear..

gloveless hands at 30mph on tarmac - not a pretty sight..

feet protected only by trainers on tarmac at 40mph - a mangled wreck...

legs that were just encased in jeans at 60mph - not much left...

yet still i see people riding in t-shirts and shorts with no gloves in the summer....

Some of us used to ride without helmets, socks or shoes. Luckily I never needed to attempt a breaking manoeuvre by the use of my little filthy pinkies.

[Bruce Rioja]

I quite enjoyed this from a cycling campaign group,

"The Cambridge Cycle Campaign suggested that "Arguing that cyclists therefore have less right to use the roads is like arguing that smokers should take precedence for medical treatment, because non-smokers don't buy cigarettes and therefore 'don't pay hospital tax' ".

Not according to this chap. Blimey.

Gedd aaaart of it!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

FAS.

I can say no more due to sheer rage
and the need to control the rage
plus the total despair I have in my inability to change what now is even though it need not have been

[jimbo]

Found out today I'll be commuting for 3 hours a day from April to August. Had a lovely summer planned in my head and now I'll be spending 15 hours a week in my bloody car

[Montreal Wanderer]

FAS.

I can say no more due to sheer rage
and the need to control the rage
plus the total despair I have in my inability to change what now is even though it need not have been

I cannot find any acronym for FAS which explains this post. Unless it is a comment on the post above (Funny as something) but you don't seem to find it funny. Calm down and explain, Spotty.

[Hoboh]

I hope Clegg has enough tents in his garden!

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Moral my ass, we didn't start this rampage in Syria so I suspect and I suspect many others feel no 'moral' guilt! Sympathy maybe but moral? feck off Clegglet

[Prufrock]

I hope you realise a generation of internet users base their opinions 100% on the opposite of what you write.

If you said that Hitler was a bad egg, I'd begin to question my education.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

FAS.

I can say no more due to sheer rage
and the need to control the rage
plus the total despair I have in my inability to change what now is even though it need not have been

I cannot find any acronym for FAS which explains this post. Unless it is a comment on the post above (Funny as something) but you don't seem to find it funny. Calm down and explain, Spotty.

I'd never heard of it either
Here is a link http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency ... 000911.htm
and here is another http://www.aafp.org/afp/2005/0715/p279.html

Someone I know, who we all told to stop smoking and drinking, continued regardless and her child was born last week with all the signs and now has been whisked into hospital with a hole in its heart. I'm fuming.


On a related subject Monty, you probably have never heard of her but a woman in Glasgow has been arrested over the murder of her child called Mikaael (who had supposedly disappeared overnight in the manner of Madelaine McCann). The BBC have been following developments and had two pictures in the headlines of one of the update articles. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25817724 I was a bit puzzled at first about the second photo, until it dawned on me that the picture editor knows about FAS and was pointing out that this kid has the full range of symptoms (including the railroad ears, hence the side shot of his head). It would seem the abuse of this particular child started well before he was born.

[bobo the clown]

It's amazing any of us got out alive and near normal, don't you think ?

What, with all those factories, factory chimneys, lead in petrol, parents drinking and smoking before and after birth .... during probably. Unfettered perv's round every corner, murderers, malnutrition, grammar schools. Feet & feet of snow, ice on the inside of windows, private bonfires, playing with fireworks. Smacking, the cane at school, playing football in school-yards without kit, goals or coaches. Parks without soft-fall areas.

How did we manage to survive ?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

It's not much to ask. To stop drinking during pregnancy. I asked my mother about this - this is not a modern 'fad', it was well known in the 50s. And the kid I'm talking about is neither 'near normal' nor at this moment likely to be alive next week...

[Athers]

It's amazing any of us got out alive and near normal, don't you think ?

What, with all those factories, factory chimneys, lead in petrol, parents drinking and smoking before and after birth .... during probably. Unfettered perv's round every corner, murderers, malnutrition, grammar schools. Feet & feet of snow, ice on the inside of windows, private bonfires, playing with fireworks. Smacking, the cane at school, playing football in school-yards without kit, goals or coaches. Parks without soft-fall areas.

How did we manage to survive ?

You've forgotten mobile phone radiation, as a lady who asked me to sign a petition once suggested to me.

[thebish]

this graph seems to suggest that child deaths from accidents has decreased significantly... not all of us managed to survive...



source: http://www.makingthelink.net/resource/h ... -accidents

[Worthy4England]

That's all down to McDonalds.

Kids just don't die from choking on broccoli and cabbage anymore.

[bobo the clown]

Darwin. Just think "Darwin".

[Wandering Willy]

I imagine it's hard to hurt yourself when you stay indoors playing xbox

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I imagine it's hard to hurt yourself when you stay indoors playing xbox

this graph seems to suggest that deaths from staying indoors playing xbox has increased dramatically