Member of my partners family contracted meningitis four months back and was found unconscious in his flat. Whilst thankfully he has full motor function he's lost his memory and is old personality, and he appears to have very little recall of the present or previous time since his loss of consciousness. The brain damage by the virus us now thought to be permanent.
..this doesn't have anything to do with helmets, other than to point out that there's other risks to your brain as well..
My lack of helmet worked for me.
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Re: My lack of helmet worked for me.
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Re: My lack of helmet worked for me.
Lol, this thread is as bad as the "Helmet worked for me" thread.
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Re: My lack of helmet worked for me.
So taking steps to avoid crashing in the first place is less logical than wearing a helmet in the presumption that you'll crash?Nearholmer wrote: 13 Oct 2024, 8:19pmComes across as self-satisfaction backed by illogicality, I’m afraid.Superior? Nope. If by superior you mean safer I must be doing something right which everyone reporting crashes isn't doing.
The OP is, presumably, alive and his head intact so whatever his approach it seems to be working for him.
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Nearholmer
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Re: My lack of helmet worked for me.
More illogicality.
The fact that the OP hasn’t banged his/her head is no more useful as evidence of anything general than is the fact that a particular habitual helmet-wearer hasn’t banged theirs either; it proves nothing except the very particular in each case: that the two individuals haven’t banged their heads up to now.
If I see an orange-bellied newt in a pond, does that prove that orange-bellied newts are never eaten by herons? No. All it proves is that the one I am looking at hasn’t been eaten by a heron yet. It may go on to live to a ripe old age, or it may get gobbled-up tomorrow, and if it were to boast that it’s orange-belliedness had rendered it safe so far, it would be fooling itself.
The fact that the OP hasn’t banged his/her head is no more useful as evidence of anything general than is the fact that a particular habitual helmet-wearer hasn’t banged theirs either; it proves nothing except the very particular in each case: that the two individuals haven’t banged their heads up to now.
If I see an orange-bellied newt in a pond, does that prove that orange-bellied newts are never eaten by herons? No. All it proves is that the one I am looking at hasn’t been eaten by a heron yet. It may go on to live to a ripe old age, or it may get gobbled-up tomorrow, and if it were to boast that it’s orange-belliedness had rendered it safe so far, it would be fooling itself.
Re: My lack of helmet worked for me.
What about my lifetime experience of a couple of crashes in which, had helmets been invented and had I been wearing one, I would certainly have been told that the helmet had saved me from the concussion or worse that hospital examination revealed I had not in fact suffered?