The CycleChat Helmet Debate Thread

[Rickshaw Phil]

Although this thread refers to a radio play the theme is the use of helmets so the discussion has been merged with the Helmet Debate thread.

 

[Tim Hall]

Just occasionally though you are treated to a James McLevy, Inspector of Police play. 45 minutes of pure gold. I have spent a small fortune on duetting them on CD as well.

OT: Grab them for nothing from the BBC website using get_iplayer then save to a medium of your choice.

I am James McLevy, Inspector of Police.

 

[MontyVeda]

I thought it was awful the way the play misled listeners into believing that people in vegetative states can be wired up to computers and can then have a lovely time in fairyland interacting with their irritatingly precocious grandsons. Down with this sort of thing.

but it's just a play... a piece of fiction set in fantasy land. We don't complain that listeners are misled into believing that dwarves and dragons exist when broadcasting a Tolkien play.... I'd just complain that they're broadcasting a bloody Tolkien play again. I do have to complain when they yet again discuss cycle helmets on that hateful Radio 2 lunchtime slot... luring us in with the hope that we'll hear something insightful, rational and balanced when all we get is the tried and tested 'click bait' for a phone-in programme.

 

[MontyVeda]

ASJT

guilty as charged

 

[glenn forger]

In them Asda adverts do the cyclists have to wear helmets in case James Martin attacks them?

 

[ufkacbln]

ASDA is typical of helmet promotion.

Cycles badly put together, forks reversed

But riding a dangerous bike is OK...... because when the accident happens they are wearing helmets

 

[anothersam]

It's the thoughtless and ill informed do-goodiness - new word, (c) Drago Enterprises 2016 - of it all that grinds my gears.

A quick search will yield rampant copyright infringement…

He looks disappointed when I tell him that I loathe Tolkien – his rambling style, monotonous imagination and those horrible Hobbits with their virtuous living and do-goodiness.

What is “do-goodiness”? “Do goodiness” is simply this! Be like me! I may not be perfect, but I'm certainly better than you!

When our little slavey is played by that wide-eyed mistress of do-goodiness Greer Garson, and the upright chip by the impeccably stolid Gregory Peck, we just know we are in for a studiously well-mounted yet craftily well-wearisome time.

It is like we have been suffocated for years by our own do-goodiness, ensnared by our own balanced views and shackled by our own diplomacy.

 

[martint235]

This is the thread that just refuses to die.

 

[mickle]

This is the thread that just refuses to die.

You could try running over it with a truck.

 

[EnPassant]

This is the thread that just refuses to die.

Because a helmet saved its life. Obvious innit?

 

[Mugshot]

Just had THIS through on an email from Chain Reaction, subject heading "Protect yourself before you wreck yourself!"

 

[Mugshot]

Me too but, guessing what it would be, I just deleted it.

I've emailed them for some clarification.

 

[srw]

If memory serves, the ASA have rapped someone's knuckles for claiming something similar quite recently. If you've got nothing better to do, probably worth a punt.

 

[Mugshot]

I've got nothing better to do.

 

[Starchivore]

the light of recent heat I left my helmet at home for today’s commute in order to avoid with a sweaty mess of hair. Normally I don’t have this luxury but my girlfriend is visiting her folks so there is no one to look out for my well-being, happily. It was a nice feeling. I generally wear a helmet just to avoid arguments and worry.

That added nothing to the thread but everything has already been said anyway so I think It’s all good.