..Always look on the bright side of life...Originally Posted by Krusti
I love helmets....people can't see how UGLY I am
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..Always look on the bright side of life...I love helmets....people can't see how UGLY I am
Geriatric hoon
Once upon a time we only wore a helmet if we were going on a journey to somewhere dangerous. (Like Auckland)
I can think of several aquaintances who died as a direct result of the lack of head protection.
The first was a new motorcyclist who bought a brand new Triumph T100, (it was purple and silver with a half skirt for the historans...) His riding skills were umm underdeveloped(?) but he had one good trick. He could ride standing on the seat with his arms out to the side. Apparently he was doing this on one of our city streets when the front wheel hit a stone which resulted in him headbutting a telegraph pole. Those jarrah poles weren't called hardwood in jest.
The other was a more serious minded guy, he had a new white AJS 650. He even wore a helmet when almost nobody else did. He was, however, some kind of a senior scout and on this ocasion, on his way home from Scouts, he was wearing his beret. They found him and a cat dead in the street and the assumption was that he lost control trying to avoid the cat.
There was another but that probably involved a water buffalo.
(Don't feel bad if you're wearing one of the suits made from buffalo, they've taken out their share of motor bike riders...)
Previously, I wore cheap helmets or none at all. I didn't wear gloves and suffered no damage (except maybe the arthritis:-) and I never had any more protection in my clothing than a leather jacket or the odd strategically placed double layer of waxed cotton.
Now I feel somewhat exposed if I haven't got gloves, my Scherbertin or my Shoei, and my CE approved armoured jacket at least. I guess it's all about risk assessment really.
But then, as someone else said, in this country it's common to meet smokers who worry about terrorism...
unless you can prove it.
Really? I've never heard anyone say that before, and mean it, apart from a Jehova Witness.
Why Jim? Is it a religious belief?
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Forum whore
No. The technology doesn't work. It is a cruel torture. For every success story you hear there are 5 that didn't last very long, and the reality is that you will find yourself in a spiral of increasing frequency of requiring yet another transplant.
However I support utterly the idea of grafted organs reproduced from your own DNA and grown in a pig. The rejection drama doesn't happen with your own DNA. Animal rights activists have completely stuffed this project though, just as it was showing signs of success.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Hardcore Biker
Im a doner on my licence and they can have my parts so if I ever lose it someone gain but I have to confess..
Cornia. blurred
Liver. Barely functional
Kidneys Supriseingly working
lungs ditto
Hair not of use
Bone Marrow showing signs of degeneration
pepuatory Gland Exhausted
Heart Wrecking only parts available
Penis in fine condition (low mileage)
Brain Hardly used mint condition
Your never to old for a sportsbike
Fair weather rider
passenger
Registered User
Hang on - sounds a lot like me...
Gatvol
I sort of agree with you re: the organ donation. Once you have received say a heart, you're on immunosupressive drugs for the rest of your life, and there's always the risk of rejection, leaving you with the constant feeling of playing russian roulette.
However, if I had someone I loved (partner for example), I would give it a go. Even if it only gave me 5, 2 or even 1 more year of life, that would be one more year spent with someone special. Life is so fricken short it's scary. I don't know why, but I've been thinking about that in very recent months/years.
This is another topic completely, but I can't understand how parents of a certain religion can stand next to their sick child, and say "no, we don't give permission for a blood transfusion". A simple procedure that when required, will save the childs life. It makes me endlessly happy when the hospital administration then takes away parental rights from the parents, and gives the transfusion under their own authority.
The parents should be done for failing to provide the neccessities of life.
Forum whore
That's one of the reasons I don't like this technology. It is entirely selfish for EVERYONE involved. Every time you have a General Anaesthetic you have an 8% chance of just dropping dead right there. The chances of dying during a transplant procedure are much higher, and all the family are made aware of this prior to surgery. So you have the worry of the surgery, the grief of dying on the table, and the grief of a premature death a few years up the track, or you refuse the transplant, die at your alloted time, and let your family and friends move on.
It's all about, "I don't want to die now", and "I don't want him/her to die." It's also about the transplant surgeon increasing their stats of successful transplant procedure; "I'm the man - I just popped a baboon heart into a 50 year old male's chest - and it works! I'm the man." If you think these guys/gals aren't like that, then think again. There are 2 doctors I've met in my entire life who cared more about the patient than the procedure, and neither of them practice now. One's a gardener, and the other has a bar. They reckon they provide more emotional satisfaction for people that way.
For some reason we've become hung up on the "right to life" at all costs and by all means, instead of accepting that death is a natural part of life. I defintely think that, as is usual with the medical profession, the ethics of transplant technology have yet to meet the reality of the situation that technology creates for the people left caring and living with the recipients.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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