like a hole in the head!
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substituteWow. If you're in search of a high-quality internet-wide flamewar, there's no better place to start than as I did today: looking for information about bicycle helmets.
I did find out what I needed to know, but holy cats! People who don't want helmets REALLY REALLY don't want them! The wikipedia article is a classic NPOV disaster, to start, and then you look elsewhere and whoa.
I mean, I don't like a sweaty head any more than the next guy, but.
I did find out what I needed to know, but holy cats! People who don't want helmets REALLY REALLY don't want them! The wikipedia article is a classic NPOV disaster, to start, and then you look elsewhere and whoa.
I mean, I don't like a sweaty head any more than the next guy, but.
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Re: torsonial forces!
Date: 2008-03-09 12:01 am (UTC)Public health and personal freedom are inversely related. You get jailed if you have active TB, and not too many people disagree with that. But lots of people find smoking bans offensive. Bike helmets are somewhere in between, but certainly in the Argument Zone.
Maybe the virulence of the debate is partly due to bicyclists, who tend to be individualists and ornery, not to say cranky. (get it? crank?