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“girle man riding with a helmet on”

Apparently being a man means splattering your brains on the road
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How many cases of splattering brains have you heard of.

Helmets for bicyclists is a fairly new ‘rule’. However since few if any states have a LAW requiring adults to use them, the freedom of choice is a ‘good’ thing.

Of course my ‘favorite’ site is a 40ish man dressed in Spandex riding a bike with his helmet...then again, it is easier to ‘take’ rather than some legislation forcing the helmet. WE MUST DRAW THE LINE THOUGH IF FORCED TO WEAR SPANDEX. <: <:

I was talking to my daughter yesterday and the ex wife was there and I made a reference to the stupidity of the teacher that called Police in PA because of the theme to a TV show.
X thought it was perfectly natural.
I also brought up the incident of the BB gun in the woods and the X also thought that was a perfectly normal thing.
I ‘walked’ away from her (X) when she mentioned a kid should get suspended for wearing his Brothers USMC sweat shirt - not because the sweat shirt was not part of the school ‘uniform’, but because it depicted violence.

I have never asked (for obvious reasons and I have a ‘short fuse’) but I would venture to say she (X) voted for obozo. That is if she got off her derriere and took the trouble to vote - In essence she is one of those that ‘rather than waste a vote’ would rather sit around and moan and groan over what was going on....
She is the eptitome of telling someone “If you don’t vote, STFU, you gave away your ‘right’ to complain”/

Now this thing about Military garb is really ironic seeing as how she ‘took a check’ from DOD for 30+ years and, oh yes, she is one of the ones that believe the DOD Civilians rate the same ‘medals and awards’ as the Military because “WE are doing the same job”.

In case one might wonder (or care) I am NOT bitter with X because of any settlement etc, it was an uncontested D after 40 yrs.

My only regret is marrying her in the 1st place though I did end up with a couple of fine daughters and 5 grandchildren.
Which despite her ‘shortcomings’, she did a fine job of raising etc... I was present on on scene, but left the rearing to her, I just had to do the ‘heavy lifting’.

spandex on men is plain wrong, just so wrong wrong wrong, my wife woudl leave me if I wore them and I have a decent athletic body and rightly so for her too.

This wearing a helmet, well I; not sure if it is in my state as 99% of men do not wear helmets nor do the kids in my neighborhood but those men which do begs me to ask , how did they ever get through childhood with out all their padding, helmets etc?.

Next we’ll have mothers raising their boys and watch them play Barbie and tell others that it;s OK to do.
No wonder real men are disapearing.

How many cases of splattering brains have you heard of.

1) 10 years ago my wife and I were at a friends of ours house late in the evening. We heard a loud crash. A teenager had managed to run into the back of a parked car that was under a burnt out street lamp. He was thrown through the back window. When we got to him he was unconscious and suffering severe head trauma. From the top of his head to his chin it looked like hamburger. A helmet would not have prevented the accident but it would have reduced the severity of the injuries.

2) My wife was riding her bike in a local park on a paved road. A branch lodged in her spoke and she flew over the handlebars. Broke her nose, right elbow, left wrist. I believe the helmet saved her life at worst or a concussion at best.

3) Three years ago at a triathlon I was in a deer ran out of the woods across the road and collided with a cyclist. The cyclist was thrown over 15 feet. he suffered road rash on the side of his face and a broken collar bone, but no other head trauma thanks to the mandated helmet.

I won't get on my cycle with out a helmet. BTW I am 52 weigh in at 200 lbs and wear spandex when training or racing.