Nuxx:4e3414b3$0$2495$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk

Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!goblin3!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!txtfeed2.tudelft.nl!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!dedekind.zen.co.uk!zen.net.uk!hamilton.zen.co.uk!prichard.zen.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4e3414b3$0$2495$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Doctors against helmet compulsion Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:26:57 +0100 References:   <99gl1iFedvU1@mid.individual.net>  <4e335405$0$2943$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk>  <99hqu2F6k2U2@mid.individual.net> Lines: 33 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <99hqu2F6k2U2@mid.individual.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Zen Internet NNTP-Posting-Host: 6bf225af.news.zen.co.uk X-Trace: DXC=hiAGBDD;>@1G>2Zgg858V:0g@SS;SF6n7R9OH0:RnEN4il^C9_LA;Z7`:ITG5aA:c7SQ On 30/07/2011 08:29, Simon Mason wrote: > >> "Nuxx Bar"  wrote: >>> Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: > >>>> I have been told by a doctor after a crash that I "must" start >>>> wearing a >>>> helmet or stop cycling. This despite the fact that I showed no signs or >>>> symptoms of any lasting damage to my head after said crash. I am >>>> completely certain that had I been wearing one I'd have been solemnly >>>> assured that it saved my life. > >>> Yet again, we get deceit from Chapman: he *implies* above that he didn't >>> take the doctor's advice and that he didn't start wearing a helmet, but >>> actually, he *did* start wearing a helmet, and still does to this day. > >> Why are you so obsessed whether people wear helmets or not? >> What difference does it make to you? > > Why are *you* so obsessed with whether people wear cycling helmets (so > much so that you boast of how few people wear safety helmets in the city > where you live and in other places)? > > What difference does it make to you?

This, and anyway, I don't care about whether "people" wear helmets, I just care about pointing out that Chapman wears one, and that therefore his "arguments" on the subject should be taken with a pinch of salt to say the least.

I will continue to point out Chapman's hypocrisy and dishonesty whenever I see fit; anyone who doesn't like it should realise that I don't care.