The Ski Helmet Debate

I am SO glad I restarted this thread!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I have to say it is really good to see everyones point of view. Personal preference is the one though....take that from us and you take away the fun. Helmets on Boys and Girls!! :twisted:

I will agree to a point. But if your healthcare is State-provided the costs can become too high for the public. This is the general rationale and it's fairly reasonable. Plus, of course, there can be a certain pressure from insurance companies if at the certain segment their pay-offs are going up. They know exactly how many various head injuries they had to cover, and how many they have to cover now, they know the statistics, so at some point they just don't want to pay at the current premiums. Because insurance only works when nothing or almost nothing happens, if certain things start happening more often and very often it becomes a losing business.
So, the choice is kind of yours but you can only be fully entitled to it when all the costs associated with risks that you take, you are paying out of your own pocket. And buying insurance is not "paying out of own pocket", it is in fact paying out pockets of others.

Mekka wrote:Looking like Robocop is kinda cool.

Agreed.

Riding a Vespa is cool too, and furry ears... it goes without saying.

But crazy frog.... I'm struggling...

Tony_H wrote:

brooksy wrote:

EmmaEvs wrote:Brooksy I think you've got it. I'm coming around to the idea that a head impact is far less likely to end in tears if it's surrounded in soft material. I don't know what i was thinking. Cheap, light, and easily replaced if mislaid, with a hotel hand towel, pair of pants or even a coffee shop napkin. Perfect.

EmmaEvs, Brilliant & all sounds so much more fashionable than a lid,
even Tony might go for it if you can wrap an arsenal shirt round it. :lol:

Wo there, I am not an Arsenal fan at all. I jut give my Birmimgham supporting mate some stick about the final!

Sorry Tony for the insulting you. :oops:

brooksy wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

brooksy wrote:

EmmaEvs wrote:Brooksy I think you've got it. I'm coming around to the idea that a head impact is far less likely to end in tears if it's surrounded in soft material. I don't know what i was thinking. Cheap, light, and easily replaced if mislaid, with a hotel hand towel, pair of pants or even a coffee shop napkin. Perfect.

EmmaEvs, Brilliant & all sounds so much more fashionable than a lid,
even Tony might go for it if you can wrap an arsenal shirt round it. :lol:

Wo there, I am not an Arsenal fan at all. I jut give my Birmimgham supporting mate some stick about the final!

Sorry Tony for the insulting you. :oops:

:wink: If you want to insult me, suggest I support Northampton or Cambridge.

Wake me up when this thread has finished :wink:

Mekka wrote:Looking like Robocop is kinda cool.

Not in my world

Wake me up when this thread has finished

I couldn't agree more, i havent seen any real new opinions for 40 pages!