Who wears a helmet?

@Brooksy,

hmm, actually, a gondola is a type of flat bottomed boat as usually seen in Venice )

There are many ways you can use the term gondola for things which are suspended and used for carrying people, and I can appreciate that you would call something as large as the one I was talking about as a cable car. However, I would personally call a cable car something which goes back and forth on the same cable, like the Wengen cable car up to the main ski area. The lift I was talking about in Kitzbuhel actually has many gondolas hanging from the cable and it goes round in a continuous loop, never actually stopping for loading and unloading. Personally, I therefore would class it as a gondola, but each to their own.

Here you go guy's ski lifts explained for the not so bright :wink:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_lift

Well, what do you know, those things we have called cable cars for years are actually Aerial Tramways. :shock:

Best get all the map makers to change their lift descriptions :twisted:

The Telegraph, Sunday 19th

Sandra Thompson was coming down a slope at a popular Austrian ski resort when she hit her head during "an innocuous little fall" in front of her family.

Although Mrs Thompson was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, she suffered severe brain swelling and died two days later after relatives decided to switch off her life support machine.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/9090543/British-woman-59-dies-in-snowboard-tragedy.html

:( :(

Oh nasty. I was there when that happened. I saw the air ambulance (I'm assuming it was for this, as I only saw it twice all week), but had not realised the outcome, and the reps certainly said nothing during the week.

My thoughts and sympathies go out to her family, it is very tragic.

However, like the argument over Natasha Richardson not wearing a helmet, the fact that she was wearing one does not change my feelings over the benefits of wearing a helmet, just as it will not change the feelings of those who do not wish to wear one.

Wildly off topic I admit but have just watched an episode of "bones" where the lead male character refuses to wear a seat belt in a vehicle as it would slow him down exiting the vehicle in an emergency. I've heard real police officers and army soldiers say the same. Characters will also regularly talk on mobile phones whilst driving. (Also banned in a lot of Europe.)

F1 drivers used to believe it was safer to be thrown clear of an open vehicle in the event of a crash. Imagine that view being expressed today!

It has been law to wear a seat belt in a car for (20ish) years as it's proven to be safer.

Seems that people can find what they genuinely believe to be "proof" to suit any argument.

To me it's all a level of risk. Some things increase risk. Be it a lack of armor, or an increase in speed or difficulty, or distractions such as conversation or music. Some things decrease risk. Speed limits, alcohol bans, legislation, training etc.

I just wish we lived in a society where we were all able to determine our own level of acceptable risk. So often it is the acts of the moronic few that force legislation to limit the freedom of the majority.

O.S.

Marksman wrote:Wildly off topic I admit but have just watched an episode of "bones" where the lead male character refuses to wear a seat belt in a vehicle as it would slow him down exiting the vehicle in an emergency. I've heard real police officers and army soldiers ay the same.
Characters will also regularly talk on mobile phones whilst driving. (Also banned in a lot of Europe.)

F1 drivers used to believe it was safer to be thrown clear of an open vehicle in the event of a crash. Imagine that view being expressed today!

It has been law to wear a seat belt in a car for (20ish) years as it's proven to be safer.

Seems that people can find what they genuinely believe to be "proof" to suit any argument.

To me it's all a level of risk. Some things increase risk. Be it a lack of armor, or an increase in speed or difficulty, or distractions such as conversation or music. Some things decrease risk. Speed limits, alcohol bans, legislation, training etc.

I just wish we lived in a society where we were all able to determine our own level of acceptable risk. So often it is the acts of the moronic few that force legislation to limit the freedom of the majority.

O.S.

GPWM sir. Especially the last paragraph.

I have to say I don't connect wearing a seat belt in a car, the same as a crash helmet on a motorbike, with wearing a ski helmet. 2 are law, 1 isn't, simples.

Far Queue wrote:@Brooksy,

hmm, actually, a gondola is a type of flat bottomed boat as usually seen in Venice )

There are many ways you can use the term gondola for things which are suspended and used for carrying people, and I can appreciate that you would call something as large as the one I was talking about as a cable car. However, I would personally call a cable car something which goes back and forth on the same cable, like the Wengen cable car up to the main ski area. The lift I was talking about in Kitzbuhel actually has many gondolas hanging from the cable and it goes round in a continuous loop, never actually stopping for loading and unloading. Personally, I therefore would class it as a gondola, but each to their own.

I have also heard of what I call gondolas referred to as bubbles by others but then you could say that bubbles are actually something made by soap, lots of names for items can have a different meaning as you should know ) .

What you are saying about many gondolas on a loop is exactly what I too call gondolas so we must agree there at least, but as I said before these have a six seat capacity & find your 50 odd passengers in one very odd, admittedly I have not been in the one you mentioned.

Oh one more thing your user name sounds like a well known saying that's abbreviated by the letters FY was that intentional or coincidence, just wondering :oops: