Epic fail

Where there is despair, let us bring Chope

not sure there is any valid argument for not wearing a helmet

As I understand it most brain related injurys are casued by the brain moving inside the head, something that a helmet can do very little about.

Not an expert though, just something I remember reading and I wear a helmet.

not sure there is any valid argument for not wearing a helmet if you have recently had a brain injury!

Lightning never strikes the same place twice.

I'm not an expert either but I do know that a lot of cycling brain injuries come from skull fractures rather than what you describe.

My anecdata is that of the roughly 5 or so forumengers I know who have suffered cycling brain injuries, only one of them was wearing a helmet at the time.

No point having the helmet debate a millionth time. We all make our own choices.

The first half of your statement is true, the second half is not.
Helmets reduce the amount your brain moves around by reducing the accelleration of your head when it hits something hard. That can be either linear through compression of the foam, or rotational through providing a slippier surface.
Helmets aren't perfect, they won't save you from everything, but they're a lot better than nothing at all.

James Cracknell and his neurosurgeon are pretty convinced that his MIPS compliant helmet saved his life from a brain twisting injury.

I've come across a few instances where MIPS helmets have possibly saved skiers lives in recent years too.

Yet Kask, a major ski and cycle helmet manufacturer discounts that MIPs offers any benefit? (From what I read due to a scalp naturally providing rotational etc).

Not arguing, just genuinely interested.

@chiroshi certainly agree it's better than nothing.

Please, there's a helmet thread for a reason.

No, your a helmet

Using italics to demonstrate that you know that your spelling something wrong on purpose is surely epic fail in itself.

Saying someone is using italics to demonstrate that they know that their spelling something wrong on purpose when there clearly doing it to demonstrate that the emphasis in the sentence is on that word is surely epic fail in itself etc and so on.

Hold on, surely using etc and so on instead of saying what you really mean (e.g. quantifying how many times to ad finitum) when saying someone is using italics to demonstrate that they know that their spelling something wrong on purpose when there clearly doing it to demonstrate that the emphasis in the sentence is on that word is surely epic fail in itself etc and so on?

Shirley making the same spelling mistake that you're pointing out is an epic fail in itself etc and so on ad finitum?

no your an italics

Really? He's lost the accent.

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Heres a new template for you guys! No, no, we insist.

So dumb

I got a flash message from a scammer claiming to be my mum who had smashed her phone and needed me to help her.

had never heard of these but apparently it's an emergency tier sms message that seems to have no security around who uses it and is treated as super important by my phones OS.

good job to the morons who implemented that then.

"Modern" phone systems are like the Internet was in the early 90s.

On that basis I'm sure we'll have some form of security on messaging/etc in, er, 2040? (And it may just start working properly in 2050.)

"Modern" phone systems are like the Internet was in the early 90s.

Shades of Kevin Mitnick

whistles innocently at 2600 baud

My inlaws got this a few weeks back and paid them £3k.... this was less than a year after they were scammed out of their life savings.

That's bleak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTqz4duPdYQ