Originally Posted by
buzzman
I just spent two days shooting a fight scene in a movie. In the scene I am body slammed full force by a 350 lb guy into the side of a parked car, kicked in the groin hard enough to raise me off the ground by the same guy wearing heavy work boots, collapse to my knees and then am thrown hard to the pavement. The scene took 2 days to shoot so I did this again and again. Anyone who does not think that a little bit of foam and plastic provides substantial protection should work a day like this without that kind of protection.
That's right. Your brain is contained in the area protected by your jockstrap. However, you must realize that most of us keep our brains in our heads? No?
Originally Posted by
buzzman
cannot help but put even more trust in my helmet to make a difference as to the severity of head injury I might receive should my head hit the ground or an object.
Again, yes, your faith in the Helmet God is touching, but completely irrelevant when compared to the mass statistics which pit your puny inexperience to the multitudes of people who have been brain damaged when hit by a car and the multitudes who have survived unscathed.
Originally Posted by
buzzman
And yes, I know the head, and more specifically the brain, takes impact differently than other parts of the body but so do the kidneys, the spine, the knees and the testicles. Each area is specific in how it can take a hit. But well designed foam and plastic specific to those areas will make a substantial difference in protection from injury.
I'll give you some smart-credits for the above, but I have to subtract hit points * 5 for not wearing a motorcycle helmet when you bomb down hills.
Originally Posted by
buzzman
I'll give far more weight to my personal experience than the tons of questionable, biased and often outdated "studies", inadequate "statistics" and the deluge of personal insults doled out by internet "experts" on both sides of this issue.
That's right. You know more than engineers and statisticians -- even if you'd be hard put to distinguish between a CI and a SD.
Meanwhile you should continue doing 40mph plus down hill while trusting to the faith of marketeers that told you that a beer cooler on your head will save it from serious damage.
Again -- what's it to you? No one is forcing you to take of your symbol of credulous stupidity. The only compulsion that exists is on the side of your fellow travellers -- Helmet NAZIs that have implemented fines and bicycle confiscations to enforce their scientifically unsupported and intolerant viewpoint.