Originally Posted by
Six jours
Well, that's sort-of true. You could have an interesting time taking bets on whether it's going to be a be a bare-header making fun of helmets, or a helmeteer going on about how many times his life has been saved. IMO it's usually the latter, but I'm not an unbiased observer.
Your post seems a bit of a non-sequitur, though. I didn't know we were talking about derailed threads.
Your words:
Originally Posted by
Six jours
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WRT the rest, if the average bare-header is looking down his nose at anything, it's at the intentional and aggressive ignorance displayed by the helmeteers who show up to post the usual "organ donor/Darwin candidate/don't expect me to pay for you" routine. As always, I don't believe this thread would exist at all if the helmet advocates would shut up about it.
Since this thread exists to prevent helmet debates from infecting the rest of the forum, I think derailed threads are absolutely part of the discussion.