surgeonstone

Interesting how when one accuses one of something, it is the very thing that plagues the person pointing fingers. A brief view through your posts shows a person easily offended, with low self esteem more than likely an underlying cause, anger and offensive posts, and a tendency to accuse others of "being the internet tough guy". I think you need professional help and if visiting this forum is so painful for you, perhaps you should just avoid it.
Oh and BTW most surgeons suffer some degree of low esteem,...that's why we became surgeons in part. Were just pretty good at covering it up. But we are all humans no? And as such we all have our frailties. Yes and again , your internet savvy was correct, I 'm really a hamburger flipper at Micky D's.

pallen

No problem to me if they smoke - just dont pollute the air I'm trying to breathe and don't ask me to pay your medical bills. Unfortunately, the way insurance works, I do pay their medical bills...

pallen

You only hit your head because you were wearing a helmet. All that extra weight and stuff sticking out caused it. or something like that...

18hockey

Bingo, the problem with smokers is that they insist on doing it in places and in ways where others have to inhale the smoke as well.

BarracksSi

Not that they've been banned from doing it in most indoor spaces or anything like that....

(which, btw, I LOVE, because I don't have to Febreeze a coat any time I come back from a bar anymore...)

BarracksSi

18hockey vs. surgeonstone?

18hockey.

Because he left the argument first.

bikerjp

And then toss their butts on the ground or out the car window as if the world is their personal trash can.

rufvelo

Agreed

rufvelo

..or in our urinals even though we don't p in their ashtrays.

NicholasThierry

I wear a helmet when I ride, if there really is no difference- I'd still choose to ride with one on my skull. Aside from bicycles and motorcycles, helmets in skateboarding also have no documented data or proof that they work better or not. Now, argueing whether a skateboarder should wear a helmet is irrevelent because it is their own free will whether to wear a helmet or not. I am a downhill/freestyle/pool/vert/longboarder skateboarder, and I can say through my own personal experiences that if I weren't wearing a helmet on my 60mph crash, or faceplant off a launch ramp, or my little fiasco in the Vans pool, I wouldn't be here to post this.

Your argument may be "you will never know unless you fall the exact same way without a helmet," or "my experiences with trauma will concur that helmets are not a necessity," that is great, but to me, a helmet has saved my life/wellbeing more than once on a board. That is why I choose to wear one on a bicycle and even skateboard. I wear my helmet to the store, school, or work, I do not plan on waking up dead for not wearing a helmet. Even if my argument is based off of my experiences from skateboarding, I can say gravity and physics will always have that set amount of force on your skull if you fall on a bike, skateboard, scooter, or shower. And with that I choose to wear a helmet.

(Apparently) Helmets are opinions without proof, and everyone is entitled to wear one or not.

Peter_leo

Anything with training wheels should work.

RacerOne