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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 154 points 20 hours ago (8 children)

"how did we survive?"

Ask anyone not wearing a helmet that got hit by a car or smacked their head on the concrete after going over their handlebars. Oh, right, you can't.

This type of person cannot fathom that their singular experience is not representative of everyone else's experience. Conservatism in a nutshell.

All the non-conservative boomers were fucking murdered.

[–] U7826391786239@piefed.zip 49 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

this is why they oppose developing critical thinking in public education. believe what you're told to believe, do what you're told to do.

science, facts, evidence all have a liberal bias, therefore the only choice is to support pedophile rapist fascist, because...he hates minorities just like his supporters do

Well, not liberal, but always left of center.

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Friend got hit by a car when on bike, went flying, rolled over the car, smacked into the road.

Got up, checked bike first, sighted and started dragging it's carcass back home.

...but to be honest, dude was kinda indestructible and totally the exemption in every dangerous situaiton.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Ive biked to work for years and only had 2 bad crashes. Both involved slamming hard into pavement at speed, one had me slide into a tree. Both times I hit my shoulder/arm/hip hard and was honestly very dazed, but neither time did I hit my head.

You can shake a bike accident off if you get lucky in how you hit the ground. Mainly if you dont smack your head. Super duper wear a helmet cause that the kind of spill that fucks you.

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Worst crash I ever had on a bike was during a commute to work. It was winter and it was dark in the morning, and the bridge over the river had gotten icy. I hit my brake and slid, went straight into the retaining wall on the embankment, headfirst over my handlebars. I'm fucking lucky I was wearing my helmet.

Ended up putting a decorative bandage over the scuff on the helmet shell where I would have split my head open. It looked gnarly. I got a new helmet first thing as soon as I got my next paycheck. Kept it on a shelf for a while.

[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 13 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I got hit by a car while biking without a helmet! Toppled up onto their hood and slid off once they came to a complete stop. Totalled the bike. I just got really fucking lucky and didn't hit my head. Would not advise.

I was just lazy and didn't go back up to my apartment once I got down and realized I had forgotten the helmet, because it was "just a short ride to the park". Never again.

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

I've been hit by cars before on my bicycle. Six times.

You know what it was, every single time? The driver was turning right, and looking for oncoming traffic from the left. I tried to cross, and didn't know they hadn't seen me. Ran over my front tire, or just knocked me over.

I'm damn lucky those were all extremely slow speed collisions and they stopped as soon as they heard me scream. But honestly? Fuck cars. I shouldn't have been forced to cross at the sidewalk to begin with. And they should have been looking for pedestrians anyway.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I hit my head on the pavement bicycling drunk while my helmet was sitting on my desk at work. Ask me how fun the two weeks after that concussion was.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 19 hours ago

Multiple concussions from sports as a kid. It's great to never know if my memory issues and depression are a result of that or if I was just fucked from the start.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Ask anyone not wearing a helmet that got hit by a car or smacked their head on the concrete after going over their handlebars. Oh, right, you can’t.

I mean, you can. Falling off your bike isn't universally fatal. Even bad injuries aren't unrecoverable - especially when you're young and resilient and you're body is still growing.

But imagine telling a 12-year-old to take off their helmet and pads and go plow themselves into a tree, because it builds character. Why would anyone voluntarily subject themselves to this? Why would anyone advocate for this?

You're not building up some kind of robust spirit of mind or body. You're not growing as a person. You're just being hazed.

[–] ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip 7 points 19 hours ago

Boomers aren’t able to see anything beyond themselves. They lack empathy to a degree that’s insane. A Generation of Sociopaths as Bruce Gibeny says.

Before some boomer comments “not me!” (Because everything is about them) just look at the fucking world and the way boomers behave.