Do most people wear helmets while skiing, though? Or beginners, anyway?
Not in my experience -- though I've never been a huge skier.
Sweet lumpy minion, you're the only one that understands. Probably 'cause I haven't sucked the brain out of you yet.
Glory ,'Potential'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Mar 17, 2009 9:47:23 am PDT #11151 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Connie Neil - Mar 17, 2009 9:48:16 am PDT #11152 of 30000
brillig
Every year here in Utah we have a few people who die on the ski runs from running into trees or whatnot. Trees don't yield.
tommyrot - Mar 17, 2009 9:55:44 am PDT #11153 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gudanov - Mar 17, 2009 9:53:20 am PDT #11154 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
The obvious solution to the wooden menace is to have real trees removed from all ski slopes and replaced by breakaway plastic models.
Emily - Mar 17, 2009 9:54:31 am PDT #11155 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
That is weird that she seemed fine afterward.
Actually not strange (or, rather, not unusual). It was a plot point in Busman's Honeymoon, and also what happened to my grandmother.
Gudanov - Mar 17, 2009 10:02:10 am PDT #11156 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Speaking of models of natural objects. On the way to work this morning, I was going down a road on the fringe of my neighborhood and saw that some vandals apparently busted apart a model deer that has been in somebody's yard for years. Also it appears someone had played mailbox baseball along the road as well. F**k you fake deer killers!
javachik - Mar 17, 2009 10:09:04 am PDT #11157 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Well when I said weird, it's specifically in the context of skiing accidents. Most of the fatal (or near fatal) ski accidents I've known about were most definitely of the "take terrible fall/hit tree/don't get up again" variety.
aurelia - Mar 17, 2009 10:11:32 am PDT #11158 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Happy Anniversary Laura!
Then I read that kids these days, when they do their "texting", would "text" SciFi as SyFy.
I think the real reason was that SyFy could be copyrighted and SciFi could not.
Emily - Mar 17, 2009 10:26:13 am PDT #11159 of 30000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Well when I said weird, it's specifically in the context of skiing accidents.
Got it. Yeah, I think the get-up-then-lose-consciousness-later ones are usually injuries to the back of the head, which I don't associate with skiing.
On the other hand, I've never been near a ski in my life, so who knows?
aurelia - Mar 17, 2009 10:28:55 am PDT #11160 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.