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The stats are meaningless if they're not like for like, and many more people travel by car and are pedestrians than are cyclists, so clearly the numbers of those commuters injured will be higher.
They aren't per mile or per hour stats, they are absolute stats showing where the injuries are occuring.FFS there are a lot less people cycling then walking.
Thats like saying more Indian people died than Irish people while walking. The fact there is about 200 times more Indians may have something to do with it.
So presuming that your objective is to reduce head injuries, the obvious place to start is where the 50% of injuries occur, not the 2%. Why go after the slim pickings when you can harvest a huge bumper crop. If you want to reduce head injures, driving helmets for all would be a hugely positive initiative.cherryghost wrote: »I also hate the culture to the point I want to vomit. Unfortunately my wife has taken to be one of them recently and I'm sure its to emulate her workmates in her new job.
We went on a holiday to Greece for just over a week to which she took over 2500 photos. She wanted me in selfies every minute of the day for trivial things, I declined every instance til I gave in. Actually I'm fairly sure in some of the selfies uploaded I'm frowning, I dont like to hide my feelings too much just so her photos can be adored on facebook.
She took photos of every meal. On Facebook the next minute. Won't let me just enjoy the meal, have to wait for it to be snapped. Gotta take photos of every nook and cranny of our hotel room too. I swear for all the photos she took she barely had a chance to look at the magnificent views before her eyes.
I took 10 photos and a video the entire holiday.
You are not alone;
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On a recent flight I was lucky enough to get upgraded. There was a guy of about 30 with a selfie stick parading up and down the plane, intruding on people's privacy, even some people who were sleeping. When the food was served, he stood up to take pictures of it from several angles, and a sweeping shot of the cabin with everyone else eating. Then he got the attendants to join him in a selfie (obligatory thumbs-up and all), and it went on like that every time something changed. When the lighting was adjusted, he was up doing a sweeping shot of the cabin, focusing on people sleeping as well.
No doubt this tosser has a YouTube channel where he'll upload this and post a 'review'.
So if you trawl YouTube reviews of recent flights from LHR to Cairo, I'm the fed-up looking girl in the background, flipping the finger whenever that damn thing was pointed at me.
I hate selfies, I hate most of what social media has become, and I hate the plonkers who think every single trivial thought, action, plate of food, make-up 'look', or mundane needs documenting and being made public, or else it didn't really happen.
Social media has made people behave as though they think they're in their very own reality tv show.
This one? :eek:
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Was in a restaurant at the weekend and a young couple sat at table next to me.
They sat down and not one word was passed between the two of them. Ordered their starter and silence again.
Starter arrived. Female had a salad and out comes the phone to take a photo ( of a salad
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Silence again. Main meal came out and same thing .
Who in the name of all that is good cares what she had to eat
Yes she might have got 50 likes or whatever but God love her poor partner sitting there watching this going on.0 -
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Was in a restaurant at the weekend and a young couple sat at table next to me.
They sat down and not one word was passed between the two of them. Ordered their starter and silence again.
Starter arrived. Female had a salad and out comes the phone to take a photo ( of a salad)
Silence again. Main meal came out and same thing .
Who in the name of all that is good cares what she had to eat
Yes she might have got 50 likes or whatever but God love her poor partner sitting there watching this going on.
It sure is food for thought.
**Puts on sunglasses and leaves thread.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFzKi-o4rHw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRr4Hw766iM
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