Food, Drink & Dining Out The Perth Thread - Part 2

[JackOutback]

So if I said to you get on this bike and ride along the road and I will drive up behind you and hit you with (someone else's) car at 60km/h and offered you a helmet you'd decline?

If I said to you, get in this car and I will ram into you at speed, would you decline the offer of a helmet inside the car? Why don't people wear helmets in cars, it's most certainly safer? Because life is all about risk and reward; I would prefer a culture of respect among motorists and cyclists whereby I could drive along small local roads without expecting to be hit by some maniac driver. We don't have such a culture, unfortunately.

 

[Scotland]

Helmets protect your head from impact, that is their sole function.

I've come off a bike, snowboard etc. at speed at not hit my head, but that's not an argument against wearing a helmet.

 

[Beerfish]

If I said to you, get in this car and I will ram into you at speed, would you decline the offer of a helmet inside the car?

At 60km/h? Yeah I would and I'd be quite confident of surviving without any brain injury given I have a seatbelt, multiple airbags and a 5 star safety rating.

That you avoided answering my quite reasonable question and replied with this and some other obfuscational twaddle about society given your previous statements is telling though.

 

[perthblue]

If I said to you, get in this car and I will ram into you at speed, would you decline the offer.

Nope ; - )

 

[Scotland]

I would prefer a culture of respect among motorists and cyclists whereby I could drive along small local roads without expecting to be hit by some maniac driver. We don't have such a culture, unfortunately.

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/tr...lights-to-escape-driver-threats-ng-b88747242z

 

[JackOutback]

At 60km/h? Yeah I would and I'd be quite confident of surviving without any brain injury given I have a seatbelt, multiple airbags and a 5 star safety rating.

That you avoided answering my quite reasonable question and replied with this and some other obfuscational twaddle about society given your previous statements is telling though.

It wasn't a reasonable question though. If you told me you were about to punch me in the head, I'd ask for a helmet. We don't live life according to unlikely specific situations. As I've said, I will wear a helmet because we don't have a European culture, if we had a European culture, I probably wouldn't wear a helmet for short rides to the shops or park.

 

[Beerfish]

It wasn't a reasonable question though. If you told me you were about to punch me in the head, I'd ask for a helmet.

I think it was a perfectly reasonable question given your statement about helmets not providing any protection at speed. The fact you didn't want to answer it because the obvious answer was a direct contradiction to what you'd already claimed just goes to show how reasonable it was.

We don't live life according to unlikely specific situations.

So you don't have any insurance?

 

[JackOutback]

I think it was a perfectly reasonable question given your statement about helmets not providing any protection at speed. The fact you didn't want to answer it because the obvious answer was a direct contradiction to what you'd already claimed just goes to show how reasonable it was.


So you don't have any insurance?

Insurance is for broad based situations; I don't have insurance for, say, falling off my bike and spraining my wrist only

 

[Beerfish]

Insurance is for broad based situations; I don't have insurance for, say, falling off my bike and spraining my wrist only

Come on mate. It's a collection of specific things that might happen. You actually pay out hundreds of dollars a year for various types of insurance to cover yourself financially/medically in case any number of specific things happen.

 

[JackOutback]

Come on mate. It's a collection of specific things that might happen. You actually pay out hundreds of dollars a year for various types of insurance to cover yourself financially/medically in case any number of specific things happen.

And I wear a helmet on busy roads to cover a collection of specific things that might happen, just saying I wouldn't drill down so specifically that I would wear a helmet while riding to the park because you are going to run me down in someone else's car . We're both getting a little pedantic here, there's arguments for both sides, imo. I happily rode through Amsterdam with no helmet and din't think I was taking a major risk with my health or safety. I wouldn't do the same in Perth though. I wish I could.

 

[Beerfish]

And I wear a helmet on busy roads to cover a collection of specific things that might happen, just saying I wouldn't drill down so specifically that I would wear a helmet while riding to the park because you are going to run me down in someone else's car . We're both getting a little pedantic here, there's arguments for both sides, imo. I happily rode through Amsterdam with no helmet and din't think I was taking a major risk with my health or safety. I wouldn't do the same in Perth though. I wish I could.

Fair enough. Good talk.

I would wear a helmet in Amsterdam though but mostly because I'd be stoned off my ****.

 

[Perth gal]

So how about that storm?

 

[JackOutback]

So how about that storm?

Another damp squib coming our way? Perth seems to love talking about the weather and talking it up; becoming worse than the Poms.

 

[Perth gal]

Another damp squib coming our way? Perth seems to love talking about the weather and talking it up; becoming worse than the Poms.

You missed the subtle nuance. I was over reading about helmets.

 

[Beerfish]

You missed the subtle nuance. I was over reading about helmets.

If you'd just waited another 10 seconds..

 

[JackOutback]

You missed the subtle nuance. I was over reading about helmets.

Subtle?

 

[Beerfish]

#hosing

 

[Upgrayedd]

Start a new job today. Pretty ****ing anxious!

 

[Off The Couch]

Start a new job today. Pretty ******* anxious!

Good luck and enjoy

 

[Nothing]

Start a new job today. Pretty ******* anxious!

See you on Big Footy in 2 hours.

 

[perthblue]

Start a new job today. Pretty ******* anxious!

Just don't **** it up for the love of god

 

[Scotland]

How ridiculously nice is this Summer? 27 today and (allegedly) cloudy. 29, 28, 29, 29, 31, 29, 28 the rest of the week.

Two thirds the way through February and I think we've had 3 days over 35 for the year and there were 3 in December.

Ignoring the stupid day when it rained 96mm we've pretty much been sitting on the average temp all Summer without deviating much either way. Jan/Feb has felt like October/November used to (before Winter decided it was going to hang around and be a jerk) with consistently nice weather before it gets too hot. I've probably used by air con 3 or 4 times and haven't had a single '**** it's too hot to sleep' night all Summer. Bizarre.

 

[JackOutback]

First summer in a long time without a day over 40; I dig it.

 

[Scotland]

I likewise, dig it. If it was no days over 40 and a bunch of days of 21 with rain I would not be digging it so much.

 

[WCErevival]

Wait for winter to be dry and 30 degrees