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John Simpson of the BRITON 's BBC

<pedant> Shouldn't that be BRITONs' BBC? </pedant>

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John Simpson of the BRITON 's BBC

<pedant> Shouldn't that be BRITONs' BBC? </pedant>

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No. Shouldn't that be 'of the BBC'?

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Just zis Guy said:

<pedant> Shouldn't that be BRITONs' BBC? </pedant>

Actually it should be BRITONS' BBC with the BRITONS bit in smallcaps, but you can't do that in
ASCII. The Apostrophe Police jogged my arm while I was typing it.

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mae <[email hidden]> wedi ysgrifennu:

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<rant> Someone needs badly to be shot for wasting money on this sort of [censored]. I'm surprised they
don't recommend a total ban, replacing sledges with large four wheel drive tin boxes, wrapping
children in cotton wool and not letting them out of the house without an armed escort in case
Michael Jackson is lurking in the rhododendron bushes. </rant>

I never thought I'd ever come out with an 'in my day things were so much better' type statement, but
I'm past forty now and all bets are off.

When I was a kid it was pretty much accepted that kids arsed about and sometimes got hurt.
Occasionally badly. I broke my arm falling out of a tree when I was five. Most of my friends broke
bones by the time they left school. All of us carry scars - some of them facial and very noticable -
to this day. This was regarded as a normal part of growing up; learning how to take risks and
learning how to reach the margins of safety without carelessly careering over them. When we got
badly hurt our parents were of course concerned, but as soon as we got better they allowed us back
out into the world sure in the knowledge that we'd learned our lessons the hard way.

Very, very rarely there was a tradegy, like the kid (who I didn't actually know) who broke his neck
and died playing Rugby, and a whole town was traumatised for weeks, but we were soon back sticking
our heads in where the boots were flying (both literally and metaphorically).

Seems to me that what we have now are whole generations that don't have the first idea how to take
risks. They either think that they can't venture out of their houses unless they're safely wrapped
in their tin boxes with dual airbags and side impact protection, or they think that they're
immortal, wheelying (sp?) their fake MTBs, skunked up, through red lights, unilluminated at ten at
night. Is this really a better situation than a very rare severe injury or death?

Tsch! Kids today, eh? I blame their parents. Oh, that's me, isn't it?

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Yep, terrifyingly dangerous things, sledges. To this day I carry a scar on the ring finger of my
left hand from the occasion when my grubby little nine year old paw lost its grip on the sledge and
went under the runner. Obv a helmet would have saved me this, er, hang on...

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Ambrose Nankivell said:

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I thought so, but you need to get inside a plastic bivvi bag and head down a corrie headwall to
*really* have no control! ;-)

Nutter. I was tempted to do that once (actually it was a cwm headwall), but fortunately lacked the
bivvy bag (as it was only a small mountain/hill)

You can do it without the bivvy bag. A schoolfriend of mine spent a day or two in hospital under
observation after concussion as a result. (One of the steeper parts of Whernside; he slipped, and
hit a wall part way though his slide - if he'd chosen to do it, it wouldn't have been close to
the wall.)

An ice-axe to stop would have been more use to him than a helmet though.

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Yep, terrifyingly dangerous things, sledges. To this day I carry a scar on the ring finger of my
left hand from the occasion when my grubby little nine year old paw lost its grip on the sledge and
went under the runner. Obv a helmet would have saved me this, er, hang on...

To this day I have a scar on the back of my hand from a rhododendron. Rhodos are evil, they grow
into a random tangle of wriggly misshapen branches all resting on each other so they're all under
tension. Then when you saw into one it suddenly breaks and stabs at you with the spiky broken
bit. Also they're poisonous. A helmet is useful protection from falling debris, but not much
falls off a rhodo.
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Yep, terrifyingly dangerous things, sledges. To this day I carry a scar

on

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the ring finger of my left hand from the occasion when my grubby little

nine

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year old paw lost its grip on the sledge and went under the runner. Obv

a

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helmet would have saved me this, er, hang on...

To this day I have a scar on the back of my hand from a rhododendron. Rhodos are evil, they grow
into a random tangle of wriggly misshapen branches all resting on each other so they're all under
tension. Then when you saw into one it suddenly breaks and stabs at you with the spiky broken bit.
Also they're poisonous. A helmet is useful protection from falling debris, but not much falls off
a rhodo.

Rhodos are just triffids with a good PR man.

Sue said:

Rhodos are evil, they grow into a random tangle of wriggly misshapen branches all resting on each
other so they're all under tension. Then when you saw into one it suddenly breaks and stabs at you
with the spiky broken bit. Also they're poisonous. A helmet is useful protection from falling
debris, but not much falls off a rhodo.

But having a h+lm+t on may prove useful should you need to headbutt the kiddy-fiddlers, pot-crazed
Rastafarians and turbanned ruffians who, were are reliably[1] informed, lurk in the cover of such
foliage until such time as it is safe for them to emerge and commit Crimes Against Practically
Everybody...

1 - Irony. Sorry.

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