One Super Bowl Champion quarterback on motorcycle + car = head injury
As a Bengals fan, I just want to say that this very well might be Karma biting him on the ass. I mean I don't want the guy to die but perhaps a good smack in the head (so to speak) is what he needs. Want to play? Wear a helmet, jackass!
Pennsylvania actually had a mandatory helmet law for 35 yrs. until it was "modified" in 2003 to say that if you are 21 yrs of age, have had a motorcycle license for two years, and pass a safety course, you may choose to not wear a helmet. Biker groups had been lobbying to repeal the law for years and even cast the issue in terms of "freedom of choice."
why do i have to wear a seatbelt or get a ticket, while someone else can ride a motorcycle without a helmet. duh...i'm sure he just f'd up his contract, which i am sure has some sort of no motorcycle clause in it. and if it doesnt well, way to go stealers.
in seattle, everone in a car, including all back seat passengers, must wear seat beats. if you are over, i believe 18, and you get caught, the ticket goes to you and not the driver.
bicyclist must also wear helmets too. although i wonder if it is ever enforced. i have a friend who rarely ever wears a bike helmet. one day he was going on a ride. pushed his bike out, and shut the door. he then realized his helmet was hanging from the handle bars. rather than open the door and put the helmet inside, he decided it was easier to put it on. he rode about 5 blocks from his house and got hit by a woman driving a car and talking on a cell phone. he ended up in the hospital for a week and a rehab center for 2 months. they said that if he had not been wearing a helmet, he would have probably died or had no brain functions.
motorcyclists should have the choice as to whether or not they want to wear a helmet. it's a free country after all...
...but choosing not to wear a motorcycle helmet should automatically exclude one from any health care covered by taxpayer dollars or invalidate their insurance policy.
i've been lobbying for several years now in michigan to get a law passed requiring all automobile passengers to wear helmets. i'm having some success with my contacts at insurance companies and once i get their lobbying efforts on the same page as me i think the legislators will start pay attention.
i also feel that anybody going out for a night of drinking should wear a helmet. i used to jokingly sport a mid-1970s yellow ski-doo snowmobile helmet (with visor) when hitting some of the locals bars...you know just for laughs, but in retrospect it was probably one of the smarter things i ever did. i should pick up the habit again so that maybe i'd feel less hungover in the morning. like today...damn, my head was aching for a while.
i'm helping a friend design a house for a burn victim - she was indeed sitting on her toilet and lit a cigarette with disastrous consequences. The methane however came from a the utility crew doing work out in the street, not from her digestive processes.
i'm not joking.
she has limited mobility (can't sit - just lay down or stand/lean) and pretty severe environmental illness. So we're designing a series of pavilions along a gallery and giving each pavilion a particular functional grouping - ie. master bedroom, studio, kitchen/dining, guest and daily service/garage. The gallery space is pretty articulated with what are conceived as cabinetry pockets - allowing her to stop and work at whatever area suits her at the time. The cabinetry will be heavily based upon her reach limitations.
The site is amazing, up on a promontory overlooking the galisteo basin in santa fe. I should post a site picture.
Regarding the EI, the spaces that she will spend her time in will be e-crete with plaster and the HVAC system will have some pretty tight filtering.
I'm actually heading up there in a few hours to meet the client for the first time.
el jeffe, that's fine, I don't mind. I was seriously trying to figure out what a methane explosion had to do with a meathead quarterback though, until I scrolled up and saw snooker's post.
"Doctors confirmed his injuries: fractures to his upper and lower jaws; a mild concussion; a fractured nose; fractured facial bones; multiple head lacerations; multiple abrasions; two lost teeth; and several chipped teeth."
So a new young guy started at my firm last week. He's earnest, talkative, and doesn't really know a lot. I've given him a nickname, Beefcake, which hopefully explicates things a bit for you all. He's certainly solidly built but he has no hair on his arms. Bizarre.
Anyway, I ate lunch with the boys today which meant that, while I was amused, I also had to eat silently and not talk about anything important. Enter Beefcake, who just can't help himself. He starts talking about how working in construction was great (this explains the shape of the arms, but not the hairlessness), but with us he works at a desk 8 hours a day and he struggles to stay awake, and is exhausted when he gets home. He also expresses dismay over using his "nice clothes" 5 days a week so he had to wear a t-shirt out on Saturday night. (oh the horror!) I should mention he's on summer break from a two-year program so he's a young CAD tech, which is certainly draining, but still.....
The best part of the conversation is when he goes, "so you guys have portfolios and stuff?" and all 7 of us go, "uh, yeah"......he says "so how do you get those? Do you have to have them?" And we're dying laughing by this time. One of the guys mentions that no one really tells us but it's implied, and we just do it. So I offer to bring mine in to show him what one looks like, and he says "no, i'm sure it's really good, don't worry about it". Hee-larious. You probably had to be there but it made me giggle anyway.
Did you know the House of Representatives has a 98% incumbancy rate? Like the most disgusting people in the entire country, this worthless sorry bunch of bottom suckers that just gave themselves a $3300 raise for wasting our money, they have less turnover than a typical firm. And they already made about 4x as much as we do anyway.
WTF indeed. Good lord. I have a really good attitude about men's appropriate behavior in the workplace, but every now and then some neanderthal comes along and reminds me some guys still don't have a frickin' clue. In this case the neanderthal happens to be president of the United States. Embarassing and apalling.
anybody going out for a night of drinking should wear a helmet. i used to jokingly sport a mid-1970s yellow ski-doo snowmobile helmet (with visor) when hitting some of the locals bars...you know just for laughs, but in retrospect it was probably one of the smarter things i ever did.
forces them to stall a minute or two while trying to figure out where else to punch you? :-)
the helmet wasn't so much for fights (although that's always a possibility when your hometown invented the "toughman contest" because of the local brawling bar scene) but more as a precautionary measure against drinking too much, passing out & hitting my head against something like a bar stool or telephone pole.
my memory of those days is obivously fuzzy, but i'm certain the helmet saved me a few nasty goose-egg bumps on the old noggin.
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Speaking of idiots.....
Roethlisberger wrecks motorcycle, wasn't wearing helmet
One Super Bowl Champion quarterback on motorcycle + car = head injury
As a Bengals fan, I just want to say that this very well might be Karma biting him on the ass. I mean I don't want the guy to die but perhaps a good smack in the head (so to speak) is what he needs. Want to play? Wear a helmet, jackass!
who dey!
Pennsylvania actually had a mandatory helmet law for 35 yrs. until it was "modified" in 2003 to say that if you are 21 yrs of age, have had a motorcycle license for two years, and pass a safety course, you may choose to not wear a helmet. Biker groups had been lobbying to repeal the law for years and even cast the issue in terms of "freedom of choice."
why do i have to wear a seatbelt or get a ticket, while someone else can ride a motorcycle without a helmet. duh...i'm sure he just f'd up his contract, which i am sure has some sort of no motorcycle clause in it. and if it doesnt well, way to go stealers.
Doctors I know call them "donor-cycles". Appropriate, I think.
in seattle, everone in a car, including all back seat passengers, must wear seat beats. if you are over, i believe 18, and you get caught, the ticket goes to you and not the driver.
bicyclist must also wear helmets too. although i wonder if it is ever enforced. i have a friend who rarely ever wears a bike helmet. one day he was going on a ride. pushed his bike out, and shut the door. he then realized his helmet was hanging from the handle bars. rather than open the door and put the helmet inside, he decided it was easier to put it on. he rode about 5 blocks from his house and got hit by a woman driving a car and talking on a cell phone. he ended up in the hospital for a week and a rehab center for 2 months. they said that if he had not been wearing a helmet, he would have probably died or had no brain functions.
motorcyclists should have the choice as to whether or not they want to wear a helmet. it's a free country after all...
...but choosing not to wear a motorcycle helmet should automatically exclude one from any health care covered by taxpayer dollars or invalidate their insurance policy.
i've been lobbying for several years now in michigan to get a law passed requiring all automobile passengers to wear helmets. i'm having some success with my contacts at insurance companies and once i get their lobbying efforts on the same page as me i think the legislators will start pay attention.
i also feel that anybody going out for a night of drinking should wear a helmet. i used to jokingly sport a mid-1970s yellow ski-doo snowmobile helmet (with visor) when hitting some of the locals bars...you know just for laughs, but in retrospect it was probably one of the smarter things i ever did. i should pick up the habit again so that maybe i'd feel less hungover in the morning. like today...damn, my head was aching for a while.
be safe everybody.
Well, at least he's already got his superbowl ring. Cause that's probably the only one he's ever going to get after this awesome display of stupidity.
i am wearing a helmet right now. and a cup!!! work can be very very hazard forming.
I always wear a helmet while sitting on the toilet! Who knows what can happen when your in that position.
Oh ya and I never ever light matches in the bathroom.
Am I the only one who thought this thread was going to be about the Yale Blows thread?
Well, technically I left it open to talk about any idiots that come to mind. Big Ben just happened to be a good starting point.
No Liberty , a thread related to 'Yale blows' would be
'The Kindergarten Wars'
The saga continues
woaahh ... i thought it would be about the yale blows thread as well ...
darn .. it would have made a good thread
maybe a "yale blows blows" thread is in order
what's the matter with you people? yale does not blow.
yale blows aka the kindergartner chats...
the attention whore monologues
i'm helping a friend design a house for a burn victim - she was indeed sitting on her toilet and lit a cigarette with disastrous consequences. The methane however came from a the utility crew doing work out in the street, not from her digestive processes.
i'm not joking.
lol broccolijet!
el jeffe, that is such a sad story. can i ask what in particular the design will do to suit her needs? is it accessability or something else?
she has limited mobility (can't sit - just lay down or stand/lean) and pretty severe environmental illness. So we're designing a series of pavilions along a gallery and giving each pavilion a particular functional grouping - ie. master bedroom, studio, kitchen/dining, guest and daily service/garage. The gallery space is pretty articulated with what are conceived as cabinetry pockets - allowing her to stop and work at whatever area suits her at the time. The cabinetry will be heavily based upon her reach limitations.
The site is amazing, up on a promontory overlooking the galisteo basin in santa fe. I should post a site picture.
Regarding the EI, the spaces that she will spend her time in will be e-crete with plaster and the HVAC system will have some pretty tight filtering.
I'm actually heading up there in a few hours to meet the client for the first time.
(last of the thread-jacking - sorry dubK)
awwww....I'm hurt ;-)
el jeffe, that's fine, I don't mind. I was seriously trying to figure out what a methane explosion had to do with a meathead quarterback though, until I scrolled up and saw snooker's post.
Any other stupid people to talk about today?
hope this works....
had to captcha that moment.
i went to high school with a guy who blew his hand off sawing a pipe bomb in two. i dont know if he went to yale or not...
...and almost every injury was to his head.
"Doctors confirmed his injuries: fractures to his upper and lower jaws; a mild concussion; a fractured nose; fractured facial bones; multiple head lacerations; multiple abrasions; two lost teeth; and several chipped teeth."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/sports/football/13cndsteelers.html
awwwwww.....;-)
poor el jeffe
So a new young guy started at my firm last week. He's earnest, talkative, and doesn't really know a lot. I've given him a nickname, Beefcake, which hopefully explicates things a bit for you all. He's certainly solidly built but he has no hair on his arms. Bizarre.
Anyway, I ate lunch with the boys today which meant that, while I was amused, I also had to eat silently and not talk about anything important. Enter Beefcake, who just can't help himself. He starts talking about how working in construction was great (this explains the shape of the arms, but not the hairlessness), but with us he works at a desk 8 hours a day and he struggles to stay awake, and is exhausted when he gets home. He also expresses dismay over using his "nice clothes" 5 days a week so he had to wear a t-shirt out on Saturday night. (oh the horror!) I should mention he's on summer break from a two-year program so he's a young CAD tech, which is certainly draining, but still.....
The best part of the conversation is when he goes, "so you guys have portfolios and stuff?" and all 7 of us go, "uh, yeah"......he says "so how do you get those? Do you have to have them?" And we're dying laughing by this time. One of the guys mentions that no one really tells us but it's implied, and we just do it. So I offer to bring mine in to show him what one looks like, and he says "no, i'm sure it's really good, don't worry about it". Hee-larious. You probably had to be there but it made me giggle anyway.
hey who called parallel38 here ?
....and another thing.
Did you know the House of Representatives has a 98% incumbancy rate? Like the most disgusting people in the entire country, this worthless sorry bunch of bottom suckers that just gave themselves a $3300 raise for wasting our money, they have less turnover than a typical firm. And they already made about 4x as much as we do anyway.
Sorry I'm really annoyed.
I mean, really.
WTF indeed. Good lord. I have a really good attitude about men's appropriate behavior in the workplace, but every now and then some neanderthal comes along and reminds me some guys still don't have a frickin' clue. In this case the neanderthal happens to be president of the United States. Embarassing and apalling.
he was just trying to relieve her stress over the whole nazi thing.
"wants some wood?"
WOW. just wow.
could it actually be that bush is dumber than i ever thought?
G8 Summit Schedule for Thursday:
11:00 AM - North Korea
12:00 Noon - Lunch
1:00 PM - Sexual Harassment Seminar
3:00 PM - Israel
you guys are obsessed with yale
forces them to stall a minute or two while trying to figure out where else to punch you? :-)
she does look like laura from behind...
language differences, body language, something was lost in translation (translation to bushese)
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laziness?
senility?
or strategy?
e909,
the helmet wasn't so much for fights (although that's always a possibility when your hometown invented the "toughman contest" because of the local brawling bar scene) but more as a precautionary measure against drinking too much, passing out & hitting my head against something like a bar stool or telephone pole.
my memory of those days is obivously fuzzy, but i'm certain the helmet saved me a few nasty goose-egg bumps on the old noggin.
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