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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Helmet efficacy test
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 10:38:01 -0500
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On 3/25/2025 10:07 AM, Shadow wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:36:02 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon Mar 24 17:13:48 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm stating my opinion in a discussion group. You should be able to
>>> tolerate that, especially since over the years I've backed up my opinion
>>> with mountains of data.
>>>
>>> Please note that your statements above, about the nasty "leftover
>>> affects" and "you can fall over bad just barely moving" apply exactly as
>>> well to running. Yet I'll bet you'd hate hearing that all runners should
>>> always wear a helmet when running.
>>>
>>> The only real difference is you haven't yet expressed your hatred for
>>> running helmets.
> 
> 	+1
> 	I would never use a helmet. Not in this climate. It's too hot,
> my hair would become pudding.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Frank, you deo not run, do you? The entire human skeletal structure is designed by God specifically for running.
> 
> 	God ? LOL.
> 	Our "system" was "designed" to walk on all fours. Divide the
> weight among 4 limbs.
> 	Then tens of thousands of years ago a right-wing monkey
> decided to show the others it was bigger and better and stood up. Put
> it on social media and it became a "thing". Everyone wanted to be
> "bigger and better".
> 	Half the others voted to make it mandatory. And it still is...
> 	Which is why knees and feet wear out so much and  people
> complain of lumbago.
> 	[]'s
> 	

Physical anthropologists* strongly disagree with that, as do I.

*who are, unlike "cultural anthropologists", actual scientists.

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