 Poster: A snowHead
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| ajpaul wrote: |
| Reason 4 sold it for me. I am a Norse God! |
Any tips on keeping the horns on the sides stuck on?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| narc wrote: |
| ajpaul wrote: |
| Reason 4 sold it for me. I am a Norse God! |
Any tips on keeping the horns on the sides stuck on? |
Just drill the holes and bolt them on.
I'm loving the OP. As a helmet wearer it confirms everything I believe to be true.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Whitters wrote: |
So, my friend, did the Nazi Stormtroopers, according to the comic books I read as a nipper. On the other hand the brave British Commandos only wore bobble hats, whilst heroically machine-gunning them in the back. |
While the Swiss got splinters from the wooden fence counting the Nazi gold.
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Sentry: Ach Hans I wish we were back in Hamburg right now, the girls on the Reeperbahn are so...ughhhhhhhh
Commando: Rolls his piano wire back up and returns to top pocket, bobble hat akimbo.
...to be continued....
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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the brave British Commandos only wore bobble hats
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 berets, not bobble hats!
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| kesone1 wrote: |
| I mostly ski in Chamonix and around there but the majority of good skiers are not wearing helmets especially the locals. |
I refer you to Reason 9. Chamonix is full of cheese eating surrender monkeys who think it's cool to puff Gauloises whilst listening to accordian music in their Renault Twingo. They probably even think that emmental and gruyere taste better than cheddar.
Are you sure you trust their judgement?
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| manicpb wrote: |
| Jonny Jones, sounds like you have self confidence issues if you feel you need to do things to make you look younger or better than your actual abilty. |
I'd have self confidence issues if I didn't wear a helmet. When I'm helmeted up I can shred the mountain and impress the girls without even trying.
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^^^ finally sold it to me. Now I know how to shred the mountain and impress the girls without even trying, I no longer have to worry about being a wanker.
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Huh! What? Helmets? I've got one . . . it used to be purple . . . it still is sometimes . . . but I can't remember why  . . . Why does a cheese eating monkey wand to puff on my helmet . . . I used to smoke
I like norks . . . they fit bobble hats . . .
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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did someone mention norks?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Norks you say? Where?
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You know it makes sense.
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REnE, ah! The old cycle helmets argument.
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The premise that helmets save lives is by extrapolation from research that has suggested that helmets might reduce injuries to the head. As most fatalities involve head injury (this applies to all major external causes of violent death, not especially cycling), the reasoning is that by reducing injuries to the head, cycle helmets can lead to fewer cyclist deaths.
Whole population data
Whole population statistics for cycling fatalities do not support the above hypothesis.
Long-term analyses of fatalities in Canada [8], New Zealand [9] and USA [10] [11] show no helmet benefit; indeed, one study [11] suggests helmeted cyclists are more likely to be killed. Although fatality rates have generally declined, cyclists have fared no better than pedestrians. In Great Britain, too, there has been no discernible improvement in fatality trends relative to pedestrians as helmets have become more common [12] [13] . |
I do often wear a helmet these days - I think that it may spare me nasty cuts and grazes. But that's it. I rarely bother with a cycle helmet.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| kesone1 wrote: |
| Probably get killed for this but exactly the opposite in my experience. I mostly ski in Chamonix and around there but the majority of good skiers are not wearing helmets especially the locals. It's generally gapers pottering around in lids. |
Your observations mirror mine exactly. Maybe it's a Chamonix thing?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Norks you say? Nice lines...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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achilles, could you explain "brain damage from rotational injuries... [...] and the sliding impact friction of helmets." I'm intrigued.
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I bought a helmet last year but as yet, have not been able to bring myself to wear it because I really, really really HATE wearing hats of any kind, unless its below -10' and the pain of frozen ears is graeter than the discomfort of wearing a hat.
Other than a scratch on the cheek, in 3wks/yr for 25 yrs of skiing hard & fast, I've never had a head injury or been badly wiped out (apart from one young lady and that was a nice soft landing) maybe that's luck or that I avoid crowded pistes or that I take more care in areas where a crash would be serious.
If I wore a helmet I would take more risks
If no helmet is 0% protection and the very best helmet gives 100%, then I figure that even the cheapest helmet that meets the relevant BS/eu standards must be good for at least 90%, so for me it was a £10 helmet from Lidl.
A problem I have with ski helmets is that the manufacturers assume that you want to keep your head warm and even the most ventilated models - aren't ventilated enough, maybe a cycle helmet would be better.
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Can anyone explain to me why some people who wear helmets feel the need to keep telling people who don't to change their ways?
Why not just buy yourself a helmet and go skiing / boarding?
I'm not convinced that altruism is the real motivating factor.
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narc,
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Any tips on keeping the horn
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Im sure thats a differnent topic 
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red 27, We bought ours as it was, we believed, the sensible thing to do. I tried on my first one and said it was itchy. The sales guy said "thats helmets", this was repeated by the sales guy in the second shop. I really hope I love my helmet, its very pretty but I'm yet to be convinced
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narc,
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Any tips on keeping the horn
Im sure thats a differnent topic Toofy Grin
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isn’t that a black diamond, whoops sorry a blue diamond scenario 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Shimmy Alcott, mine is sometimes itchy, but often not. But I find the same with hats. It's easier to scratch under a hat, though. I have more than once longed for a knitting needle, when sitting on a chairlift - just the thing for scratching an itch through a ventilation hole. I have been known to hand my poles to the OH, take the helmet off and scratch frantically like a dog with fleas.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Oceanic wrote: |
| Can anyone explain to me why some people who wear helmets feel the need to keep telling people who don't to change their ways? |
I’ll try. Certainly the 10-point plan for everlasting piste survival outlined at the beginning of this thread, has more than just a smack of buyer’s remorse, sheep mentality, ignorance and a tiny bit of humour about it (but not much humour – more there to tone down the evangelist factor I suspect). I described it as partly post purchase reinforcement, a well-known psychological condition affecting consumers – basically, if you buy a new car, you’ll still flick through car reviews in magazines and on the web to make sure you made the right decision even though you’re stuck with it for years. Of course, you may have bought that particular car because it earned approval from your peer group and this is why you also fell into the helmet purchase trap – a decision that wasn’t really yours so now you have to justify it ad nauseum until more followers are persuaded and your decision begins to feel better and you can lessen the amount of third-party “evidence” you embellish. Donning a helmet because someone else had a head injury or a near miss story is the bit I really don’t understand.
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Bode Swiller, what helmet do you have?
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You know it makes sense.
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Shimmy Alcott, He skis in A u s t r i a so doesn't need a helmet 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Shimmy Alcott, a nice thin merino wool helmet. [blond alert]It's a hat[/blond alert]
Boredsurfing, where there are trees (I'll send you a picture of one), a helmets best friend.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Bode Swiller, nooo, My skis have a fatal attraction to tree wells 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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This argument has been going on since Viking times
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super-snowHead
Posts: 16166REnE, ah! The old cycle helmets argument.
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The premise that helmets save lives is by extrapolation from research that has suggested that helmets might reduce injuries to the head. As most fatalities involve head injury (this applies to all major external causes of violent death, not especially cycling), the reasoning is that by reducing injuries to the head, cycle helmets can lead to fewer cyclist deaths.
Whole population data
Whole population statistics for cycling fatalities do not support the above hypothesis.
Long-term analyses of fatalities in Canada [8], New Zealand [9] and USA [10] [11] show no helmet benefit; indeed, one study [11] suggests helmeted cyclists are more likely to be killed. Although fatality rates have generally declined, cyclists have fared no better than pedestrians. In Great Britain, too, there has been no discernible improvement in fatality trends relative to pedestrians as helmets have become more common [12] [13] .
I do often wear a helmet these days - I think that it may spare me nasty cuts and grazes. But that's it. I rarely bother with a cycle helmet.
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yep, achillies, I'm aware of this research and great sample theory it is as well. But from my working perspective this theory doesn't match up to what I have to deal with first hand in practice. Of course in adult life we're all able to way up the options and consequences of our decisions, so to wear a helmet or not is a personal choice that we've got to live with in the aftermath of whenever anything goes wrong. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Not sure about No5 (in Europe at least). I've skied with loads of guides and only ever seen 2 with helmets.
However I had the same experience as you on my first ski trip this year: after years of none or only one of our group wearing a helmet I suddenly found myself the only person not wearing one (other than the guide, that is). Half of these guys are over 60 but clearly they have been persuaded.
I'll probably have to get one now. But I often take my hat off and just ski in sun-glasses (and other stuff from the neck down, by the way).... Hmm. Can you wear a helmet with sun glasses or do you have to carry a second pair of goggles with high quality dark lenses for bright sun?
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| Oceanic wrote: |
| Can anyone explain to me why some people who wear helmets feel the need to keep telling people who don't to change their ways? |
I’ll try. |
Can anyone explain to me why some people who don't wear helmets feel the need to keep telling people who do to change their ways?
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snowball,
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Can you wear a helmet with sun glasses
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Allegedly this is not 'the done thing'. I do it all the time. 
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moffatross, you just beat me to that one!
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moffatross, possibly because otherwise they would get bored to death at being preached at? - I ask as a (most of the time) helmet wearer.
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achilles, I agree they do, unfortunately, get preached at but the people who get defensive are often pretty antagonistic too and end up giving the pro-helmet preachers more air time. Just a quick slap down and move on would be best as the arguments have really been done to death already.
As it goes, I thought the original '10' reasons' post wasn't just a troll because it was daft & funny, self-deprecating and antagonistic by equal measure. As soon as the thread was hijacked by logic, research evidence and anecdotes, it was bound to go the way of all the others helmet threads on this forum, winterhighland and tetongravity etc, etc.
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