Messages posted by : Discodee
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Surely far more important than equipment is if you get injured. A set of skis may set you back a grand, but if you get injured and have to stay in hospital and get a different flight back you are talking tens of thousands! I get annual family insurance for 4, including winter sports for £68 a year and get £12 of that back going through quidco. Thats about £12.50 each for a year, anywhere in europe and including 16 days skiing a yhr. Small price to pay.
A woman on my recent hol was injured by the chair lift and had to stay in resort suchwas her injury. You have to be mad to travel without insurance! Regarding that man's skis, surely when the real owner of those skis appeared with wrong ones, it'd be sorted out, as they all have numbers on. My hubby and another guy got their skis mixed uo, but it was all soon sorted out by the serial numbers. |
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but the problem is, if it IS proven it is too late to do anything and whereas I can make sure I do not take my kids into places where they will passively smoke, the danger (proven or unproven) from masts is unavoidable. Car exhaust fumes are highly carcinogenic and the toxic emissions from then are a million times more deadly than those from cigs. It is actually an offence to leave the engine running in ANY stationary vehicle with a max fine of £1000, yet it is never enforced. Another thing I just cannot keep my kids away from as it is everywhere. I appreciate we need cars to get about. However people could be more sensible. ie not use them for short journeys and NEVER leave the engine running when stationary.
So, I repeat, I can avoid smokers, I cannot avoid other far more dangerous things. |
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Hi Randyrat. Got back yesterday. Had a great week except for the kids were sick Friday night and my son couldn't ski last day. But they had 5 days great ski-ing. We went with the neilson ski leaders the first 2 mornings and they took us to the black runs much to the kids delight and my apprehension! But got down them both ok! I didn't do the whole olympic run because it was very icy at the top, but the kids did it all. Great fun and loads of slopes. Loved the animal park!
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lol. We were in a group of gozzers and the instructor wouldn't let us go on the lift. We got that fedup we left the group one day and went up, and down ourselves!!! We'd never have learned anything if it had been down to her!! That was 2006. Food was bloody disgusting too!
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And as I said Mekka, exhaust fumers and radiation from mobile phone masts are FAR worse than cig smoke, and we have to put up with them every day and can do nothing about them!!!
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LOL@ all
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Y'know what, I was not going to not mention this, but as snowb4nit said, many non smokers think they're a cut above, so thpught I would!
I, a smoker for yrs until about 12 mths ago, while being worried about my kids breathing in smoke are far more worried about 2 other things: 1 is mobile phone masts and all the radiation emitted, which is FAR more dangerous than ciggie smoke, yet use of other people's mobiles is out of my control, and it doesn't matter WHERE you are, you are exposed to it! (And all these hypocrites campaigning against masts nearby annoy me. How do they think their bloody phones work? It's a "not on my front doot mentallity") Secondly, despite rising fuel costs and everyone moaning, the vast majority drive to the local shop half a mile away, drive their kids to school (even in high school) a mile or two away and the thing that REALLY annoys me, they sit in their stationary car with the engine running. Car exhausts emit FAR more crap than a ciggie. Don't believe me? Sit in a car with a smoker for half an hour while they chain smoke. yes you will cough but you wont die. then sit in a car with a hosepipe attached to the exhaust. of course, you won't live to tell the tale..................... And no, I DON'T use a mobile generally. We have a family one we take away on journeys with us for emergencies and my dd takes it to school with her for the same reason, A fiver was put on it about 6 yrs ago and there is till £2. on it. We have a family car which does 2.5k miles a yr. Both my kids walk over 2 miles to their grammar schools and at primary I walked 3 miles each day with them. My hubby cycles 5 miles to work. So before non smokers who pollute everywhere with their cars and phones have a go, think on!! .. OK, rant over. It's my pet hate!! |
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Sheet lightening is not meant to hit you! However I am genuinely not worried about being hit. As I said, add up how many people get hit by lightening and how many people get hit by cars and the latter far outweighs the former. I had a pony for 18 years and did many a dash up to the field in pouring rain, worried a tree woiuld be hit by lightening and get him. (Horses of course, shelter under the trees!) It never happened, and the bike I was riding up there on was never hit either!! lmao. I am just making a sensible risk assessment.
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