J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Timeforabeer

Ian Wickham wrote:

tino_11 wrote:

amanda n wrote:going up the gondola in niederau there wass a woman talking, she does 4 lists every holiday, one list per bag, colour coded with entire contents in each bag listed, list are taken on holiday and said 4 bags returning with coloureds in one, whites in another, unused items in another, cross referenced to original list so she knows not to take them next time, and spares in last bag, and she has to re do her lists before departure so she knows what items she has packed in return cases?

anyone else this organised?

I like to think of myself as organised ut that is ridiculous. According to my list she is either:

1. COD sufferer
2. Mad
3. Not getting any

:wink:

She wasn't getting any :shock:

She obv needed to add 'get some' to her list(s). And ideally laminate it too...

Are you insane?? Imagine all the hazards I would encounter if I was looking up at the sky!! Risk assessors everywhere would be having apoplexies....

Just popping out for lunch now, obviously I will be wearing my meteorite collision mitigation headgear.

Sorry to be slow, not made a study of your previous work.

ise wrote:

But you won't. I guarantee you that more lives will be saved if car passengers wear helmets, there's been deaths just today as a result but you're not going to wear a helmet next time you're in the car.

I take your point... we could always do more to mitigate against potentially bad outcomes, but it comes down to personal choice and, to a degree, expedience. And for some people, it makes little sense to protect against an outcome they expect not to befall them.

Unfortunately the 'outcome' which prompted all this discussion is the death of a woman who probably perceived the 'risk' to be pretty minimal.

I agree that the apocryphal tales of 'I know a bloke who...' warp the reality of the serious events per day of injury-free skiing.

Now, no-one wants to take a risk assessor with them on holiday. So we either trust the bald stats that, on any given day, the risk of what we do is acceptable; or we over-compensate with bits of plastic and padding...

There are plenty of idiots on the piste who make skiing just the little bit more dangerous, and in a recent weekend away I saw enough wince-inducing falls, some caused by third parties behaving irresponsibly, to come to the conclusion that no matter how cautiously I ski, my fate is out of my hands.

I have two sons, one wife, and a reasonable amount of people who seem to care after my wellbeing. I also have just the one head, and despite its meagre contents it's all I have to play with.

Those who said that there is no way of telling if Natasha Richardson would have had a better chance of surviving a very undramatic fall if she were wearing a helmet are right; there is no way of telling.

All these reasons are why I wear a helmet.

Off to Les Gets day after tomorrow. Forecast is for 10 celsius. Grrrr.