Many didn’t.
I mean…have you seen the size of cars then and now? Or the number of cars then vs now?
“how did we survive?”
Ask anyone not wearing a helmet that got hit by a car or smacked their head on the concrete after going over their handlebars. Oh, right, you can’t.
This type of person cannot fathom that their singular experience is not representative of everyone else’s experience. Conservatism in a nutshell.
I got hit by a car while biking without a helmet! Toppled up onto their hood and slid off once they came to a complete stop. Totalled the bike. I just got really fucking lucky and didn’t hit my head. Would not advise.
I was just lazy and didn’t go back up to my apartment once I got down and realized I had forgotten the helmet, because it was “just a short ride to the park”. Never again.
this is why they oppose developing critical thinking in public education. believe what you’re told to believe, do what you’re told to do.
science, facts, evidence all have a liberal bias, therefore the only choice is to support pedophile rapist fascist, because…he hates minorities just like his supporters do
Bingo
Friend got hit by a car when on bike, went flying, rolled over the car, smacked into the road.
Got up, checked bike first, sighted and started dragging it’s carcass back home.
…but to be honest, dude was kinda indestructible and totally the exemption in every dangerous situaiton.
Ive biked to work for years and only had 2 bad crashes. Both involved slamming hard into pavement at speed, one had me slide into a tree. Both times I hit my shoulder/arm/hip hard and was honestly very dazed, but neither time did I hit my head.
You can shake a bike accident off if you get lucky in how you hit the ground. Mainly if you dont smack your head. Super duper wear a helmet cause that the kind of spill that fucks you.
Ask anyone not wearing a helmet that got hit by a car or smacked their head on the concrete after going over their handlebars. Oh, right, you can’t.
I mean, you can. Falling off your bike isn’t universally fatal. Even bad injuries aren’t unrecoverable - especially when you’re young and resilient and you’re body is still growing.
But imagine telling a 12-year-old to take off their helmet and pads and go plow themselves into a tree, because it builds character. Why would anyone voluntarily subject themselves to this? Why would anyone advocate for this?
You’re not building up some kind of robust spirit of mind or body. You’re not growing as a person. You’re just being hazed.
I hit my head on the pavement bicycling drunk while my helmet was sitting on my desk at work. Ask me how fun the two weeks after that concussion was.
Multiple concussions from sports as a kid. It’s great to never know if my memory issues and depression are a result of that or if I was just fucked from the start.
Boomers aren’t able to see anything beyond themselves. They lack empathy to a degree that’s insane. A Generation of Sociopaths as Bruce Gibeny says.
Before some boomer comments “not me!” (Because everything is about them) just look at the fucking world and the way boomers behave.
Survivor bias… they incorrectly believe that because they lived that there was no actual danger. Truly, the selfish and self-absorbed generation. :(
Well ya know I drank really really hard for 40 years, but I didn’t have liver failure.
Guess there’s no consequences for alcoholism! Guess I can keep drinking forever! I am immortal!
And THAT is what I imagine my still alcoholic boomer dad must think daily.
Nobody who smoked for 70 years ever died young. That’s a fact.
I grew up when drunk driving was legal! I had a van, and was always the designated drunk driver! Cops would stop me and tell me to drive safer in case another cop was arsed to pull me over! Never got busted, and never died!!
Woke snowflakes today, I tell ya’ !
one of my best friends growing up drak heavy for 30 years and then tried to quit but had a Alcohol-related seizures from going cold turkey, fell and broke his neck. But his liver is fine.
he has barely any movement of his upper body but he kicked the bottle, hasnt had a drink since! (Because he cant do it without somone helping him)
I often think of the old man that lost his horse.
Can’t believe The Onion is nearly a century old.
I always like to point out that they were originally called Generation Me. They were the first generation studied, who were more concerned with self fulfilment, than social responsibility.
they incorrectly believe that because they lived that there was no actual danger.
Also, incorrectly believed that they were the ones on the bicycle.
For every kid doing this right, there were ten that did it wrong and fell over.
For every ten that did it wrong, there were another ten laughing up their sleeves and then… putting on a helmet and pads because they didn’t want to end up in traction (or because their parents were yelling at them to be safe).
That was Gen X. And we have the scars and broken bones and dead friends to prove that it was dangerous. that’s why kids nowadays wear kneepads and helmets.
You’re welcome
TikTok and AI are bad for your brain.
Thank you. I was looking at the cars and thinking this was 1970s.
I did shit as a kid I’d never have let my kid even think about. I should have died several times until my mid 20s.
check out the banana seat and handlebars on that bike. so 70s.
I loved my banana seat. I thought I was the shit when I got one of those really tall flags with the orange pendant to attach to it.
Yeah, those rally flags were pretty popular
Why does someone who admits to be full of scars due to their stupidity has to insult random strangers by questioning their intelligence?
Why does someone who admits to be full of scars due to their stupidity has to insult random strangers by questioning their intelligence?
I didn’t “admit” or question anything-- and I can’t help but be amused by the hypocrisy of your own comment
Boink now you’ve edited your first comment trying to not sound like an asshole 👍 but you’re making it even with the second. and dude, I was just asking
just because you’ve framed false accusations as a question doesn’t validate them, and evading your own hypocrisy doesn’t validate that, either. it doesn’t work for Tucker Carlson, and it doesn’t work for you.
and this isn’t Fox News
Not sure what’s up in your head. Idk tucker Carlson and I don’t have fox news here. And lol how do you define hypocrisy?
Then I suggest you spend some time using google instead of trolling random people online.
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Lol first you insult random people and when someone asks you why you run like a crying baby
Is it ironic that all the survivors also happen to be the ones who don’t understand survivorship bias?
But isn’t that also survivor bias in a way? Because those who understand it, don’t post stuff like this and therefore don’t get noticed. Is like the joke “How do you recognize a vegan? They tell you – every five minutes”. People told me the joke, not knowing that I’m a vegan, because I didn’t tell them because why would I.
Many didn’t. That’s the trick!
Guarantee if you took a picture of that same street today there’d be a lot more than two cars. That probably a played a big role.
Every street is North America is a highway. Straight, level, smooth, and intended for fast driving. The continent has designed streets not safe for human presence, fully supported by the older generations, and now they have the gall to complain about kids sitting indoors all of the time.
Nextdoor is filled with this
“I saw a person outside of a local bar past 10pm, they should close the place down!”
They also love fondly remembering their friend Little Stevie who tragically died aged 12 in 1957 in a helmet-less bicycle accident.
Graveyards full of kids
“Oh how did we survive lol 😂”
This is a gen-x’er from the cars.
This is a repost, so I’ll just link to my response there: https://infosec.pub/comment/17474305 (Basically, “we” didn’t; lots for deaths and injuries prevented by pads and helmets.)
Fun fact: Shortly after this photo was taken, the girl was attacked and devoured by the Bat Boy-faced puma following her.
How many of us STILL have scars from falling off our bikes last century? I bet some of us even still have road gravel in our bodies.
I have two very visible on my chins from those meat grinder petals on bikes back then. And a dark place on my right arm due to trying to ride a wheelie way too fast on sandy pavement and sliding on same sandy pavement for a good 20 ft on that arm. Basically like taking an angle grinder with a sanding disc to my arm for several seconds. Fun times….
