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Brompton World Championships
I was about to ask if any of my Brompton-wielding LJ-friend fancied entering the Brompton World Championships at Blenheim Palace on the 28th of September.
But then I noticed the following sentence in the T&Cs:
"For health and safety reasons, it is an absolute condition of participation that a helmet is to be worn."
My views on this and yours, if different, aside (no flamewars please!), would this put any of you off attending, if indeed you're interested? Would you be interested despite this? Interested in testing the wording of the rules? It doesn't say which body part you have to wear the helmet on, after all...
It's a pity. I'd never really got into organised cycling events, but I was all up for giving this one a go.
But then I noticed the following sentence in the T&Cs:
"For health and safety reasons, it is an absolute condition of participation that a helmet is to be worn."
My views on this and yours, if different, aside (no flamewars please!), would this put any of you off attending, if indeed you're interested? Would you be interested despite this? Interested in testing the wording of the rules? It doesn't say which body part you have to wear the helmet on, after all...
It's a pity. I'd never really got into organised cycling events, but I was all up for giving this one a go.
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Philosophically, I am personally opposed to unjustified demands. "For health and safety reasons" is not actually a reason, and "for security reasons" (my personal bugbear) certainly is not. If they said "As a condition of our insurance for the event, without which we could not put it on, our insurers demand that all competitors wear a helmet" I might still disagree with it, but I'd be a lot less annoyed about it.
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However there are no shops that sell collared shirts that look good on me - I just have to get mens shirts which are baggy and crap (in order to do up over the breasts they have to be pretty huge everywhere else).
(I really really really hate that women's fitted shirts are all V-necked - I do NOT want to show of my breasts in the office people, FFS. 'cos other than that mis-feature Bravissimo shirts are cool, they should do real shirts wif collars)