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Telsa Cola posted:Agreed also we are noticing an increase in combat injuries in the people we send Agreed
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Nutsngum posted:As far as concussions go he isnt wrong. Helmets that are actually small enough to be practical also arent thick enough to prevent concussions during impacts. Yes they of course will stop thost incredibly sever brain killing hits but instead get cumulative damage over a career. I understand that, but the way he phrases it is strikingly similar to the apocryphal story of the introduction steel helmets in ww1 leading to an increase of head wounds which lead to the British government consider recalling them. The increase of course was due to more people not dying immediately when shot in the head. Telsa Cola has a new favorite as of 20:41 on Sep 14, 2016 |
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Nutsngum posted:As far as concussions go he isnt wrong. Helmets that are actually small enough to be practical also arent thick enough to prevent concussions during impacts. Yes they of course will stop thost incredibly sever brain killing hits but instead get cumulative damage over a career. I didn't know there was any helmet that stopped the brain from sloshing around in the fluid inside of your skull.
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Chichevache posted:I didn't know there was any helmet that stopped the brain from sloshing around in the fluid inside of your skull. Theoretically if you made it big enough and the padding just squishy enough, you could slow the deceleration and prevent that. Also, it would be hilarious to watch football games played in real life big head mode.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Theoretically if you made it big enough and the padding just squishy enough, you could slow the deceleration and prevent that. Also, it would be hilarious to watch football games played in real life big head mode. Eli Manning would look like a katamari.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Theoretically if you made it big enough and the padding just squishy enough, you could slow the deceleration and prevent that. Also, it would be hilarious to watch football games played in real life big head mode. Baseball started using larger helmets to help with head injuries, but players hated them because they were ugly as hell, and obviously huge. Barely anyone uses them, and only if they just suffered from a head injury.
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# ? Sep 14, 2016 20:59 |
Helmets are for loving nerds. There... I said it...
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# ? Sep 14, 2016 21:05 |
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Theoretically if you made it big enough and the padding just squishy enough, you could slow the deceleration and prevent that. Also, it would be hilarious to watch football games played in real life big head mode. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1401357387/bubble-hat?ref=category Edit: the schadenfreude element: quote:5 backers Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 21:16 on Sep 14, 2016 |
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# ? Sep 14, 2016 21:33 |
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canyoneer posted:And there were internet tough guy dads saying "if that was my kid being pushed down, me and the kids parents would have a problem". OK sure dude Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:A coworker's kid plays in a youth football league, but that has age and weight restrictions to avoid size disparities like this. Seems like youth rugby should have the same thing. GrandpaPants posted:So uh, do they not require kids to wear helmets in rugby? Is this just the American in me to think that that seems like a bad idea?
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# ? Sep 15, 2016 00:07 |
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In rugby, you protect your head by tackling into the soft, mushy parts of your opposition.
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# ? Sep 15, 2016 00:33 |
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Both your sports are equally dumb. There, can we move on now
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SubponticatePoster posted:And this is why Americans can't have nice things. It's part of the game, you should tell him, "It's absolutely legal and if you don't like your precious snowflake getting stiff-armed in the face then either teach him to tackle lower or sign him up for tee ball where contact is illegal, you giant pussy." Maybe don't give kids concussions so you can pretend they like your lovely sport instead
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Malachite_Dragon posted:Both your sports are equally dumb. Especially when compared to the far superior game, futball.
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MizPiz posted:Especially when compared to the far superior game, netball.
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# ? Sep 15, 2016 03:41 |
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This but for real, netballers can be loving lunatics out there
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# ? Sep 15, 2016 03:47 |
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Memento posted:Helmets encourage kids to slam their heads together and are actually worse for you in the long run. Like seatbelts and stop signs?
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# ? Sep 15, 2016 04:13 |
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# ? Sep 15, 2016 04:32 |
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/theres-my-little-pony-porn-hiding-in-ios-10-1786653053 quote:But for those of you that didn’t heed my warning, should you decide to search the default (default!) GIF library for the word “butt,” you’ll find a sultry My Little Pony doing what no My Little Pony should ever do.
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nerdz posted:That samoan kid is like real life Breaking Madden: He's the protagonist of BEEFTANK: Origins
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Hmm yes a lot of cool and good ownage on me in this thread because I dissed a sport that makes people shoot themselves in the heart later in life because they know their brain is broken and want to donate it to science. American football is a great sport to watch but you have to realise the damage it does to players who get it into their heads that because they're wearing protective gear they're indestructible, and the culture of the NFL that encourages them to destroy their bodies for the spectacle of the sport. The rampant performance enhancing drug use doesn't help.
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It's like how boxing gloves contribute to CTE. You're constantly getting hit very hard by something sort of padded and since one guy doesn't break his hand/the other guy doesn't get cut to ribbons, the fight goes on. Obviously you're still getting punched in the head but the fights would be over sooner without gloves.
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Memento posted:Hmm yes a lot of cool and good ownage on me in this thread because I dissed a sport that makes people shoot themselves in the heart later in life because they know their brain is broken and want to donate it to science. Is this a thing?
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Outrail posted:Is this a thing? Dave Duerson and Junior Seau are two that I can recall off hand. It was never definitely proven for the latter but he had cte for sure when they autopsied him.
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Memento posted:Hmm yes a lot of cool and good ownage on me in this thread because I dissed a sport that makes people shoot themselves in the heart later in life because they know their brain is broken and want to donate it to science. Brilliant insight! You should head over to the football forum and share your revelation with the problematics.
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RNG posted:It's like how boxing gloves contribute to CTE. You're constantly getting hit very hard by something sort of padded and since one guy doesn't break his hand/the other guy doesn't get cut to ribbons, the fight goes on. Obviously you're still getting punched in the head but the fights would be over sooner without gloves. Boxing also has various rules planned to maximize getting punched, such as resetting the fight on knock downs, and the ref separating clinching fighters.
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Memento posted:Hmm yes a lot of cool and good ownage on me in this thread because I dissed a sport that makes people shoot themselves in the heart later in life because they know their brain is broken and want to donate it to science. you are brutally tedious
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You joke, but it did save his life after he faceplanted into a console.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdHNTwQNGZs
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GrandpaPants posted:
Schaden on me: deadspin served the gif in full through its rss feed. I was chugging through webcomics and news stories when BAM! Pony butt. At work. Glad nobody was around.
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RNG posted:It's like how boxing gloves contribute to CTE. You're constantly getting hit very hard by something sort of padded and since one guy doesn't break his hand/the other guy doesn't get cut to ribbons, the fight goes on. Obviously you're still getting punched in the head but the fights would be over sooner without gloves. People loving died all the time during boxing matches before boxing gloves
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# ? Sep 15, 2016 13:24 |
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The fights last longer because neither fighter just dies in the third round anymore
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# ? Sep 15, 2016 13:25 |
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Having the 3-knockdown TKO rule also helps when you aren't just forcing someone with brain damage up again over and over to get hit again with no way of defending himself until he basically got knocked unconscious or beat to death. Also round limits and not fighting in broad daylight and getting heat strokes.
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"Jukin' Video"? Not that one!
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Improbable Lobster posted:People loving died all the time during boxing matches before boxing gloves People loving die all the time during boxing matches after boxing gloves, and all boxing gloves aren't created equal: at this point in heavyweight bouts they weigh 10 ounces and the boxers are allowed to have their hands wrapped with 18 feet of bandage and 10 feet of zinc-oxide tape. It's not certain that bareknuckle would be safer but it's pretty plausible: http://www.complex.com/sports/2015/11/bare-knuckle-boxing
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I bet that you don't wear seatbelts so that you'll be thrown clear of the crash too
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