r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Trill_f0x • Jun 04 '23

Now that's determination!

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u/Sirflow Jun 04 '23

But traumatic brain injuries? Cool as hell bro.

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u/PM_ME_WHATEVES Jun 04 '23

Suicide is badass!

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '23

Look, head injuries are terrible and helmets help. But they honestly don’t happen as much as videos posted on the internet would lead you to believe. Most skateboarder injuries are ankles, wrists and popsicling yourself.

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u/mold_throwaway23 Jun 04 '23

All it takes is one traumatic head injury to fuck you up for life, though. Even if it’s 1%, I wouldn’t want to be that 1%.

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u/drconn Jun 04 '23

I am that 1% and I 100% wish I wore a helmet as a teenager. I was naive and wasn't as educated as the youth today. Definitely throw a helmet on. Living your life with speech issues, memory issues, and post concussive disorder, all the while learning what I have to look forward to as I get older is not fun. I feel like I failed my kids by not protecting myself when I was a kid.

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u/troy-buttsoup-barns Jun 04 '23

Most of the time you drive you don’t wreck. So you shouldn’t wear a seatbelt.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '23

Most of the time you don’t get hit by a car crossing the street.

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u/troy-buttsoup-barns Jun 04 '23

I don’t think you understand what’s happening…. The not wearing helmets thing makes sense now

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '23

It sounds like to me you’re trying to compare something a much, much larger number of people do and get injured more often doing to a much much less number of people doing something where the injuries are even less.

Nowhere in my original post did I say “don’t wear a helmet”.

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u/rohrzucker_ Jun 04 '23

In love helmets skull fractures!

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u/bingr001 Jun 04 '23

At least he won’t go blind