From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018020620262159076-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > things I lust after show up on sale now and then. usually just after I've   
   > spent my cookie jar stash of splurging money :-)   
      
   I'm not lusting after a Crumar Mojo organ, I just Desperately NEED one for   
   Awesome Musical Orgasms...it's part of the Love Vibe ;)   
      
   And so much for those silly-named buying co-ops, like 'groupon' and 'living   
   social' - all they've got are Stupid names that suggest Depersonalization,   
   but do Nothing to get quantity discounts on things like Music gear - Bummer.   
      
   > snowed last night.  We're supposed to get whacked again in the early am.   
      
   Same here - that Ugly white Crap was supposed to be over last month! I'm   
   sick of it, particularly since it's good for Absolutely Nothing Good!!! I   
   HATE IT!!! I WANT ***REAL*** GLOBAL WARMING...AND LOTS OF IT...NOW!!!   
      
   > plane crashes can be much worse, but I've seen a few wrecked vans ... and   
   > worrying about the side doors opening easily is a waste of mental effort.   
      
   If they're still upright, it would be a good idea.   
      
   > If you wreck a van like mine with any force, I doubt the side doors will   
   > open without crow bars.   
      
   The more WORKING exits, the better.   
      
   > Look into what street racers do with the motor control chips.  That's a   
   > whole back room cottage industry.   
      
   That's cool!   
      
   > there was a car accident on the road in front of our house last week.   
   > 6am, crash woke wife, she woke me. Called brother, he was already going   
   > out, flashlight in hand. I walked over.  Ice on road, fog ... pickup and   
   > an suv.  Suv airbags went off, driver looked like hell, was bleeding from   
   > the mouth, very disoriented.  That looked to me to be all a result of the   
   > driver air bag whacking him in the face. Cop helped him call his wife to   
   > get basic info, he was too whacked to think straight. Not drunk. Just   
   > stunned.  Passenger side air bag broke the windshield. Looked about like   
   > you'd shacked the glass with a battering ram.  Just from the air bag   
   > inflating and hitting the back / inside of the glass.   
      
   Airbags are another classic example of the 'cure' being Worse than the   
   'disease'.   
      
   > The pickup driver never got out while I was there. His vehicle was far   
   > worse, brother spoke to him before the ambulances and stuff showed up.   
   > Both drivers were taken away in ambulances.  Maybe air bags will save your   
   > life, but they sure don't look fun to be smacked with.   
      
   Like ALL other Overrated Crap Gimmicks, they've been Hyped...and if they do   
   anything useful at all, I'm sure it's in Very LIMITED situations...i.e. the   
   'ideal' accident...some ideal!   
      
   > I've had several friends killed in car wrecks.  One was decapitated from   
   > going thru windshield. One had her face / skull crushed when the car slid   
   > and hit a phone pole.   In one of those, an air bag might have saved him.   
   > In the other, a phone pole thru the side window  ... that's gonna get you.   
      
   Yep...the message here is DON'T DRIVE LIKE  AN IDIOT AND STAY AWAY FROM   
   IDIOTS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE...That strategy is Infinitely more effective at   
   saving lives than all the air bags in the world.   
      
   One of my favorites in Music, Grace Slick, of Jefferson Airplane and   
   Jefferson Starship, once totaled an Aston Martin (can you imagine that?)   
   when she got too stoned and went out for a drive. She hit a bridge and   
   because she  wasn't wearing her seat belt, she was ejected - not from the   
   car, only from the driver's seat, into the passenger seat, just in time for   
   her to see the driver's side get totally crushed - if she'd been wearing her   
   seat belt, she'd have been killed.   
      
   > For me, I'd rather have the whole care puff up and try to save me than die   
   > like either of my friends.  And I ABSOLUTELY wear seat belts.  My life, my   
   > choices.  Plus, considering all the wrecks I've been in, there's no point   
   > daring the odds.   
      
   Jim   
      
   I only learned the habit of wearing seat belts when I gave big rig driving a   
   try...and it was Only One Time, while driving an 18 wheeler, that my seat   
   belt actually kept me out of trouble. I was driving along at the speed   
   limit...don't even remember where, when suddenly the road under me just   
   dropped away and I felt myself falling, only for my fall to be instantly   
   stopped and reversed with even greater force. If I wasn't wearing my seat   
   belt, the shape of the top of my head would have been embossed into the   
   cab's roof and I'd probably have a crushed neck, lost control of the truck,   
   and totally wiped out...probably becoming dead before that, but that was   
   only one time and I was relying on the seat belt....more likely if I wasn't   
   wearing it, I'd have a much tighter grip on the steering wheel and that   
   would have saved my life.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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