i'm being bullied by links swipey,
i've been playing with this all morning and it's amazing, but they are ignoring it.

In answer to your question, i think it was after a friend of mine came off his motorbike when we were out in Spain, his leg looked a bit like stringy mincemeat mixed with shredded leather. I puked twice trying to stem the bleeding.

no phobia i think,
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:23, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

is it safe for work?
i've never been near links. are they bullies?

jesus, fucking rank. was he ok?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:26, Reply)

They're total benders.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:27, Reply)

whereas everyone here is a towering 6' of butch manpower?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:28, Reply)

I certainly am

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:29, Reply)

hahaha!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:34, Reply)

natch

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:29, Reply)

it is very safe for work,
lost the leg in the end.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:28, Reply)

ah that's horrible, poor guy

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:30, Reply)

it was his own fault,
he took the corner way too fast for the bike he was on trying to show off to the guys we met over there, and lost the back wheel. He even admits he is an idiot.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:31, Reply)

He now posts on B3ta,

'Cheers'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:39, Reply)

haha!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:39, Reply)

Glad someone like that one.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:55, Reply)

it's one of those things where the punishment doesn't fit the crime, i guess
i used to do insurance law and nearly all the road traffic accidents had reductions for contributory negligence like this. some of them were awful, especially the ladbroke rail disaster claims. i moved to property in the end because it was just too distressing for my feeble brain.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:41, Reply)

true,
but i am of the feeling that if you get on a motorbike, especially a big sports bike, you will very possibly be maimed or die because of the smallest mistake, so don't act the prick, but yeah, it seems a little harsh to lose a leg showing off.
what was the ladbroke claims thing?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:48, Reply)

he should have had a bit of a scare; losing a leg is way harsh
we acted for the insurers who had to pay out following the ladbroke grove train crash, where a passenger train hit a tube train because the driver ran a red light. by the time i got involved the claims were mostly settled, just the really big ones left, ie the ones who were getting multi-million payouts for the kind of injuries that really and truthfully made you wonder if they would have been better off dead. it was harrowing stuff. in fact, to give it a bit more context, my client was a "third tier" insurer, so they'd burned through the first £100,000,000 by the time we got involved.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladbroke_Grove_rail_crash
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Aug 2012, 10:55, Reply)

crikey,
i don't remember that, but it sounds horrific
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 7 Aug 2012, 11:10, Reply)