Helmets @ Aldi

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for what lol

 

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Bought an Aldi snowboard helmet today. Probably wouldn't have, had it not been for this thread. Went out for a ride wearing it. It was very warm and comfortable, but not sure if it will give me any more protection than the old bobble hat that I used to wear. Found the old hat in the bottom of my wardrobe, may give it a try tomorrow. After all I have only had 1 accident in 55 years and the hat is only about 40 years old. In my younger years I rode between 6,000 and 10,000 miles a year. So the stats are in my favour and the woolly hat looks and feels much better.

Snowboarders seem quite happy not wearing an aldi helmet.

Anyone know where I can purchase a new bobble. The original one has gone the way of my hair!

 

[Gringo]

Anyone know where I can purchase a new bobble. The original one has gone the way of my hair!

DIY pom-poms aka bobbles

Sory I can't help with the hair

 

[Croxden]

It takes me back to infant school when we used the cardboard top off the one third milk bottles to make pom-poms.

Before foil became the norm, the cardboard had the centre so it could be popped to allow a straw to be inserted.

Little fingers could easily wrap the wool around through the centre hole to make the bobbles. It was like the Tribbles in Star-Trek, they were everywhere.

Don't think I could do it today though.

 

[jdallan]

It takes me back to infant school when we used the cardboard top off the one third milk bottles to make pom-poms.

Before foil became the norm, the cardboard had the centre so it could be popped to allow a straw to be inserted.

Little fingers could easily wrap the wool around through the centre hole to make the bobbles. It was like the Tribbles in Star-Trek, they were everywhere.

Don't think I could do it today though.

I'm sure I could still do it. At my infant school we used a darning needle as far as I can remember - much easier to get the wool through the hole. Of course that was in the days before Health and Safety made normal activities dangerous.

Jim

 

[Croxden]

I'm sure I could still do it. At my infant school we used a darning needle as far as I can remember - much easier to get the wool through the hole. Of course that was in the days before Health and Safety made normal activities dangerous.

Jim

We were to poor to have darning needles.

 

[newboater]

we had 1 darning needle in our road ,and when our turn came round ,my mother took it . but could not afford the wool

 

[Izzyekerslike]

for what lol

There's a time and place for things...

 

[jdallan]

we had 1 darning needle in our road ,and when our turn came round ,my mother took it . but could not afford the wool

"Ours" was the single Scottish darning needle which was circulated to schools on a need to use basis. Availability of wool depended on how fast the local sheep could run.

Jim

 

[RobF]

Time to retell my Aldi helmet purchase story.

At the checkout, the young man asked: "Is that for you?"

"Yes," I replied. "I'm going to use it on my bicycle."

"Ah," he said. "I thought you didn't look like a snowboarder."

 

[flecc]

Time to retell my Aldi helmet purchase story.

At the checkout, the young man asked: "Is that for you?"

"Yes," I replied. "I'm going to use it on my bicycle."

"Ah," he said. "I thought you didn't look like a snowboarder."

You're lucky, the conversation could have gone this way:

"Yes," I replied. "I'm going to use it on my bicycle."

"Ah," he said. "Shouldn't you use it on your head?"
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/27/hold-onto-your-helmets-here-comes-the-latest-anti-cycling-legislation

 

[bigearsbilly]

Obey. Consume. Conform.

 

[anotherkiwi]

I am glad I wasn't born in that penal colony! OK so NZ has a helmet law too... But that Sydney bloke, man is he the one, cyclists must carry ID, removing cycle lanes!

 

[flecc]

And it isn't just anti-cycling law, from everything I've learnt, so many Australian laws appear to be either excessive or excessively enforced.

I find their restrictive attitudes so repugnant that I have never wanted to even visit the place, despite invitations to do so.
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[anotherkiwi]

All the convicts became good old aussie blokes and sheilas and the wardens became politicians and bureaucrats... Inferiority complex has pushed them to out British bureaucrat the British and out stupid the Americans. Non politician and non bureaucrat Aussies can be quite nice people.

NZ migration officers aren't too bad when it comes down to it. I had to say to the nice gentleman three times in reply to his question "What are you doing here?" "I have come to bury my father". The third time I pumped up the volume enough so that half the airport knew why I was there and his supervisor came over, looked at my NZ passport and let me in the damned country!

 

[Lancslass]

And it isn't just anti-cycling law, from everything I've learnt, so many Australian laws appear to be either excessive or excessively enforced.

I find their restrictive attitudes so repugnant that I have never wanted to even visit the place, despite invitations to do so.
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You're missing out there Flecc. I have visited Sydney, the east coast and Daintree and it's a pretty wonderful, welcoming place to visit.

 

[flecc]

You're missing out there Flecc. I have visited Sydney, the east coast and Daintree and it's a pretty wonderful, welcoming place to visit.

It was Sydney I was invited to, by an ex-pat friend saying how wonderful and how much better everything was. But after three years he came back here and has never returned to Australia!
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[Lancslass]

Not suggesting I'd want to live there, I love good old Blighty. But still a great place to spend a few weeks in.