And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I made the mistake of trying to watch a roller coaster film at Six Flags many years ago. It made me sick and gave me a headache and I spent most of it with my head in my hands looking at the floor.
Anon @ 8:51.... "A guy died doing that last week...."
I think that I've mentioned this here before, but when I was working, I had a work acquaintance who rolled a car and was left as a quadraplegic. I visited him a couple of times in the hospital, and on one of those visits, I met a 20-something guy who had become a recent paraplegic. He had gone over the handlebars of his mountain bike. Nobody expects that something like this would happen to them....one minute you're driving along just fine, and then suddenly, you've hydroplaned or hit a rock on your bike, and there you are, unable to move a good portion of your body for the rest of your life. These injuries bring lots of changes that I had never thought about. As a quad, my acquaintance said that he needs to limit his diet to about 1000 calories a day....his skeletal muscles don't do anything anymore and he doesn't need more calories than that. It is an emotional change too: The day that I met this para in the rehab hospital, he had recently come to understand that he had had the last erection of his life.
These extreme sports are all fun and games, until suddenly, they're not. I'm glad that they never had much appeal to me.
I made the mistake of trying to watch a roller coaster film at Six Flags many years ago. It made me sick and gave me a headache and I spent most of it with my head in my hands looking at the floor.
ReplyDeleteA guy died doing that last week only forward I think. He'd broken many bones before succeeding. He was ready to marry his girlfriend.
ReplyDeleteAnon @ 8:51....
ReplyDelete"A guy died doing that last week...."
I think that I've mentioned this here before, but when I was working, I had a work acquaintance who rolled a car and was left as a quadraplegic. I visited him a couple of times in the hospital, and on one of those visits, I met a 20-something guy who had become a recent paraplegic. He had gone over the handlebars of his mountain bike. Nobody expects that something like this would happen to them....one minute you're driving along just fine, and then suddenly, you've hydroplaned or hit a rock on your bike, and there you are, unable to move a good portion of your body for the rest of your life. These injuries bring lots of changes that I had never thought about. As a quad, my acquaintance said that he needs to limit his diet to about 1000 calories a day....his skeletal muscles don't do anything anymore and he doesn't need more calories than that. It is an emotional change too: The day that I met this para in the rehab hospital, he had recently come to understand that he had had the last erection of his life.
These extreme sports are all fun and games, until suddenly, they're not. I'm glad that they never had much appeal to me.