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macca 53 Jun 2022 1:04pm, 8 Jun 2022 30,053 posts	0 macca 53 The only shock to me is that it is still allowed - there’s no way to make the circuit safe
Cerrertonia Jun 2022 1:10pm, 8 Jun 2022 16,692 posts	0 Cerrertonia [What would be the argument for banning it? They've done about as much as is possible to make the circuit safe - crash barriers on houses, chicanes and so on. If people want to go to a specific place once a year to ride motorcycles dangerously fast and kill themselves, why stop them?]
macca 53 Jun 2022 1:16pm, 8 Jun 2022 30,055 posts	0 macca 53 No problem for me Cerrers - if they want to take that risk (without significant risk to spectators/the public of course) then go for it. If you come off your bike on the circuit you are likely to be stopped by something hard…
GregP Jun 2022 2:33pm, 8 Jun 2022 136,177 posts	0 GregP What an Acti Fry is. [thank Nicholls595]
NDWDave Jun 2022 7:01pm, 8 Jun 2022 16,880 posts	0 NDWDave The football World Cup would have started on Friday if it wasn’t in Qatar
Pothunter Jun 2022 6:22am, 9 Jun 2022 6,178 posts	0 Pothunter [back to the TT and BBC are reporting “Isle of Man TT race organisers have confirmed that they named the wrong French sidecar competitor to have died in an incident on Saturday”. How shocking is that!]
JK chameleon Jun 2022 8:08am, 9 Jun 2022 16,669 posts	0 JK chameleon [Just made me think how bad an accident it must have been to not even identify the people correctly. Have we got a comparison about deaths at TT vs deaths at the Grand National?]
Diogenes Jun 2022 8:19am, 9 Jun 2022 70,467 posts	0 Diogenes [more horses at one than the other]
Fizz :-) Jun 2022 8:47am, 9 Jun 2022 7,094 posts	0 Fizz :-) A quick Google finds that 3 British jockeys have died in the last 25 years. 2500 horses in the last 15 years. I hadn’t realised it was quite that bad
Sharkie Jun 2022 8:52am, 9 Jun 2022 19,931 posts	0 Sharkie Only ONE of species of bee dies after stinging the first time. There are 25,000 individual recorded species with 270 in the UK alone. Yikes!