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Thanks to all who sponsored me I managed to beat my target of 2 hours .

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I like to think that we are responsible dog owners,

we have a rescue bull lurcher.

she has several issues!

we were vetted/had home visits etc. before we got her.

I wouldn't even have considered having her if we had young kids in the house!

I will never have a dog from a breeder! only rescues!

Some breeds are more likely to be a problem than others but it's mostly down to the owners!

I wouldn't have some breeds because I realise our limitations on time/exercise etc.

We had 2 lurchers when I was growing up, lovely dogs and as daft as a brush.

Are there breeds that are more dangerous than others and if so do you think we have the Right breeds currently classified?

 

Fortunately there is actual data on this.. and unsurprisingly it comes from America. two studies that i can find.. time is pressing so I must restrict it to just these two.

The first published in Journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

and the second published in Annals of surgery.

below are the abstracts from both papers.

1.

Background: The objective of this study was to characterize the nature of dog bite injuries treated over a 5-year period at a large tertiary pediatric hospital and to identify relevant parameters for public education and injury prevention.

Methods: Investigators performed a retrospective review of emergency room records of a single tertiary pediatric hospital. Records of all patients who were evaluated for dog bite injuries between April of 2001 and December of 2005 were reviewed. All demographic, patient, and injury details were recorded.

Results: Five hundred fifty-one patients aged 5 months to 18 years were treated in the emergency department after suffering dog bite injuries during the study period. The majority of injuries (62.8 percent) were sustained by male children. Dog bite injuries were most prevalent during the months of June and July (24.1 percent). Grade school–aged children (6 to 12 years) constituted the majority of victims (51 percent), followed by preschoolers (2 to 5 years; 24.0 percent), teenagers (13 to 18 years; 20.5 percent), and infants (birth to 1 year; 4.5 percent). Injuries sustained by infants and preschoolers often involved the face (53.5 percent), whereas older children sustained injuries to the extremities (60.7 percent). More than 30 different offending breeds were documented in the medical records. The most common breeds included pit bull terriers (50.9 percent), Rottweilers (8.9 percent), and mixed breeds of the two aforementioned breeds (6 percent).

Conclusions: Pediatric dog bites are preventable injuries, yet they persist as a prevalent public health problem. Evaluation of data from high-volume tertiary pediatric health care institutions identifies predictable patterns of injury with respect to patient age and gender, animal breed, provocation, and seasonality.

 

and 2.

Objective: Maiming and death due to dog bites are uncommon but preventable tragedies. We postulated that patients admitted to a level I trauma center with dog bites would have severe injuries and that the gravest injuries would be those caused by pit bulls.

Design: We reviewed the medical records of patients admitted to our level I trauma center with dog bites during a 15-year period. We determined the demographic characteristics of the patients, their outcomes, and the breed and characteristics of the dogs that caused the injuries.

Results: Our Trauma and Emergency Surgery Services treated 228 patients with dog bite injuries; for 82 of those patients, the breed of dog involved was recorded (29 were injured by pit bulls). Compared with attacks by other breeds of dogs, attacks by pit bulls were associated with a higher median Injury Severity Scale score (4 vs. 1; P = 0.002), a higher risk of an admission Glasgow Coma Scale score of 8 or lower (17.2% vs. 0%; P = 0.006), higher median hospital charges ($10,500 vs. $7200; P = 0.003), and a higher risk of death (10.3% vs. 0%; P = 0.041).

Conclusions: Attacks by pit bulls are associated with higher morbidity rates, higher hospital charges, and a higher risk of death than are attacks by other breeds of dogs. Strict regulation of pit bulls may substantially reduce the US mortality rates related to dog bites.

 

I see no specific mention of staffies. golden retrievers or labradors.. though i imagine all these dogs appear in the statistics.. just that they arent significant.

That's the US though, the dog culture over there is totally different than the UK and the popularity of certain breeds is much different. The Pitbull isn't illegal in the US, it's not even recognised as a breed in the UK.

Small dogs bite much more than big dogs, it's just they don't have the power to do any damage. A Chihuahua can bite you and it would barely leave a scratch.

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it's a problem with Chrome, I just had to swtich from Chrome.

We won't see him again. He's all talk and no action.

Made his 2quid from YouTube adverts and now thinks he's rich!

I made a video once, it had 30,000 views. I got £5, he's got about 0.02p so far

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You're gonna get f**ked.

This was my favourite

Come on then, engage with us. You're really keen to show off your shit riding, angry gestures and ill tempered rants on yootoob, why not try and justify it here among your peer set?

Your filtering is shit, you're way too close to car doors when the opposite lane is clear.

You get narked at drivers who pull out about six (maybe seven) light years ahead of you, meaning you might have to roll off the throttle a bit (not that it really matters on your poxy rust filled 125, which is shit, by the way). Then you stop and have a tantrum at the drivers, which just goes to show the inconvenience it's caused you isn't about how late it's made you, it's just about you "being in the right". Which, you're not.

As a new driver / rider, you should be still learning how the road works. If you think everyone sticks rigidly to the highway code and you're the righteous sword of law when you 'correct' people, you're sorely wrong. People do what people do, and defensive driving and riding is something you learn by years of 'just fitting in'.

I reckon the only fitting in you're capable of is when the poor paramedic has to scoop up various bits of you and fit them in to plastic tubs so your family can begin the grieving process. It'll probably be a short process though

So yeah, what he said ^^^^^^^^

I don't have a degree!

I/my family simply couldn't afford for me to go to uni!

I had to get a job at 16 like it or not.

 

Same here Ian......that's the way it was.

In retrospect I'd probably have got slung out from Uni anyway for wild behaviour.

Wild behaviour is the only reason I went to uni!

Nobody parties quite as hard as a whole bunch of teenagers living away from home for the first time with cheap booze on tap..

And heres me doing the boring part and missing all the fun :(.

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In Engineering I know a lot of what you learn at college/uni is pretty redundant and to be honest it's only worth doing it for that bit of paper, that's your ticket to more money in the future. As others have said, people wont even entertain you without a degree for certain job roles. I've been lucky to do my education as part of an apprenticeship and the things I have learned by doing the job far out-weigh what I have learned in a classroom. We had a couple of lads in for the 3rd year placement of their degree, they were intelligent lads but their idea of what engineering was and what it actually is was so far apart.

I'm not sure if Gin agrees as she took a different route into Engineering than me, but for what I do that's how I find things .

Happy Birthday!

Excellent news mate! You should be able to now act against the person who made these ridicolous claims and no doubt made your life hell for that past 2 years!

I can't make that, have fun everyone.

Congrats Ollie! I like the styling you went for

Thank you very much Joeman

Thanks very much GoG, and also to Bonio

Sorry I'll stick it in, I put the date but not the place

Hi All,

You may have seen me mention, I am doing the Manchester Half Marathon on the 16th October. I'm doing it in aid of the Alzheimer's Society, it's a pretty crap disease that has affected many families or someone they know. I've done a 10k in the past for the Alzheimer's Society and plan to keep doing a few more events in the future. If anyone would like to sponsor me to help spur my fat arse along I have left the link below . Thanks in advance.

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I can't say too much from my non existent experience, but I reckon you've done the hard bit! Riding sensibly and safely on the road is the easy part . Remember to cancel your indicators and shoulder checks !

Any news?

You've been riding longer than me, I don't have the balls to ride like that. I commute like a granny and enjoy myself on the country roads. I'm not gonna lecture, I'm in no position to

I can help with that, seeing as it's identical to mine

Your average 2001 CG125 looks like this:

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Which of course looks quite dramatically different to yours. Still got the front and rear drum brakes, still kick start only (which is a bit different to having no electric start, as Shorty notes - the old contact breakers went out of use in the mid 90s), but a very different shape and styling to it. Yours (and mine) look more like the earlier pre electric start version, but have the notable inclusion of CDI. A lot of people assume this means the plastics are from a more recent bike (which they aren't; the newer bikes have different shaped plastics) or that they're some kind of dodgy Chinese knock off. Not always the case... the plot thickens.

Around the Y2K, Honda Japan did a very short run of limited edition CG125s intended only for sale in the home market that used the newer CDI setup but the arguably more tasteful bodywork of an older model, along with a few other minor differences - the square headlight is the most obvious giveaway (the old points ignition models have similar bodywork but a round headlight), as are the "CDI" side panels. The other two things to look for are the clocks (which have a rev counter, unlike the originals), and the gearbox, which is the really telling thing. The limited edition ones have a weird (aka. mildly annoying) four speed four down gearbox, whereas the various knockoff CGs styled after the points model have a more normal one down four up setup, and usually lack the rev counter. Anyway, back on topic... they didn't sell well in Japan, ended up in a container doomed to be forgotten, until various foreign importers decided to snatch them up. David Silver (Honda spares supplier and occasional importer) bough in a small number of them, which pop up for sale every now and then.

So all in all, if yours has a rev counter and a four-down gearbox, 2001 is probably bang on the money! And congratulations, you own the closest thing there is to a rare CG125

2001 would have sufficed.

I'd really suggest trying the lid on first before buying......A poorly fitting lid is as much use as not having one at all...... I bought a cheap lid a number of years back.....I couldn't wear it for more than an hour before I got a splitting headache.......my current lid was considerably more expensive, but I can wear it all day without any issues. That's not to say that you can't get cheap lids that fit ok......but I think some of the materials used in them are not as good and lining can lose its shape quicker than a more expensive lid......mine still fits perfectly after 5 years of owning it......

 

thanks for the heads up, i have owned mine for 5 years nitro helmet its good lid, but its old, hopefully this weekend at the jumble ill find a new helmet ill stay clear of cheap helmets

 

Can never tell if serious or not...

Hang on! 1992 wasn't that long ago. Shouldn't you just be starting high school.?!?

That's what I mean! Some people born in 2000 have now left school!