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It's such a persistent myth that a health and safety organisation decided to sponsor the championships to try and debunk the idea. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk
by ascorbic 2y ago
It's such a persistent myth that a health and safety organisation decided to sponsor the championships to try and debunk the idea. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7637605.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7637605.stm
- Nursie 2y agoInteresting! I have a weird memory of seeing kids in safety glasses on the tv sometime around the turn of the century… Looks like, as with all good myths, there’s a kernel of something resembling a twisted half-truth that got blown up out of hand - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/dec/09/conkers-goggles-myth-health-safety https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2009/dec/09/conker...