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You are far from the reality. Anyone who's been hit by a car and a bike would agree.

• freehunter 12y ago
  Does no one actually see the word "almost" in there? Or are people just not understanding what the word "almost" means? It means "I'm using this unrealistic comparison to make a point." And that point is that bikes have no safety features, yet are pitted head to head against both motor traffic and pedestrians. Would I get this many missing-the-point replies if I said "I would almost rather die than have my hand cut off"? Would I get a bunch of people saying "you've obviously never died, I've died plenty of times and anyone would rather have their hand cut off" or start quoting physics to me about how much inertia death has versus your hand? Because I'm pretty sure I wrote the word "almost" in my comment, and I'm also pretty sure I didn't edit it in. Seriously, I'm about 95% certain that the word "almost" was included in my original comment when I hit "reply" for the first time. So literally anyone who read the comment would have had the chance to see that I used the word "almost".
  • lotsofmangos 12y ago
    Or are people just not understanding what the word "almost" means? It means "I'm using this unrealistic comparison to make a point." It doesn't generally mean that though, in what I would think to be the popularly understood context of what you were saying, you were claiming they were very close, not that it was an unrealistic comparison of things far apart from one another. If you said "I would almost rather die than have my hand cut off", and seemed completely sincere about it, most people would think you were an idiot.