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Warpy

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6. Air bags were the worst

Reply to mercuryblues (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 13, 2022, 05:44 PM

Dec 2022

and early ones managed to kill children and very small women.

I never minded the seat belts, contusions and possibly a cracked pelvis were better than death. I just wish they'd designed a shoulder strap that wouldn't make me feel like I was being hanged. That's where the piss poor, manly man design flaw came in.

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Adverse Drug Reactions Overly Affect Women. The Reason Why Is Starting to Emerge [View all] Warpy Dec 2022 OP

I have to tell every doc that I am extremely sensitive to drugs. MOMFUDSKI Dec 2022 #1

I am to some, not to others Warpy Dec 2022 #2

They've known this for almost 50 years but they just want to tweak things. halfulglas Dec 2022 #3

They just stuffed their heads farther up their butts Warpy Dec 2022 #4

The same can be said about seatbelts mercuryblues Dec 2022 #5

Air bags were the worst Warpy Dec 2022 #6

Good stuff there, Warpy. MOMFUDSKI Dec 2022 #7

For the seat belt I buy those snap on cushion tubes and position it so I don't halfulglas Dec 2022 #8

All they had to do was mount the shoulder harness about 6 inches lower Warpy Dec 2022 #10

If you are a woman, or know a woman, or suspect your mum may have been a woman... SorellaLaBefana Dec 2022 #9

I know a lot of women who are ex military Warpy Dec 2022 #11