tabmaster wrote:I'm not claiming to be anything. I think you'll find that I said that I have worked in a major trauma unit for the last thirteen years. Do you work in a trauma unit? Are you a surgeon or O.R. nurse? This does, however, give me experience. I can see what you're saying about the injury looking like it was caused by blunt force trauma (at least from your experience of looking at your coffee table book, which must be considerable...). In my humble experience of truma surgery it does not always follow that a knife will produce a clean cut. It could, as I pointed out earlier, have been caused by anything and we only have Ventoso's commentary as evidence. Without evidence to the contrary, surely the chap should be believed? He's just a guy doing a job, like you & I. If we, in our respective work places, had something introduced that would be potentially detrimental to our health I'm very sure that we'd have something to say about it!
I must, however, defer to the vastly greater knowledge of the average American with reference to litigation. After all, who else could settle disputes live on TV with 'Judge Judy'? I just think it's mean to state, quite bluntly I must add, that someone is full of sh1t... Yes, it seems that discs will be coming like it or not for no better reason than the manufacturers say so. I think I know who will be buying them. The UCI have got it a bit wrong but why are they not allowed to govern the sport for which they are the governing body? Why are the riders not allowed to have a bigger say, since it is them who'll have to use them? Imagine if the manufacturers of American footballs decided that they thought everyone should be playing with a round ball instead of what you have now...
I can't tell if you're being serious or not, but:
Arbitration is not litigation. In fact, it rules out litigation. Roll that around in your big juicy brain for a bit and get back to us.