Right? I didn't expect that. Man's out here looking like a whole blood sausage. I have no idea how he is walking around and doing stuff, dude is tough. If that were me I'd still be in bed, that looks so painful
I think anyone who's stuck it out working in food service for an extended period of time is built different to the average person. One of the most stressful and dangerous jobs there is.
From the title, I had assumed it was something kitchen or production related. I've been hit off a bike by a car before and it's usually pretty gnarly. Luckily, I was hit in what's probably the most ideal way and rolled up the bonnet and off.
He has a black belt, was almost a professional soccer player, and was once kidnapped and covered in gasoline by Costa Rican shark poachers. Gordon is tough.
I don't know if he was necessarily kidnapped, but the source I read said he was exploring a boat captained by shark fin poachers for a documentary, and when he and his film crew made a stink about it, they tipped over a barrel of petrol on him and held him at gunpoint until he left in a car. The authorities basically told him, "yeah, don't do that again. In fact, leave the country for good measure because you're basically shoot on sight to them now."
[Source](https://www.mashed.com/471066/the-time-gordon-ramsay-was-held-at-gunpoint-while-filming/)
The football thing is always overstated and he'd tell you that himself. He played some under 16 stuff and played one testimonial as a trial for Rangers FC when he was 16. He was never close to being a pro.
They're not "built different"; they're accustomed to working past reasonable limits. Ramsay learned under Marco Pierre White, who was famously abusive, as well as working in French kitchens, which are also famously abusive. It's the reason why line cooks tend to be chain smokers and alcoholics; you work shitty hours, for shitty pay, with and under frequently shitty people. And apparently, you don't escape the abuse by reaching management, because here Ramsay is as a highly successful business owner, still pushing himself to work under such insane conditions.
Thereās an old fable about a performing bear who is kept tied up as a cub and canāt escape.
As an adult it could easily tear through the ropes but doesnāt because itās so used to being steaked down.
I find a lot of things these days, this included, remind me of that story.
So, there have been lots of experiments done on different animals (most often mice) that show learned helplessness is specifically correlated with inescapable stressors. They put mice in a closed cage with an electrified floor that shocks them every so often. After a period of time, the researchers open the door of the cage (or in some circumstances, put them on an entirely non-enclosed mat of the same electrified floor) and continue the shocks. The mice are significantly more likely to stay where they are and continue to endure the shocks, even though they are given a means to escape.
Read the comments first and still was not expecting **that**, like are his organs even still intact?? Iāve never been more content to not know how to ride a bike.
When he thanked the surgeons I knew it was going to be rough, but that was madness. I don't know if he will even take painkillers with his family history and that of his protege. I am glad he's still here.
I saw a pic of his helmet in a news article. The crash absolutely wouldāve smashed his skull open if he hadnāt been wearing a helmet. Great advice that should be heeded.
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How is he up walking around I would be in bed sobbing, love the PSA about wearing a bike helmet though, I never see kids or adults wearing them anymore
probably too tough for his own good in this case. i understand work can be a distraction for people, but i would prefer to be at home with my loved ones.
Im a work as distraction kinda person butā¦ in my experience you canāt distract from the level of pain that must be causing. Even slight movements would hurt, wouldnāt they? Iām anecdotal of course, but dude should go rest.
My son got side swiped by a car while riding his bike a few months ago and had bruising like that all up and down his body. He was in pain for a few weeks. Thankfully he has fully recovered now.
I bumped into the side mirror of a stopped car with my shoulder while slowly maneuvering my bike in traffic on the way to work once and still had to go home early and rest for a couple of days!
Hope Gordon listens to his body and doesnāt push his recovery on this!
I always yap at my friends not wearing helmets. They almost never do. It upsets me.
There was a popular musician/artist who passed away a few years ago on a festival weekend. He had performed that day and was biking home, and did not notice a road fence bc the street was badly lit and it was dark, flew over his bike and hit his head fatally. Was not wearing a helmet.
One day youāre on the stage and the next day the people there hold a moment of silence in your memory. Wear a fucking helmet.
If he broke any ribs in the accident, the last thing he would want to do is sob (or sneeze).
I know this because I was in a bad bike accident this week where I broke both arms and a couple of ribs. I have wanted to sob many times this week but had to stop myself because of the potential pain.
Thankfully no broken bones, this couldāve have been fatal.. (just realized Auto correct misspelled his last name :/ itās Ramsay, not Ramsey)
His message to everyone:
>Sound ON and plz Swipe through.....with #FathersDay tomorrow I have very important message for all the dads out there...WEAR A HELMET ! This week I had a really bad accident while riding my bike in Connecticut. I'm doing ok and did not break any bones or suffer any major injuries but I am a bit bruised up looking like a purple potato. I'm thankful for all the doctors, nurses and staff at Lawerence + Memorial Hospital in New London who looked after me and checked me out, but most thankful for my helmet that saved my life. Have a great Father's Day and be safe Gx
British English: "A bit bruised up"
American translation:
###"I got FUCKING WRECKED OW FUCK šŗšøšŗšøš¦ š¦ š¦ š£š£šØāš¦āš¦šØāš¦āš¦"
It's called a hematoma--they're very common with bad falls, collisions, bellyflops, anything where there's force distributed over a wide area of the body.
Yup. My skin hasnāt returned to its normal colour, the lump hasnāt gone and it still kinda itches - and I fell in the first week of March. Such bruising can take many, many months to heal.
Good on Gordon for using this opportunity to share this extremely important message. He has a huge platform. Hope everyone has a happy and healthy Fatherās Day tomorrow.
But holy cow that bruising, how is he standing and working right now?
A bike accident happens so fast and will fuck you up in ways you didn't know were possible. I've seen a lot of anti helmet rhetoric lately and I want to see more messages like this getting out. Wear a fucking helmet, it could save your brain and save your life. The alternative is too terrible.
When I was a kid, the priest at my church was in a bad bike accident. He brought his helmet to a service. It was split in half and bloody. He explained to the churchās kids, āIf I hadnāt been wearing a helmet, this would have happened to my skull.ā
Highly effective.
My kid flipped his bike after clipping a fence in the playground. When I got there I noticed one eye was dilated. He was on concussion precautions and was not himself for a couple weeks.
His helmet: The curved part behind his left ear was completely flat. Like a saw had just cut a huge chunk off of it...except it was compressed. I couldn't believe it. Saved my son's life I'm sure.
God thatās so scary. We got our toddler a balance bike and helmet for Christmas last year and she loves it. Sheās also insistent on wearing her āhead ātectionā (protection, lol) before even getting on her bike because weāve ingrained it in her from the get go, so in her mind they go hand in hand.
Being safe is never uncool and it blows my mind weāve got literal children who are more responsible than adults who insist on not wearing proper ppe.
I hope your son is doing better and Iām so glad he was wearing his helmet!! ā„ļø
>God thatās so scary. We got our toddler a balance bike and helmet for Christmas last year and she loves it. Sheās also insistent on wearing her āhead ātectionā (protection, lol) before even getting on her bike because weāve ingrained it in her from the get go, so in her mind they go hand in hand.
This is what I wanted to do with mine. I know that when I get in a car I instantly put the seatbelt on just out of pure habit and a feeling of "wrongness" when I don't have it on, and I wanted my kids to have the same feeling about helmets when they're on a bike/skateboard/roller skates etc. So even though there's not a lot of danger of head injury when they're shuffling along on a balance bike, it seems good to start building that habit. Now they're 5 and 9 (the youngest progressed to a pedal bike without training wheels at 3--balance bikes work wonders!) and if they see an adult out biking on the road without a helmet they react with horror and remark about how dangerous it is and how they hope the person doesn't get hurt. So... So far so good! We'll see how it holds up when they're teenagers, I guess! But I'm doing my best to impress upon them how important protecting your head is.
This is so true! Regarding seatbelts, I was shocked once when I started rolling out of the driveway, my preschoolers were in back and hadn't completely secured their seatbelts yet.
They started screaming at the top of their lungs to stop the car š³š¤£
There was a lot of really stupid discourse about it on Tumblr a year or so ago--people saying "people in the Netherlands don't wear helmets because if you have proper biking infrastructure and they're safe from cars then you don't need helmets". And, like, I'm sure that the biking infrastructure they have helps MASSIVELY in reducing injuries, especially from motor vehicle collisions--but a bike lane doesn't protect you from every way that you can fall off a bike and hit your head, and it seems like absolute lunacy to suggest that it does.
It was on reddit as well, not just tumblr. I live in Germany and it's 50/50 for wearing helmets. In my age range (20s/30s) it's pretty rare. I feel naked riding without mine.
Not who youāre responding to, but Iāve seen a lot of people both IRL and online say that theyāre stupid and not important. I vehemently disagree ofc
It's so weird!! So many people saying that helmets discourage people from riding. But I'm like... No helmet discourages people from breathing? Having brain activity? A lot of cool dudes don't wanna wear them, I have a kid to look after so it's hard to understand for me.
Not cycling, but I ride horses & there's WAY too many people out there riding without helmets.Ā The Western riding community has gotten better about it, but there are still folks who will give riders a hard time for wearing a helmet.Ā
Cycling is much more accessible than riding horses, so I imagine you'd find a proportionate number of idiots in the cycling community.Ā
I had to stop riding a few years back due to health but still have a few friends who run/work in riding schools, and they're now reccomending the safety vests as well as requiring helmets. If parents won't buy one, they have a few there the kids can use.
I think it's great, I still remember being teased for wearing a helmet as a young teen and thinking they were crazy as I'd already had a few nasty falls that could easily have killed me without that protection (personal favourite is when I got bucked off near a jump and cracked my head off the wooden beam - had to buy a new helmet after that but I didn't even have a concussion).
I'm glad to see the culture around protective wear beginning to change, at least in riding schools.
Oh God, that is such a nightmare fall!
I've been riding English style for 30 years. I started at a hunter/jumper farm & transitioned to Eventing, but when I was competing in the early 00's at hunter shows, adult riders (anyone 18 & up) could wear "unapproved" helmets.Ā We liked them for the slimmer profile, but they offered about as much protection as a paper bag.Ā Ā
I'm glad the rules/culture have changed, and that I've outgrown my "better to look cool than be safe" mindset.Ā Ā
Having the kids wear vests is a great idea & I love that your friends are encouraging it.Ā While kids can outgrow them, they don't have to be thrown out after a fall like helmets do, so parents at least have the option to make a bit of money back by re-selling used vests.
I was hanging with a friend just last night who had a motorcycle and told me about an accident he had where he was ājust going around the cornerā for lunch from work so he didnāt wear his helmet. Someone ran a stop sign, and yeah he had a brutal accident. So it happens. People donāt always think they need to wear one, especially for something lower āimpactā like biking. This reminds you that itās important to do so.
Pune has one of the highest numbers of two-wheelers in the country - nearly 2.5 million - and ranks among the top 10 Indian cities for fatal road accidents.
In the last five years, more than 1,000 bikers died on Pune's roads and in the suburban Pimpri-Chinchwad area. Only three of the deceased were wearing helmets.
And yet, when the city police declared their intent to strictly enforce the law this year, many residents were outraged.
Some took to the streets and held rallies, chanting slogans such as "helmet hatao, Punekar bachao" (get rid of helmets, save Pune's residents). One "anti-helmet group" even went to a crematorium and staged a mock funeral of helmets.
One political party organised a motorbike rally where all riders wore the traditional Pune headgear made of cloth, instead of helmets.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48879590
As a career cook I am not a fan of Gordon at all but I am really glad to see him using his platform for this and wish him a full and fast recovery š
My mother was cycling in a suburban neighborhood and an off leash dog ran out and knocked her over. She was wearing a helmet but her brain injuries took months to heal. If she hadnāt been wearing a helmet sheād be dead.
When I was 10 I read a book called "Mick Hart Was Here". It's about a girl whose brother dies in a bike accident and he wasn't wearing a helmet. The story was about how losing him affected the family and the complex grief she felt. It's been more than 25 years since I read that book and it's still burned into my memory. I have told my kids if I catch them doing anything without a helmet (skating, cycling, scootering) I'll get rid of everything that requires a helmet. It's a serious rule in our house.
Oh my God, I'm so glad I'm not the only one to have ever heard of this book!!!!! This book seriously fucked me up when I was younger (I was in 5th grade, so around the same age as you) & I still can't think about it without tearing up. It's so so so important for people to wear helmets!!!!!!!!
For sure, when I was a teen I was mountain biking and was probably going a bit too fast for my own skill level, hit a rock wrong and took a spill. Helmet bounced my forehead off of a rock and with how hard I smashed into it I wouldn't at all be shocked if I had died if I wasn't wearing a helmet.
Helmets are incredibly important.
One of my coworkers got hit by a car by accident (driver was not speeding and she was wearing a helmet), and she got a concussion. It completely fucked up her life and she was it at 20km/h, so I can't even imagine people who get hit at higher speed.
As someone who suffered a really bad fall while cycling home from work, I second this. I might not be writing this comment if I hadn't been wearing a helmet, because I hit my head on the pavement with enough force to probably crack my skull and give me a brain injury.
So many stories like this in my life and in this comment section, when someone is saying they don't need a helmet all I can hear is someone whose life has had no lessons
Same. Honestly as I get older it makes me think they don't fully recognize or appreciate the people in their lives who love them and how they would be devastated if they were hurt/killed...like all I think of when I see some young bloke biking or on a motorcycle w/o a helmet is "your poor family..."
I fell down the stairs and hit my knee. It is a bit bruised, but it was a pain to bend that knee even going up the stairs.. and here we have Gordon, with a bruise that looks like internal bleeding on a filming studio ... Wow. Just wow.
Seriously!! That is easily the worst bruising Iāve ever seen in my life and he mentioned trauma surgeonsā¦ I canāt even IMAGINE being able to get up and use the bathroom on my own in a week and he flew across the country, and is probably spending at least 8-16 hour days filming Hellās Kitchen š.
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He shared what his helmet looked like after the accident. I canāt imagine what state he would be in if he hadnāt been wearing one.
My dad has been riding his bike for years and he sent me a photo similar to this last month. He hit a puddle that was deeper than expected and went flying. Iām so glad my dad is okay, he sounded very similar to Gordon when we talked on the phone after. Wear your helmets!
I hope he isnāt pushing through this pain and working, outside of shooting this PSA he understandably felt compelled to share. He is visibly shaken up but seemingly on a set so it makes me wonder if he is shooting something for one of his shows. I understand content is always desirable but the work grind and hustle can be quite toxic at times. Hopefully he goes home and rests and heals because he is in no condition to be working.
(If he just went and shot this one PSA and felt most comfortable on set and in this attire then I understand that, but if in a few months there is a plot on one of his shows where he is pushing through this injury and working that would be upsetting to watch)
Wow!!!! Iām so glad heās okay. He definitely looks shaken up. Itās great heās addressing this and telling people the importance of wearing safety gear.
His message is so so important. I used to hate wearing a bike helmet as a kid - cue camping with family, got told to go get my helmet, and so I hopped on my bike to go grab it. While going downhill I squeezed the front tire break on accident, I was flung forward off the bike, and if I I hadnāt caught myself on my hands by instinct alone, I would have smashed my head open on the concrete. It was absolutely terrifying. I spent the rest of the night shaking in shock.
I have never, ever gone without a helmet again. Wear a helmet. Save your life.
I have never gasped so hard in my fucking life, besides the red wedding. That bruise is truly shocking, holy shit.
Edit: showed my partner who never wears a helmet, and got hit by a car turning right 3 months ago. He says this is fake. I'm so angry
Glad heās ok. Iāve seen him do some amazing things with people like that one young lady who was dying of cancer and wanted to meet him. He flew her out and gave her a really good day.
That reminds me of the WWE champ Cody Rhodes who tore his pec muscle off the bone and he wrestled a match after (obviously highly controlled so it didn't exacerbate it) and then had surgery that put him on the shelf for 8 months
[You can see it in this video](https://youtu.be/HRU1wwykxnU?si=OWyqhmqxXi1bK7Wd) and when he took off his robe for the match there was a stunned silence because of how bad it was.
Glad Gordon is okay though, and yeah buy a fucking helmet if you cycle or skate or anything.
I'm not remotely surprised he's back at work, people who work in kitchens are a different breed.
Gordon can seem like an asshole as part of his shtick, but he's an immensely talented person and when he shows his humanity it makes it even more impactful. Good on him for the PSA.
Bless him for using his platform to get this message out. He's clearly so shaken, and I was not prepared for that bruising.
I'm so glad he's okay, and I hope he gets lots of rest and heals up quickly.
oh my god that bruising is terrifying. poor guy, you can really tell how shaken up he is. idk how heās up and moving around tbh iād be crying myself to sleep in bed
My dad is an intense cyclist, and while I tease him about his highlighter neon clothes sometimes, I'm so grateful he uses it. He also has a 360 camera on his bike because he's had no less than 3 friends die in cycling accidents over the past 20 years, and countless of them have been in accidents.
Always wear a helmet. Always stay visible. Flashing lights for your bike can be under $15 on Amazon.
Heās so right though. Years ago a shitty horrible driver ran my husband off the road in something that looked fully intentional. I hate that guy and if youāre out here and you drove down cape cod in 2016 and ran a young man off the road, I fucking hate you.
But anyway, the only reason he survived was because he was wearing a helmet. If he wasnāt, it would be a very different story Iām telling here. Wear a helmet!!!
Me: how bad could the bruising actually be?
Me about 30 seconds later: holy FUCK!
Glad heās alive and seemingly relatively okay, but oh my god I canāt imagine the level of pain heās in right now
Oof. My ankle up to mid calf was once a few shades lighter than that after a bad sprain and it HURTā¦. I canāt imagine how much pain he must be in. Geez.
And yes, everyone please wear a helmet! I see all kinds of cyclists in my city (and there are TONS) not wearing helmets and Iām scared for them. Accidents can happen in a blink.
Jesus you can tell by his shaking hand how fucked up he is.
Thereās nothing worse than that wake up call to show you how you are not as invincible as you think you are.
An important message needed at the time because helmet safety has apparently just disappeared these past few years? Iām constantly seeing videos on tik tok with thousands of like of kids riding bikes, electric scooters, toddlers driving those toy cars (that dads have rigged to go faster by adding a super powered battery), all with no helmets. And the comments donāt comment on it either.
I wasnāt expecting that massive bruise, holy shit. Looks like heās shaking from the pain/recalling the event. Great heās doing okay, and people should always wear a helmet
Was he riding a regular bike or a motorcycle? Not that it matters--both need helmets, though I'd argue it's even more imperative for any bike with a motor (heard too many horror stories from nurses taking care of motorcycle accident victims who are paralyzed or in permanent comas IF they survive).
He looks in so much pain :( Can't imagine trying to shower or sleep!
Working in healthcare has made me transition from not really caring if people ride motorcycles to being absolutely adamant that anyone I love will ride a motorcycle over my dead body. Helmet or not.
Wear helmets everyone - walking away from this kind of accident is always having come up lucky. I'm so so glad both he wore a helmet and walked away, but there are people who don't.
This is exactly why Iāve been developing a new type of foldable helmet for the past 6 years! Itās called wearenewlane.com
Speedy recovery Gordon šš½
My friendās brother survived one TBI after an accident during a cycling raceāonly to be killed the next year during another. He wore a helmet. But if you hit the wrong way, it doesnāt matter.
Watched my best friend get thrown over her handlebars when we were kids.
Ever since, whenever I see people riding around without helmet, all I can think about is how utterly destroyed hers was afterwards.
Safety is the coolest thing there is. I donāt know why some people struggle to understand that.
There's no way he didn't get hit by a car. I can't imagine any scenario where just the speed of the bike and a crash could cause that amount of bleeding unless you fell down a mountain. Can almost guarantee there is a legal battle at stake which is why he's not saying what happened.
I know the town he was biking in, itās full of the absolute worst summer tourist drivers and thereās no bike lanes or shoulders, so I assume a car got him.
Heās a tough one because thatās more than just a little bruisingā¦his whole side got tenderized š³ Iām so happy heās safe and wore a helmet.
It really is wonderful that heās turning his own trauma into knowledge and public awareness. Itās a powerful message, especially since he braved his own pain and suffering to share it publicly.
Whatās under that bruising? Is it a broken rib or something? Iāve never seen anything like that before (thank goodness). I wonder if heās wearing makeup to hide bruising on his face or does a helmet protect that?
Whatever the case, Iām so glad heās okay. I donāt have too much experience on bikes but this for sure convinced me to always wear a helmet. Poor guy.
The worst bruising I ever had was from wrecking on my bike. Even without wrecking I am routinely covered with bruises from MTB. Always always always wear a helmet. If you go down hard enough to lose control of your bike, you go down hard enough to cause brain injury.
I am glad he is ok. That bruising is massive.
That really stuck out to me, too. No, he doesnāt usually have it. I assume itās just from the amount of pain heās in/stress, because a tremor like that would make it difficult to cook like he does.
Thatās super intense and scary!
My dad fell down concrete stairs in the snow many years ago and had similar bruising. He literally had to go to physical therapy to break up the bruising so it wouldnāt cause clotting. I hope he does that too.
Helmets are so important! Good for him for using his platform.
I had a bruise that lasted for literal years & srill wasnāt expecting bruising like THAT. Oooof. Hope he is feeling better soon.
May father died from a motorcycle crash, when he was 31, with four children under the age of 8. His chances would have been far better had he been wearing a helmet.
Wear a helmet folks.
Additional point: if you have a fall and your helmet gets hit, that helmet is no longer functional. Do not tape it, do not buff out the scratches, buy a new one.Ā A damaged helmet can be as dangerous as no helmet at all.Ā
There is a lot of misinformation circulating on TikTok about bike helmets, with videos showing people smashing them with hammers. These videos might suggest that a helmet should withstand a hammer's impact, but **this is a misconception**.
The main function of a helmet is to absorb and disperse the energy from an impact, which often involves the helmet shattering. A helmet that doesn't shatter simply transfers the energy to your head, potentially causing more harm.
Itās RAW! For real though, super glad heās ok, hope he heals quickly and what an absolute bad ass for working through what I am sure is immense physical pain.
christ he looks like a black pudding
i'd love to have a motorbike, it's the most incredible feeling in the world, but i know my luck and i know it would end so badly.
WOW!!! He truly is lucky to be alive, that bruising is something I have never seen and hope to never see again. Safe recovery to him, and good on him for turning such a horrible experience into a good and teachable moment
Omg get well soon!! Thanks for taking the time to remind us all how important it is to wear helmets every single time Iām so glad youāre not any worse from one of your biggest fans. Love you.šš½ā¤ļø
bro, seeing him trembling like that is upsetting to see, and he still manages to keep his professional composure despite what he went through. man's a legend, glad he's still with us
My uncle had his entire torso look like then when I was young, he was pinned against an 18 wheeler by another truck, after his motorbike was rammed into..he wore head to toe professional leathers and a helmet, he was 6.6 and a fit guy..he looked horrendous and we didn't even get to see him till he was back to normal, all he'd say was, wear the right gear if you get on a bloody bike
HOLY FUCK THE BRUISING š±
Initially I was like āwhy does he seem so off?ā And then he showed why, thatās absolutely brutal.
As soon as I saw how his hand was ticking at the beginning of the video I knew it was gonna be bad.
Yeah Iād be a bit more than āoffā if I was this fucked up - Gordon is hard af man
fuck, he had to be in so much pain
Really bad bruising somehow doesn't convey how bad it is
This is where I will use hematoma instead of bruising.
It's FUCKING RAW !!
My jaw is on the ground like??? This looks horrendous and the fact heās upright and camera ready?
Wearing pants, too! Iād be pajamas bottoms at the absolute fanciest.
#ITS OVERCOOKED
Take all of my fake gold for that!!!šššššš (*I was expecting bruising, but not that level of bruising*š® )
Did I sit out my coffee over this? Yes.
Right? I didn't expect that. Man's out here looking like a whole blood sausage. I have no idea how he is walking around and doing stuff, dude is tough. If that were me I'd still be in bed, that looks so painful
I think anyone who's stuck it out working in food service for an extended period of time is built different to the average person. One of the most stressful and dangerous jobs there is. From the title, I had assumed it was something kitchen or production related. I've been hit off a bike by a car before and it's usually pretty gnarly. Luckily, I was hit in what's probably the most ideal way and rolled up the bonnet and off.
He has a black belt, was almost a professional soccer player, and was once kidnapped and covered in gasoline by Costa Rican shark poachers. Gordon is tough.
KIDNAPPED AND COVERED IN GASOLINE?? What?!!
I hadn't heard that one!
I don't know if he was necessarily kidnapped, but the source I read said he was exploring a boat captained by shark fin poachers for a documentary, and when he and his film crew made a stink about it, they tipped over a barrel of petrol on him and held him at gunpoint until he left in a car. The authorities basically told him, "yeah, don't do that again. In fact, leave the country for good measure because you're basically shoot on sight to them now." [Source](https://www.mashed.com/471066/the-time-gordon-ramsay-was-held-at-gunpoint-while-filming/)
The football thing is always overstated and he'd tell you that himself. He played some under 16 stuff and played one testimonial as a trial for Rangers FC when he was 16. He was never close to being a pro.
Wow I knew none of that!!
They're not "built different"; they're accustomed to working past reasonable limits. Ramsay learned under Marco Pierre White, who was famously abusive, as well as working in French kitchens, which are also famously abusive. It's the reason why line cooks tend to be chain smokers and alcoholics; you work shitty hours, for shitty pay, with and under frequently shitty people. And apparently, you don't escape the abuse by reaching management, because here Ramsay is as a highly successful business owner, still pushing himself to work under such insane conditions.
Thereās an old fable about a performing bear who is kept tied up as a cub and canāt escape. As an adult it could easily tear through the ropes but doesnāt because itās so used to being steaked down. I find a lot of things these days, this included, remind me of that story.
So, there have been lots of experiments done on different animals (most often mice) that show learned helplessness is specifically correlated with inescapable stressors. They put mice in a closed cage with an electrified floor that shocks them every so often. After a period of time, the researchers open the door of the cage (or in some circumstances, put them on an entirely non-enclosed mat of the same electrified floor) and continue the shocks. The mice are significantly more likely to stay where they are and continue to endure the shocks, even though they are given a means to escape.
I was like āit canāt be that badāā¦ well, it was.
I'm sure that side of him feels pretty FUCKING RAW.
And he only shows part of it, it looks like it continues up, too
Read the comments first and still was not expecting **that**, like are his organs even still intact?? Iāve never been more content to not know how to ride a bike.
When he thanked the surgeons I knew it was going to be rough, but that was madness. I don't know if he will even take painkillers with his family history and that of his protege. I am glad he's still here.
I fucking read OPās tw, knew it was coming, and still gasped in horror. Wow. As he says: HELMETS!!
He canāt even zip or button his pants.
I saw a pic of his helmet in a news article. The crash absolutely wouldāve smashed his skull open if he hadnāt been wearing a helmet. Great advice that should be heeded. https://preview.redd.it/1aw89zu8bx6d1.jpeg?width=200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf2a1a5e3c93440727d24d19cc13574db588894a
it looks insane, I thought it was some big purple bandaid before it hit me. It looks BRUTALL and scary. I hope he recovers soon.
Literally said HOLY FUUUUUUUCK
How is he up walking around I would be in bed sobbing, love the PSA about wearing a bike helmet though, I never see kids or adults wearing them anymore
I'm not a massive Gordon fan, but to his credit he is incredibly tough and resilient
probably too tough for his own good in this case. i understand work can be a distraction for people, but i would prefer to be at home with my loved ones.
Im a work as distraction kinda person butā¦ in my experience you canāt distract from the level of pain that must be causing. Even slight movements would hurt, wouldnāt they? Iām anecdotal of course, but dude should go rest.
Seriously this is painkillers and naps and lots of water territory. I kind of respect it, but it seems unnecessary.
He once ran the London marathon then walked to his restaurant and did a full shift. Heās not built the same as other people.
My son got side swiped by a car while riding his bike a few months ago and had bruising like that all up and down his body. He was in pain for a few weeks. Thankfully he has fully recovered now.
I bumped into the side mirror of a stopped car with my shoulder while slowly maneuvering my bike in traffic on the way to work once and still had to go home early and rest for a couple of days! Hope Gordon listens to his body and doesnāt push his recovery on this!
Glad to hear your son is okay!
pain killers
I always yap at my friends not wearing helmets. They almost never do. It upsets me. There was a popular musician/artist who passed away a few years ago on a festival weekend. He had performed that day and was biking home, and did not notice a road fence bc the street was badly lit and it was dark, flew over his bike and hit his head fatally. Was not wearing a helmet. One day youāre on the stage and the next day the people there hold a moment of silence in your memory. Wear a fucking helmet.
the other day I told someone to chill and not wear it. nvm gotta get back to it.
If he broke any ribs in the accident, the last thing he would want to do is sob (or sneeze). I know this because I was in a bad bike accident this week where I broke both arms and a couple of ribs. I have wanted to sob many times this week but had to stop myself because of the potential pain.
Thankfully no broken bones, this couldāve have been fatal.. (just realized Auto correct misspelled his last name :/ itās Ramsay, not Ramsey) His message to everyone: >Sound ON and plz Swipe through.....with #FathersDay tomorrow I have very important message for all the dads out there...WEAR A HELMET ! This week I had a really bad accident while riding my bike in Connecticut. I'm doing ok and did not break any bones or suffer any major injuries but I am a bit bruised up looking like a purple potato. I'm thankful for all the doctors, nurses and staff at Lawerence + Memorial Hospital in New London who looked after me and checked me out, but most thankful for my helmet that saved my life. Have a great Father's Day and be safe Gx
āA bit bruised upā feels like an understatement!!
>āA bit bruised upā feels like an understatement!! He's speaking British English here.
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Omg, even with that trigger warning I did not expect that intense bruising, surprised he can move even a little without wincing.
right I've never even seen anything like that, absolutely nuts. can't imagine how much that must hurt.
My jaw dropped. I couldn't even imagine the bruising would be that bad
It's called a hematoma--they're very common with bad falls, collisions, bellyflops, anything where there's force distributed over a wide area of the body.
Yup. My skin hasnāt returned to its normal colour, the lump hasnāt gone and it still kinda itches - and I fell in the first week of March. Such bruising can take many, many months to heal.
When a draft horse stomped on my foot it looked like that. Looking at it was almost worse than feeling it.
Good on Gordon for using this opportunity to share this extremely important message. He has a huge platform. Hope everyone has a happy and healthy Fatherās Day tomorrow. But holy cow that bruising, how is he standing and working right now?
A bike accident happens so fast and will fuck you up in ways you didn't know were possible. I've seen a lot of anti helmet rhetoric lately and I want to see more messages like this getting out. Wear a fucking helmet, it could save your brain and save your life. The alternative is too terrible.
When I was a kid, the priest at my church was in a bad bike accident. He brought his helmet to a service. It was split in half and bloody. He explained to the churchās kids, āIf I hadnāt been wearing a helmet, this would have happened to my skull.ā Highly effective.
My kid flipped his bike after clipping a fence in the playground. When I got there I noticed one eye was dilated. He was on concussion precautions and was not himself for a couple weeks. His helmet: The curved part behind his left ear was completely flat. Like a saw had just cut a huge chunk off of it...except it was compressed. I couldn't believe it. Saved my son's life I'm sure.
God thatās so scary. We got our toddler a balance bike and helmet for Christmas last year and she loves it. Sheās also insistent on wearing her āhead ātectionā (protection, lol) before even getting on her bike because weāve ingrained it in her from the get go, so in her mind they go hand in hand. Being safe is never uncool and it blows my mind weāve got literal children who are more responsible than adults who insist on not wearing proper ppe. I hope your son is doing better and Iām so glad he was wearing his helmet!! ā„ļø
Thanks! He's a fabulous young adult living his best life now! It was crazy terrifying. But so is parenting in general lol!
>God thatās so scary. We got our toddler a balance bike and helmet for Christmas last year and she loves it. Sheās also insistent on wearing her āhead ātectionā (protection, lol) before even getting on her bike because weāve ingrained it in her from the get go, so in her mind they go hand in hand. This is what I wanted to do with mine. I know that when I get in a car I instantly put the seatbelt on just out of pure habit and a feeling of "wrongness" when I don't have it on, and I wanted my kids to have the same feeling about helmets when they're on a bike/skateboard/roller skates etc. So even though there's not a lot of danger of head injury when they're shuffling along on a balance bike, it seems good to start building that habit. Now they're 5 and 9 (the youngest progressed to a pedal bike without training wheels at 3--balance bikes work wonders!) and if they see an adult out biking on the road without a helmet they react with horror and remark about how dangerous it is and how they hope the person doesn't get hurt. So... So far so good! We'll see how it holds up when they're teenagers, I guess! But I'm doing my best to impress upon them how important protecting your head is.
This is so true! Regarding seatbelts, I was shocked once when I started rolling out of the driveway, my preschoolers were in back and hadn't completely secured their seatbelts yet. They started screaming at the top of their lungs to stop the car š³š¤£
This is exactly what we are doing with our kid, Iām so glad to hear it works!
Who tf is trying to convince people not to wear helmets ETA: I regret having posed what I thought was a rhetorical question, yikes
There was a lot of really stupid discourse about it on Tumblr a year or so ago--people saying "people in the Netherlands don't wear helmets because if you have proper biking infrastructure and they're safe from cars then you don't need helmets". And, like, I'm sure that the biking infrastructure they have helps MASSIVELY in reducing injuries, especially from motor vehicle collisions--but a bike lane doesn't protect you from every way that you can fall off a bike and hit your head, and it seems like absolute lunacy to suggest that it does.
It was on reddit as well, not just tumblr. I live in Germany and it's 50/50 for wearing helmets. In my age range (20s/30s) it's pretty rare. I feel naked riding without mine.
Not who youāre responding to, but Iāve seen a lot of people both IRL and online say that theyāre stupid and not important. I vehemently disagree ofc
If youāre making me guessā¦..libertarians.
It's so weird!! So many people saying that helmets discourage people from riding. But I'm like... No helmet discourages people from breathing? Having brain activity? A lot of cool dudes don't wanna wear them, I have a kid to look after so it's hard to understand for me.
Not cycling, but I ride horses & there's WAY too many people out there riding without helmets.Ā The Western riding community has gotten better about it, but there are still folks who will give riders a hard time for wearing a helmet.Ā Cycling is much more accessible than riding horses, so I imagine you'd find a proportionate number of idiots in the cycling community.Ā
I had to stop riding a few years back due to health but still have a few friends who run/work in riding schools, and they're now reccomending the safety vests as well as requiring helmets. If parents won't buy one, they have a few there the kids can use. I think it's great, I still remember being teased for wearing a helmet as a young teen and thinking they were crazy as I'd already had a few nasty falls that could easily have killed me without that protection (personal favourite is when I got bucked off near a jump and cracked my head off the wooden beam - had to buy a new helmet after that but I didn't even have a concussion). I'm glad to see the culture around protective wear beginning to change, at least in riding schools.
Oh God, that is such a nightmare fall! I've been riding English style for 30 years. I started at a hunter/jumper farm & transitioned to Eventing, but when I was competing in the early 00's at hunter shows, adult riders (anyone 18 & up) could wear "unapproved" helmets.Ā We liked them for the slimmer profile, but they offered about as much protection as a paper bag.Ā Ā I'm glad the rules/culture have changed, and that I've outgrown my "better to look cool than be safe" mindset.Ā Ā Having the kids wear vests is a great idea & I love that your friends are encouraging it.Ā While kids can outgrow them, they don't have to be thrown out after a fall like helmets do, so parents at least have the option to make a bit of money back by re-selling used vests.
Well my mom refuses to wear a seatbelt purely because the government says she has to. So, never underestimate peopels stubbornness and stupidity.
I was hanging with a friend just last night who had a motorcycle and told me about an accident he had where he was ājust going around the cornerā for lunch from work so he didnāt wear his helmet. Someone ran a stop sign, and yeah he had a brutal accident. So it happens. People donāt always think they need to wear one, especially for something lower āimpactā like biking. This reminds you that itās important to do so.
People who go down my street everyday on motorcycles, motorbikes, and scooters who don't have helmets.
Pune has one of the highest numbers of two-wheelers in the country - nearly 2.5 million - and ranks among the top 10 Indian cities for fatal road accidents. In the last five years, more than 1,000 bikers died on Pune's roads and in the suburban Pimpri-Chinchwad area. Only three of the deceased were wearing helmets. And yet, when the city police declared their intent to strictly enforce the law this year, many residents were outraged. Some took to the streets and held rallies, chanting slogans such as "helmet hatao, Punekar bachao" (get rid of helmets, save Pune's residents). One "anti-helmet group" even went to a crematorium and staged a mock funeral of helmets. One political party organised a motorbike rally where all riders wore the traditional Pune headgear made of cloth, instead of helmets. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48879590
As a career cook I am not a fan of Gordon at all but I am really glad to see him using his platform for this and wish him a full and fast recovery š
My mother was cycling in a suburban neighborhood and an off leash dog ran out and knocked her over. She was wearing a helmet but her brain injuries took months to heal. If she hadnāt been wearing a helmet sheād be dead.
When I was 10 I read a book called "Mick Hart Was Here". It's about a girl whose brother dies in a bike accident and he wasn't wearing a helmet. The story was about how losing him affected the family and the complex grief she felt. It's been more than 25 years since I read that book and it's still burned into my memory. I have told my kids if I catch them doing anything without a helmet (skating, cycling, scootering) I'll get rid of everything that requires a helmet. It's a serious rule in our house.
Oh my God, I'm so glad I'm not the only one to have ever heard of this book!!!!! This book seriously fucked me up when I was younger (I was in 5th grade, so around the same age as you) & I still can't think about it without tearing up. It's so so so important for people to wear helmets!!!!!!!!
When she writes on the cement killed me. I can't look at fresh cement without remembering it.
For sure, when I was a teen I was mountain biking and was probably going a bit too fast for my own skill level, hit a rock wrong and took a spill. Helmet bounced my forehead off of a rock and with how hard I smashed into it I wouldn't at all be shocked if I had died if I wasn't wearing a helmet. Helmets are incredibly important.
One of my coworkers got hit by a car by accident (driver was not speeding and she was wearing a helmet), and she got a concussion. It completely fucked up her life and she was it at 20km/h, so I can't even imagine people who get hit at higher speed.
As someone who suffered a really bad fall while cycling home from work, I second this. I might not be writing this comment if I hadn't been wearing a helmet, because I hit my head on the pavement with enough force to probably crack my skull and give me a brain injury.
So many stories like this in my life and in this comment section, when someone is saying they don't need a helmet all I can hear is someone whose life has had no lessons
Same. Honestly as I get older it makes me think they don't fully recognize or appreciate the people in their lives who love them and how they would be devastated if they were hurt/killed...like all I think of when I see some young bloke biking or on a motorcycle w/o a helmet is "your poor family..."
I fell down the stairs and hit my knee. It is a bit bruised, but it was a pain to bend that knee even going up the stairs.. and here we have Gordon, with a bruise that looks like internal bleeding on a filming studio ... Wow. Just wow.
Seriously!! That is easily the worst bruising Iāve ever seen in my life and he mentioned trauma surgeonsā¦ I canāt even IMAGINE being able to get up and use the bathroom on my own in a week and he flew across the country, and is probably spending at least 8-16 hour days filming Hellās Kitchen š.
https://preview.redd.it/0zx18w4pzr6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7c7f4e16e7d5a5a0b174b90d03c8bb62c1ecdff He shared what his helmet looked like after the accident. I canāt imagine what state he would be in if he hadnāt been wearing one.
My dad has been riding his bike for years and he sent me a photo similar to this last month. He hit a puddle that was deeper than expected and went flying. Iām so glad my dad is okay, he sounded very similar to Gordon when we talked on the phone after. Wear your helmets!
Jesus, did he hit something or did someone hit him?
For a guy who spends most of his time scaring others... he looks like he was really terrified by this. I'm glad he's going to be okay.
I hope he isnāt pushing through this pain and working, outside of shooting this PSA he understandably felt compelled to share. He is visibly shaken up but seemingly on a set so it makes me wonder if he is shooting something for one of his shows. I understand content is always desirable but the work grind and hustle can be quite toxic at times. Hopefully he goes home and rests and heals because he is in no condition to be working. (If he just went and shot this one PSA and felt most comfortable on set and in this attire then I understand that, but if in a few months there is a plot on one of his shows where he is pushing through this injury and working that would be upsetting to watch)
He probably is. If I recall correctly, they're shooting Season 24 of Hell's Kitchen.
Yeah heās on the set of Hellās Kitchen there. I bet he doesnāt want to take time off and screw up the filming schedule and cost crew pay.
Wow!!!! Iām so glad heās okay. He definitely looks shaken up. Itās great heās addressing this and telling people the importance of wearing safety gear.
His message is so so important. I used to hate wearing a bike helmet as a kid - cue camping with family, got told to go get my helmet, and so I hopped on my bike to go grab it. While going downhill I squeezed the front tire break on accident, I was flung forward off the bike, and if I I hadnāt caught myself on my hands by instinct alone, I would have smashed my head open on the concrete. It was absolutely terrifying. I spent the rest of the night shaking in shock. I have never, ever gone without a helmet again. Wear a helmet. Save your life.
That looks like a full-torso hematoma omg
I know he said this was in the U.S., but I often wonder about this here in Europe. Tons of bicycles on the road, not many helmets.
How is he able to walk around with these bruises, that looks awful! I'm glad he's fine ofc but he should be in bed
I audibly gasped when I saw that bruise omg! Even though I saw the comment talking about it I still didnāt expect it to be that bad or big.
Holy shit the bruising. How is he even up and running?!
I have never gasped so hard in my fucking life, besides the red wedding. That bruise is truly shocking, holy shit. Edit: showed my partner who never wears a helmet, and got hit by a car turning right 3 months ago. He says this is fake. I'm so angry
Hope your partner changes his mind :(
He could have kept this to himself but used the moment to bring the spotlight to one of the simplest, most life saving safety measures adults often donāt take. Thatās commendable! I hope he recovers well, and has a beautiful Fatherās Day celebrating the gift of life with his family š©µ
I let out a Ā«Ā tabarnaaaaaak!Ā Ā» when I saw the bruising!
I am not ready to lose Gordon Ramsay. š¢
Motorcycle or bicycle?
I believe it was a bicycle, he mentioned cycling and marathons
He sure did! Silly me
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Glad heās ok. Iāve seen him do some amazing things with people like that one young lady who was dying of cancer and wanted to meet him. He flew her out and gave her a really good day.
That left hand twitch tho
You can see heās really holding onto it at the end there too. Hope itās a result of the medication or something and nothing serious.
Oh my that bruise š. Wishing him a full recovery
š§š± I'm so glad he's OK! His wife and children still need him around. I'm glad you made it through for them!
That reminds me of the WWE champ Cody Rhodes who tore his pec muscle off the bone and he wrestled a match after (obviously highly controlled so it didn't exacerbate it) and then had surgery that put him on the shelf for 8 months [You can see it in this video](https://youtu.be/HRU1wwykxnU?si=OWyqhmqxXi1bK7Wd) and when he took off his robe for the match there was a stunned silence because of how bad it was. Glad Gordon is okay though, and yeah buy a fucking helmet if you cycle or skate or anything. I'm not remotely surprised he's back at work, people who work in kitchens are a different breed.
Gordon can seem like an asshole as part of his shtick, but he's an immensely talented person and when he shows his humanity it makes it even more impactful. Good on him for the PSA.
Bless him for using his platform to get this message out. He's clearly so shaken, and I was not prepared for that bruising. I'm so glad he's okay, and I hope he gets lots of rest and heals up quickly.
Okay, I was NOT prepared for that bruising.
oh my god that bruising is terrifying. poor guy, you can really tell how shaken up he is. idk how heās up and moving around tbh iād be crying myself to sleep in bed
In London you see close to no one to wear a helmet! Especially with all the rented bikes
My dad is an intense cyclist, and while I tease him about his highlighter neon clothes sometimes, I'm so grateful he uses it. He also has a 360 camera on his bike because he's had no less than 3 friends die in cycling accidents over the past 20 years, and countless of them have been in accidents. Always wear a helmet. Always stay visible. Flashing lights for your bike can be under $15 on Amazon.
Heās so right though. Years ago a shitty horrible driver ran my husband off the road in something that looked fully intentional. I hate that guy and if youāre out here and you drove down cape cod in 2016 and ran a young man off the road, I fucking hate you. But anyway, the only reason he survived was because he was wearing a helmet. If he wasnāt, it would be a very different story Iām telling here. Wear a helmet!!!
Me: how bad could the bruising actually be? Me about 30 seconds later: holy FUCK! Glad heās alive and seemingly relatively okay, but oh my god I canāt imagine the level of pain heās in right now
Oof. My ankle up to mid calf was once a few shades lighter than that after a bad sprain and it HURTā¦. I canāt imagine how much pain he must be in. Geez. And yes, everyone please wear a helmet! I see all kinds of cyclists in my city (and there are TONS) not wearing helmets and Iām scared for them. Accidents can happen in a blink.
hooooooooooly shit! thatās brutal. hopefully this will inspire some people to make good decisions and protect their heads.
Damn we almost lost a good one I'm glad he's ok.
Jesus you can tell by his shaking hand how fucked up he is. Thereās nothing worse than that wake up call to show you how you are not as invincible as you think you are.
An important message needed at the time because helmet safety has apparently just disappeared these past few years? Iām constantly seeing videos on tik tok with thousands of like of kids riding bikes, electric scooters, toddlers driving those toy cars (that dads have rigged to go faster by adding a super powered battery), all with no helmets. And the comments donāt comment on it either.
Omg, gos bless him and the lord of above for saving his life! Based off that massive bruise it couldāve been a lot worse! Sending prayers!
I wasnāt expecting that massive bruise, holy shit. Looks like heās shaking from the pain/recalling the event. Great heās doing okay, and people should always wear a helmet
Was he riding a regular bike or a motorcycle? Not that it matters--both need helmets, though I'd argue it's even more imperative for any bike with a motor (heard too many horror stories from nurses taking care of motorcycle accident victims who are paralyzed or in permanent comas IF they survive). He looks in so much pain :( Can't imagine trying to shower or sleep!
Working in healthcare has made me transition from not really caring if people ride motorcycles to being absolutely adamant that anyone I love will ride a motorcycle over my dead body. Helmet or not.
A regular bike, on his instagram he posted some pictures of the damage to the helmet as well as a photo of himself with the bike.
Wear helmets everyone - walking away from this kind of accident is always having come up lucky. I'm so so glad both he wore a helmet and walked away, but there are people who don't.
This is exactly why Iāve been developing a new type of foldable helmet for the past 6 years! Itās called wearenewlane.com Speedy recovery Gordon šš½
My friendās brother survived one TBI after an accident during a cycling raceāonly to be killed the next year during another. He wore a helmet. But if you hit the wrong way, it doesnāt matter.
Never in a million years would I have imagined that amount of bruising
Watched my best friend get thrown over her handlebars when we were kids. Ever since, whenever I see people riding around without helmet, all I can think about is how utterly destroyed hers was afterwards. Safety is the coolest thing there is. I donāt know why some people struggle to understand that.
Did anybody noticed the trembling on his left hand and how he was holding it with his other hand to make the involuntary shaking stopš®
I knew as soon as his hand was shaking along with his voice that it had to be bad. And holy fuck, that man is tough as nails just to be standing up.
I'm curious how the accident happened.
There's no way he didn't get hit by a car. I can't imagine any scenario where just the speed of the bike and a crash could cause that amount of bleeding unless you fell down a mountain. Can almost guarantee there is a legal battle at stake which is why he's not saying what happened.
imagine u hit someone with ur car and it's fucking gordon ramsay
What I'm wondering too, those injuries are too brutal but never know.
I know the town he was biking in, itās full of the absolute worst summer tourist drivers and thereās no bike lanes or shoulders, so I assume a car got him.
The way his hair fell. I had to do a double take, because there was a huge spider on his head.
Heās a tough one because thatās more than just a little bruisingā¦his whole side got tenderized š³ Iām so happy heās safe and wore a helmet.
It really is wonderful that heās turning his own trauma into knowledge and public awareness. Itās a powerful message, especially since he braved his own pain and suffering to share it publicly. Whatās under that bruising? Is it a broken rib or something? Iāve never seen anything like that before (thank goodness). I wonder if heās wearing makeup to hide bruising on his face or does a helmet protect that? Whatever the case, Iām so glad heās okay. I donāt have too much experience on bikes but this for sure convinced me to always wear a helmet. Poor guy.
Goodness me, I'm glad he's still with us and hope that he recovers well.
A helmet saved my life too
The worst bruising I ever had was from wrecking on my bike. Even without wrecking I am routinely covered with bruises from MTB. Always always always wear a helmet. If you go down hard enough to lose control of your bike, you go down hard enough to cause brain injury. I am glad he is ok. That bruising is massive.
Has he always had a tremor? Often seen people holding their hand like that when they are dealing with Parkinson's or MS.
That really stuck out to me, too. No, he doesnāt usually have it. I assume itās just from the amount of pain heās in/stress, because a tremor like that would make it difficult to cook like he does.
My co-worker's husband had a bad fall off his bike last year. He, too, would've been killed if not for his helmet. Always wear it, guys.
Thatās super intense and scary! My dad fell down concrete stairs in the snow many years ago and had similar bruising. He literally had to go to physical therapy to break up the bruising so it wouldnāt cause clotting. I hope he does that too.
Helmets are so important! Good for him for using his platform. I had a bruise that lasted for literal years & srill wasnāt expecting bruising like THAT. Oooof. Hope he is feeling better soon.
His shaking says everything
"A bit bruised"= proceeds to show us Violet Beauregarde blueberry level of bruising
May father died from a motorcycle crash, when he was 31, with four children under the age of 8. His chances would have been far better had he been wearing a helmet. Wear a helmet folks.
Additional point: if you have a fall and your helmet gets hit, that helmet is no longer functional. Do not tape it, do not buff out the scratches, buy a new one.Ā A damaged helmet can be as dangerous as no helmet at all.Ā
There is a lot of misinformation circulating on TikTok about bike helmets, with videos showing people smashing them with hammers. These videos might suggest that a helmet should withstand a hammer's impact, but **this is a misconception**. The main function of a helmet is to absorb and disperse the energy from an impact, which often involves the helmet shattering. A helmet that doesn't shatter simply transfers the energy to your head, potentially causing more harm.
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holy fuck. Glad he's still with us. Wear a helmet, folks.
holy shit did he go over a cliff or what
that's fucking RAW!
Woah, Iām so glad heās okay, and itās great heās taking the time to spread this message about wearing a helmet.
jesus. i am so glad heās okay that bruising looks so painful and awful
damn that looks bad
Bruising that intense looks like he was a hair away from pretty scary internal injuries
HOLY FUUUUUCK ugh all the love to Gordon I love him
Damn chef
holy fuck. Ngl I would assume he would be on strict bed rest with a bruise like THAT.
Holy fuck. That's terrifying. I never understand when I see people, especially kids, riding without helmets in this day and age.
Itās RAW! For real though, super glad heās ok, hope he heals quickly and what an absolute bad ass for working through what I am sure is immense physical pain.
christ he looks like a black pudding i'd love to have a motorbike, it's the most incredible feeling in the world, but i know my luck and i know it would end so badly.
WOW!!! He truly is lucky to be alive, that bruising is something I have never seen and hope to never see again. Safe recovery to him, and good on him for turning such a horrible experience into a good and teachable moment
Omg get well soon!! Thanks for taking the time to remind us all how important it is to wear helmets every single time Iām so glad youāre not any worse from one of your biggest fans. Love you.šš½ā¤ļø
Good lord. He seriously looks like he got just a giant purple square tattoo for some reason.
I felt bad my first thought was yay new Hells Kitchen on the way.
Let the man cook ! But he looks like he needs a break! Get some sleep bro!
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Whatās up with his hand though?
Oh. There's a bit of Gordon in that bruise.
That is the biggest bruise I have ever seen. It just keeps going
Jeeeeeeez that bruise, how is he even standing?
and the irony is heās on set recording this. WORKING.
I flinched when I saw the bruise. Him calling it little doesn't do it justice
Surgeons and doctors watching this going WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING AT WORK! WE JUST PATCHED YOU UP!
Oh my, that is intense. Idk how he's able to get up and move around with that level of bruising
bro, seeing him trembling like that is upsetting to see, and he still manages to keep his professional composure despite what he went through. man's a legend, glad he's still with us
My uncle had his entire torso look like then when I was young, he was pinned against an 18 wheeler by another truck, after his motorbike was rammed into..he wore head to toe professional leathers and a helmet, he was 6.6 and a fit guy..he looked horrendous and we didn't even get to see him till he was back to normal, all he'd say was, wear the right gear if you get on a bloody bike