The Ministry For Silly Walks

[Herr Tubthumper]

"With temperatures forecast to plummet in Germany over the next few days, trauma surgeons in the country are telling residents how to avoid slipping on icy pavements: walk like a penguin. Advice on the website of the German Society of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery advocates leaning the torso forward so that one’s centre of gravity is on the front leg, like the birds."

Handy sage winter advice? Personally I think I'll stick to the classic goose-step.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/04/penguin-walk-german-doctors-advice-slipping-icy-paths

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

Wouldn't doing a Crab be even safer than a Penguin? Slower, yes, but safer.....

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Wouldn't doing a Crab be even safer than a Penguin? Slower, yes, but safer.....

Hmmm. Okay if you want to walk east or west I guess. North and south will be tricky.

 

[Taybha]

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[CHAPPERS]

Der Pinguin Gang is my new band name.

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

Hmmm. Okay if you want to walk east or west I guess. North and south will be tricky.

Germans tend to move both east and west when fighting on two fronts. Never been a good idea......

 

[Bob'n'weave]

"With temperatures forecast to plummet in Germany over the next few days, trauma surgeons in the country are telling residents how to avoid slipping on icy pavements: walk like a penguin. Advice on the website of the German Society of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery advocates leaning the torso forward so that one’s centre of gravity is on the front leg, like the birds."

Handy sage winter advice? Personally I think I'll stick to the classic goose-step.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/04/penguin-walk-german-doctors-advice-slipping-icy-paths

European directives on how to walk. F**k me, are we that stupid? A far better way to walk safely on ice/snow is to get some big old wooly socks and put them on over your shoes. A technique used by native american indians, gives you excellent grip. Think about when you were a kid making snowballs with wooly mittens on and how the snow sticks to them like velcro? The same principle for snow socks for your car tyres.

 

[Two Professors]

Wish I'd had some of these bad boys when I lived in Hildesheim.The roads get sorted in double quick time,but all the snow cleared ended up on the footpaths!

 

[Trufflehound]

Older posters may remember doing Der Pinguin-Gang back in the 1980s. Except back then we called it the Len Ganley Stance.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Wouldn't happen in Egypt