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rayscoops, 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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This has the makings of a very funny thread...... and no, I haven't bothered with the link, this is entertaining enough...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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and rayscoops with a capital 'R' ?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Charli939, actually no, it is not a name, it is a tag 
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abc, I am not sideshow bobbers or sideshow bob either, but noticed in another thread that bobbers was trying to get people to click on the link and he used cunning to get skiers to check out boarders hurting themselves to get the 'hits' (number of views) he is after, but some people missed this point and I was just winding them up
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abc, I thank you for pointing out my creative thinking and no, sideshow bobbers is the only user name I use on here (I only have one account)
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but some people missed this point
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like me 
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i have been discovered, that was my main point but I also wanted you to enjoy my video (or my horrible spelling/grammer)
as long as you are still haveing fun then that is all that matters (abit like the sports)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| achilles wrote: |
| PS my use of the apostrophe is so last century, too |
Interesting, that's also how I use the apostrophe at the end of words ending in 's'.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You know it makes sense.
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Ordhan, wrote
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pam w, Of course it is ridiculous it involves snowboarders but it gives us a chance to pooke fun at them |
Not sure who Ordhan thinks is "us" and "them" here, or why he assumes I'm one of us not one of them. Good to keep the spelling mistakes going though.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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achilles, perhaps the exception that proves the rule, but there's a distinguished Wren church in Piccadilly (and a nearby street) called St James's. Come to think of it, that's the name of a whole district where other club(b)able gnomes congregate. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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| achilles wrote: |
| er, no. I have no problem with borders - and think they are poetry in motion |
Which were the particular ones you had in mind that would be so poetic? When borders move, that does generally seem to involve rather a lot of fighting (India and Pakistan, England and Ireland, Israel and...just about anybody).
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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GrahamN, oh I know. I halve a spelling chequer. Boarders borders schmorders 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Do you say 'at the weekend', or 'on the weekend'?
This usage had me stymied.
Here it is 'on the weekend'.
As in 'I overheard some stuck up skiers who could barely get down a groomer hatin' on snowboarding...I am sure they only ski on weekends. Buncha gapers.'
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jacksonholerider, the English usage is 'at' not 'on.'
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Both forms are actually clumsy, to my ears.
Technically, one would be skiing during the weekend, not 'at' OR 'on'. (A weekend not being a place or thing, but a descriptor of time)
Better bust out the OED for this one...
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jacksonholerider, what is wrong with "over the weekend" ?
ps - just booked flights and accommodation for Christmas and New Year in Jackson - yes I know it will be a bit busy and I may have to wait in lines for 5 minutes or so... Now just need to work on getting the wife to let me escape for another break there in February... 
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Excellent!
I'd be happy to show you around.
'Over the Holidays', as it were...
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skisimon,
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I've yet to find a group of skiers who block an entire piste by creating a line across it
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I encountered just that, twice, in Verbier in March. 
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skisimon, they're too busy cluttering up the entire off ramp at chairlifts.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Hurtle, Verbier! Must have been a bunch of troublesome merchant bankers. 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Lizzard, Have tried it for 4 days and wasnt for me, Boring as hell
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we can eat chocolate while riding, if we come into contact with a tree we have a board to stop out legs from rapping around it (unless our boards break) and we can sit down,
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Maybe if boarders spent less time eating and more time concentrating on the slope they would not run into people!
Unfortunatley the contact with a tree policy is all to often implemented with others on the slope
We can sit down normall on the far side of a dip in the hill where no one can see you!
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Ordhan, there's no need to be bitter about it.
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You know it makes sense.
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this thread was fun, now it is just a boring cliche
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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stoatsbrother, wouldn't that involve some form of levitation for 48 hours though...
"Naturally they do things that really, really annoy me. Sitting in the middle of the piste (usually just over the lip) is the big one. Now, admittidly skiers stop in inconvenient places too - however I've yet to find a group of skiers who block an entire piste by creating a line across it (that's not lack of consideration, that's deliberate  ). |
What planet are you on? "Sitting in the middle of the piste" is not something that just boarders do, it's just plain stupid,....the same as stopping in the middle of the piste at any point as skiers love to do so that they can wait for the rest of their mob!!
Pretty easy to go to the side of the piste don't you think - boarders AND skiers?? I cannot even count the amount of times I have to cut between gangs of skiers/boarders hanging around in a big line/gang whatever, blocking the main part of a piste, but to be honest I am past caring because this argument is age-old and usually started by somebody who has only ever tried one winter sport in their lives and is suddenly an "expert" in the field!
And before anybody kicks off, I am a boarder and a skier (Although I rarely bother these days with the skis). This is really about common sense - if you don't have any, it does not matter what you ride so get over it....jeez.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| rayscoops wrote: |
| this thread was fun, now it is just a boring cliche |
Right with you mate, how many times has this been started???
I thought the video was shocking by the way - I was cringing with embarassment... it's terrible.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Robbof, Im glad you liked it
Anyhow, back to my holiday last feb, I would love to say that I nearly took out a skier soooo hard as he was standing in the blind spot on the other side of a rail i did, just managed to jump around him. I would also love to say that only skiers do that sort of thing but I did see a boarder sitting, pritty much on the end of the rail (in the blind spot), fortunately for him i didnt ride the rail that time.
i did have a go at both as nobody should sit in a blind spot, on piest or even worse, the blind spot after a jump or rail but as Robbof said, its just common sense
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Lizzard, Not Bitter just didnt like it! Just like I dont like the attitude of the Majority of borders (not All) when the hit someone. They seem to take it as a badge of honour that they have run over someone. I include one of my friends mentioned below in this.
I dress like a border and appreciate that snowboarding has done alot for skiing. Clothes, Freestyle, Twin tips & I know some really nice borders one or two I now travel with regulary.
But I guess there are some very sensitive and touchy ones out there whos skin is as thin as there edges
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I don't hate Boarders. I may join in banter and play along with cliches and I'm far from innocent in that respect but no, hating Boarders full stop is just daft.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Ordhan wrote: |
| Lizzard, Not Bitter just didnt like it! Just like I dont like the attitude of the Majority of borders (not All) when the hit someone. ........ |
I would like to think that is an unknown. For example, I can't think of anyone, skier or boarder, that I saw involved in a collision during 3 weeks of skiing this season. Can't recall a collision last season, either. Would any sH who gets involved in collisions on a regular basis please post warnings of where and when they are going to the slopes - I want to stay well clear of you.
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achilles,
I got hit from behind this year in Jan by a rather large German! Swine! Only time I have ever been hit but on average while on slope away I would see maybe 2-4 colllisons over a week, normally on red slopes with over ambitios beginers of both codes oh and 1 snowbike in Saalbach this year
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I don't care if peeps choose to ski, board, blade, bike, whatever. The real objects of dislike are the tribe that wears wooly hats down past their ears (even in a steamy nightclub) and who insist on telling you how "totally stoked" they are while lisping through a tongue stud. As if just being "stoked" wasn't enough, they have to be totally stoked. What does it mean anyway? Are they from Staffordshire? Are they full of coke? (probably). Is it to do with having to walk around looking like yer nappy's full? It's not boarders v skiers, it's the stoked v the unstoked.
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Bode Swiller, i think you must simply be a grumpy old git at heart
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now then, i know most collisions are done by boarders (skiers cause some 2) but i think the main reason for it is the different lines skiers and boarders take. i did have a rarther large collision with a skier who was sking accross the slope (not down, just across) and i simply didnt see him. i did like a 360 flip and landed on my face, dont know what he did but i do know it snapped my board through the middle and it broke his binding aswell.
i know really it was my fault cause i was above him but after i realised i hadnt broken my arm i got up and went to help him out. luckely he was ok and after shaking hands we went our ways.
i have forgotten what my point was now but i thought i would share that with you and say that from my point of view he didnt think that i was a total prick
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FAQ
s to click on the link.. but also successfully managed to start two threads that ultimately resulted in a discussion of spelling and grammar... respect! 
If it's done well it is very good to watch, and of course they give us most of the entertainment as we pass over the parks and pipes. Having said that, I prefer to watch a good freestyle skier - though they are few and far between compared to the percentage of boarders who are decent in the pipe. Naturally they do things that really, really annoy me. Sitting in the middle of the piste (usually just over the lip) is the big one. Now, admittidly skiers stop in inconvenient places too - however I've yet to find a group of skiers who block an entire piste by creating a line across it (that's not lack of consideration, that's deliberate 