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If everyone calls themselves 'an intermediate' it's meaningless. So we should abolish it.
Discuss please.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Like "Middle Class"?
But what about, for example, the SCGB Gradings?
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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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I'm losing the will to live.
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Better question. But then advanced or expert will become meaningless. I think I prefer grades of intermediate ; early (still learning mostly to cope with all blues), mid (red) and late (black).
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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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Surely the most effective method of grading is to see who has the most co-ordinated kit?
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| snowball wrote: |
Like "Middle Class"?
But what about, for example, the SCGB Gradings? |
Can't help thinking there really does need to be some sort of equivalence procedure carried out with the "Snow & Rock skiing ability scale" before we get into how well off/loaded SKGB skiers are.
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I thought "intermediate" is good for an experienced skier trying to put up a humble front and something a beginner can brag about.
Why abolish it?
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I think the gradings you get on the personal profile thing on this forum is fairly accurate. Gives a good description. One of the only ones where I've actually been able to confidently tick one of the boxes!
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| cattlegrid_79 wrote: |
| I think the gradings you get on the personal profile thing on this forum is fairly accurate. Gives a good description. One of the only ones where I've actually been able to confidently tick one of the boxes! |
Not as particular as the SCGB grades and does not have away of distinguishing between skiers once they reach grade 7 (there should be at least one standard above that. Indeed, SCGB grades are directed at punters - at an absolute level there should be grades above their Gold).
Last edited by Ski the Net with snowHeads  on Thu 23-10-08 12:47; edited 1 time in total
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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we use a totally different grading system here...
• pish
• awright
• nae bad
• gallas
• pretty good like
• gid
• dugs baws
• f'in brilliant
the sooner skiing bodies all over the world adopt this system the better.
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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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shoogly, I'll drink tae that. (Lagavulin oor The Macallen?)*
* I'm only a part-time-wannabe Scott, I'm afraid.
Last edited by And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports. on Thu 23-10-08 12:58; edited 1 time in total
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shoogly,
That must be Scots for intermediate, 'cos I have no idea what it means.
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You know it makes sense.
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I'd have thought awright and nae bad were grades of Intermediate too. Perhaps even "pretty good like"?
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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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| Hurtle wrote: |
shoogly,
That must be Scots for intermediate, 'cos I have no idea what it means. |
Originating in France, it emerged in West London vernacular around 2000 and later spread to North London (I'd have thought you'd have heard it).
It means "high-intermediate centre-back".
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Poster: A snowHead
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laundryman,  The fact that I live in South London must be why I haven't heard it.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hurtle, my mistake. 
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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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gallas is a brilliant word.
We generally take it as meaning that someone who is "gallas" at something is confident, fearless even and nothing will stop said person. Doesn't always mean their as good at something as they make out, but that they have a certain aura around them that would have someone beleive that they're great at it. Means their willing to give anything a go with lack of fear or intimidation... does that sound like an intermediate?
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brian
brian
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gallus
(ga·luss) Dialect, chiefly Scot ~adj.
1. self-confident, daring, cheeky.
2. stylish, impressive (esp. Glasgow "He's pure gallus, by the way").
3. Orig. derogatory, meaning wild; a rascal; deserving to be hanged (from the gallows).
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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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ski grading is relative to who you are sking with and sharing your patch or snow with .. thus you are not an 'intermediate' just 'more intermediate' than that bloke over there
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Totally off topic, brian, but that reminds me of John Wylkes (18th century radical):
The Earl of Sandwitch said to him "Egad sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox." to which he replied "That will depend, my Lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."
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We seem to be missing the bar/pub ski gradings which frequently drop several grades when applied to real snow conditions. 
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we use a totally different grading system here...
• pish
• awright
• nae bad
• gallas
• pretty good like
• gid
• dugs baws
• f'in brilliant
the sooner skiing bodies all over the world adopt this system the better.
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think you could probably add 'braw' in there too, between 'gid' and 'dugs baws' i reckon
also, where i come from, after 'f'in briliant' there is 'moth'
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"gallas"... had completely forgotten that wonderful word, as it's a while since I lived up there and I never did become fluent with the language.
I have three grades of skier: "about the same as me", "better than me" and "not as good as me" (never mind the grammar.....). Today, up on the Tignes glacier, with all that race training, practically everybody on the hill was in the middle category. Watching 8 year olds coming down a hill at speed, perfect line and position, and only realising when they get closer that they're only wearing one ski....
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laundryman,
Gallas is gash.... completely and utterly
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Grading can be hurtful.
After a few drinks last year one of the ladies in our group told me I was a really good skier. I said I wasn't, and that the more I skied, the more I realised how true this was.
So of course she says, "Well, what level of skier am I then?"
I told her she was crap.
It's great to have me as a mate! 
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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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| Kramer wrote: |
If everyone calls themselves 'an intermediate' it's meaningless. So we should abolish it.
Discuss please. |
You can't "abolish" a term from normal English usage, no matter how meaningless you may think it is.
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| alex_heney wrote: |
| Kramer wrote: |
If everyone calls themselves 'an intermediate' it's meaningless. So we should abolish it.
Discuss please. |
You can't "abolish" a term from normal English usage, no matter how meaningless you may think it is. |
BUT you can simply "erase" or not use the term "abolish" when skiing is the subject.
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You know it makes sense.
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Mosha Marc,
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| I told her she was crap. |
Does that line crack it in Halifax ?
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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Kramer, Most unfair being intermediate is something I'm just starting to aspire to.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Megamum, sorry, too late, the window has closed, the pattern is full, it's been abolished and you'll just have to find something else to aspire to.
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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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