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Ski Sunday not on BBC 2 Wales this week!
Luckily Sky channel 980 for BBC 2
5min warning!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Mr.Egg, its on later in Wales, like nearer midnight, Rugby first then football then if you’re lucky, skiing.
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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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@Mr.Egg, Ta, would have missed it, if I hadn't seen your post. Just enough time to make the, ahem, arrangements.
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I thought last week was the last one? Balls. Will catch up on iPlayer
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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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Good to see the team highlighting the frailty of our beloved sport. Personally don’t think they went on hard enough on what we can do.
Would be interested to hear what our resident climate change sceptics made of it.
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@Pruman, nonsense. Eny fule no helmets reduce brain injury. Just because they don’t prevent it completely is no reason not to wear 1. This is what the warning on the MIPS website is referring to.
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@Pruman, I think both of your recent posts are on the money.
It always amuses me when people evangelically bang on about a subject without even the vaguest idea what they are talking about.
I have lost track of how many people have told me that their bike helmet cracked when they fell off and used this as evidence that their skull would have suffered the same damage............without understanding that the shell in a helmet is not really part of the helmets "protection" and is, in fact, much more frail and susceptible to breakage than a human skull.
MIPS tech is one of these areas, designed to mitigate a problem (rotational injuries) which may only have been an issue because the user actually wore, erm, a helmet in the first place  .
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@GreenDay, & I suppose you don’t wear a helmet on a horse or motorbike?
The Earth is flat, the sky is going to fall on our heads, Covid-19 is no worse than flu, vaccines have chips from Microsoft in them, the moon landings were faked…
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| Timmycb5 wrote: |
Good to see the team highlighting the frailty of our beloved sport. Personally don’t think they went on hard enough on what we can do.
Would be interested to hear what our resident climate change sceptics made of it. |
Weather cycles. Earth warms up. Earth Cools down. That does not only happen in Autumn, Winter, Spring & Summer.
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| Gordyjh wrote: |
@GreenDay, & I suppose you don’t wear a helmet on a horse or motorbike?
The Earth is flat, the sky is going to fall on our heads, Covid-19 is no worse than flu, vaccines have chips from Microsoft in them, the moon landings were faked… |
Pretty far off the mark there, I am as far from "that guy" as you could get.
I cant comment on riding horses or motorbikes but I do wear a lid if I am mountain biking, so your - incredibly stupid - assertion that I am some kind of flat earther anti vaxer is miles off the mark.
I have no issue with you making your own decisions - my point upthread was that some people on your "side" think that others are stupid and that the debate is black and white.
I disagree, but you are entitled to your opinion.
However, if you want to play this game then I suggest that you may be better served by posting facts to back up your stance rather than diving straight in with abuse...............
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Hoping to interview Chemmy Alcott later this week for The Ski Podcast about the BBC's Olympics coverage. If you have any questions for her, please let me know before Weds
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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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To what extend does covering the olympics, when held in a totalitarian repressive regime, normalises and legitimises that regime by highlighting what it wants to portray as its positive aspects and only being allowed to show what it wants to be shown whilst whitewashing less savoury aspects.
Or alternatively which event are you most excited about and who will be doing your outfits? 
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Why do people argue so much about helmets? I don't care a jot what anyone does so long as it does not put me at increased risk. To that end, I can't see how someone not wearing a helmet increases my risk so I don't really care. Except in so far that I think the preponderance of evidence demonstrates quite substantial benefits. This seems particularly so for the most common head related incidents, which are relatively low speed/force, where a helmet reduces the risk of a fairly simple incident resulting in serious head injury. So I think those who choose to not wear a helmet are being a bit daft, but I don't see any need to compel them to do so.
I do think, however, that it is reasonable to compel children to wear a helmet. That is a very different story in my view.
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You know it makes sense.
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Any chance we can stow yet again another helmet divergence as the title here is Ski Sunday? There are plenty of other helmet threads to debate in, or set up a new one if everyone is desperate.
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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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| ster wrote: |
| Any chance we can stow yet again another helmet divergence as the title here is Ski Sunday? There are plenty of other helmet threads to debate in, or set up a new one if everyone is desperate. |
+1
We now know all the entrenched views.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Timmycb5 wrote: |
| I thought last week was the last one? Balls. Will catch up on iPlayer |
Yesterday was the last of the season
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| ster wrote: |
| To what extend does covering the olympics, when held in a totalitarian repressive regime, normalises and legitimises that regime by highlighting what it wants to portray as its positive aspects and only being allowed to show what it wants to be shown whilst whitewashing less savoury aspects. |
Salford may be rough, but I don't think it's quite that bad. 
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Mon 31-01-22 14:51; edited 1 time in total
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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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@iainm, a plea even before the coverage has begun for less talk (especially in a studio), fewer interviews and more action.
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| twoodwar wrote: |
| @iainm, a plea even before the coverage has begun for less talk (especially in a studio), fewer interviews and more action. |
This - no need for the hyped build up pre-record especially when we're on highlights packages (as most of this years WOG will be due to time differences). Maybe have the patronising introduction to the sport available on red button rather than broadcasting lowest common demoninator stuff. More action, less waffle from all sports except ice dancing and Olympic housework please. Realise this reduces Chemmy's role.
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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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I was impressed by Dave Ryding’s pull up / hip rotation training, I’m tempted to try it, but it may not end well…..
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| On the rocks wrote: |
| I was impressed by Dave Ryding’s pull up / hip rotation training, I’m tempted to try it, but it may not end well….. |
I thought that, might have got somewhere near in my twenties but in my 60's it might be terminal 
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@GreenDay, it’s not abuse, merely a reasonable response to an unreasonable assertion. Helmets reduce head injuries.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Bumping this thread... any jungle drums on this season's Ski Sunday?
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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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Nothing yet. It started on 2nd Jan this year, so hopefully there will be an announcement soon.
If anyone has a Twitter account (I deactivated mine, the place is a sewer) then Chemmy is normally quite good at getting back to people.
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Thanks @Timmycb5, possibly manic contract negotiations going on... it can't make any money, and the presenters wont be getting cheaper!
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You know it makes sense.
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7 episode run this year - one extra to cover the world championships. It was covered on @Iainms podcast when he had Graham Bell on at the Ski Show.
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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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@Richard_Sideways, missed that. Cheers.
Do we take it from that, that Bell is returning? Hope so.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Seems that ol' Blue Steel Bell will be back - prepare the usual drinking game; shot after each of the following...
"HIS THIGHS WILL BE SCREAMING!"
"THE DEAFENING ROAR OF THE AUSTRIANS!"
"ABSORB THE COMPRESSION!"
...and down the bottle if Ed removes his hat.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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So sponsored by Gaffer Tape Patches?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Tying in with the Adelboden slalom then, so Jan 8th
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Heard on the grapevine that Chemmy will be recording in Murren (or was it Wengen?) with a feature on the Ladies Ski Club centenary race, using original 1923 kit
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Ski Sunday starts again this evening. 6.15 on BBC2
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Thanks for the heads up
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+1 thanks
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