 Poster: A snowHead
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@Timbobaggins, not upset but taking the pee out of those who deride Spyder gear…
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@pam w, Yes, don’t you?
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Mon 10-04-23 23:05; 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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I bet you secretly wear Trespass go on admit it
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I am a proud Trespass and D2B warrior
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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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Think I might have a pair of mountain warehouse salopettes as well
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@Timbobaggins, what’s Trespass?
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A stylish manufacturer of ski wear
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@Timbobaggins, you appear to have alot of different brands, is that because each covers a deficiency in the others?
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I love a soggy bottom on a chair lift, it makes the ski experience complete
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I’m like Mary Berry & deplore soggy bottoms! 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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@Timbobaggins, my sister buys crap from TK Maxx & has new kit every other year whereas I hate shopping & get kit when I have to!
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I don't like the look of Spyder gear. This, for example.
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You know it makes sense.
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Spyder top & bottom…
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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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It’s comfy, practical & hard wearing.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I've ummed and aarhed about the "speaker in the backpack" discussion.
Now, NO.
Would you play your own music in: a mosque, a church, a cemetery, a zoo, an old peoples home.
Not one of those is why you shouldn't.
Would you impose your musical taste on people that can't get away from you?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| snowball wrote: |
@jmr59, yes, I agree with the general point. The judgement of the guide should always be respected. Though I think the skiing mentioned was travelling TO the Arabba skiing, rather than the Arabba skiing. The reasons you state wasn't specified.
Arraba is one of the best off-piste destinations anywhere for good skiers. That said, the Dolomites is the only place I have ever seen a sign saying "no off-piste skiing". It is a general sign there rather than one specific to a particular bit threatening a piste (I can't actually think of a slope like that there, and if there were the resort would dynamite it). The signs are always there, and have no correlation with actual conditions and I have been told just absolve the officials in general of any responsibility. Guides in my experience ignore them (but I only have experience of two guides there, though on many holidays). |
I can't tell if we're disagreeing or not, but from what I can see he's complaining about a holiday that's based in Arabba, and about having to use the pistes to get from there to the descents of the the Marmolada Glacier and elsewhere. (The reasons I state are taken from in the Freshtracks response to the complaint, although the explanation you give strikes me as more likely: that said, it sounds as if the prohibition was enforced on that occasion, whether by the guide or someone else, for whatever reason.) But whatever the reasons: complaining about having to use the pistes to get to off-piste descents is something I just don't get!
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@joffy69,
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I've ummed and aarhed about the "speaker in the backpack" discussion.
Now, NO.
Would you play your own music in: a mosque, a church, a cemetery, a zoo, an old peoples home.
Not one of those is why you shouldn't.
Would you impose your musical taste on people that can't get away from you?
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i am just back from the 3V's and there seemed to be even more (invariably male, and british) cockwombles on the slopes than last year with music blaring out from their backpacks.
it really p!!!es me off, probably the same numpties who feel that other passengers need to hear what sounds are being emitted from whatever netflix/music programme that is on their phone/tablet on trains or buses in the uk!!!!
get fu!!!ng headphones you selfish pondlife!!!!!!!!!
rant over
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I don't understand why there would be any umming and aaahing about this. It's just crass. What possible excuse could there be?
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@terrygasson, sorry, but everytime we hear music blaring out of a rucksack they are not Brits. It's always cråppy euro pop too, never Led Zep or Tchaikovsky.
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@pam w, I used to spend the last day of my weeks skiing wearing headphones, listening to (invariably) Mika Life in Cartoon Motion. I stopped because I became convinced that it's dangerous.
I can understand the desire for loud, usually bad, pop/rock/dance music to accompany things. I'm guilty as charged.
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| terrygasson wrote: |
i am just back from the 3V's and there seemed to be even more (invariably male, and british) cockwombles on the slopes than last year with music blaring out from their backpacks.
it really p!!!es me off, probably the same numpties who feel that other passengers need to hear what sounds are being emitted from whatever netflix/music programme that is on their phone/tablet on trains or buses in the uk!!!!
get fu!!!ng headphones you selfish pondlife!!!!!!!!!
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I just got back from a week in the 3V and I don't recall coming across anyone with music blaring out from their backpacks. Odd.
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| Layne wrote: |
| terrygasson wrote: |
i am just back from the 3V's and there seemed to be even more (invariably male, and british) cockwombles on the slopes than last year with music blaring out from their backpacks.
it really p!!!es me off, probably the same numpties who feel that other passengers need to hear what sounds are being emitted from whatever netflix/music programme that is on their phone/tablet on trains or buses in the uk!!!!
get fu!!!ng headphones you selfish pondlife!!!!!!!!!
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I just got back from a week in the 3V and I don't recall coming across anyone with music blaring out from their backpacks. Odd. |
I only encountered two, and both were relatively quiet (they didn’t bother me as much as I had imagined they would) & out of earshot within at most fifteen seconds.
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@jmr59, I came across a few at Les Deux Aples. As with you not that much of an annoyance, as they weren't near me long, more wonderment as to why they should think it desirable to broadcast their musical choice to others. I did not know what nationality they were.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I chased after someone listening to their tunes which were actually good. I stopped and shazamed a few of her songs. That is the only time I found it worthwhile. The rest of the time it disturbs. Maybe I should start playing paw patrol tunes off my phone on the lift when they are playing their music.
What's wrong with the silence, why do they need music while skiing?
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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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why do they need music while skiing?
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why not? I often skied to music, but I didn't feel other people needed to listen to it.
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You know it makes sense.
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We heard a few music backpacks in Les Arcs last week. Never Europop, always dance music, similar to music played at Folie. One was on the Derby lift, and husband in particular enjoyed it as it's his style. They disappeared in a different direction once we got to the top. The music backpacks never bothered me, though I do have a hatred for people doing it on the street and on public transport. The difference in skiing is that they tend to move away much quicker.
I minded even less when it was a snowboarder wearing it. I'd rather that alert me to their presence than that terror inducing scraping sound right behind you.
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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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| Owlette wrote: |
| I'd rather that alert me to their presence than that terror inducing scraping sound right behind you. |
It also serves as a helpful warning when there’s someone sat down in the middle of the piste just over the next brow.
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Poster: A snowHead
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In Kaltenbach last week there was someone skiing with a huge speaker (the size you'd get with a decent hi-fi 40 years ago, or about the size of a 12 bottle wine case) strapped to their back
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| joffy69 wrote: |
| Would you play your own music in: a mosque, a church, a cemetery, a zoo, an old peoples home. |
Largely indoor venues you've listed.
People often play music in a park. People sometimes bring a guitar and sit and sing with their mates outdoors in the summer. Some people even have the nerve to play music in their back gardens. Sometimes you are in the street and a bar is playing music that you can hear on the street when you walk pass. Can you believe it?!
This is largely a problem for Victor Meldrew and companions* and is such a non-issue. You have the wonderous ability to ski away, walk away. Or go absolutely bloody crazy and just accept it on the lift for a few minutes. How much pain is it causing? Or politely ask for it to be turned off it is that insulting.
The people who rudely demand for it to be turned off are acting almost as entitled as those playing it in the first place.
*companions being both young and old associates of the grumpy old Fitzwilliam who we all know and love so well
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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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@Legend., the examples you quote are not in beautiful, otherwise peaceful, mountains. On a lift you can be a captive audience for quite some time. 
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| Legend. wrote: |
| joffy69 wrote: |
| Would you play your own music in: a mosque, a church, a cemetery, a zoo, an old peoples home. |
Largely indoor venues you've listed.
People often play music in a park. People sometimes bring a guitar and sit and sing with their mates outdoors in the summer. Some people even have the nerve to play music in their back gardens. Sometimes you are in the street and a bar is playing music that you can hear on the street when you walk pass. Can you believe it?!
This is largely a problem for Victor Meldrew and companions* and is such a non-issue. You have the wonderous ability to ski away, walk away. Or go absolutely bloody crazy and just accept it on the lift for a few minutes. How much pain is it causing? Or politely ask for it to be turned off it is that insulting.
The people who rudely demand for it to be turned off are acting almost as entitled as those playing it in the first place.
*companions being both young and old associates of the grumpy old Fitzwilliam who we all know and love so well |
I think you are missing the point.
Of course I do ski away and enjoy my day. It is not ruined by some sadsack with a speaker in his rucksack. I do have a sense of proportion!
But, that does not alter the fact that while it may not be IMPORTANT these acts of aural manspreading* do reflect an unattractive assertion that it is OK to impose your** tastes on other people - you don't give a monkey's whether they appreciate it or not, they can just suck it up.
* I coined this phrase before and I've been quite restrained in only repeating it now  and it is ALWAYS males who do this isn't it?
** I don't mean YOU!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Gordyjh wrote: |
| @Legend., the examples you quote are not in beautiful, otherwise peaceful, mountains. On a lift you can be a captive audience for quite some time. |
That's obviously a personal view not a fact. Many would be of the view that a park is absolutely a beautiful and peaceful place. Or a beach no doubt.
There is no problem at all in asking someone to turn it off on a lift. Not demanding of course. IMO.
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| jedster wrote: |
| while it may not be IMPORTANT |
Completely and utterly agree
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@Legend., very difficult when they’re 2 chairs in front of you! Just gives you plenty of time to get riled and think of ways you want to rip the heads off the ignorant sods!
I had no idea this was a thing in parks, I rarely go to 1 as I live in the country.
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…then you have people who do that on public transport, ie trams, trains, and buses. Worse, when they decide to sing along!
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| Gordyjh wrote: |
@Legend., very difficult when they’re 2 chairs in front of you! Just gives you plenty of time to get riled and think of ways you want to rip the heads off the ignorant sods!
I had no idea this was a thing in parks, I rarely go to 1 as I live in the country. |
If they’re that far away then the issue…oh yeah…there isn’t one…
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I don't think it makes the slightest difference whether you're in the mountains, or a park, or a bus, or a miserable shopping centre in a tired housing estate. You shouldn't force other people to listen to your choice of music. I recall reading that one way to deter young people from hanging around outside a local shopping centre, cursing and being rude to passers by and generally disagreeable was to play classic Frank Sinatra tunes. It would certainly deter me. So perhaps the way to show these oral manspreaders is to be ready to fire up in opposition. The Ride of the Valkyries, or the Bach St Matthew Passion, or Chris de Burgh. Whatever.
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