Boredsurfing, I didn't sign up but was able to view most of it. I notice there was a comment on there about still trying to keep a certain banned DG out of there. Best of luck on that front now it's open to all
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
geepee wrote:
Smokin Joe, Is this waiting for the draw boredom.
Yes
After all it is free
After all it is free
My old membership details still worked although I haven't been a member for a couple of years. Not a lot of activity on the forum.
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The discussion started:
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", chat forum to go live in 3-4 weeks and OPEN to All (not just members!"
I hope they've given some thought as to how they'll keep DG out of the place then....................................
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Swiller, that quote is from the chat forum of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), which has never thought to keep me out.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
Smokin Joe, great thread! How on earth did you find it?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
Smokin Joe wrote:
Any update on this ?
u is bad, man!
Nuffink on tv tonight? Better 1/2 out?
Sits back and waits for settees to rumble .....
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
Agenterre, boredom.......nothing else. Better half is writing Christmas cards !
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
This is the February 2004 petition of the 93 SCGB members who argued for the public forum to be reopened ... an action which has now materialised approximately 9 years later ...
I'm a member of the SCGB and Snowheads, going on trips with both organisations this season, both have been great ways to meet new folk and share some fantastic days' skiing. As you say the SCGB is (maybe belatedly) opening its forum to outsiders. There is also a section for "members suggestions" accessible to members only, and lots of concern about SCGB members apparent lack of interest in using the forums.
I can't see the relevance of posting threads on a non SCGB forum complaining about the SCGB, especially from ancient history (2004) even before I started skiing. Sure maybe the SCGB could do with a little change and evolution and I expect it will. However these changes need to come from within, from the members. I'm very surprised you haven't used the SCGB's "members suggestions" forum to air your concerns and issues. It almost seems as if you would rather snipe hiding under an anonymous user name on another forum rather than engage in debate within the SCGB?
Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
It fills me with joy to see all those names fighting the corner......but strangely none of them use their real names now
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
On the rocks, it was a wee wee take
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?
On the rocks, Oh dear , unwittingly (and no fault of your own) you may have just rekindled some old chesnuts .... POPCORN!
Doh!
(by the way I did use my real name on Snowheads util recently, but was told off for doing so on the PSB, when I did have to spend a lot on ski repairs)
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
On the rocks, He is banned from the SCGB forum and has been for about 5 years (bizarre). Otherwise I'm sure he would be arguing inside that forum.
This is the February 2004 petition of the 93 SCGB members who argued for the public forum to be reopened ... an action which has now materialised approximately 9 years later ...
Thanks for that link. What a cracking read! I particularly love cathy's diatribe against Gerry Aitken.
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Bode Swiller wrote:
I take it everyone knows that the SCGB forum is now open to non-members again?
I guess after more than 8 years since they decided that they had to make it members only they've had some new legal advice....
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After all it is free
I have been on the slimming club Great Britain forum for three years now.
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On the rocks wrote:
I can't see the relevance of posting threads on a non SCGB forum complaining about the SCGB, especially from ancient history (2004) even before I started skiing. Sure maybe the SCGB could do with a little change and evolution and I expect it will. However these changes need to come from within, from the members. I'm very surprised you haven't used the SCGB's "members suggestions" forum to air your concerns and issues. It almost seems as if you would rather snipe hiding under an anonymous user name on another forum rather than engage in debate within the SCGB?
On the rocks, a couple of (I hope) friendly points:
1. You are of course, in principle, quite right.
2. The SCGB, which I joined in 1962 in my lace-up leather ski boots*, is the self-defined "voice of UK snowsports". Therefore, while accepting that it is a privately-owned members' club, it is accountable to the public in that capacity. The Club also defined itself as the "spokesbody of British skiers" in its 1995 mission statement.
3. I've been banned from the members' section of the SCGB forum since July 2007.
4. Goldsmith is not an anonymous name. It was my father's name. Is 'On the rocks' the name on your birth certificate? Was it the location of your conception?
* two sets of laces to tighten the inner and outer boot.
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On the rocks wrote:
4. Goldsmith is not an anonymous name. It was my father's name. Is 'On the rocks' the name on your birth certificate? Was it the location of your conception?
If you read my post more carefully you will find the explanation for changing my Snowheads name from Kevin Stephens last week.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
Can I apologise to all Snowheads and offer my resignation from this forum.
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Pedantica wrote:
Comedy Goldsmith wrote:
This is the February 2004 petition of the 93 SCGB members who argued for the public forum to be reopened ... an action which has now materialised approximately 9 years later ...
Thanks for that link. What a cracking read! I particularly love cathy's diatribe against Gerry Aitken.
+1
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
snowHeads doesn't accept any form of resignation, retirement, incapacity or death (as I understand it). You're registered for eternity and must continue posting posthumously.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
Smokin Joe wrote:
Can I apologise to all Snowheads and offer my resignation from this forum.
Yes and No!
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Smokin Joe wrote:
Can I apologise to all Snowheads and offer my resignation from this forum.
Not before we resurrect your ski trip packing check list just one more time. Then you can delaminate.
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Poster: A snowHead
Smokin Joe wrote:
Can I apologise to all Snowheads and offer my resignation from this forum.
If you read my post more carefully you will find the explanation for changing my Snowheads name from Kevin Stephens last week.
Kevin, thanks for being so candid about your name change. With the help of Google Images I've been able to trace several individuals claiming to be you. Obviously it's up to you whether you wish to take part in this identity parade, but maybe you could tell us which one of these mugshots matches yours.
[Incidentally, I'm reasonably confident that none of these people match your identity. According to Google Births there are 3 million people with the name Kevin Stephens, and most of them ski.]
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Remarkably, my old email and password still work
don't remember mine. was only a magazine-only sub (**** knows why - the chalet I used to stay in had them all too), since being in exile I'd have go no useful benefits as a full member (at the full adult price). lot's of familiar names in that post.
edit: this gets interestinger and interestinger. Apparently I am still a magazine subscriber, and as such, still receive the magazine. But wouldn't it be good if I gave a mag sub as a Christmas gift to a freind? I know for a fact that I've not been paying, my CC has been changed many times in the life of sH. So someone in Holland must have been receiving 9 years' worth of complementary ski advertorials
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
I would like to publicly thank SCGB, though
for in February 2004, you gave me the opportunity to find a great bunch of like-minded skiers from across the UK, the EU, and indeed across the entire globe. Many of whom just want to ski, some of whom have apartments and chalets in the Alps. You gave me the opportunity to go on 7 group holidays, with an 8th planned for February, 1 piste performance skills coaching course, 2 more holidays with friends I'd met on holiday, with a 3rd that I had to sadly decline. I wonder what things would be like now, if that opportunity didn't happen almost 9 years ago? Some of my best friends now are a direct result of SCGB.
After all it is free
After all it is free
andy wrote:
I would like to publicly thank SCGB, though for in February 2004, you gave me the opportunity to find a great bunch of like-minded skiers from across the UK, the EU, and indeed across the entire globe.
+1
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