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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Techies certainly! Need to include Kjus though 
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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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pisties for sure 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Techie, and trying to avoid being a Twin techie with Mr P who is clad top to toe Norrona...
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What a load of old cobblers. Am delighted to say I'm not in any of those tribes.
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pam w, so, as per the OP, you can create a new category then, what will it be? 
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pam w, actually pam I definitely recognise the glossies in crans montana - Bogner and Chanel all too obvious....
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Just a gimmick for a silly article - really not worth bothering. I don't think I'm a "category" and neither are any of my friends and family who ski. All different.
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pam w, agreed...a small bit of journalistic fluff...but after writing loads of technical stuff that requires a great deal of serious research I too am prone to something silly every now and again just to relieve the pressure and I guess this is where this piece came from too...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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valais2, well I'm one category in and I'm afraid it's pretty hopeless. Seasonaires riding with style and ease? I think not. Most seasonaires that I know these days are only interesting in getting bladdered with neither style nor ease.
Last edited by snowHeads are a friendly bunch. on Sun 4-05-14 22:45; edited 1 time in total
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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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valais2, You are uncommonly charitable if you reckon there's loads of technical stuff requiring serious research on stylealtitude.com?
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I'm not a number, I'm a free man. God save us from tribalism!
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You know it makes sense.
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| pam w, actually pam I definitely recognise the glossies in crans montana - Bogner and Chanel all too obvious.... |
Ha, I must be a glossy, I used to own a Bogner onesie!
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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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pam w, ....broadly true...I spend day in day out on serious academic research (except when I'm on the hill) where I am trying to chase elusive truths in areas where getting it right matters quite a bit ... But,,rightly or wrongly, I relax those standards a bit when it gets to general comment about skiing.
Avalanche stuff, ski prep stuff and some other tech stuff is different and I feel demands the same standards of evidence I use in my normal work.
So you're right, style alt articles not all well grounded in profound evidence
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Poster: A snowHead
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A pistie without the kids (and vomit)...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Pedantica, ....still in the back of your wardrobe somewhere?
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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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valais2, sadly not, I actually wore it out, I had it so long. It was plain, dark navy, and really rather smart.
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I think I prefer the skier types in the "Totally Piste" and "Piste Again" books over the ones in that article.
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valais2, upmarket yet sensible describes it perfectly!
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Farties: Have a mixed aged quality quiver to choose from (ski or board) and certainly tele. Boots are top end but well broken in, They ski at least 3 weeks a season but only one with the missus and kids. Clothes are always sourced from TillyMax or Decathlon by the colour blind and only match by hapenstance. They have all the gear and know how to use most of it but have rarely if ever needed to. They know how to party but are usually to sensible to try.
Most likely to say: "Think I'll have an early night"
Least likely to say: "You're young enough to be my daughter, fancy an early night?"
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Masque, you did well with this....I was thinking if 'oldies' (too dull);'greys' (but not all actually have hair) and others not as well-aimed as yours....
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Techie! no questions asked!
New lady friend is a hardcore Glossy though (see White/silver visor helmet with Swarowksi crystals) need to change!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I suppose I'm closest to a pistie if anything, but without the kids and Dare2Be gear.
Saw a guy in the Folie Douce in Val in March, dressed in head to toe Bogner. Hat, base layers, everything. He obviously thought he looked the b*llocks, when in fact he looked like a knob. I will dig out a pic I took.
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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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New lady friend is a hardcore Glossy though (see White/silver visor helmet with Swarowksi crystals) need to change!
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Yes, definitely. Get rid of her as fast as possible.
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| pam w wrote: |
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New lady friend is a hardcore Glossy though (see White/silver visor helmet with Swarowksi crystals) need to change!
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Yes, definitely. Get rid of her as fast as possible. |
Hey, lets not be too hasty! Does she also wear those tight, slightly stretchy, white salopettes?
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You know it makes sense.
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They're black... in all fairness to her, she has the physique to pull them off, but it's hard to see past this:
and Matt if you ever mention this conversation to her I will take a buzzsaw to your new Countdowns!!
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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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dulcamara, 
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Poster: A snowHead
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if you ever mention this conversation to her I will take a buzzsaw to your new Countdowns!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Why isn't there a category for wearing various fancy dress outfits?
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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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a category for wearing various fancy dress outfits?
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along with silly hats and "ironic onesies". Tribal name? Juvenile Exhibitionists.
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rob@rar,
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I'm not a number, I'm a free man.
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You forgot to begin with with "who is number 1"
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Looks like I'm skiing in completely wrong places, since I don't remember seeing all too many of "anyone under 30 who rides with style and ease" wearing 6XL clothes. I mean there's whole lot of people wearing 6XL clothes, but I have never seen any of them skiing (or snowboarding) with style and ease... apart those few guys and girls who also look impressive in Red Bull movies, but they somehow don't qualify as "reps, chalet hosts, bar staff"
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I wonder if anyone on this website qualifies as anything but techie or pistie (or amalgamations thereof).... it's the snowheads brand!
edit: If there are I've not met one
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dulcamara, well I'm neither, and the Snowheads I've met and skied with aren't either. The definition of a "pistie" in the article is even stupider than the others - you can tell none of the authors would ever put themselves in that tribe. I suggest there are only two tribes - those who spend much of their time wondering what others are thinking about them and those who spend little or no time wondering what others are thinking of them. There are good and bad, rich and poor, on and off-piste and old and young skiers in both groups.
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| dulcamara wrote: |
I wonder if anyone on this website qualifies as anything but techie or pistie (or amalgamations thereof).... it's the snowheads brand!
edit: If there are I've not met one |
I do see a gap for "Currently Unloved Netherlands Tourist" but am struggling to find a category name for them
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dulcamara, well I'm neither, and the Snowheads I've met and skied with aren't either. The definition of a "pistie" in the article is even stupider than the others - you can tell none of the authors would ever put themselves in that tribe. I suggest there are only two tribes - those who spend much of their time wondering what others are thinking about them and those who spend little or no time wondering what others are thinking of them. There are good and bad, rich and poor, on and off-piste and old and young skiers in both groups.
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it's just a bit of fun
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Well none of those fitted me. Although some of you like me and good number loathe me I think it's safest to say that 'I'm a Snowhead' 
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