 Poster: A snowHead
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Nearly was speared today with a t**t holding her ski pole out with camera attached in the middle, totally unaware of any other skier around!! Cramps well rehearsed saying came in very handy  stupide etron gras!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ahh a di@k with a stick.
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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 find that if it's in the way then giving it a sharp pull when you ski past often has the desired effect!
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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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@dsoutar, harsh but fair.
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Just before we break out into moral outrage, they were overtaking you, right?
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| Richard_Sideways wrote: |
| Just before we break out into moral outrage, they were overtaking you, right? |
It's worse than : I saw several skiers who had TWO of those stick things. Only, and this is really important, instead of $400 cameras on the end of them, they had.. SPIKES.
Imagine that, riding down a slope with two spikes! Those could easily penetrate a standard helmet or take out the eye of a drunken celebrity.
It must be safer to stay at home.
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@philwig, its why I retreated into my prepper bunker some time ago, and it appears I was right to do so.
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@dsoutar, as the uphill skier it is your responsibility to stay out of the way of the downhill skier, no matter what they are doing or holding, so when you ski past you should make sure that you give yourself and them enough room for you to pass safely. There is no such thing as in the way
That is the point of @Richard_Sideways post.
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But was she wearing a helmet?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Orange200 wrote: |
| But was she wearing a helmet? |
With twin gopro mounts?
As an aside, I noticed that the airline check-in desks were smothered in "No Selfie Stick in hand luggage" stickers. Someones obviously got paranoid about passengers using them like those collapsible police batons or something...
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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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S**t, that reminds me, I still haven't replaced the basket on my pole and I'm off for ten days next weekend... S**t...
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Nothing worse than punters in a bubble of their own trying to film each other shuffling down a piste...
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You know it makes sense.
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@lordf, Really? Now I feel guilty for filming the kids doing 'Furious Snowplow" down that green run... Didn't realise that it was causing you that much trouble to pick your way around mobile roadblocks like that... Must be really tricky overtaking 4 and 6 year olds cleanly.
I suggest carving aggressively between them at high speed - that seemed to be the way quite a few people did it in AdH the other week, that worked when you can clearly see that someone is acting as sweeper for a group of kids/beginners, and ABSOLUTELY NOBODY will think you're a bit of a cock for doing it.
Last edited by You know it makes sense. on Thu 21-01-16 11:48; edited 1 time in total
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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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I saw Lala, Po and Tinky Winky skiing at Christmas. Must be a very small Tinky Winky to go around looking like that.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Richard_Sideways, I have heard that such behaviour is compulsory on AdH green runs....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| philwig wrote: |
| Richard_Sideways wrote: |
| Just before we break out into moral outrage, they were overtaking you, right? |
It's worse than : I saw several skiers who had TWO of those stick things. Only, and this is really important, instead of $400 cameras on the end of them, they had.. SPIKES.
Imagine that, riding down a slope with two spikes! Those could easily penetrate a standard helmet or take out the eye of a drunken celebrity.
It must be safer to stay at home. |
Well if people all skied with their poles held up in front of them with the spiky bit held out at eye level I probably would just stay at home! But luckily the spiky sticks are usually pointed toward the ground. It's a bit like carrying a gun, how dangerous it is depends entirely on where the front is pointing.
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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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Is there anything worse than being behind some keen racer type who is dialling for Mars?
Yes.... yes there is...
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Ah, from the famous "Guns don't kill people, Ski-poles do" campaign. Worried that they may misjudge an overtake while you're in a tight schuss tuck? Well, rest assured that French proctologists are renowned for having the smallest hands in the world.
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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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| Is there anything worse than being behind some keen racer type who is dialling for Mars? |
¿Qué?
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I like to keep my distance from any slope user who refers to others as "punters", implying that they're not.
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I became acutely more aware of the potential danger of spiky ski poles last year when our 5 year old started using them! There's definitely a good reason why they don't recommend using them earlier!
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ET home phone
it's an open piste. you are more than welcome to photo/video bomb them.
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| pam w wrote: |
| I like to keep my distance from any slope user who refers to others as "punters", implying that they're not. |
this is on point
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@ewanmalone, thought we'd established that the poles were on point...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| pam w wrote: |
| I like to keep my distance from any slope user who refers to others as "punters", implying that they're not. |
Apart from the fact that one common meaning of "punter" is not suitable for explanation in a family-friendly forum.
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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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@dogwatch,Dialling For Mars
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| dogwatch wrote: |
| .. Apart from the fact that one common meaning of "punter" is not suitable for explanation in a family-friendly forum. |
Nonsense: it's clear what the word is being used for here.
If you personally happen to know the ruder meaning, and can't help yourself but to confuse that with the obvious meaning, then perhaps therapy (and I don't mean the band, that would be Therapy) would help?
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You know it makes sense.
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@pam w, at what point do the punters become the punted? 
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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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| nigelg wrote: |
@dsoutar, as the uphill skier it is your responsibility to stay out of the way of the downhill skier, no matter what they are doing or holding, so when you ski past you should make sure that you give yourself and them enough room for you to pass safely. There is no such thing as in the way
That is the point of @Richard_Sideways post. |
Oops
Note to one's self. Make sure to add tongue-in-cheek emoticon when posting tongue-in-check 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ahh a di@k with a stick.
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@Jerby,
As you'll see the perpetrator was clearly labelled as holding HER ski-pole....
A dyke with a pike.
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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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@dsoutar, sorry, my bad.
There are a lot of people who think that it is OK to go past fast and close.
Glad you are not one of them!
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| nigelg wrote: |
... There are a lot of people who think that it is OK to go past fast and close.
Glad you are not one of them! |
I don't think there's a rule against riding fast, especially on "expert" runs. What one person considers close may be different from another I suppose. But I don't think that's quantified in any rules.
You can always expect to be overtaken by faster people. Personally, I won't hit you, but it's my responsibility to avoid you, according to those rules people here love so much. Hence I'll judge from your demeanour how much space I have to give you. If you're waving a pole about, I'll probably avoid it.
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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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| pam w wrote: |
| I like to keep my distance from any slope user who refers to others as "punters", implying that they're not. |
yeah, its such a derogatory term used mainly by people who ski less than a couple of weeks a years.
oh and seasonaires trying to set themselves apart.
If you weren't born in resort, your just on an extended holiday.....
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If you weren't born in resort, your just on an extended holiday.....
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With apologies to Feldman and Law...
Local: I look down on him because I am a local.
Seasonairre: I look up to him because he is Local; but I look down on him because he is a punter. I am a seasonairre.
Punter: I know my place. I look up to them both. But I don't look up to him (seasonairre) as much as I look up to him (local), because he can speak French.
Local: I can speak French, but I have no money. So sometimes I look up (bends knees, does so) to him (seasonairre).
Seasonairre: I still look up to him because although I have money, I know I'll never be as good a skier as him. But I am not as awful as him so I still look down on him.
Punter: I know my place. I look up to them both; but while I am rubbish, I am trying my best, having fun and pay for them both to live this lifestyle. Had I the inclination, I could look down on them both as I know I don't have to scrub the lav after Tartiflette tonight. But I don't.
Seasonairre: We all know our place, but what do we get out of it?
Local: I get a feeling of superiority over them.
Seasonairre: I get a feeling of inferiority from him, but a feeling of superiority over him.
Punter: I get a pain in the back of my neck.
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@Richard_Sideways, pmsl
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| eddiethebus wrote: |
| pam w wrote: |
| I like to keep my distance from any slope user who refers to others as "punters", implying that they're not. |
yeah, its such a derogatory term used mainly by people who ski less than a couple of weeks a years.
oh and seasonaires trying to set themselves apart.
If you weren't born in resort, your just on an extended holiday..... |
I find its a very valid term for people how don't know how to behave well on the slopes, I never used until the proliferation of Go-Pros on sticks started hi-lighting how little situational awareness they have. Once you've seen someone ski into the side of a restaurant as they were too busy filming their pals I feel it becomes the appropriate term.
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Speaking as one, there is no species quite as bad as the ex-seasonaire. A sense of massive superiority over the regular punters in the chalet (especially in the resort you seasoned in) and a sense of, frankly unwarranted, kinship with the staff, mixed with the superiority of having already survived their "ordeal".
"In my season...."
Sometimes I hear myself and think "wow, you really are sounding like a bellend here...." Can't seem to stop it though!
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