 Poster: A snowHead
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I'll start. Last friday, our last night in Zermatt, I remarked on how cold the metal rail on the balcony was. Everyone dared me to lick it, so I did.
Let's just say that there's a part of me that from now on will always be in Switzerland.
Anyone else suffer from temporary suspension of common sense when skiing?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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It could have been worse, Kramer - the safety bar of a chairlift, perhaps!
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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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Kramer, Can you claim the excuse of being drunk at the time? 
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Kramer, aren't you a doctor?!!!! I love it when clever people do really stupid things - you've made me laugh lots with that so thanks!!
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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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anyone else suffer from temporary suspension of common sense when skiing?
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I tried to add up the total cost of a ski holiday once...........................
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| Kramer, aren't you a doctor?!!!! |
I think I can answer that. Yes, Kramer's a doctor and a very fine one too, I should think.
Any doctor will tell you that licking things is a human instinct, usually done for pleasure (ice lollies etc) and often done to enhance our homes (lick of paint etc.).
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I think skiing itself involves a temporary loss of common sense.
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David Goldsmith,
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Any doctor will tell you that licking things is a human instinct, usually done for pleasure
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So what you are saying, is that Kramer, is a lot weird 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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On our first night out in Saas Fee we were not aware of the noise curfew at 10pm - this guy ran over to us I thought it was someone starting a fight - he didnt look like the police - do de dum de do de dum
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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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| chris wrote: |
| I think skiing itself involves a temporary loss of common sense. |
... which can overcome one's entire life
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You know it makes sense.
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Had a good go at slicing my thumb off in a bizarre cocktail-mixing accident
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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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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
| It could have been worse, Kramer - the safety bar of a chairlift, perhaps! |
One of the ski club kids did that at Les Arcs the other week. What a plonker. Still he did have some excuse - he was only ten 
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Poster: A snowHead
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... and just wanted a lollipop
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Many years ago after an exceptional amount of beer, in a very posh night club in Gstaad............
We were on the second floor, which was a sort of balcony overlooking the dance floor below.
One of our party (a girl) who was dancing called on me and a friend to come down and join them.
My friend, to save time going around to the stairs and down, climbed over the balcony rail and down
a pillar. I then thought it would look incredible if I vaulted the rail and landed with a parachute roll
on the floor below.
As I cleared the rail some sort of common sense returned. I grabbed the rail, but this had the effect
of pulling me below the balcony, missing the dance floor, and down a flight of steps alongside it.
Incredibly I got away with just a huge bruise on my elbos (immediately under icy water to bring it out).
Dancing stopped for a while to see what had happened to the mad Welshman, and the Swiss proprieter
needed some reassuring that it wouldn't happen again.
Oddly the only two injuries I've had in all of my years skiing have been a bang on that elbow. Once in
the nightclub and once skiing down an icy road.
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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 I'm the only one who does stupid things on holiday then?
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Ok, I'll 'fess up. My wife changed her boots a few years ago, they were a different brand, but were exactly the same size as her previous pair ( no surprise there ) but I made the daft assumption that we didn't need to adjust the bindings on her skis. You guessed it, the first morning of our next holiday she tried to clip into the bindings and hey, the boots didn't fit. The real problem with this was that our accommodation was ski-in / ski-out, a fair way above the resort, with the quickest way down to a shop being down a ( very gentle ) piste. Imagine the scene ? Me towing her indoors, with just the front of her boots in the bindings, both cursing loudly about how stupid the ski boot/binding industry was............... not our fault of course
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I once tried to slide from Courchevel 1850 to Courchevel 1550 inside a black bin bag. It was the fastest I've ever travelled on a piste, I'm sure. I knew I was in trouble when I was bouncing around so hard that I could no longer focus my eyes on the resort lights in C1550. Fortunately I was still wearing ski boots, so managed to slow myself down by digging heals and toes into the snow, shredding the bin bag in the process. Ended up travelling head first on my stomach frantically scraping the snow with my hands and feet until I came to a stop. Not my most sensible decision, and since then I've been fond of resort buses to get me home if I've stopped off for a drink after skiing.
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Saw a bunch of boarders playing around on a little jump in the distance. Suggested it to my two mates and took off down the slope first shouting "No turns!", tucking down the hill I notice how fast I was going but didn't want to bottle it, even when I noticed that there was a kicker lip on the jump. Got airborne with massive air, squeeled like a pig, missed the landing, hit the flat in an explosion of bindings. Severely hurt, managed to hlbble onto my feet and wave my 2 mates down shouting, "It's great, c'mon down!" 
All 3 of us covered in bruises and aches, retired back to the chalet.
Lesson learnt - always spot a jump first.
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rob@rar.org.uk, I once tried the toboggan course at Kitzbuhel with a shed load of lager in the tank. 2 of us started on a sled at the top. 2 crossed the finish line independatly with no sled (lost in a tree), 1 trashed pair of ski pants, 1 pair of wrecked walking boots, and 1 seriously bruised thigh.
Also do not try inserting contact lenses at the side of the piste. They take hours to find when you drop them.
Do not drop your glasses out of a gondola
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Kramer,
Even though I've seen Dumb and Dumber loads of times, there is always the temptation to lick the metal on the chair lift!!!!
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I went to a french dentist without checking procedure beforehand. It was only after the deeeep root filling without anaesthetic that I found out you have to ask for one. That then covers the dentist if you have an accident after the visit. It 'kin hurt!
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chris,
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I could say about a few (like skiing icy conditions in Chamonix with another snowHead - him fit, me jetlagged and tired after 2 weeks of moguls and powder in Winter Park)
But I guess the comment I was going to make was regarding the title of the thread...
"I wouldn't call her daft - just in case she reads this."
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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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Kramer, Did the same thing on my Glacier Travel course. Setting up my belay, skis, slings an karibiners everywhere, i was getting a little tangled so popped the karabiner in my mouth so as not to drop it. It was about -25 on the glacier that day, most people got a little frost nip. The krab' rested firmly in my mouth until i wanted to say something, so tore it out of my mouth. The metal was covered in little barnacles(turned out to be the surface of my toungue) and i could taste metal(lots of blood). I laughed, what else could i do. The guide, taking himself a little seriously, then proceeded to explain why we shouldn't do this. I think everyone had already got the message.
Conclusion, 'Chew slings' not 'biners.
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Helen, If you imagine that little yellow face with the mouth open, thats exactly how I looked during the dental work!
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You know it makes sense.
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Went skiing in Bulgaria 15 years ago & rented equipment !! 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Any of you guys in a chalet in Chamonix in 1983 near La Breviere lift, go out to the Casino one night in black tie and come home to find your chalet door and windows totally walled up with snow?
I must apologise, but it seemed like fun at the time 
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Poster: A snowHead
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I ruptured my ACL skiing after too much red bull the night before. Then went out on the night (one footed hoping/dancing) and stupidly listened to the slightly worse for wear rep when he said he knew a short cut back to the hotel. Instead of taking the windy road he suggested hoping over the barrier and sliding down the ravine and climbing up the otherside - Red Bull & Vodka really makes you do stupid things. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| rob@rar.org.uk wrote: |
| I once tried to slide from Courchevel 1850 to Courchevel 1550 inside a black bin bag. |
As a student I climbed Cairngorm one winter with a fellow UEA disestablishmentarian. There were all these strange folk whizzing down the mountain on strange implements I had never seen before. I made an informed guess (not for nothing was I attending university) and decided they might be skiers. We reckoned we could do them for speed, so we found ourselves a nice smooth bit of white stuff, took off our waterproofs, and made a toboggan out of them. We were lucky to survive. First we nearly killed ourselves when we eventually slid off the smooth bit amongst the rocks, and then we were nearly lynched by some folk in strange multicoloured gear that were very angry with us for some reason.
I wasn't bothered about the latter because as a bolshie uni student and revolutionary at the time, the opinions of the governing capitalist classes were not something I took too seriously. After all, I would never come into contact with these poor misguided middle class fools again, pratting around the mountain slopes with more money than sense, would I?
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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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Kramer, welcome to the club !
I vomited last week in a gondola full of Chuddering-Hampton types !
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| Paul Mason wrote: |
| I vomited last week in a gondola full of Chuddering-Hampton types ! |
Blimey, what's a Chuddering-Hampton type?! (I live in Hampton).
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I know where Hampton is. What's chuddering?
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rob@rar.org.uk, it may be something like a chundering Hampton type, at a guess, in which case Paul Mason's action will have seemed perfectly normal, possibly desirable, to them. My son's at Hampton School, so I suppose that it's only a matter of time before he becomes a chundering Hampton type. Perhaps you are, or have been, qualified for that club?
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If anyone remembers the Allargue hotel at cockbridge (Lecht) we had been playing drinking games and one of our number was getting quite out of order so we threw him from the bar door, he hit ice slid down the hill and if not for the fence would have ended up in the don, we almost felt guilty through the hangover next morning.
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| richmond wrote: |
| rob@rar.org.uk, it may be something like a chundering Hampton type, at a guess, in which case Paul Mason's action will have seemed perfectly normal, possibly desirable, to them. My son's at Hampton School, so I suppose that it's only a matter of time before he becomes a chundering Hampton type. Perhaps you are, or have been, qualified for that club? |
Hampton School is excellent, but will undoubtedly lead to chundering status for your son in due course! I haven't been 'Chundering of Hampton' for some time:)
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| rob@rar.org.uk wrote: |
| Hampton School is excellent, but will undoubtedly lead to chundering status for your son in due course! I haven't been 'Chundering of Hampton' for some time:) |
It did for my nephews.
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decided to have a go at bum boarding with the rep in bulgaia a few years back toomuch vodka/redbull and waiting around for the rep we decided to get the lift to top of red run and bum board down slid for a whole ten meters then just plain bounced the rest of the way screaming at skiers to move 4 of us in a heap at the bottom getting sprayed with snow by said skiers never again. Moral of story never go on holiday with 3 fellow marines and expect to come home unscathed with money and sober good laugh though
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