 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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How soft is the snow? How deep? Can you breathe? If it was only 1cm deep, then it's certainly possible!
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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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"There is a knocking without"
"Without what?"
"Without the door!"
"A knocking without a door? Is this some kind of zen?"
(from memory. a pint at the EoSB for the first snowHead to tell me the source - without Googling for it  )
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"If not then please refer to them by their English job titles:
Piste Worker
Lift Worker
This is a snowHead pet hate of mine. Anyone else want to share their pet hates of the otherwise lovely snowHeads board?"
xyzpaul, I do not understand your question/problem.
I have many friends who sometimes pay their way as pisteurs or lifties. They don't have issue with me using these terms, why should you? I thought you were simply taking the p1ss with thread originally I have to admit...
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Actually, to be a little more explicit. amongst my late friends colleagues they knew themselves as "pisteurs"
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The Aussie I met in Aspen certainly told me he was a "liftie" on the mountain. Then I mentioned the cricket and he got all agitated for some reason.
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| xyzpaul wrote: |
| What's a piste-basher driver called? |
On the one time that I have ridden in one, it was being driven by a pisteur.
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Jerry, did you mention rugby too? Some of my friends get quite agitated about that as well. It was invented in 18-12 I heard...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| rjs wrote: |
| xyzpaul wrote: |
| What's a piste-basher driver called? |
On the one time that I have ridden in one, it was being driven by a pisteur. |
So that would be the Chauffeur then 
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Jerry, I hope you mentioned it again later
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| David Murdoch wrote: |
| Jerry, did you mention rugby too? Some of my friends get quite agitated about that as well. It was invented in 18-12 I heard... |
I heard it was invented in 17-20
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You know it makes sense.
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Frosty, you might be right.
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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 Murdoch, you are friends with "lifties" and "pisteurs" so I've no problem with that. What makes me laugh is people referring to complete strangers using these chummy monikers. I hate to shatter any illusions, but the mountain is not populated by one big happy family.
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Poster: A snowHead
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xyzpaul, actually of all the professions on the mountain, the non-specific ski trail service department blue collar workers are among the most cheerful, a happier bunch of people you couldn't hope to meet, in my experience.
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Fri 24-03-06 18:59; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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xyzpaul, what's the difference between, the chummy moniker "liftie", and say "brickie", or do we need to start referring to these men as "tea-drinking, butt-crack showing, wall builders"?
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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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PG, have to agree with you there. In Tignes, the girls checking the lift passes were still all smiles at 5:00 after standing in the snow all day. I couldn't have done that 
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| xyzpaul wrote: |
| I hate to shatter any illusions, but the mountain is not populated by one big happy family. |
I'm still not sure what your point is.
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Wear The Fox Hat, nothing in my experience beets the cheeriness of the lifties in Deer Valley. I reckon they're on drugs.
From a European perspective, Avoriaz is reporting 250cm mid mountain. And I'm off to Morzine for the weekend...la la la
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Linds, not often enough! I may just have to go back there some time...
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Linds, Cheers, I'll do my best.
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Perhaps as most of us haven't actually met each other, we should be reffered to as Mrs Helen Beaumont, and Mr Frosty the Snowman etc.......................... Of course, there are some who are more familiar with each other. I still don't see the point of this thread.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I think there are distinct parallels with the "stiff upper lip", "don't show any emotion", "be British and remote" threads we've been having recently, elsewhere on the forum!
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Mr PG, I agree, or can I just call you PG as we've met. 
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Helen Beaumont, I'm simply going to call Mr PG, Sir, since he's organising my accommodation for the BLAM 
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You know it makes sense.
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snowbunny, , sorry Ms. Snowbunny.
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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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You're all daft. Pisteur was the Frenchman who discovered penicillan. Liftie is american slang for lift worker.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Jacques wrote: |
| You're all daft. Pisteur was the Frenchman who discovered penicillan. Liftie is american slang for lift worker. |
I thought Liftie was the river running through Dublin?
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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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| Jacques wrote: |
| You're all daft. |
Says the guy who makes a feeble joke in the thread he starts (more than a week late) about Doug Coombs' death. 
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What is it with some snowHeads and death? It seems to make them heart-on their-sleeve, po faced, holier than thou bores.
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And I suppose you two were taught to be stiff upper lipped and not cry at funerals. No, seriously Cedric, I am curious. Do you think he thought he could make the landing. What would go through your mind? 
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Oi, Jacques, I'm on your side.
I was taught to keep a stiff upper lip and not cry at funerals (or rather I learned that), but that's not relevant.
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Yes, you're right. Why is it I cried my eyes out when my dog died after he was hit by a car, but I couldn't do it when me Mum passed? Sad set of mores we teach our little boys. So getting back to the main subject, they call them ski patrollers and lift attendants (or lifties) in America, but I still say Lifty Pisteur was the first to discover penicillan.
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| Jacques wrote: |
| I still say Lifty Pisteur was the first to discover penicillan. |
Some mistake surely? Lifty Pisteur was responsible for germ theory. It was Ian Fleming who discovered penicilin, just before he wrote Casino Royale.
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Jacques, put like that I agree with the question. I think all that would go through my head would be a wave of terror. But then again the minds of people like Coombs are very different from ours.
As for the Pisteur - pennicilin joke, that was funny.
richmond, why is it that some snowheads can make stupid insulting comments?
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like the one hand or tree thing 
reporting 275cm mid-mountain), and she was certainly very friendly all day...
