 Poster: A snowHead
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| Jonny996 wrote: |
| @davidof, I can only presume you don't have a second home in mountains. |
why do you even come out with something like that?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@davidof, 2 homes in the mountains....you flash git 
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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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| davidof wrote: |
| Jonny996 wrote: |
| @davidof, I can only presume you don't have a second home in mountains. |
why do you even come out with something like that? |
Because I assumed you would have understood the reason in point 1 of my post.
We don't have the £100pm Sky package, the £150pm family gym membership, the £150pm for the latest mobile phones, the £300pm for a leased BMW. The £10k family holiday to Florida.
We are now kicking people for going skiing, (I think they shouldn't) along with people who have chosen at some point in their lives to buy into their dreams at cost of other thinggs
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Perty, I just wanted to say 'Well done', in case I hadn't already. What a thread you started!
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| Jonny996 wrote: |
Because I assumed you would have understood the reason in point 1 of my post. |
you seem to be rambling
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| davidof wrote: |
| Jonny996 wrote: |
Because I assumed you would have understood the reason in point 1 of my post. |
you seem to be rambling |
And we have another hero, who takes delight in trying to wind people up from behind his keyboard.
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I also don't get the assumption that you need wealth to have a small bolt hole , no one buys there house in UK cash so why should it be any different in the Alps & the French banks are very relaxed on interest only mortgages at some very low rates on a fixed term
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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
| ulmerhutte wrote: |
Very different vibe here to that of SkiTalk, aka Pugski. SkiTslk seems to be a far more friendly and accepting forum, possibly because the moderators tend to jump pretty quickly on threads that look like they might get nasty. Possibly also because politics is banned.
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It's a very particular form of friendly and is to my mind overmodded. If your political views or other opinions align with those of the mods the limit is much more flexible. Also its been a nonsense trying to direct topics away from Covid and interupting flow of discussion because EVERYTHING ski related is Covid related at least in present and near future tenses. |
Yes on the over-mod part.
But that's not the reason for the difference at the moment. The biggest difference being skiing is going at full steam in north America. So there's plenty of skiing to talk about.
Just pretend we're still in "summer"...
Until there's plenty of Brits skiing on in the continent, this "ski forum" is going to be over-populated by non-skiing talks!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Join to have a laugh and get good information from certain topics. Sense of humour lacking from at this time from some but don’t let it deter from researching what you need
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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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Last edited by And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports. on Mon 4-01-21 19:47; edited 1 time in total
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| jedster wrote: |
| In any case, I think living permanently in the Prealps is apt to provoke more envy than my situation amongst snowheads! |
What do you mean by "Prealps" ?
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You know it makes sense.
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Yep Sauvignon Blanc having its affect!!!!!
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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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deleted as being off topic
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@JamesHJ,
Thanks
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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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oneglove wrote:
I’ve been reading the snow reports for over 20 years without logging in once. One day a few years back I joined the forum and was glad I did! Because there was and still is a lot of liberal, blinkered globalists who needed correction. Fundamentally I don’t think they’re very bad people, just nieve cowards who would rather see Britain fall than be called a racist. They have not for much life experience and had their lives sorted before mass immigration kicked in, or simply live in remote places that are not affected by mass immigration. Of course some are women who want to breast feed the worlds refugees life that cretin Merkel.
It's not what the Glove says...it's the way it is said:
Intelligible, coherent.
Why on earth do all the other posts by oneglove have to be such gobldygook and obviously nasty?
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Oh, I thought his post was meant to be heavily ironic....oops! 
(by the way "that cretin Merkel" has been successfully governing Europe's strongest economony for quite some time now)
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@Perty, if you watched the PM's briefing this evening you would know why this forum has not been discussing actual skiing much. Apart from a handful who actually live in ski resorts, most of us cannot count on doing any skiing this year at all. If you look at discussions in January of most years, it would be dominated by those describing experiences, or requesting advice on a place they are about to visit.
So a lot of us have ended up discussing the reasons we can't go skiing - Covid, coupled with Brexit meaning that even if things relax here we are excluded as "third country" from European entry for the time being.
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There's no travel ban on outside exercise in your own local authority area. Yes i'm jealous - but thats how it was when those folks were skiing.
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| Jonny996 wrote: |
| the £150pm for the latest mobile phones |
Do people really do this??
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Maybe not £150 but there's a flag on this £109pm deal that says it's their 'Best-selling plan'.
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| admin wrote: |
| Maybe not £150 but there's a flag on this £109pm deal that says it's their 'Best-selling plan'. |
I was quoting for the family, not just me
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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I can't actually remember why I joined, it was so long ago
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+1
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My post seems to have upset some, I apologies if it has. I use this forum to seek advice and never try to undermine anyone.
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You know it makes sense.
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@Jonny996, I think it's because, whatever concessions you may have made, and however you may have purchased it, having a second home is indisputably a privileged thing (although winter sports in general are also privileged). However your posts make it sound like anyone can have one if they just made some different choices, and downplaying it by calling it a shack or bolt hole really doesn't help make it sound any less privileged.
I love that snowheads has the information required for people that are able to pursue the dream of having a place abroad, and obviously people use it to asks questions...however there are definitely some people who seem to drag up ownership at every opportunity, even where it isn't particularly relevant to the thread, and surely you can see how that might be a little needling to some?
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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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@SnoodlesMcFlude, thank you, I will note for future posts.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Jonny996 wrote: |
| My post seems to have upset some, I apologies if it has. I use this forum to seek advice and never try to undermine anyone. |
Respect Sir.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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On the initial topic, at the moment I do not think you will find many open forums that are aimed at a particular subject that is not affected by COVID or Brexit to become anything other than heavily polluted by the darn subjects. In life, how many conversations do you have that follow this route, a bloody lot I bet.
It'll pass, and this place will likely, in 12 months time, revert to solely talking about blades/helmets/200mm wide skis/the fall of SCGB and snow chains. And let's face it, we all love those threads!
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| SnoodlesMcFlude wrote: |
@Jonny996, I think it's because, whatever concessions you may have made, and however you may have purchased it, having a second home is indisputably a privileged thing (although winter sports in general are also privileged). However your posts make it sound like anyone can have one if they just made some different choices, and downplaying it by calling it a shack or bolt hole really doesn't help make it sound any less privileged.
I love that snowheads has the information required for people that are able to pursue the dream of having a place abroad, and obviously people use it to asks questions...however there are definitely some people who seem to drag up ownership at every opportunity, even where it isn't particularly relevant to the thread, and surely you can see how that might be a little needling to some? |
Sure it's privileged but the point re jealousy is a good one. Plenty of people in all walks of life repeatedly drop into conversations what sort of car they drive as a status thing. Personally I often think say "wow £60+k on a rapidly depreciating asset - that's a lot of skiing paid for" rather than a jealous "I wish I had that" but then the reality often is that with lease deals etc the car is just a cashflow expense. I'm not sure I like anyone making value judgements on whatever someone has chosen to do and their level of "entitlement".
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| SnoodlesMcFlude wrote: |
VW Caddy, btw |
Flash git. A tuk-tuk would do you know
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Couple of Koenigseggs, a Senna, GTR, a Hoonigan Fiesta, more AMGs than I can count, a couple of Scooby STis for me *
*in Forza, I'm not spending real money to crash them through dry stone walls and over ill advised cliff jumps
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| SnoodlesMcFlude wrote: |
| VW Caddy, btw |
Sorry is that a brag or a hummblebrag - I'm confused 
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@Timberwolf, actually at the minute a push bike would be overkill for the amount of travelling I'm doing 
@Dave of the Marmottes, if we're counting virtual cars then it may take me some time
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@admin, column B I think, if it was a brag then I'd have said VW Transporter
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