 Poster: A snowHead
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The pitfalls are many to wearing white salopettes. Here are just some:
1. You could be standing at the top of a fierce black run which quickly turns into a brown run. Not good for your white salopettes.
2. You could incur a severe case of diahorrea after eating at one of the bland lunch-time mountain restaurants in the three valleys.
3. Given the lack of w/c's in the Espace Killy, you could end up p*ss*ng yourself in the perce neige (what a horrible train that is, by the way).
4 You could sit on a carton of ribena, like I did, and give the impression of being injured.
5. You could get lift oil all over them
All of this might be a risk worth taking.
Can you think of any other pitfalls?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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You would look like a legless torso floating over a pair of skis from a distance. More superstitious skiers may arrange to have you burnt for witchcraft.
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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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You're not easily seen, in collision avoidance or rescue situations.
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Ah, but with a matching white jacket and Piz Buin white lip salve you could do a world class impersonation of an inverted invisible cheshire cat - all the face without the smile!!
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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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But if someone skis over your leg and cuts it off - the blood set against the white trousers would make you easier to spot!
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Other than stains (of food and non-food types) I can think of little else, other than you'd look like a twit.
Now, two tone, white legs with a red or blue 'seat' would look very fetching... and baboon like.
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I had "oatmeal" pants in my first season 
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Here,the army boys wear them with just a white cotton shirt while skiing in January. They're hard though!
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Sharkymark, very fetching squire 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Charlatanefc, they were confiscated by the fashion police shortly afterwards 
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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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rob@rar.org.uk, That's not just white - that's camoflage . . . are you trying to lose your missus?
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Sharkymark, really?? What were those things you had on at the Eosb? Did they miss those?
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You know it makes sense.
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kevin mcclean, "Would you advise anyone to wear white salopettes?"
Only if they were trying to outrun a bunch of mauser toting Krauts in Norway ©
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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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Charlatanefc, they were BLACK!!!!!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Sharkymark, you ain' t the only one that goes fishing. Here fishy, fishy bite
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Charlatanefc, well caught...damn 
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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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Sharkymark, Would you advise anyone to wear a white ski jacket? 
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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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Trading it in for a nice shina Kappa tracksuit?
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FenlandSkier, I don't need another one of those...I'm going upmarket...Burberry
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Sharkymark, bout damn time that thing was got rid of!!
I'm still looking out for black studded, spiked and chained trousers and jacket. No gear for goth skiers...
You look like a snowman in white especially if it's puffy!
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I had a friend who I skied with once or twice who had a strange liking for chocolate milk with his picnic lunch, which they sold in plastic bottles.
A backwards fall combined with a white one piece suit is not a good idea in these circumstances, especially if you don't realise what has happened till the end of the run! He was trying to wipe it off his legs and bum with handfulls of snow and smearing it everywhere....urgh
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| crazy_skier_jules wrote: |
Sharkymark, bout damn time that thing was got rid of!!
I'm still looking out for black studded, spiked and chained trousers and jacket. No gear for goth skiers...
You look like a snowman in white especially if it's puffy! |
Have a look in subvert - they tend to do a lot of Black and studded ski / board stuff from time to time.
Helmet covers are available in black leather & studs and mo-hawk if you really want to go full tilt.
make sure studs etc. are stainless steel or you will end up with non-too-fetching black and rust by seasons end.
Remember the only colour better than black is even blacker !!
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Odin, cheers, and you have the right attitude to black 
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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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Nearly Everything I Wear - Black!!
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Somehow I ended up with bright colors.. but if its not dark blue or black I really don't care for it.
I don't know if I'd want spikes or studs - that might hurt when I hit the tree
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You know it makes sense.
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Can you think of any other pitfalls?
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6. you could get run over by a Piste machine
Sort of like the old 'Kermit' joke
Q. What is white but goes red at the flick of a a switch ?
A. A skier wearing white salopettes, entering a snowblower.
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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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Only wear white sallopettes if you are prepared to show off a decent camels foot.
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Poster: A snowHead
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paulm, heh heh heh. Good call fella
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