 Poster: A snowHead
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Apparently they are ski terms. What's your definition?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I don't know, but 'yard sale' really ought to be converted to metric by now.
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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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Yard Sale - a total wipe out. Skis, gloves, hat, poles, sunglasses all off and scattered around the piste as laid out in a yard sale.
Lateral bullet - haven't heard of that one. How about shooting off the piste (sideways) out of control?
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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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Isn't a lateral bullet when travelling across the fall line, you catch the lateral edge of your down hill ski, and go straight over as if hit by a bullet from the side?
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No, in the US they still use miles, yards, feet and inches. Metric gets them confused, hence the metric/imperials mix-up that crashed that Mars (?) lander of theirs
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What was our excuse with Beagle?
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They hired a yokel to do it and forgot to give him any money.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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laundryman, we didn't have a long enough piece of string to send the signals down due to budget constraints 
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I think Beagle was something to do with a mad scientist building a satellite in an old TV studio with out any budget. I remarkable achievement to get as far as they did but doomed due to funds I think.
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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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Don't know what they mean, but I have undoubtedly experienced both of them if they relate to types of falls
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You know it makes sense.
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That's really impressive that the BBC have defined 'lateral bullet' (which is new to me), but they've glaringly omitted 'death cookies'.
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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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snowball, don't be complacent! The scientists who write the code for simulating nuclear reactors work in metric and the engineers who write the code for simulating the turbines which make the power station go work in imperial!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Well found Ray Zorro.
I've certainly done both but never heard the terms - I'm relieved to know I'm not the only one.
I picked the term up from a web advert that was trying to sell holidays and "educate" those new to the sport in the vocabulary we use. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I've never heard of the "lateral bullet" expression but the "yard sale" one is commonly used here in US. It is especially used from lift chairs moving "oh so slowly" over a tumbled skier/rider. *cough* not that it's ever happened to me!
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