 Poster: A snowHead
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For me the SCGB has lost any reason to exist. I know the discounts can be handy for some people, but I struggled to get any value out of membership only ski ing once a year for a week.
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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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Swiller, you have a remarkable talent for switching on the telly with the help of a mouse. Are you able to do it by yourself?
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chrisb, if you ski once a week only and don't ski with the reps, you probably should not be a member. I ski 3 weeks a year - and am a member only because my regular skiing buddy has a strong preference for skiing at a resort with a rep. That said, I have found the Club forum useful for getting together members of a group to go skiing with (with an instructor for one day, and a guide for 3days). Interestingly, I got a lot of useful advice in setting up the the group here - but the actual membership was derived mostly from Club site input. So maybe the club is benefiting me more than I have thought. Certainly, both forums have been useful.
Bode Swiller, oh you are a naughty boy. Nothing like whipping up dislike based on a a bit of class aggro here whilst you pimp your mates' magazine on another thread. Tut tut. 
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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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Bode Swiller, You can do better than the Monty Python clip. It is not very original.
On the same subject, Dave is rather miffed that you copied much of his old strap line :-
'Purveyor of the world's finest pre-owned user names for your posting pleasure'.
Us Goldsmiths are very fond of our own written words and do not like to see them misused.
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| achilles wrote: |
| Bode Swiller, oh you are a naughty boy. Nothing like whipping up dislike based on a a bit of class aggro here whilst you pimp your mates' magazine on another thread. Tut tut. |
IS that pimping? Telling folks about a FREE e-mag all about one of their fave subjects and on a forum that's all about that subject, cannot be pimping. The fact I know the crew there is irrelevant too. And I'm not charging rent or doing it for any other commercial purpose. Let's face it you pimp the hell out of your social club. As for "class aggro", I dont think so. It's a joke (go look up joke) and SCGB members I know would laugh along with it.
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Bode Swiller, hang on, I think achilles, was joking too! 
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Hurtle, hard to tell. I expect he's upset because I called my teddy Achilles
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[misquote="Bode Swiller"] ... and Sockpuppet Club of Great Britain members I know would laugh along with it.[/misquote]
No they wouldn't
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Hurtle, methinks the gentleman doth protest his innocents too much. 
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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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Talking of misquotes and sockpuppets, I see PJSki's back.
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You know it makes sense.
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Hurtle, There ain't half bin some clever barstewards. John Stuart Mill was one, but I have never heard of your man. Trouble is their ideas only work in a civilised society.
Thomas Hobbes is more kick @rse. The Clint Eastwood of the philosophy world.
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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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Latchigo, I daren't, on this thread, explain exactly why my bear is named after Henry Sidgwick. It is only partly because I warm to some of his ideas, both philosophical, religious and political. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| Hurtle, hard to tell. I expect he's upset because I called my teddy Achilles |
Not I . But the Society for Environmentally Pure Travelling Independent Cranks (SEPTIC) are furious; you have knocked their hero, who emphasises the importance of feet. Clad in Edwardian tweed from sustainable sources, Septics (as they like to be known) walk to the Alps, and carry on walking up the slopes to ski down for the only run they will have time for before walking back to Blighty. These zealots are looking for you in all the toff watering holes, so that you can be bound in avalanche cord for incarceration in the White House. You have yourself only to blame.
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| IS that pimping? Telling folks about a FREE e-mag .... |
Now SEPTIC do approve of that. They fully favour liberating advertising from capitalism, and are networking like mad to tell their industry pals about it. I'd tell your mates to get in more phone lines to handle the calls; they'll be inundated. 
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| ..let's face it you pimp the hell out of your social club..... |
Ah. Guilty as charged, but it's been embarrassing. The huge number of membership applications resulting from my signature link were all very welcome, and it was suggested admin be nominated as president. Then someone on t' Committee noticed they were all from addresses down South. This caused outrage, as it was realized the Club was at huge moral hazard (mind you this was only after some members realised there was somewhere south of Stamford). I expect I'll be drummed out of the club.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| achilles wrote: |
| I expect I'll be drummed out of the club. |
You and DG could offer each other moral support.
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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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This is fun. Seppo, Toff, Pimp, FISH.
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Another year. Another AGM. The Godmother of snowHeads, the Ski Club of Great Britain, held the AGM of its 105-year reign last night at the White House in Wimbledon. The President - distinguished polar adventurer Mr Robert Swan - was not in residence, so Neil Britten (the Club's Chairman) took the chair. He gave a very lengthy and informative presentation on the club's ethos, objectives, legal obligations and potential legal exposure to rep-led off-piste skiing. This subject preoccupied the meeting.
That, I'm afraid, is about all I'm willing to report at this juncture (due to on-going 'negotiations' with the proprietor of this shop Mr Fritz McCopyright) but other more kindly souls might be willing to say more. Several registered users of this forum were present at the meeting, and got to their feet to speak. There were interesting suggestions from the floor that the AGM might be transmitted via Ski TV, though Ski TV has an audience base which is partly 'non-member' (those who pay £10 only to be able to log in). Marks & Spencer is one organisation which makes a live web-based transmission of its AGM to registered shareholders. Perhaps snowHeads plc will one day look at the entertainment value of such an event and transmitting it (which obviously requires the consent of those being filmed).
The Ski Club of GB is, at the end of the day (apres-ski, in other words), a private members' organisation. It is also the self-declared 'spokesbody of British skiers'. Therefore the boundary between its accountability to members and 'public accountability' is an interesting line to draw. The Club is heavily involved in commercial publishing to the public, information provision to the national media (including the BBC) and so on.
I would close by once again drawing attention to the worrying words of achilles above.
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| I expect I'll be drummed out of the club. |
That is what he expected. The reality, as we know, was subtly different!
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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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David Goldsmith, My mole tells me that you were at the AGM yourself, are you still banned from posting on the ski clubs chat forum? or has natural justice pre-vailed?
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| Boredsurfing wrote: |
| David Goldsmith, My mole tells me |
I'm afraid I don't believe you. How many legs are there on this mole?
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Shouldn't this stay in the SCGB section?
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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
| The Club is heavily involved in commercial publishing to the public, information provision to the national media (including the BBC) and so on. |
I've only been around a couple of years so don't really get all this SCGB thing (Though I was involved with the IAM for a bit and the organisation sounds a bit similar in an MCC/FA sort of way, if you see what I mean... - just my impression) but for all their supposed commercial side I don't think I've ever heard them mentioned in the press 
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My mole tells me that
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gang of four not elected.
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That's enough molesh!t. Ed
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Boredsurfing wrote: |
| David Goldsmith, My mole tells me that you were at the AGM yourself, are you still banned from posting on the ski clubs chat forum? or has natural justice pre-vailed? |
It's pretty obvious David had to go in under cover. He was the chesty blonde one in a mini skirt on the front row doing that sharon stone move all the time; allegedly.
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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 tell me. You got that from your beaver.
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DB, that'll be where the mole references came from then.
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You know it makes sense.
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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
| Don't tell me. You got that from your beaver. |
Actually someone commented that your beaver looked a bit thirsty as her tongue was hanging out.
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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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Returning to moderately serious issues:
1. Swiller's mole is correct. Four long-established members of the Club seeking to scrap the new rules restricting off-piste repping to defined limits were not elected. The fab four elected to Council are: Martin Ashley, William Bell, Sally Robson and Lally St Maur.
2. The Ski Club's current proposition on the public 'Join the Club' page of its website ...
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| Please note: 50p of your annual membership fee goes towards a long-term tree planting scheme and other environmental projects. |
... should be ignored. It has emerged that the Club's funding of the Woodland Trust from this membership levy ended two years ago (i.e. 2006, according to the Woodland Trust) and that no tree planting has been funded by the SCGB since that time. £20,000 from this membership levy went to the Woodland Trust between 2004 (when the levy began) and 2006. The phrase "long-term tree planting" implies, in my view, tree planting in the long term (since it does not take long to plant a tree).
Trees are, of course, vital to skiing. They stabilise very fragile and thin soil at high altitudes. They stabilise snow on otherwise avalanche-prone slopes. They often provide a refuge of clear visibility from white-outs on high slopes. They provide tree skiing (though this is very controversial, since saplings between mature trees are often damaged by ski edges, which is why tree skiing is illegal in parts of the Alps). They maintain ecological sustainability and diversity (cover for wildlife etc etc) on mountains. Trees also suck CO2 from the atmosphere by photo-synthesis. The Woodland Trust was originally recommended to the SCGB as a tree-planting partner because it is a highly reputable registered charity which did not make claims about 'carbon balancing' or 'carbon neutralising'. It is involved in the long-term management and conservation of woodland.
I've no afiliations to the Woodland Trust, but this link may be of interest if you're thinking of planting a tree or two yourself:
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk
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Poster: A snowHead
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Interesting. In other words, people joining since 06 have been misled. The Klub needs to put that right. There they go again pontificating about green issues while all the time not keeping up their end of the bargain. Guess they're too busy heli-skiing poor 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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I was quite impressed that I can say things with impunity at the AGM.
They are subsequently minuted to another Snowhead.
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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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Frankly my dear, I couldnt give a ..................
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.... dam? No beaver would make that kind of remark.
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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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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
| .... dam? No beaver would make that kind of remark. |
Perhaps the club should undertake missionary work in Sunderland to encourage more people to ski with the reps ?
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Does anyone really care what goes on at the SCGB other than the members? Can I take it that everyone on here is a member than?
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| Ordhan wrote: |
| Does anyone really care what goes on at the SCGB other than the members? Can I take it that everyone on here is a member than? |
It is a secret. Like the Freemasons.
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Ordhan, no, not everyone on here is a member: there seems to be some kind of weird, and to me incomprehensible, obsession with the Club on the part of numerous non-members. I am a member - probably from sheer inertia, if truth be told - but frankly don't give a toss about its politics.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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| Ordhan wrote: |
| Does anyone really care what goes on at the SCGB other than the members? Can I take it that everyone on here is a member than? |
Almost every topic on here is only of interest to some of the people here.
If you aren't interetsed in the SCGB, then don't read threads which are about it.
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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
What advice (keep it polite, please, or I'm in trouble!) would you give the new Chairman of the Ski Club of Great Britain? |
Don't eat yellow snow!
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FAQ
- of making a misquote look like a real quote. Deplorable deception. (signed, Sir Herbert Gusset (Bart.)
