 Poster: A snowHead
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| johnboy wrote: |
| Another plus point is the lack of French |
spot on, however, at least the French can speak our language 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| snowball wrote: |
The steak one I would put in favour of France, personally. |
Surely not - Scotland has brilliant Aberdeen Angus beef, and there are restaurants who will cook it as you wish - I prefer medium rare 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Alastair Pink,
The Aberdeen Angus thing is just a bit of clever marketing. The Dept of Ag Food Science division ran a blind taste test at Balmoral Show (Belfast) a few years ago.
They had Aberdeen Angus vs Holstein (A dairy breed, therefore not bred for beef).
The Holstein came out significantly better!!!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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brian
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Agenterre, the Auld Alliance predates the effeminate Italian/English/Polish pretender by over 400 years ! Back to the history books for you 
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| achilles wrote: |
| David Goldsmith wrote: |
| ......28. Find me a garlic-eating surrender monkey at the top of a black run at Glencoe |
WW1 death tolls - figures differ by reference- but roughly according to different references:
France & Empire: 1,327,000
Britain & Empire: 908,300
Source http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm
Given the hammering the 'surrender monkeys' received in WW1, I can see why some French were no too keen to keep fighting when in WWII - huge blow though that was for us. |
Didn't more french fight for the germans in WW11 than the amount of french who fought for/with the British?
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79. Scotland is closer to the North Pole, so it gives you more of that 'Lapland experience'.
80. The mountains are more rounded, and the skiers are more rounded too.
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81. You can't get haggis in France.
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Helen Beaumont, and your point is ? Sounds like a good argument for France...
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Jumping Jack Flash, I don't know. Did they? I am unaware of that - guess you have a source for that information, and I would be interested to see it. Whatever, their 1st World War record suggests they were anything but 'garlic-eating surrender monkeys ' I do hope the English speaking French guide I will be skiing with this month does not read this thread. On the whole, I don't think SHs are racists.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| achilles wrote: |
| ... their 1st World War record suggests they were anything but 'garlic-eating surrender monkeys ' I do hope the English speaking French guide I will be skiing with this month does not read this thread. |
I'm more concerned he might watch The Simpsons. They called the French "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" which is far worse.
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You know it makes sense.
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82. You can walk out of the cold into a proper old local pub (not just for tourists and seasonnaires with a mock Brit pub ambience), be greeted and chatted to by the locals in your own language, drink the locally brewed ale (if that's yer thang), sit down by the wood burner and *check out the ancient skis propped up behind it along with various other bits of old mountain kit*.
(FYI, the pub is in the Suie Hotel in Kincraig and is well worth a visit and the beer is Trade Winds brewed by the Cairngorm Brewery - absolute nectar, especially after a bracing day on the Scottish slopes!)
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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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87. And, of course, Aviemore has a Tesco. Find me a French supermarket that can sell me a Ski yoghurt after a day on the slopes.
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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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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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Best thing about skiing in Scotland rather than Chamonix is the lack of English !!!
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
| snowball wrote: |
The steak one I would put in favour of France, personally. |
Surely not - Scotland has brilliant Aberdeen Angus beef, and there are restaurants who will cook it as you wish - I prefer medium rare |
Yes, sorry, the meat is great (well, it can be) - I was thinking of how often I've had overcooked steaks in England.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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snowball, ahem. England?
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91. As has often been remarked, Scottish ski lift queues are more friendly and respectful than French lift queues. If you try anything clever on Cairngorm you get impaled on the nearest snow fence.
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achillesYes, I can't remember how the couple of steaks I've had in Scotland were cooked - so I was thinking sort of "British".
However - good scottish food: Cullen Skink and Cranachan. (And if you are in Fort William again go to the Crannog seafood restaurant right on the seafront (fish direct off the fishing-boats). Great food - I can recommend the langoustine. If I offer you a tot from my hip flask it will be Lagavulin.
I have never forgotten the self-organised lift queues at Aviemore - when the line got too long a second line was started parallel to it (and finally, I think, a third).
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| snowball wrote: |
| .......... If I offer you a tot from my hip flask it will be Lagavulin............ |
Thank you! 
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brian
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snowball, finally a third ! In the halcyon weekends of the 80s, the White Lady queue used to get to 10+ lines on a regular basis !
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Yes, it was best not to queue for 45 minutes and then fall off the t-bar halfway up, because you'd probably have to queue again!
In fact, legend has it that the lifty on the White Lady had an axe and was willing to chop up the skis of queue offenders.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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brian Wow, I thought it was busy with 3  (Yes, it was the White Lady)
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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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| snowball wrote: |
| achillesI have never forgotten the self-organised lift queues at Aviemore - when the line got too long a second line was started parallel to it (and finally, I think, a third). |
I vaguely recall them but noticed on Saturday at Nevis that the ski patrol were very active in marshalling people and keeping the queues moving, they were almost like traffic cops. I recall from the old days on Cairngorm that the ski patrol did similar things at times but I'm not sure they were quite as proactive.
What was marvellous, after getting used to somewhat more scrum like queues in France in recent years, was the good humour, friendliness and politeness of the queues in Scotland - it was actually quite relaxing and they moved very fast.
Having said that at Xmas in Espace Killy the rudest, most aggressive queue bargers all turned out to be Brits (English to be precise!) when I challenged 'em!
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C'mon guys, it's gone a bit quiet but there's got to be loads more reasons why Scotland's better, we only have 90 odd so far 
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You know it makes sense.
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103. Scottish mountain names are more dramatic.
Buachaille Etive Mor
Not necessarily to be skied!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| roga wrote: |
| C'mon guys, it's gone a bit quiet but there's got to be loads more reasons why Scotland's better, we only have 90 odd so far |
91. I like to go to Scotland to learn a foreign language.
92. It is novel to ski in a thirdworld country.
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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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There are no sausages in Switzerland!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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96b. Scottish sausages (not to be confused with re-shaped Haggis) are considered by some to be superior to Swiss, Austrian or French sausages. Nothing burns the calories like a vigorous slide over wild Scottish slopes, and nothing restores the calories like a hearty Scottish sausage or three.
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| David Goldsmith wrote: |
| 96b. Scottish sausages (not to be confused with re-shaped Haggis) are considered by some to be superior to Swiss, Austrian or French sausages. Nothing burns the calories like a vigorous slide over wild Scottish slopes, and nothing restores the calories like a hearty Scottish sausage or three. |
Would that be square sausage (aka lorne) or links? Or if you are feeling generous, steak slice 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Yes, square sausage. Get the geometry right and the flavour follows.
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brian
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104. We can also ski in France, if we fancy a rest.
105. Has it been mentioned that the average standard of skiing in Scotland is higher than France ?
106. Skiing in Scotland is a more joyous and friendly sport.
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roga, ah the Suie that was my not very local local when i was staying in Alvie. You don't drink beer there though, shorts are the way to go. I'll have a Highland Park, ach theres no much left in that one, just get another bottle, pours liberally into large tumbler "I cant be bothered with measures"
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Ski in France OR Scotland and yer photo's will get nicked by the Ski Club
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boredsurfin, Now now, the correct bashing thread is this one - spread the bashing and you'll dilute the impact.
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However the skiing in France is better 
