 Poster: A snowHead
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Since we're in top 5/10 mode...
(1) Will it be cold on the mountain?
(2) What are the top 5 ski airports?
(3) Do ski boots come in right and left?
(4) What are the top ten top ten lists?
(5) Should David Goldsmith be allowed out?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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If I call you Snowgob, Snowgob when you call me will you call me Al?
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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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1. do i need a guide to ski the vallee blanche?
2. will it be snowing in resort X between January 23rd - 30th?
3. why do snowboarders sit in the middle of the piste?
4. what is the best resort in the alps?
5. can you recommend me some all mountain skis for MK?
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6) What's it like living in the Alps?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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paulio, I said top "5". So, yes, I guess that qualifies on more than one level.
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1. Do skis come in right and left? 
2. What is the difference between a good beginner and an intermediate?
3. Where is better for Apres Ski - France or Austria?
4. Will I be able to get a good fry-up for breakfast?
5. What's the french for a pint of Stella please?
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I've had pairs of skis in the past that had a specific left and right ski
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Yep. often the case after alignment; different left and right leg adjustments...
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Yoda, 
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I've had pairs of skis in the past that had a specific left and right ski
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Yep. often the case after alignment; different left and right leg adjustments... |
I was thinking more in the case of a pair of rentals ... for a first timer .... who happens to be very superstitious ..... and may also not be male ..... and might have hair of a lighter hue ....
cue exit ....
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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. Where is better for Apres Ski - France or Austria?
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Most ridiculous question ever the answer is Austria!!!!!!
Why do cant you teach me to stop first?
Becaus you have to be moving before you can stop 
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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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doogo, yes, but shows you shouldn't be too hasty.  It's actually a perfectly rational question for a beginner to ask. And if they were a beginner telemarker the answer might be "yes".
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1. How long does it take to learn to ski?
2. Can I buy coffee in France?
3. I am an expert skier and my wife's ski-teacher is teaching her wrong. Why does he say I am a dick-head?
4. I have not skied yet but I want to be a ski teacher - how do I do it?
5. Which resort will I like best? (no other information offered)
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You know it makes sense.
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Brace yourselves ....
On my first ski trip to Soell, the rental skis were marked R and L. I 'naturally' thought that this was the case with all skis and funnily enough had a very hard time convincing MrRibena on subseqent trips that he must be daft if he couldn't see that the right and left skis were obviously different. 
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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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| pam w wrote: |
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I've had pairs of skis in the past that had a specific left and right ski
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Yep. often the case after alignment; different left and right leg adjustments... |
I'm pretty sure Atomic actually used to make asymmetric slalom skis.
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Poster: A snowHead
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1. What should I eat for lunch?
2. Should I pay someone else to do the shopping for me?
3. Is anyone remotely interested in the latest incestuous Ski Club bunfight?
4. Do cars need tyres?
5. What will the pound be worth when I go on holiday in March?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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"Should helmets be compulsory?"
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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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| laundryman wrote: |
| I'm pretty sure Atomic actually used to make asymmetric slalom skis. |
Mine were the GS skis: Beta Race 9.28 . As far as I recall Atomic SLs have never been asymmetric apart from the tip/tail protectors and maybe graphics.
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7) What should I do to celebrate my 1000th post?
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- Can I get a holiday for 4 at February half term for £50 each?
- Where can I get Watneys Red Barrel in the French Alps?
- Where can I watch Macclesfield vs Carlisle on the TV?
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These are all actual questions which I have been asked:-
1) I have a group of between 4 and 19 people - what have you got for New Year? (this was asked yesterday)
2) I'm going to Les Gets at the end of March - will I need snow chains (asked in September)
3) We are a group of beginners, and we'd like ski in / ski out - does that mean it will be on a slope?
4) We've booked a studio apartment for 4 - can we bring two extra people? One of them isn't very tall......
5) We aren't arriving until 11 pm - will the supermarket be open?
It's just as well I love my job 
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- What <<insert>> should I buy? (no information or context given)
- I've never been to a resort. Could please semi-organise my skiing holiday for me by giving me an itinerary of lifts, runs and restaurants I could print out a follow?
- I'd like to go somewhere that's snow sure, chocolate box pretty, offers ski-in ski-out, is in the centre of town, offers a great range of shops, has a Michelin-starred restaurant, is within 30 minutes of an international airport and isn't too expensive. Where would you recommend?
- Will there be snow in the Portes du Soleil in March?
- I'm and expert skier and don't need lessons. What would you recommend that I do?
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PhillipStanton, Number 3 is my favourite question to hear, with the addition of a budget that would barely cover a day at a snowdome
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"Are we there yet?"
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Bode Swiller, (3) is not so stupid. I once had a guest who complained all morning about his boots. At lunchtime I asked to have a wee look. He had them on the wrong feet.
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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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1) If I rent my skis cheaply online will they have the 08/09 season Salomon Lords available as thats the only ski I can be seen dead on
2) How can I get from chambery airport to couchevel 1850 for less than £200 per person each way
3) How long does it take to go up in a chair lift
4) If I go outside the piste makers am I off-piste and will that be covered by my insurance
5) Where exactly is La Rosiere?
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| Bode Swiller, (3) is not so stupid. I once had a guest who complained all morning about his boots. At lunchtime I asked to have a wee look. He had them on the wrong feet. |
My father was once on a trip with a then-unknown UK actor who did just this. Didn't do him much harm in the long run as he still got to romp around with Sharon Stone...
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You know it makes sense.
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1. Why do I read this stuff
2. Are snowheads allowed out on their own
3. should I get a life
4. why do I read this stuff
5. errrr stuck now
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I have a gift shop in the North West Highlands of Scotland where the mountains are rocky and no place for cattle, what cattle we have are Highland coo's and tend to roam the roads looking for grass on the verges.
So some one comes into my shop and asks if we sell cow bells? I sent them to Switzerland
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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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shoogly,
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3. why do snowboarders sit in the middle of the piste?
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I would love to know the answer to this question. They even do it half way down the local dryslope
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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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Not the stupidest but I thought it was funny. A beginner skier looked out the window at breakfast, it was snowing too hard to see much. She asked the group - Should I phone the ski school to see if lessons are cancelled?
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Should i buy boots in my home country? Repeat until dizzy, unless you live in a resort.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Not ski related but while watching the Althetics segment of Sports Personality of the Year 2004 my wife asked why Kelly Holmes didn't run at the Olympics as, and i quote "she's quite good at running, isn't she?"..
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Jay Leno, talking to Evil Kenivel after returning from a life threatening crash. " So Evil, how was it being in a coma?"
Evil Kenivel. " Couldn't tell you, i was in a fecking Coma."
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whilst walking in the grounds of the Burrell Collection in Glasgow, to my other half, 'What on earth are those yaks doing here?' OK, so I'd never actually seen any highland cattle before.
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My son, going round some cold, dark and dusty heap of Scottish heritage somewhere,at about 9 years old, asked the curator who was showing us round whether a figure at the turn of a staircase was a Samurai Warrior. "Nee sonny, yon's a Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeland Chieftain", he answered, affronted, in the best "Mr Mackay" manner you've ever seen. He even walked like him.
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Is the flight to America longer than that to Europe ?
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Is "she told me she was sixteen" a valid legal defence?
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and 'what length skis should I buy?' I'm guilty of this one.
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