 Poster: A snowHead
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Just returned from a fantastic weeks skiing in Tignes. Blue sunny skies for all but one day when it snowed leaving powder to play in but...despite this I found myself turning into an angry old man. Things that previously I would have shrugged off became events needing vast amounts of self control to not vent anger and bile,
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a) Late teens/early twenties girl heading from far right of lift queue to far left to allow all her friends in next to her resulting in 3 x8man chairs to go up empty.
b) (and my pet hate), people stood at side of slope rejoining without looking up hill
c) People not slowing down where pistes converge especially at the bottom of lifts
Is this a sign that I am approaching middle age? (50 is not that far off now). 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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PsychoBabble, with you on all of them - and I'm only 40
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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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PsychoBabble,
d) groups hanging around at the entrance to the lifts.
e) walkie talkie users, do they know how stupid they sound?
and to answer your question yes 
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| PsychoBabble wrote: |
events needing vast amounts of self control to not vent anger and bile,
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Got to the ticket office at 12.05 just after the navette arrived, joined the queue for my afternoon pass. At 13.00 got to the front of the queue just as the other two ticket operators returned from lunch. GRRRRRRR.......
What country can run a tourist industry where everything stops for lunch.
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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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Probably as I'm equally grumpy, but I also get really annoyed when it's really quiet and someone just has to get on the chairlift with me and Mrs Boris and the kids, usually in the way, when it really wouldn't kill them to wait 5 seconds for the next chair.
Luckily I can always get one of the kids to accidentally ski over their skis/trip them up when getting off
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Boris, probably bored stiff skiing on their own and want to eavesdrop on you guys....
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Oh and lifting the bar way way before needed, like they are going to get off or something
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Or grabbing it down the moment they sit down, like they are going to fall off or something
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Lou, pam w, blimey, how many milliseconds tolerance does a carefree skier get on bar moving operations? 
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Oh and lifting the bar way way before needed, like they are going to get off or something
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Or grabbing it down the moment they sit down, like they are going to fall off or something
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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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laundryman, 
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Specialman, point A? How could you?! By all means stay with your friends if possible, but to let x3 EIGHT seaters to go empty?
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You know it makes sense.
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Young couples snogging next to me on the chairlift! Although the youngest Psycho and myself got revenge by serenading them with "That's Amore"!
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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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Forgot about the lifting of the bar 3 pylons before landing!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Texting whilst on drag lifts or worse taking photo's and sending them on draglifts 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Getting on a chair with grumpy old men...
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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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Schuss in Boots, was it you I was serenading?
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whats wrong with texting on a drag lift?
as long as you dont fall, or carve, and you get out of the way at the top, surely what you do on the drag is no one elses business (within reason)?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Skola, quite!
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walkie talkie users, do they know how stupid they sound?
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Whats more stupid someone using a walkie talkie or someone running up a mobile phone bill that costs more than walkie talkies?
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Yea I use walkie talkies!
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If anyone feels they can text, photograph etc on a poma lift, good luck to them 
Have used walkie talkies infrequently. They are just another thing to carry but were useful at New Year when we left eldest to practice snowboarding on his own on nursery slopes.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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When it's busy... I can't stand people hanging around until they can get onto the chair with all of their mates (letting a number of seats, if not whole chairs, go up empty) - I got a loud ovation from the crowd waiting to get on a chairlift at Courmayeur for making my group fill up the sixpack - none of them had to get on without one of their mates, but we filled up spaces, which is vital with a large queue behind. If an average of a couple of seats go empty on most sixpack chairs, then that means you've got people waiting 14 or 15 minutes instead of 10...
If it's not busy, then I couldn't care less, an extra twenty seconds or so doesn't bother me much.
What really p!ssed me off last week though was one of the local instructors cutting across in the lift queue. Same sixpack chair, there I was, lined up with five of my group to my left, perfect. Then this woman barges between me and my group (from the middle, to my left) and edges in front of me, splitting me from my group. Though the sheer rudeness was enough anyway, she made matters worse, rather than actually getting on in that place, next to my group that she'd split me from, but she waited for the next chair anyway.  I could seriously have wrapped my pole around her head, but that wouldn't have done much for Anglo-Italian relations...
Anyway, PsychoBabble, not a sign of your age, just of having a few standards and wishing people to show some civility.
Last edited by snowHeads are a friendly bunch. on Mon 23-02-09 19:28; edited 2 times in total
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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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radios have saved me a LOT of hassle but agree that it is really an off-piste tool
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You know it makes sense.
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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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| Lou wrote: |
| If anyone feels they can text, photograph etc on a poma lift, good luck to them |
Fairly straight forward, even on a snowboard.
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Poster: A snowHead
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prog99, I've bloody injected on a drag lift
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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 hate it when the totty gets on the chair lift after me leaving me to go up on my own
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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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Oh p¡ss off the lot of you, you wouldn't know grumpy even I smacked you upside yer head 
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| Scarpa wrote: |
| prog99, I've bloody injected on a drag lift |
Tis true, I have seen you do so, on several occasions.
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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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Masque, Naturally, I assumed the thread title was a reference to your goodself 
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| Boredsurfing wrote: |
e) walkie talkie users, do they know how stupid they sound?
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Really?
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Boredsurfing, Sit on this and swivel bumwipe 
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Masque, Technology and old age, it just don't work, do it?
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Boredsurfing, Ha! most of this lot can't recognise a fork let alone use a microwave
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| skisimon wrote: |
Though the sheer rudeness was enough anyway, she made matters worse, rather than actually getting on in that place, next to my group that she'd split me from, but she waited for the next chair anyway. I could seriously have wrapped my pole around her head, but that wouldn't have done much for Anglo-Italian relations...
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release the bitch's binding as she goes through the gate then look innocent
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FAQ
Mind you, I've met a few nice people in those situations so it does have its benefits...
