 Poster: A snowHead
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SteveM, - you weren't in Les Contamines a few weeks ago were you? no, that chap was French, but there was no-one anywhere around, OH and I glided up to the two outside seats on a 3-man lift, and from out of space this guy stormed through and sat between us.... looking from left to right as we conversed rather as if watching the tennis at Wimbledon. And when I looked up and down the lift there was not a soul before or after us.
At the Mossettes lift out of Les Crosets a couple of weekends ago there was a large queue - all perfectly amicable - and then on the right hand side two large men whizzed in, making a big show of stopping otherwise they might not have been noticed, and really attempted to barge in. Frenchman with his family in front of us did all he could to blockade but the first of these miscreants just stepped right round the pass readers.... his friend was well and truly blocked though behind us and some others. It all seemed to come to grief a bit later on as my OH saw one of them on the Abricotine in the aftermath of a tumble together with a woman and an ESF instructor - words were being said.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Worst queues in the World are on the Northern Line .. which proves that foreigners are the problem 'cos noone speaks English.
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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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JimW,
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One things that irritates me about Les Arcs ( what? surely not..???!) is the cost cutting by the SMA and their pass readers
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I think you may find that the SMA no longer has control over the expenditure, The Compagnie des Alpes now owns 97.11 of SMA.
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Wed 15-04-09 8:51; edited 2 times in total
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| Arno wrote: |
| I saw a fist fight break out between two women when one tried to shove her way into a (not exactly over-crowded) bubble on the top stage of the La Grave lift yesterday. one of the protagonists was British, not sure about the other. amusement and bemusement in equal measure amongst the onlookers |
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that is astonishing
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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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worst lift behaviour in recent years from probable upper middle class English youth- one skied into me at the end of a lift line- knocking me over ( which is not easy as I am quite dense) said 'sorry' then laughed to his friend...now no real problems for me in Europe- apart from slightly posh Brits 'horrays'
10+ years ago very different with a general melee at the bottom of lots of lift queues dominated by Europeans with bemused Brits flailing about miserably.
rayscoops, the class issue is obviously aimed at the Brits as most posters here will only be able to guess at this for other Brits- who here could easily differentiate a BCBG French family from any French family- and it isn't about clothes/money
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SteveM - suffered a similar fate last week as I slipped onto a 3 man lift between what I thought were just 2 random frenchmen, only to find out they were best of buddies and intent on meaningful conversation. After a schoolboy french apology and a cheery response that I was a "telesiege voleur(!?)" we actually enjoyed a decent if somewhat confused conversation to the top. Entente cordiale alive and well!
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The worst place I have been for bad queuing is Saas Fee, when all the ski teams are there in October and it is just one big push for the gondola and then even worse for the train!
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I( was quite surpridsed at the rudeness in the Dolomites. The Italians are too busy trying to look cool to be polite.
One very chic lady got very cross with one of the little kids that was with us when she stumbled not having seen the low level approach of the kid into the gondola. She shouted and whinged....and then turned and clattered into me. Not a worsd of apology left her well painted lips. I looked her in the eye, smiled=, and then gently shook my head. This did nothing for her demeanour.
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Frosty the Snowman, did you show her your carrot? 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Yoda, No, but she did have a quick glance at my marrow.
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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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Frosty the Snowman, The diets not working then? 
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Have to say that this year at St Anton, the queues were much more mellow than I have ever seen before. Hardly ever saw "aggressive queuing techniques". No idea why this year should have been different.
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You know it makes sense.
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look we all know the score .. the average white middle class englishman will accept all sorts of abuse, will take a 'pushing in' from an east european.. will smile at the pretty italian primadona who skips the Q.. will nod knowingly at fellow englishmen as a herd of germans pile past people with ultimate rudeness.. will laugh at drunk dutchmen trying their best to get to the front.. (a front they seemed to ignore in 2 world wars) .. on it goes.. the loud fat yank.. the frog youths.. the school trip from some posh school in the midlands.. blah blah blah.. but.......... one day.. after a huge booze up.. with a hangover and an attutude, they will eventually crack.. one errant push or nudge will send 'surbiton man' over the edge.. and we all know the the recipient of decades of social repression will be the deaf blind kid you didnt notice , as you turn a finally crack a person straight in the chops for bumping into your missus for the 15th time that week ....
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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| CANV CANVINGTON wrote: |
| one errant push or nudge will send 'surbiton man' over the edge.. .... |
Lay off 'Surbiton Man' !
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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My experience - France every bug and his wife will ski/ stomp/ clamber over my board in a queue. One trip to St Anton - no such trouble.
Andorra - everyone too drunk to care
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............. but there is bit of a pattern developing here, ‘johnny foreigner’ trying to get on to a lift as fast as possible to get some skiing done, and middle class Brits faffing around in the queue whilst they wait for Giles and Clarissa to arrive – quality classic snowheads gold 
). A few years back in Tignes we were in a queue with a couple of Italian guys behind us, they kept nudging forward and as we had nowhere to go they ended up on the backs of our skis every time. Eventually my friend just turned around and with a "stop f***ing" pushing shoved one of them in the chest and sent him sprawling. The look of amazement on both their faces was a joy to behold 