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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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abc, Mine was lift queues and to avoid them we go off peak when there are none 
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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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Just don't read the thread.
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Get your dog in the trees
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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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genocide
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Don't ski after 3pm friday during a busyish week and do a season and go home for the peakest weeks.
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Scan punters at ticket office to detect basic brain functionality. Do not issue a ticket to those who have clearly switched brain off because they are on holiday. I appreciate revenues will fall through the floor.
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I will tell ou what works for me. A few years ago whilst driving to Tignes, we stopped at one of the M/way service stations for the old splash and dash. At the time i was a smoker and was just in the process of lighting up an oily rag, when one of the locals came up to me with an oily in his hand and jabbered at me in some strange language and with use of sign language i got the impresion he was asking for a light for his oily.
I just shrugged my shoulders and replied " Sausage". Said local looked at me aghast and in an allo allo accent replied " Monsieur what is this sossage"
Ever since then when i get abuse from the French in lift queues ( especially boarders ) as they push in i just look at them and go "Sossage "
Makes me chuckle every time
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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What's your best solution to "Pet hates on the piste"?
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Stay off it ?
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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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Being chilled out and enjoying my ski holiday rather than worrying about trivial matters. Let's face it, the alternative is being at work!
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My solution is to avoid peak weeks, and more particularly avoid the kind of resort full of British d*ckheads who think it's funny to be rude to anybody who doesn't understand fast and idiomatic English.
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You know it makes sense.
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pam w, I'm with you on that one 
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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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TBH, most of my pet hates are related to my fear of heights, so working on fear of heights through mountain walks/high ropes courses etc and general familiarity with uplift options and normal behaviour is the best way to deal. Also working on my own technique so I can cope with the sight of a slope littered with obstacles and feel in control enough to avoid them all.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Randomsabreur, lol! Fear of heights and skiing seems an odd mix!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
| Randomsabreur, lol! Fear of heights and skiing seems an odd mix! |
It is a mix I have too. But I can gradually get over it. At the start of the week, I really hate lifting the bar on chairlifts, but by the time I have used a few, I am reasonably comfortable with it.
It's the same at home when I have to use a ladder for DIY.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Stay off piste the potential number of people that can annoy you is massively reduced. Plus it's more fun.
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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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I avoid virtually every pet hate on the snow by,
Skiing America
They have manners over there
Yes.............even the teenagers!
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When I skied in the States, I was amazed by how chatty the teenage boys were on the chairlifts - and so polite and helpful! Maybe they took pity on me as I was on my own though. Plus the queueing is so much better organised.
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I've been pleasantly surprised at the polite chattiness of some French kids too - the younger ones. I had one 7 year old asking me whether I knew that big mountain over there was Mont Blanc, and what my favourite French food was - it was hilarious, felt like a conversation on a "Learn Conversational French" CD!
Adults are fine, too, and I've had some good conversations (or at least, as good as my limited French can manage). A very pleasant ride up a slow lift last year with an off duty policeman (local, not gendarmerie). The adolescents are a bit tongue tied, but pleasant enough and I've encountered little or no rudeness. One lovely lad, about 18 I suppose, pointed out a beautiful old wooden chalet, beneath the chairlift, which his grandfather had bequeathed to him, and which he was renovating. A pleasant thought every time I go up that lift now.
If people consistently find that French people are "rude" you do wonder what they're doing to deserve it. One told me last year that I was a lovely lady, just like the Queen Mother.  Mind you, she had been dead a while..... To be fair, he was absolutely plastered and I had stopped to give him a lift on a very cold night so it behoved him to be polite and grateful.
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susieski, agreed.
Actually very few problems from anyone in Europe except the English (never is the Welsh or Scots) and the odd Italian.
ABC may be thinking about skiing on the East Coast near all those noo yorkers. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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stoatsbrother, Dutch too. I agree with the whole thing about the french though. I've never had a problem with french people but then again i always make an effort with a few opening sentences in french tends to make a difference.
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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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What's your best solution to "Pet hates on the piste"?
Ski off-piste - if there is anyone else there you chose the wrong route.
Waiting for lifts - just think about the lovely fresh tracks you are going to make very soon. Have a laugh at human stupidity where necessary.
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Brits, poles and russians are usual suspects that I could do without..and I'm sure in 10 years time we'll all be complaining about the chineese
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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gosh, compared to that lot, SHs are quite nice to snowboarders. Amused to see the references to lift lines - people keep telling us those only exist in Europe.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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All my skiing in Europe were outside of the half term time. So I've yet to be inconvinient by any of the behavior so hated by other snowheads. About the only exception was during the bashes, at more than one occassion the group of snowheads I was with created our own little crowd blocking the way of others. Those trying to get through, whatever their nationality, were not amused by the present of our group. 
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Amused to see the references to lift lines - people keep telling us those only exist in Europe.
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I too, found that no-lift-line comment rather puzzling. Even more puzzling was the reference to these massive unruly mob in European lift entrance that I've yet to see!
In all likelihood, the German and Dutch could very well not know how to queue. But as far as I can tell, that's because there aren't enough of them around to even form one!
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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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Ski in St Anton - much nicer class of folk and the choco-rums make everything that bit more bearable
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| Nadenoodlee wrote: |
| Ski in St Anton - much nicer class of folk and the choco-rums make everything that bit more bearable |
the do have singles lines for some lifts which is a bonus compared to the frenchies...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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papasmurf, Genepicide?
The mountains big enough and the skiing day long enough for us all. Just use the stuff god put between your ears to avoid pet hate territory / time.
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Definitely the best way to avoid a lot of pet hates is to go out side of peak times of the season. Less people = less annoying occasions!!
Oh and if you do get a particularly annoying lift queue barger and you are a skier just stick a well placed ski pole and arm right in the way so they can't get passed!! 
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bertie bassett, Courchevel does that as well, top wheeze. I never stood in a queue there for more than a couple of minutes even at peak times.
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| Annehillskiing wrote: |
Definitely the best way to avoid a lot of pet hates is to go out side of peak times of the season. Less people = less annoying occasions!!
Oh and if you do get a particularly annoying lift queue barger and you are a skier just stick a well placed ski pole and arm right in the way so they can't get passed!! |
Or do what I saw a formidable English lady do to a particularly annoying French teenager pushing into a queue - pop their heel bindings with your pole.
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| Nadenoodlee wrote: |
| Ski in St Anton - much nicer class of folk and the choco-rums make everything that bit more bearable |
You obviously haven't waited for the bus at Rauz.
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| Lizzard wrote: |
| bertie bassett, Courchevel does that as well, top wheeze. I never stood in a queue there for more than a couple of minutes even at peak times. |
Yes they are good...
Had a couple of amusing experiences at Courcheval using the 'singles' queue - one and typical, family of five, obviously Brit, probably just let 2 chairs go empty so they can sit together, pick up their poles, remove backpacks when told by liftie etc, etc - then you get on the last seat.. they didn't say a word all the way up.. until my phone goes, they realise I speak English, and all of a sudden they're chatting away amongst themselves. Mind boggles. 
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FAQ
Spray them with snow if you have twin tips. And don't forget to wack them (just lightly) with your pole, "accidentally" that is! 
