 Poster: A snowHead
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"It’s a precipice, go round"
"What? It’s a piece of p!ss, come down?"
Any others?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ikea flatpack ski equipment (should it ever exist)
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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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Guidespeak: "It's a half hour climb". Meaning: "It's a one and a half hour climb.
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more guidespeak, "people ski/board that couloir" meaning "we're about to and this is my idea of breaking it gently"
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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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more guidespeak
"we are going to ski this one at a time and whatever you do, keep within my tracks" meaning "I shouldn't have brought you here as it is more unstable than I thought and your only chance of not dying is to ski on this narrow strip of rock which has no snow on it!!"
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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I know a Scottish instructor who sticks his tongue out of the corner of his mouth when he's concentrating hard. He was standing downhill from a young pupil who came haring straight down the fall line. His frantic shouts of "turn" (with the "r" elided) were interpreted as "tongue". The pupil's hyper-extended tongue did not shift his weight enough to set the edges!
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More Guidespeak
" This bit is quite technical"
My translation "S##t"
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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Man walked into my bar and said "A cork please", staff looked puzzled..... "pardon?" pointing at the fridge, again he said "A cork please".
Me to the rescue, "Give the Gentleman a Coca Cola........ he's from Lancashire".
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boredsurfin, Being Lancashire born and bread I should be offended but I actually get the same response wherever I go.........even my home town!!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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boredsurfin, Preston Pete, Funny that - I get the same response, too (for the same reason). So I've altered it to "a diet coke, Please". 
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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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Guide instruction most likely to make you fall: "Don't fall on this bit".
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The suggestion to "just go straight down" gets a litteral interpretation from some.
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You know it makes sense.
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ie "The fall line"?
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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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Danish mate (only speaks Danish and English) in a German bar, asked what he wants, asks for a dry martini, gets three of them.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Misunderstood (but not skiing related)...
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Donkeys years ago, driving around the German countryside with a Sri Lankan friend. He gets a bit desparate, screeches to a halt outside the Gasthaus in the first village, bursts through the door and shouts a literal translation to the barmaid: "Wo sind die Herren?" - where are the gentlemen? "Da" - there - she replies, pointing to the bemused male drinkers.
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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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skanky,
laundryman,
Much lol..!!!
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Pete Horn,
I thought it was....
"Is it a black run?
"No, its a precipice"
"Arrrggghhh I thought you said a piece of p*$$.."
Last edited by You need to Login to know who's really who. on Thu 10-03-05 14:31; edited 1 time in total
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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 remember ordering cinq grandes bières once......... and somehow getting 5 Drambuies 
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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In a booklet entitled Summer Walks Around Les Houches "A pleasant 1.5 hour walk suitable for children, stout footwear recommended" Actually means a 3.5 hour death march with vertigo inducing exposed drop-offs and large sections where you will have to scramble down near vertical mud slides hanging onto a cable, Sherpas mandatory. Our friends who were returning to the UK that afternoon arrived at Geneva airport looking like they had literally been dragged through a hedge backwards!
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Northerngooner, welcome to snowheads, presumably you're not very happy today, maybe time to start on the Drambuies again.
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In my early days of learning to speak german I had this conversation with my wife in a crowded cinema just before the film started
DB target English: I am warm
DB Spoken: Ich bin warm
DB's True Translation: I am gay
Mrs DB: nine mir ist warm
Mrs DB Translation: No me is warm (it's how they say it in german)
DB English: you are also warm?
DB Spoken: du bist auch warm?
DB's True Translation: You are also homosexual?
At this point Mrs DB sinks into her seat and I'm thinking why are all these people looking at me?
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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After another tasteless cravat from Barbara, George W said "Let's invade Tie Rack". Unfortunately, someone didn't hear the T.
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My brother and his schoolmates were on a foreign exchange trip in Spain. On a coach with all the Spanish girls present, his friend tried to say "I'm Hot" which he did manage however all the girls looked at him and burst out laughing. It was'nt that he'd got the Spanish wrong more the way he'd said it...!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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A Belfast-born and bred medical student friend of mine asking her male patients 'how are your bowels?' in broad Ulster - had one or two of them distinctly worried! 
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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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Think this is from the First World War
"Send reinforcements"
interpreted as "send three and fourpence"
Needless to say the chaps involved all perished
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Usual version is:
"Send reinforcements, we're going to advance"
interpreted as "send three and fourpence, we're going to a dance"
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You know it makes sense.
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For our younger readers, 'three and fourpence' is short for '3 shillings and 4 pence', about 17p in new money. 'Send 17p, we're going to a club.' doesn't work, though.
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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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Usual variation:
"Send reinforcements, army is advancing on the right flank"
became
"Send three and four pence, Amy is dancing on the night tank"
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Poster: A snowHead
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My attempt to order a pizza to share in France ( a partage ) got me a bowl of soup! (Potage) 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Never trust a french ski lift attendent. V late in the afternoon, lifts closing, white out.....'is this the run to Val Thorens?' Reply: - 'Oui - C'est Bon'. Result: - Break through the rapidly descending clouds into Les Menuires............B@st@rd!!!
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