Poster: A snowHead
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yes in some cases , does it matter what someone uses be it a snowboard "grown up skis" ,skiboards,mono skis WHATEVERRRRR its fun , all this is a little bit like picking on the ginger kid or the fat kid at school , as long as your safe, you can do something well with style and grace and noone is in danger does it really matter? no it doesnt , oh and for wipping people out skiers are just as bad if not worse than skiboards and snowboards etc etc , infact a skier came racing down a red at a stupid speed in a straight line and wiped out my friend who was going slow doing lots of turns , my poor friend got chucked up into the air did a summersault and landed on the ground dazed and confused and nope the said wipeout skier guy wasnt even english he was austrian looked pretty experienced and in effect wiped my friend out on purpose because he was in the way asshole!!!!! oh and a girl also a girl dont know where she was from baisically caught my friends ski at such a speed he fell over (and he is really really good!!!) .....................no good having double standards saying skiers are always safe because they are just as bad as everyone else ...............and for the record i ski
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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harriet,....then tell your friend to stop fagging around "going slow doing lots of turns"....who the fuci< does that anymore...
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davidof, silly, indeed. Though I thought snowpatrol was some sort of adolescent, which might explain it.
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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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harriet, i play that game...was your mate skinny or fat?......... you get less points for fatties....
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Lizzard, we are going to fall out soon....
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Lizzard wrote: |
davidof, silly, indeed. Though I thought snowpatrol was some sort of adolescent, which might explain it. |
Well I wasn't getting at snow patrol and if he is just a kid then fair enough.
I'm sure I've said plenty of stupid stuff over the years (although thankfully most of it on snowheads!) which is why I labelled my comment as ski snobbery.
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MagSeven wrote: |
Alexandra wrote: |
MattMattMatt, something, which if the yanks could spell, would spell "gapper". |
It's prounounced like it's spelt. Gay per.
[Inserts tongue in cheek] You're such a gaper for prounouncing it wrong [removes tongue from cheek] |
Strange, legend has it that "gaper" (gapper) comes from the gap (gap) between the goggles & helmet of a newbie.
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Alexandra, so presumably if you carry on skiing, the gap will get gradually narrower even if you don't change either the goggles or the helmet? If it's purely a function of number of days skied.
How fascinating.
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Alexandra, magseven is correct re: pronounciation...so after confirmation of this fact, you may now want to rethink your post about americans and their spelling abilities as it is clearly retarded....
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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There are always different standards and levels of enjoyments in skiing and boarding. The snobbery is only to do with the attitude of the speakers or the listeners.
Thus a guy saying he has to fly a jet into St Moritz or Aspen to catch the power could be regarded as a snob by one who can only afford the same sport in the local dry slopes even the speaker is only trying to make the point that such resort is remote and an easier access is to use the resort own small airport. Then again some skiers would regard a skiing resort in not high class enough unless it has its own runways so places Zermatt, Lech and Cortina have to take the second place.
To the same extent a skier may head for the Alps if he/she dislike the Scottish resort dominated by the drag lifts. There are skiers who always prefer real snow to the flake stuff in a snow dome. A snow dome user can despise those going to dry slopes even living in the same area.
Then we have piste users who think if God has created us with two legs and so we should ski with two planks......
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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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stoatsbrother wrote: |
graeme, apart from people taking the mick out of the average blade/ski-board user - have you got any evidence for that? |
to name a few subjects that attract the snobs on this forum, bootfitting, lessons, tour operator or diy, piste safety. the snowblade/skiboard thing is a perfect example though.
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You know it makes sense.
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and before people say i am wrong and misunderstanding things, this is my oppinion. i am basing my oppinion on reading peoples posts on this forum and conversations that i have had with other forum users
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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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Interesting stuff here. For me, snobbery is more about attitude than equipment. What is superior/inferior all boils down to a common denominator-it's all a form of alpine consumption. So we're perhaps deluding ourselves to a certain extent if some of us think that one form of skiing is better than another. I like my blues, I like my reds, I like my blacks and I like my powder-they all give me pleasure of a varying kind.
Doubtless, it goes without saying that those who tend to prosletyse the most tend to be those who may not exactly live up to their billing-quite often the Brits!!!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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I saw a gaper on TV competing in the Women's Super G yesterday. Can't remember the name but she was Italian and there was definitely a gap between the top of her goggles and her helmet.
And if that's the definition, I can't be one myself, I don't have a helmet or goggles.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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graeme, do you define snobbery as when someone disagrees with you?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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stoatsbrother, no not at all
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