 Poster: A snowHead
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I'd like to tell you about all the great products the French ski industry has lined up for 2006 but sadly I can't. SnowBySIG is supposed to be France’s premier ski and snowboard show - but not if you turn up at 2pm on the last day it is not. “We’re closed” announced the stroppy security guard to the queue of visitors. “No you are not, the show is supposed to be open to 5pm,” I insisted. “The organizers have decided to close the show early, everyone is going home, no one is coming in, those are my orders”. Certainly the crowd standing outside the locked gates were not coming in.
SnowBYSIG Expo
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ouch  The security guard wasn't also a French farmer as well was he ?
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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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I would have got to the show ealier but schoolkids are on strike in Grenoble today and blocking the roads.
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Is it part of the national curriculum?
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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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| D G Orf wrote: |
| Ouch :x The security guard wasn't also a French farmer as well was he ? |
He was grumpy so may have had peasant roots... but I would be grumpy explaining all afternoon to people why they couldn't come in to an expo that was supposed to be open to the public until 5pm.
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Hmm. Early closing is a big no-no at the exhibtions my copmpany has exhibited. Sloppy standards, to say the least.
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davidof,
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schoolkids are on strike in Grenoble
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I do hope you're joking
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Boardski, I have a feeling that he is not! The next question could be the nightmare scenario though - Is Grenoble, a Centre of Excellence, for the art of Striking? 
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| Bernard Condon wrote: |
| Is Grenoble, a Centre of Excellence, for the art of Striking? :skele: |
I'm not sure it is any worse than elsewhere. The schoolkids are protesting about a reform in the French 'A' level system that was passed through parliament yesterday. To summarize the reforms there is a cut back in teaching staff to mentor 16-18 year olds, more continuous assessment and the "dissertation" element of the exam is going. There is nothing particularly radical in the reforms and some commentators say that the kids are dupes of the left wing opposition. I guess their parents don't set the best example. (BTW this is my summary, usual caveats apply).
Back to the SnowBySIG Bernard Volk, the exhibition organiser declared himself well satisfied with the 4 day (ahem I mean 3.5 day) show. This seems to a French thing which carries through to hotels, the ESF etc, who cares if you p*ss-off a certain number of people so long as there are still a certain percentage of punters who keep coming back.
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