Poster: A snowHead
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...ok, after the embarrassing female graphics on skis discussion I've run up against the whole gendered skiing business again.
All of you who watched 'La Grave, a skier's journey' on the recent threads may have noticed that Chad Sayers wears a pink helmet in the 'in the forest' sections. Interesting I thought. And I need a new helmet (actually let's just check that, fact is, I feel like a new helmet purchase coming on....not least because, according to industry insiders, we should buy a new one after every three years since the polymerisers in the eps go all weird and the eps goes brittle - but that's a completely different thread, I think) - so, I phone a few 'ard people and they say, yes you should buy a flouro pink one. Pink. Not yellow. Or mauve. Or green. Or blue. Pink.
I'll say it again. Pink.
Why? Because if you get 'into trouble' - tree wells, slides, etc etc - then flouro pink is absolutely the most visible colour, apparently.
So I go to my local, and ask for a pink helmet - after everyone stops laughing and pick themselves off the floor, I find an AMAZINGLY PINK Poc Receptor Bug helmet. And this this is really pink. Really really pink (note I'm trying to habituate my self to the whole pink thing by saying 'pink' a lot).
I get this thing, and show it to my 6 year old son who says (you guessed...) 'dad you can't wear that...it's REALLY PINK!!!!'
So there it is. I have joined the ranks of really gnarly in-the-trees skiers by buying a pink helmet.
Good grief.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Pink helmets are the norm I would have thought
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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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valais2, hahaha! Ace!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Purple's good!
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In my nephews football games a few players have really bright pink boots.. men are reclaiming the colour from the girls hehehe
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From a pink lover - go for it!!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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valais2, real men wear pink. 'Nuff said.
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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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valais2, pink has traditionally been a male colour anyway. Pink and black are the colours of Cheltenham College, until fairly recently, a boys school.
Go for it, but pick a masculine pink!
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You know it makes sense.
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Zero-G, ...phew...looks like I'm going to carry it off...
(and excellent thread on quivers which you started there....)
and andyph (btw trying to work out the references in your handle...and 'Nam???? The war stopped with Nixon ...) boy this helmet is a masculine pink ... (deep voice) VERY masculine don't y know....
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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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andyph, + Sussex boys hockey (mainly black)
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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valais2, Anything else you'd like to get off your chest whilst we're at it? Y'know.. problem shared, closet open, worms everywhere... an' all that..
(actually, all joking aside, Zero-G has it right - spot on)
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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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valais2, I had 2 pink MTB helmets. Cracked one. Still use the other. Go for it.
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Schuss in Boots, ...well...come to think of it, I occasionally had bad thoughts....mainly about world domination (meester bond...)
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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stoat of the dead, ...it cracked...it saved your life....and it was pink! Wonderful news.
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stoat of the dead, wearing a pink bike helmet is only the start of your problems
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valais2, I knew it! You have a white puss...... ummm... cat... don't you?
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