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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?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ski_AL, Been posted many, many times already!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Apologies - I'm a  newbie and just getting into the spirit of things and gettin excited for the season ahead.
... and my Ski + Board Mag has just come through the door ... time for a nice cup of coffee.
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Yes, it has come up many times previously, but in some of the other post footage links there are some classics with boarders having problems with a poma - I'd never really considered the evils that boarders must face on a poma, but I can see why they have trouble with them from that footage - reminds me why I think I'll stick with skis!!
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Chasseur, C'mon, what's the point of living out here if we can't make the island dwellers a wee bit green! 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Ski_AL, never seen the second one - I wish we could have seen how they got off!
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You know it makes sense.
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I am sure the first video is George Michael. In which case he probably enjoyed the experience. 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Last season in Courchevel I was in a lengthy queue for a poma/button lift, grabbed my button and used as prescribed and then watched in horror as the link anchoring the arm to the cable snapped and I was left stationary holding it between my legs. The lifty nearly pissed himself laughing when I gave him a shout. 
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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?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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snow_badger - Found this one earlier today - so funny! - The guy operating the lift was getting so annoyed!
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So how are boarders supposed to ride a T-bar - it was as though the lifty was trying to suggest that the boarder put it between his legs - was that what he was trying to do?
Mind you, I do feel for boarders on drag lifts - they don't have it as easy as skiers I think. That said whilst I don't mind Pomas I am not overboard about T bars - I can manage them and have even done fairly steep ones, but I am v. def. NOT happy when I'm on them. I'm very much hanging on for grim death and concentrating every step of the way up not to cross my skis or fall off the T. Yet, I don't have any problems with pomas at all - I'm not entirely certain why either.
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^ totally agree, I hate T-bars with a passion. It's getting off them which I hate. I got one caught behind my knee once as I twisted it to get off and it carried me onto the snow bank at the end. Everyone laughed, including the liftie 
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Piccadilly, getting off them is def. not a picnic - I always hope to be riding with someone more competent than myself and try to arrange to go off first leaving the bar with them to deal with.
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Having done most of my skiing in Scotland as a kid, t-bars don't hold any fear for me. 
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Yeah ..I never mind getting on the t bar but hate getting off .. I also have been hooked into mid air and have miraculously disembarked .
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Ski_AL, Doesn't matter how many times I see that first one, still makes me laugh Very Happy I hadn't seen the second one though so thanks for posting.
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I dont even have to see it just the thought of it makes me want to pee myself laughing. It has to be the funniest thing I have ever seen.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Ive just watched that first one again- is it a shorter version?
Edit - after a re-watch have realised I was just laughing so much I'd missed the "you ok, Sir?" - f'ing hilarious.
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You know it makes sense.
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snow_badger, Loved this!!
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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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I think what makes it funny - is that we have all been in that position - maybe not in such dramatic style - but I imagine most people have had a few battles with a drag lift or T bar .... I know I certainly have
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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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boabski , Thank you so much for that - I hadn't seen that one - I have literally been in tears watching that! Absolutely brilliant
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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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Megamum, yes, snowboarders generally ride T bars astride the T. I think that liftie was surprisingly patient, especially after having been knocked over!
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Those videos cheered me up no end, on a rather dark and gloomy afternoon. Anyone going up a lift with Kevin is mega-brave. The dismount ramp off that chair looked quite steep.
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I have watched that video a few times but every time I watch I get hysterical laughing ..it is a tonic and so typical , it certainly happened to us when we were starting.
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The laughter has got me longing for the season. It is a greater incentive than all that powder on the other thread, for me anyway!
Thanks for refreshing all this stuff.
Oh, and don't you wish you were just starting out for the first time. You'll never have so much fun on the slopes again.
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boabski, I watched that with my toes curled and fists clenched, very funny clip. Thank god chair lifts have moved on!
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I hadn't seen the second one though so thanks for posting.
