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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| The Euro test etc. |
The Euro Test is protectionist shite pure and simple and has absolutely zero to do with ones ability to be a decent teacher.
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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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| Wayne wrote: |
I'm not saying that there may not be one or two that are not too bad at skiing, but this simply doesn’t qualify them to guide/lead/etc. But if they were as good as they were meant to be (and many of them think they are) then, if they really want to guide people around the slopes, why don’t they spend a few years getting trained and certified (by BASI, ENSA, etc) after which they can go back to acting like the pied piper, if they want.
At least their clients will be able to have at least a modicum of confidence in their abilities.
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You're joking right? I just need pointing in the right direction, to make efficient use of my short holiday, to save me and my fellow chalet guests having to get the piste map out at every junction /lift. It could equally be a local expert, a gnarly ski instructor, or a spotty teenager on a gap year as long as they have a grasp of the resort and lift system to get me going for the first couple of days...
Do you seriously think we would continue to book chalets with guiding if we didn't think it was useful? 
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| skir67 wrote: |
| Any sign of the ESF in London? |
Yes, of course. The most recent sign I could find was from 2004, with our old friend Gerry Adams in town to promote French ski instruction and Irish cheeses at the ESF.
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^ WORST. SONNY. CHER. TRIBUTE. ACT. EVER.
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Comedy Goldsmith, is it... no it can't be... surely not... whatever was he thinking... Admin?
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Rather than hold up the traffic for 3 hrs, I wonder why they didn't just pretend he was a blind sword (it was a white stick) wielding pensioner and taser him off the horse, or better still pretend he had a bad irish accent with a table leg in a bag and shoot him?
Where did he have the knife hidden?
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| DM wrote: |
| At one point he balanced acrobatically - with his arms out stretched - upon the Duke's feathered plume, before sitting on his head |
I see someone at the DM exercised some editorial license - that looks suspiciously like a helmet.
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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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It is rare for me to do a proper Laugh Out Loud. Comedy Goldsmith, however, just precipitated one.
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I still want to know what the Flashmob would have done. Synchronised shrugging whilst smoking a fag? Paying attention to only the pretty girls? Clouting crying children?
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You know it makes sense.
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Lenny Law, y'know I was once introduced to an ESF instructor (an older, and quite scary, woman) who was banned from teaching kids because she kicked them! 
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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cathy, did you check their qualifications for leafleting? We allow Swiss Association of Leafleteers Grade 6 or above. Anything less is arrestable.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Get down there and learn how to ski ice, Swiller
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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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BBC Radio 4 is about to run a report on the ESF/UK ski fisticuffs, focusing on Val d'Isere: PM programme now
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Comedy Goldsmith, Thanks for the heads up
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A notable absence of any SCGB spokesman on that report!
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| Pedantica wrote: |
| A notable absence of any SCGB spokesman on that report! |
I've missed it can you give a summary ?
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Pedantica, well I guess its because they're not the ones being prosecuted?
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Dwarf Vader, nothing new, just reporting the pending court case against Le Ski, interviewing a French instructor (party line about safety) and a few Le Ski clients in Val d'Isere, plus a guy whose name I didn't catch, but who runs a website (maybe the PlanetSki owner?) saying that a ruling against Le Ski would drive TOs and punters away from France altogether. Maybe it was on because a BBC reporter (Emma Jane Kirby, she's based in Paris I think) happened to be skiing in Val d'Isere.
On the rocks, yes, but don't they purport to represent British skiing?
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| Dwarf Vader wrote: |
I've missed it can you give a summary ? |
British man: all British skiers will desert France completely and ski in Austria/Switzerland/Italy if France bans British chalet ski hosting blah blah blah
French man: you would not buy a cheese in France that has not got an official stamp of approval and knowing it had been made properly, so why would you pay for chalet services that include an unqualified ski guide blah blah blah.
Rubbish feature.
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| Pedantica wrote: |
[b]On the rocks, yes, but don't they purport to represent British skiing? |
Nope! well not accoding the the website or my membership stuff. I guess things have moved on in the last 10 years? (unlike CG)
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| miranda wrote: |
| Dwarf Vader wrote: |
I've missed it can you give a summary ? |
British man: all British skiers will desert France completely and ski in Austria/Switzerland/Italy if France bans British chalet ski hosting blah blah blah
French man: you would not buy a cheese in France that has not got an official stamp of approval and knowing it had been made properly, so why would you pay for chalet services that include an unqualified ski guide blah blah blah.
Rubbish feature. |
So it is summed up as:
British man: exaggeration
Frenchman: bollox talk (We all know the best cheese is from the local farm with no stamp)
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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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Rubbish feature indeed. Perfectly summed up, Dwarf Vader.
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I wonder how many British skiers actually bother with the ski hosting anyway?
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You know it makes sense.
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Hells Bells, must admit I really enjoyed skiing with the young Mark Warner host in St Anton, when I bailed out of my Snoworks course last January. He was exceptionally considerate, despite his extreme youth. We covered loads of mileage and everyone enjoyed it I think.
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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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Hells Bells, if it's just me and OH on holiday, we go with the host once, maybe twice in the week, if there is hosting. It's something to do and you don't have to stay all day if the pace/people don't agree.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Hells Bells wrote: |
| I wonder how many British skiers actually bother with the ski hosting anyway? |
Lots more than you think. Before I did it I thought there would be no one much, but it surprised me. Busy weeks for our chalets were over 50% for most of the week.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I was half listening to it. Was the court hearing date mentioned?
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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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Comedy Goldsmith, I don't think so.
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| Pedantica wrote: |
| when I bailed out of my Snoworks course last January. |
Sorry for being nosey but why? (Have considered them for a course for me.)
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Dwarf Vader, we've only done two chalet holidays, and hosting wasn't available on one of them due to an injured host and it being end of season. Never really considered it to be an essential.
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Pedantica, ah, sorry. Wondered if it was the course, (although I've heard really good things about Snoworks).
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| miranda wrote: |
| Dwarf Vader wrote: |
I've missed it can you give a summary ? |
British man: all British skiers will desert France completely and ski in Austria/Switzerland/Italy if France bans British chalet ski hosting blah blah blah
French man: you would not buy a cheese in France that has not got an official stamp of approval and knowing it had been made properly, so why would you pay for chalet services that include an unqualified ski guide blah blah blah.
Rubbish feature. |
So it is summed up as:
British man: exaggeration
Frenchman: bollox talk (We all know the best cheese is from the local farm with no stamp) |
The exaggeration was Miranda's.
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maggi, no problem. I expect the course would have been fine, but it was an off-piste one and I really wasn't up to messing about in deep snow.
Hells Bells, who needs a chalet host when you've got Moriarty? 
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laundryman,
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The exaggeration was Miranda's.
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Probably not v sensible to go on skiing at all, but luckily survived to tell the tale! 