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And 100!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@davkt, congratulations 
Well done SCGB Chat Forum for achieving this monumental post mark. From the bottom of my heart, I wish your members the best of ski fun in the future x
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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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@stewart woodward, can you imagine the red tape I'd be tied up in?
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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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Almost as much fun as Boris's bar!
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Well done everyone, great effort. We should all turn to our right and give each other a pat on the back for getting the second most boring thread on snowheads to 100 pages. 
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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and it wasn't even dg's in the first place 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Though I'm not down on DG that much really. He has made his point, though many many many times. He must sometimes be on the wind up. And if so, a lot of us have bitten the bait every now and then. So the biggest "pat-on-the-back-for-getting-the-second-most-boring-thread-past-100-posts" goes to
DDDDrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-TSCH
DG
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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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Speech, speech.................................Oh no wait, that's not right is it.
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| thecramps wrote: |
| Well done everyone, great effort. We should all turn to our right and give each other a pat on the back for getting the second most boring thread on snowheads to 100 pages. |
Can't see the logic there, if it's got to 100 pages, it's certainly not boring in many eyes. I suspect there are a LOT of lurkers here too.
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You know it makes sense.
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@allanm, it's good for popcorn, but is just in reality the same 5 pages repeated ad infinitum. Not boring?
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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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As many as 5 pages @thecramps?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| allanm wrote: |
| ...I suspect there are a LOT of lurkers here too. |
I bet half of the views are DG's nemesis biting his tongue (fingers?) trying his best not to bite 
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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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| thecramps wrote: |
| @allanm, it's good for popcorn, but is just in reality the same 5 pages repeated ad infinitum. Not boring? |
I guess, if 'most of us' are honest none of us really give a monkeys what happens to SC1, it will make to difference to us. The discounts offered you can get elsewhere, SH's is better for meeting, trash fecks is probably the only remaining interesting bit.
Having said that, it is about a sport which we are all passionate about, so there is bound to be interest.
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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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@ALQ, I would be dynamite in their forum.
Did I say dynamite, I meant annoying. Dyxlescia is annoying somtimes
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@thecramps, You could be a northern DG 2.0...it would be a blast 
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@ALQ, Your stirring. Friend or foe?
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@thecramps, Stirring...moi?
You could start with the uselessness of helmets, then move on to the benefits of a wealth tax...perhaps 
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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@ALQ, how about you pm me and we share a log in and become skiclubstanton.?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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Very important to "know the demographic" of the the forum though, lest you make jokes about pilots. There are lots of them here, apparently. So I am sure SCGB will be nooooooooo different.
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I've skim read most of this thread over a number of weeks, usually when unable to sleep at weird hours when away with work. It may well essentially be DG and his socks just spouting off, but what astounds me is that 100 pages in he still hasnt grasped that it's not your point that matters, but more how you make it.
Im relatively new to the skiing malarkey by some standards on here, but to me the 'members only club' way of thinking in terms of accessing forums/reprts etc when researching the sport ahead of my first trip really put me off and was the major contributing factor as to why I pay to support snowheads instead.
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You know it makes sense.
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MORE FROM GERRY AITKEN, DIRECTOR, SCGB
Sorry for being a little self-indulgent, but once again my personal character/integrity is being directly attacked [right] by a Ski Club of Great Britain director, who chooses this tactic rather than address the reasonable questions raised on page 96 of this thread ...
TEN QUESTIONS FOR GERRY AITKEN
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=94856&start=3800#2673652
Gerry Aitken is fully aware that it's impossible for me to respond to these attacks on the SCGB forum (because I'm banned from it!), but gerry / @gerry is perfectly free to post here, since he has that username.
Since Aitken is accusing me of prejudice and discrimination, he's invited - once again - to join a 'club event' at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese off Fleet Street. Here's a suggested date: the evening of Wednesday 1 April - i.e. to be well clear of 'April Fool's morning'.
Is Gerry Aitken up for an evening of fair, moderated, face-to-face debate about all that, and the 'future of British ski clubs'?
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It is hoped to have a Tardis at this event for time/place transit to future/Edwardian ski destinations. Ski equipment baggage charges will be waived, and ski boots can be taken into the cabin.
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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 do find Gerry's comments mildly amusing since (before I left the SCGB) I had made a formal complaint about his bullying tactics to the then official forum moderator, the reply I got back acknowledged he had stepped over the mark and I was asked to withdraw my accusations, which I declined to do, when I cancelled my membership and was asked why I mentioned this at the time, obviously however the Club feels it's perfectly ok to have such a person in a senior position, having dealt with such public school educated bullies before I wished to have nothing to do with them (p.s I too have a public school as well as state school education, state school bullies are far less effective)
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Poster: A snowHead
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@D G Orf, yes, dont think he'd win many warm and fuzzy awards. But he's nothing to do with SH and I wish DG would stop trying to drag him over here. If people want to be members of SCGB then let them be. Weve heard DG's arguments OVER and OVER.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Have you booked a table for all your socks at the cheese cafe? I will have paint drying so cannot attend. Sorry DG
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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D G Orf, well the SCGB is a supposedly democratic organisation and Gerry Aitken has twice been elected to its Council/board of directors. SCGB members chose to re-elect him in 2011, despite his record of insulting and abusing users of social media, ever since the Ski Club (and then snowHeads) provided him with a channel of communication in 2002/4. My understanding is that sH once banned him, as the suspected 'Tim Brown', for posting comments which were totally unacceptable ... but he then re-emerged as 'PJSki' and seems to have popped up as 'Pippin' on the Winterhighland forum.
One question (not in the list of 10) is "what motivates Gerry Aitken?" Does he have an expenses-paid skiing lifestyle with the SCGB, or should we take him at face value? This is what he said on 2 March 2013:
"At least I'm trustworthy and loyal. I don't claim a penny in expenses, either as a Council member or for Leading in resort"
If expenses-paid skiing isn't important to him, then on what basis is he 'leading' with the SCGB in La Grave this week? A position on the SCGB board is conventionally known to be a handy thing on the pecking order, when the winter schedule of who skis where is drawn up. Let's see what pans out.
As for bullying, I'm not sure that he's capable of it in the flesh, but he has a perfect opportunity at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, so long as his activities are harmonious with the landlord's house rules. I would envisage a good-humoured meeting of minds.
| D G Orf wrote: |
| ... obviously however the Club feels it's perfectly ok to have such a person in a senior position, having dealt with such public school educated bullies before I wished to have nothing to do with them (p.s I too have a public school as well as state school education, state school bullies are far less effective) |
I can't comment on Gerry Aitken's education (see next post), but am quite keen to know where his set of morals emerged from. I do know that on the one occasion there was a conversation, it began with the remark "Hey David, I bet you didn't expect someone like me. Do you know that I work on building sites?"
I was surprised at that gambit, since I had no preconceptions at all. I knew he was a ceramic tiler (fine - that's skilled and respected work), so one would expect him to work on building sites, but that was about all the 'social engagement' amounted to. Since I very happily work with and encounter (working in a fully open public building) people with everything from criminal records to highly-engineered vinyl records ... there are no preconceptions.
I think we need to know more about Gerry facing down prejudice and discrimination. This would be interesting to witness. He refers to being a Millwall supporter (also next posting)
Last edited by You need to Login to know who's really who. on Mon 9-02-15 16:17; edited 7 times in total
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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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| Comedy Goldsmith wrote: |
Gerry Aitken on education and football. From 27 November 2013
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Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Mon 9-02-15 15:05; edited 1 time in total
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| Shimmy Alcott wrote: |
| @D G Orf, yes, dont think he'd win many warm and fuzzy awards. But he's nothing to do with SH and I wish DG would stop trying to drag him over here. If people want to be members of SCGB then let them be. Weve heard DG's arguments OVER and OVER. |
And over ...
And over .
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| Shimmy Alcott wrote: |
| @D G Orf, yes, dont think he'd win many warm and fuzzy awards. But he's nothing to do with SH and I wish DG would stop trying to drag him over here. If people want to be members of SCGB then let them be. Weve heard DG's arguments OVER and OVER. |
And over .
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| Shimmy Alcott wrote: |
| @D G Orf, yes, dont think he'd win many warm and fuzzy awards. But he's nothing to do with SH and I wish DG would stop trying to drag him over here. If people want to be members of SCGB then let them be. Weve heard DG's arguments OVER and OVER. |
And over.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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| Shimmy Alcott wrote: |
| @D G Orf, yes, dont think he'd win many warm and fuzzy awards. But he's nothing to do with SH and I wish DG would stop trying to drag him over here. If people want to be members of SCGB then let them be. Weve heard DG's arguments OVER and OVER. |
And over.
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| Shimmy Alcott wrote: |
| @D G Orf, yes, dont think he'd win many warm and fuzzy awards. But he's nothing to do with SH and I wish DG would stop trying to drag him over here. If people want to be members of SCGB then let them be. Weve heard DG's arguments OVER and OVER. |
And over .
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