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Old October 23rd 09, 02:39 PM posted to rec.skiing.resorts.europe,uk.rec.motorcycles
platypus
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Default Daily Mail Ski Show - ouch

TOG@Toil wrote:
On 23 Oct, 14:40, "platypus" wrote:
Steve Parry wrote:
"boots" wrote in message
s.com...
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:36:15 +0100 in uk.rec.motorcycles, The Older
Gentleman says:


DR wrote:


The Older Gentleman posted:
That bloody cost me.


Those who ski have money. Ipso facto.


No. Those who *don't* ski have money. ;-)


There are other more interesting and expensive pastimes to eat up
the cash.


Scuba is more than capable of being a cash sink for example


I got involved in a lunchtime discussion about skiing, about 20
years ago when I was spending my disposable on pottering about in
little aeroplanes.

"Do you ski, Richard?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Not expensive enough."


I think motorcycle or car racing is a damn good way to burn through
cash.


Renting Cessnas and Cherokees at eighty or a hundred quid an hour...

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