Dogs hate 'em, too

Marshall Banana wrote:

Also Sprach Mary Malmros :


I got cut off in traffic by someone with a yellow-ribbon bumper sticker,
but I don't go on a hate campaign against the displayers of
yellow-ribbon bumper stickers. It's called being a grownup.


Really? Because I hate, literally, with a passion, those yellow-ribbon
bumper stickers.

Well, yeah, but...separate issue. I don't hate 'em cuz one of 'em cut
me off in traffic ;-)


--
Mary Malmros
Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug.

"Jeff" wrote in message
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Marshall Banana wrote:

Really? Because I hate, literally, with a passion, those
yellow-ribbon
bumper stickers.

Hey now. You don't have to run supplies from Baghdad to Takrit in order
to support our troops. We're all equally in this together:

http://blogdayafternoon.com/articles...286/index.html


I always found it weird to support something you disagreed with. If you
disagree with war or a certain war why would you support those fighting the
war you disagree with? If you support those fighting the war than you
support the war if you support the war then you agree with the war, true?

JQ
Dancing on the edge

Jeff wrote:

Marshall Banana wrote:

Really? Because I hate, literally, with a passion, those

yellow-ribbon

bumper stickers.


Hey now. You don't have to run supplies from Baghdad to Takrit in order
to support our troops.

Neither do the people sporting those bumper stickers. Nor are they
emptying bedpans in VA hospitals. They "support the troops"
by...putting a bumper sticker on their cars.

--
Mary Malmros
Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug.

JQ wrote:

"Jeff" wrote i
Marshall Banana wrote:

Really? Because I hate, literally, with a passion, those
yellow-ribbon bumper stickers.

Hey now. You don't have to run supplies from Baghdad to Takrit in order
to support our troops. We're all equally in this together:

http://blogdayafternoon.com/articles...286/index.html


I always found it weird to support something you disagreed with. If you
disagree with war or a certain war why would you support those fighting the
war you disagree with? If you support those fighting the war than you
support the war if you support the war then you agree with the war, true?

http://www.theonion.com/opinion/inde...issue=4108&o=2


--
//-Walt
//
// There is no Völkl Conspiracy

carix wrote:
Cute story however I must ask: WHY do you hate snowboarders?!? Do you think
skiers are better people than snowboarders? I'm not a snowboarder but I
don't "hate'em", why would I? I really don't understand this attitude...
It's not like there's a big threat that all skiers are going to be overtaken
by the big bad snowboarding population!! They are there...we are
there...and that's it! Get over it!
In my opinion we're lucky to have snowboarders to share the hills with.
Believe it or not, skiing is NOT enjoyed by everyone on the planet and
people have differing opinions on what is fun and what is not. The one thing
we both have in common as skiers and snowboarders is that we both need a
hill to practice our sport, and in order to keep the ski resorts alive for
us skiers, we need clients. The introduction of snowboarding has been the
only savior for the smaller struggling ski hills in the past ten
years...even with the introduction of snowboarding the hills in my region
have been slowly closing one by one due to lack of participation, it's
depressing!
Snowboarding is fresh and young and it attracts people to participate in
winter sport. (which again....where is the bad part?) From an economic
point of view it is an aid to skiers who enjoy local areas and smaller
resorts. It does no harm to skiers, if anything we are lucky to have
snowboarders to add to our playground. (and telling me reasons such as
chair lift stories or damaging the hill with the board...beleive me, IT GOES
BOTH WAYS! Why do think it's called a "snowplow")
So why again?

There are several problems with snowboarders. For one, they tend to
sideslip all the way down a trail that's beyond their ability to ride
just so they can say they "got down it". That ruins the snow for skiers
and riders who can ski/ride it properly. I'd say at least 50% of the
boarders I see going down a black trail at my local hill are side
slipping and scraping it down to bare ice.

Second is an attitude that is prevalent amongst most boarders of not
caring about the skier's code or other people's safety. I can't tell you
how many times I've watch boarders blasting through an area clearly
marked for "slow skiing". My wife is a slow skier and has been plowed
into numerous times by out of control boarders, yet not once in 7 years
by a skier. And then they have the nerve to blame her when they hit her
from behind. Excuse me but the skiers code has always stated that you
must be skiing (or riding) in *complete* control and avoid skiers that
are below you. If you can't avoid them, you are boarder/skiing too fast
for your abilities. BTW this problem seems to be isolated to young male
boarders between about the ages of 16 and 21. The younger and older seem
to be more considerate of others.

Mary Malmros wrote:
carix wrote:

Cute story however I must ask: WHY do you hate snowboarders?!?


Because a snowboarder once did something she didn't like. That's the
standard "reason" for all the snowboard-haters here.

Who's "she?" I didn't know "Jeff" was a "she?" Tres Cool.

BTW, I hate boarding, not boarders. Wusses would be innocuous if they'd
stay on the groomed and in the park and quit wrecking the snow. But they
won't; they insist on snowplowing down the fresh and mashing the soft,
just because they can't ride an edge on steep and deep.

Sources close to the investigation reveal that, on Tue, 01 Mar 2005
17:00:05 -0500, Chuck wrote:


There are several problems with snowboarders. For one, they tend to
sideslip all the way down a trail that's beyond their ability to ride
just so they can say they "got down it". That ruins the snow for skiers
and riders who can ski/ride it properly. I'd say at least 50% of the
boarders I see going down a black trail at my local hill are side
slipping and scraping it down to bare ice.

Only 50%? You seem to be blessed with unusually competent boarders.

This winter I've seen about one boarder per day linking carved turns
-- and what these carvers do looks so different from the typical
boarder that you can spot them from hundreds of yards away. It's like
a completely different sport.

--
Bill Griffiths
"The fool hath said in his heart, there is no such thing as justice." Hobbes

Chuck wrote:
the skiers code has always stated that you
must be skiing (or riding) in *complete* control

No such thing. Wishful thinking on the part of code developers.

You are missing the point.
The beauty of America is that everyone has the right to disagree.
Perhaps this passage from the movie "The American President" would explain
it better than I can:

Everybody knows America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You
gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say, "You
want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your
blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating, at the top of his
lungs, that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours.
.....Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you
can stand up and sing about the land of the free.

Chas



"JQ" wrote in message
...

We're all equally in this together:

I always found it weird to support something you disagreed with. If you
disagree with war or a certain war why would you support those fighting
the
war you disagree with? If you support those fighting the war than you
support the war if you support the war then you agree with the war, true?

Well stated. One glaring difference I have noticed is the lack of courtesy
and the plowing of snow off the center of the trail instead of being on
edge. I rarely see a skier sideslipping down a slope. AND if sideslipping
is done correctly, no snow is displaced.
Chas

"lal_truckee" wrote in

BTW, I hate boarding, not boarders. Wusses would be innocuous if they'd
stay on the groomed and in the park and quit wrecking the snow. But they
won't; they insist on snowplowing down the fresh and mashing the soft,
just because they can't ride an edge on steep and deep.