Stupid helmet question ...

On 15 Feb 2007 17:47:43 GMT, Switters wrote:

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:32:19 GMT, "MoonMan"
allegedly wrote:

Le Dieu wrote:
2) Who contributes most global warming? Skiers or boarders?

Simple, Boarders, they stop for a Fag break just below each ridge and

It's odd, but none of my boarding nor skiing friends smoke.

produce more drag on the lifts with their fashonable baggy clothes

I think this is a teenage thing. Some of the stuff they wear looks
ridiculous to me.

Heh. We were playing "spot the boarder" on the flight out last week.
We did remarkably well.

--
-Pip

"Pip Luscher" wrote in message
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On 15 Feb 2007 17:47:43 GMT, Switters wrote:

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:32:19 GMT, "MoonMan"
allegedly wrote:

Le Dieu wrote:
2) Who contributes most global warming? Skiers or boarders?

Simple, Boarders, they stop for a Fag break just below each ridge and

It's odd, but none of my boarding nor skiing friends smoke.

produce more drag on the lifts with their fashonable baggy clothes

I think this is a teenage thing. Some of the stuff they wear looks
ridiculous to me.

Heh. We were playing "spot the boarder" on the flight out last week.
We did remarkably well.

--
-Pip


Good game to play from a ski-lift. Of the 100 or so people I could see last
time I did this, 90% of the boarders were stationary and all the skiers were
um ... skiing.

A. Dieu.

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:52:04 GMT, "Le Dieu" wrote:

2) Who contributes most global warming? Skiers or boarders?

Simple, Boarders, they stop for a Fag break just below each ridge and

It's odd, but none of my boarding nor skiing friends smoke.

produce more drag on the lifts with their fashonable baggy clothes

I think this is a teenage thing. Some of the stuff they wear looks
ridiculous to me.

Heh. We were playing "spot the boarder" on the flight out last week.
We did remarkably well.

Good game to play from a ski-lift. Of the 100 or so people I could see last
time I did this, 90% of the boarders were stationary and all the skiers were
um ... skiing.

Christ, this conversation is so 1990s. Get over it, guys.
--
Champ

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:48:09 +0000, Champ wrote:

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:52:04 GMT, "Le Dieu" wrote:


Heh. We were playing "spot the boarder" on the flight out last week.
We did remarkably well.

Good game to play from a ski-lift. Of the 100 or so people I could see last
time I did this, 90% of the boarders were stationary and all the skiers were
um ... skiing.

Christ, this conversation is so 1990s. Get over it, guys.

oooOOOoooh. Touched a nerve?
--
Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom)
Ski Club of Great Britain - http://www.skiclub.co.uk
All opinions expressed are personal and in no way represent those of the Ski Club.

Ace wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:48:09 +0000, Champ wrote:

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:52:04 GMT, "Le Dieu" wrote:


Heh. We were playing "spot the boarder" on the flight out last
week. We did remarkably well.

Good game to play from a ski-lift. Of the 100 or so people I could
see last time I did this, 90% of the boarders were stationary and
all the skiers were um ... skiing.

Christ, this conversation is so 1990s. Get over it, guys.

oooOOOoooh. Touched a nerve?

Bring it on

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:48:09 +0000, Champ wrote:

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:52:04 GMT, "Le Dieu" wrote:

Good game to play from a ski-lift. Of the 100 or so people I could see last
time I did this, 90% of the boarders were stationary and all the skiers were
um ... skiing.

Christ, this conversation is so 1990s. Get over it, guys.

There is an element of truth here though, and I say that as someone
who loves snowboarding almost as much as skiing. More, if the
conditions are right.

--
-Pip

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:46:49 GMT, Pip Luscher
wrote:

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:48:09 +0000, Champ wrote:

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:52:04 GMT, "Le Dieu" wrote:

Good game to play from a ski-lift. Of the 100 or so people I could see last
time I did this, 90% of the boarders were stationary and all the skiers were
um ... skiing.

Christ, this conversation is so 1990s. Get over it, guys.

There is an element of truth here though, and I say that as someone
who loves snowboarding almost as much as skiing. More, if the
conditions are right.

Sure, all stereotypes have an *element* of truth to them. The problem
is the faulty logic that often goes alongside them:

1. That snowboarder crashed into someone
2. Therefore snowboarders are dangerous
3. You are a snowboarder, therefore you are dangerous.

If you both board and ski, which stereotype do you fit into?
--
Champ

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:21:41 +0100, Ace wrote:

Heh. We were playing "spot the boarder" on the flight out last week.
We did remarkably well.

Good game to play from a ski-lift. Of the 100 or so people I could see last
time I did this, 90% of the boarders were stationary and all the skiers were
um ... skiing.

Christ, this conversation is so 1990s. Get over it, guys.

oooOOOoooh. Touched a nerve?

Not really. You've been out on the mountian with me - was there
really any difference in the way we behaved, or, for that matter, the
size of the grins on our faces?

--
Champ

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:32:17 GMT, "Le Dieu" allegedly
wrote:

Coincidentally it was a German boarder who wiped me out from behind on a
near empty and extremely wide slope in Cervinia a few weeks ago.

Is it relevant that he was on a board? Coz I was taken out by a skier
last week on a similar wide open and empty slope. He didn't apologise
either. Not until I had chased him down and confronted him at the lift.
Most suprised he was.

- Dave.

--
The only powder to get high on, falls from the sky.
http://www.vpas.org.uk/ - Snowboarding the worlds pow pow.
Donek Sasquatch 162, Prior Pow 181, Burton Canyon 162

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:52:04 GMT, "Le Dieu" allegedly
wrote:

Good game to play from a ski-lift. Of the 100 or so people I could see
last time I did this, 90% of the boarders were stationary and all the
skiers were um ... skiing.

Exaggerating a little perchance?

Bless.

- Dave.

--
The only powder to get high on, falls from the sky.
http://www.vpas.org.uk/ - Snowboarding the worlds pow pow.
Donek Sasquatch 162, Prior Pow 181, Burton Canyon 162