do people still snowboard?
I thought it was a 90's thing for dick heads.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:23, 4 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

You thought right.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:24, Reply)

nah, you're thinking of Indy Music

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:25, Reply)

Nah, you're thinking of
never using capital letters
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:27, Reply)

nah, you're thinking of Terry and June

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:28, Reply)

nah, you're thinking of Terry Waite

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:29, Reply)

nah
you're thinking of home renovation shows that use mdf for everything
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:30, Reply)

nah, you're thinking of Carol Smilie's "tool box"

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:31, Reply)

Handy Andy's "wanking hammer" ?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:38, Reply)

Apparently they do.
I've got one of them coming with me skiing in a couple of weeks. I can only hope I don't catch "bent"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:36, Reply)

At least he's not a monoskier

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:38, Reply)

Haha, yes.
Although one of my mates can and has used a monoski, but the smug cunt can ski down just about anything, on anything.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:38, Reply)

Second time I went skiing I saw a monoskier crash, he died later in hospital.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:39, Reply)

I always hoped this would happen to all the pricks on snowblades and scooters

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:07, Reply)

I saw 4 or 5 this year
I think it may be making a comeback
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:41, Reply)

really? I shall keep an eye out.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:46, Reply)

So who is worse, monoboarders or bladers?
Monoboaders have a retro charm at least, bladers should be run over by piste bashers
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:49, Reply)

bladers are arseholes
because anyone can get down a piste on blades, there's no skill to it. It's the equivalent of turning up to a track day with an Impreza.

monoboards are at least really difficult to use.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:51, Reply)

here we can agree
It's like the Good Friday agreement for snow sports.

The snow was great btw, could be a good season, where and whn are you going?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:53, Reply)

26th Jan and wherever we decide last-minute (well, will probably book this week)
Would like Les Arcs but I'm not seeing any great reductions for there right now. Probably becuase the snow is epic. Glad you enjoyed it, even though you're a dirty gay-on-a-tray.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:55, Reply)

prick with sticks ;)

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:57, Reply)

Ah, wanks on planks is better
because you LOVE our sticks when we give you a tow on the flat.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:58, Reply)

this post ^ sounds dirtier than it should.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:58, Reply)

i'm certainly moving towards bongle risk 5

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:00, Reply)

I prefer a shunt from behind to get me going

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:07, Reply)

*drops monocle*

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:08, Reply)

all forms of sliding on snow and ice
are just expensive and elaborate ways of breaking ones legs
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:52, Reply)

i have never broken anything skiing or snowboarding

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:53, Reply)

then you are doing it wrong

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:55, Reply)

actually i wouldn't mind skiing again
but then I'd hav to hire kit when I already own my board and boots
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:38, Reply)

I can't be bothered with carting my kit out there*
It costs more each year to service and trasport my skis than hiring the best set of skis in history. Plus, I need three sets really, a piste set, some big mountain skis and some park skis. If I hire them, I can swap them on a daily basis. So what's the point? I just keep them for scotland now

*I take my own boots. Hire boots are fucking awful and smell of Frenchmen's piss.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:44, Reply)

Boots are the imporatant factor here
Also the hire stuff seemed cheap this year
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:48, Reply)

yeah, boots are crucial
snowboard boots less of a problem because they are more comfortable, but a badly fitting set of ski boots will totally ruin your week
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:56, Reply)

i can promise you that badly fitting snowboard boots will also ruin your wek

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:59, Reply)

I'm sure you're right.
They are at least more comfortable, though.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:01, Reply)

but yeah
I'm one of the last of my friends to move back to hire skis. The current plan is - one ovesized snowboard bag so only one ski charge, chuck in three sets of 1080s so you've each got park skis, hire the rest over there. Bonus.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:00, Reply)

My brother does that.
Although he did manage to use it to nearly kill a group of six Frenchmen. I'm conflicted about it.
( Kroney, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:39, Reply)

We have a scoring system for snowboarders.
and French ones count double.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:42, Reply)

i bet they were standing in the way
fuckin skiers always stand in big groups nattering away oblivious to their surroundings.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:42, Reply)

Yeah, I can't fault the target
but on the other hand he was tumbling down the side of a mountain like a spastic and he was on a snowboard.

I don't know, it's a difficult one to pick a side on.
( Kroney, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:44, Reply)

Haha, fuck off.
Snowboarders are lethal stopped on piste, because the stupid cunts sit down. Usually just over a blind brow. Idiots.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:45, Reply)

skiers are worse
and french skiers are the worst.

And then you have the cunts snaking down in long lines, why do you feel the need to follow someone all the time?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:46, Reply)

I'm not disagreeing about the french
but snowboarders really are worse, because stopping sitting down means you don't see them until the last minute. Skiers usually* stop at the side of a piste as well. Snowboarders almost never do. I think it's a average age thing rather than the sport per se, as in snowboarders are more likely to be yoofs and therefore utterly selfish cunts with no self awareness.

The snakes are lessons, and that's what instructors tell them to do. Because unless you're retarded, it's much easier to go round a lesson when it's predicatable because they all follow the same path. Are you retarded?

*not always, I agree, but mostly
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:49, Reply)

Do you really need to ask?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:50, Reply)

Ok lets be honest here, sometimes snowbaords sit in the way and sometimes skiers stand in the way, both are really as bad as ach other
but there are many more skiers so they take up more room.

Lessons fine, but there are spastic skiers all over who follow each other down
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:51, Reply)

as opposed to snowboarders
who shouldn't be on the piste in the first place?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:54, Reply)

you sound like my mother in law
As someone who can do both and has done both skiing and snowboarding, i think they both have a place in the world.

You're just a bigoted old woman
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:56, Reply)

Finally, Nakers gets me.
In all seriousness, snowboards are less suited to piste than skis. But I don't really want the off entirely. Much.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:57, Reply)

and now you both wrestle in front of a roaring fire on a bearskin rug?

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:11, Reply)

As long as he brings the oil.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 12:20, Reply)

I should point out, for the benefit of fairness
I don't actually hate snowboarders. Snowboards are epic in powder, and brilliant in the park. I just don't know why people use them on piste. It's like putting a rally car on an F1 track. In the way of people in F1 cars.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 7 Jan 2013, 11:53, Reply)