i just saved my client £100,000 per annum
a good start to the working year
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 16:36, 1 reply, 11 years ago)

what the fuck were they spending that on that could be saved?
Also, you're going skiing? I didn't know you could ski.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 16:41, Reply)

it's a massive shopping centre
and a service charge issue. you'd be bored to tears before we got off page 1.

no. i have never been skiing, and i know am going to suck at it like your mum with a fireman's hose. urgh.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 16:44, Reply)

You'll be fine. Where are you going, and have you booked lessons?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 16:45, Reply)

somewhere in france, i want to say courcheval?
i have a snow-zone lesson this week, and then lessons on the days we are there. i fully intend to do the lessons and then fuck off to the chalet to read/drink.

it's a work trip, and whilst it's incredibly generous of them, i'd prefer to be safely at home and not up a mountain...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 16:50, Reply)

Then say it...

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 16:52, Reply)

Just do half-day lessons in the morning
in the first few days you'll find it too tiring to ski all day and you'll want to spend the afternoons drinking/chilling. By the end of the week you'll want to go out in the afternoons for a bit, especially if you have other beginners to ski with.

Courcheval is very, very good for begineers. It's also the poshest resort in France (well, 1850 is) and the holder of my personal "record beer price" at 23 euro for 25cl of beer. In 2003. Drink apres in Bar Le Jump (assuming it's still there) as it used to be where the seasonnaires drank so it's more like 6 euro a pint.

Oh, and buy a helmet before you go, eh?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 16:56, Reply)

i thought i might hire one - we're only there for 3 days. would that be do-able?
I've borrowed a ski jacket and salo's and a few other bits.

i will have to let you know if the beer prices can top your record. i am such a mal-co, i can see me coming back with more metal than you've got!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 16:59, Reply)

it might be doable
but they aren't that expensive, and hire gear does tend to smell a tiny bit of Frenchman's wee.

You'll need to hit the dodgy nightclub for that kinda cost and these days it'll be full of Russian gangsters.

If you're only there for 3 days try and get out at least on the afternoon of the third day, you might as well really see if you like it. It's not a sport that requires any serious sporting prowess, it's great fun and it is heavily drinking based. All-round win.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 17:02, Reply)

Schumacher's

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 16:59, Reply)

It could only be £1000 per night hookers
twice a week,
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 16:45, Reply)

*touches nose*
*points*
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 16:45, Reply)

It's easy, three of you sit down on the bed with the skier in the middle, and the two on the outside lay down while the skier sarlams away.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 7 Jan 2014, 17:19, Reply)