I really enjoyed skiing
But would I spend the cash on a skiing holiday rather than seeing sights or sunbathing? Nope.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 8:53, 4 replies, latest was 10 years ago)

No sightseeing or sunbathing on skitrips, gotcha

(Mr Udagawa, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 8:57, Reply)

No cash involved
It would be a freebie door-to-door.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 8:57, Reply)

You should definitely go
You'll never know if you might have loved skiing otherwise.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 8:58, Reply)

True
However, I do know some skiers who really enjoy regaling me with tales of injuries and showing off their scars
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:00, Reply)

this is the equivalent of bragging that you got skin cancer on the beach
or had your legs eaten by a leopard
(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:02, Reply)

But you love all that comparing scars nonsense

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:03, Reply)

As long as there's no baby oil invoved

(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:04, Reply)

So really your question is: should I go on a free holiday?
I don't see why you wouldn't.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 8:59, Reply)

I have a sneaking feeling that the others on the freebie might be competetive types...
...And I can't be arsed. Also there may be some 'team building' bollocks involved.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:03, Reply)

if you have to do "team building" exercises then you've already failed as a team

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:06, Reply)

I didn't get the 'team building' idea
There will be people from other distributors there so we're all commercial rivals. Why would we want to 'bond' with them?
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:13, Reply)

sounds like a swingers party

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:47, Reply)

So you feign a flaring up of one of your old back injuries and spend all day in the bar.
Any team-builders will soon be put off by your curmudgeonly demeanour.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:07, Reply)

Skiing is like most of the middle and upper-class pursuits
merely a device for them to ostentatiously show off how much money they have spent. See also golf, polo (anything to do with horses in fact), "corporate hospitality", etc.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:08, Reply)

horse riding is fucking good exercise
not so sure about the corporate hospitality
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:11, Reply)

Did you used to fly a kestrel around before it was battered to death by your coalmining brother?

(Mr Udagawa, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:12, Reply)

We were too poor to have a kestrel
we had to make do with a dead budgie that next door threw in t'bin.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:16, Reply)

ours nearly joined it last night, the poor little twat
flew into its cage, not via the open door but quite literally into its cage, and got its wing stuck. there was much yelping (and that was just frog) before it was freed and it turned out to be just a few ruffled feathers.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:19, Reply)

horses can be kept pretty cheaply.
Couple of hundred a month.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:14, Reply)

yeah ... but you just park your caravan on an A road and let them feed on the verge

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:17, Reply)

pikey culture is rich and varied, mate

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:18, Reply)

yeah ... you rob Range Rovers /and/ church roofs

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:19, Reply)

sigh
not physically possible
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:21, Reply)

what are you twittering on about, fatso?
/ac
(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:26, Reply)

you're one of those dimwits who don't know the difference between assault and battery, aren't you?
to rob someone, you need to put the victim in fear of his/her life or use force against a business/institution etc. so, unless you have a particularly sentient range rover or church roof, you can't reeeeeeeeeally rob it.

simples. even for a scientist.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:34, Reply)

as dull as you are dim

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:42, Reply)

i will accept your graceful retreat

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:43, Reply)

didn't read it, love
looked like you'd confused "physically impossible" with some trite pedantry but fortunately nobody cares
(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:45, Reply)

ahahahaha
where's dozer and his irony check?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:49, Reply)

never kiss a gift horse on the mouth or summat

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:01, Reply)

yerr ... no sights to see in the mountains

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 8:59, Reply)

she's gonna be extra thick today

(Mr Udagawa, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:01, Reply)

yesterday is gonna take some beating

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:01, Reply)

Shush wrinkles
You have zero idea about what I find interesting to see on holiday. Shocker - it may be different to you. And that is ok. So no need to set your pacemaker off because people like to look at different things on their holidays, mm-Kay?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:01, Reply)

too thick; didn't read

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:02, Reply)

sure dr birmingham

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:06, Reply)

yes ... I have a PhD and I've taught in Birmingham ... this definitely makes you less thick herp derp

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:10, Reply)

Hahaha Birmingham!

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:10, Reply)

Wait, I don't get it

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:10, Reply)

me neither ... I'm sure it makes sense in Hyacinth's little head

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:11, Reply)

he turned down a place at cambridge for that coveted birmingham slot
inside his own little world
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:12, Reply)

I turned down an undergrad offer at Cambridge
what does that have to do with Birmingham, you monumentally dumb twit?
(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:14, Reply)

course you did, gramps
course you did
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:14, Reply)

yes yes BUT
yhpcciym

Its been a while since anyone rolled that one out eh!
( Peej, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:25, Reply)

not enough therapy in the world
*rocks*
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:26, Reply)

Nice to see him back though, eh

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:27, Reply)

shudder

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:28, Reply)

I for one am looking forward to HOMEBREW CHAT and newslinks
and there nothing better than you bickering with rory/shambles/chompy/baggles/etc publicly on beethreeteeay
( Peej, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:29, Reply)

fuck off back to /qotw
/ac
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:33, Reply)

fuck off you fat psycho cunt.
/ac
( Peej, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:33, Reply)

if this place doesn't improve soon, i think we all will

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:36, Reply)

You can't leave. I haven't sent you any pictures of me sticking my hand up snow white

( Peej, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:48, Reply)

you're one of the good ones
and then you go and say something like that...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:49, Reply)

I'm the best one!

( Peej, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:52, Reply)

I no rite/

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:10, Reply)

the idea of you being allowed to teach is frankly terrifying
you blinkered old tortoise
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:12, Reply)

I can see how the idea of learning something would strike fear into a mediocre arts stoodent

(old man river possible lesbian, Tue 9 Dec 2014, 9:15, Reply)