Let's try and get 1,000,000 replies to this post

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Stop winking at me!

 

[Travis The Dragon]

I feel obligated to point out that when this thread started, 100k was deemed to be impossible. Reaching the goal is not allowed. When we reach 99,997 this thread title will change to "200,000 replies".

You are evil!

 

[Shadow]

Did you believe you'd catch the rainbow?

 

[Perun]

Here's a band name that made me chuckle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bongzilla

 

[Black Wizard]

You just made that figure up!

No I didn't. The information is available somewhere down the right-hand side of the forum main page.

 

[Travis The Dragon]

If we all made extra posts to make up for the times we're not here, we'd be pretty high up.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Snow in Glesga!

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

Watching the Wengen downhill skiing race. Man, those skiers are crazy.

 

[Shadow]

Downhill skiing is the only skiing worth the name.

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

Downhill skiing is the only skiing worth the name.

I disagree, but I think it's definitely the form of skiing that commands most respect. Going down a mountainside with an average speed of over 100 km/h, it's just insane.

Btw, I finally got around to buy my own slalom skis this week. Hope the weather will give me some opportunities to use them this winter ... the coming week looks promising.

 

[Shadow]

I have nothing against long distance skiing, just haven't done it in years and years.

I used to go ice-skating on lakes, but we've had such mild winters lately.

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

Just to be precise: I was talking about the downhill discipline specifically (as opposed to alpine skiing in general).

 

[Shadow]

Yeah, I got that, but people who take issue with my blanket statements about real skiing are usually long distance skiiers.

 

[Dr. Eddies Wingman]

Do you know the skiing discipline called "Telemark", named after the Norwegian county where modern skiing (as an organized sport) first started to grow in Norway? It combines several of the elements that have later been separated into cross-country/ski jumping (a.k.a. the Nordic disciplines) and alpine skiing: You have a track where you are required both to jump, traverse down hillsides, and use your poles like in cross-country. Some traditionalists would claim that this is the purest form of skiing

 

[Perun]

Which is why the heroes of the Telemark carry Viking blood in veins.

 

[Shadow]

Do you know the skiing discipline called "Telemark", named after the Norwegian county where modern skiing (as an organized sport) first started to grow in Norway? It combines several of the elements that have later been separated into cross-country/ski jumping (a.k.a. the Nordic disciplines) and alpine skiing: You have a track where you are required both to jump, traverse down hillsides, and use your poles like in cross-country. Some traditionalists would claim that this is the purest form of skiing

I've seen it, but I've never had a chance to try it for myself. Always thought it looked cool, but weird.

 

[Black Wizard]

It's so cold outside.

 

[Stardust]

And it's even colder inside.

 

[Brigantium]

You've gone soft since you moved south. I found that when I moved to Yorkshire. I even need to wear a coat in winter now.

 

[MrKnickerbocker]

It's nowhere near cold enough here. Sun and 40's.