Best Gaper qoute of the weekend?

**point it** · 12-07-2010, 12:23 PM

I used to work at Sport Chek as a tech and one day some guy came in asking for base lights. This in combination with the thick Asian accent made it really hard for me to figure out what he was talking about. He eventually made it clear that he had seen them on the hill and they were the lights that people mount in the base of their skis to make the snow glow different colours. At this point I barely managed to hold myself back from starting to laugh and explained that It was just the colour of the ski base that reflects off of the snow. He wasn't having any of it and started to get annoyed with me, "no! base lights, I seen them they are real"....etc at a loss as to what to do next I went with my failsafe backup... "Ooooooohh, baselights! yeah now I know what you are talking about, yeah we dont have them here. Try MEC I am pretty sure they stalk them."

Would love to have been there to see him explain that to the guys at MEC

**Johnny Deep** · 12-07-2010, 01:12 PM

Stabbing someone in the heart with a pencil would be far more threatening.

**coldwater** · 12-07-2010, 01:23 PM

Should ski's be heavier at the front?

I've just bought some K2 Silencers and when I lift my foot the front of the ski drops because it is heavier than the back.

I was expecting them to be fairly evenly balanced, being twin tips...

Do I need to get the bindings remounted further forwards?

Riiight...

**bcd** · 12-07-2010, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by halcyon

In my OP I said that I was probably the gaper in that situation.

That doesn't make you a gaper. It just makes you a fuckin douchebag, Joey. There's a pretty big difference.

**minimal** · 12-07-2010, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by point it

I used to work at Sport Chek as a tech and one day some guy came in asking for base lights. This in combination with the thick Asian accent made it really hard for me to figure out what he was talking about. He eventually made it clear that he had seen them on the hill and they were the lights that people mount in the base of their skis to make the snow glow different colours. At this point I barely managed to hold myself back from starting to laugh and explained that It was just the colour of the ski base that reflects off of the snow. He wasn't having any of it and started to get annoyed with me, "no! base lights, I seen them they are real"....etc at a loss as to what to do next I went with my failsafe backup... "Ooooooohh, baselights! yeah now I know what you are talking about, yeah we dont have them here. Try MEC I am pretty sure they stalk them."

Would love to have been there to see him explain that to the guys at MEC

Hate to say it, but you're wrong. Maybe. He might have only seen flouro bases which do seem like they're glowing, but you can actually buy snowboards and skis with LEDs in the base. Glowboardz

**point it** · 12-07-2010, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by minimal

Hate to say it, but you're wrong. Maybe. He might have only seen flouro bases which do seem like they're glowing, but you can actually buy snowboards and skis with LEDs in the base. Glowboardz

wow i cant believe I just saw that..... definitely just bumped that up to the top of my christmas wish list

**jonesy** · 12-07-2010, 03:13 PM

Gota have it. Oh wait I don't board. Stay off that glow board site it's full of malicious scripts.Gallery link and Calendar link.

**TurxSki** · 12-07-2010, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by telesucks

you guys that start arguments and get in fights with "idiot snowboarders" make me ashamed to be a skier.
grow up.

Dude, hello, your username is a put down/call out.
Who are you to tell others not to start fights, when that's the first thing we see about you...give me a break!

It is a well accepted fact that *most all* snowboarders do not know "the code" as they learned how by hanging out with their loser chums, not by taking lessons.
Hence the never looking uphill when they start out, coming to a stop in the middle of a trail and hanging out, etc.
I'd be happy if they just stopped scraping off all the snow with their heel-edge...

I've had to chase down a grey-beard old-school skier, and tell him off for nearly knocking over Cinders, on Gunbarrel at Heavenly.
He reckoned he had the right of way, as she was "in his line", or some such crap

**toast2266** · 12-07-2010, 04:18 PM

Originally Posted by minimal

Hate to say it, but you're wrong. Maybe. He might have only seen flouro bases which do seem like they're glowing, but you can actually buy snowboards and skis with LEDs in the base. Glowboardz

From the website:

Proven out in the world’s nastiest SuperPipes, two-part thermoset resin and epoxy blend that consistently delivers the industry’s most insane flex - at all temperatures and under extreme cyclical loading conditions. It bonds, flexes and responds, but it does not break!

lights + insane flex = ???

**gramboh** · 12-07-2010, 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by telesucks

I imagine you are probably something like this really cool dad:

YouTube - Angry skier dad tries to fight snowboarders

The dad went way over the top, but those boarders are idiots jibbing a skinny cat track on a busy day. That is Glacier Road on Blackcomb, which is the easy way down to Crystal, it also passes above a big cliff band (which a novice skier who fell off the cat track went over a few seasons ago). Jibbing is fun, skier or boarder, but doing it on busy cat tracks/greens is fucking stupid.

**DasBlunt** · 12-07-2010, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by TurxSki

Dude, hello, your username is a put down/call out.
W
It is a well accepted fact that *most all* snowboarders do not know "the code" as they learned how by hanging out with their loser chums, not by taking lessons.
Hence the never looking uphill when they start out, coming to a stop in the middle of a trail and hanging out, etc.
I'd be happy if they just stopped scraping off all the snow with their heel-edge...

Dude, these days, it all evens out with the numbers of raging douche bags arguing on the hill and people both skiers and snowboarders who know none of the rules.

Take your angst back to the 90s.

**TurxSki** · 12-07-2010, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by DasBlunt

...both skiers and snowboarders who know none of the rules...
...Take your angst back to the 90s.

Sorry brah, I gotta disagree. Don't know why you're even disputing it. Your beliefs versus everyone elses actual experience.

Just take a look at the groms. Ski-kids are often in a bunch "in class", with a teacher, right OneHotChilly, Dookey?
But young kids on boards are hanging around in the park, with older kids, dialing in their tricks.

..and I wasn't doing snow stuff in the 90's. Nor were my aunts!
I'm a 21st Century Ski (zoid) Man...dah dahdahdah dah dah daaah.

**halcyon** · 12-07-2010, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by bcd

That doesn't make you a gaper. It just makes you a fuckin hero. There's a pretty big difference.

There, I fixed it for you.

I created a new thread for this argument about asshole skier/snowboarders cutting people off and what the appropriate response is. I'd like to know what telesucks, DasBlunt, and bcd think is the right way to deal with someone (anyone) cutting off a less able skier/boarder friend of theirs: [ame="http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3089240"]Proper way to deal with reckless skier/boarders? - Teton Gravity Research Forums[/ame]

Back to the funny.

**MarcusBrody** · 12-07-2010, 10:00 PM

Not gaper quotes per se, but Epic Ski is dialed in tonight with the active threads being one asking for validation on how it's admirable to ski powder on skinny skis in order to perfect "technique" and another titled "What has happened to the classic lines of skiwear?" that features wistful wishes for the return of Bogners.

**BrianH** · 12-08-2010, 04:21 PM

In the old gondola at Stowe, I ask how her day is going and the very distressed woman from Philly says:

"There's all these humps of snow and they have ice on the back. [rising whiny inflection] ... They're dangerous!"

**Crampedon** · 12-08-2010, 07:32 PM

I was getting a little boot tweaking done early this morning at a shop.
Guy who looks like John Q. Gapenstien had a little shell fit action going on while I was waiting, Tech says yeah, at least a full shell size smaller, lower volume boot, we have some demo's. Bring in your PSIA card for a pro-form and we can set you up with a pair if you like them (Guy must have said he was an instructor)
"what's a Pro-form, a liner?" tech was ah, no...did not mention the discount. Then he gets the demo boot and the tech gets his skis which were demos from elsewhere to adjust them, "What do you set your DIN at"

DIN? he says.... Gonna be a long winter!

**Shadam** · 12-09-2010, 06:03 AM

So its the end of the day, last run after 4pm. I'm cruising down thru the gaper zone and thus going slow and this milf wearing ipod is making the worst unpredictable turns as she works her way across the slope and lines me up but is completely oblivious. I take extreme evasive action but buddy behind me gets it wrong and BANG! bodies collide. It was ugly, 2 skiers yard sale and she was a-hurtin! But the bitch was wearing a helmet and ipod, I called out to her and she clearly didn't hear me and I wathced her line up buddy perfectly.
1 wearing ipod!
2 wearing helmet!
3 cutting across existing run!
4 FEMALE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
= way to ruin a great day

Helldawg · 12-09-2010, 06:08 AM

^^^

5. NOT A GAPER QUOTE!

You FAIL fucking JONG!!!

**Snakeboy** · 12-09-2010, 06:40 AM

Originally Posted by Shadam

So its the end of the day, last run after 4pm. I'm cruising down thru the gaper zone and thus going slow and this milf wearing ipod is making the worst unpredictable turns as she works her way across the slope and lines me up but is completely oblivious. I take extreme evasive action but buddy behind me gets it wrong and BANG! bodies collide. It was ugly, 2 skiers yard sale and she was a-hurtin! But the bitch was wearing a helmet and ipod, I called out to her and she clearly didn't hear me and I wathced her line up buddy perfectly.
1 wearing ipod!
2 wearing helmet!
3 cutting across existing run!
4 FEMALE !!!!!!!!!!!!!
= way to ruin a great day

1. Your fault or your buddies. If she was downhill its your fault.
2. And its your fault for not gently caressing her wounds and bringin her to the hot tub later since it was the end of the day.
3. And its your fault for not adhering to the thread subject.
4. Male (maybe?)
= way to ruin a great thread moron.

**MotherFucker** · 12-09-2010, 08:49 AM

A dude posted somethng about "glowboardz" and this was said:

Originally Posted by point it

wow i cant believe I just saw that..... definitely just bumped that up to the top of my christmas wish list

**QuikR12** · 12-09-2010, 10:37 AM

Originally Posted by MotherFucker

A dude posted somethng about "glowboardz" and this was said:

Originally Posted by Point it

wow i cant believe I just saw that..... definitely just bumped that up to the top of my christmas wish list

Probably how he intends to let his parents know he's gay...

**OverTurn** · 12-09-2010, 12:03 PM

or...it was sarcasm? maybe?

**point it** · 12-09-2010, 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by OverTurn

or...it was sarcasm? maybe?

glad to see not everyone is relying primarily on their cerebellum for day to day interactions....

**OSECS** · 12-09-2010, 01:16 PM

Originally Posted by OverTurn

or...it was sarcasm? maybe?

On this site ?? Get the fuck outta town !

**BirdosRider** · 12-09-2010, 11:11 PM

"As you know, we in the Wasatch hate booting, it's undignified and ungraceful."

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