Your experience here at TGR

[Bromontana]

someone ask for a bong?

[skiballs]

step 2, on to step three.

I'll go with watch porn.

[Tippster]

Wax skis has to be one of the steps. Same goes for strapping on the LesboStrap2000

I hate it when people who used to contribute but now only lurk post shit like "it used to be better when... [I used to post regularly]." Whose fault is that, exactly? There were douchebags back in 2003 too.

[fatnslow]

I don't have cable so this is my entertainment. Both comedy and porn. Just got hooked up on some ski pants for my kid by a total stranger while checking out some dudes hottie's TITS. TGR for the win !

[guroo270]

...while checking out some dudes hottie's fits.

Know how I know you're ghey?

[Mazderati]

This place has less baggage and less ego than every other forum I've found.

[nest]

This place has less baggage and less ego than every other forum I've found.

Hugh's head just exploded

[Hugh Conway]

are you kidding? the schtick schmucks like you come up with is fucking hilarious. the keyser soze of TGR, a douche story douche's tell their kids. up there with everyone pretending they can sort bullshit from reality here.

[XXX-er]

Its all fucking bulshit ... including you

[EaglesPDX]

Over time, the signal to noise (which was always in flux) changed from mostly signal to mostly a lot of noise. (and trust me when I say that during the summer there was a shitload of noise)

Actually your hearing starts going as you age and you lose the ability to hear the high notes.

This was during a time in which people didn't really use the internet for physically connecting with people. This was during a time when telling someone that you were flying to Utah to meet someone off the internet that you didn't know was the equivalent of telling someone that you were hiring a russian hooker to service your crank with a vacuum cleaner on Tuesdays."

People have been using the internet to physically connect with people since the 1980's with the CompuServe Forums and flying to Miami or Annapolis or Auckland to meet up at events was a yearly deal. It was definitely the dawn of time, Michael Dell was still working in his garage and and supporting his products personally but that is still happening today it's just that you won't know it was a Michael Dell or a Jake Carpenter you were dealing with on some gamer or ski or app forum for another 20 internet years.

Think of it as the big bang theory, way more neat stuff in the online universe than back then.

Like good forum software...sheesh....upgrade to XenForo this is like skiing on wooden skis.

Glory days.

[MakersTeleMark]

this is like skiing on wooden skis.Glory days.

I had a uvvarpa account in 88 or 89. Trolled the shit out of wreck.moto, climbing, and skiing. Helped start rec.music.phish back in '89. Me and Matt Hoffman from UMASS got them from a listserve to a usenet group.

We have been on wooden skis for a very long time. Bumped into Kya at the brewery after a moto tour and my growler had a '06 mag summit sticker on it. So good keeping up with the good folks, and his family, etc.

So, who is going to keep the torch rolling? Step up!

[EaglesPDX]

So, who is going to keep the torch rolling? Step up!

Never been to a torch roll before. I think it's Class 4 green lasers now. '89 was late in the game, by then Windows and AOL were starting to take over the online forums.

[AKPogue]

Its fucking hilarious that people get all bent about it. If people can't handle Hugh, then the early, mid-2000's here must have driven them crazy with all the aliases beating on each other.

I always remember this place (and powmag) being more hilarious (maybe original) for some reason. TR's always seemed to be about someone having a shitload of fun and wanting to share it with the group, now half the time it seems like they are linked to some other blog or whatever. I will say that there are some amazing people doing crazy shit (crazy backpacking loops in Alaska for example) that come here to share it, which is awesome.

Hindsight though.

I think people just got tired of Hugh, it is an extremely rare occurrence when I think he has said anything remotely funny. I can't even fathom why he takes the time to say all the shit he does. I can't even imagine why he wastes all that time to post so much shit.

I have never been a prolific poster and never will be, but I also think the people that used to be around were a lot more original and funny. I can't recall any thread like some of the old stuff being posted here in awhile. There used to be a lot more women on this board too and they handled and also dished right back the comments on this board. At one time they even were going to put together a calendar. The biggest problem is it just got too big and lost the family type atmosphere.

[MakersTeleMark]

to hugh's chagrin it appears to be dunfee for now.

Note to Dunfee: Emo Forum, create.

[AKPogue]

I think the best analogy of the history of this place that I can think of is this place used to be a small mountain town with a lot of diverse people who shared a passion for skiing. Now this place has turned into a city with all the crap that a city has and even the liberal leaning bent to it.

[MakersTeleMark]

I think the best analogy of the history of this place that I can think of is this place used to be a small mountain town with a lot of diverse people who shared a passion for skiing. Now this place has turned into a city with all the crap that a city has and even the liberal leaning bent to it.

That's really accurate, actually. Politics aside. Fuck You Asshole ;?P

[EaglesPDX]

I think the best analogy of the history of this place that I can think of is this place used to be a small mountain town with a lot of diverse people who shared a passion for skiing. Now this place has turned into a city with all the crap that a city has and even the liberal leaning bent to it.

Kind of like Park City but that was liberal (for UT) then and now, it's just bigger and has more wifi and better places to eat.

[The Suit]

Never been to a torch roll before. I think it's Class 4 green lasers now. '89 was late in the game, by then Windows and AOL were starting to take over the online forums.

EaglesPDX == Badass Internet Pioneer

[Meadow Skipper]

I thought Usenet was a lot of fun until all the mouthbreathers showed up.

[the Cock]

This thread is soy.
(claiming my TGR cred.)

Oh, and I'm here to piss on the feel good happy vibe of the ecrc, just trying to keep it real.

From:spawn of sledneckripper/blurred flame war days.

And bring back the motherfuckin' tags!!

[EaglesPDX]

EaglesPDX == Badass Internet Pioneer

And I've got the thank you letter from Al Gore to prove it.

[jfost]

Started the forum thing at VWVortex for a couple of years, then migrated here and found it less moderated and more fun.

But yeah, some things that used to be fun aren't so much anymore. Not sure who changed!?!

[abraham]

And I've got the thank you letter from Al Gore to prove it.

For someone who personally created the internet for Al Gore, it took you a long time to find this place and register.

[skifishbum]

Wax skis has to be one of the steps. Same goes for strapping on the LesboStrap2000

I hate it when people who used to contribute but now only lurk post shit like "it used to be better when... [I used to post regularly]." Whose fault is that, exactly? There were douchebags back in 2003 too.

eggzackly and most of em are face fuckers now
like being a zuckerbitch was ever cool or is a community.

Kind of like Park City but that was liberal (for UT) then and now, it's just bigger and has more wifi and better places to eat.

yo jong

[spook]

I think the best analogy of the history of this place that I can think of is this place used to be a small mountain town with a lot of diverse people who shared a passion for skiing. Now this place has turned into a city with all the crap that a city has and even the liberal leaning bent to it.

don't you have something you can shoot at, gijoe?