Shit that annoys you

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Originally Posted by gravitylover

It's not about not wanting to, she's the worst driver I've ever known. My grandmother scared me but this kid terrifies me and the thought of being in the car helpless when she makes a poor decision just doesn't sit right with me and my wife won't even consider it. Some people just shouldn't drive and she's one of them.

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Or maybe an ebike. Not a chance in hell I would shuttle my adult kid around.

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Originally Posted by Dantheman

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Or maybe an ebike. Not a chance in hell I would shuttle my adult kid around.

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No kidding. Give them 3 months to place their feet and then start charging market rate rent and tell them to take an Uber.

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Originally Posted by Not DJSapp

This is a surprise? It's not if you think about it. Back in our day, you could actually GET AWAY from your parents, and we knew we were on our own. No cell phones, no pagers, no airpods tracking us. No method of immediate guaranteed communication or even location information. Add a solid dose of the survailance/tiktok recording state and knowing that somewhere, someone is recording whatever is going on. Combine that with cars that you can't do some shade tree DIY to tune, fix up or customize to your teenage whims, and the whole concept of independence is gone. What illusion of independence are we offering kids now?

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You make a good point. Pretty tough for a kid to just take off and be completely out of reach from their parents for a few hours anymore. Sort of sad, really.

My daughter is 18 now, close to finishing HS and has a nice little Mini CooperS in the garage. She hasn’t driven to school since December. I get that due to the amount of snow we got this season in the valley. It sucks in the snow. So mom drives her to school everyday.
Well we don’t have snow on the roads anymore so I’ve pushed her to start driving herself again so my wife can sleep an extra hour a day.
Her excuse this morning was my truck is blocking her in the driveway. I moved my truck. Mom still drove her to school. That annoys me.

In days past, someone would have dropped a photoshop of Blurred riding a mobility scooter right about now.

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Originally Posted by The AD

Come on, now. Anyone without physical or mental limitations can learn to drive a car safely. It's not rocket science. It does, however, take some practice.

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Maybe you should walk a kilometer in someone else's moccasins.

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Originally Posted by riser4

Maybe you should walk a kilometer in someone else's moccasins.

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I'm really not seeing your point here. Why can't people who are capable of driving drive? I understand that some people would prefer to be chauffeured around, but that doesn't seem like a great reason to not drive to me. Again, if there's some valid reason not to drive (age, physical limitations. etc.), that's different. If you are capable of driving but choose not to, don't expect others to cart you around. What am I missing?

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Originally Posted by The AD

I'm really not seeing your point here. Why can't people who are capable of driving drive? I understand that some people would prefer to be chauffeured around, but that doesn't seem like a great reason to not drive to me. Again, if there's some valid reason not to drive (age, physical limitations. etc.), that's different. If you are capable of driving but choose not to, don't expect others to cart you around. What am I missing?

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You don't know everyone's circumstances.

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Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn

This is really annoying. The fact that someone would be so stupid to post this meme

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I generally scroll right by that kind of content, but this particular one is just so strange and unfunny. And how the hell does it belong in this thread?

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Originally Posted by Not DJSapp

This is a surprise? It's not if you think about it. Back in our day, you could actually GET AWAY from your parents, and we knew we were on our own. No cell phones, no pagers, no airpods tracking us. No method of immediate guaranteed communication or even location information. Add a solid dose of the survailance/tiktok recording state and knowing that somewhere, someone is recording whatever is going on. Combine that with cars that you can't do some shade tree DIY to tune, fix up or customize to your teenage whims, and the whole concept of independence is gone. What illusion of independence are we offering kids now?

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Sure, and the other side of this coin is a double whammy for teenagers wanting to drive, where they don’t NEED to occupy the same physical space to have high context interaction with their friends and peers. Anybody who has witnessed a group of teenagers in a living room all silently working their phones, with the occasional giggle or callout, knows this.

Given how unsafe they are on the roads I consider this a good thing, on balance. It wouldn’t bother me too much if my kids were a little less excited to be able to drive, but both my oldest have worked the system such that they are fully licensed by day 0 of their legal driving age.

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Originally Posted by Buzzworthy

Well we don’t have snow on the roads anymore so I’ve pushed her to start driving herself again so my wife can sleep an extra hour a day.
Her excuse this morning was my truck is blocking her in the driveway. I moved my truck. Mom still drove her to school. That annoys me.

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It annoys me how wrong I was today 😂
Wife just got home with said adult child to half an inch of frozen graupel, sliding around icy corners from this freak storm that just went through.
Driving the Mini would have been pretty sketch in this.

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Originally Posted by Not DJSapp

This is a surprise? It's not if you think about it. Back in our day, you could actually GET AWAY from your parents, and we knew we were on our own. No cell phones, no pagers, no airpods tracking us. No method of immediate guaranteed communication or even location information. Add a solid dose of the survailance/tiktok recording state and knowing that somewhere, someone is recording whatever is going on. Combine that with cars that you can't do some shade tree DIY to tune, fix up or customize to your teenage whims, and the whole concept of independence is gone. What illusion of independence are we offering kids now?

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I remember trying to explain to my dad how put 120 miles on the car on a Saturday night. (I don't remember the reasons--not the real one and not the one I made up.)

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Originally Posted by riser4

You don't know everyone's circumstances.

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Care to elaborate? Your one sentence responses aren't really helping me to understand.

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Originally Posted by The AD

Care to elaborate? Your one sentence responses aren't really helping me to understand.

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He can't and he won't because he thinks that because his kid has a disability the actual idiot kids who refuse to drive should be cut some slack.

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Originally Posted by MagnificentUnicorn

This is really annoying. The fact that someone would be so stupid to post this meme


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Heh




Heh


How dare you!!

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Originally Posted by riser4

You don't know everyone's circumstances.

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Maybe consider that this is TRG and not be so easily triggered.

Over exaggerated pow slashes that aren't even turns but more like quick hockey stops to blow snow up in front of cameras. It just isn't that nice to look at.
I've seen video clips recently where every other "turn" is one of those. I'm not a fan.

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

Over exaggerated pow slashes that aren't even turns but more like quick hockey stops to blow snow up in front of cameras. It just isn't that nice to look at.
I've seen video clips recently where every other "turn" is one of those. I'm not a fan.

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#golfclap

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

Over exaggerated pow slashes that aren't even turns but more like quick hockey stops to blow snow up in front of cameras. It just isn't that nice to look at.
I've seen video clips recently where every other "turn" is one of those. I'm not a fan.

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It’s the same shit basically. I’m certainly bored of those shots anymore

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Originally Posted by Buzzworthy

It’s the same shit basically. I’m certainly bored of those shot anymore

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Yeah, I scroll left immediately. I guess it doesn't really annoy me but it doesn't appeal to me.

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

Over exaggerated pow slashes that aren't even turns but more like quick hockey stops to blow snow up in front of cameras. It just isn't that nice to look at.
I've seen video clips recently where every other "turn" is one of those. I'm not a fan.

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You can lump what seems to be damm near every BC mag or Powder cover photo into that.

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

Over exaggerated pow slashes that aren't even turns but more like quick hockey stops to blow snow up in front of cameras. It just isn't that nice to look at.
I've seen video clips recently where every other "turn" is one of those. I'm not a fan.

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My IG feed is loaded with "pow-slayers" like this. I remember in the old days we made fun of those who locked their ankles together and tail-gunned their way down the mountain; not unlike this latest crop of skiers.

As a bumper I have no problem with no daylight getting through the legs, but you still gotta make a turn; you're not snowboarders for God's sake :fmicon:

Basically the same as every Warren Miller movie the last fifteen years. I stopped watching them cause I’d get bored every time.

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Originally Posted by John_B

You can lump what seems to be damm near every BC mag or Powder cover photo into that.

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Nah, those aren't what I mean. Most Hollywood turns that would be on the cover of pow are staged, yes but they were actual turns. I'll actually do those for photo work but we indeed trying to capture real turns. Maybe a little exaggerated but I'll do those even if there isn't a camera around.

I'm talking about the feet together, unnecessary pow jab.

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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

My IG feed is loaded with "pow-slayers" like this. I remember in the old days we made fun of those who locked their ankles together and tail-gunned their way down the mountain; not unlike this latest crop of skiers.

As a bumper I have no problem with no daylight getting through the legs, but you still gotta make a turn; you're not snowboarders for God's sake :fmicon:

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Yup, you know what I was thinking of. And lets not get those turns confused with bumpers, freaking bumpers are the raddest skiers out there imho!

I got off the lift a few weeks ago and saw this kid hiking up a closed run. He was really going at it like he was booting a couloir, I had seen the same technique out of snowboarders at Silverton, throwing their board in front of themselves for leverage. Well, he get about 50 feet up the trail and stops. I’m thinking, has he never ridden pow and wants to give it a try? Wonder if he’s going to be able to make a turn? It was a reasonably steep pitch and probably 2 feet of snow had accumulated. I start out the cat track all the while watching him and notice he has a buddy…. Aha! They’re filming for their social media. Sure enough the dude links these to big slashes with pow going everywhere. Ironically the riding of actual open terrain that day wasn’t that good. So these two twats spend a half hour to set up a little mock photo shoot to fool their followers. So rad.

I hate to break it to you, but that’s how lots and lots of ski content is procured. Has been like that forever.

Maybe not the hiking into closed terrain thing, but the rest of it.

Since the thread has gone there, I'm just going to say it. 99% of POV sucks.

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Originally Posted by Ted Striker

Since the thread has gone there, I'm just going to say it. 99% of POV sucks.

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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

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I believe.

GSA FTW

Praxis RX

I was watching an X games women's skier cross at Sugar Bowl. The racers were impressive. The cameraman skiing just as fast through the tight trees next to the run with his eyes glued to the camera was more impressive.
Filming in (then) Squaw Palisades ( the runs, not the resort). The guys airing the cliff into Main Chute were impressive. The photographer who had climbed down over the cornice and was working from the near-vertical slope just below was more impressive.
In the Everest IMAX film Viesters and Segarra making the summit were impressive. Breshears and his crew who made it to the summit lugging an IMAX camera to film them--and weren't seen on camera--were more impressive.
My son likes to put me in improbable places to video him skiing. Neither one of us is impressive.

What annoys you about all that?

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

I'm talking about the feet together, unnecessary pow jab.

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Here's a perfect example, and it annoys the shit out of me too. This came up on my feed the other day.. I don't know what I did to deserve it but clearly I need to change my search habits.

Feet together unnecessary pow jabbing starts at the 2:00 mark.

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Originally Posted by old goat

I remember trying to explain to my dad how put 120 miles on the car on a Saturday night. (I don't remember the reasons--not the real one and not the one I made up.)

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Once we discovered how easy it was to unscrew the speedo cable from dad’s Mustang GT, we just had to calculate the correct fuel tank level that matched our known travel.
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Originally Posted by powdrhound

Once we discovered how easy it was to unscrew the speedo cable from dad’s Mustang GT, we just had to calculate the correct fuel tank level that matched our known travel.
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Coulda just always returned it full everytime.

The shit ass tree service with the underpowered chain saws and dull chains the neighbors hired

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Originally Posted by JayPowHound

Here's a perfect example, and it annoys the shit out of me too. This came up on my feed the other day.. I don't know what I did to deserve it but clearly I need to change my search habits.

Feet together unnecessary pow jabbing starts at the 2:00 mark.

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^^This!

I do have a theory… here me out…

It’s been a few years since collectively the West has had decent snow. Many of these “kids” haven’t really been witness to this season’s depth and frequency before. They’ve had to improvise in prior years to create visuals for their “grams” and “reels” and they’ve not adjusted properly to current conditions - go figure. They are slashing unnecessarily.

AND, imo, the gear used by way too many people doesn’t let you get as deep into the snow. The only way to create/fake a “twin turbine” effect with 125cm wide water skis on is to slash, otherwise it looks like you’re skiing ankle deep snow…




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DPreview.com is shutting down in April

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Originally Posted by Lvovsky

DPreview.com is shutting down in April

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Yeah that's some bullshit.