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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Is Yolanda a snowhead - looks very similar in content to advice being solicited here recently on which resorts had off-piste guided groups?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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... and the answer is yes our own MountainMaid. Just waiting on the Torygraph article on why Salomon BBRs are wack and how duct tape and gardening gloves improve your steez.
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She really ought to know then, that St Moritz is not in France
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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So a typical journo: her own research is s hit (viz. St. Moritz) and the good bits are from getting the people on this forum to do her own work for her. How do these idiots get their jobs? Clearly going to the right unis/schools must help, as the standard of journalism these days in w ank. Read "Flat Earth News".
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Oh yeah: here's a good example: where did a paediatrician end up being run out of town because the local neanderthals though the doctor was a paedophile? Or the story about the girl who had a turd tattooed on her back after cheating on her tattooist boyfriend? They go round and round every year, just like the photos of fat, drunken slags slumped in the street. Yawn.
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| fatbob wrote: |
| Is Yolanda a snowhead - looks very similar in content to advice being solicited here recently on which resorts had off-piste guided groups? |
Yes, met her on the PSB. I hadn't noticed the thread you refer to, but I did notice this one: http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=80867 which I didn't have a problem with as she was straight from the start that she's doing an article and then posts a link to the published result. (I agree it's annoying when we see things appearing where the author hasn't admitted why they were really asking a Q though, and I've no idea if she did in your thread in question.)
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| andersont wrote: |
| How do these idiots get their jobs?. |
by getting other people to do their work for them, perhaps?
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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wigan, I think she was clear she was researching an article so IMV it's fine. We just have to seduce her at some point with totally fictional information to see if we can get it into print 
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fatbob, challenge accepted 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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They're journalists. They're paid to write about things they don't know about. And in order to find things out, they generally ask their friends.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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They're journalists. They're paid to write about things they don't know about
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So true. Whenever I read a general newspaper article about something I know a lot about, it is always so full of "dumbing-down" errors it makes me pretty sure all the other stuff, that I don't know anything about, must be pants as well
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fatbob, watch Starsuckers. They earn quite a few quid from making things up about celebrities.
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You know it makes sense.
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sanman, yes, I've often thought that too!
Take it all with a pinch of salt now and would never make/ change an important decision based on anything I read in a paper of any standing.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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A dumbwit at our local dry slope crashed and broke his leg one evening many years ago. Next thing you know the local rag has written an article about how this great skier had been racing at 80 mph (on a 100 m long strip of plastic) and ran out of slope. Nothing has changed and the main reason I don't read general newspapers. Now if it had said what wax he was using...
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Poster: A snowHead
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uktrailmonster, I read the Sun but as I would the Beano, an entertaining diversion but with added nipples. The Daily Mail site is good for hypocrisy: lots of tarts wearing not a lot.
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