This is what's wrong with The Industry™
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The only thing I trust LBS to do is sell me a derailleur cable or tube in an emergency.
This one I'm talking about used to be good. They've become that "derailleur cable or tube in an emergency" type shop.
Can we talk about skiing here? Or is that bad?
CNN: Covid has shuttered the ski season in the Alps -- with one exception.
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I mean, we all know France surrenders first and all
..but last season North America resorts followed EU in their decsion to close down early.
For me that means Vail Resorts. And i gotta say the "reservation system" kinda sucks...
Point being...is the ski season over already? At least from a resort perspective...back wood terrain would seem to be the go to during this shit times...but not really an option for my family...
CNN: Covid has shuttered the ski season in the Alps -- with one exception.
Covid has shuttered the ski season in the Alps -- with one exception
With Covid-related ski lift closures in Austria, France, Italy and Germany, the Alps will be a no-go area for skiers over the usually busy year-end holiday season. So why, just a few miles away in Switzerland, is it a completely different story?
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I mean, we all know France surrenders first and all
..but last season North America resorts followed EU in their decsion to close down early. For me that means Vail Resorts. And i gotta say the "reservation system" kinda sucks...
Point being...is the ski season over already? At least from a resort perspective...back wood terrain would seem to be the go to during this shit times...but not really an option for my family...
Our resort, the Portes du Soleil is a grouping of connected resorts in Switzerland and France. Champery is opening today and Châtel can‘t open until mid January, I think.... If they don’t get to open for Christmas it’s around 30% of their annual income they loose out on... The mayor of Châtel put up Swiss flags all over the village last week.
There was talk of shuttle busses from Châtel to Champery for French skiers to come over and ski here. I didn’t follow if they went through with it. It’s a health/wealth or wealth/health flip of the coin every month. Pretty stoked to ride some powder today and there are plenty of options to avoid trams and gondolas. Other resorts have gondola and tram bottlenecks. I don’t really feel like getting sardined.
@kidwoo - Friends who should be quarantined but go ski touring is a thing here too now.
There was talk of shuttle busses from Châtel to Champery for French skiers to come over and ski here. I didn’t follow if they went through with it. It’s a health/wealth or wealth/health flip of the coin every month. Pretty stoked to ride some powder today and there are plenty of options to avoid trams and gondolas. Other resorts have gondola and tram bottlenecks. I don’t really feel like getting sardined.
@kidwoo - Friends who should be quarantined but go ski touring is a thing here too now.
And then somewhere thereabouts we finally grounded the 737 Max.I mean, we all know France surrenders first and all
You and I Both know know that's not going to spread covid. But you and I can pretty much walk out of our houses and go do that, and there's no lodge based apres time, or lodging involved.
The problem is that fools from Monaco, San Francisco and London don't get that its everything that goes along with them thinking they're doing the same thing that is the problem. Rich twats who chose monied careers and amenities in cities don't get to treat rural access like it's theirs now. We chose access over money, now they want both. We don't need to travel and stress infrastructure to do that. Realizing that takes some self awareness however.....and if 2020 has shown anything, western civilization ain't too good at that.
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Yeah..... I give up... fuck it.
It’s like when I couldn’t handle stuff 24 years ago so I went and lived in the bush in AK for a year and a half, but ima pussy and it was too hard so now I dabble my pinky toe in the real world one day a week and then go back to the mountains to hideout.
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Stay sane this winter. 2020 has shown a little of how ugly and selfish people really are.
At least you have a mad scientist shop to make up wierd shit to play with.
I'm going insane enough that I decided making myself a ski boot press was a good idea. My feet are pretty fucked up, but the ROI here is... probably going to be really bad.Stay sane this winter. 2020 has shown a little of how ugly and selfish people really are.
At least you have a mad scientist shop to make up wierd shit to play with.
I'm having fun though.
Sounds like a great idea! Like to make your own boot shells? injection molding at home? sweet!
@kidwoo I've been to over 20 Grateful Dead shows before I was 20. Nickleback was never really on the radar. Widespread Panic was my Nickleback. I really tried to like it...
a friend played this for me yesterday and I liked it. Pissed with hands in pockets!
Ha, no not nearly that involved. It's a press for doing boot fitting work. It's for punching out shells to make more room in specific spots.
Sleaford mods are awesome.
Give IDLES a listen too @buckoW
Both bands styles are more than a little reminiscent of The Fall, Frank Sidebottom and John Cooper in my eyes (ears)
Give IDLES a listen too @buckoW
Both bands styles are more than a little reminiscent of The Fall, Frank Sidebottom and John Cooper in my eyes (ears)
Went to 3 dead shows in the Bay Area. One of them we stayed in the parking lot. In all honesty that was better than being inside the show. That was The Cow Palace in 1994 I believe...
[Cool story bro warning]
I had a ticket for what ended up being the final Grateful Dead show in Chicago in the mid90s. I gave it away to a buddy so he could invite a girl. I didn't like the Dead just wanted to see what the fuss was all about.
A few weeks later I'm interviewing for a job with Washburn guitars and news of Garcia's passing comes across the wire. The Director interviewing me freaked out, was a huge dead fan, and almost in tears. I told him about me giving away my ticket and not liking them. The interview was over.
Buddy is still married to that girl.
[This completes today's cool story bro]
I had a ticket for what ended up being the final Grateful Dead show in Chicago in the mid90s. I gave it away to a buddy so he could invite a girl. I didn't like the Dead just wanted to see what the fuss was all about.
A few weeks later I'm interviewing for a job with Washburn guitars and news of Garcia's passing comes across the wire. The Director interviewing me freaked out, was a huge dead fan, and almost in tears. I told him about me giving away my ticket and not liking them. The interview was over.
Buddy is still married to that girl.
[This completes today's cool story bro]
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I’m a hippie what can I say? My tie dye shirts have come back around though, haha.
Nice! Thanks Gary.Sleaford mods are awesome.
Give IDLES a listen too @buckoW
Both bands styles are more than a little reminiscent of The Fall, Frank Sidebottom and John Cooper in my eyes (ears)
Yeah, i did that too a few timesand it was a lot of fun! We would go backpacking, mountain biking and drive around from AZ to AK catching concerts all over. First in VW busses then in Toyota trucks. I was really good at getting Giardia back then.
The last in person concert I attended was Phish.
@buckoW only time I ever saw widespread was MSG on halloween night. It was quite the spectacle.
One of the most painful moments of my life - threw an outdoor campout renegade rave, got busted, most of the crowd left, our crew plus some stragglers partied on. There were two stereos going, one playing Phish, the other playing terrible jungle (which is almost all jungle in my book), and I was trashed to the point where standing up wasn't an option. It was like being locked in Johnny Got His Gun style.
Haha! @kidwoo who’s the guy in the second pic? I listen to Jimi on a daily basis in between old Black Sabbath weeks.
I been listen to Merle Haggard on repeat for about 6 months now too. The bottle let me down is a good one. What does that get me?
Greateful Dead before 1970 is more bluesy with Pigpen singing. I like lots of music before 1975.
Just to be sure w’re talking about the same thing. This is the era I like from the Dead.... not like it matters but hey!
@jstuhlman I thought I liked Phish when they first started and I even went to a show or two at Nectars in Vermont but then I couldn’t for the life of me find any songs I actually liked to listen to.... It was very strange. Must have been the mush.... Widespread always sucked to my ears but everyone I knew or lived with listened to it. That’s why I said it was my Nickleback. I just couldn’t get away from it.
It’s been interesting living in Switzerland and hearing songs like « you can’t make a hoe a housewife« and other gems in the lobby at the doctors office, work, etc.... It’s funny hearing such profanity everywhere but it’s not in a language people understand so it’s just music.
I been listen to Merle Haggard on repeat for about 6 months now too. The bottle let me down is a good one. What does that get me?
Greateful Dead before 1970 is more bluesy with Pigpen singing. I like lots of music before 1975.
Just to be sure w’re talking about the same thing. This is the era I like from the Dead.... not like it matters but hey!
@jstuhlman I thought I liked Phish when they first started and I even went to a show or two at Nectars in Vermont but then I couldn’t for the life of me find any songs I actually liked to listen to.... It was very strange. Must have been the mush.... Widespread always sucked to my ears but everyone I knew or lived with listened to it. That’s why I said it was my Nickleback. I just couldn’t get away from it.
It’s been interesting living in Switzerland and hearing songs like « you can’t make a hoe a housewife« and other gems in the lobby at the doctors office, work, etc.... It’s funny hearing such profanity everywhere but it’s not in a language people understand so it’s just music.
your man from widepread panic
Haha! My bro.
Haha.... Hey, I keep trying to communicate that in my hippie world Widespread is equal to your Nickleback. I see you as a 90’s Mountain Dew X kinda guy haha where Nickleback might have been as present and appreciated as my Widespread. Honestly, that whole part of my world died when I moved here in 2001. I had a backpack and a bike box so sadly I had to leave all my bootleg tapes at my Mom’s house.
I jokingly called my roommates Widespreaders in college because of all the humping and patchouli.
I have some friends who are really into Phish and have been to several shows. I enjoyed all of them, but the root cause had less to do with the music than what was consumed in the parking lot. Never listened to them outside of a show.
Considering those friends it makes sense that they were attracted to Phish shows. They are the most poorly behaved individuals I have ever hung out with and someone would kick the shit out of them if they weren't surrounded by a bunch of docile hippies. I may have occasionally contributed to such behavior.
Considering those friends it makes sense that they were attracted to Phish shows. They are the most poorly behaved individuals I have ever hung out with and someone would kick the shit out of them if they weren't surrounded by a bunch of docile hippies. I may have occasionally contributed to such behavior.
haha, those were fun times! Sounds very similar to my experiences. I still enjoy behaving poorly though. Keeps me giggling like a kid. I’m sure I have a bunch of Phish recordings somewhere. My Mom moved here for retirement and brought me all my old shit like tennis rackets, 25 year old hockey gear and my Phish tapes, haha.
I agree completely. There is no 'my' in nickleback. That shit sucks just as bad as noodly nowhere nursery rhymes that hippie jam bands made careers out of just because an audience never got further than "baked is the point, maaannn". Nickleback is just the drunk frat boy version of bad.
*sigh*
There was another 90s ya know..........
A 90's we could be proud of 30 years later.......
A 90's that tapped into youthful coming of age but is not a source of embarrassment in adulthood.....
A 90's that was awesome, and not fed to you by either fat hippy noodly leftovers or overtly misogynistic date rapers to be, propped up by the same people that brought you poison and winger....
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Dood, I know. I was just playing. You sure no Mountain Dew?I agree completely. There is no 'my' in nickleback. That shit sucks just as bad as noodly nowhere nursery rhymes that hippie jam bands made careers out of. Nickleback is just the drunk frat boy version of bad.
*sigh*
There was another 90s ya know..........
A 90's we could be proud of 30 years later.......
A 90's that tapped into youthful coming of age but is not a source of embarrassment in adulthood.....
zero mountain dew
think back
jolt cola, bro
jolt cola
Nah, just kidding. That was just as shitty as phish.
think back
jolt cola, bro
jolt cola
Nah, just kidding. That was just as shitty as phish.
I ingested everything under the sun, in mass quantities and it never made that shit sound any better.
"I like my friends and the MDMA and scrooms we ate, but what's that annoying shit in the background?"
Never touched the MDMA, nor did I ever wear neon fishnets and suck on a pacifier, perhaps that is the difference.