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  1. SallyCat
    Ah, that's good. Then I needn't have qualified it. Still feel like I can talk about myself any goddamned way I want regardless of Eaf's concern for my emotional wellbeing! And @RootDKJ I always have pocket beer after 11am. Currently in the rotation is 21st Amendment Brewery's Blood Orange IPA.
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    Still got the number! ZING.
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    Keep it up and I'll give you my lecture on the history of the umlaut. No, not here. On a chairlift. When you'd rather be talking to Steeze. I will block you from the PASR chair and monopolize the entire ride talking about medieval Latin until you cry.
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    I for one welcome this thread's new Steezy Overlord! Eaf, I wrote a post about the napkin that I thought was funny, but then I realized that if you don't really know me it sounded like I was being all "I'm kind of a big deal blah, blah I have all the napkins...." So I corrected (in your view overcorrected; fair enough) by clarifying that I'm pretty plain-looking and old and was dressed in baggy ski gear, and am happily single, so it was pretty funny that a teenager would give me his number. Whether something is funny to others is not up to me. I do my best. I think that post was an example of bad writing, which actually bothers me. It could have been shorter, clearer, and punchier. I'm annoyed about that. Being single and plain-looking does not bother me. I am perfectly cheery, thankyouverymuch!
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    You call all the fellas here "hot ski divas"? Lol. Peace out, Eaf. I gotta go grade papers.
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    If I were hot, the story wouldn't have been funny to me and I wouldn't have shared it because that would be obnoxious. The point of telling the story was in its humorous absurdity. You should tell women to "brighten it up" a lot, we like being reminded that our appearance and personalities ought to be curated largely to please men. And that we should never, ever joke about ourselves because boys might not like us.
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    I wouldn't tell anyone; wouldn't want to be self-deprecating after all, it makes Eaf feel sad.
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    You seem nice.
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    Holy shit I just noticed tags! This is the best rainy Sunday EVER. I promised myself I wouldn't cry... ....but.... <sniff> ....I'm just so happy...
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    Well, PASR would only have to remove three of us!
  11. SallyCat
    Well, yeah. That's the point.
  12. SallyCat
    NO. YOU. DINT. I'm 49 years old and this is my second full season of skiing. I've seen video of myself and received feedback from instructors and friends who are better than me. What you call punching myself, I call self-awareness combined with making an effort not to sound like an asshole. 90% of my posts here are for entertainment and because I'm sitting next to a pile of essays I don't really want to grade. I also find self-deprecating humor to be enjoyable because at my age I don't really give a shit what people think of me, and there is real humor in starting an "adventure" sport (or sitting at bars, or learning to mountain bike) in late middle age, so why pretend that there isn't? And if you don't like it, scroll on by. I don't care about my stats (except for that one time when I beat Steeze in "likes" for the week! ) You're not registered at the Diva site because if I'm not mistaken, you are a male and boys aren't allowed.
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    On the Lady Site we would call Eaf a "mansplainer," but not to his face because we're too polite and we'd want to give him space to grow and evolve into his best self. This site is more like nature itself; if you fuck up, the consequences will be immediate and painful. And you will lash out in anger, but nature won't care.
  14. SallyCat
    Humility and gratitude go a long way here, man.
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    https://www.backcountry.com/explore/essentials-of-ski-touring
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    That's not crud. It was saturated mashed potatoes in the rain. I have trouble with that that's so obviously related to technique that I can't say it was the skis. Any decent skier would have blasted through that gravy-potato mess. I just can't yet.
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    I can't find where I said anything about crud; maybe that was someone else? And were they talking about the RTM 81 or 84? I think the 84s would be savage crud-busters, actually. I had trouble in very wet, heavy, deep snow last Wednesday afternoon, but that was because I'm not a very good skier. Not sure any other ski would have made a difference. Maybe. The RTM 84s grip like John Goodman holding onto a donut in a hurricane and they don't chatter (not that I go fast enough to induce chatter). But they nimble in that they are easy to get on edge and I get a lot of energy out of a turn. I can make all sizes of turns quickly and easily.
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    That's good to know! I'm still a plodding intermediate so I'm stuck in line with the masses for now. Working hard, though.
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    I thought cats were supposed to be quiet, too, but mine yowls all the time, like Ethel Merman screaming through a bullhorn. Re Salty: Are you allowed to skin trails before the mtn opens? Aren't there groomers and snowmobiles zooming around not expecting skiers? I can see it being enjoyable in the backcountry--great workout, peaceful solitude, natural beauty. I don't get what would be pleasurable about skinning up a resort groomer. It seems like the difference between going for a trail run in a beautiful natural area vs. running on a treadmill in a gym.
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    Hunter is just as crowded as Blue on weekends.
  23. SallyCat
    Some old-school bragging: I saw Phish perform that song at a little bar in Syracuse called "Hungry Charley's" in the very-early 90s. Everybody in the crowd hilariously did randomly-timed pogo dancing throughout the song. It's one of my very favorite memories.
  24. SallyCat
    "fewer." This forum can tolerate the use of the word "trax" or the confusion of fewer/less. But not both. Also that was pro-bono grammatical feedback; I won't even charge you whatever percentage of $27,000 that was worth.
  25. SallyCat
    Not disagreeing, but I'd want to look at the profit margins involved in running a ski resort before complaining about ticket prices. Maybe they are unreasonable. They are certainly high from a consumer perspective. But it takes a lot of money to run a ski area; I wonder what role day-pass buyers play in the bigger picture. I mean, I think Blue's day pass prices are crazy for what you get, but if I ran the place I'm sure I'd say: "You live in Pennsylvania and we covered a mountain with snow. What do you expect?" (Though if I ran Blue I would damn well find a way to pay for afternoon grooming.)
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