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im knuckles deep in pussy rn

THEHARLEMSHAKEim knuckles deep in pussy rn

no you are not if you are on ns bragging.

Mingghahaha chugging out of glass bottles is quite difficult. I iced myself and then Doug didn't get the snapchat shot so I had to re-ice myself. but I had fun so oh well!

Sounds....icy..

SkiThe603no you are not if you are on ns bragging.

read my SIG!

A moment of silence as the last great ski review site has fallen to shit. RIP blister gear review

JakeSmithA moment of silence as the last great ski review site has fallen to shit. RIP blister gear review

Y do u say that

Went to a bar for the first time as a legal adult and fucking hated it. At least I had a good buddy to guide me ther, but still. Fuck bars.

Chubz.Sounds....icy..

Ice coast babyyyyy

safarisamWent to a bar for the first time as a legal adult and fucking hated it. At least I had a good buddy to guide me ther, but still. Fuck bars.

For the first time, or just the first legal time?

Either way bars are shitty. Then again I'm only 19 and have been going to bars in Toronto since I was 17, so maybe its a mix of being too young and being desensitized.

Either way fuck bars.

Chubz.Y do u say that

They now put out content only for paying members. It's not even that expensive it's that it costs money at all. they used to really pride themselves on putting out the greatest most neutral free reviews out and now they even have contracts with certain ski companies. Even if they still try to put out neutral reviews, they just can't, it's not possible

Also, my weekend went from really fucking awesome to really shitty and sad and hectic and stressful and worrisome so fucking quick.

God, Fuck law school personal statements, and duck writers block and duck this shifty computer for always changing duck to duck!

Profahoben_212Hell yeah see you there man!

Too drunk. Where am I

domeinthebuttToo drunk. Where am I

Uim dead. Came to concousness in the dorms....what happens I don't know.

Nothing like waking up at 5am to a 4 week old kitten chewing on your face. This dude is nonstop.

DeebieSkeebiesNothing like waking up at 5am to a 4 week old kitten chewing on your face. This dude is nonstop.

Yo can we see sum pics of kitty?

I have now had 3 charlie horses. 1 in my left leg and 2 in the right. FUCK THIS THEY HURT SO BAD

Eazy-E.I have now had 3 charlie horses. 1 in my left leg and 2 in the right. FUCK THIS THEY HURT SO BAD

Not to scare you or anything but I got a bad charlie horse from a skateboard thrown by my brother....

Shit ended up calcifying and becoming a small bone growth.

Well its been 5 years since then and its grown enough to be easily noticeable by touch and it hurts like a bitch if I take any small contact and my leg isn't flexed.

Now I'm getting it sawed off at the end of the season.


/coolstory

DeebieSkeebiesNothing like waking up at 5am to a 4 week old kitten chewing on your face. This dude is nonstop.

funny you say that, i woke up with a chick licking my balls

Profahoben_212Uim dead. Came to concousness in the dorms....what happens I don't know.

Did you go out after?

Krotchs_BrotherNot to scare you or anything but I got a bad charlie horse from a skateboard thrown by my brother....

Shit ended up calcifying and becoming a small bone growth.

Well its been 5 years since then and its grown enough to be easily noticeable by touch and it hurts like a bitch if I take any small contact and my leg isn't flexed.

Now I'm getting it sawed off at the end of the season.


/coolstory

How would that happen? A charlie horse is just a muscle spasm that hurts like a bitch.

Both of my calves are super tight now and i dont want to stretch then because it'll happen again.

safarisamWent to a bar for the first time as a legal adult and fucking hated it. At least I had a good buddy to guide me ther, but still. Fuck bars.

A lot of em suck, and lots of em don't. Bars are as good as the people in them. How could anywhere that's full of your friends, good bartenders, reasonable drinks/food, and a good jukebox/playlist suck? Very few things are better than a pow day capped off by a few rounds in the lodge (I ain't talking like a vail resorts lodge, I'm talking dingy ski bar) surrounded by a bunch of goggle tan havin', cliff size embellishin', quad spasmin', doobie rollin' dumb dumbs.

If you're talking about "bars" with black lights, dubstep*, and stripper poles, then go somewhere different. If the problem is social anxiety, insecurity, fear of judgement, fear of crowds, your friends suck, or if you think hating bars is just a neato contrarian stance to take, well, I don't know, I'm sorry and best of luck.

*or whatever the latest lil' edm subgenre is to emerge that I also don't care about

casualA lot of em suck, and lots of em don't. Bars are as good as the people in them. How could anywhere that's full of your friends, good bartenders, reasonable drinks/food, and a good jukebox/playlist suck? Very few things are better than a pow day capped off by a few rounds in the lodge (I ain't talking like a vail resorts lodge, I'm talking dingy ski bar) surrounded by a bunch of goggle tan havin', cliff size embellishin', quad spasmin', doobie rollin' dumb dumbs.

If you're talking about "bars" with black lights, dubstep*, and stripper poles, then go somewhere different. If the problem is social anxiety, insecurity, fear of judgement, fear of crowds, your friends suck, or if you think hating bars is just a neato contrarian stance to take, well, I don't know, I'm sorry and best of luck.

*or whatever the latest lil' edm subgenre is to emerge that I also don't care about

This was my first time at a bar in the states, was with a good friend, but I really don't enjoy getting hit on by old men. I guess I'm fairly oblivious to quite a few things. It just made me really uncomfortable.

Eazy-E.How would that happen? A charlie horse is just a muscle spasm that hurts like a bitch.

Both of my calves are super tight now and i dont want to stretch then because it'll happen again.

If the bruise is big enough, in the right place, and the it's the fourth quarter moon of the year, the bruise has a chance of calcifying.

Its essential just a build up of calcium. Over time it becomes a bone. Growing out of a bone. Shits fucked.

Good to take a shit

domeinthebuttDid you go out after?

Yeah....was a very long night. I feel like shit now. Lol

I'm house sitting for a cat that's nearly 20. I've been here 5 days and I'm meant to be here 8 more.

I'm pretty sure she's going to die today or tomorrow :(

She won't move but cries when I go away from her, so I'm carrying her everywhere with me and setting her down in the litter box every hour and a half or so.

Her owner is in Japan, so I'm hoping she gets my email soon. So sad.

Profahoben_212Yeah....was a very long night. I feel like shit now. Lol

Yeah same. My whole body hurts and I need like 8 naps and a Bloody Mary

Girls confuse me so much

domeinthebuttYeah same. My whole body hurts and I need like 8 naps and a Bloody Mary

Just ate, drank some coffee and downed a bottle of Guinness. I feel so much better now lol.

On a side note...frat parties kinda suck. My buddy got me into one with him and I was drunk as shit and it still sucked. Suprising

Too cloudy to see the eclipse... Nature you're killing me.

Still raging after the utes stomped oregon

Be sure to check it out tonight.

Daily texts with my roommate. It's driving me nuts. She'll leave the front door unlocked when nobody is here and always leaves the stove on or her curling iron on or candles burning. This is around the 8th time I've told her to turn the stove off or whatever it is. I feel like a bitch texting her but god damn.

I'm applying for some job and they want resumes sent via fax. It's so freakin stupid. I need a cover letter telling them that I'm submitting a resume, the actual resume, and a fax cover to tell them I'm faxing three pages including the cover.

At least I don't have to fill out stupid questions online. Why do people use faxes still?

Fun fact: the guy I'm faxing is named Madhav. I had to look to see if that's a girl or boy name. Google says Indian male name. I hope that's right.

Stood outside of the NH motor speedway for roughly 5 hours doing norhing, go in to clean and work for less then a half hour. It wasnt as bad as years past, I only filled one trash bag compared to 5+ before. Thank god I'll never do that again, unless I have to from breaking the law.

Was driving down the Trans Canada tonight and passed this murdered out, old looking black bus. When I got up close to it it had some Red Bull Tour Bus decal on the side. Pretty cool looking machine. Then watching the moon rise up over the horizon was so cool. I popped over this hill and it was like 1/4 exposed and I was puzzled for a second as to what that huge thing on the road was. All in all a sick drive to this shithole town for another boring week of school.

JakeSmithThey now put out content only for paying members. It's not even that expensive it's that it costs money at all. they used to really pride themselves on putting out the greatest most neutral free reviews out and now they even have contracts with certain ski companies. Even if they still try to put out neutral reviews, they just can't, it's not possible

Yo! As a completely biased, full time employee of Blister Gear Review.... Here's my $00.02, seems like there's two issues you're seeing:

#1: Payed content: Yeah, we understand, paying for stuff sucks, but we've never prided ourselves on being the best "free" reviews out there, in fact, that's the whole problem. To produce reviews that appear to be "free" to you, everyone else has to sell advertising to the companies whose gear they are reviewing. We can't and won't ever do that. So yes, you can pay to be a Blister Member, however, you're already paying everyone else in your time spent viewing advertisements, it just feels free. Doug Bishop does a great job articulating and discussing this problem and I highly recommend that you read the book Who Owns the Future? this is really interesting, meta stuff that's worth understanding.

Apart from that bigger meta argument for payment, that I can't really get into here, there's the fact that you aren't paying for anything you haven't already been getting. You, as a free reader, lost nothing when we instituted the new system. All the system gets members is new stuff, stuff we didn't put out before. And yes, to be very clear, that new stuff is freaking awesome and TOTALLY worth paying for. Also, side note, check out the Buyer's Guide: http://blistergearreview.com/blister-products-and-services, MMMMM, HAWT DANG! As someone who has not been sleeping very much recently, working on this thing, that's going to be the best $10 you spend this year. It's full of great, in depth, long term, well written reviews (something you're not really getting with any other buyers' guide) as well as some super awesome images. (Ok, I'm biased, there will probably be a few photos from yours truly in there) You are paying for content, but quite honestly, if it wasn't worth paying for, we wouldn't be wasting our time making it.

So yeah, payed content is better content, pure and simple. We are still putting out the same, unbiased, in depth, well written, super painstaking reviews as always, for free for you to read on the site. However, we are also offering more features, tailored towards things our readers have asked for, at a minimal cost.

#2 "Contracts with ski companies" That's not really what this is. Right now we are offering discounts on Parlor Skis and Moment Skis to members, as well as the option to buy the Blister Pro from Moment. We'll be adding more Member Deals as we get things ironed out. In addition to those ski deals there are also some great deals from shops and resorts available. These don't change anything on our end, it's just an added bonus for you guys on top of the exclusive content members get. Sort of a "thank you for signing up" (And yes, it is worth the money, take 10% off one pair of Moment skis and you've made back your $50 for the membership right there, and you get the Buyer's Guide, with all my beautiful pictures in it, have I mentioned my pictures?) This is not exclusive to brands that pay us to feature them, or pay us to not write bad things about their skis, neither of those things is going on here.

So I understand your dismay, I sympathize, but I also disagree with you. This monetization strategy has been a very long time coming. No one can be the best for free, unless they've got a rich daddy (and then they usually aren't the best, for other reasons). Do you want the most reliable, accurate content available? Do you want it to be unbiased by under the table deals or advertising dollars? That's great, that's what we all want, but if it's not getting payed for by the companies making that gear, paying for advertising, that you in turn ingest, it's going to be hard to think of any monetization system that doesn't involve the reader handing over at least a minimal amount.

So hopefully that makes some sort of sense, feel free to call me out, call me names, or call me up. I'm always stoked to discuss this stuff and I think the bigger meta issue of content monetization is one of the more important questions of our time and always worth a conversation!

cydwhitYo!

I was really hoping you would chime in on this. I'm really just bitching as a way to bring up the topic. I'm obviously not happy with paying for anything, but that is mostly because I am a broke college dirtbag, and in my personal opinion I just see things like this as the positives not really being worth the price.

My other concern is the moment discount/affiliation/friendship whatever you want to call it. I just see that kind of stuff as any association will negatively affect review, again that is just my opinion. It seems to me that Blister has kinda been riding Moment's dick ever since the Bibby's got reviewed, which defiantly isn't necessarily a bad thing, I have friends who ride Bibby's and other moment skis and they seem to have the same kind of well earned following that ON3P has on NS and I would buy a pair in a heartbeat. But I hope you can see where I'm coming from.

All in all after this incoherent rambling, I just wanted to start a small discussion on the topic, even if my post was a bit negative. I love blister and have read too many awesome reviews to count, and I really don't want the content and most important in my eyes the neutrality of the content to be jeopardized by this change.

I do plan on buying a copy of the buyers guide if I can scrounge up $10 though (yes, $10 is a lot to me, that's like almost two six packs), I love reading through magazines of reviews

I made it thru the summer with long hair but now that its at a decent length im starting to consider chopping it all off, i grew it out for winter but idk man😐

JakeSmithI was really hoping you would chime in on this. I'm really just bitching as a way to bring up the topic. I'm obviously not happy with paying for anything, but that is mostly because I am a broke college dirtbag, and in my personal opinion I just see things like this as the positives not really being worth the price.

My other concern is the moment discount/affiliation/friendship whatever you want to call it. I just see that kind of stuff as any association will negatively affect review, again that is just my opinion. It seems to me that Blister has kinda been riding Moment's dick ever since the Bibby's got reviewed, which defiantly isn't necessarily a bad thing, I have friends who ride Bibby's and other moment skis and they seem to have the same kind of well earned following that ON3P has on NS and I would buy a pair in a heartbeat. But I hope you can see where I'm coming from.

All in all after this incoherent rambling, I just wanted to start a small discussion on the topic, even if my post was a bit negative. I love blister and have read too many awesome reviews to count, and I really don't want the content and most important in my eyes the neutrality of the content to be jeopardized by this change.

I do plan on buying a copy of the buyers guide if I can scrounge up $10 though (yes, $10 is a lot to me, that's like almost two six packs), I love reading through magazines of reviews

Ha! I kind of figured that's what you were going for.

I totally understand the paying thing, been there done that, still doin that.
It's hard to justify paying for something on the Internet, even if it might save you from making a costly bad purchase in the long run. So while I think becoming a member is a great deal in the big picture, and an incredible value, I totally understand people not getting it, especially initially with the shock of being asked to pay for web content.

As far as the Moment deal. I have never been on any of their skis, and have never had a personal interaction with anyone there. Apparently they make sick skis. Apparently they listen when blister gets vocal. Both of those are good things in my book but I can't really comment on anything else. I do hope to maybe get on some of those Blister Pros this year and see what all the hype is about.

And while I can't really personally comment on the Moment deal I can personally comment on the people at Blister putting it together, and I can garuntee that the integrity of the site is more important to them than any stack of cash or "pro model" ski.

Thanks for bringing this up. Readers like you that actually care about the site are really important, and one of the things that get me most stoked to wake up in the morning. So thanks for being vocal! And you really should pick up a buyer's guide, I'll compensate you in beer if we ever meet in person.

cydwhitAnd you really should pick up a buyer's guide, I'll compensate you in beer if we ever meet in person.

Thanks for chiming in. And if you do ever find yourself in Bozeman or Denver I would gladly share a 6 pack (of soda-pop ;) just to be clear) with one of my favorite NS photogs

dodgeHow do you people make yourself feel better after spending a fair bit on a big night out? Guilt present.

Start drinking

Busted my ass all night finishing an essay, woke up early to get to class, hauled ass there on my bike in the rain, just to find out that it was cancelled. Fuck.

Eazy-E.I have now had 3 charlie horses. 1 in my left leg and 2 in the right. FUCK THIS THEY HURT SO BAD

Unless there is a underlying condition I missed you need to hydrate.

louie.miragsUnless there is a underlying condition I missed you need to hydrate.

That was exactly the problem.

im in a unreasonably pissed off mood for a beautiful Monday morning, give me some heavy doom metal shit like electric wizard, bezelbong, Stoned Jesus, etc.

DeebieSkeebiesim in a unreasonably pissed off mood for a beautiful Monday morning, give me some heavy doom metal shit like electric wizard, bezelbong, Stoned Jesus, etc.

Duck yeah, that's the shit I listen to always. Just jam out and get out some anger

When I was walking to class today I thought it was going to be a beautiful day. When I went to breakfast for about 15 minutes it looked like it was still going to be a beautiful day with very few clouds in the sky. Oh boy was I wrong. Absolute downpour as soon as I walk out of the building.


I hate myself for not bringing my rain jacket like I usually do just in case.