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Yesterday i saw a dad making his kids walk up to a lift with their skis on (They were at the lift below and it's a bit of a hill to get to the above one. Dad's yelling at his son the whole time, "hurry up! You need to hustle! put effort in it like your sister! BLAH BLAH BLAH! turn your skis uphill and walk like a duck!"
I was blown away. He really just told his kid to walk like a duck.
All i could hear was, "son, work hard! be more of a gaper! we're not out here to have fun and hang out! we're here to be in a hurry!"
Douche bag needed to let his son do what he wanted. it's not like they were missing out on a bunch of powder.
"woa, are thos the skis that you can go backwards on?". me="yep." "wow, where did you get those?! i had know idea the rental area had 'em!"
I had my first run in today with a gaper. While talking to my parents at the lodge, I was asking by a gaper about my SPK kreations. It went like this:
Gaper: "Did you bust a boot or something today?" since he saw there was a black and yellow boot.
Me: (Wondering why this guy is interuppting my convo with ma and pa) Looked at my boots to make sure something wasn't up because I just had them worked on by a boot guy. Then said, "No, they just come like this".
Gaper: "Oh, weird. Well I'll let you talk to your parents again." ?????
My day was great for being my third day on my post tib/fib fracture, but this made my day even better hahahaha.
some random tourists came into the park on a busy day. They the said "lets go watch the jumps" to each other... they then skiied down and stopped on the middle of the knuckle of the jumps landing and held everybody up until a boarder went down and yelled at them...
also- a kid hits a SUPER easy butterbox and falls. He doesn't know how to take his skiis off, can't get up, and just lays there for a fulll 15 minutes until his dad physically dragged him off the landing.
i just got a text from my friend saying,
'' hardest part of the day skiing today, Carriying my skis to the car, there so heavy''
from the surgeon who operated on my thumb, i asked so can i ski? she says:
'' you wont be able to cause skiing requires poles for maximum balance''
i loled at both :P
Looking for some decent rental in chamonix and I asked this old chap "Do you have any decent powder skis I can rent for a couple of days?"
"Yeah," and he led me over to some Dynastar legends
"hey man I was looking for some twin tip powder skis? rockered maybe?"
"What? they don't make rockered twintip powder skis."
I turned and left. Fucking dumbass. the young ski tech was looking at me with pitty because he was tuning some hellbents. still.
MINNEAPOLIS—A study published Monday in The Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry has concluded that an estimated 98 percent of children under the age of 10 are remorseless sociopaths with little regard for anything other than their own egocentric interests and pleasures.
Data shows that many seemingly innocent children—such as this one—are not to be trusted.
According to Dr. Leonard Mateo, a developmental psychologist at the University of Minnesota and lead author of the study, most adults are completely unaware that they could be living among callous monsters who would remorselessly exploit them to obtain something as insignificant as an ice cream cone or a new toy.
"The most disturbing facet of this ubiquitous childhood disorder is an utter lack of empathy," Mateo said. "These people—if you can even call them that—deliberately violate every social norm without ever pausing to consider how their selfish behavior might affect others. It's as if they have no concept of anyone but themselves."
"The depths of depravity that these tiny psychopaths are capable of reaching are really quite chilling," Mateo added.
According to the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, a clinical diagnostic tool, sociopaths often display superficial charm, pathological lying, manipulative behaviors, and a grandiose sense of self-importance. After observing 700 children engaged in everyday activities, Mateo and his colleagues found that 684 exhibited these behaviors at a severe or profound level.
The children studied also displayed many secondary hallmarks of antisocial personality disorder, most notably poor impulse control, an inability to plan ahead, and a proclivity for violence—often in the form of extended tantrums—when their needs were not immediately met.
"Children will use any tool at their disposal to secure gratification," Mateo said. "And as soon as the desire is fulfilled, be it some material want or simply an insatiable and narcissistic desire for validation, they quickly become bored and lose interest in their victims, all the while thinking only of satisfying whatever their next hedonistic craving might be."
Mateo added that even when subjects were directly confronted with the consequences of their inexplicable behavior, they had little or no capacity for expressing guilt, other than insincere utterances of "sorry" that were usually coerced.
Because children are so skilled at mimicking normal human emotions and will say anything without consideration for accuracy or truth, Mateo said that people often don't realize that they've been exploited until it is too late. Though he maintained that anyone can fall victim to a child's egocentric behavior, Mateo warned that grandmothers were especially susceptible to the self- serving machinations of tiny little sociopaths.
Despite the overwhelming evidence presented in the study, its findings have been met with heavy criticism from people who associate with children on a regular basis.
Batavia, NY resident and 38-year-old mother Mary Corcoran echoed the sentiments of many other adults who refuse to believe they are sharing their homes with merciless predators.
"Not my Jimmy. Just this morning, he told me I was the best mommy in the whole world," Corcoran said of her son, 5. "In fact, he's been such a sweet little boy this month that Santa just may bring him everything he asks for."
According to renowned child psychologist Dr. Pritha Singh, author of Born Without Souls, diagnosing preadolecents as sociopaths is primarily a theoretical interest, as the disorder is considered untreatable.
"We've tried behavior modification therapies, but children actually learn from our techniques and become even more adept at manipulating others while concealing their shameless misanthropy," Singh said. "Sadly, experience has taught us there is little hope for rehabilitation."
"Just look at the way most adults act," Singh added. [IMG]theonion.com/content/themes/onion/assets/terminator.gif[/IMG]
lol
hooray for sarcasm!
i was having a conversation with one of my friends about skinig ( he is going for the first time this year) bt anyway i said i did freestyle skiing first thing he said was "can you do a backflip" i started pissing myself with laughter as i had been reading this thread the night before
him: whats the best trick you can do
me: a cork 7
him: dude why didnt you go pro
or
from the lift: hey jump off the cliff:
i then proceed to jump off the cliff and flip him off as i ride way
a skier with only one leg passes under the lift, and the guy next to me asks: "so when you get good enough, are you only allowed to ski on one ski?" .....he said this straight-faced
