J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Far Queue

If they don't grow enough, you can always boil wash the items before travelling. Just don't boil them too much :shock:

Iceman wrote:when does a queue become a dangerous queue? :roll:

When it is a pool queue, and it gets involved in a nasty bar brawl :shock:

Bromley. On the South London/Kent border.

OldAndy wrote:

Hah !!!!!! Not a real chainsaw man if you do't know your bar size :mrgreen:

OA, I am pretty good with Bra sizes, does that count? :twisted:

:shock:

Holy crud, I just went to see if I could find a garage open and without a queue, and as I drove down the road, I saw a large number of flashing police lights ahead. One of the petrol stations which was empty earlier today, had a tanker delivering fuel. There were in excess of 100 cars all trying to queue ready for when the station opened, and they had completely blocked a main A road. Hence the Police, trying to force everyone to drive on. It was absolutely ridiculous!

I did not bother looking any further, I will just get up earlier and get the bus tomorrow. Screws up my journey, but no option really :cry:

bedrock barney wrote:
Queued for 15 minutes to fill up my car (7 mile range left in tank :shock: - they say we are only ever 3 meals away from anarchy but it's more like one tank full of fuel...

:shock: Tell me about it, this is crazy :evil:

I am down to 40 miles range (which in real terms is probably 25) but three stations near me are "out" of petrol, and the 4th had a queue nearly 40 cars long trying to get in it :shock:

Do idiots not realise that even if they do agree to strike, they need to give SEVEN days warning, so all these *****'s that are topping off in panic right now, will be out of fuel when the strike happens anyway.

Now I am going to have to try and get some later this evening to make sure I can get to work tomorrow.

And while I am ranting, why can the media and left wing politicians not realise that the comments about filling a jerry can are pretty irrelevant anyway! Unless you live in the country, how many people do you know who actually have jerry cans in their garage? And at £30 for a 20 litre can, it would cost you almost a £100 to get enough cans to keep just one tankful of fuel for a normal car, plus the cost of the fuel on top. I really cannot believe that anyone would bother doing that, and anyone who does have jerry cans was going to fill them up anyway, no matter what a cabinet minister said on tv. He used the term jerry can in error to describe one of those 5 litre things you use to fill your lawn mower. Get over it peeps! :evil:

Rant over.

:shock:

Crikey, the VB looks busier than McDonalds in Lewisham at lunchtime on a Saturday just before Xmas :twisted:

BB, I am going to simply copy a reply I gave to Iceman several weeks ago, not trying to be funny, but my answer is still valid in the context of your question.

With regards to buying your skis, I had my own back in the 90's (I won them in a raffle in a resort) but eventually got to the point where they were no good for me, and from then on I strated renting. My argument was that I could have "new" skis every season, and I could change them when I wanted. But I came to start realising that you never really got to know your skis and given the seeming increase in the cost of rental, I decided to buy myself a pair again a few seasons ago. I then spent the last few years trying to find certain models of ski in resort to try. It is not always possible to find the exact ski you wish to try, although things are starting to improve and in some resorts I see that certain shops are setting up stalls at the top of the mountain where you can try out skis down a run then come straight back up and swap them over for a different set and get the benefit of trying several skis.

I finally decided to buy a pair based on write ups by magazines and websites, comments on this forum, and the fact that I did really like a predecessor of the ski. I did not go wrong, and am completely happy with what I got, in fact it is strange, but my skiing jumped a few levels because of them. I bought then in the UK, as tbh at the moment it can be cheaper or at least the same price, and then I knew I had what I wanted. It helps that the shop also threw in 3 years (read that as just "3") free servicing.

I guess it is up to you. If you wish to keep renting, that is fine, but I would advise that you research the skis each year and don't just take the first ski a shop wants to give you, but discuss what they have with them and go for something you want to ski on. It's your money after all and there are other shops in the resort. Also, if renting, don't forget that if you don't really like something you have, go back and change them. Heck I used to change skis if the weather changed. One of the best rental weeks I had was in Val D'Isere. I started out with a set of giant slalom Volkl Race Tigers, and they were brilliant in the sun on well groomed pistes, but then it snowed fairly heavily so I swapped them in for some Atomic Crimsons and had a wonderful time with those in the softer snow.

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If they don't grow enough, you can always boil wash the items before travelling. Just don't boil them too much :shock:

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Iceman wrote:when does a queue become a dangerous queue? :roll: When it is a pool queue, and it gets involved in a nasty bar brawl :shock:

The General Wibble Thread Started by User in Ski Chatter, 1939 Replies
OldAndy wrote: Hah !!!!!! Not a real chainsaw man if you do't know your bar size :mrgreen: OA, I am pretty good with Bra sizes, does that count? :twisted:

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:shock: Crikey, the VB looks busier than McDonalds in Lewisham at lunchtime on a Saturday just before Xmas :twisted:

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