Hugh Conway

Don't worry, unrestrained Capitalism will crush those differences far quicker than any sensitivity training.

nothing makes you look like less of a douche than quoting the BBC and Wikipedia

Now back to the usual anti-"Europe" screed. If you keep pointing out how bad off someone else is maybe you'll forget how much America sucks.

I believe you meant pretentious Jay_B.

mostly Mexicans

that's so Jay_B olyclimber

I've been linking for years and you still spew the same shit, why would I bother? You want your Europe is doomed fantasy, have it. sorry, I had my vision of the future stuck in traffic as the snot-faced high school brats got out and swarmed across the street, Sergey Brin (no shit, actually that pasty faced fuck) bought his new AstonMartin, and the mexican slave laborers refused to make eye contact with anyone

ain't much for bubbles in your favorite betenoirs the scando countries, france, benelux and germany

You forgot how Ireland was providing the convenient tax haven for Eurozone and US businesses..... You also forgot that the UK now is heading towards the same shitter it was in the 70s... And, well, if you'd paid attention, it was a shadow of it's former glory in the early 90s. No one real cares about it accept odd anglophone retrograde conservatives. It's dead. I do like your continued condemnation of real estate bubbles with your continued advocacy, and fellation of, tax policies that encourage such things. It's a nice have your cake and eat it.

They are apparently close enough to the UK to see what a shithole that country has become. I do like how you are starting with "Europe" the monolithic block and sequing into the Southern Europe cleptocracies who were supporters of the war in Iraq and all other kinds of endeavours you supported.

good thing we don't want them! American youth would flee if they weren't so fucking stupid

A gun's cheaper than a Swedish Penis englarger!

oh dear, I fear for where this is heading. Coldfinger killed off his alias in a domestic violence incident

ahhh the Fairweather special. He tried to commmit suicide... and failed. So now we get his posts.

Desert Eagle .50

airfare's a bit more than driving, but the European Alps are always awesome and about the same for food + lift + lodging ((sometimes less, depending) as N. America. If you are intermediate's who are happy on blues (as you said earlier) you'd be in heaven at any number of places with tons of carving runs and groomed pistes.

whats the conga line up Hood south side like?

Maybe I do pick the wrong resorts...It definitely has not been my experience that only a select few are off the hook shit holes on the weekends. We must really travel different paths since I rarely encounter hordes of "douches" while I am touring. I give. Your penis is bigger. For $140 a night, I'd head north to Canada from Seattle. Definitely a longer drive to inland BC, but much better mountains than Hood. If you haven't been Revelstoke, Fernie or Nelson are all awesome.

+1 The truth has been spoken... You pick the wrong ski resorts. There's lots of them in the world, only a select few, mostly in the US, are filled with doucheholes. Unfortunately the douche has now spilled over to "the backcountry" which every tomdickless and hairypussy is now "slaying". Backcountry now usually meaning some roadside wonder. Meadows - best combo of terrain/altitude, an excess of attitude Timberline - pretty flat, uninspiring terrain. If you are staying in Govy you can ski home. Ski Bowl - short fun terrain, can get rain because of the altitude. I doubt you'll find many deals until after New Years; this is the prime money making time for ski resorts in the US.

the funny part is your information doesn't actually "go away" once you delete your account. The bastard son of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates keeps it.

It's more of an impotent rant kinda thing for you? I'm cool with that broheim. per the past couple garage sales the amount of returned REI brand shit apparel and other suburban crap dwarfed the few useful items... so I'll go with this being in the noise.

you'd prefer I pay more for the REI label and the charming knowledgeable personnel that work there?

No hoops necessary. REI is, except for a few annual sale price leaders, rarely the lowest price on any piece of outdoor gear or even close in my experience - and that's before sales tax. The difference is the premium I pay for the ability to return something

that's funny - they likely could have sold it on eBay for more money than they received for a return My returning a Marmot sleeping bag (aka big behemoth megacorp) and having REI (aka big behemoth megacorp) duke it out bothers me zilch; perhaps eventually we'll get to where the flyfishing industry has recently evolved to with "no questions asked" warranties being reserved for high end stuff, and other, cheaper, stuff having none.

given they moved locations alongside REI... yes. But the Seattle market is atypical, ime. In the Bay Area REI/online retailers/demographics pushed the independents out of business and now most REI locations don't carry anything mildly technical (including ski touring gear) leaving locals with few choices. All of the ski gear is now gone by the first of March. Feck's got it the REI "dividend" is just a buyers club rebate