Burt Blank
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Doggers mate back in the day some of my most stylish black runs were done when I was pxssed. Benz za kneez is a distant memory.
The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)
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medtran49
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The weather must know when I'm going to be there to work.
My customer there is in Sarasota. Maybe there is a difference.
CD
Sarasota is only a little over 3 hours from us so doubt there is much difference. You are just coming at the wrong time of the year.
epicuric
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I am always so envious of your choice of climate in the US. We would have to cross several foreign countries to achieve that.
I can experience winter and summer on the same day, without leaving Texas.
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Seconded, Burt - apart from being pxssed or stylish. My RA legs and hips don't lie: they no longer tolerate black slopes - sadly not even cross country. I never skied off-piste but I loved slalom, took lessons from a guy who competed in the Olympics in freestyle and spent a lot of time in Lapland. This was a hip place in the 80's... Nowadays the hills are reputedly okay but the ti-pi like restaurant hut has burnt down, bankruptcies have recurred and the hotel resembles the hovel in "Hot Tub Time Machine".
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My skiing days are long gone, too. I'd have to stick to the bunny slopes, getting passed by children.
BTW, a tipi/teepee is a Native American structure. I wouldn't expect to see one in Europe. Interesting.
CD
The real name is "goahti" in Sámi language or "kota" in Finnish. It is a traditional dwelling of Sami people in Lapland; a Laplander's hut which resembles tepees. Sami people have a distinct genome which is still a bit of a mystery. Sami Lapps may have been the first people to inhabit the Finnish headland. They (or their culture) may be related to Siberian tribes and/or native Indians dating back to the times when there was a neck of land instead of the Bering Strait between the Asian and American continents.
BBC did a slow show series called All Aboard. I've seen all the episodes, and they're all good, but the one that follows two Sami women on a reindeer trek is fascinating and beautiful. I love it and have seen it several times:
"All Aboard! The Sleigh Ride is a two-hour real-time reindeer sleigh ride with Sami peoplefilmed in Karasjok, Norway.[6] It aired on 24 December 2015. It was repeated on 24 December 2016 and on 16 December 2017. The programme features two Sami women in traditional dress leading three reindeer, each with a sleigh, across the tundra following a traditional reindeer postal route from Karasjok north-westward to the sea, crossing frozen lakes and birch woodland, and encountering dog sleds, ice fishermen and other nomadic Sami people. The programme covers a two-hour period, over which time the light fades and the way is lit by flaming torches. The two Sami reindeer herders are Charlotte Iselin Mathisen and Anne-Louise Gaup."
Burt Blank
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My Mum was a demon skier. She taught me when I was a kid in the UK. There were no prepared piste then. She would borrow a tractor, tie a rope around my waist and drag me on a pair of Norwegian cross country ski's. I always remember the first thing she taught me on the piste was how to fall and get rid of my sticks. A friend of hers was impaled.
The Hairy Bikers did an episode about the Sami people and their cooking in their Northern Exposure series. Fascinating.
So David Hasselhoff is working on a heavy metal record according to this article. Apparently he had a very successful musical career in Germany and he does have a nice voice but this music videos just make me laugh
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT5rqKMaHAg
David, you forgot the panpipes. Puff up the panpipes! He has a studio processed cheesy sound, the music is awful and he looks like Liberace taking a stroll in his undies.
Burt Blank
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Or Old Liverass as he was known in the UK. The image above will be hard to remove without surgery.
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