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Originally Posted By: DiGriz Just joking. The real Budweiser is Czech, quite a nice brew. The American one is a poor imitation, mass-brewed, canoe-sex waste of money, especially now that there are so many decent craft-brewed beers available in the U.S., along with loads of good imports. You wouldn't believe it, but Utah has a ton of microbrews and I really find them to be amazing.

I don't know what's more pathetic GG and Rob. The fact that I let you provoke me or the fact that you have nothing better to share so you do provoke me? Sorry forgot:

It saddens me deeply at how much a travesty American politics has become. I feel as though my generation is going to watch some crash and burn political careers and learn heavily from it. There's not a simple explanation and I could be flat out wrong, but I feel as though the baby boomer generation that lived through the cold war is really plaguing this country with ignorance. Information is readily available and we have to realize the Shah of Iran wasn't a direct threat, neither was Saddam Huessein, Vietnam, Korea, etc.

Can't believe it but Snowbird has picked up a meter over the past 3 days. Trying to get days in but there's a lot of stuff holding me back. Looks like they will be open until July.

Originally Posted By: grungy-gonads Being in Niseko all season doing all that skiing, yes, it does sound like a real bummer! Never mind, you seemed to get through it intact. Please pull up where I am complaining about Niseko? Niseko was awesome! Did you ever take a gap year? I took a gap 3 months and had an amazing time after working 4 years full time to pay for uni while attending school. Oh I can throw in a to pretend like I'm not being an asshole when it fact I am.

Originally Posted By: SantaCruz Originally Posted By: MitchPee I'm worried. I am going to have to pay for graduate school. I currently don't have a form of employment over 20 hours a week. Mitch, where you thinking of going? James! Actually debating U washington hahaha but probably BU or Utah again. Not sure, hard debate!

Originally Posted By: RobBright Originally Posted By: MitchPee I'm worried. I am going to have to pay for graduate school. I currently don't have a form of employment over 20 hours a week. And how long did you spend gallavanting around Japan for on whose money? And you want sympathy from us? In all seriousness, why do you need 20 hrs a week? Surely, you'd want less time if you are going to study? I want no sympathy from anyone? How would sympathy help my situation? Temporarily inflate my ego? All set with that. I have a job that I get about 20 hours a week now, but I h

Niceee! Looks awesome!

I'm worried. I am going to have to pay for graduate school. I currently don't have a form of employment over 20 hours a week.

Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver sounds like heaven GN....if only I could convince my mrs to move Don't like the idea of walking into bears though, however rare that may be. TB, I have had a few encounters with bears in North America. They literally want nothing to do with you unless you are in almost physical contact proximity of their cubs. Then it gets scary, but the likelyhood of that is very very low. You should be much more worried about being killed while driving than mauled by a bear.

Originally Posted By: SantaCruz Good to see the Econ degree coming into play Mitch Haha if only it would make me money instead of pointless forum talk

Honestly, the only way Japan is really going to decrease its debt is through specialized exporting. Japan has the capability to produce some of the better technology in the world. Albeit at a higher price than others, it is still advanced technology. Raising consumption tax may be a good way to reduce some of the incurred debt from the earthquake. However, too much of it could be a shock to aggregate demand and cripple the domestic service/product markets. Then you would have an even higher unemployment rate in a country really striving to find work. It's a tough bind but they need

Beautiful GN, puts my pics of Kyoto to shame!

Originally Posted By: Mantas But is it free to air? Meaning not via paid subscription. In Oz we have about an hour and a half of news and current affairs every evening. Most of these are broadcast by commercial networks, and they are free. The government has a couple of non-commercial channels that are free as well. There are about 5 free channels for news? Most is cable news network but you pretty much have to pay for tv here anywhere because of the digital TV switchover.

Originally Posted By: Mantas Originally Posted By: MitchPee You have to understand American media is the epicenter of global attention and this is why everyone gets a one-sided view of this country. British, Australian, etc. Maybe it was just the places I visited in the U.S. but I found free to air news and current affairs difficult to find at all on T.V. There's definitely a lot of celebrity gossip, drug mongering, and non-relevant news displayed constantly. Hard to find anything about the Middle East unless it involves deadly riots or oil in the title.

Originally Posted By: MagSeven I got 61. Should have been more. Will be more next winter. You have to get at least 10 with me next year Andy! haha

Originally Posted By: DiGriz No big deal, gang. It's still the same obnoxious me. I just noticed even I once or twice wasn't sure if someone addressing ``SJ'' meant me or the good guys who run this place, so tweaked the handle just slightly to avoid confusion. Don't know if I can refrain from using slipperyJim but I will attempt to! hahaha

Originally Posted By: BagOfCrisps His haircut would be the laughing stock of the world. Yessss another bimbo tea party soccer mom making headlines! I feel bad perpetuating her fame but I am outraged with the rise of such simple minded people. By we the people she means we the white Christians....

You'll definitely be good with the Duke, Stu. You can't really notice the height off the ski. I used them all season in park, sidecountry, in bounds, etc and they work great!

Originally Posted By: sand Thanks, glad people liked it. LordSalt, it is above the top pair lift. I hiked up twice. The first was at about 9.20 when snow was still firm enough to walk without sinking too much. Meaning I hiked a lot further around to skiers left., 2 valleys over from the lift. 2nd time was at 1pm, by which time the snow was extremely slushy. So went to top of ridgeline 1 over to the left. A couple of grandpas who skinned past me with ease, really showed me one big advantage of having a touring set up... next year Doooo it! Get the AT bindings haha

yeahh Stu! That was awesome

I haven't kept count, but I would guess right around 125-130? Been going strong since October and Snowbird will be open one of the latest years ever until July.

GN those pictures are awesome, quite the cute little girl. Good to see Niseko still has a lot of snow.

I found Mexico to be extremely friendly because I can speak enough Spanish to converse for a while. However, my friends weren't so lucky...

Originally Posted By: Mantas Sorry, my bad, I put one too many naughts on. I got the figure from Wikileaks. Quote: The Iraq War documents leak is the unsanctioned disclosure of a collection of 391,832 United States Army field reports, also called the Iraq War Logs, of the Iraq War from 2004 to 2009 to several international media organizations and published on the Internet by WikiLeaks on 22 October 2010.[1][2][3] The files record 66,081 civilian deaths out of 109,000 recorded deaths.[2][3][4][5][6] The leak resulted in the Iraq Body Count project adding 15,000 civilian deaths to their count