2pints-mate
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Never heard of that!
Nasty.
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Looks like I will be checking it out with a buddy tomorrow.
Well, that buddy is me and it was truly wild seeing that place again after having ridden there back in 2004/2005...
In fact, I didn't even remember the whole Plaza part! -How I could've forgotten that epic complex I have no idea...
The resort was pretty decent to ride back in the day. The terrain was varied, quite open, it all funneled down into one valley like Cortina so you couldn't get lost, and they had a backcountry gate that they would open if conditions allowed. The backcountry gate gave you access to a 15~20min ridge-line hike up to the peak above the resort, which in turn gave you 5~6 nice turns in a completely open bowl.
The crazy thing is that the last time I rode there, I spoke to the manager as I was unhappy that I'd paid full whack for lift tickets, and yet most of the big/longest pistes were closed; un-groomed and roped off. This was mid-season!? Conditions were good and the snow stable. I told him that it was bad business not having a huge ski-resort up and running 100%, as that's what us customers were paying for/expecting. I said that people will not bother to come all the way out here to ski if you don't make the effort. You'll go out of business! Anyway, he apologised, understood where we were coming from, but if we didn't like how the resort was run, we shouldn't return....
Next year they were closed!
Sounds like YOU were the one that caused it to go under!
Bad person!!
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Looks nice wherever it is.
Folks, he said wrong prefecture to someone saying a place in Nagano. So I reckon it's not Nagano.
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Very recently seen Muse and yesterday Depeche Mode here in London.
Both were really good.
A good week indeed.
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Lots more data out in the next day or so, so we could be seeing more movements.
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Perhaps the sitting a bit further back comes into play there.
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Hope he doesn't end up at Chelsea.
Just too ugly (and scouse).
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Makes for a refreshing change anyway.
Lots of rumours about The Special One coming back to Chelsea.
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Is Sheila a popular name over there?
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your constant attack on whether the Labour government didn't re-open the mines is laughable
'Unanswered real question' morphs into 'constant attack'.
Such drama!
I still haven't heard from you what you thought Thatcher's good policies were.....I am genuinely interested in hearing the other side of the coin, because from my perspective and my experience I can't see any
If she had personally given each family 100,000 quid along with a free furnished home, you'd find stuff to pick holes in.
There's enough documented stuff out there from enough people to find out and read up on what are considered the other side of the coin if you really want, but as I'm rather busy and you're obviously not actually interested, I'm certainly not wasting my time doing that.
As I said before, I'm mostly just quite amused at gently prodding haters to see just how much blinkered hatred comes flooding out.
Have you yourself ever signed on at the dole?No.
Ever seen the absolute crud jobs that they offer you? I have, it is soul destroying.Sounds to me like an excellent starting point to motivate yourself to get out and make something of you life, does that.
Plenty people did.
Who out of those put on the dole (not just the miners, they were the union the Tories felt they could win against) sat on their ass, ate chips and watched TV??The ones who sat on their ass, ate chips and watched TV, have never worked since, expect handouts, etc.
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Looks good.
Had some funky 'peanut butter' in Japan that was more like peanut flavored cream or something, sweet it was.
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Had some very nice Timothy Taylor's last night.
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don't know new one but very well thought out Metabo.......very thorough work!
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Agreed there.
they're not saying anything yet
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So how's it going ippy?
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Saw that fr the first time last night, good one.
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I like that feature!
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With clotted cream
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Seems to be talk of some other explosion in Boston now?
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Hong Kong Fuey
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No thanks.
1) I really don't care enough
2) I really believe you
Going back to the coal mines, I found this:
These are the figures for the sharply declining number of coal mines open each year under Labour.
1964
545
1965
504
1966
442
1967
406
1968
330
1969
304
1974
250
1975
241
1976
239
1977
231
1978
223
1979
219
These are the figures for the Thatcher years:
1979
219
1980
213
1981
200
1982
191
1983
170
1984
169
1985
133
1986
110
1987
94
1988
86
1989
73
1990
65
If these 'facts' are correct, it seems to me that more mines were actually closed under Wilson and Callaghan than under Thatcher.
Perhaps that's why Labour didn't start re-opening them when they had their 13 years of chance?
Coal wasn't the future, kana?It would seem that the decline came over quite a lot of years. I would expect at least some 'hightly skilled' people to see that coming and adapt.
Though I suppose on consideration that moaning, striking, eating chips and watching telly is easier, in the hope that someone else will give them their handout.
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suppose you think everyone who lost their job didn't want to work anyway.
Nope.
Similarly, I don't think everyone (those 3 million you mention so often) who lost their job applied themselves and adapted to the new reality.
Does everything need to be so extreme?
you think Thatcher was greatNo, actually I didn't say I thought she was 'great'.
I said I thought she did good things. I didn't agree with some.
I just find the extreme hatred and contempt of her endlessly curious.
Monkey in a bucket (2013-2014)
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Good ones.
Are some of these monkeys being kept as pets?