best skier in hakuba
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How was Tsugaike, Mick?
I haven't been this season.
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Didn't you have solar panels on your new house?
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I think they get paid pretty good.
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Yep.
Toasty today.
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Nice last blast today and the sun is due tomorrow.
Should be good tomorrow.
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Hijackers don't usually want to keep schtum too.
Unless there's a second part to all this somehow.
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Yes I think Ladies Days are popular with the blokes as well as the lasses.
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Very warm here today.
Double digit warm.
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It must be all those barbies.
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Perhaps you are just taking things too literally. Japanese people say "saiaku/saiyaku" at the slightest thing, so I doubt they mean "the worst" as English speakers understand it. A delay of an hour or two on the way home is not going to be the "worst" journey ever. The same goes for "saiko". Most saiko things aren't the best. They're just good enough to be enthusiastic about.
No, I don't think so.
I understand Japanese well enough to know that when people call something 'saiko', it may not always mean 'the absolute best', but at the same time it certainly does not mean distinctly average to poor.
It implies really good, very good, etc.
On the simple scale from saiko to saiyaku, I would even say that some people will currently say that conditions are closer to saiyaku than they are to saiko (* though I'm not saying they are).
Taking the instance in the original post.
The guys who stemik went with may well have said that after their runs, the weather conditions being great yesterday, etc. At the slightest thing, as you say.
But they are not the skijo telling their audience (customers) about snow conditions to expect when they visit and pay their yen.
47 said powder snow and saiko conditions.
By any stretch of the imagination, that is misleading.
If what we have now is 'saiko', what is it when we have 40cm fresh up there?
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Sometimes I wonder if I am watching a fashion parade rather than a sporting event.
Where's the naked events hey?
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It was of course nothing like 'best conditions'. And to bend words to try and make it out like it was is, well...
Nice groomers and great sunny weather, but I'm guessing that most people come here for the snow in winter, not the sun.
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Quality vs. quantity is a big issue here, and lift-served can mean one lift and lappable, or some combination of five lifts and beginner runs and traverses that takes up to an hour total to get you repositioned for that 300-400 vert of glory. If the quality is high enough though, people will still say the latter is amazing.
I'd would definitely like quality please but would prefer to have both quality and quantity.
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Less than 5cm in Hakuba.
More higher up of course.
47 report 10cm.
Goryu report 20cm.
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Another reason to get it planned sooner than later ------- consumption tax rise on 1st April.
If you officially order things before then, presumably the pre-rise charge? Don't know how these things work.
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Please come back winter.
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We really need it.
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Sony President Andrew House has announced PlayStation Now, a new games streaming service that aims to bring older PlayStation games to PS4, PS3, PS Vita and other devices.
PlayStation Now, which will stream games from the original PlayStation, PS2 and PS3 eras first on PS3 and PS4, will kick off on PS3 with a closed beta in the US at the end of January, with a full rollout planned for some time this summer. Users will be able to rent games individually or pay for a PlayStation Now subscription. Sony aims to eventually expand the service beyond Sony devices too.
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Might it be possible for owners of the discs to get a discount or heaven forbid be able to play for free?
Yeah, I know.. stupid.
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What a strange thing to be doing, taking pics of a phone box!!!
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Looks like it it will be season on for quite a few more places from this weekend.
4WD vs. 2WD
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Annoying stuff hey.