Thundercat 60 Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 LOL, good point thursday. It's also a law that all passengers must wear seat belts (it's only just been introduced though!) Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 wait a minute.....there are more people out there, OTHER than me that bends some rules??!! Somebody call the cops!!! Link to post Share on other sites
tripler 0 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 Originally Posted By: Black Mountain Japan is such a nanny state. I have to agree with that. But then once in a while, like Nozawa Onsen fire festival, they'll chuck the rule book out the window and go completely crazy with stuff which would never get past heath & safety in the UK and I'm guessing Oz too. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 Japan is a contrasting state...not quite a fully fledged Nanny State. It has some rules that would seem claustrophobic to us but I think in many laws they let things go that our countries would not. Its a mixed bag, in general less restrictive than our countries. Link to post Share on other sites
tripler 0 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver I think in many laws they let things go that our countries would not. Its a mixed bag, in general less restrictive than our countries. Which laws are they? Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 like those crazy single seated lifts that have no safety bar...they would NOT be allowed back home. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 or quad chairs that don't get filled up 'cos people want to be by themselves. Link to post Share on other sites
tripler 0 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver like those crazy single seated lifts that have no safety bar...they would NOT be allowed back home. ha ha, true. And don't dynamite avalanches just get Patrol to ski across the top. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 or sharing your season pass with your friends. Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 Originally Posted By: thursday or quad chairs that don't get filled up 'cos people want to be by themselves. But some of those Gaijin are so scary! Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 Originally Posted By: thursday GN, it's the law in Japan that kids need to be in a child seat. Maybe it is but at least up this way I see kids jumping around in the back of cars all the time and mothers holding kids in their arms in the front seat. Even seen a women driving with her kid standing in her lap holding the steering wheel. Maybe it's just up here in rural Hokkaido? Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 Originally Posted By: Black Mountain This is a joke, right? I think you must be cherry picking the laws that you like to break (or rules that you like to bend ). Japan is such a nanny state. Maybe in different ways from Australia but I find there are so many ridiculous laws that are completely unnecessary to 'protect' her citizens. I wasn't joking. I personally find living here a lot less restrictive than in Aus. As above it may just be living in a small country town in Hokkaido, I don't know. Maybe living in a small country town in Aus would be similar. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 Originally Posted By: thursday or sharing your season pass with your friends. no that goes on....in both places Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 which is a much bigger crime. Link to post Share on other sites
John_Janelle 0 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 Mamabear, Going to Niseko in January. Have 10 nights there with 9 days of Lift passes etc. 3 days of snowboarding lessons, If we haven't got the hang of it by then, it's back to ski's for the remainder. John. Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted November 9, 2009 Share Posted November 9, 2009 Great time to be in a great place JJ. We will also be there in Jan (leaving the 16th). Good luck Link to post Share on other sites
Timmyhugecans 0 Posted November 9, 2009 Share Posted November 9, 2009 Always do. Link to post Share on other sites
best skier in hakuba 5 Posted November 9, 2009 Share Posted November 9, 2009 Yep, most of the time Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Helmets, again Quote: Sometimes I would find myself on a chairlift sitting in a row of Darth Vaders, and I would pluck up the courage to ask. Why the helmet? I murmured, and after a few days I began to get a fix on the phenomenon. Of course it is partly fashion. Helmets are in this year in the way that ruffs or codpieces or top hats used to be in. They are treated as a new must-have accessory, and much of their success – in the words of Etienne the (helmetless) instructor – is down to “le marketingâ€. You can get fur-lined helmets and helmets with stereo, and it all means good business for the ski-hire shops. But as almost everyone said, the main reason was safety. It was about minimising risk, they said; and suddenly I realised I was looking at a rich and suggestive illustration of the human herd instinct. Here in the Alps, as the helmets spread from head to head, you can physically see the contagion of panic as it passes from beast to beast, and you can see how otherwise sensible people give way to an irrational misjudging of risk. Has skiing really become more dangerous in the past couple of years, when people have started adopting these glistening black craniums? On the contrary, the steady improvement of skis and bindings has made the sport safer than ever. Of course there was the sad case of Natasha Richardson, killed in a freak accident on the nursery slopes. But then there are always injuries, and if anything I imagine it might be even more painful, if you are on the downhill side of the argument, to be walloped by an out-of-control skier equipped with a plastic battering ram on his head. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colum...woolly-hat.html Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 actually we were talking about this when I was up in Niseko, seemed every Aussie (so everyone else who was there ) had a helmet on and we were wondering if it was just an Aussie thing, obviously not. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Have been wearing a helmet from my first day snowboarding this season, well only for snowboarding. Has definitely helped when ducking in down through the trees. Link to post Share on other sites
snowcat 0 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 prevented a much worse outcome...indispensable.. Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Seeing as it has been raised again... *Keeps my head warmer than a beanie would. *Saved my Powder Baby getting his head smashed open when he scorpioned on Thredbo Ice and the snowboard edge whacked good and hard across the back of the helmet (and dented it!). [Aged 7 at the time] *Has been invaluable while our boys tried out rails/boxes/kickers and landed on their heads... *Handy for deflecting branches. *Useful for absorbing some of the impact from ski's and stocks as some dufus in front in the queue slings them over their shoulder onto your head. *Also absorbs impact when you are not sitting back properly and your lift companions brings the safety bar down without warning. *And lastly makes a half decent handbag at the end of the day, when you can stuff it with your gloves, face mask, beanie etc and store it under the table in the bar Link to post Share on other sites
panhead_pete 27 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Have one packed but will probably buy a new one as have been knocked out twice now with it on. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Ski lessons pete? Link to post Share on other sites
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