Oh dang. TGR hate.

[creaky fossil]

upper middle class trustafari generally have been schooled at relatively sophisticated academies where they learn the importance of The Pose and how one uses The Pose to fleece innocents that dwell on lower socioeconomic rungs.

in 2014, contours of The Pose include pretending at being "green" while traveling all around the world. it's kinda like a new twist on the fad that happened about 10 yrs ago, "eco-tourism."

typical customers are insecure middle- and upper-middle-class strivers who know they're stuck in the land of asphalt & concrete flatlands but want really badly to fit the Outdoor Lifestyle Image.

Teton Gravity Research has catered to that segment of America -- insecure striving wannabe city slickers -- for about 15 years now. hilarious that some find this admirable and can't see how it's fucking things up. nobody can show how it's improved anything except the income of those people who get TGR spancershit or public exposure via website or video starring roles.

they downplay the size of the income generated because they're already rich and don't need to make money via TGR

what I'd be worried about if I were the boys who operate the TGR system (POW or whatever the fuck it's called in that jr high school "hah hah hah" lingo) is how the even more pretentious douchebags at Blister Gear Review could usurp TGR if they chose to. blister has The Pose down cold, and could double-down on their skills at The Pose to unseat TGR as Megaposeur Paradise.

[john c]

oh, the hate and truth is flowing now

All this and all that are for one thing, Profit. The image is everything, whether it being turning JJ into a "pioneer" or Pow saving earth from us. All these interests are married up, Magazines, heli operators, gear companies, TGR. They use their self made media to sell us shit we don't need, real estate that destroys habitat, cars, pointless movies, tickets for premiers, lift tickets to now overcrowded hills, and anything else the ski industrial complex deems needed by their zombie consumers. All the while proclaiming themselves as "core" and "green." Now they ask us to not only buy shit but donate, what a farce. How is it that if one loves these places so much they would turn so quickly around and sell them out thus destroying them?

I mean fuck me over with a 30 thousand dollar subaru outback! How about an article on how to shop for used skis, carpooling to your ski hill, not taking that exotic co2 spewing airplane to that overseas destination? Maybe TGR's new corporate office should feature a community garden behind it? Then all those non payed interns could get their poser asses of facebook and do something. Nah, that would be putting your money where your perpetually spewing mouth is.

[creaky fossil]

in 2014 we have Internet Experts (HELLO! blister)

in 2004 we had Spancershit thanks to the Internet (HELLO! TGR)

in 1994 we had Spancershit via word of mouth because pre-TGR

in 1984 we had people saying skiing was dying because ___________ and so we needed to "grow the sport."

funny how people who love to ski always find a way to ski, spancershit or "dying sport" regardless.

remember, if you have your name as a by-line on a Gear Review at an online publication, you're a badass.

and if you post at TGR, you're a badass.

the jury is still out on whether you are a proto-badass if you post at newschoolers.

the verdict is in on people who post at EpicSki -- LEW-ZAH!

the reason why you'll never see anything about stretching your gear for one more season, etc., on TGR or blister? because their readership is a bunch of rich fucktards who have a shit-ton of disposable income.

they make up for it (their rich pwoggy trustafari guilt) by using kincos.

[PNWbrit]

remember, if you have your name as a by-line on a Gear Review at an online publication, you're a badass.

I don't think a truer word has ever been said around here.....

[JoeStrummer]

Hey, companies have been selling privileged white people a lifestyle and an identity since Madison Avenue determined it was a divine American birthright to have a 2 car garage. They have just gotten better and better at manipulation. They spent their 10,000 Malcolm Gladwell hours getting better at selling and we spent our 10,000 Malcolm Gladwell hours getting better at buying. It's a perfect match!

Also, it isn't all downside. Somewhere in Burundi a kid is running around in my old North Face Karakorum jacket. I got rid of it when I realized it wasn't Karakorum-y enough for my lifestyle!

[Hugh Conway]

hey, at some point in the future like Jeffries at Abercrombie, all of the little patagucci glad serfs won't be able to plastic surgery and control themselves into cool and people will realize, it's just a badly packaged bit of crap. eesh, the ski industry peeps lapped up all his "not cool enough crap" and regurgitated it, badly.

[userA]

if he shreds so fuckin hard
wheres the stoke?
seems like the scrawny dude at the beach who got sum sand kicked in his face
so instead of ponien up for the atlas


he sat his slowboard ass at the cumputor and got his e-warrior on
must have some hefty typin calluses

i used to be that scrawny guy at the beach
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[TahoeJ]

Don't forget the 2014 internet "real core" and above all of you wannabe, corporate rich boys archetype. None of that going on in this thread at all.

[rideit]

if he shreds so fuckin hard
wheres the stoke?
seems like the scrawny dude at the beach who got sum sand kicked in his face
so instead of ponien up for the atlas


he sat his slowboard ass at the cumputor and got his e-warrior on
must have some hefty typin calluses

FWIW, I have worked with Max from 8am to 1:00 pm. At which point, he ran up the Grand, helped some people off the belly roll, summited, rand down...before dark. That night, he went to the Moose, got shithoused, met a chick, took her home.
And...




He showed up at work the next morning at 8:00. Where he said 'dude, I'm a little beat...can I drive?"


No point to the story.

[john c]

FWIW, I have worked with Max from 8am to 1:00 pm. At which point, he ran up the Grand, helped some people off the belly roll, summited, rand down...before dark. That night, he went to the Moose, got shithoused, met a chick, took her home.
And...




He showed up at work the next morning at 8:00. Where he said 'dude, I'm a little beat...can I drive?"


No point to the story.

All this was Caught on heli cam and Max's go pro right? All the while pimping this years go to corporate color scheme, wearing shoes named after him (Mad Max shoes), driving a brand new car from his car sponsor with Max's sheepeater blog decals pasted all over the side, in preparation for next seasons movie hit in support of selling more of next years much ballyhooed product. Product which of course was made with child labor, constructed by the burning of fossil fuels, and delivered via fossil fueled ships and trucks. All the while claiming that fossil fuels suck and actually keeping a straight face through all of it. It is kind of like a priest who fucks you while he whispers holy things, and yes that is a rage against the machine quote.

SHit ballz! Am I in some sort of mind fucked continium or is POW actually giving away a trip which features airplane rides to destinations 3000 miles a fucking way? So removed from their own actions and the consequences of their actions, they do not even realize that is the problem not the solution. So draped in their own arrogance that I bet they have it justified in their heads, hey we are "raising awareness" so therefore we and not you can burn shitloads of CO2. Guess the fuck what, we all have heard of global warming. So insulated from the reality of the guy on the street, let alone the guy in a shack are these bad actors; they are actually using the future of snow as why we should stop emmiting CO2. Food shortages, rising sea levels, mass extinctions, disease, drought, dwindling water supplies due to global warming...... nah, my powder will be affected, my sport of the wealthiest elite of the wealthiest nation on planet earth. I could not even make this script up if I fucking tried.

To make it all worse, they are seen as silly, discrediting people who actually are doing shit, not a single fucking one of them leads by example all the while profiteering off the very system that has created the problem. Making a snowboard movie? Get fucking real, the middle school mentality of Jackson has spawned this abomination upon the earth.

[rideit]

JohnC= Creaky's Doppleposter?

[Hugh Conway]

Don't forget the 2014 internet "real core" and above all of you wannabe, corporate rich boys archetype. None of that going on in this thread at all.

nah, they're just people dipshit. but as long as you've got the tahoe paradigm going, keep on keepin on.


eesh, was rideit joking? or not? was it some shredgnaresque cliche? who knows, it's 2014 TGR

[userA]

oh, the hate and truth is flowing now

hate spews
truth flows!
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[rideit]

eesh, was rideit joking? or not? was it some shredgnaresque cliche? who knows, it's 2014 TGR

Abiout what?

[john c]

I fucking ski better then every single one of you so fuck off. This is a free merica' and I am fucking free to hate until my god damn ear lobes freeze in my own personalized hate hell. I look in the mirror and feel nothing but hate, I was born hating air, when I ski pow I look left and right for somebody to hate. I even hate it when flowers bloom in spring, I hate the olympics, I hate it when america wins at the Olympics, I hate it when I get to my line and some dude with a camera is in the way, I hate Utah, but most of all I hate hypocritical, entitled, trustafarian, narsistic, corporate fucks who sell shit out all the while claiming moral highgorund. ok?

[Hugh Conway]

He's just jealous /messageboard

[irratator]

The old saying: "The truth hurts" .... "The Hate hurts better!" Keep the Hate going.
John C: U are a Ruler, a true Hater

[john c]

He's just jealous /messageboard

I am fucking embarrassed to have ended up on TGR's most hated chat room people along with you Douche Doucheway. You add absolutely nothing to everything. Your opinions are much like your dick, small and accomplishing little.

[userA]

hating on the ski/snobord site could lead you to polyasshit if you stay onboard.
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[ACH]

i used to be that scrawny guy at the beach
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haha, now you are on the mountain instead

[spook]

i'm too tired to hate

[rideit]

Don't worry, everyone else still has energy to hate you.

[spook]

Don't worry, everyone else still has energy to hate you.

i can see that. i think that means i win by default.

[rideit]

Yes, clearly....you are a winner.

[spook]

that's what i've been saying all along.