Found this and wanted to share. It's a skier's reasons for ...well not becoming a snowboarder; then under it, a snowboarder rebuking everyone of them. Enjoy.
(Would the moderators be kind and fix the thread title? I misspelled snowboarder)
1. You will probably die.
Get busy living, or get busy dying. I know what I’d rather do.
It’s true… you can’t bake a cake without smashing a few eggs - you will most likley get hurt whilst you’re learning, but there’s no reason why after a couple of days learning how to turn and stop, that you can’t progress surely and safely to being a decent snowboarder.
2. You are going to look like a fashion victim.
Hmm, would you rather look like this
http://www.idiotbanter.com/blog/wp-c...ki-suits-7.jpg
or this?
http://www.network26.com/email/WLemailpics/FF144.jpg
Right.
3. You will probably kill other people.
Just make sure they’re skiers. ;-)
4. You may well go to prison.
Of course, that doesn’t happen if you ski, does it?
5. You will hurt yourself.
No pain, no gain.
6. You will be traveling down the side a mountain at high velocity with both feet strapped firmly to the same piece of wood.
…making it statistically safer for your knees without all that rotational injury risk.
7. Skiing is much more versatile than snowboarding.
Steep, big mountain
YouTube - Jeremy Jones Big Mountain Riding
Boardercross
YouTube - Chevrolet US Snowboard Grand Prix at Tamarack - Boardercross
Slopestyle
YouTube - Snowboard SlopeStyle
Halfpipe
YouTube - Chevrolet U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix Halfpipe Finals
Not to mention splitboard skinning, a bit of old fashioned jibbing, and a whole host of things that free skiing wouldn’t have without snowboarding, and lets face it - the world would be a worse place without!
8. Snowboarders are commonly known as “Gays on Trays”!
Lol, not heard that before, so not that common. Quite funny though… for a skier.
9. You don’t just become a snowboarder.
Yes you do.
S: (n) snowboarder (someone who slides down snow-covered slopes while standing on a snowboard)[1]
Strap on a snowboard, slide down a snow-covered slope and you’re in.
10. It’s going to cost you.
Take it in your stride snowboarder. You’ve earnt it, now enjoy it. See you on the hill.
10 Reasons not to become a Snoboarder
Try to have a sense of humour; if you want seriousness, go over to the political section of the forum. Or, stay here and join in the poking fun at each other like the rest of us. 
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