Was riding with my girl, a female friend of hers, and a buddy of mine today.
Bluebird day, not much to do but butter around and just be a goof.
So I spray the shit out of a few skiers today, made an old lady go "oooop" and apparently turned a skiers black outfit white....
My girl and her friend started getting onto me for blasting skiers with snow, saying I'm mean, and should stop it....
I have rules.... I don't get kids, I don't get boarders often, and I absolutely don't get people talking on phones and what not because I would be pissed if someone got me while I was using electronics. And I also don't get people who just wiped out hard....
Is it such an asshole thing or are the girls just being punks?
Well, the majority of responses to this thread sort of renew my faith in human nature.
I see spraying, like snowball fights, as being opt-in fun. Spraying randoms is just uncool. The fact that your friends were uncomfortable with you doing it should probably have been enough of a reason to stop. Most people have probably hung out in a group with and obnoxious jerk - the secret keeping friends is not to be THAT guy.
someone tried too spray me while i was waiting in left line, turns out they suck dong at boarding and took out my legs. Since that i spray anyone sitting where they can be sprayed.
Anyone who sprays someone for "being wrong" is a douche. That is such BS, "your sitting in my boarding space" " I could of hit that wall" man grow the F-up and be a grown ass MAN or WOMAN.
You should be ashamed of yourselves, I hope you get your ass's beat for being ignorant.
Btw, if you spray an old lady regardless of wether she is 40-50 or 60, your just a lil bitch. Heh.. I know I would chase you down if you sprayed some old lady for being "IN THE MIDDLE OF A RUN". Man you guys deserve everything that comes to you.
The only time I've ever sprayed was stopping at high speed.. now I'm assuming that's what we're all talking about.. still new would rather not stop fast and someone get pissed at me.
that was pretty awesome.. I doubt I'm experienced enough to even go about trying to spray someone.. but my girlfriend will definitely be my first and most likely last target
I love to spray but, I find that if you want to get a message across to someone it works alot better to just talk to them like a normal human being instead of spraying them with snow.
For me, it would be more like " Hey look at me! Look what I can do! I can spray you with snow " just like when you splash someone in the pool.. You are either flirting, being a dick, or trying to show off lol.
Milo- I'd have joined you in the spraying of the skiers.
I view it as playfulness and wanting to engage strangers in good natured fun.
To the angry posters before me:
Stop being so wound tight that you go Charles Manson on every freaking person whom you perceive as disrespectful because of playful acts like these. For once, I am encouraging you to take a hit from the your handy bong and just enjoy the people on the hill. As I think MPD would agree.
i've got a board accross the small of my back from a dumb ass trying to spray me... so yeah.. it can cause damage... also, the last time someone sprayed someone riding with me was when my wife got a concussion in the middle of the hill... so yeah, we were stopped in the middle. as tightly grouped as could be making sure she regained conciousness. a douche sprayed us... exactally what we needed at that moment. i waited at the bottom, to see if the fuckstick came back so i could destroy him, but he went to a different lift after that i guess.
basically, you don't know why they are stopped there. so don't always assume its because they are being ignorant.
oh, also, a friend of mine lost their left eye to a snowball... so fuck you thinking you know what is safe and what isn't. snow isn't always debris free when you spray it or throw it.
grow the fuck up.
spray friends. the only other time you spray people is if you are calling them on to fight. because thats all it is... marking your teritory and challenging someone.
I just don't understand lol.. I guess the first person I made friends with at the slopes nailed me with a snowball.. and I was brand new... I was like "oh dude what the f**k!? " he then helped me out with snowboarding and taught me a few helpful tips and junk..
it's just good natured, if someone tags me with a snowball I'm going to laugh and tag them back.. I mean, when did people start being born with sticks in asses?
I don't think anyone means harm unless they are doing it while you are tricking or doing something potentially dangerous.. then it's screwed up.. But otherwise suck it.. it's snow.
if someone pours a glass of water on you on purpose at a bar... you are going to get pissed correct?
some people take the chance that a snowball will be an accepted means of introduction.. personally, i have verbal skills and am not in grade 6, so i can find other methods that won't be misconstrued.
if i wanted to throw snowballs, i'd instigate a snowball fight... generally with my friends. if i want to snowboard.. i want to snowboard. all those who throw snowballs are probably the guys hanging out in the park who just sit on their asses waiting to hit a handrail laughing with their crew. if you are just doing that.. go ride an urban rail with your thug-life friends and leave the hill to people who like to snowboard, not just be social.
you can tell me to suck it, and i'll tell you to grow up. we're different and thats cool... but i guess i have a stick up my ass due to past transgressions... so if someone does either spray or throw a snowball and i don't know them? that stick is being pulled out so i can beat you with it.
To everyone who sprays random people, do you also splash random people when you're in a pool or the beach? because you know it's only water/salt water? :dunno:
Spray everyone on the mountain. Its SNOW. YOUR SNOWBOARDING (or sking). People need to lighten up for real. Who gets mad about getting sprayed with some snow, ESPECIALLY when your SNOWboarding. I spray people on the mountain all the time. You should see my BF spray people, its like he creates a mini blizzard on them. And when he sprays me? What do I do? Spray him right back the next time I get a chance. If he or I spray someone else on the Mtn, what do we do? Laugh our assess off depending on the severity of the spray, and the madder the other people get the funnier we think it is.
No offense to your girl at all, or her friend, but really....tell her to chillllllll and learn to laugh
It's funny this image of what it is to be a snowboarder that some of you have. The only thing required to be a snowboarder is that you snowboard.
Ride your own ride.
Spraying people with snow isn't laid back or chill....it's douchy and aggressive. You guys are saying it's done in jest but in the next sentence say it's funny when they get mad. While you may find it funny, as evidenced by this thread, your victims clearly do not. You are ultimately how you are perceived, regardless of your intentions.
I'd apologize to them if they seemed angry, I never said any different - but I also said I wouldn't spray anyone I didn't know. just throwing that feel good out there.
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