Philosophy of the technique, attitude and style of skiing.

..jack

..jack

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In a recent philosophical discussion with a close friend, we discussed skiing as a concept. What is skiing? Why is skiing? and most importantly how is skiing?

What we found is that skiing can be compared to many things. Wildlife for example. But the soul of skiing can be found much closer than you think, look on your breakfast table, or in your fridge and you will find it... It is yogurt. In the next few paragraphs I will attempt to enlighten you newschoolers with our thesis. Savour.

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Your probably thinking, 'Sure, this sounds interesting, but how have you come up with this, do you have evidence?' We don't, but we are really clever so you must trust us, we are right.

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(Above:Bad yougurt pot technique)

In the picture above we see a novice. He is very much unlike a yogurt pot, he is sprawled out on the floor, he resembles spagetti. In comparison we see a 'good yogurt pot technique' skier below. In this we see he is styling and captures the very existence of yogurt. You can tell he has strong bones with a lot of calcium, as do yogurts.

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Another observation is that snow is white like yogurts, coincidence? No it isn't. Amazing

Furthermore, the attitude of yogurt is different to other dairy product. Butter and milk lack soul or as we in the philosophy world call it 'Le pin-pin de la vie'. Yogurt doesnt play by the rules. It is a dessert but you can eat it a breakfast or whenever you want. You can ski whenever you want. Yogurt embodies the attitude of skiing and more importantly rule breaking.

Look at this pot, look closer, more closerer. You will see the word ski printed across it. Wow!

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I will leave you with my viewpoint on yogurt:

there are two type of food, there are rebels and there are creators. Yogurt plays a rebellious part and bears the attitude of all modern day rebels, it doesn't just ignore the rules, it breaks them. And if that's not being a creator i don't know what is.
 
man i hope you were baked when you made this thread because if you think this is funny when not high i feel bad for ya.

fail.
 
Grow up? What the fuck are you talking about 'grow up'? You made a bullshit supposedly tongue-in-cheek pseudo-philosophical attempt at a thread that was both non-sensical and would only be funny if you were stoned and even then, somewhat dubious. For reasons that are beyond me the people that have posted in your thread do seem to approve of it so congratulations , mission accomplished. But for the record, it isn't funny and anybody that thinks it is needs to 'grow up'.

You're fucking status reads "on a long and winding journey down the road of dreams". If that is a genuine attempt at meanful metaphor then seriously GTFO and again if it's supposed to be funny, it isn't.

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ugh.... whats wrong with you cows?

Just go ski. cant it just be a fun activity? Sans yogurt?

shred gnarly, get hard... isnt that enough?
 
Woah I am so confused right now...

Wiait I get skiing... Yogurt is thick. Snow is thick. Shit it makes sense.

Hang on no it doesn't.

Wtf?
 
English motherfucker, do you speak it?

I wasn't trying to sound smart, I am smart. You tell me which part of my post was extravagant and and see if I can condense it down to words of 1 or maybe 2 syllables so you can understand it, ok?
 
You know how you can spot someone trying to appear smart? They write badly, but use big words (or words that seem big to them), like dubious and pseudo-philosophical.

I would be impressed if you called the post anti-philosophical. Then you might know something about critical theory and intellectual history.
 
What are you talking about? Pseudo-philosophical makes perfect sense in this context, far more so than anti-philosophical. The dude make a dumb thread trying to be profound and/or funny and achieves neither. My choice of words was perfectly appropriate and my argument makes no attempt to draw on either critical theory or intellectual history. If you can explain to me why I'm wrong and why my use of 'big' words like dubious was inappropriate then I'd be only too happy to concede defeat. Until then, I'm still right and this thread is still utterly shit.

As for Kamikaze's point, my name is a referrence to Candide, who is one of my idols, and his 'Rastafaride' series of films, and not me pretending to be a Jamaican resident of east African origin who smokes a lot of weed in homage to Jah, so I still reserve the right to get agitated on the internet. Again, my signature is a nod to a film I like. I am not mellow like a rastafarian and I am not 'the Dude', I just like the quote. That ok?
 
no, I'm British and I speak English as it's supposed to be spoken, as opposed to the monosyllabic American version where white suburban kids try to sound like The Game. This is the 'English' that you speak which is why it sounds forced to you.
 
Some one get this guy 22 mg of pure greek yog right now!! Holy moly, nee naw nee naw, call 999, or 911 or...Muller! Yes Muller is who you should call. Muller light. Muller lighten up.

It's sad when people don't get the way of Yoghurt. It's also sad when someone believes Humor is non-objective (which it is, it's based on opinions. We all like yoghurt, but you obviously don't, there are other people who don't like it either, and we don't mind, but we are proud to be part of, within and on top of, yoghurt.

 
the thread may seem dumb to you but your opinion isnt everyone elses. if you dont got good to say then dont say anything at all cause it just starts arguments because everyones opinions different
 
Dude I hate to get in on this retarded post, but people like you just piss me off sooo bad. I don't care how smart you are and neither does anybody else here. It doesn't change the fact that you are dumb enough to reply to a post that was obviously meant to be a joke and make comments in attempt to belittle the creator and make yourself sound smarter. Besides, everybody knows that a large vocubulary is only a thesaurus click away. In short, you suck and nobody will think an internet nerd w/ a large vocabulary is cool. BYAAAH!
 
Whatever, I'm not going to have the same argument with 5 different people. You're right, it was meant to be a joke I think- I simply informed the threadmaker that it wasn't funny, which it still isn't. That is not trying to belittle someone. He reacted, some other dude jumps in and before you know it there's a clusterfuck of people who think they know me trying to call me out.

I'm glad you all find this shit funny and I am truly sad that my sense of humour is evidently inferior. Enjoy this wonderful thread kids, I'm out.
 
Okay, you asked for it. If the thread were pseudo-philosophy, it would be trying to pass as legitimate philosophy; it would be sham philosophy. Creationism is pseudo-science because it tries to pass as real science; it's sham science. The original post, as you said yourself, is tongue-in-cheek; it's ironic. It's not actually trying to answer the questions "What is skiing?" "Why is skiing?" "How is skiing?" It's making fun of those questions, and anyone who would take them seriously. And I think it's funny.

You want to know why the original post is anti-philosophical? In the last half-century, a lot of scholars have decided to stop asking broad philosophical questions like "What is the nature of reality?" "What is language?" "How can we know anything?" Instead, they've decided to critique the questions themselves, and the system of Western Metaphysics in which they are embedded. Like the thread creator, they often write ironically, and they don't take themselves too seriously.

 
while trying to tell people how you have proper english and are using the right words in your posts, you may want to proofread before posting or people like me will make fun of you.

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i probably completely failed that image, i havent been doing them correctly this week... does anyone know if they changed the embedding format for images or soemthing?

 
There is no need to take this so seriously.

This is one persons joke, and I still find it funny despite never having smoked pot in my life.
 
The yogurt speaks for itself. This thread has been controversial, but has brought us all closer together in the long run.
 
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