Columnist for North Idaho College Newspaper Has Something Important to Say about Skiers
By Rocky Thompson on November 17th, 2009
North Idaho College or, “The Harvard of Idaho State Schools,” appears to have lowered their admissions policy from having a pulse and access to a computer to having a pulse and being able to write columns for the school newspaper. A mildly retarded young man managed to string together enough semi-cogent thoughts that The Sentinel, North Idaho College’s school paper, published the item as a column.
The headline, “Skiers can’t take the hint, Rail riders try to fit in through racing events,” is especially troublesome as it appears the copy editor who wrote the headline didn’t bother reading the article. A more accurate headline would be, “North Idaho College Expands Semi-Literate Reporter Program.”
The column is a hilarious mishmash of misused skier stereotypes and contradictions. For example, the author says, “According to one of my snowboarding buddies, skiers are reckless. She has been hit twice in the past and is fearful of negligent skiers every season.” He goes on, “During my five years as a boarder, I have hit approximately two toddlers.”
Approximately? You lost count of how many you hit after one?
I think you need to recalibrate your sarcasm detector.
Nah, my sarcasm detector is dead on. This guy is serious. Check out his other story, “Women fall short in sports, What makes men dominate athletics”
http://www.nicsentinel.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&ustory_id=d263d663-e5f0-437e-9fc1-b30c41e1982f
Touché
Reason 674,908,923 to ban snowboards. Thanks Alta and Deer Valley!
hurray for rocky’s dead on sarcasm detector! more baseless slander please!
This guy has a real future as a troll on teletips.com.
In addition to the approximately two toddlers he seems to have hit some trees as well.
You need to read the comment section it is getting pretty good. Thanks Rocky!
Make sure to also read his article “Huge size of purses simply stifling”, where you can find his stream of conscience style of writing, “struggling to comprehend the behavior of the opposite sex.”
Woh woh woh people be nice to this kid. Hes from Idaho….
Well thank you all for attempting to bash my column. It’s my own opinion on this subject and I have a right to speak it.
Let’s try and keep the name calling down to a minimum you little pole jerkers.
Nice I like how he asks us to “keep the name calling down to a minimum” and then immediately calls us names. Glad to see the Idaho education system is turning out some real Rhodes Scholars. It seems journalism isn’t even being taught to be about reporting factual things but simply spouting “opinion”. I have to say godawful writers like this seem to be in nearly every college paper I’ve come across. The editorials in my alma mater’s daily news are always vapid, whiny, irrelevant bitch pieces about how work/school/life/having to be a f***ing adult now is so unfair. If it was meant to be satirical or humourous, epic fail on both counts.
David, that’s right - it is your opinion. Keep in mind that anything written in response is also someone’s opinion, and is thus equally valid in the public domain. You are in no position to be asking people to refrain from name-calling (see ‘little pole jerkers’ line 2).
In other news, you’ve written a brilliantly funny and blindly ironic article. Congratulations.
Spot on as always, Rocky.
Don’t be making the assumption Captain Pole Jerker is from Idaho– he merely attends school there. He could be from Montana or Washington, which are both short drives away.
And while Idaho is way down on the list for college graduation rates, there are plenty of smart people who move here after graduating somewhere else. After all, we do have some great tourist attractions like sagebrush and potatoes, and the Aryan Nation is making a comeback!
*”Skiers, what’s with the poles?…Snowboarders can ride perfectly without the help of a couple of sticks; skiers should do the same”
I don’t know, the only people i see sliding down greens on their butts are snowboarders, while those toddlers are up on their feet without poles
*”[Elderly skiers] traveling down the slopes…are begging to get reamed by a passing boarder.”
first two elements of the Mountain responsibility code I took off an old trail map of Montage Mountain, but you can find similar, if not the same wording on an trail maps:
“Always stay in control, and be able to stop or avoid other people or objects.
“People ahead of you have the right of way. It is your responsibility to avoid them.
I’m glad to say that I decked a ‘boarder like this guy who was coming toward my “toddler on a leash” with clearly no intent or ability to slow down or stop. What a blowhard.
This is pure gold. Great find.
I do believe this dude is a troll. And he did a damn fine job of it. All though one thing does bug me. The who skiers vs snowboarding thing is really annoying, wish we could just drop that.
obviously neither can compete with tele skiing.
Approximately <– I love it. I’ve never hit a toddler, but if I hit more than one I’d sure remember it!
Wow just what we need, some idiot instigating fighting between skiers and riders. As a snowboarder this article really irks me.
I think this guy has started writing for Glenn Beck…