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Alison O'Riordain New Hampshire ski trip

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  • #62
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    brianthebard wrote: »
    On the other hand it is a nice stress relief after reading terrible articles to be able to complain about it online.

    I hear ya. ;)


  • #63
    yeahme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 124 ✭✭yeahme


    Getting into the American way of life immediately, we started to use the words like "powder" instead of snow,

    why does she have to sound like a, Dumbašš......... its called sneachta.

    reminds me of those j1 students who used to come over, and within one month start speaking with american accents.
    ok i hold up my hands american sayings will slip out from me still, like cell, gas, sidewalk etc...then usually a blank stare followed by huh?
    but I lived there for a lot longer than one summer.......
    oh yeah she probably came back with the OC accent, even though she went to the east coast!


  • #64
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    In an hour's dash around the shops, I purchased three pairs of Nike, rather akin to the Nike high-top sneakers Jedward so eagerly jump around in on stage

    Whats wrong with this sentence?

    Read it aloud..


  • #65
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Degsy wrote: »
    Whats wrong with this sentence?

    With its grammar or its very essence?


  • #66
    Lando Griffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    In an hour's dash around the shops, I purchased three pairs of Nike, rather akin to the Nike high-top sneakers Jedward so eagerly jump around in on stage

    Degsy wrote: »
    Whats wrong with this sentence?

    Read it aloud..

    She didn't declare the goods on entering Ireland?


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  • #67
    Luxie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Luxie


    bluewolf wrote: »
    I don't know, the port unfolding was in a class of its own!

    Or Porto Banus no longer being the Monte Carlo of Europe.


  • #68
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Quote:
    In an hour's dash around the shops, I purchased three pairs of Nike, rather akin to the Nike high-top sneakers Jedward so eagerly jump around in on stage
    Degsy wrote: »
    Whats wrong with this sentence?

    Read it aloud..

    Should have read.......... In an hoor's dash around the shops, I purchased three pairs of Nike, rather akin to the Nike high-top sneakers Jedward so eagerly jump around in on stage


  • #69
    Luxie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Luxie


    Degsy wrote: »
    Whats wrong with this sentence?

    Read it aloud..

    A pair of Nikes akin to a.....pair of Nikes.

    Well I never.


  • #70
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    GETTING THERE

    ALISON travelled to New Hampshire, via Boston, with Topflight, Aer Lingus and the New Hampshire Tourist Board. Topflight’s new winter ski brochure is out now, featuring the five mountains of New Hampshire. Prices with Topflight start from €549, including Aer Lingus return flights to Boston, and seven nights’ accommodation. Airline taxes are extra.

    At the end there I was kind of expecting it to say "Alison flew with aer Lingus, paying €87,649.00 for a one way economy ticket".


  • #71
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    oppenheimer1 wrote: »
    There is, or at least there was, a very well spoken homeless man that resided in the Stephens Green area. Irish times reader too...

    Is that not Michael D. Higgins?



    I don't think people should be worrying about giving the Indo or poor Alison any more exposure on this forum. It's a safe bet that it doesn't matter a toss what anyone here says about her. She'll be working for the Indo for a long, long time.

    There's enough doom and gloom in After Hours that it's nice to have a regular topic which brings everyone together with the common goal to laugh at an idiot. I say, "Write on, Alison! Write like the chill wind!".


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  • #72
    Desmond Large Peppermint
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Desmond Large Peppermint


    Luxie wrote: »
    A pair of Nikes akin to a.....pair of Nikes.

    Well I never.
    She got so excited about using such a fancy word she forgot to make any sense! :D


  • #73
    senordingdong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,673 ✭✭✭✭senordingdong


    Her England is improving goodly.


  • #74
    Idbatterim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,706 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    Well Im just glad she got a free trip, if she had to pay for it, it would have probably been the same as her yearly property management fee!


  • #75
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    Nodin wrote: »
    ......beard, suit jacket, about 5.5-5.7 in height?

    Yeah, thats his description alright. Used to see him getting the paper from the spar near the nassau st gate entrance to trinity in the evenings after they had cut the barcodes.


  • #76
    Gunsfortoys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭Gunsfortoys


    I realised that virtually all they have in common are snow and the general practice of sliding down the trails.

    Welcome to skiing Alison.:rolleyes:


  • #77
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    With plenty of activities for the non-skier, the area is perfect for families in which one or two members do not want to hit the slopes. Instead, for instance, they can take part in a 300-year-old ritual, maple tapping,

    You heard it first folks..if kiljoy members of your family dont want to go on a skiing holiday tell them there's Maple tapping available and watch them pack thier bags in frenzy.

    I can imagine how surly teenagers could be kept occupied for the duration of the holiday indulging in this "300 year old ritual".

    Truly,the area has something for everybody..


  • #78
    Fluorescence
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,490 ✭✭✭Fluorescence


    That really is an awful, badly-written piece of journalism. How on earth did she ever get a job in this field? My English teacher in secondary school would have graded me poorly if I'd handed in such a brochure-esque article :rolleyes:


  • #79
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    oppenheimer1 wrote: »
    Yeah, thats his description alright. Used to see him getting the paper from the spar near the nassau st gate entrance to trinity in the evenings after they had cut the barcodes.

    Aye, well educated fellah, whatever happened to him.


  • #80
    df1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    she manages to stick in how shes a "veteran" on the european slopes......yet shes so badly off apparently.

    Skiing holidays aint cheap.

    I was hoping that story was going to end with an avalanche.


  • #81
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    fluorescence wrote: »
    That really is an awful, badly-written piece of journalism. How on earth did she ever get a job in this field? My English teacher in secondary school would have graded me poorly if I'd handed in such a brochure-esque article :rolleyes:

    That's because it is a junket/brochure piece. All the places she named are listed on the top flight website. She mentions kid's not being able to get alcohol and stuff because top flight is geared towards school tours and parents want to know that they won't be up to mischief. The rest is just fantasy or stuff she got off pamphlets at the hotel, depending on whether she actually went over there or not (I don't believe for a second that she did). I'm guessing the maple tapping **** was from one of those pamphlets or another website, and the Nike-Jedward connection was a ploy to get 'teh kidzzz' excited about spending money over there. Not going to actually link to the company cause they're getting enough publicity out of this.


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  • #82
    Cranky Mc Funhouse
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 156 ✭✭Cranky Mc Funhouse


    brianthebard wrote: »
    That's because it is a junket/brochure piece. All the places she named are listed on the top flight website. She mentions kid's not being able to get alcohol and stuff because top flight is geared towards school tours and parents want to know that they won't be up to mischief. The rest is just fantasy or stuff she got off pamphlets at the hotel, depending on whether she actually went over there or not (I don't believe for a second that she did). I'm guessing the maple tapping **** was from one of those pamphlets or another website, and the Nike-Jedward connection was a ploy to get 'teh kidzzz' excited about spending money over there. Not going to actually link to the company cause they're getting enough publicity out of this.
    + 1. Heres hopin she comes back in a body cast! (If she ever went)


  • #83
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    The lying <SNIP> you cant go Maple Tapping this time of year...does she ever even write ONE article where she doesnt make stuff up.


    BOARDS.IE EDIT: No Abuse please.


  • #84
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Degsy wrote: »
    The lying<SNIP>.you cant go Maple Tapping this time of year...does she ever even write ONE article where she doesnt make stuff up.

    She's such a sap....


  • #85
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    mikom wrote: »
    She's such a sap....

    At least she's not "tapping" on the streets of Dublin anymore..


  • #86
    Copper23
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Copper23


    Ok, I'll bite given that I've been doing some work in new England recently...

    How exactly did she manage to do this ski trip or is it all infact some lame attempt at advertising?

    Loon Mountain is predicting a late November start to their Ski season and their webcam today is showing lovely green slopes, not an inch of snow.

    I'd give anything to know how to get to 5 resorts in one day up there. Go down the kiddy slope once on each is it?

    I won't mention the hotels she stayed in and the trips to the mall being so broke.
    Also nice to know how cheap flights from Boston to Ireland and vise versa are according to Alison. I certainly couldn't find anything that cheap in the past 12 months.


  • #87
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    US slopes do skiers a powder of good ...

    What?


  • #88
    jmcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,935 ✭✭✭jmcc


    So the intellectually challenged people in the Sindo see that since Alison has written about "snow" on the doorsteps of young professsionals in Dublin then she must be an expert on skiing? There's an insane, room temperature IQ at work in the Sindo - unfortunately it is shared between the lot of them. :)

    Regards...jmcc

    Regards…jmcc



  • #89
    RoundyMooney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    Degsy wrote: »
    You heard it first folks..if kiljoy members of your family dont want to go on a skiing holiday tell them there's Maple tapping available and watch them pack thier bags in frenzy.

    I can imagine how surly teenagers could be kept occupied for the duration of the holiday indulging in this "300 year old ritual".

    Truly,the area has something for everybody..

    Degsy, are you being sarcastic?

    :pac:


  • #90
    Big Pussy Bonpensiero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭Big Pussy Bonpensiero


    On a smaller note one of her facts were wrong. She said Loon was the biggest resort there with 49 runs, its actually Bretton Woods with 101.


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  • #91
    loobylou
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭loobylou


    .. and she only paid $5000 for the Nikes....


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